this file is an archive please do not add new discussion here add it to my talk page stubstuff re symbol after pages i plan to convert all of these to with the big numbers in bold the less than symbol is needed to tell my bot where the end of the string is so that it can put a new number in if it is not there my bot will pull in all lines untll it finds this can be changed to another symbol but i don't see why to sum up what i said there will be no more of pages instead there will be this is not prejuduce on my part as much as it is just easier to program respond on my page eagle talk desk category political scientists stubs can i delete this else my bot is not going to work here are the hoops i am talking about eagle talk desk hi its me where is this st u type talk page and how do i word my message so that people will actully listin esp admins i not one will they listen to me eagle talk desk how do i word the statement that the bot is running and get the admins to listen to me some help here please eagle talk desk preferred use of virginia geo stub grutness please help a clueless newbie i've got questions about your recent edits to the stub templates that i added to several stub articles i wrote part of a personal effort to add all historic districts in arlington county virginia usa to wikipedia see e g your edit to prospect hill arlington virginia i understand why you replaced my use of struct sub with the more specific u s struct sub thanks however you also eliminated the virginia geo stub i used is this because the geo stub and its subcategories are only for geographic features and sites of historic houses even when those houses no longer stand on site don't qualify if that's the reason how are geographic features defined clearly they must include natural features e g rivers mountains do they include political geography e g towns counties what about properties that may include structures but are also comprised of natural or man made geography e g ranches canals i'm happy to conform with preferred usage indeed i've got some similar uses of the virginia geo stub on fort ethan allen arlington virginia and fort albany arlington virginia that i'm prepared to remove if necessary i only added the virginia geo stub because i thought my stub articles were more likely to attract the help of wikipedians who cared about virginia than from wikipedians who care about u s structures thanks in advance for filling me in thanks for the help grutness at user talk johnpomeranz politician stubs monitoring hi grutness as you know i've been trying to create some kind of order in the politician stub categories so i've created a new subpage tracking them for potential splits unfortunately i couldn't find any really good lists carving up africa into smaller segments so my list is basically a ripoff from one of your old lists regarding the geo stubs i've modified the text and the european and caucasus categories i really hope that you don't mind but i figured that my time was better spent counting stubs than designing something clever i haven't done the counts for all the subcategories yet but i have done most of them besides i figured that if we one day start splitting up africa into smaller fragments it would be nice with consistency between the politician stubs and the geo stubs i still don't know if it will be necessary but it's always nice to have the option again i hope you don't mind the ripoff if you do i'll redesign the page or kill it asap best regards talk thanks for the reply i'm not sure it is a good idea at all to split the african continent into segments yet but i'd like to keep the possibility open it is a lot easier doing counts of stubs from countries than from nations my main motivation is to see a consistent system for both the geo stubs the politician stubs and any other type of stub so if the ge