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On this WP:WSS 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

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 Cat: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. 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. Others may do the same, if they so desire.
5. 5 days after listing it here, if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and 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.
6. 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.

DO NOT place a proposal here for any stub type which has already been created and is being discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries or Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. 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.

^ . 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 2010

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

If (after approval) you create a stub type, please be sure to add it to the list of stub types. This page will be archived in its entirety once all discussions have been closed; there is no need to move them to another page.

NEW PROPOSALS

Cat:Military terminology stubs

Can someone please add a stub template for Cat:Military terminology stubs? I think that at least SOME of the 527 or so pages in will cover the 60 page requirement. You could probably use {{mil-term-stub}} for it. Could someone also make more country-specific military stubs? Thank you. (Note that I am an unregistered user, so someone else will need to make the stubs, thanks.)--98.114.243.75 (talk) 15:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

the terminology stub looks like a great idea. Could you be more specific with the countries you think we might want. If you need help in creating these let me know on my talk page. Waacstats (talk) 09:27, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

{{Netherlands-road-stub}} and {{Amsterdam-stub}}

Large number of articles and many to be transwikied in the future.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:14, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Easy support for the road template, upmerged to the geo cat? the amsterdam stub well 'm never to pleased with city stubs but I won't say no. Waacstats (talk) 09:15, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Cat:Computer conference stubs

{{compu-conference-stub}}. Main category: Cat:Computer conferences. See also: Computer expo. Dawynn (talk) 11:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Support template, category iff we get 60 articels. Waacstats (talk) 21:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Cat:Literary magazine stubs

I see that this category has about 380 articles. I see also that the main Cat:Literary magazines category breaks more along country lines, then it does along any subject lines. Therefore, I'd like to propose a couple breaks for this category:

• Cat:American literary magazine stubs / {{US-lit-mag-stub}}. Stub for Cat:American literary magazines
• Cat:European literary magazine stubs / {{europe-lit-mag-stub}}. No direct parent category. But figured this might be a better initial grouping than individual country categories.
• Cat:Fiction magazine stubs / {{fiction-mag-stub}}. This subject category does exist: Cat:Fiction magazines

Dawynn (talk) 12:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

looks like a good one, may be worth looking at upmerged templates for some of the bigger euro countries (UK,France,Italy,Germany). Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 18 March 2010 (UTC) I could work with that. Can we approve the following templates to upmerge to Cat:European literary magazine stubs?

• {{UK-lit-mag-stub}} / Cat:British literary magazine stubs. Parent Cat:Literary magazines of the United Kingdom.
• {{France-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:French literary magazines.
• {{German-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:German literary magazines.
• {{Ireland-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Literary magazines of Ireland.
• {{Poland-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Polish literary magazines.
• {{Romania-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Romanian literary magazines

I've only listed countries that have more than 10 articles in the main parent category. Based on current counts for the main parent categories, I don't expect a need for stub categories on any of these except for the UK. The following could be set up to upmerge to Cat:Literary magazine stubs until we get enough for a category:

• {{Australia-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Australian literary magazines
• {{Canada-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Canadian literary magazines
• {{India-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Indian literary magazines
• {{Russia-lit-mag-stub}}. Parent Cat:Russian literary magazines

Dawynn (talk) 11:38, 19 March 2010 (UTC) All seems good, Russia usually gets put in europe so that would be another template for the euro category. Waacstats (talk) 09:13, 20 March 2010 (UTC) Whoops -- should have been {{Germany-lit-mag-stub}} Dawynn (talk) 11:45, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Cat:Political magazine stubs

I see that this category has over 200 articles. I see also that the main Cat:Political magazines category breaks more along country lines, then it does along political party lines. Therefore, I'd like to propose what I suspect is the largest contributor to this category as a first break point: