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May 2005 discoveries

That was the tip of the iceberg

I've just gone through the whole of that list unearthed by BlankVerse... I think I need to go and have a lie down now. The following are 30 previously undiscovered stub templates:

Kerala Geo Stub

{{Kerala Geo Stub}} User: Chakravyuh 29 March 30+ (Kerala, India) Badly formed category

{{MTR stub}} and {{KCR stub}}

Two new stubs on different Hong Kong transportation networks, created by our old friend Instantnood. Surely these would better have been served by a single template/category, rather than two separate ones? Also the names are not that hot - firstly the TLAs mean different things in different countries (I instantly wondered why the Motor Traders Association should have a stub category), and secondly, there's no hyphen, so that's another blow against the hoped-for uniformity. Grutness...wha? 01:38, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The first was created by User:PZFUN, and the latter by User:Secfan. I guess neither of them have ever been involved in this WikiProject. The two stub templates are for anything related to the two metro networks, the light rail network by KCRC, property development (e.g. housing blocks, shopping centres) and anything else related to the two companies (e.g. investment overseas). Basically almost all stations are still stubs, but not all of them have been tagged with one of the two templates. — Instantnood 08:51, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Apologies for the misattribution (you must have added the categories later, I think...). Still think they'd have done better with one template covering both, though. Grutness...wha? 05:49, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I discovered the MTR template with no category (not the one for KCR), and therefore I created it. — Instantnood 12:58, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Stubberg, Pt. 3

FR-stub

{{FR-stub}} User: Erolos 16 May 11 Forgotten Realms  

FR stands for Forgotten Realms (a Dungeons & Dragons setting). This stub has 18 articles in its associated category and has been around since May 15. --Allen3 talk July 6, 2005 01:29 (UTC)

FR has also been used for France previously (it's the standard ISO code), and could stand for any of a number of other things (clergymen, for instance, or Frame Relay technology). So the name's pretty awful to start with. Then there's the use of it - why would we have a stub type for one D&D setting when we haven't even got a separate D&D stub? (Come to think of it, an RPG-stub might be quite useful). Grutness...wha? 6 July 2005 01:36 (UTC)
During a scan of titles in Category:Game stubs I recognized 48 stubs for RPGs (mostly D&D and World of Darkness). Combining these with the 18 above leads me to beleive that a stub for RPGs has real potential to be useful (there were a lot of titles in the game category I did not recognize). --Allen3 talk July 6, 2005 02:43 (UTC)
A {{Fantasy-rpg-stub}} or simple {{Rpg-stub}} could be useful, then; the problem is the redundancy with {{fantasy-stub}}, as some elements of the Rpg's have been crafted into books et. al. (e.g. Drizzt Lectonar 13:42, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Now has over 100 articles(!). Agree this should be turned into a redirect to a less terrible name. I've made this a sub-category of {{rpg-stub}}. Alai 07:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

June 2005 discoveries

{{SA Route Stub}}

Steel yourself... it's hard to find a single thing right about this one. Malformed name, feeds into two categories (South Africa stubs and Road stubs) but doesn't have one of its own. used on a mind numbing 160 articles (2/3 of the total number in Category:South Africa stubs) each of which is a one line article best served as part of a list. If it wasn't so much work I'd be sending all the articles over to vfd for merging. This is very depressing. Grutness...wha? 12:55, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

July 2005 discoveries

{{Video game music composer-stub}} / No associated category

Created by User:Tedius Zanarukando on the 17th of June. Used by 4 articles according to "What links here". --TheParanoidOne 5 July 2005 21:50 (UTC)

  • Sometimes you gotta wonder why people go to the effort. --YixilTesiphon July 8, 2005 23:21 (UTC)

{{Ayyavazhi-stub}}

Haven't a clue. Seems to be religion related, and have about 50 articles. Anyone know anything about this one? Grutness...wha? 06:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's a Tamil Hindu sect and its up to 70 stubs now. Unless I get some negative feedback, I'll add it in a week to the main list. I've already recatted it from Religion stubs to Hindu-related stubs. Caerwine 22:17, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Looney-tunes-stub}}

I found {{Looney-tunes-stub}} (Category:Looney Tunes stubs) on 21 July 2005; I added it (along with {{Hanna-Barbera-stub}}) to WP:WSS/ST. The Looney Tunes template was created on July 19 2005 by Roadrunner3000. Category:Looney Tunes stubs is a subcategory of Category:Animation stubs, and it has 17 articles. I also removed {{cartoon-stub}} and replaced it with {{animation-stub}} on WP:WSS/ST because the cartoon stub is now a redirect. In addition, I added the redirect information to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_redirects. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 21:12, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

August 2005 discoveries

{{Saudi-stub}}

For articles to do with Saudi Arabia. leads to the well-formatted Category: Saudi Arabia stubs, which has 22 articles already, even though this was only created today. Should get enough articles to reach criterion level, but it would have been nice if this had been debated first! I've left a note on its creator User:Eagleamn's talk page. Grutness...wha? 07:18, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Netherlands-rail-stub}} / Category:Netherlands rail stubs

Seems to have been created out of process, used in only 5 articles. Created last Saturday by User:Our Phellap. Aecis 11:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well yes and no. There was discussion of this one on the Proposals page, though the discussion was a bit ambivalent as to whether it should be made immediately or after a count to see whether it was needed. Looks like OurPhellap has gone ahead anyway. Probably won't be too much harm in it, but it'll be worth watching to see whether it grows or stagnates. Grutness...wha? 13:05, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Submarine-stub}} / Category:Submarine stubs

Apparently created out-of-process, but has 30 articles. I went ahead and added it to Category:Stub categories and Category:Submarines, but other than that it looks fine. Might have hard time getting too many more articles, tho. --Mairi 20:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{dinosaur-stub}} / Dinosaur stubs

Created by User:Agentsoo on 3rd August. Used on ~30 stubs. Added to stub types list today. Well formed as far as I can see. --TheParanoidOne 20:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was also lacking any parent categories in the stub hierarchy, but I want ahead and added them. --Mairi 20:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine, but I hope whoever sorts into this knows what prehistoric reptiles are or aren't dinosaurs. No pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs or mammal-like reptiles, please! (That was part of the reason WP:WSS decided against creating this category in the past!) Grutness...wha? 05:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Belgium-bio-stub}}

Created a couple days ago, lacks a category. Not sure if it'd be useful. --Mairi 04:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Might be - there are probably quite a lot in the artist-stubs, to start with. Grutness...wha? 07:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
And what about Category:Belgium-related stubs? Aecis 13:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
There are many Belgian biography stubs in the subcategories of Category:Belgian people by occupation, so this stub template and category might be viable. I don't yet know just how many stubs there are though. Aecis 22:01, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Golfbio-stub}}

This one was created on 22 June 2005. It is poorly formed. User:Somaliafriend asked how to create it at Talk:Golf#Golfbio-stub, and User:Redux informed him how. There are currently three articles with this stub tag. Somaliafriend hasn't edited anything since 22 June 2005. There was a related comment by User:Grutness at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Discoveries#.7B.7BGolf-stub.7D.7D regarding {{Golf-stub}}. There are now 106 articles in golf-stub. There might be a ton of articles over at {{sportbio-stub}} to justify {{Golfbio-stub}} (and certainly it would help sportbio), but if we keep Golfbio-stub it needs to be formed better. --Durin 16:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed this as best I can (still a bit cack-handed on some of these markup thingies). I'd suggest it be kept, as sportbio looks to be in urgent need (I can't tell how many there are likely to be, but if it's even a few percent...) Alai 22:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed the category name to something a little better. Other than that it looks fine. Grutness...wha? 01:00, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

{{Estonia-geo-stub}} and {{Belarus-geo-stub}}

Sigh. Two more geo-stubs discovered. Both nicely formed and populated with some of the stubs from these countries that exist (I've added the rest). In the case of Estonia there's no problem, it's well populated with 80 stubs. Belarus didn't look too viable at first, but there are more stubs than I remembered now that I've gone through Euro-geo-stub (close to 50). Still not enough that it would have been made, but probably enough not to be sent over to Stub Types for Deletion. Grutness...wha? 05:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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