Wikipedia talk:Suspend use of stub icons

message: I agree than stub icons put a strain on servers, and for that reason, WP:WSS has reduced the use of icons on many large stub categories. Some icons, however, serve a definite purpose. A clear example is those on the five regional geography subs for African regions, and the geography stub for central america. The maps on these items clearly delimit what countris are meant to have those stub templates applied, and to a very great extent they work: Mexican subs, which might otherwise find themselves added to the Central American category, do not find themselves in that category; stubs relating to countries close to the line demarking the boundary between West and North Africa are placed in the correct category almost every time. In these cases the icons are a very useful addition to the stub templates. Grutness...wha? 05:45, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's perhaps worth noting that the ones I named are relatively small categories - none of them have over 400 articles, and some are very close to the point where subcategories may be split off them. In most cases, the icons are largely irrelevant, as it is the templates that remind us that the article is incomplete. And a stub template without an icon is still a stub template. There are, however, a very few templates (maybe 5%), like the ones I mentioned, where additional important information is given by the icon. Unless - of course, you'd like to see a template that reads: This article on a location in Central America, i.e., somwhere in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, or Panama (but not Mexico or the Caribbean), is a stub. Grutness...wha? 01:31, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suspend ''most'' stub icons

message: Sure geographic stub icons are useful. All stub icons are useful, if only to make it very clear that an article is incomplete. That's not the point. It isn't a question of useful-versus-not-useful. It's a question of whether the usefullness outweighs the anti-usefulness of not being able to browse stub categories -- which I often can't! ¶ I do agree that we need to hear from a developer before we proceed. ----Isaac R 22:31, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's perhaps worth noting that the ones I named are relatively small categories - none of them have over 400 articles, and some are very close to the point where subcategories may be split off them. In most cases, the icons are largely irrelevant, as it is the templates that remind us that the article is incomplete. And a stub template without an icon is still a stub template. There are, however, a very few templates (maybe 5%), like the ones I mentioned, where additional important information is given by the icon. Unless - of course, you'd like to see a template that reads: This article on a location in Central America, i.e., somwhere in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, or Panama (but not Mexico or the Caribbean), is a stub. Grutness...wha? 01:31, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: No, ''all'' stub icons

message: I placed the rejected template as I got the impression from the above that this is abandoned for the time being, until further details clarify the situation. Also removed from RfC Hiding 21:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandoned? 

message: Has anything been decided? Has new information presented itself? Has it been decided that it is a good idea to remove images from stub templates?
On a related note 'Wikipedia:Signatures_should_not_contain_images'? -- Ec5618 21:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that for now, the issue has been resolved with the cache solution, and that the strain images put on the server has been greatly reduced; I would prefer it if a developer could add facts to this impression of mine.  ᓇᐃᑦᔅᑕᓕᐅᓐ ✉ 13:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status?