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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

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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"

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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, August 2026

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

NEW PROPOSALS

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Note to stub creators:

Eupithecia stubs sub-cats

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For Eupithecia stubs

Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:43, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Prehistoric gastropod stubs

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For Prehistoric mollusc stubs.

Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:10, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Sport shooting biography stubs

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Another category with subcats without templates, I therefore propose the following:

Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

table tennis biography stubs

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Another category with subcats without templates, I therefore propose the following:

Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Taekwondo biography stubs

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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)reply

Religious building and structure stubs

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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)reply

speedy

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This months found speedies.

Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Cricket umpire stubs

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Now over 600 articles I propose the following splits:

Waacstats (talk) 21:24, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Platyptiliini stubs

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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)reply

Lääne-Viru County geography stubs

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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)reply

Tartu County geography stubs

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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)reply

Swallow Tail butterfly stubs

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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)reply

Ellsworth Land geography stubs

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For Ellsworth Land geography stubs:

plits the category into two nicely. Waacstats (talk) 21:29, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Nervous system drug sub-stubs (header by Opal)

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For Nervous system drug stubs

Eros Adelaide (talk) 19:48, 22 August 2026 (UTC)reply

@Eros Adelaide support; looks good to me! I added a header so the proposal doesn't get lost, if that makes sense - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat02:06, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Looks liike a good split of an area in dire need of help. Waacstats (talk) 21:26, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply
My only reservation is the template form for experimental psych drug stubs - should "experimental" be spelled out? Her Pegship (?) 15:50, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply
That's a good call, I'll switch it to the full word since there doesn't seem to be a standardized abbreviation. Eros Adelaide (talk) 18:02, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Cetoniinae sub-stub

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Pterolophia stubs

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Melolonthini stubs

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1920s American silent drama film stubs

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Mississippi ghost towns

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Cricket umpire stubs

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Galerucinae stubs

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speedy

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Stenomatinae sub-stubs

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Zeuzerinae sub-stub

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Epermenioidea sub-stub

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Choreutidae sub-stub

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Zygaenoidea sub-stubs

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Proposals, July 2026

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Dolichopodidae sub-stubs

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More Melolonthinae sub-stubs

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Even more Sericoidinae stubs

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Scientist stubs

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Cicadidae stubs

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Eumolpinae stubs

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Notodontidae stubs

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Split of football bios

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missing footy bios

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Speedy

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Calpinae stubs

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2020s South Korean film stubs

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Proposals, June 2026

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Angola geography sub-stubs

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Football managers

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Galerucinae stubs

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Crambinae stubs

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Speedy

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EU Stubs

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Bees stubs

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Split of Megachile stubs

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Apinae stubs

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Split of football referees

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Songwriter stubs

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A few speedies

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Khulna Division geography sub-stubs

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Proposals, May 2026

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Speedy: French regional train station stub categories

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Referee stubs

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Magazine stubs

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Sculptor stubs

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Painter stubs

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Poet

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Melolonthinae stubs

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Sports teams

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Speedies

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A slightly awkward one

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More speedies

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Speedy

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Cryptocephalinae sub-stubs

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Proposals, April 2026

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Uzbekistan geography stubs rearrangement

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Curculionidae sub-stubs

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Another day, another speedy

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Baseball bios

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Islamabad geos

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Speedy

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North West England railway station stubs

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Speedies

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Even more Cassidinae sub-stubs!

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Swallowtail butterfly sub-stub

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Terebra stubs

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Dorcadion stubs

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Central Bosnia Canton geography sub-stubs

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European classical musician stubs

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Splits of magazine stubs

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Horse racing bios

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Equestrian biography stubs

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Tidy up Roman Catholic churches

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Split of United States manufacturing company stubs

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Germany manufacturing company stubs

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Silent films

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South American bridges

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Syntomini sub-stub

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Oligodon stubs

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