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Proposing new stub types – procedure

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Proposing new stub types

If you wish to propose a new stub category and template, please follow these procedures:

Check the List of stub types or under Category:Stub categories to make sure that your proposed new stub does not already exist.
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!
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.
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.
Others may do the same, if they so desire.
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.
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, October 2024

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

NEW PROPOSALS

Category:Swimming competition stubs

This would be a subcategory under Category:Swimming stubs. Anyone looking in that category will realize there's more than 60 stubs that would qualify to sorted under "swimming competition stubs," but that the swimming stub category wouldn't entirely be cleaned out. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 03:10, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposals, September 2024

Category:Philippines river stubs

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was create.
{{Philippines-river-stub}} is currently used in 63 articles; thus, I propose a "speedy creation" (S1) of Category:Philippines river stubs (to be categorized under Category:Asia river stubs). Sanglahi86 (talk) 18:20, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support speedy. Her Pegship (?) 20:47, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Diffuse Category:Yemen geography stubs

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was create.

1234qwer 1234qwer 4 19:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Her Pegship (?) 20:29, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy creation of Category:Tanzania geography stubs subcategories

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was create.

1234qwer 1234qwer 4 18:38, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposals, August 2024

Freestyle album stubs

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was no consensus.

Feels So Good (Lina Santiago album) Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 05:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to create a stub type, please propose it here. Otherwise, feel free to assign {{electronic-album-stub}} to the article in question. Her Pegship (?) 18:17, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did propose a stub type: freestyle album stub. Look at the header. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 04:00, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Erpert: Can you find sixty existing stub articles that would suit the proposed new stub type? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:22, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka stubs

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was created.
{{SabaragamuwaLK-geo-stub}} is used on more than 60 articles, so I will create Category:Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka geography stubs, if there's no objection. Her Pegship (?) 20:58, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Balochistan, Pakistan constituency stubs‎

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed creation 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.

The result of the debate was create.
Under the Pakistan constituency stubs category, articles related to Provincial Assembly constituencies are currently sorted into three subcategories: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituency stubs‎ (49 pages), Punjab, Pakistan constituency stubs‎ (515 pages), and Sindh constituency stubs‎ (238 pages). I propose creating a new category, Balochistan, Pakistan constituency stubs‎ to better organise and distinguish articles related to Balochistan, which is also a fully-fledged province.

There are at least 65 articles under Pakistan constituency stubs which are constituencies falling under the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan. Here some examples:

--Crosji (talk) 04:13, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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