Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/2018/May
Proposals, May 2018
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NEW PROPOSALS
Propose stub subcategory "Pyrausta (moth)" within stub category Pyraustinae
There's a stub category for a subfamily of moths--Pyraustinae--with over 1300 articles listed. I recently went through the NON-stub category for the same subfamily, and separated out the genus Pyrausta as a subcategory. That new subcategory contains 295 articles, and I estimate that a subcategory for Pyrausta stubs will have about as many. With approval, I will undertake it. I've completed much larger projects here. And I recently did a new stub category and set up a stub template. So this one should go a little faster because I won't be figuring out from scratch what a stub template is and how to create one. Uporządnicki (talk) 13:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Stub template/category page for Odostomia, under Pyramidellidae
There's a large stub category for Pyramidellidae, a family of gastropods. It includes a very large genus, Odostomia. More than 400 entries on the stub page belong to this genus. I propose to create a stub template for Odostomia, then set up and populate a stub category page for it. Yes, it could take me several weeks; I have done many projects of comparable size. I notice that not long ago, someone set up a non-stub subcategory for Odostomia under the non-stub category for Pyramidellidae. Someone then moved 11 of the 400+ articles, and that someone has now left Wikipedia. So I want to go ahead and populate the non-stub category. If I do both projects simultaneously, it should save me time in the long run. Uporządnicki (talk) 14:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There are indeed hundreds of articles on Odostomia included in in the permcat for Pyramidellidae, even though few of them have been added to the Odostomia permcat. Knowing nothing about biology or taxonomy, however, I don't know what the appropriate format would be for the template and category names. I observe that Odostomia are part of the subfamily Odostomiinae and wonder whether the template & cat should be named after the subfamily. More sciencey minds than mine, please comment. Pegship (talk) 18:11, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Support indeed. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:35, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- Actually, I'm going to run it by the team (or whatever they call it) for the subject. I'm not an expert on gastropods; I just run around doing major surgery on categories wherever I find them. I've noticed that with categories (not the stubs) for families of gastropods, they want all the species to be listed in that family category--even when there's a subcategory for a genus in that family. That's not the usual Wikipedia procedure, but I don't want to second guess a consensus in one special group. Uporządnicki (talk) 13:39, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- It seems that it is not a good idea. When I ran it up the flagpole at the gastropods project page, they explained that there's reason not to break up large family categories into genera; apparently, gastropod taxonomy is in a state of flux. So I'll leave it alone. Uporządnicki (talk) 13:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)