Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early/20050715 LukeSurl

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Asteroids are rather dull things. There are also rather a lot of them. Wikipedia has a lot of articles like 315 Constantia which have quite extensive numerical data on orbits and the like but are also stubs.

If the idea is that stubs are an invite to expand an article with relevent information then the stubs here are no longer valid as all the relavent information is in the table (theres not a lot you can say about your average asteroid).

There are many asteroid stubs like this to manually remove the stub labels so I believe it prudent that a bot should be created to remove the stub label from all articles in Category:Asteroids and subcategories which contain the "minor planet" table.LukeSurl 18:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Status

• Cleanup completed, ticket closed
• Cleanup project uploaded to WikiProject help desk/cleanup/20050715 LukeSurl
• Triddle has created a list of possible stubs and is going to go through the list manually
• Triddle is currently researching this case.

Comments

This did not go as expected. My notes as copied from the cleanup project:

This is a list of each asteroid article with an asteroid stub tag on it. I am going off the presence of the standard Wikiproject table on the left hand side as a general indicator of stubness. However if there is minimal descriptive text I am leaving the stub tag in tact. For instance: stub - not a stub - not a stub. Scratch that. not a stub; anything much less than that, or if it is missing the table, is still a stub. I had no idea so much could be said about an asteroid.