Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals

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On this WikiProject Stub sorting subpage, you can propose new stub types (please read the procedures beforehand!), as well as the reorganization and subdivision of existing stub types. You can also discuss anything else related to stubs on the talk page.

Proposing new stub types – procedure

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Important: If you wish to propose the creation of a stub article you've come to the wrong place. If you don't have a username yourself, please go to WP:AFC for proposing a new article. If you already have a username, you can create the article yourself. If you don't know how, add {{Helpme}} to your user talk page to request help from other editors. This page only deals with stub templates and categories; we cannot help you with creating articles.

Proposing new stub types
If you wish to propose a new stub category and template, please follow these procedures:
  1. Check the List of stub types or under Category:Stub categories to make sure that your proposed new stub does not already exist.
  2. List it at the top of the current month's section, under a header, like the ones shown (if any). Sign it with a datestamp (~~~~).
    • Please bear in mind that a stub category isn't about the importance or notability of the topic!
  3. Find a good number[1] of stub articles, as many as you can, that will fit that template. You may use this tool to scan through categories; tagged stubs are always in Category:All stub articles and transclude {{asbox}}. Each of these articles can be:
    • currently marked with {{stub}};
    • currently marked with another type of stub tag (in which case you should justify why your tag is better for the article than the current one);
    • a stub whose categorisation is highly ambiguous or questionable;
    • not marked as a stub.
  4. If you use any category scan (from the tool mentioned above or from any other), please link to it so that other users can confirm that the results are still accurate.
  5. Others may do the same, if they so desire.
  6. 5 days after listing it here, if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and/or template following the format on Wikipedia:Stub. List the new stub type on the stub types list in an appropriate section. If consensus is not clear, or discussion is still ongoing, the proposal will remain open until consensus can be reached.
  7. If you wish to propose a stub type which does not currently have 60 articles that could use it, you may propose an upmerged template in a similar way. An upmerged template would feed into currently existing stub categories until such time that there are enough stubs for a separate stub category. At that point a category for it may be separately proposed. Some times, it may be difficult to be sure how many stubs would get a tag - in which case you can also start with an upmerged stub tag until you're sure there are enough.

DO NOT place a proposal here for any stub type which has already been created and is being discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. The proposal page is only for stub types that have not yet been created, and it is better to keep any discussion of such stub types in one place rather than splitting it between different pages. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion is the correct page for proposals to delete a stub type.

^ Good number means about 60 articles or more, or 30 or more if it is the primary stub type of a WikiProject, though this figure may vary from case to case.

"Speedy creation"

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A stub type may be proposed for "speedy creation" if it meets one of the following criteria:

  • S1 - the creation of a category for which an approved upmerged template already exists and is now in use on more than 60 articles.
  • S2 - the creation of an upmerged national-level template for a subject in which other such national-level templates currently exist (e.g., X-bio-stub, X-hist-stub, or X-geo-stub, where X is the name of an internationally widely recognised country) or other instances where a clearly established pattern of similar subtypes exists. The proposed topic may not be controversial in scope.

List speedy creation proposals in the same proposal listings as normal stub proposals below.

Proposals, August 2025

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Please check how many articles qualify for a stub type before proposing it.

NEW PROPOSALS

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Speedy categories

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I will likely create these when I'm at my computer next time:

Might be worth having the -river-stub for each one double upmerged to there as well as the river category (look at my speedy from last week), might also make a couple of other counties viable?. Waacstats (talk) 08:08, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spilomelinae sub-stubs

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Some of the stubs in Spilomelinae stubs are of the Hydririni tribe; as such, I'd like to propose a subcategory/template:

- OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat01:46, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also plan on making {{Herpetogrammatini-stub}} for those belonging to the following genera of Herpetogrammatini (these don't have their own stub category):
- OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat02:04, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Great catch, these need a good breakdown. Waacstats (talk) 08:09, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Coccinellidae stubs

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Coccinellidae stubs is hella big; I propose making the following sub-stubs (based on subfamily, tribe, then genera): Coccinellinae stubs, {{Coccinellinae-stub}}

Epilachnini stubs, {{Epilachnini-stub}}

Scymninae stubs, {{Scymninae-stub}}

Sticholotidinae stubs, {{Sticholotidinae-stub}}

- OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat00:35, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, however I would suggest making templates for the tribe level, I think there are other genera that could go there and if there aren't now there may be in the future if the biologist decide to move genera around. Waacstats (talk) 08:14, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just included the tribe templates in my request. I'm getting ready to go to class - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat13:46, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A note to any admins looking for any empty categories: I'm currently working on these, but I'm not at home right now - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat18:13, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ardabil province geography sub-stubs

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Main stub category: Ardabil province geography stubs. I'm back before school starts to make proposals:

Looks good, glad to see you back! Waacstats (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crambini stubs

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Flavobacteria stubs

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Actinomycetota

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Rugby union orgs

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Split of steroids

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Speedies

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Speedys

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Apocynaceae

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Hypsogastropoda stubs

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Limenitidinae stubs

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Miridae stubs

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Milesiini stubs

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Mesostigmata stubs

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Staphylinidae stubs

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Speedy

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Large Olympic medalists stubs

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Sports biographies

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Ascomycota stubs

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Cumberland geography stubs

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Theclinae stubs

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Protein stubs

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Speedy categories

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Biologist

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Proposals, July 2025

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Canada lake stubs

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Canada lake stubs should be split into subcategories:

this looks good to me.Waacstats (talk) 18:15, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy

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I really hope this is the last of them...

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Iran road stubs

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Mine stubs

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Burmese film stubs

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Proposals, June 2025

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Another German geography stub proposal

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A speedy

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Alabama Registered Historic Place stubs

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Idaho Registered Historic Place stubs

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Georgia (U.S. state) Registered Historic Place stubs

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Indian film actor subs

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Oregon Registerd Historic Places stubs

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Texas Registered Historic Place stubs

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speedy

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Iranian politician stubs

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German writer stubs

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German film actor subs

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Canadian screen actor subs

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speedy

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Indian actor stubs

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Yemen geography substubs

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Purba Bardhaman district geography stubs

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Speedy parent category proposal

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Buprestidae sub-stubs

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Ammonite sub-stubs

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Epidendreae sub-stubs

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Epidendreae stubs is oversized; I propose breaking the category up a little more:

Pleurothallidinae stubs

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Acianthera stubs
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Acrotaeniini stubs

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