Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Log/2009/November

AIADMK-politician-stub/ and DMK-politician-stub/
Two new stub types for Indian politicians, though only one of the four parts gives any indication of that by its name. Both categories are small, though one is fairly close to threshold - the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam one may need to be upmerged, however. And something - anything! -needs to be done with the names, even if only adding "-India-" to both templates and changing the DMK in the second template to something a little less ambiguous. Grutness...wha?  01:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This discussion is also relevant to any renaming which may be needed. Grutness...wha?  01:37, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Quite honestly, when everything else in Wikipedia is create and then discuss/delete, I did not expect stub type creations to be any different. However, now that I know this, I'll bring the next few here before creating. At this point there are over 100 between 200-400 stubs each for these two stub types, they just haven't been categorized yet. Also, User:CarTick, User:Sodabottle and I expect to create at least another 100 each over the next two to four weeks for these two stub types. As far as the naming goes, I kept it consistent with INC-politician-stub and BJP-politician-stub which belong to the same Indian politician stub category. - Spaceman  Spiff  01:54, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Check the section of WP:BOLD which relates to templates and categories. This will give you some reasons for the more circumspect nature of creation of stub types. More reasons can be found at User:Grutness/Stub rationales. As far as the nameing is concernedf, the BJP in particular is widely known wirldwide as being a major indian political party, as is the INC (though less so, perhaps). I doubt you'd have the same level of worldwide recognition for either DMK or AIADMK. Grutness...wha?  09:17, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * many of the politicians from Category:Tamil Nadu politicians will belong to either ADMK or DMK, two main political parties in Tamil Nadu. useful stub as far as I am concerned. -- Car  Tick  05:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I never said that the aren't useful stub types. All I've said is that the names which have been used for the templates and one of the categories are non-standard, and if kept they will need to be changed; and that neither of the categories is yet up to the point where they should have been created. If they reach the threshold for stub categories (60 existing stubs), then only the names will be a problem. But these problems could have been overcome far more easily and with less work all round if the stub types had been proposed in the first place. Grutness...wha?  09:17, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The number should no longer be a problem. There are currently 140 and 97 stubs in the two stub cats, and I haven't even come close to categorizing 30% of the existing stubs. If the DMK name seems too generic an acronym, let's go with DMKazhagam-politician-stub. - Spaceman  Spiff  14:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * And AIADMKazhagam-politician-stub? I could go with those, though I'm not sure about others in WP:WSS. Grutness...wha?  18:35, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I doubt that such long an acronym would exist elsewhere, but I could live with AIADMKazhagam-politician-stub. While I understand the logic behind attaching India, the concern I have is that both these parties have a presence restricted to only Tamil Nadu and Puduchery, and they aren't "national" parties per se. But if it is preferred to make it India-DMK-politician-stub or DMKIndia-politician-stub, I haven't any objection to that either - Spaceman  Spiff  18:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * India-DMK-politician-stub would be the other way to go (as in Australia-Labor-politician-stub, for example). As long as they're the only parties of those names in India, it would still make sense, whether they're regional or not. It's probably less urgent for these parties than for the Australian one and others like it, because as far as WP articles are concerned, DMK is the abbreviation for only one political party worldwide. It isn't impossible that there are others, thopugh, and it's certainly not an abbreviation that is likely to mean much to anyone who doesn't know about Indian politics. Grutness...wha?  23:12, 14 November 2009 (UTC)