Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Log/2008/March

Oceania-university-stub /
see under Vietnam, below. Grutness...wha?  23:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

CentralAm-university-stub /
see under Vietnam, below. Grutness...wha?  23:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Caribbean-university-stub /
see under Vietnam, below. Grutness...wha?  23:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Vietnam-university-stub /
Unproposed, but looks well-formed and well-populated - though in one or two cases it looks like the new template has simply been added to an existing Vietnam-stub template rather than replacing it. A keeper, but the stubs themselves need tidying. Grutness...wha?  02:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree that the category and stub should stay. It definitely looks like a WP:AGF stub creation by a new editor (account created just hours ago @ 19:25, 25 March 2008).   - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  contribs  07:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like to think so, but since being informed of the proposal process, the same editor has created three more stub types, which I've listed above. All three of those are going to struggle to meet threshold, and two of them (the Caribbean and Central American ones) should almost certainly be upmerged as things currently stand. The oceania one has at least got child subtypes. Grutness...wha?  23:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Estonia-Olympic-medalist-stub /
Unproposed, but looks well-formed. The only concern is with the size, especially given that Estonia - even if you include its time competeing under the Soviet banner - has only won 72 Olympic medals. Some of those medals were in team sports like basketlall, though, so its conceivable this willc rfeep past the required 60 stub threshold. If it doesn't, it will need upmerging. So yet another case of "wait and see". Grutness...wha?  00:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hopefully any articles relating to medal wnners under USSR would get a USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub. I think this one needs upmerging (to Estonia sportspeople and european Olympic medalists) and delete the cat. Waacstats (talk) 09:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with Waacstats: all medalists 1908-1912 should be marked with Russia- and all 19552-1988 USSR-. 34 articles: delete category and upmerge. SeveroTC 11:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Arab-cuisine-stub
Along with three categories which I sent directly to SFD. Probably worth keeping as an upmerged template since someone bothered to create it. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hardly in keeping with the "by nationality" scheme, though things like cuisine do extend across entire cultural groups irrespective of national boundaries, so this is vaguely plausible, to say the least. Grutness...wha?  23:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

American jourrnalist stubs (years by decade)
We seem to have acquired a whole range of new stub categories of the form, for decades from the 1900s to the 1990s. Given the number of American journalist stubs currently about 770), it sems extremely unlikely that all - or even most - iof these will reach target, especially when you take into consideration how many of those journalists either were born in the 19th century or have an unlisted date of birth. These categories were never proposed, and certainly don't seem viable - all should be upmerged into the respective century categories for now, excluding any which can be shown to pass threshold. Grutness...wha?  00:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Since the by birth date scheme is our last gasp and there exists the axis of to break things down by e.g. US-tv-journalist-stub and US-sportswriter-stub that can be expanded, I'd much rather we exhausted that axis first. Caerwine Caer’s whines  02:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note that these were proposed by alai back in october with no complaints. Waacstats (talk) 10:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No comments of any kind, by the looks of it - that one really slipped under the radar (and because of the way the proposal was done, it didn't show up in "whatlinkshere", hence my thinking they hadn't been proposed). I still doubt more than a handful of these will reach threshold; upmerging looks like a sensible option for most of them. Grutness...wha?  12:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Poland-company-stub
It's listed at Category:European company stubs as a subcat, but the page at Category:Polish company stubs doesn't have the project banner or any header text (eg how to add the stubtype - to stubsort a Polish company I had to look at one of the articles to find the format). I see, looking more carefully, that it's noted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types/Commerce with a couple of others as "... all feed into this category" under "European company stubs". It has 49 members now. PamD (talk) 08:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The template's legit - and has been around a couple of years. seems that someone acuired a category for it a couple of onths ago. It should still be upmerged. And whoever added the category decided to also add piping to ensure that all the stubs were jumbled haphazardly in the category. Unless a dozen more polish company stubs can be found, upmerging agin looks like a good option (I've fixed the piping, BTW). Grutness...wha?  09:18, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sheesh - I hope my typing when fixing templates is better than my typing here! :/ Grutness...wha?  09:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Ireland-railstation-stub
Unproposed, but seems to be reasonably ok, though it doesn't make it clear that it's for the Republic only - upmerged, but could have used better parent cats (which I've now given it). Grutness...wha?  01:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC) I created this as an Ireland railstation stub. Mainly used for Republic of Ireland, it can be used for Northern Ireland too, as i'm using "Ireland" as a term for the railways of the geographic island, rather than the political entities. This is because the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, the County Donegal Railways, the Clogher Valley Railway and the Clogher Valley Tramway, all existed as railways that crossed the UK/ROI border, i wanted to keep simplicity here, so i thought it silly to have some stations from a small tramway on one system, and another on the other system. It's a counterpart to the UK version, I'm perfectly happy to discuss anything, and would love to here back any good or bad criticism or feedback.I was also unaware of the method of creating stubs, but i know now.Halowithhorns89 (talk) 17:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Russia-politics-stub
Unproposed, but seems reasonable and (thankfully) upmerged, and conforms to stub naming and scope, as far as I can tell. Grutness...wha?  01:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Copied from Belarus-politics-stub, with appropriate changes for the name of the country, the links, and the map icon. Didn't know it had to be proposed first. Jwray (talk) 01:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)