Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Archive 1

message: According to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Stub, a grand total of three people have decided that :Category:Stub should be deleted. Although they talked about it, they haven't yet listed :Template:Stub for deletion as well. This may or may not be a good thing. The fact that they are doing it without even notifying the Stub sorting WikiProject, however, is not the way that things should be done in my opinion. The fact they will probably delete the category and the template (if nobody speaks up soon) and at the same time probably not fixing all the pages that mention those pages, is a very bad thing in my opinion. gK ¿? 08:01, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a stupid idea. -- AllyUnion (talk) 18:48, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact that a change this big wasn't discussed in either Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) or Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) is also "A VERY BAD THING" (official trademark of gK). gK ¿? 20:21, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Although the point is mostly irrelevant now, I'd like to point out that the suggestion was not to get rid of stubs entirely or to stop putting them in a category, but rather to change it to :Category:Stubs, which in fact should probably have been done when the category was reinstated, but it's hardly worth fixing at this point (since template changes have caching problems with categories). Most of our other categories have plural names. -Aranel ("Sarah") 21:18, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Category for deletion - Category:Stub (not relevant anymore)

message: I'm confused. When you go to :Category:Stub categories, you will see "Historical stubs" as a subcategory, but if you go to :Category:Historical stubs it only shows as a child of :Category:History, and not as a child of :Category:Stub categories like I would expect it to be. gK ¿? 03:09, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone edited the stub category template and broke it.  Fixing that now. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: This one... I'd say is a bug... or a delay in the update of the category. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Weird Stub sorting? (temporal state)

message: I have created a new stub tag,  which should make stub sorting easier. Rather than having lots of seperate stub tags for each category, this stub tag uses a parameter for the stub's category. The syntax for it is .
Examples:
: instead of {{auto-stub}}.
: instead of {{compu-stub}} .
: instead of  .
Putting it to use, I have created :Category:GNOME stubs (for articles relating to the GNOME desktop environment) using  instead of creating a  tag. Norman Rogers\talk 14:03, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh... interesting idea.  A lot of changes will need to be made... -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:42, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nevermind...  Norman, Metastub does the same thing.  I thought that your stub would in effect use the template (the approprate template) by simply inserting the name. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:45, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text:  (I was thinking it did something like:  -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:50, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal stub tag. (aborted attempt) 

message: I don't know why, but on my computer, the Sphinx image for the Egypt stub wouldn't show until I increased the size to 40 pixels from 30 pixels. I also added the PBS logo to the PBS stub. gK ¿? 05:21, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Egypt stub & PBS stub (lone newsflash)

message: We have a similiar problem for the China stub that we had for the Japan stub. A user decided the PRC flag was inappropriate so they deleted it. But then someone replaced the flag with an animated Chinese dragon that ended up looking like an unidentifiable red blog when shrunk. It would be nice to have a simple graphic to represent China, but I am not sure what it should be.
There is also the problem of what should go into the China stub--is it for all the different Chinas? Hong Kong has already been separated out in three different stubs. I've proposed that there probably should be a Taiwan stub. Should the Chinese stub be only for the PRC? gK ¿? 06:35, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Er...  That is a hard question to answer.  The reason I say this is because culturally, Taiwan has kept a lot of the traditions that once were considered Chinese before the civil war.  I'm going to discuss this more on the template talk page. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:02, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: China stub (discussion moved to [[Template talk:China-stub]])

message: How about making a Bird-stub category. There are plenty enough bird stubs for one. --DanielCD 19:47, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bird stub (already discussed)