Category talk:Stub categories

message: The following is a list of suggestive categories.  I'm not bothering to create them at the moment, however if anyone sees a need, go right ahead.  Please feel free to tack on to the list. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:07, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Stub Categories 

message: When I load this page, it doesn't expand all of the stub templates. Some of them just produce the text Template:Metastub instead, e.g. Mov-stub, Phys-stub, Writer-stub. PhilHibbs 14:44, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template expansion problem with this page 

message: There are now over 200 different types of stubs.  Which means that the list no longer fits on one page (which makes it hard to find the correct category to use when sorting).
Can we re-group some of these types?  For instance: we have 5 different types of stubs dealing with Hong-Kong.  There is an entire stub type for Honorverse...but we don't have one for fiction-stubs for general fiction?  (Actually Honorverse-stub has 51 articles). RJFJR 06:46, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
: We're in the process of that.  See Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:58, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Wikipedia:Stub categories, which lists them all. (At least, all of the ones that have been added, which is about as good as listing all of the ones that have been added to this category.) -Aranel ("Sarah") 23:12, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: There are currently about 1,900 types of stubs. Need I say Ree-Dee-Cuh-Luhs… --meco 09:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many types of stubs

message: Why are all the Mammal stubs appearing as articles in this category?  I've looked at several of the articles, and they do not have this category listed.  There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the template.  What is going on? -- Samuel Wantman 06:42, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is happening to Mammal stubs? 

message: Do you think Wikipedia could use it? --Numberonedad 17:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nascar stubs 

message: Here is a new template that will reduce line of code on stubs with recurring parts: Template:Stub-base.
Does anybody think it is a good idea? --SuperDude 03:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This already exists in . Where do you forsee your template being used? --TheParanoidOne 22:09, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New template 

message: With recurring citations to other stub templates, I have made a new template to reduce line of code as a header for stub categories, anyone wanna try it out? --SuperDude 21:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This already exists in . Where do you forsee your template being used? --TheParanoidOne 22:09, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Template:Instead]]

message: I think having many (stub) categories is not that bad, if they are well classified.
For example, why don't we change, in the Category:1900s_aircraft_stubs, the line
::{ { Stub Category|article=1900s Aircraft...
into
::{ { Stub Category|article=Aircraft...
?
As far as I understand, this would simply have the effect of the subcategories not showing up directly in the
Category:Stub categories. If there are always roughly 5-10 subcategories that can in such an obvious way be "packed together" into a super-category, everything would be fine. What's wrong with that? — MFH:Talk 20:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not like that, but it could be done by removing the category from , and adding it only to thse categories we wished to appear here.  But I don't think that's a good argument for retaining very small stub categories;  we don't try to avoid those to keep this category small, but to try to ensure that stub types correspond to handy-sized and highly-related chunks, for the convenience of those likely to be expanding such articles.  If stub types are made too narrow, in terms of numbers of existing articles, they're more likely to be overlooked by being "out of sight" from otherwise conceptually very similar topics.  What makes sense for categorisation purposes isn't necessarily always desirable for stub-sorting purposes (otherwise the two activities would be essentially redundant, give or take a bit of support code).  Alai 19:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  keep subcategories but don't let them show up here 

message: I recently created an article on Customs racketeering, but am wondering which stub to mark it with. Temporarilly I put the Law and Politics stub on it, but I have a strong feeling thats the wrong stub. Could somebody look over the article and tell me which stub to use? I'd like any responses to be posted on my user page as I often forget where this page is. Thanks! Socom49 16:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Stub?

message: Are there any plans on how to reduce the size of this category? Would it be practical to divide it into sub-categories that dealt with what a group of stub categories fall under (e.g. Natural science, political science, etc.)? D Hill 14:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I like that idea - rather than having thousands upon thousands of stubs, why not "generalize it," it under major categories? I like that idea. --Lord X 23:00, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I notice :Category:stubs by region already exists. But many (if not all) of its sub-categories are also in :Category:stub categories! Also, there should be ":Category:stubs by year," with subcats like :Category:1930s stubs for all those 1930s, 1940s, etc. stubs. I'd start those categories myself, but I'm not sure if I'd be stepping on anyone's toes... --Eliyak T·C 18:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Category size

message: How the hell do you search stubs, there is no link on the page.  I know it is off wiki, but where?  This needs to be added ASAP. RWV 05:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree too. I first posted a question and then saw this thread.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: How the hell do you search stubs? 

message: Is this officially approved? I ask because the page at :Category:Sri Lankan people stubs doesn't have the green project banner, and it isn't listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types/People#Asian_people, although it has 161 members. But it's listed OK in  :Category:Stub categories. PamD (talk) 08:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it. I must have copied the format from another stub category that didn't have the "green banner" you're talking about. If I could remember which I'd ask you to fix that one too. — CharlotteWebb 15:13, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|SriLanka-bio-stub}} 

message: We should work on a scheme regarding the CAT sort of stub categories. If you ask me, we should place DEFAULTSORT ontop of a category page (with a pipe of course). Otherwise we have messy categor assined sub-categories. --77.4.35.19 (talk) 09:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: DEFAULTSORT

message: The girl you dream of cats and dogs falling from the sky. but her real dream was to be on wikipedia. Cause she's awesome like that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brittanyalt2 (talk • contribs) 17:53, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BRITTANY ALTMEYER 

message: Is it possible to add a search box on the top of this page? I think it could make searching easier. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:50, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search 

message: There are a lot of stubs, and while the sorting helps a lot, it would be really nice if we could get links to various letters of the alphabet (e.g., kind of like the table of contents on other pages, except with letters such that when you press A, you are taken to all stubs with articles starting with A, clicking on N takes you to all articles starting with N, etc etc). Just an idea, I don't have the experience to do this myself, so I was just wondering what you all thought about it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HIST406-13sdehart (talk • contribs) 18:26, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  We should have links to the various alphabets 

message: Right, am thinking of running a de-stubbing contest at User:Casliber/Stub contest (in the vein of the Core Contest), just as a one off alternative and see how it goes - similar prizes. Discuss on talk page. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Casliber/Stub contest]] 

message: Shouldn't all the stub categories (which are tracking/maintenance categories) have the  template? The related stub template at the end of each stub article already states that the article is a stub. I don't see why the corresponding category should be visible too. Mensis Mirabilis (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make stub categories hidden 

message: Sjkline3 (talk) 19:50, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Social work 

message: Sjkline3 (talk) 19:52, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Social work stubs