Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2008/August/22

August 22

{{Cloud-computing-stub}} (redlinked)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the stub template and/or category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the template's or category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this section.

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UInproposed, of questionable use, and yet another of those damned asbox types. There is a permcat Category:Cloud computing with seventeen sub- and sub-sub-categories, but amazingly between them (if you exclude Category:Web services where more specific stub types are already widely in use), they contain a grand total of 37 articles (one of the subcats is completely empty). As such, it's not goiung to reach threshold even if all the articles are stubs. Deletion is possibly a better solution than upmerging, since this area seems more than adequately covered by other stub types. Grutness...wha? 01:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete if the db-author tag I just added hasn't already done the job. I didn't realise there was a process until I tried to create the category and then wasn't sure what to do with the dangling stub. Anyway there are /many/ articles linked from cloud computing (3 figures) and many more that would be there were there a process for creating them (eg a stub). How does this 'upmerging' work? samj (talk) 06:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if the template hadn't been deleted then it would have meant the template would have been kept but linked to a more general stub category. If there are as many stubs as you suggest, it might be worth you proposing a stub and category at WP:WSS/P. Grutness...wha? 20:34, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the template's or category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this section.