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Hundreds of stub categories by Fadesga[edit]

I notice that User:Fadesga has been very active in creating stub categories since June 2022 [1] but I can find no record that any of these categories went through the stub sorting proposal procedure that the stub category banner says all stub categories must go through. Is there some other channel for stub category creation that I am missing? Or have all of these stub categories been created out-of-process? —David Eppstein (talk) 00:48, 13 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

They've actually been very active in creating stub categories going way back to October 2012 (there were two before that, in March 2011 and August 2012), although there was a low between 2015 and 2018. Since August 2018, they have created some every month except for November 2022. Most of them seem quite well populated, here are the counts for those created in July-August this year:
List of categories and counts
Very few are below 60, the smallest is Category:Nuclear medicine stubs with 37. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:53, 13 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Creating "un-vetted" stub types is, alas, not uncommon, and as most of the creators just use the code from existing categories as boilerplate, the WPSS banner can be misleading. I don't know how to address this particular list of categories (I'm mildly annoyed that the few I have checked on have not been added to the big List of Stub Types), except to suggest that perhaps someone should ask Fadesga about them. Her Pegship (?) 01:30, 14 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Stub categories by Joeykai[edit]

I was browsing some old stub categories I've worked with before and I noticed that User:Joeykai had created two stub categories in July 2022 (Category:English MPs 1529–1536 stubs, Category:English MPs 1563–1567 stubs) that I had either thought about proposing or had proposed in the past as part of dealing with the very large categories, but that I don't recall if it was approved. They were appropriately sized, but it struck me as a bit weird so I checked a bit further and didn't see any stub proposal discussions, nor were they listed in the List of Stub Types. I did a search[2], and here's a smattering of other stub categories I saw that this user created, but which I couldn't find on the List of Stub Types:

Can someone double check if these are legit? I tried to use petscan to get a feel for all the stub categories the user created but I didn't know how to filter on user. Furicorn (talk) 13:06, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject Stub improvement[edit]

I'm looking to revive WP:WikiProject Stub improvement, and I'm leaving a notice here because it's directly related to what this WikiProject is doing. If any of you are interested, I think a dedicated hub for stub improvement has a lot of potential. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 06:59, 27 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

North Yorkshire Districts[edit]

Hello, the North Yorkshire Districts were abolished in a local government reorganisation in April 2023. I have now moved the stub articles up to the parent category Category:North Yorkshire geography stubs by switching them to use ((NorthYorkshire-geo-stub)).

Thus the following are no longer required

I can just delete them, unless there is some other procedure required such as Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. Keith D (talk) 21:09, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Keith D: CfD is indeed the correct procedure for deleting stubs categories and templates. See WP:CfD#Stub types. Andumé (talk) 04:47, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I seem to remember seeing stub categories with banners or something at the top, saying that the category should contain mostly subcategories, and individual articles should probably go into those subcategories. One such stub category that would meet that criterion is Beetle stubs, which I intend to work on. But can somebody point me to that banner, please? Uporządnicki (talk) 02:13, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Let me be clear; the stub category I'm thinking about is not a Parent Only category, nor is it one with uploaded subcategories (I see those templates on the talk page). It is simply one that should have very few individual articles. Uporządnicki (talk) 02:22, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
MAYBE I FOUND IT? I just found the Category Diffuse Template. Would that be used in stub categories? Uporządnicki (talk) 02:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Having seen no objections, I decided to go ahead and add the Category Diffuse Template. Uporządnicki (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bowling-season-stub[edit]

Template:Bowling-season-stub has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:23, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Formatting error?[edit]

Hello all, I just proposed this new stub category but I think I've made an error somewhere that I can't see as the nomination doesn't appear on the main proposals page - help! Lajmmoore (talk) 15:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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