Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Archive3

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

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. — Insta ntnood 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. — Insta ntnood 12:58, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Stubberg, Pt. 3

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

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)