Category talk:People stubs

message: For anyone keeping an eye on the people stub category, I'm not bothering to sort them into the sub-categories. --Allyunion 23:52, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The whole point of the people stubs category is to point out articles that need attention, including adding them to other appropriate categories, so I think this is OK.  I created the writer stubs category before the people stubs category.  That one is really to point out writers already in a writers category but with incomplete information in their article.  I think it would be a mistake to make other subcategories of people stubs unless other categories of people need specific information collected about them. --ssd 04:36, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Although this may be true, this stub category has quickly grown a little over 200 articles since I've been moving them from stub to bio-stub.  I think 500 is a limit for a category... but I'm not sure.  --Allyunion 01:07, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe there are any limits for categories at this time, but after about 4000, my browser starts slowing down, so that's plenty. --ssd 03:28, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Just saying... when you see it go to a thousand, it's time to sort it into subcategories. -- Allyunion 11:37, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll agree with that, but I'd hope it'd never reach 1000, 'cuz people would write non-stub biographies of them first. A vain hope, I'm sure. --ssd 14:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial subcategorization thoughts

message: Given the chaos, as a starter can I suggest a "UK politicians stub" to cover many of the stubs I've recently created? Others can naturally arise as well. Timrollpickering 21:30, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say that this category is now quite definitely large enough for more subcategories. -Aranel ("Sarah") 00:45, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: UK politicians stub

message: The query that can be used to update the table is at meta:Requests for queries#Count_articles_in_en:Category:People_stubs. --Joy [shallot] 18:40, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: SQL query for counting

message: Thw stub types list uses buckets for counting number of stub articles. eg:
 <10, <25, <50, <100, <200, etc
Would something like this be useful for the counts at the top of this category? I imagine it would make the count box wider but it would probably increase the readability of it. --TheParanoidOne 05:33, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buckets for counts 

message: What do we do with them? Politicians? Italians? Should a new category be created? Roman-bio-stub?
:? --TheParanoidOne 18:44, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romans 

message: Featuring this category for a cleanup project has paid off.  A rough count shows less than 550 articles remaining in "bio-stub".  Any objections to removing the "Overpopulated Category" notice?  BrainyBroad 00:37, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Only 4 pages. Wow. I remember it being close to 80 pages at one time. Anyway, yes. I reckon the  is no longer relevant, so I got rid of it.--TheParanoidOne 05:09, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Pixies ... or aliens :) --TheParanoidOne 20:30, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category depopulation 

message: I propose changing the wording of the bio-stub template to
  This biographical article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.  (Please consider changing this to a more specific stub.)
Hopefully it would be one weapon in keeping the population down. (And if anyone can tell me how to link to a non-article page without resorting to an external link, I'd appreciate it!) BrainyBroad 05:11, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A similar note had been added to Template:Stub but it was removed as a needless self-reference. This is the same discussion, it should be resolved jointly. --Joy [shallot] 09:14, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change template wording? 

message: I would like to create some articles based on published obituaries of notable people who do not yet have main articles. To do this I would include the facts from the obituary along with a citation and tag it as . This would make it similar (and related) to a bio-stub needing development, merging or removal just like any other stub article. In fact I would suggest that most obit-stubs would probably change next to bio-stubs as their content progressed.
Questions I have: 
* 1. Has this been tried before and if so can you point me to the history?
* 2. What is the best way to officially create the "obit-stub" related categories/templates/etc? 
Comments? Questions? Low Sea (talk) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  OBIT-STUB ? 

message: I've just updated the logic for Task 2 of MoohanBOT. Basically it should now pick up a lot more biography articles from :CAT:STUBS and put them in :Category:People stubs. It now looks at the infobox in-use on the page and if it is a person infobox (i.e. it is in :Category:People infobox templates) it will change the stub tag. Hopefully there won't be any problems but if you notice any false positives/pages in the wrong place please let me know. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 17:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  MoohanBOT updated logic 

message: Add  above the TOC.
 JackOliverNSW  talk  22:59, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Stickee (talk) 04:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 November 2014