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On this WikiProject Stub sorting subpage, you can propose new stub types (please read the procedures beforehand!), as well as the reorganization and subdivision of existing stub types. You can also discuss anything else related to stubs on the talk page.

Proposing new stub types – procedure

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Important: If you wish to propose the creation of a stub ARTICLE you've come to the wrong place. If you don't have a username yourself, please go to WP:AFC for proposing a new article. If you already have a username, you can create the article yourself. If you don't know how, add {{Helpme}} to your user talk page to request help from other editors. This page only deals with stub TEMPLATES and CATEGORIES; we cannot help you with creating articles.

Proposing new stub types
If you wish to propose a new stub category and template, please follow these procedures:
  1. Check the List of stub types or under Category:Stub categories to make sure that your proposed new stub does not already exist.
  2. List it at the top of the current month's section, under a header, like the ones shown (if any). Sign it with a datestamp (~~~~).
    • Please bear in mind that a stub category isn't about the importance or notability of the topic!
  3. Find a good number[1] of stub articles, as many as you can, that will fit that template. You may use this tool to scan through categories; tagged stubs are always in Category:All stub articles and transclude {{asbox}}. Each of these articles can be:
    • currently marked with {{stub}};
    • currently marked with another type of stub tag (in which case you should justify why your tag is better for the article than the current one);
    • a stub whose categorisation is highly ambiguous or questionable;
    • not marked as a stub.
  4. If you use any category scan (from the tool mentioned above or from any other), please link to it so that other users can confirm that the results are still accurate.
  5. Others may do the same, if they so desire.
  6. 5 days after listing it here, if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and/or template following the format on Wikipedia:Stub. List the new stub type on the stub types list in an appropriate section. If consensus is not clear, or discussion is still ongoing, the proposal will remain open until consensus can be reached.
  7. If you wish to propose a stub type which does not currently have 60 articles that could use it, you may propose an upmerged template in a similar way. An upmerged template would feed into currently existing stub categories until such time that there are enough stubs for a separate stub category. At that point a category for it may be separately proposed. Some times, it may be difficult to be sure how many stubs would get a tag - in which case you can also start with an upmerged stub tag until you're sure there are enough.

DO NOT place a proposal here for any stub type which has already been created and is being discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. The proposal page is only for stub types that have not yet been created, and it is better to keep any discussion of such stub types in one place rather than splitting it between different pages. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion is the correct page for proposals to delete a stub type.

^ Good number means about 60 articles or more, or 30 or more if it is the primary stub type of a WikiProject, though this figure may vary from case to case.

"Speedy creation"

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A stub type may be proposed for "speedy creation" if it meets one of the following criteria:

  • S1 - the creation of a category for which an approved upmerged template already exists and is now in use on more than 60 articles.
  • S2 - the creation of an upmerged national-level template for a subject in which other such national-level templates currently exist (e.g., X-bio-stub, X-hist-stub, or X-geo-stub, where X is the name of an internationally widely recognised country) or other instances where a clearly established pattern of similar subtypes exists. The proposed topic may not be controversial in scope.

List speedy creation proposals in the same proposal listings as normal stub proposals below.

Proposals, March 2025

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Please check how many articles qualify for a stub type before proposing it.

NEW PROPOSALS

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1940s American film stubs

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340 of these are also under comedy films, plenty for a category even allowing for some false positives, this wont clear it off the oversized list but would make a good start

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1950s American film stubs

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120 of these are also under comedy films, plenty for a category even allowing for some false positives, this should clear it off the oversized list or at least make a good start, depending on how many false positives there are.

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Canada island stubs

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bubbling under at over 780 stubs. Propose splitting this by province, I believe the Nunavut subcats and British Columbia will probably take the vast majority of these and leave the parent around 80 but in case any other province reaches 60 I will propose all categories and templates but categories only to be created if the templates pass 60.

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe try "PEI-island-stub"? Or "PrinceEdward-island-stub"? - OpalYosutebito (talk) 20:09, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Italian cycling team stubs

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85 articles that could use the following

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A tidy up of sports teams

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A number of countries have enough articles tagged foo-sport-stub and bar-team-stub to make the foo-sport-team-stub and category viable add to that existing potential subcats like footyclub, waterpolo-team etc

The following template exists and is passed 60:

The following countries have at least 40 articles and for the sake of helping to count in the future I propse the following templates

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Various speedies

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these existing templates all have over 60 transclusions, propose categories for them all.

Waacstats (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese railway station stubs

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{{Vietnam-railstation-stub}} has 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:05, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Islands District geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:54, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

North District, Hong Kong geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:50, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sha Tin District geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tsuen Wan District geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:13, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sai Kung District geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:09, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Yuen Long District geography stubs

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See here for the full list of articles awaiting the new template and category; Hong Kong geography stubs is a bit oversized - OpalYosutebito (talk) 23:49, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tai Po District geography stubs

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Sport speedy

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US women football biography stubs

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19th Century Paintings

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Greek Mythology stubs

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American film biography stubs

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Polish politician stubs

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Estonian politician stubs

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Basketball team stubs

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Handball club stubs

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Category has over 500 articles, a large number are for various national teams I propose the following:

Waacstats (talk) 19:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Handball stubs

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59 of these articles are for national federations, by the time we add the existing clubs category as a potential subcat (in the permcats it comes under handball directly and under handball organisations) we should be sizeable enough to propose the following:

Waacstats (talk) 19:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

16th-century English MPs

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Significantly oversized, we already have two sub cats basaed on which parliament they sat in , propose continuing this with a few more, the names are based on the existing sub cats categories and the permenant categories.If anyone can come up with better names for the 1953 and 1954 categories as I think these are a bit of a mess as I have propsed them:

Waacstats (talk) 19:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Missouri River stubs

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Category:Raebareli district geography stubs

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Category:Unnao district geography stubs

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Category:Ladakh geography stubs

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Category:Nagaland geography stubs

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Category:Purba Mednipur geography stubs

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Speedy footballers

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English goalkeepers

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US politician stubs

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United States Supreme court stubs

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Category:Haryana railway station stubs

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Proposals, February 2025

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Missouri state judge stubs

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College football season stubs

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Sports venues

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athletics-bios part 1

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athletics-bios part 2

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Football biography stubs

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Category:Ampullariidae stubs

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Category:Ramanathapuram district geography stubs

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Category:Pectinidae stubs

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Category:Mytilidae stubs

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Category:Tiruvannamalai district geography stubs

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Proposals, January 2025

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Category:Hunan railway station stubs

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Category:Rewari district geography stubs

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Category:Bhiwani district geography stubs

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Category:West Champaran district geography stubs

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Category:Solapur district geography stubs

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Category:Madagascar river stubs

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Category:Al-Hasakah Governorate geography stubs

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Category:Idlib Governorate geography stubs

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Category:Washington County, Ohio geography stubs

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Category:2020s Canadian documentary film stubs

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Category:2010s Canadian documentary film stubs

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Category:Anguidae stubs

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Category:Ancient Greek philosopher stubs

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Category:New Mexico state court judge stubs

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Category:2010s indie pop album stubs

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2000s Canadian documentary film stubs

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2000s Bengali film stubs

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1990s Canadian documentary film stubs

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1920s mystery novel stubs

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17th-century play stubs

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Çankırı Province geography stubs

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Yozgat Province geography stubs

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Rize Province geography stubs

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Sivas Province geography stubs

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Category:Changsha Metro stubs

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Category:Sri Lankan railway station stubs

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Category:Kagawa railway station stubs

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Category:Amphisbaenidae stubs

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Category:Tropiduridae stubs

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Category:Teiidae stubs

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Category:Phrynosomatidae stubs

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Category:Liolaemidae stubs

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Category:Dactyloidae stubs

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Category:Hangzhou Metro stubs

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Category:Shenyang Metro stubs

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Category:Inner Mongolia railway station stubs

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Category:Tianjin railway station stubs

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Category:Cycloctenidae stubs

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Category:Desidae stubs

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Category:Orsolobidae stubs

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Category:Poeciliidae stubs

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Category:Rivulidae stubs

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Category:Nothobranchiidae stubs

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Category:Dolomedidae stubs

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Category:Cottidae stubs

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Category:Liparidae stubs

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Category:Cottoidei stubs

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