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Proposing new stub types – procedure

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

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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
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    }}. 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"

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

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

NEW PROPOSALS

Category:Nepal road stubs

{{Nepal-road-stub}} has over 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 08:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Perm Krai river stubs

See here for the full list of pages (approx. 120 of them); these use {{PermKrai-geo-stub}} and {{Russia-river-stub}}, whose categories are a bit large... - OpalYosutebito (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support keeps them off the list. Waacstats (talk) 18:21, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ormož geography stubs

{{Ormož-geo-stub}} has 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 17:39, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support matches other subcat in format. Waacstats (talk) 18:23, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kaduna State geography stubs

{{Kaduna-geo-stub}} has 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:38, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support again matches all the other State level categories. Waacstats (talk) 18:26, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Northern Mindanao geography stubs

{{NMindanao-geo-stub}} has over 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:34, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support first look at the parent I thought what a mess, some are Regions, some are not, but then looked at the parent category and that is the mess we have to follow and this continues that (in the tidiest way possible). Waacstats (talk) 18:31, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Zambian politician stubs

{{Zambia-politician-stub}} has 78 transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:32, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support as long as you dont mind me hijacking this with a suggestion for the Botswana politician stubs which is even large at 82 ( and dont forget on the Zambians we have an used mayor template). Waacstats (talk) 18:35, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll propose that one too - OpalYosutebito (talk) 13:55, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Novo Goražde geography stubs

{{NovoGoražde-geo-stub}} has 63 transclusions, and its parent category looks pretty big to me... - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:24, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support looks good Waacstats (talk) 18:47, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1940s American film stubs

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

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

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]
I was thinking more of the category m=name than the template name, but looking at it that might not be a problem. Waacstats (talk) 18:48, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Until we need to form the category name, I think {{PrinceEdwardIsland-island-stub}} would be fine; it corresponds to other PEI geo stub names.Her Pegship (?) 19:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Italian cycling team stubs

85 articles that could use the following

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

A tidy up of sports teams

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:

  • Switzerland-sports-team-stub
    }}

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

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

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

Support per nom :D - OpalYosutebito (talk) 01:49, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnamese railway station stubs

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

Islands District geography stubs

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

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

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]

Never mind; there aren't enough transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 01:53, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tsuen Wan District geography stubs

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]

Never mind; there aren't enough transclusions - OpalYosutebito (talk) 01:53, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sai Kung District geography stubs

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

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

Sport speedy

US women football biography stubs

19th Century Paintings

Greek Mythology stubs

American film biography stubs

Polish politician stubs

Estonian politician stubs

Basketball team stubs

Handball club stubs

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

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

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

Category:Raebareli district geography stubs

Category:Unnao district geography stubs

Category:Ladakh geography stubs

Category:Nagaland geography stubs

Category:Purba Mednipur geography stubs

Speedy footballers

English goalkeepers

US politician stubs

United States Supreme court stubs

Category:Haryana railway station stubs

Proposals, February 2025

Missouri state judge stubs

College football season stubs

Sports venues

athletics-bios part 1

athletics-bios part 2

Football biography stubs

Category:Ampullariidae stubs

Category:Ramanathapuram district geography stubs

Category:Pectinidae stubs

Category:Mytilidae stubs

Category:Tiruvannamalai district geography stubs

Proposals, January 2025

Category:Hunan railway station stubs

Category:Rewari district geography stubs

Category:Bhiwani district geography stubs

Category:West Champaran district geography stubs

Category:Solapur district geography stubs

Category:Madagascar river stubs

Category:Al-Hasakah Governorate geography stubs

Category:Idlib Governorate geography stubs

Category:Washington County, Ohio geography stubs

Category:2020s Canadian documentary film stubs

Category:2010s Canadian documentary film stubs

Category:Anguidae stubs

Category:Ancient Greek philosopher stubs

Category:New Mexico state court judge stubs

Category:2010s indie pop album stubs

2000s Canadian documentary film stubs

2000s Bengali film stubs

1990s Canadian documentary film stubs

1920s mystery novel stubs

17th-century play stubs

Çankırı Province geography stubs

Yozgat Province geography stubs

Rize Province geography stubs

Sivas Province geography stubs

Category:Changsha Metro stubs

Category:Sri Lankan railway station stubs

Category:Kagawa railway station stubs

Category:Amphisbaenidae stubs

Category:Tropiduridae stubs

Category:Teiidae stubs

Category:Phrynosomatidae stubs

Category:Liolaemidae stubs

Category:Dactyloidae stubs

Category:Hangzhou Metro stubs

Category:Shenyang Metro stubs

Category:Inner Mongolia railway station stubs

Category:Tianjin railway station stubs

Category:Cycloctenidae stubs

Category:Desidae stubs

Category:Orsolobidae stubs

Category:Poeciliidae stubs

Category:Rivulidae stubs

Category:Nothobranchiidae stubs

Category:Dolomedidae stubs

Category:Cottidae stubs

Category:Liparidae stubs

Category:Cottoidei stubs