Category talk:Articles to be expanded

message: Many articles seem to be in this category just because they could be expanded, not because they don't cover the topic thoroughly enough. If increase your threshold for stub display to 2,000 or larger, you can see some of the articles that might not belong as blue links.  Also, some topics may not even need to reach the 2,000 level. However, I'm not saying that isn't possible that a long article could need an expansion tag, especially in a particular section. To keep the category at a reasonable size, perhaps the criteria could be made clearer. The Wikipedia:Requests for expansion page has this, "This page is for listing those stubs, substubs and other articles that have decent information, but that you find embarrassingly short or insufficient for an encyclopedia of the stature to which Wikipedia aspires." That seems more appropriate. -- Kjkolb 10:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs expansion versus possible expansion 

message: Any way to take out the talk pages listed here? The template generally appears on both the article and the talk page, but only one is needed. Zafiroblue05 05:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some people think that the tag belongs on articles and others think it should be on talk pages, so some have it on one or the other or both. -- Kjkolb 04:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does anyone want to put it on the talk page? Who will see it there? It has to go on the main page obviously. Camestone 22:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It should clearly go on the god-damned talk page.  These kind of categories on articles are incredibly annoying. john k 18:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk pages

message: This has to be one of the most pointless categories I have yet seen in Wikipedia. What on earth is it supposed to accomplish? Creating a mind-numbing category containing hundreds of thousands of completely different kinds of articles just tells us something we already know: that the vast majority of Wikipedia articles aren't yet complete, that there are hundreds of thousands of articles that need to be expanded, and that hundreds more are being created every day. The problem isn't that we need our attention drawn to that fact, the problem is that there are only so many editors to go around, and only so many hours in a day. MrDarwin 13:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pointless category

message: Seriously? 25 articles? The number of articles that need expansion for this to be no longer a backlog needs to be more like 50,000. Legolover26 (talk) 16:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backlog number must be increased 

message: :Category:Articles to be expanded has been listed at Categories for discussion (nomination), but was protected so could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. JsfasdF252 (talk) 15:59, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this page is not protected, and it's not acceptable to proxy for blocked users. Even if proxy editing were allowed, you were prevented from starting the CfD, and Twinkle lost your rationale, so there's nothing anyone can do. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:34, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete CfD nomination 

message: :Template:Expand language has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place related to its use of this category. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. --N8wilson 22:19, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Template:Expand language]] has an [[WP:RFC|RFC]]