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Proposals, October 2018

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The result of the debate was create.
These templates have all achieved 60+ articles, thus I propose their categories:


Her Pegship (speak) 16:54, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
ETA: Also these:


Her Pegship (speak) 21:21, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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US election stubs subcategorization

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The result of the debate was create upmerged state templates until 60+ achieved.

As of October 2018, there are approximately 1600 stubs in Category:United States election stubs as well as 7 sub categories for stubs on a state-by-state basis. I propose the creation of multiple new categories to sort through these 1600 stubs:

As far as I can tell, almost all of the 1600 stubs would qualify for sorting into these new categories. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:09, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

  • Support creation of state templates, cats when needed. Once the dust settles from that sort, re-evaluate for possible federal types. Her Pegship (speak) 18:17, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pegship: Would you suggest leaving all state-based federal election stubs (like the 2 mentioned above) in the general stub category, or sorting them into the individual states' new categories? --DannyS712 (talk) 20:46, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Currently the stub categories named "(State) election stubs" contain stubs about every kind of election held in that state, including local, statewide, and federal. I suggest we continue to sort all U.S. election stubs into individual state election stub categories and then see which states need a further breakdown by federal election. Am I making any sense?? Her Pegship (speak) 21:20, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pegship: Yeah, that makes sense. I would propose sorting them into states, and then perhaps later reevaluating whether they should be in general federal election categories instead of state level categories. But, that can be a discussion for later --DannyS712 (talk) 21:52, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
As I understand it, the only election that is truly federal is that for the President - and that ain't never gonna be no stub, no sirree. All other elections to a Federal body (the Senate, and the House) are restricted to the electorate of a single state or a subdivision thereof. So the first breakdown should be by state. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:54, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment it looks like several categories were created in the last month that have fewer than 60 articles. Delaware, for example. -Furicorn (talk) 03:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
There are still 680 articles in the parent category; I suggest we wait a bit and see if more sorting ensues. Her Pegship (speak) 15:06, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pegship and Furicorn: I am still working to sort these stubs. Once I am done, if there are any categories which are too small, we should discuss eliminating them/combining them. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:05, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@DannyS712 and Pegship: I went ahead and used petscan to do a couple analyses:
I think it's fine to make the upmerged templates, I'm just pointing out that maybe some of the categories don't need to be made. -Furicorn (talk) 07:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@Pegship: I was thinking about it and maybe the next step would be setting up regional categories? I'm thinking of something like what exists for the NRHP stubs, but unless there's a standard way to regionalize I'm pretty neutral about how we do it. -Furicorn (talk) 19:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
I think the standard would be to follow the regional sub-cats at Category:United_States geography stubs, if you want a suggestion. Her Pegship (speak) 21:24, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
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Quantum computing stubs

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The result of the debate was do not create.
As of October 2018, quantum information science is receiving a lot of attention. I've noticed and contributed to a lot of stub articles about it, and I think it would be beneficial to create the stub category since many topics don't clearly fall into either quantum mechanics stubs or computer science stubs. --Daviddwd (talk) 17:21, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

  • There are 162 articles in this category, and several sub-cats as well, but I'm not finding anything close to 60 articles that are tagged as stubs. (There are many which might qualify as stubs which are not tagged as such, but I am not even a lay person in this subject area, so sorting them is beyond me.) Can anyone else take a look at this cat/sub-cats and weigh in? Her Pegship (speak) 19:03, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
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