Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive5

Proposals, July 2005

{{hre-stub}} or {{germany-hist-stub}}

Been doing a lot of articles on the states in the Holy Roman Empire (800 - 1806AD), which was centred in Germany, but also contained parts of many other European countries. Concerns though were raised about the volume of stubs I've created related to this era of history, as the only relevant stub existing is the hist-stub. --Nomadic1

I'd actually considered germany-hist-stub - it would make a lot of sense and would be well populated. Hre-stub (or better HRE-stub) would probably be a bit too cryptic for most people. Grutness...wha? 3 July 2005 06:21 (UTC)

I would agree in principle with {{germany-hist-stub}}, but there isn't really a consensus concerning the use of germany in historic terms (see Talk:Germany) Lectonar 4 July 2005 12:35 (UTC)

Perhaps not Germany, but since there were Kings of the Germans back in the Middle Ages, one could simply title the stub – {{german-hist-stub}} and be done with it. --Joy [shallot] 8 July 2005 09:22 (UTC)

Perhaps, but these stubs need a sub-category. Germany as a region has existed since 843AD. There is really only complication in where places such as Austria and Silesia fit, and these would be more logical to place in the general History stub. The alternative of course is a general "European History" stub, see below for that. : Nomadic1 6 July 2005 08:45 (UTC)

I'm absolutely on your side here, but I fear that we're gonna run into trouble especially if we start to stub sort events or persons which other users feel to be, e.g., polish et al.; there are people around who would allow the term Germany to be used only after 1945, or, in extreme cases, after 1989 Lectonar 6 July 2005 09:30 (UTC)

It's only going to get worse - soon. I've already got plans to heavily populate Salm (probably about 20 - 30 stubs here), Isenburg (another 10 or so), Baden (10), Württemberg (10), and am about to begin a co-ordination on Furstenberg (which will almost definately contain considerably more). I don't think the hist-stub or even a euro-hist-stub would do well with all of these emerging in the near-future. Of course, the concerns you have also apply with most European countries: they'd be objection to a French history stub because the Bretons, Basques, and Catalonians wouldn't like it. You couldn't do an Italy history stub due to the Ladin and Germanic regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, and it emerged in 1860 or thereabouts. A line needs to be drawn somewhere. - Nomadic1 7 July 2005 09:31 (UTC)

To that I can only add: Germany as it was in 1071: Naples must stay german! :) Lectonar 7 July 2005 10:02 (UTC)

The obvious, but almost certainly unacceptable answer, is to use modern boundaries (we don't give people born in Normandy in the 1100s the same stub we give English people), but - as I said - that would almost certainly be unacceptable. There mst be some way round it, but what? Grutness...wha? 7 July 2005 11:44 (UTC)

I don't think this is much more of a problem than it is already a problem with categorization. Perhaps an example can illustrate - for quite some time the page Dinaric Alps had one country geo-stub and one general geo-stub for all the other countries the mountains were in. Later, all of those countries got their own geo-stubs and all of them (half a dozen :) were added to the article. This was somewhat ugly, but worked. (And then later the article was expanded and is not a stub any more. Yay :) --Joy [shallot]

One solution to this could be to use either time-periods (e.g. {{Medieval-hist-stub}}), which could also help solve the problems with the nobility-stub [here:{{Ancient-hist-stub}}, in which cases one should define the appropriate time-periods, or something to the effect of regions (e.g. {{CentralEurope-hist-stub}} Lectonar 7 July 2005 13:01 (UTC)

Time periods could work, but then they couldn't for anything which lasted from the Mediæval era until the Napoleonic Era. The use of Geographical regions is also difficult by the same token as above, since, for example, Central Europe includes Austria, Hungary, Germany, etc. but also includes Transylvania (which Romanians wouldn't like), Friuli and Trieste in Italy, and so forth. A HRE-stub becomes the best possibility then (as it ignores modern borders and nationalism), although the idea of the Holy Roman Empire is quite convoluted and complex, and most people would not understand it. But it is still the best. - Nomadic1 7 July 2005 22:26 (UTC)

So, about that then. Do we agree on {{german-hist-stub}}? I see no objections. --Joy [shallot] 22:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{rail-accident-stub}} and {{US-railroad-stub}}

I've been going through Category:Rail stubs this week sorting as appropriate into subcategories (mostly into {{UK-depot-stub}}, but some into {{US-depot-stub}} and others into {{loco-stub}}). I've sorted pages up through the end of N as such. Looking through those that are left from A to N, the two categories that stand out most to me are articles about railroad accidents worldwide and articles about specific railroad companies in the US. Normally I would be bold and just create these two stub types, but I didn't want to step on any toes. slambo 11:04, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

{{US-rail-stub}} would fit the naming conventions (I thought it existed, actually...). Rail accidents would get both that and US-hist-stub. Grutness...wha? 11:35, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I can see the bit on the naming convention for US-rail-stub, but I don't quite get your second comment. There are quite a few articles about railroad accidents outside the US such as Ghotki rail crash (Pakistan) and Al Ayyat train disaster (Egypt), so making rail-accident-stub a subcategory of US-hist-stub doesn't seem logical. slambo 11:37, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

My comment was simply where they should currently go, not a comment on whether a new stub category was necessary. And it was my fault for assuming that because you were talking about US railroads you were also talking about rail accidents in the US - of course if it was a disaster in, say Egypt, you'd currently use Africa-hist-stub. Perhaps a more general transport disaster stub of some kind would be better, though, covering everything from Quintinshill to Lockerbie (actually, that's only two miles, so it would need to cover more than that). Grutness...wha? 10:44, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just created {{US-rail-stub}} and Category:US rail stubs, now sorting from {{rail-stub}} into it... slambo 14:55, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

There are now 249 articles tagged with {{US-rail-stub}}. Creating {{UK-rail stub}} would probably cut the remaining 711 {{rail-stub}} articles by about the same amount or more. There are also a large number of articles about Japanese and Indian railroad subjects, but I haven't counted them yet. BTW, Category:Rail stubs has a notice on it about the category's size; what is the threshhold for that message? I think rail stubs is still quite large, but if it's knocked down to 2/3 or 1/2 of its current size, when doe we remove that notice? slambo 18:09, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Elsewhere on this page I've gone on record for splitting off {{UK-rail stub}}; I think that we can go forward in another day or two if there are no further objections or comments. --CComMack 14:26, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Religion stubs

Category:Religion stubs

4 pages, some churches/cathedrals, some denominations.

Category:Catholic-related stubs

3 pages, many of them churches/cathedrals.

Category:Christianity-related stubs

4 pages, some churches, some denominations.

For the moment, a category for protestant churches (the buildings, and the congregations that go with them), and parallel ones for RC parish churches and cathedrals would be helpful.

There are already Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran subcategories, which will bring pressure to add additional such denominational subcats. For the moment, adding Category:Protestant denominations would also be helpful. --FourthAve 19:06, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Are you aware that this page is not about general categories, but stubs? If there are sufficient stub articles then it shouldn't be a problem creating something along the lines of {{protestant-stub}} and Category:Protestant stubs. Are there sufficient numbers? --TheParanoidOne 19:49, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is what I had in mind. There are a lot of Catholic parish churches here, perhaps as many as 100, probably somewhat fewer, but they certainly do come along. These articles tend to be very short. For the moment, a protestant denomination stub would be useful too (it would not get that big). I'm just trying to be helpful. While nowhere near as bad as the Great Dismal Swamp that is biostub, it's slowly getting there. --FourthAve 20:45, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm. Many olf the religions involved dislike the term protestant, but I understand your point. It might be useful, assuming there were enough stubs. Grutness...wha? 08:07, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Papal stubs basically dupes Category:Popes. I wonder if antipopes should be moved out too. This category contains nothing relating to the popes other than pope bios covered in Popes. Aggh. --FourthAve 21:30, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I wonder if you are misunderstanding the difference in purpose between stub categories and standard categories. If all the articles in Category:Popes are also in Category:Papal stubs, it simply means that all the articles need expansion. as they are expanded, they will be removed from the stub category but remain in the main category. This allows editors to find articles on popes that need expansion. Grutness...wha? 07:57, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: for the up above: wouldn't churches have to go in one of the available {{struct-stub}}s ?Lectonar 06:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. There are a lot of them in the various struct-stub categories. Having separate {{church-stub}}, {{UK-church-stub}}, {{US-church-stub}}, {{Euro-church-stub}}, {{Asia-church-stub}} (or perhaps {{XX-reli-struct-stub}} in each case?) would be very usefu, as it would significantly reduce the equivalent struct-stub categories. Those can feed into reli-stub and struct-stub as parent categories. Since many smaller churches are multidenominational and information on individual churches will be as much (if not more) about the structure as the use of the structure, it makes little sense to link them to individula denominations. Grutness...wha? 07:57, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Proposals, August 2005

Food-related stub categories

In my efforts to clear out Category:Corporation stubs, I have created Category:Food corporation stubs ({{food-corp-stub}}), as a daughter of {{food-stub}} and {{corp-stub}}. In my first stint of filling the new category (there are now 75 articles in the category), I have come across the problem that the scope of the stub template is too broad. Therefore I would like to propose splitting the {{food-corp-stub}} in two: food, candy, confectionery and/or beverage corporations retain the current tag, but a new tag will be created for restaurants and bars/pubs: {{restaurant-stub}}. This should also put an end to the length problem of the current stub text: "This article about a food, candy, confectionery and/or beverage corporation or company, or about a restaurant or a chain of restaurants, is a stub." Between 40 and 45 articles from the category as it is would be moved to the new Restaurant stub category. This number will probably have risen once I've sifted through the Category:Corporation stubs. Aecis 17:11, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the restaurant-stub template already exists, but it does not lead to any category and the wording could do with improvement. Because the template already exists, and because my proposal is part of an older "project" of mine, I would like to request permission to circumvent or "ignore" the one week waiting period. Aecis 17:16, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There are also at least 38 articles in the Food and drink stubs category about cheese. Is that enough for a cheese stub category? (The 38 articles would place the new category between Category:Cooking tool stubs (21 articles) and Category:Fruit stubs (62 articles), other daughters of Category:Food and drink stubs.) Aecis 17:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Because the restaurant-stub template had already been created, I saw no alternative but to be bold, act immediately, clean up the template and create a new stub category. So there now is a template ({{restaurant-stub}}) with a matching category. Aecis 23:16, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of this is covered in the first section of proposals at the very top of this page. Cheese is a very likely candidate, although 38 is a bit slim. I also wonder, now that drink stubs have been separated out, whether it should be moved to its own category and "Food and drink stubs" be changed to just "Food stubs" - any thoughts? Grutness...wha? 01:20, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think "Food stubs" would be a more appropriate category for the {{food-stub}} tag then "Food and drink stubs", which might be kept as a parent category of daughter stub categories. Aecis 11:27, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth: the number of cheese-related stubs has risen to between 50 and 60, and counting. Aecis 12:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC) (edit: judging from the Category:Cheeses, my estimate is that there are about 80 to 90 cheese-stubs on Wikipedia.)[reply]

I've now managed to finish counting the cheese stubs. In the Category:Food and drink stubs, I have found 40 41 cheese stubs. In the Category:Cheeses and its daughters, I have found 35 cheese stubs. This makes a grand total of 75 76 cheese stubs so far. This is above the threshold (60 stub articles) set for new stub templates/categories, so if there are no objections, I will create the template and fill the matching category. Aecis 00:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The stub never got added to the list, which I just corrected. Caerwine 19:37, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oz-stubs

I want to make a series of stubs for the new WikiProject related to the Wizard of Oz, for example: oz-stub, oz-book-stub, oz-character-stub, etc. Right now they are scatered around in other categories, and I would like to concentrate them. --[[User:JonMoore|— —Jo nMo ore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 00:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Could you give us some numbers there? How many stubs pertaining to Oz are around at the moment? Lectonar 06:32, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There are currently about 100 articles in the Oz/Wicked series. I would say approx. 75% are stubs, with plans to create new articles in the future. [[User:JonMoore|— —Jo nMo ore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 23:49, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I decided to Be bold and created the stub tag and category. It's currently populated by around 80 articles, with room for expansion depending on how prolific the Wikiproject contributors are. GeeJo (talk) 17:42, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I'm afraid I haven't added any templates I created recently. I will set this straight within the next few hours. Aecis 20:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New Hampshire Stub

It'd be nice if there was a stub template for all 50 states. I've seen a few stubs based on topics here in New Hampshire. Karmafist 01:29, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"A few" isn't really enough, though. If there's a wikiproject or if we know that there are a lot of stubs (preferably the best part of 100), then yes, it would be worth breaking a separate NewHampshire-stub out. At the moment, though, neither really apply. (BTW, I've moved this to the right place on the page) Grutness...wha? 01:56, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Create {{G.A.A.-Club-stub}} Stub

There are many G.A.A. Club articles.Enought to warrant their own stub.--Fenian Swine 22:16, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My initial reaction is, "What is a GAA club?". Without knowing this, the following generic questions still apply: Roughly how many current stub articles could this stub type be applied to? What are these stubs currently marked as? What existing stub category/categories will this help to reduce? --TheParanoidOne 22:56, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If it were needed (which I don't know, since I'm not certain what a G.A.A.Club is), then GAA-stub would be a far better name. My guess is that it's Gaelic sports (based on Gaelic Athletics Association and the proposer's user name). if so, gaelic-sport-stub would be an even better name - and that one might get enough stubs, since it would be more all-inclusive. Not only would it cover the clubs, but also the sports and biographies of people like Michael Hogan (sportsman). Grutness...wha? 00:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going ahead and making this one as {{gaelic-sport-stub}}. I suspect there will be quite a few and sport-stub's at the stage where any split is likely to be a good one. Grutness...wha? 06:49, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Battle stub

At present, stubs concerning battles use {{hist-stub}}, so Category:History stubs contains 150+ obvious "Battle of ..." articles, and quite probably more under different names. I think that creating a {{battle-stub}} is appropriate at this point. -- Kirill Lokshin 21:04, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Phrasing is needed which limits usage to past battles, to prevent spread to many current types of conflicts. (SEWilco 21:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Many battle-related stubs are sorted under {{mil-stub}}. Aecis 23:18, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Further to the above, it might also be a plan to have a stub category for miniatures wargames: there's a fair number, admittedly mainly due to Warhammer and Battletech. Alai 01:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May be worthwhile, but it would need a better name. "Miniatures" can mean many things. Grutness...wha? 01:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

game-miniatures-stub, or something of that nature? (assuming it's needed) --Mairi 01:44, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

miniatures-game-stub would be a little better, but is still quite a mouthful. miniatures-wargame-stub somewhat moreso, on both counts. mini-game-stub or minis-game-stub would be far less clear. By and large I'd be inclined to stick with my original suggestion, which would be familiar to those in the gaming hobby, and is not that deeply mysterious otherwise. Alai 04:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

miniatures are also used in some roleplaying games, which is why I didn't want to make it specific to wargames. I agree with mini-game-stub and minis-game stub being less clear. And while miniatures-stub might be clear to those involved in gaming, it wouldn't to other people, which would lead to it being applied to articles it wasn't meant for. miniatures-game-stub would work for me too, assuming there are actually enough stub to warrant creating the category.

I used to do miniatures wargaming myself, but when I see miniatures-stub my first though is miniature bottles of spirits and liqueurs, so I'd still tend towards miniatures-game-stub (assuming there are enough articles). Grutness...wha? 05:33, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hrm, I'm a Scotch drinker, and not a miniatures wargamer, but that reading never occurred to me. I must not be drinking enough, as Don Henley would say. To argue against myself: it's only going to be an immediately viable stub-cat if we include the numerous Warhammer stubs, which strictly peaking aren't filed under wargames or miniatures games categories -- perhaps because most of the stubs seem to be WF/WH40K 'universe' topics, and thus not wargame-specific as such (there being video games and RPGs in that setting too). Alai 13:35, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What occured first to me was cameos and similer small art forms. Other possibility, "toy" dog breeeds. The more specific name is clearly needed. DES ^(talk) 06:24, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For fashion designers and whatever (makeup artists?). Can't figure out where to sort them as it is now. --Joy [shallot] 22:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How broad of category would it be? Would it, say, include fashion photographers? --Mairi 03:34, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think those would be covered by the next proposal down ↓ Grutness...wha? 03:49, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would think so to, but I'm wondering how broadly fashion-bio-stub is going to be worded, such that they'd be excluded (as they would be biographies relating to fashion...), while not just limiting it to fashion designers. --Mairi 02:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Radio personalities

We don't seem to have a specific category for "radio personalities". I stumbled into a fair few of those while trawling People stubs. --Joy [shallot] 22:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorting them into radio-stub now, and leaving bio-stub in if applicable. Google search for 'site:en.wikipedia.org "This biographical article is a stub." radio' returns less than two hundred hits so I'm not so worried. --Joy [shallot] 18:31, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some of them can have bio-stub replaced by journalist-stub, but many can't. --Joy [shallot]

Don't worry, radio fans seem to be just as obsessive as rail fans, metro fans, road geeks, etc. As soon as they finish writing stubs for every single radio station around the world they will start writing articles on every radio DJ in the world. When I've found any in the LA area, I've tried to merge them into the articles about their radio stations. There are only a few LA DJs, such as Jim Ladd, who deserve their own articles. BlankVerse ∅ 19:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Has anything been decided on this proposal? If not, I'd like to suggest "broadcaster-stub" instead. There are a lot of radio personality stubs but there are also a lot of tv personalities (who are not journalists or actors). BrainyBroad 00:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But the difference is that the TV people have tv-bio-stub, radio people don't have such a category. --Joy [shallot] 23:08, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Radio-bio-stub}} has been created, actually. Should be further down on this page. Jaxl | talk 23:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]