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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

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 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"

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

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

Proposals, October 2026

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

NEW PROPOSALS

Note to stub creators:

Hokkaido mountain stubs

Hokkaido geography stubs is pretty big; I propose 163 stub articles from Mountains of Hokkaido now go under Hokkaido mountain stubs with {{Hokkaido-mountain-stub}} - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 18:32, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Colletidae sub-stubs

Colletidae stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following splits:

- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:23, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

Association football midfielder sub-stubs

It's been a hot minute since I've been here! Anyway, here's my proposal for Association football midfielder stubs and its subcats:

- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:11, 9 October 2026 (UTC)

Proposals, September 2026

Razavi Khorasan province geography stubs

Virus stubs

Polyporales stubs

Clostridia stubs

1920s American silent comedy films

Colletidae stubs

"Political party in XXX" stubs sub-cats

For Political party stubs

Note: this is not exactly a creation as much as a renaming, but this comment and a similar one in the existing category, are not getting any answers. Happy to move the discussion to a better place where people will discuss.

The argument is that, unlike ideologies that are better place beforehand (liberal political party, left-wing political party), names of locations are better placed at the end ("Political parties in Belgium", and not "Belgian political parties"). This is already reflected for categories of political parties per country (e.g. Category:Political parties in Sweden).

In addition, in this very case, the first category below leads to a confusion with European political party, which is different from "Political party in Europe".

I therefore propose the following changes:

Julius Schwarz (talk) 05:43, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

I'm not totally convinced on this, stub categories don't always follow the permcats. If this is to go ahead then i would suggest a wider proposal that includes the categories for all the other continents, regions and countries as well as the european subcats of the Socialist Parties, Communist Parties and Liberal Parties categories. Also we would need to redefine the European categories if we are to create a Central European category. Waacstats (talk) 17:51, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
All of that is fine by me, @Waacstats, and I appreciate the better appraisal of what should be done, thank you.
To be clear, my argument was not "the categories operate thus, so we should do the same", but more "this different phrasing is more appropriate, and this logic is also retained elsewhere".
As for Central Europe, I know that many competing definitions of European subregions exist, but it does feel like a relevant category to add, as Central European countries (whatever the precise definition) are often grouped as such and separately from other subregions. One such classification (for EU member states, at least) is this one: https://eudemocracy.eu/grelo2024. Julius Schwarz (talk) 06:29, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
Does anyone else want to chip in on this? I still think it is relevant to make this change. I am happy to take the lead, but would welcome more opinions before proceeding. Julius Schwarz (talk) 06:20, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

Proposals, August 2026

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

Eupithecia stubs sub-cats

Prehistoric gastropod stubs

Sport shooting biography stubs

table tennis biography stubs

Taekwondo biography stubs

Religious building and structure stubs

speedy

Cricket umpire stubs

Platyptiliini stubs

Lääne-Viru County geography stubs

Tartu County geography stubs

Swallow Tail butterfly stubs

Ellsworth Land geography stubs

Nervous system drug sub-stubs (header by Opal)

Cetoniinae sub-stub

Pterolophia stubs

Melolonthini stubs

1920s American silent drama film stubs

Mississippi ghost towns

Cricket umpire stubs

Galerucinae stubs

speedy

Stenomatinae sub-stubs

Zeuzerinae sub-stub

Epermenioidea sub-stub

Choreutidae sub-stub

Zygaenoidea sub-stubs

Proposals, July 2026

Dolichopodidae sub-stubs

More Melolonthinae sub-stubs

Even more Sericoidinae stubs

Scientist stubs

Cicadidae stubs

Eumolpinae stubs

Notodontidae stubs

Split of football bios

missing footy bios

Speedy

Calpinae stubs

2020s South Korean film stubs

Proposals, June 2026

Angola geography sub-stubs

Football managers

Galerucinae stubs

Crambinae stubs

Speedy

EU Stubs

Bees stubs

Split of Megachile stubs

Apinae stubs

Split of football referees

Songwriter stubs

A few speedies

Khulna Division geography sub-stubs

Proposals, May 2026

Speedy: French regional train station stub categories

Referee stubs

Magazine stubs

Sculptor stubs

Painter stubs

Poet

Melolonthinae stubs

Sports teams

Speedies

A slightly awkward one

More speedies

Speedy

Cryptocephalinae sub-stubs

Proposals, April 2026

Uzbekistan geography stubs rearrangement

Curculionidae sub-stubs

Another day, another speedy

Baseball bios

Islamabad geos

Speedy

North West England railway station stubs

Speedies

Even more Cassidinae sub-stubs!

Swallowtail butterfly sub-stub

Terebra stubs

Dorcadion stubs

Central Bosnia Canton geography sub-stubs

European classical musician stubs

Splits of magazine stubs

Horse racing bios

Equestrian biography stubs

Tidy up Roman Catholic churches

Split of United States manufacturing company stubs

Germany manufacturing company stubs

Silent films

South American bridges

Syntomini sub-stub

Oligodon stubs