Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2008/March/10


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the stub template and/or category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the template's or category's talk page (if any).  No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was redirect template, delete category

I know - it sounds pretty extreme, but let me explain. Every country in the Middle East now has its own geo-stub template, meaning that this is a holding cell only, populated by 15 categories and about two stubs. It's become simply another empty space to keep monitoring ior stray stubs. This happened with about a year ago, and the best solution there was simply redirect the template to  and move all the categories there too. Given that has fewer than 100 articles, it's hardly going to overburden it. It also helps with the longstanding problem that "Middle East geography stubs" hasn't used anything other than an arbitrary definition of what is or isn't Middle Eastern (no Egypt, for instance). Suggest upmerging this to the Asian category, per the "Southeast Asia solution". Grutness...wha?  22:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems a little perverse to be keeping the template (which really should never have been created in the first place), and deleting the category, which is an otherwise-plausible container, but that's a somewhat I-wouldn't-be-starting-from-here issue. Hopefully we can avoid same in the future.  Alai (talk) 01:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure the only remaining "region" geo-stubs I'll be suggesting this for in future will be the five African region ones - I'm pretty sure there are only two or three African countries without separate categories now, so that shouldn't be too long coming. I suppose it might be reasonable to consider it with the Caribbean and Central America categories too (both of which theoretically are North American), but they're less of a concern since the definitions of them are at least a little less ill-defined. Grutness...wha?  04:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
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