Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Archive 2

message: There is some debate over the use of a "pi" image in Template:Math-stub; there's small edit war going on. Please see Template talk:Math-stub#Pi_image if you care to voice an opinion. (Please do not discuss this here; discuss it there; thanks.) —msh210 04:47, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "pi" image in [[Template:Math-stub]] 

message: I know that it's probably individuals not connected to this group, but I'm getting annoyed with people working their way through the stub category and putting things into seemingly random subcategories. I've just gone through today's additions to the geography stubs which had been moved from general stubs, and found (among otherws) a series of books, a prehistoric tribe, a police force, and a biography of a mathematician. Sorting into the wrong category is just making this job harder - please be careful how you recategorise things!  Grutness|hello?  05:11, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And today, an advertising slogan for an anti-litter campaign. Sigh.  Grutness|hello?  07:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Getting the subcategories right

message: I must admit that I started to move sorting through the Category:stub yesterday (and hope I wasn't the one who did this above, but if I was, sorry about that), but I'm getting confused about the sometimes haphazardly tagging of the stubs, too; I found 3 or 4 articles which were stubbed in 4 categories. Is this common policy, or does one just choose the most appropriate one Lectonar 08:56, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't think you were, offhand... Can't speak for others, but I often use more than one stub, although four would be excessive. For instance, a mountain range along the Polish/Czech border might conceivably get a a Poland-geo-stub and a Czechia-geo-stub, or someone who was both a mathematician and astronomer might bet two stubs. With 90% of articles one stub message will probably automatically seem the most likely. Troubvle is there are now so many categories (but given the number of articles, they're all needed, and there will probably need to be more soon, too).  Grutness|hello?  09:21, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub sorting

message: I've made a script that helps with my stub sorting and I thought I'd share: User:Jag123/StubScript.js. It only works when the page has an existing stub, and is being edited. It adds a link in the toolbox section (What Links Here, Related Changes, etc) on the left. When you click on this link, it shows a list of stubs (which you can define). Once you click on a list item, it automatically changes the existing stub tag in the article to the new stub tag, adds the summary (which you can define), selects minor edit (can be turned off/on) and "clicks" save page (can be turned off/on). I've only tried it with IE6 and monobook skin. --jag123 13:41, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: An how do we implement this? Onco p53 00:49, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: I tried it but it only works in IE not mozilla, but it does work very well. Onco p53 01:28, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub sorting script

message: Although it would make the above table of the Science stubs too wide, it would be nice to have some way of noting which stubs match up with which WikiProjects. 
Keeping with the idea of WikiProjects (along with the Regional notice boards, etc.): When there are any proposed additions or deletions of topic stubs, there should probably be a note added to the Talk page for any appropriate WikiProjects. For existing and newly created stubs, the appropriate topic stubs should be mentioned on the WikiProject's or Regional notice board's main page. Since most of them follow a similiar format, there should be some standardized format and location for adding stub information to a WikiProject page. BlankVerse 06:36, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It turns out that one of the Regional notice boards has already added a section for the appropriate stubs to their main page. Take a look at Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics#Stub Messages. BlankVerse ∅  14:01, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Two of them at least - I can remember adding the Africa-geo-stub to the Africa WikiProject page after finding out that the Africa-stub was already listed there.  Grutness|hello?  12:57, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Working with Wikiprojects, etc. 

message: In line with the suggested policies, here is information on the three stubs currently on Templates/Categories for deletion:
*Template:us-geo-stub. This is a duplicate of the well-used template US-geo-stub that was accidentally created by a user who did not know about the latter template. The category is empty and the likely outcome is a delete for that and either a delete or redirect for the template.
*Template:Car-stub. Another (if slightly more useful) duplicate. The template now redirects to Auto-stub, and the accompanying category looks likely to be deleted.
*Template:City-stub. Largely redundant now that geography stubs go primarily to country/region subcategories. Only about a dozen articles used this stub, many of which were not cities (most of which were in Brazil for some reason - they now have Brazil-geo-stubs instead). The category is now empty, and the votes so far have all been for delete.
 Grutness|hello?  12:19, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubs currently on tfd/cfd