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The result of the debate was delete as problematical name and unlikely split

[edit] {{Geek-stub}} / redlink

Yup, that's right. My guess is it was intended to be a bit of fun on a user's own page, but it's already been used on an article (where it's clearly likely to be regarded as inflammatory). I've no objection to the creator of this subst'ing it onto his user page before deletion, but it should most definitely be deleted in its present form. Could just about be speedied as an attack template. Grutness...wha? 10:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

It is not intended as fun or a joke. A geek is a legitimate term, and there are stubs that are of interest to people interested in geek-related topics. Kingturtle (talk) 14:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

It may be a legitimate term, but check out that article Geek - especially such things as the multitude of different uses the term has ("...there is no longer a definitive modern meaning"). Grutness...wha? 23:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. It is redlink because I am not well-versed in how to create categories. Kingturtle (talk) 14:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

P.P.S. I have never created a stub before, and I did not know there was an involved process for approval. I was being bold and also unaware of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Next time I'll certainly make a proposal first. Lastly, I don't see at all how this stub notice could be offensive. Kingturtle (talk) 14:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Again, from geek: "...being described as a geek tends to be an insult..." and "...the derogatory definition of geeks remains that of a person engrossed in his area of interest at the cost of social skills, personal hygiene and status."" Also please note that "Be bold" primarily applies to article editing rather than template editing (see Wikipedia:BOLD#Non-article namespaces). Grutness...wha? 23:49, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete While I don't see it as being offensive, it's definitely a POV categorization. There is no corresponding permanent category, and if there were, I doubt it would survive CFD because geekness is not objectively determinable. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete per Caerwine & more to the point, the unlikelihood of this type reaching threshold. Her Pegship (tis herself) 15:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

What is threshold here? Kingturtle (talk) 16:55, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

60 as per all such stub types. See WP:STUB. Grutness...wha? 23:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Hugely problematic. See Cat:geeks. Delete. Alai (talk) 02:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

[edit] {{Persian Rap}} / no stub cat or link

Before you say it, yes, this is a stub template, despite its name. Fails stub standards on numerous grounds, not least of which the name, which, for Persian rap, would be Persian-rap-stub. Only it wouldn't be, since music is not divided by language but by country of origin, so it would most likely be Iran-rap-stub. And even then, country of origin is a secondary split mainly used for musicians (songs being split by genre then by decade). Currently unused, and given the number of rap stubs overall and the number of these which are Persian, I'd say the chances of this getting any use at all are very close to nil. Delete. Grutness...wha? 10:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete Actually the name would be {{Iran-hiphop-stub}}, but we don't even have a {{Asia-hiphop-stub}} or an {{Iran-music-stub}}. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Untold delete. Alai (talk) 02:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. This is a badly formulated stub template. Even if it had the correct name, though, it would be deletable. How many stub articles on Iranian rap does Wikipedia have anyway? Not enough to warrant a stub category. Bart133 ^{(t) (c)}

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The result of the debate was rename, keep redirects

• {{hoops-stub}} (currently redirects to {{basketball-stub}})
• {{hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{Africa-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{Australia-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{Europe-hoops-bio-stub}} & its redir {{Euro-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{NorthAm-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{SouthAm-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{Canada-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{Turkey-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{US-hoops-bio-stub}} (& its DoB sub-cats)
• {{US-hoops-coach-stub}}
• {{US-women-hoops-bio-stub}}
• {{hoops-team-stub}} (currently redirects from {{basketball-team-stub}})
  

I suggest we rename the templates with {{foo-basketball-stub}}, for clarity and for ease of guessing at the template form for editors less steeped in stub-ism than I. Her Pegship (tis herself) 16:21, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Strong support for this change. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Strong support. Probably worth keeping the current names as redirects, for now at least. Grutness...wha? 23:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Move, keep redirects. (At least at this time.) Alai (talk) 01:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename Def a local term issue. MBisanz ^talk 23:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

As the original creator of the "hoops" idea, I VERY strongly support the changes. I was a dumb Wikipedian back then. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 08:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Strong support. "hoops" is vague. There's no reason not to be specific, and change it to "basketball". Brianreading (talk) 08:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename, I never liked "hoops", it's too idiosyncratic. GregorB (talk) 08:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Support, -rename to basetball. -- Jeff3000 (talk) 16:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was split into three doubly-upmerged templates, keeping base template and cat for anything that doesn't fit

Unproposed, and seems to be vague and hierarchy-crossingly ambiguous. The icon implies its for types of drinking glasses, the three items in the category are tools used in glass production. Given the scope of the article Glass, it could cover a very very broad area, almost all of which is currently effectively covered in narrower/more focussed stub categories. Despite this, there's also no guarantee that this would get close to threshold. I'd suggest upmerging, but the breadth of the template's scope makes that difficult, to say the least. Delete. PS - if kept, the category will need better parents. Grutness...wha? 00:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

• Proposed and not approved in January 2007. Delete per G. Her Pegship (tis herself) 00:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  • At best it might be salvaged by renaming to {{glass-engineering-stub}} and giving it a placement in Cat:Glass engineering and science but I don't see the need. Caerwine Caer’s whines 01:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Sorry, I created the stub without knowing that it needs to be suggested first, and the parent category was meant only temporary. I intended it to cover all areas of glass, including art, not only drinking glasses or engineering and science. I did it because I did not see any stub types that would fit well, therefore, I am using the general stub template currently. What existing stub types you had in mind? If you consider them appropriate in all glass areas I would agree to delete the glass stub. Again, sorry, I never created a stub template before; I was not familiar with the policy, and I hope I did not make too much trouble for you.--Afluegel (talk) 09:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
    • I think the stub Template:Material-stub would cover the whole area of glass, maybe even glass art, but is is very broad. The stub Template:Decorative-art-stub is used currently for glass art, but it is also rather broad.--Afluegel (talk) 09:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
    • The discussion under January 2007 is not very relevant because it seems to be rather confused, and the area of glass would well cover more than 60 articles.--Afluegel (talk) 09:29, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
      • A redesign/rescope, as suggested by Caerwine, might just work, though as I pointed out, this seems to cross so many different stub types, from art stubs to material stubs to tool stubs to industrial process stubs, that at present it needs quite a bit of work to sort out exactly what it can and can't be used for. Grutness...wha? 00:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
        • I think "glass engineering" is too narrow for a new stub type. It also should include the categories Glass types, some of Glass applications, Glass history, and glass science. However, I do not consider the topic as very urgent, it just seems appropriate to me. If you think that it may be too complicated at this point we can easily delete the new stub for now, and I could suggest one after about a year, following the proper procedure. In the meantime the category Glass might have improved in such a way that it would be easier. What do you think?--Afluegel (talk) 08:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Summary so far - this cuts across various categories, but the categories it cuts across are fairly vague in their scope as far as glass is concerned. Any chance on some more comments for possible consensus on this?

One possible solution which might be acceptable is to expand rather than upmerge this - create separate glass-art-stub, glass-material-stub and glass-engineering-stub templates, each of them doubly-upmerged to Glass stubs and to Decorative arts stubs, Materials stubs and Engineering stubs respectively, leaving anything that doesn't fit as a plain glass-stub. That would allow for a viable Cat:Glass stubs while still having the stubs in other related categories. Any thoughts? Grutness...wha? 23:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support multiple templates per G. Her Pegship (tis herself) 23:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

[edit] {{BaseballStub}}

No articles use this stub temp. It has been around since 2005. It should be deleted. -NatureBoyMD (talk) 19:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Taking a look at the template, it doesn't appear to be a stub template in the sense we usually mean a stub template. Rather, it's a substitutable template for creating a stub article about a minor league baseball team. It started out as a copy of User talk:Vikreykja/BaseballStub but has been altered. Userfy if any of the editors who have edited this version want it, or simply delete. Caerwine Caer’s whines 20:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - per nom. Compwhiz II^(Talk)_(Contribs) 20:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC) thanks for moving this

• Note: I've closed the disscussion over at TfD for you. Compwhiz II^(Talk)_(Contribs) 20:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• If it's in use at all as a stub-creation template, then renaming it 9and losing the redirect) might be reasonable. But if it's unused, the deletion is probably the simpler option. Grutness...wha? 00:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC) (PS - thanks for closing the tfD discussion!)
• Delete - Since articles or stubs have now been created for almost all current minor league baseball teams (and the template doesn't address defunct historical teams), it's not likely that there would be any use for this template in the foreseeable future. BRMo (talk) 02:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Can always be copied from an existing team if format is needed. MBisanz ^talk 23:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. Looks like this hierarchy is staying where it is

[edit] {{footy-stub}}, and other templates in hierarchy

OK, call me crazy [pause for public comment] but I have been long frustrated by the use of "footy" in the association football/soccer templates. After a brief study of the articles on the topic, I wonder if there's any chance we could agree on a renaming. assoc-football-stub? soccer-stub? Any ideas? Her Pegship (tis herself) 18:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, you're crazy. <rimshot> I'll certainly agree that it is not a usage friendly to American English. However since the dictionary definition of footy is "poor; worthless; paltry", I think it does serve as an accurate description. Seriously though, is soccer so throughly disliked by the Anglo-centric among us that it can't be used in preference to the slang term "footy" which I had never heard of until coming across it here? Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

One further comment. The use of footy as a substitute for football is not just for soccer but also Australian rules football. Not only that but there is a popular class of radio controlled model sail boats that boasts the name. All three show up on the first page of Google searches for "footy". Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Apparently, yes, it is. Expect an angry mob of Anglo-centric peasants with torches here presently. Alai (talk) 03:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

That's actually hopeful that they think "soccer" a monster, since it was Frankenstein's monster and not the torch wielding peasants who ultimately prevailed. Caerwine Caer’s whines 03:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related page discussions. Nanonic (talk) 21:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

For reference - these stub types were previously nominated for renaming in April 2006, the archived discussion of which is here Nanonic (talk) 21:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• Not just Aussie rules, either - here in NZ rugby union is often called footy (indeed there's a tv sports programme ccalled "The footy show" which deals with that sport). I think that soccer, disliked though it is by purists, is possibly the only word which instantly disambiguates the sport from other sports, so - though I generally dislike the term - I can see that moving all of these templates would be a reasonable move. Grutness...wha? 00:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose, the word "footy" does not even appear in the article text these stubs appear on, footy is just shorthand, it makes it easier than writing out {{Argentina-Association-footballbio-stub}} instead of the shorter {{Argentina-footybio-stub}} which leaves the text This biographical article related to Argentine football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. I really can't see how moving all instances of these templates to some other name could constitute good use of time and resources. King of the NorthEast 08:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • It would be helpful to those of us (and there are many) who had never heard of the term and tried to tag articles with "soccer-stub" only to find there was no such thing. The word "footy" is not intuitive; for the same reason we have recently renamed the basketball stub templates from "hoops" to "basketball". Her Pegship (tis herself) 17:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Umm.. {{soccer-stub}} has been a redirect to footy-stub since November 2005. Nanonic (talk) 11:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
      • Umm, true, but all the other "footy" templates don't have redirects. Perhaps we should just create a redirect every time a footy template is created. Her Pegship (tis herself) 15:57, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Bots can take care of the moving and keeping the stubs at "footy" makes zero sense because of the ambiguity in the name. If footy were used only for the round ball variety of football, I could see keeping the provincial shorthand, but that isn't the case. Whether *-footy-* becomes *-soccer-* or *-Associationfootball-* doesn't matter to me, but both have an advantage that *-footy-* will never have, that of being unambiguously about the version of football governed by the IFAB. Caerwine Caer’s whines 17:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

One further remark, when we make the change keep {{footy-stub}} as a redirect to the similarly ambiguous {{football-stub}} that exists solely to give chauvinists who insist that their version of football is tne one true football a target for their stub efforts. Caerwine Caer’s whines 17:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Indifferent mainly because the other sports that may use "footy" already have their own stub types and I haven't come across any instances of confusion arising from editors who've placed the wrong one on an article. I would prefer *-associationfootball-* if these do get moved, purely to avoid all the "it's football" - "not in my country it isn't" - "I live in the same country and it is" - "ok well not in my state it isn't" arguments that we're still having over the name. Adopting the term that no-one seems to use strikes me as wise in the long-run. Of course, it's a long stub name which may annoy those who prefer shorter ones, such as {{Amfoot-bio-stub}} instead of {{Americanfootball-bio-stub}}, no doubt some wag will propose {{Assfoot-bio-stub}} at some point. Nanonic (talk) 11:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • What about assoc-football-stub? Her Pegship (tis herself) 15:57, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • All assing around aside... {{Amfoot-bio-stub}} isn't a great precedent, since while there's no {{Americanfootball-bio-stub}} template or or redirect, contrariwise we've a {{Americanfootball-stub}}, but no {{Amfoot-stub}}. Alai (talk) 22:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. Why should we require total disambiguation with internal titles, which are never seen in the article text itself? For every person who types "soccer-stub" before realizing it's actually at "footy-stub", there are probably ten people who have become used to typing "footy-stub" for years. There are plenty of arcane stub template names, and this is not one of the more strange ones - after all I've never heard "footy" used in any context other than to refer to association football. And quite frankly, considering that the majority of the world uses "football" in this sense, and an even greater majority would never use "footy" or "footballer" in any other sense, what's the need for this move? My policy with moves, especially outside the article space, is that if there is no compelling reason to change the status quo (a compelling reason would be a spelling error or naming convention error, in 99% of cases), then why bother? ugen64 (talk) 01:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The point is that "footy" is a slang word, like "hoops", which we also have revised for reasons of clarity. I'm not advocating "soccer-stub", just suggesting we find something more accurate linguistically. Her Pegship (tis herself) 02:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose per KotNE and Ugen64. I don't see the problem at all, since those most likely to be opposed the current name (Americans and linguists) are those who are least likely to use it. If renaming I support {{Assfoot-bio-stub}}. Oh, and Her Pegship, you're crazy. Sebisthlm (talk) 15:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Thank you. At least we've reached consensus on that. :P Her Pegship (tis herself) 16:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Sudden thought -- any chance we could deal with scoping {{football-stub}} to mean association football, and make all the "American" football forms use the Am- prefix? Her Pegship (tis herself) 20:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  • As some one who regularly clears out football-stub I would say this is not a good idea as most of the articles (wrongly)given this template are not then footy- templates bt rugby or amfoot. Waacstats (talk) 12:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Ugen64, makes no sense whatsoever. BanRay 16:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per ugen64, couldn't have put it better myself! Oh yeah, and Her Pegship – you're crazy :-) Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 22:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename categories - relist templates for potential renaming

• Cat:Austin stubs → Cat:Austin, Texas stubs
• Cat:Dallas stubs → Cat:Dallas, Texas stubs
• Cat:Houston stubs → Cat:Houston, Texas stubs

Rename to reduce ambiguity, fit the normal category naming conventions, and match parents Cat:Austin, Texas, Cat:Dallas, Texas, and Cat:Houston, Texas. - Dravecky (talk) 05:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Templates are probably fine where they are though. Grutness...wha? 08:23, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
• I dunno about "ambiguity": Dallas and Houston are redirects, and Austin is a rather marginal-looking dab page, listing N-1 places I'd never heard of, and the one it probably should be a redirect to. However, if the permcats and article names are going to be over-qualified -- and evidently, they are -- we should probably rename to match. However, {{Austin-TX-stub}} is horrendous (it seems to have been moved from {{Austin-stub}} and that redirect deleted, without reference to this page. Move back. Alai (talk) 16:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Erk! I'd assumed they were at {{Austin-stub}} and the like. {{Austin-TX-stub}} is a horrific bastardisation of a stub name. Move back per Alai and lose the dog. Grutness...wha? 19:58, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
    • On second thoughts, moving the templates to {{AustinTX-stub}}, {{HoustonTX-stub}} and {{DallasTX-stub}} might be reasonable - though a separate debate is possibly needed for that. Grutness...wha? 00:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was turned into fully-formed kosovo-geo-stub, kosova form then deleted. Not yet at threshold for separate category, but closing in

And so it goes again. Every time Kosovo gets close to independence, another group of Kosovo stub types appear. At present there are several, all redirects to Euro- or Serbia- equivalents. And all except this unproposed, newly created one, use "Kosovo", as is neutral and in keeping with the idea of noun forms. This one, however, does not. Given that there's already an acceptable redirect at {{Kosovo-geo-stub}} and also given the potential fractiousness of the term Kosova, this one should be deleted, speedily by precedent if possible. Grutness...wha? 01:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• If Kosovo were an independent state, we'd have at least an upmerged template, and a category if numbers indicated it; if Kosovo were an autonomous province of Serbia, we'd have at least an upmerged template, and a category if numbers indicated it. Alternative spellings are generally cause for redirects. So I'd favour redirecting this to {{Kosovo-geo-stub}}, turning that into a full-fledged template (rather than a redirect), populating it, and if it's over threshold, creating a dual-parented category. By the same token, if it doesn't, the template should itself be double-upmerged. Alai (talk) 21:58, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  • You miss the point of the name, Alai - Kosova is the Albanian name for Kosovo, and is one likely to cause offence to some people in the region. It's a bit like using the term "Rhodesia" to apply to modern Zimbabwe, or (dare I say it) "Danzig" to apply to Gdansk - for that reason, keeping it as a redirect is unwise, to say the least. As to the redirection of Kosovo-X-stub to the Euro-X-stub equivalents, that was done because of persistent editwarring over the templates. The only way that could easily be fixed is to make them into upmerged templates (or templates with categories) then preemptively protecting them from editing until such times that the area gets independence. Grutness...wha? 23:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• Rename Change to Kosovo, as in English media, or waiting the coincidence of the stub tree. Matthew_hk tc 15:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename templates

Hi all - I've just noticed that several Chinese stub types designated (if the icons are anything to go by) for China PR simply use the word "China-" in their template names, wheras I'm pretty sure that ChinaPR- is standard. I'd like to nominate the following for renaming (with no preference for keeping/discarding the redirect), and suggest we may need to keep an eye out for others:

• {{China-athletics-bio-stub}} → {{ChinaPR-athletics-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub}}
• {{China-sport-bio-stub}} → {{ChinaPR-sport-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-sport-bio-stub}}
• {{China-footy-bio-stub}} → {{ChinaPR-athletics-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub}} (see also further discussion below on footy-stubs in general)
• {{China-badminton-bio-stub}} → {{ChinaPR-athletics-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub}} {{PRChina-badminton-bio-stub}}

I've no objection to the use of the term China- when it's clearly for items which have a shared history between the Chinas, but unless I'm much mistaken in these cases that seems a little dubious. If these stub types are intended for both Chinas, then the icons definitely need changing, too! Grutness...wha? 02:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• "PRC-" or "PRChina-", please. Alai (talk) 03:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Ah, good point - and PRC isn't a standard name used for stubs either (or if it is I'd like to know why!). Amended accordingly. Grutness...wha? 08:23, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
    • As creator and proposer of 3/4 templates I can state they are for PRC. I Support change but ask if the china- variety can be kept as redirects otherwise I may end up leaving a load of red links all over the place because I'll frquently forget to use the PRChina templates. Waacstats (talk) 15:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
      • Sounds reasonable - we could always do whyat we did with {{China-geo-stub}}, add a note saying "this is deprecated, please replace with either PRChina- or Taiwan-" That might not be necessary yet though since we don't have equivalent Taiwan stub types yet. When we do, it would make sense. Grutness...wha? 23:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
    • PRC is completely standard in general usage, while "PRChina" is merely conventional in the context of the ST-NGs, and a somewhat marginal application thereof, at that. We should have (at least) redirects at PRC-. Alai (talk) 22:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
      • May be worth standardising one way or the other while there's still only a handful of templates. I must admit that I rarely if ever think of PRC referring to China, but that's because I occasionally dealt with PRC curves in my university studies (ironically I also used ROC curves to analyse some of my results!) In any case, PRC means a whole bunch of different things. Grutness...wha? 23:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
• PS I also changed the templates. I don't think we need 3 templates for athletics.Waacstats (talk) 15:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Oops - cut'n'paste strikes again! :) Grutness...wha? 23:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose the is only one China. Matthew_hk tc 15:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: Actually, there are 2 Chinas: the People's Republic of China and Republic of China. --_contribsSTYROFOAM?1994^TALK 19:12, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete per author request. _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} ^{round of applause} 19:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Unproposed, misnamed, and with no apparent likelihood of reaching threshold - indeed there is no parent category Cat:Children's book series to check for numbers. Only used once. Other stub types for children's books all use the form {{Child-x-stub}}, thereby avoiding problems with the apostrophe (among other reasons), so if the template is kept it should be renamed. Given the lack of a parent category, though, it seems unnecessary to keep it. Delete. Grutness...wha? 23:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

(Cat:Series of children's books would be the parent.) So far there are only {{child-book-stub}}, {{child-lit-stub}}, and {{child-novel-stub}}, and a series stub isn't the next most needed (that would be {{child-picture-book-stub}} or {{child-nonfiction-book-stub}}). Delete. Her Pegship (tis herself) 00:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete and upmerge. Again.

[edit] Two undersized state school stub cats

• Cat:Mississippi school stubs - 45 entries
• Cat:North Dakota school stubs - 49 entries

Whilst going through the state school stub cats to verify that what we should have on the stub list, I came across these two which are undersized. Suggest reupmerging them to their parents again, as this isn't the first time either of these was created too soon. Caerwine Caer’s whines 04:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

• It's practically a local tradition. Upmerge. Alai (talk) 16:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

Unproposed, and - to be honest - a peculiar one. At first glance, it's difficult to see how this would be different from a CAsia-stub, and it's only on closer look that it becomes clear that this is being used as a bio-stub type, mostly for academics whose area of expertise is Central Asia. As such, it cuts across such stub types as historian-stub, academic-stub, and their subtypes. Most of the few non bio-stubs this could take would naturally belong in the longstanding Cat:Central Asian history stubs. It's worth noting that the parent permcat (Cat:Central Asian studies) has fewer than 10 non-bio articles, and all of those, if stubs, would be well covered by the above combination. As to the parent stubcat, remerging this would leave it with a barely viable 65 stubs - definitely too few to even contemplate splitting. Delete. Grutness...wha? 10:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry if this caught anyone by surprise. My thought was that a lot of the stubs in question had been previously Central Asian history stubs, which seemed inaccurate. I felt it would be helpful to have a distinction between articles/stubs about Central Asia history as opposed to those who study that history (but aren't really part of it themselves). As for the limited number of articles at the moment, the idea was that more articles would be created (there are quite of number of articles, including non-bio articles, which can be created on the subject). I was simply trying to make things more organized. As for the unproposed, guilty as charged (pleading ignorance - I've now discovered and read about the proposing process). If it really bothers people, I won't fight deletion, but knowing which Central Asia studies articles are stubs (as opposed to just throwing them into the mass of history stubs) seems helpful to me. That was all. Otebig (talk) 10:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Splitting historians by subject area as well as by their nationality strikes me as a good thing, but there hadn't been a good idea for how to make the stubs distinct from the *-historian-stub series. Merging them into a *-series-stub series of templates might work. However, it does seem that there are too few at present identified for a CAsia-studies at present, but upmerging Cat:Central Asian studies stubs to a new {{Asia-studies-stub}} / Cat:Asia studies stubs seems quite viable, keeping the existing {{CAsia-studies-stub}} as an upmerged template feeding into both Cat:Asia studies stubs and Cat:Central Asia stubs. {{Europe-studies-stub}} and {{Africa-studies-stub}} would also seem worthwhile. The Americas would prove a problem from the usual viewpoint of stub sorting, as the split there is clearly Latin America / Anglo America instead of our usual North America / South America, but a {{US-studies-stub}} / Cat:American studies stubs would handle most of the distinction, leaving the remainder of the Americas to wait for now in an Cat:area studies stubs that would be the logical parent of all these stubs. Consider all the above to be a comment for now. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:59, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

That sounds plausible, though it does keep the problem as to whether it relates to people or other things. Most non bio-stub types can already be covered by other things (area history stubs, area politics stubs, and the like), and "X studies stubs" doesn't make it clear that it is being used primarily for people. The idea is a reasonable one, but it would need some tinkering with to name it, and unfortunately there is no such word as "Centralasiaologist". Perhaps rather than X-studies-stub, an X-scholar-stub for scholars concerned with particular regions would be a practical solution? Grutness...wha? 23:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Still being a stub novice, I'm not quite sure what to do next -- should I propose a Central Asia-scholar-stub? Otebig (talk) 14:22, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I've just started debate on a range of scholar-stub types on the proposal page at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2008/February#Scholar-stub_types - feel free to add any comments there. Grutness...wha? 23:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Keep Central Asian studies stubs. I think a Central Asian studies stub section makes much more sense than merging Central Asia into general historians or into Asian studies. Asia is larger on the map than Europe and the Americas combined and dividing it into regions only makes sense. There are a fair number of journals of Central Asian themes being published and it's a growing field of study, so keeping it separate is the right idea. Also, many academic departments combine Central Asia with Russia because of the historical connections, and lumping Central Asia with "Asian nations", whether it be China, Japan or S.E. Asia doesn't make much sense because the Central Asian states share more in common culturally, religiously and linguistically with the Middle East than they do with Asian nations. Central Asia is a distinct region, so let's keep it a distinct category.David Straub (talk) 02:02, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Um... have you read all of the comments above? If so, which stubs do you think - other than the bio stubs, types for which have been proposed to replace this - wouldn't fit more naturally into the current Central Asian history, Central Asian geography, Central Asian politics, or general Central Asian stub types? Grutness...wha? 05:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename

Moved from CFD; not sure if there are enough items for it, but it need renaming at least. Someone created it today and even placed the {{WPSS-cat}} banner on it, despite its not having been proposed. Whaddaya think? Her Pegship (tis herself) 00:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• rename and upmerge as {{med-book-stub}}, deleting current template name. If it reaches threshold by the end of the process period, then keep the category but renames with lower case B. I'd just found this on my daily trawl through newpages/templates and was about to bring it here, but looks like you beat me to it :) I've put a notice on the creator's page, BTW. Grutness...wha? 04:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was template upmerged; category deleted

[edit] Cat:Algerian film stubs

This and its associated template, {{Algeria-film-stub}} were both created unproposed a few hours ago. I've no-objection to an upmerged Algeria-film-stub template, but given that the parent permcat Cat:Algerian films has only ten articles, it seems somewhat unlikely that there would be the required 60 existing stubs for a category. Delete category, and upmerge template to Cat:African film stubs Grutness...wha? 00:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

[edit] Category:Mobile Stub

There is no template, and the name should not be capitalized. I falls under Category:Wireless stubs {{Wireless-stub}}, which for some reason includes the stubs in Category:Mobile. – Leo Laursen – ☏ ⌘ 10:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. BTW, I've also suggested a rename of the parent category at CfD - my initial thought was this was a subtype of Alabama-geo-stub. I don't know enough about the subject to know whether "mobile" and "wireless" are identical or whether one has a larger scope than the other, but I'm fairly sure that either the stubs in this category (all three of them!) would accept wireless-stub as it is at present, or wireless-stub could be upscoped slightly to accept them. Grutness...wha? 23:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as empty. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

Thought I'd pick some easier ones today. This one has had 2 articles since March 2007, and the parent contains 5 articles and 7 infoboxes. The other sub-cats are for episodes or characters, each of which have their own types, and lastly, I think we only have series-specific types for really behemoth franchises like Doctor Who and Star Trek. Delete, please. Her Pegship (tis herself) 02:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• And that's not to mention the miscapitalised category. Clearly not needed - even an upmerged template seems unlikely to gain much use. Delete. Grutness...wha? 07:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was reverse redirect, delete

Apparently {{UK-royal-stub}} redirects to this template, but the category page says to use {{UK-royal-stub}}. On the Discoveries page, it's noted that the associated WP uses "BRoy", so I assume this was a well-meant slip. I suggest we reverse the redirect, and possible delete {{BRoy-stub}} as well. Her Pegship (tis herself) 02:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• It's a horrible, non-intuitive, and utterly non-NG-standard name. Move the template back and delete this ASAP. Grutness...wha? 07:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

The template was originally nominated back on January 21 but since then the creator removed the notice and added a category that also violates the naming guidelines. Relisting here for deletion as it has only 4 tagged articles, cuts across existing stub categories, and has bad names for both the template and the category. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• What do you mean? If you check my talk page, the issue was resolved. And, it has already proved useful. Let's say there's a stub on an invertebrate, and it lives underwater. Then let's say there's an invertebrate on land. Using that stub template, you can differentiate between the two. Jourdy288 (talk) 17:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Let me address the points I raised individually.
    1. It does not follow the naming guidelines for stub types. If this stub followed the the naming guidelines, it would be something like {{aquatic-invertebrate-stub}} / Cat:Aquatic invertebrate stubs.
    2. It is undersized. Stub types should generally have at a minimum 60 stubs, which is reduced to a minimum of 30 stubs, but at present it only has 7 stubs.
    3. Finally, there's the fact that Wikipedia categorizes organisms primarily by their taxonomy and not by the type of habitat they live in. Habitat is a distinctly secondary scheme.

    Sorting by habitat might have proved a useful tool for splitting the invertebrate stubs if we had exhausted the possibilities of taxonomy, but we hadn't. Indeed, Invertebrate stubs itself is a rather poor grouping given that about 97% of all animals are invertebrates. At least you can rest assured that your effort has spurred this project towards developing stub templates for each phylum. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, as this area is covered by various other stub types. Her Pegship (tis herself) 18:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, due to the fact that it still has use, as, stubs I marked with it have been appropriateley changed, as in all those echinoderm stubs I marked with my stub, are now changed to echinoderm stub. Again, I say keep, as it is still much more descriptive and draws a major line.

Jourdy288 (talk) 17:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

• • Further, howether, I notice your point on renaming, and I agree.

Jourdy288 (talk) 17:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

• Badly-named, undersized, arbitrary intersection. Not only is there no Cat:aquatic invertebrates, there's no Cat:invertebrates, either. Delete. Alai (talk) 01:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename

[edit] Cat:Polish artists stubs → Cat:Polish artist stubs

This should have been caught during the recent proposal, but wasn't. Hopefully this can be speedied. Caerwine Caer’s whines 04:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• Creator support.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename

SA is ambiguous, but in this case is supposed to be South America and not South Africa or any other SA meaning. Rename to {{SouthAm-composer-stub}} to match the naming guidelines. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

• Rename, before anyone starts adding composers from Adelaide. Grutness...wha? 00:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete

Seems to be some confusion here. This is an unproposed stub template, but it leads into a Stub-Class category. If the intention was to create a Stub-Class template then this should be renamed to something like {{Stub-Class SW-org}}, but if so, something's definitely wrong, since the appearance of the template is also that of a stub template. There's also the problem that it says it's for "a social work concept or organisation", yet there's no way that a concept should get anby form of org-stub. If the aim was to create an actual stub template, then it needs a category or to be upmerged properly, and it also needs a less ambiguous name ({{Socialwork-stub}} or similar). However, I'm not really sure how much call there'd be for a template like that, and given that we'd need to start over from the top with this it would probably be simpler to delete it and (re-)propose it from scratch. Grutness...wha? 12:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I concur with deletion. I will research the need some more and make a proposal in the near future if this seems like a good process. My intent was to bring more attention to these stub articles regarding subjects that I think the encyclopedia really needs. However, I was obviously confused. Sorry about my screw up. I hope this did not cause too much disruption. Ursasapien (talk) 05:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename as rabbi-stub

Unproposed and entirely redundant with the long-standing {{Judaism-bio-stub}}. And rabbinical usually has two "b"s. Delete. Grutness...wha? 12:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

This template should be kept. It is not redundant with {{Judaism-bio-stub}} because that template can refer to any jewish personality and not specifically rabbis.Nerguy (talk) 13:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Just to make clear one point {{Judaism-bio-stub}} is for people who are notable specifically because of some contribution they made to their religion, not just simply because they are a Jew who may be notable for other reasons. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to renaming to {{rabbi-stub}}. The naming guidelines prefer using nouns over adjectives, and furthermore they also prefer correct spelling, so it needs renaming at a minimum in any event. Caerwine Caer’s whines 17:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

If you want it renamed as {{rabbi-stub}}, that is reasonable. Also, not all people who contribute to the Jewish religion are rabbis. Many are lay leaders.Nerguy (talk) 19:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

{{Rabbi-stub}} sounds fair to me as well. Your point about lay leaders makes sense. Caerwine's point is worth noting re Judaism-bio-stub being specifically for people most notable for their religious work, though. Grutness...wha? 23:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Lay leaders can also do some religious work. Nerguy (talk) 01:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

But that doesn't make them Rabbi's

More to the point, a reli-bio-stub of any kind is for people whose primary notability is for their religious work. That will not necessarily be true for all lay leaders, though it will be for many. A Rabbi-stub would be specifically for people who have been ordained. Grutness...wha? 22:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

• Rename as proposed to {{Rabbi-stub}} as above. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 14:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you Grutness and it just should be renamed.Nerguy (talk) 03:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was replace witha stub type for all Illinois university stubs

Unproposed, and without even a redlinked category. There is no such thing as a uic - there are several UICs, however and this stub type seems to be intended for one of them, the University of Illinois in Chicago. University are usually divided by state, not by individual university (and certainly not for individual campus!), and this is hardly likely to reach the required splittability threshold (it currently is used on two articles). Delete, or rescope to cover all universities in Illinois, or at the very least the whole of the University of Illinois. Grutness...wha? 12:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I was wrong - it had two noincluded category links - a permcat and a redlink Cat:UIC stubs. Grutness...wha? 12:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for not proposing it. It should indeed be on more pages; however, I was working on that. However, if you are proposing to also eliminate the UIUC-stub in favor of stub for the entire University of Illinois system, then I suppose that would also be fine. But as is, the UIUC-stub is not useful for anything relating the the University of Illinois at Chicago. What is done for the University of California at Berkeley versus the University of California at Los Angeles? And is that perceived as a model to be followed?--Cumulant (talk) 02:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

What UIUC-stub??? Erg - another one never proposed. Sigh...that also goes on the SFD list. As for California, its universities all use {{California-university-stub}}. There is no UCLA-stub or UCB-stub (let alone Ucla-stub or Ucb-stub) - and yes, the state-university-stub formulation is the perceived model to be followed. Henc e my original suggestion that this be rescoped to cover all universities in illinois. Grutness...wha? 00:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was replace witha stub type for all Illinois university stubs

Discovered belatedly through discussion on Uic-stub, below, this was was never proposed, was incorrectly formatted (fixed), and has not got halfway to threshold even after 20 months in existence. There seems to be a bit of a mix-n-match going on with US university stubs overall, but most of them use state-university-stub as their form (which keeps them in line with other splits of US stubs). Suggest renaming/rescopinging this into a new {{Illinois-university-stub}}, either upmerged or - if numbers are sufficient - along with Cat:Illinois university stubs. Grutness...wha? 00:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

• I would support merging this stub category into "university in Illinois" or similar, per nom. Otherwise, it should not be deleted because the stub type should be specific, and it's used on 20 or so articles. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was rename template to Alien-sf-stub, upmerge to Science fiction stubs, delete Alien stubs
Where to start? Unproposed. Unused. There is no Cat:Aliens or Cat:Alien. Ambiguous name (illegal aliens? no. Extraterrestrials? no. The Alien fim series? yes). Even being lenient and adding in the Predator categories to the Alien series category (Cat:Alien (film series)), yields only some 75 articles (difficult to count for certain, given the cross-categorisation of items in both parent and child categories). It would take nearly half of them to be stubs for this to reach threshold even with a WikiProject. Currently effectively handled by various film-, sf-, and videogame- stub types. Grutness...wha? 23:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I created this one, as part of the construction of Wikiproject Alien which I'm still working on and based off another WikiProject. I wasn't familiar with the proposals process or the threshold requirement. Unfortunately I would guestimate that a good deal of the Alien and Predator-related articles are in fact stubs (which is why I'm launching the project), so I could see it being used quite a bit, but if you feel it is better handled by other stub types then so be it. If you have further guidance for me on the project I've undertaken, please go ahead and message me on my talk page. I'm using the "learn by doing" method so I need all the coaching I can get. --IllaZilla (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, the categories you mention don't exist yet because I'm still constructing them. Once they're created I'd planned to start placing project tags and stub tags on the articles that require them. The fact that the stub type is unused and uncategorized currently is because I only created it yesterday. I'm still deferring to your experience on the matter, I just wanted to address those specific points. --IllaZilla (talk) 02:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

My point about those categories is that they shouldn't exist. The correct category for the Alien film series already exists (Cat:Alien (film series)). Any category simply called Cat:Aliens or Cat:Alien would be a deletion candidate due to its ambiguity - too many things have those names and Alien is a disambiguation page. For the same reason, there should not be a category called Cat:Alien stubs, not a template called {{Alien-stub}}. If kept, this would need to be renamed to {{Alien-film-stub}} / Cat:Alien (film series) stubs or similar, though I would still question the need for it at all. Grutness...wha? 00:03, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I see your points about the disambiguation of the category. I think the confusion there is that it doesn't just cover the film series, but also comics, video games, and other media. The primary media is of course the film series, but I'm hoping to move/expand Alien (film series) into something more like Star Wars as sort of the parent article for the project, so that it includes discussions of those other media. Similarly my hope is to rename Cat:Alien (film series) into something more inclusive of the franchise as a whole and its various media. The problem is settling on a proper disambiguation, since "alien" applies to so many things unrelated to the franchise (Alien (fiction series) maybe?). I've started assessing, sorting, and tagging articles withing the project and have tagged about 65 stubs so far. So my preferred course of action would be to rename the categories and stub to make it all fall under a uniform umbrella term. --IllaZilla (talk) 00:49, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps {{Alien-media-stub}} might be more clear, and would not be limited to just the films. NanohaA'sYuri^{Talk, My master} 02:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Since stub categories follow permanent category names for the most party, your best course of action would be to try to change the permcat name at WP:CFD before making any stub categories. You may have problems though, since the term "Alien" is so ambiguous. Perhaps suggesting something like "Alien (entertainment franchise)" or similar might work, but I'm sure someone at CFD would be able to suggest better alternatives. In any case, starting with the stub category is definitely putting the cart before the horse. Grutness...wha? 00:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete; a talk page template would serve the creator's purpose just as well. Anything that involves more than one medium gets hairy, and frankly, you gotta have waaaaay more than 65 articles before a franchise gets its own stub type & category. Her Pegship (tis herself) 22:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
• Update - I've nominated Cat:Alien at CFD, suggesting a rename/merger of it and Cat:Alien (film series) into a new Cat:Alien (entertainment franchise). If you wish to propose a better name, then do so there. Once something is decided about that permcat's name, we'll have more of a handle on what to do with the stub type's name. Grutness...wha? 06:56, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Update on the update: {{Alien-stub}} now links to 63 items, and the permcat has been renamed Cat:Alien (franchise). Her Pegship (tis herself) 16:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Despite the permcat's name change, I still don't think this stub type is currently warranted. I suggest the project create a Cat:WikiProject Alien articles and use a talk page template to place them therein. Her Pegship (tis herself) 02:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Can we reach a conclusion on this? Currently it seems there isn't a consensus, as I (the creator) would like to keep the stub type as it is useful for Wikiproject Alien, and 2 other editors (Grutnes & Pegship) would like to delete it. As stated there are currently 63 articles that use the template, and the threshold for inclusion is 50 according to Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion#Possible reasons for the deletion of a stub type. I don't believe it meets any of the 6 reasons for deletion listed in that section. I defer to the experience of other editors here, as this is my first attempt at working with stub types, and I will not be upset if the conclusion is to delete. However, given that it has been almost 3 months since the deletion proposal was made and there have only been 3 voiced opinions with no apparent consensus, I believe the logical conclusion should be no consensus and a default to keep. --IllaZilla (talk) 06:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

• If we do keep this stub type, it still needs a new format in order to distinguish it from articles about little green wo/men. :P Any ideas? Her Pegship (tis herself) 05:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • The category Cat:WikiProject Alien articles has been created and there are sub-cats according to types of articles and assessment, based on talk page templates. (And the list says "possible reasons", not "only reasons".) In light of this, and noting that two of the three opinions have been to delete, I recommend {{Alien-stub}} and Cat:Alien stubs be deleted. Her Pegship (tis herself) 03:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• I propose a No consensus because this SfD has lasted 3 months now and there still isn't any clear majority. 2/3 for delete isn't a large enough group of people, so either the nom get more supporters, or no consensus DA PIE EATER (talk) 01:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I'd oppose that. "No consensus" is generally not used at SfD (the usual process is relisting or simply leaving here until things become clear), and this particular sfd was held up for a considerable time due to changes to the permcats. I agree with Pegship's comment move to delete, given that the only opposition to deleting came from the creator of the stub type. The stub type still does not agree in naming with the permanent category, and the presence of assessment articles now makes this stub type redundant. Grutness...wha? 01:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New proposal

Given that this is hanging around here as a deadlock at the moment, I'd like to propose the following:

• Change {{Alien-stub}} to {{Alien-sf-stub}} - to recognise the fact that this is for the science fiction series of films etc., and word the template to follow suit
• and either
  • change Cat:Alien stubs to Cat:Alien (franchise) stubs, to match the permcat which has been moved to Cat:Alien (franchise), or
  • delete the category and upmerge the template to Cat:Science fiction stubs

Of the two category choices, I'd favour the latter, since currently there are far too few articles for a separate stub category (24), even with the presence of a WikiProject. Given that the WikiProject has its own assessment template, it is unlikely to disadvantage them any either way. Grutness...wha? 09:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• • • I'd rather go with template rename and upmerge. And somebody not involved with this discussion needs to be the closer, or I'd have done so by now... Her Pegship (tis herself) 16:04, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
    • Given that the "adjusted baseline" for the canonical stub type of a WPJ has generally been held to be 30, "far too few" seems to be over-egging things a tad. Alai (talk) 23:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
      • Well, 24 is 20% below threshold target, and has actually dropped since this AfD began. In fact it's now only 20 - 33% below target - and many of those listed are marked for merger. I'd hardly describe that has being "close enough". Grutness...wha? 06:08, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
• 1st choice. DA PIE EATER (talk) 20:04, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
  • What is, precisely? You mean the rename option, of the above two? Or simply either of them? Alai (talk) 23:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
    • Fine, support renaming {{Alien-stub}} to {{Alien-sf-stub}} TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 14:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
    • I'd also support the upmerge to Cat:Science fiction stubs. Too few members for {cl|Alien (franchise) stubs}}. TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 14:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was renamed to non-stub name, redirect deleted

[edit] {{Church-directory-stub}}/ redlink/ {{Church-directory-dev}}

This one's a really strange one. unproposed, and - according to its text - for lists "of Christian church bodies or Christian denominations (not Church buildings)". All articles on these subjects are currently well-covered by other stub types. Lists aren't, because - by definition - lists aren't stubs (they usually get {{listdev}} rather than stub templates). There is, of course, no permanent parent Cat:Church directories - instead, there's an equally strange Cat:Find a Christian church, which is heading to WP:CFD in a moment or two. Delete as unsalvageable. Grutness...wha? 00:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Say a prayer for it before burying it. Caerwine Caer’s whines 00:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

KEEP - I have changed the name (Template:Church-directory-dev)and format to reflect the {{listdev}} template as stated above. This template is need so folks understand it is a directory of Christian church bodies or Christian denominations-- not church buildings). --Carlaude (talk) 04:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

We still need to delete the redirect left behind by the move, but since the creator agrees and has depopulated the old name, this should be speediable hopefully. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Close enough for jazz. Thanks Carlaude. Grutness...wha? 23:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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