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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 stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following splits:
- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:23, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
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)
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We have most of the counties but could do with the last ones being created to tidy up the category.
obviously categories only for those that reach 60. Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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Over 600 stubs and the following are viable
Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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Large enough that we can split out a family:
Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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Slowly growing, the following genus has passed 60:
Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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Over 700 articles the best split I can see is to split out the "lost" films
Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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Heading towards 800 the following genus have over 60 articles.
Waacstats (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
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)
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For Eupithecia stubs
Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:43, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
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For Prehistoric mollusc stubs.
Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:10, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
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Another category with subcats without templates, I therefore propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Another category with subcats without templates, I therefore propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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As below we have four continent categoriese and no way to get most articles in there as there is no continent level templates, I therefore propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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We have five continent level categories but no templates, I propose the following templates to help without overflowing the national categories.
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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This months found speedies.
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Now over 600 articles I propose the following splits:
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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starting to get bigger I propose the following fenus are split out based on hand count of articles.
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Currently at over 450 articles, I propose following previous examples and splitting by parish. I don't have petscans for these but the articles I looked at seemed to have details in them for Parish.
Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Currently at over 450 articles, I propose following previous examples and splitting by parish. I don't have petscans for these but the articles I looked at seemed to have details in them for Parish.
We can't use Tartu-geo-stub fo the last one as this is used for the county. Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Recently cut down could goa bit further with the addition of the following:
this is easilyviable through a count Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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For Ellsworth Land geography stubs:
plits the category into two nicely. Waacstats (talk) 21:29, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
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Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:48, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
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Category is getting close to the 800 mark, according to the main article there are a number of subgenus that would pass the 60 mark, I therefore propose the following:
the last is apparently a subgenus and not just what hasn't been asigned a subgenus. Any help on the first and third names would be appreciated. Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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Another category that has recently grown and now has over 1000 articles. The following appear to be viable based on the perm cats and should get it down to about 600 articles:
Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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This category has been growing recently and is now over 1200 articles. the following would be viable:
I do feel this may be an undercount and that a search of the non US parent category of this possible category would reveal many more articles and potentially leave that category very small. Any thoughts please! Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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The above is now viable based on a petscan search, and a count of the times Mississippi appears in article names.
Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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Similar to the recent proposal for football, We have a large number of cricket umpires that are marked with a stub template only a small number have {{Sports-official-bio-stub}} I propose the following, possibly with future by country/continent splits:
Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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Closing in on 500 articles, wee already have two sub cats by tribe, I propose a third with the following
The Petscan here is a starting point as this only includes genus listed on the page and not individual species which should mean it will increase. Waacstats (talk) 07:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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A couple of speedy categories I have found recently:
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- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 14:24, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
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Because school hasn't started for me again, I'm here to propose more Sericoidinae stubs splits:
- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 16:01, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
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While going through the scientist stubs i noticed that we don't have continent level templates to feed into the continent level categories, rather than requesting multiple templates per category I would like to , as a start, propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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Over 700 articlces, the following subfamilies have sufficient articles for categories
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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As below these are pushing 800 and I make the same comment regarding the petscan numbers:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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Pushing the 800 limit, definitly in need of a trim. No genus has enough articles but the following seems viable, note the petscan only includes the genus not the individual species, once these are included the number jumps well above 60:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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A number of countries football biography by position have grown up and could do with a split, in the past when splitting one of the outfield positions we have split all three positions therefore I propose the following with xxxx replaced by decades, templates where we have articles with players born in those decades and categores where the templates pass 60;:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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We are currntly missing the following template that should have over 60 articles:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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The following have passed the 60 article threshold for a category of thier own:
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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Category is currently oversized at over 800 articles, I propose spliting out the Tribe Calpini, unfortunatly no good petscan exists but Calpinae does list the genus in the tribe and this suggests plenty of articles for the category.
Waacstats (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
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In January, User:Waltzingmogumogupeach created Category:2020s South Korean film stubs without having a stub template. There are currently 3 articles in the category. GoingBatty (talk) 12:54, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
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For Angola geography stubs, since we start with first-level administrative divisions:
- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:10, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
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We have sufficient Brazilian football managers for a category of there own, we already have a category for English managers. I therefore propose the following to tidy up the parent category a bit:
Waacstats (talk) 22:23, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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Currently over 700 articles, no genus has enough articles but one tribe does I therefore propose the following:
There are a lot of genera in here that dont have (yet) species articles and we dont have good categorization here so it will have to be done based on genera listed in the article. Waacstats (talk) 22:20, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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recently de-oversized the following tribe is viable, based on a by species hand count, it would already have a subcategory in Category:Calamotropha stubs and would take a number of articles out of this category:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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The following templates have past 60 and therefore the categories are eligible for creation:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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Starting to get large, I propose the following split:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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Another tribe of bees and a genus have enough articles for a category I propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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Our largest category, according to the article, Callomegachile is a subgenara and has many species, running a petscan shows nearly 100 are stubs so I propose the following:
This should take it off the top of the list. Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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By a hand count there are over 60 articles relating to the genus Exoneura, I therefore propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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Newly created and as expected has easily brerached the 800 mark. I propose the following split as a start, with potentially more continents to follow:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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We have enough articles with the {{England-songwriter-stub}} for a category but as we don't usually only use England categories as a breakdown of UK categories I propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
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For Khulna Division geography stubs:
The result of the debate was create Category:Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes railway station stubs only.
Follow-up to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/2023/January#French regional train station stub categories. Of the eight categories requested by Epluribusunumyall (talk · contribs), I created two in January 2023 and left the others, stating oppose Corsica, and weak oppose the other four
(presume my typo for "five"). Since then, the use of {{AuvergneRhôneAlpes-railstation-stub}} has grown from 27 to 41 transclusions, which is the same count that {{GrandEst-railstation-stub}} had when I created its category, and on those grounds I intend creating Category:Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes railway station stubs soon. Of the other categories not created in 2023, there has been little growth:
{{BourgogneFrancheComté-railstation-stub}}: 30 transclusions, up from 29{{Centre-railstation-stub}}: 28 transclusions, up from 27{{Corsica-railstation-stub}}: 3 transclusions, up from 2{{PaysLoire-railstation-stub}}: 27 transclusions, up from 26{{Provence-railstation-stub}}: 30 transclusions, up from 24I can see that there may now also be grounds for creating Category:Bourgogne-Franche-Comté railway station stubs and Category:Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur railway station stubs. Should I (a) create only the cat for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; (b) create three cats, those for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur; or (c) create all categories except that for Corsica? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:24, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
{{BourgogneFrancheComté-railstation-stub}}, which was moved from {{Burgundy-railstation-stub}} in December 2017. As regards the number of articles, I refer you to this approval: at the time, Grand Est had 41 articles, and Brittany had 32. My option (a) above is to create a category for a template that now has 41 transclusions, the same amount that Grand Est had three years ago. My option (b) would also create cats for templates that are now approaching the previous count for Brittany. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:11, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
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We have a large number of football (soccer) referees that are marked with a stub template only a small number have {{Sports-official-bio-stub}} I propose the following, possibly with future by country/continent splits:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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The following are now viable for new templates and categories. The US category is over 800 and in desperate need of trimming:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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Continueing the theme, sculptors could do with the following templates:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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As with poets below so with painters, I propose the following templates that will see use:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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We have a number of poets that can't be moved out of the main category to continental categories because of a lack of templates, rather than adding to the by country templates I propose the following templates which will see some use:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category is over 700 and could doo with a trim based on names i propsoe the following by genera splits:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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This petscan search showa there are eneogh articles for a seperate Brazil sports team category.
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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The following are now viable for categories:
Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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We have sufficient articles for the following:
given that the "nation"only existed for the 1992 Summer and Winter Olympics. I would like some further input on this one. Waacstats (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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Magway Region geography stubs, {{Magway-geo-stub}} - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:44, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
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Cryptocephalinae stubs can be split further:
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For Uzbekistan geography stubs, I recommend breaking the category up into regions, not divisions:
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For Curculionidae stubs:
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The following categories is vaible from upmerged templates:
Waacstats (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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A sort of Pakistan geography stubs has reveaed we are missing a template and category for the capital district I therefore propose the following:
Waacstats (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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The following categories are viable based on existing templates:
Waacstats (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:North West England railway station stubs (6) has over 200 member pages. It also has two sub-categories, Category:Greater Manchester railway station stubs (141) and Category:Merseyside railway station stubs (62), corresponding to two of the five ceremonial counties in North West England. I propose that the other three counties should also have a sub-category and corresponding stub template, as follows:
{{Cheshire-railstation-stub}}: 57 hits - would also be sub to Category:Cheshire building and structure stubs (35){{Cumbria-railstation-stub}}: 76 hits - would also be sub to Category:Cumbria building and structure stubs (46){{Lancashire-railstation-stub}}: 99 hits - would also be sub to Category:Lancashire building and structure stubs (104)Category:North West England railway station stubs would then contain five subcategories, one template and no articles. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:11, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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For Vysočina Region geography stubs:
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Cassidinae stubs has always been very big. I'm here to help split by tribe!
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Central Bosnia Canton geography stubs is pretty big; I propose the following splits before I go in for an exam tomorrow:
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According to the category this is not a parent only category, yet it only has templates for about 10 countries. I propose {{Europe-classical-musician-stub}} to get the rest of the countries musicians in here without adding to the number of templates in the by country bio categories. Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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The following are viable from existing templates
going through the magazine stub subcategories i notice we don't have the following that I would have used instead of the media template on loads of articles:
Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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The following is speedy ready:
This will leave the only articles in the European cateogry fed in by a french template. I propose the following to move any Italian/German etc riders/trainers into this category
Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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We have some by continent sub categories of this. HOwever the main category could be reduced down by removeing the parent only status from these and creating the following templates:
would allow us to clear the riders from smaller countries without flooding other categories with templates. Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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We already have a category for North America that implies it covers the central American countries but no way of getting these in there.
I propose removing the parent only status of the category and creating or {{NorthAm-RC-church-stub}}
OR
We create a {{CentralAm-RC-church-stub}} and {{Bermuda-RC-church-stub}} I'm happy with either, but would prefer the first so as to not to add to the templates in the bermuda category. Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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Someone has pushed this category over 800 articles and it could therefore do with a very serious trim. I propose the following as a start to reducing this down:
Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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The following is now viable:
If someone else runs with this use the petscan as a very basic start as some of those companies aren't manufacturing but there are others in the gerany company stubs category that should be in here. Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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We have enough articles for the following
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We have enough articles for the following category:
We already have numerous country specific templates but proposing the template as a catch all (Bolivia, Suriname and French Guyana are missing). Waacstats (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
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For Syntomini stubs:
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Substub of Colubrinae stubs: