Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/2010/February

Proposals, February 2010
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split of
Currently oversized however the following four upmerged templates have 60+ articles, speedy the cats Waacstats (talk) 18:11, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Algiers-geo-stub -
 * Batna-geo-stub -
 * Béjaïa-geo-stub -
 * Bouira-geo-stub -
 * Support speedying Nearly 1,400 articles is WAY oversized.--TM 18:14, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

More fish stubs
Having reduced the from 2660 we know have a similar problem with one of its new subcats  with 1700+ articles. I propose the following which catscan says will have 60 articles or more then lets see whats left. Waacstats (talk) 09:40, 28 February 2010 (UTC) Support ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 11:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * - Barbus-stub
 * - Garra-stub
 * - Labeoninae-stub
 * - Notropis-stub
 * - Puntius-stub
 * - Rasboras-stub
 * - Schizothorax-stub
 * - Sinocyclocheilus-stub

More magazine templates
Still trying to tame the magazine beast. I would like to create the following templates, with possible categories to follow, if the size allows:

Dawynn (talk) 12:37, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * / transport-mag-stub. For automobile magazines, motorcycle magazines, and any other transportation related magazines.
 * (Justification for use of abbreviation: category:Transportation stubs uses transport-stub)
 * / hobby-mag-stub. For hobby magazines.
 * / news-mag-stub. For general news magazines.
 * No problems here Support Waacstats (talk) 09:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

To be made form upmerged template norway-historian-stub. 75 articles. Dawynn (talk) 19:14, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Support. Waacstats (talk) 20:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Above category is oversized, we already have upmerged templates for districts and it seems that the following is viable. and if anyone can find a handful of extra stubs to push Lahore or Gujarat over the 60 barrier we could take this down even further. Waacstats (talk) 23:14, 22 February 2010 (UTC) Make it and I'll, support. Oh no... These stubs are dangerous. They attract all sorts of ips who will add the list of local taxi drivers and say "Famous person". Grrrr ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 14:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thats why I just sort them. Waacstats (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Split of
Slightly oversized at over 1000 articles, I propose the following Waacstats (talk) 22:51, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Pleuronectiformes-stub /
 * Support. ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 15:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Split of
Slightly oversized at over 2600 articles, I propose the following categories only if the templates pass 60 articles. Waacstats (talk) 22:43, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Balitoridae-stub /
 * Catostomidae-stub /
 * Cobitidae-stub /
 * Cyprinidae-stub /
 * Gyrinocheilidae-stub /
 * Psilorhynchidae-stub /
 * Psilorhynchus-stub /
 * Support ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 15:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Catscan gives over 100 articles for which Freestyle-skiing-bio-stub would be appropriate. Waacstats (talk) 19:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, speedy. Gosox(55)(55) 19:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Split of
I propose splitting this category into and.
 * Templates redirecting to 19th Century would be:


 * US-poet-1800s-stub
 * US-poet-1810s-stub
 * US-poet-1820s-stub
 * US-poet-1830s-stub
 * US-poet-1840s-stub
 * US-poet-1850s-stub
 * US-poet-1860s-stub
 * US-poet-1870s-stub
 * US-poet-1880s-stub
 * US-poet-1890s-stub
 * And to the twentieth century:

I know that 1950s is very close to being able to create a sub-category, with 57, but i don't think anything else even close yet. Modeled after the American Novelist stubs. Gosox(55)(55) 19:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * US-poet-1900s-stub
 * US-poet-1910s-stub
 * US-poet-1920s-stub
 * US-poet-1930s-stub
 * US-poet-1940s-stub
 * US-poet-1950s-stub
 * US-poet-1960s-stub
 * Support split. Waacstats (talk) 22:29, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 14:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

US-crime-stub
There's a stub for every state (as of now all are stubs) and there are many more articles in the category that could fall under this template.Gosox(55)(55) 17:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * A reasonable stub that would also be a useful home for and possibly others. Waacstats (talk) 22:36, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Support. I've seen the stubs too, Awful. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 15:02, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

split of
Looks like 300+ articles could take the following and at least 60 could take Waacstats (talk) 15:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Germany-submarine-stub /
 * US-submarine-stub /
 * Support and speedy (at least for Germany).Gosox(55)(55) 17:56, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

final split of brazil
We have all bar 2 states split from given that the two remaining states have templates with more than 60 articles I propose we speedy Waacstats (talk) 10:37, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Speedy ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 11:02, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

split of
oversized category, looks like the information is available to split by subfamily, should hopefully produce three smaller categories Waacstats (talk) 09:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Support ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 11:02, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Tortricinae-stub -
 * Olethreutinae-stub -
 * Chlidanotinae-stub -

Propose which would of course be a subcategory of   There are 90 stub articles listed at Article lists for Spectroscopy stubs. "Category:Spectroscopy articles by quality" has the number at 90 for stub articles in this category. During the normal course of my editing with the AWB bot I come across articles that I would rather classify as a Spectroscopy stub rather than simply a Physics stub. Physics stub is really too broad of a category for this set of articles. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 04:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like a good way of splitting an oversize cat.Waacstats (talk) 09:25, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noting  is an oversized category. I think that is what I was trying to say in so many words. As the one who proposed this I meant that the  should be a stub within the "Physics-stub"   category so I changed the title of this section. Sorry, I have never done this before. At the moment I don't see any subcategory beneath  - I just wanted to be clear on that. If a subcategory seems to be needed I can propose that too, I suppose. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 02:11, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

New software stub categories
As I'm sorting the software stubs, I keep running into these four categories that I haven't really found another good location for.


 * / desktop-environment-stub - The Windows and Mac world don't really differentiate between the system and the desktop environment, but there is a marked distinction in Linux between the operating system and the desktop environment. This would encompass both the desktop environments themselves, as well as things that deal tightly with such environments (like window decoration tools, etc).


 * / CAD-software-stub - For computer-aided design articles.


 * / security-software-stub - For articles dealing with Computer security software.

Dawynn (talk) 11:01, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * / digital-typography-stub - For computer-related typography articles. (See also digital typography)
 * Can't see anything wrong with any of that supoprt templates categoreis if they make the 60 mark. Waacstats (talk) 09:17, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per Waacstats. Gosox(55)(55) 18:02, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

India-festival-stub
Would seem to make sense given the thousands of Indian festivals... ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 13:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I know there are thousands of festivals in India so if we get 60+ articles then would support a category along the lines of ?

Waacstats (talk) 12:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Created from existing upmerged template nano-tech-stub. Relates to existing category. 87 articles -- and helps to subcategorize the very large category. Dawynn (talk) 13:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Nice to see a split of the technology stubs, SUpport Waacstats (talk) 12:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Magazine Stubs (again)
Still trying to break down and  into decent sized categories. I'd like to propose the following:

Dawynn (talk) 01:09, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * / bus-mag-stub for business magazines
 * / comp-mag-stub for computer magazines
 * / ent-mag-stub for entertainment magazines (previously requested music-mag-stub will become a sub-category here)
 * / fashion-mag-stub for fashion magazines (see fashion journalism
 * / lifestyle-mag-stub for lifestyle magazines (see also lifestyle magazine)
 * Looks like a good idea, same as before if the templates reach 60 then I support the categories, however I would suggest three name changes to the templates, I don't think we want a stub template for magazines about buses so I suggest changing bus-mag-stub to Business-mag-stub, I think we generally use compu not comp so change comp-mag-stub to Compu-mag-stub and I don't think that the ents of middle earth have many magazines so change ent-mag-stub to {[tl|Entertainment-mag-stub}}. Waacstats (talk) 12:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Just a correction to make sure this shows up in searches. That should be Entertainment-mag-stub (corrected the brackets) Dawynn (talk) 17:30, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Look up this Category: Category:Districts of Cairo; more than 30+ articles are present in very short length and only with Egypt-stub. I guess it is quite reasonable to create a stub collecting these articles about districts of Cairo. Thanks. Mohamed Magdy (talk) 21:38, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose has around 220 articles in it, which is not enough to force a split. Also, we sort by geographic subdivision, so sorting by governate is the better option. --TM 14:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose ALso as far as I'm aware there are never likely to be 60 articles on districts of Cairo. I only support templates which I think at one time will easily surpass 60. Also 220 geo stubs is very low. Sometime in the future I may support a Cairo-stub if we have well over 60 stubs specifically related to Cairo. ‡ Himalayan ‡  ΨMonastery 11:18, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Italy-theatre-stub
Should be hundreds of theatres to transwiki. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 15:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, absolutely. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:01, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Iguana/Chameleon Stub
96.255.71.164 (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC) Found about 60 articles
 * Oppose for now. I don't really dabble much in zoology or biology.  I looked up  and .  Each of these categories is pretty small to begin with, and I didn't see any immediate connection between the two (except for being, which already has its own category for ).  If you can suggest a better succinct category name, I'd reconsider. Dawynn (talk) 14:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Cuba-painter-stub
At the moment there are enough, I think, for at least a tag to be created. I'm going to hopefully be working on them some over the next few days, and with luck I can get enough to warrant a category. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:42, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Support. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 15:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Would like this new category to support that relate to computer storage software.  This would include software for data compression, for backup and disaster recovery. Dawynn (talk) 20:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Magazine stub templates
I haven't explored yet to see how many stubs would apply, but would like to propose the following upmerged templates for this purpose. Each of these would upmerge to (an overpopulated category) until they have been filled out: Dawynn (talk) 19:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * sport-mag-stub - For Sports magazines
 * reli-mag-stub - For Religious magazines
 * poli-mag-stub - For Political magazines
 * music-mag-stub - For Music magazines

Update: Did a quick scan. Numbers may be a bit off once sorting begins. But, here's what I show for cross-category scans. Note, the listed magazines typically tend to be either in general category "Magazine stubs" or in the also gigantic subcategory "Cultural magazine stubs": Dawynn (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sports magazine stubs -- about 91 articles.
 * Religious magazine stubs -- about 58 articles.
 * Political magazine stubs -- about 115 articles.
 * Music magazine stubs -- about 63 articles.
 * Looks like a really good idea, support all 4 templates and categories for all that pass 60 (I'm sure a couple of religious magazines can be found hiding somewhere. Waacstats (talk) 09:06, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Support. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 15:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Create India-hospital-stub. About 40 of the articles in Category:Asian hospital stubs are in India. If that isn't enough for a new category, then upmerge to and   Eastmain (talk • contribs)  08:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * As below support template, caegory iff we get 60 articles. Waacstats (talk) 23:05, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Create Pakistan-hospital-stub. About 15 of the articles in Category:Asian hospital stubs are in Pakistan. If that isn't enough for a new category, then upmerge to and   Eastmain (talk • contribs)  08:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support template, category if it can be used on 60 articles. Waacstats (talk) 23:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Support. ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 15:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Upmerged template PRChina-hospital-stub has 25 articles. Category:Asian hospital stubs currently has 187 articles, including these. - Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * We normally only split out upmerged templates when they reach 60 articles so leave upmerged unless it can be brought upto 60. Waacstats (talk) 23:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Upmerged template Runningback-1900s-stub has more than 60 articles, propose speedy creation and the rename of be renamed to. Waacstats (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Upmerged template France-org-stub has more than 60 articles, propose speedy creation. Waacstats (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Split of
Both the following are viable based on the currently upmerged templates
 * / Hungary-painter-stub
 * / Norway-painter-stub

Waacstats (talk) 23:23, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

We already have upmerged template Indonesia-sports-venue-stub used on over 60 stubs anyone against the category. Waacstats (talk) 22:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

split of
both the following are viable from upmerged templates any objections to speedy creating these. Waacstats (talk) 23:03, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * from France-judo-bio-stub
 * from germany-judo-bio-stub

Upmerged template exists. I've identified over 30 articles that could go under this category alone, not to mention well over 60 that already exist in sub-category Category:Methodist bishop stubs. There is an interested work group also (Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Methodism work group) Dawynn (talk) 13:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: Currently at 70 identified articles. So, speedy creation could come into play here. Dawynn (talk) 11:52, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like a good one. Waacstats (talk) 22:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)