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for country names are generally regarded as inappropriate, since geography stub templates can refer to either countries or regions (many of which share two letter abbreviations – Gabon and the US state of
Georgia both use GA, for example) and non-geography stubs can refer to things other than country
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major components are entirely lower-case (and, as shown, are separated from other components with hyphens.) Many of them are abbreviated, to avoid having to use long words like "geography" in thousands of stub templates, at the expense of some clarity — of current stub topics, the most ambiguous are
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There are, of course, some exceptions to these conventions, and some stub templates and categories that do not follow them. Some of these are due to the stub template being made by someone from outside the WP:WSS project, and these may be changed over at some stage to conform with these conventions.
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subdivisional components, are formed by subdividing a subdivisional stub sorting topic into smaller, more specific, child subtopics of the original topics, most often by location. Thus, the majority of compound stubs are formed by a combination of a geographical location subdivisional topic and one
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Abbreviations are acceptable in the names of subdivisional components, since the templates are for the benefit of editors, not readers, and the template names do not appear on-screen in articles. Abbreviations can help in keeping the length of compound stubs to a minimum.
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If a country has a two-word name, then occasionally this name will be written in full and concatenated (e.g., HongKong-stub). The parts of the name are not separated by a stub or hyphen (so the stub names "Hong-Kong-stub" and "Hong Kong-stub" are never used).
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Some places share their names with other places. In these cases, it is usual to add the ISO two letter code to the end of a place name on stub temp[lates, to distinguish it from similarly named places elsewhere. Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of examples:
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Stub categories, where possible, should generally agree in name with their permanent (i.e., non-stub) equivalents. As this is not always possible and might lead to cumbersome category names, the following rule of thumb is generally used:
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Regardless, a standardized format should be used for the major component, and a (different) standardized format for the subdivisional component(s) if any, along with the fixed-format stub component. These formats are as listed below:
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From the above lists and from the actual names of countries (not listed here) a large number of potential stub categories can be created which fit into standardized and rather predictable patterns. A few examples should demonstrate:
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Subdivision of existing categories is most commonly done by location, either by country or region. With most countries and regions, the common name of the area is used as the geographical component. Stubs about
Argentina receive
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which has been split, with a specific subdivisional component (and sometimes with other major components), to make the new child topic. Major components are used to create the most general high-level stub templates, such as
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The following is a possibly incomplete list of the abbreviations, acronyms or alternatives currently in use. Note that those cases in italics may soon be deprecated, replaced by more acceptable alternatives:
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Stub template names with three parts (xx-xx-stub) or more are normally used only when an existing
Knowledge (XXG) article category is divided into subcategories e.g., dividing biography stubs by nationality).
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Redirects are used far less frequently with stub templates, but still exist. Redirects follow the same guidelines as the templates they redirect to, and because the naming guidelines are fairly
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Subdivisional components use lower-case letters, except that proper nouns such as the names of people or places and acronyms are capitalized as they would be normally, as in
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while cleaning up stub organization. The following is a list of the most important conventions to take into consideration when naming a stub template and its stub category.
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that split up the high-level, very general topics into more specific ones. Subdivisional component mostly correspond to specific
Knowledge (XXG) article categories.
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component, in that order. Note that noun forms are used in templates rather than adjectival forms. When the name has three or more parts (xx-xx-stub, etc.),
588:; the latter type should be avoided, by running words together, as in EXAMPLE HERE, since this allows creation of shorter compound stubs, e.g. EXAMPLE HERE.
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is actively pursuing the renaming of some of these stubs and stub categories, although many of them "work well enough" that this may not be necessary.
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probably bio-stub (biography, not biology) and geo-stub (geography, not geology) — but their number is limited so this is not seen as problematic.
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Capital letters should be used where (and only where) they are normally used – i.e., for proper nouns like personal or place names.
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For this reason, names like football-stub (which could refer to any of several sports) are not appropriate. Similarly,
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These are only conventions, and may have exceptions where warranted, but the fewer exceptions there are, the better.
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Where a place name is part of the stub, this name is normally (but not always) written in full (exceptions are
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Some places with complicated names are partially abbreviated for stub templates. These include the following:
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The subdivision component is used to create fairly high-level (and mostly geographical)
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1200:(American rail transport biographies) — an example of a five-component compound stub
906:. Note that as with other templates, the first character is not case-sensitive, so
634:) further subdivide, additional disambiguating major components may be added, as in
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GeorgiaUS – The U.S. state of
Georgia, not the independent nation in the Caucasus
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stub templates should have names ending in "-stub". Please note that there is a
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components (or no subdivisional but just two or more major components), and the
1293:"Category: Bars of Foo" or "Category: Bars in Foo" → "Category: Foo bar stubs"
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not spaces are used between all sections. This usually happens in two cases:
1188:(Japanese sports biographies) — an example of a four-component compound stub
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1212:(history of science) — an example of an all-major-component compound stub
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CanterburyNZ – Canterbury Region in New
Zealand, not the city in England
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Australian state of Victoria, not the city in Canada
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1225:, there is less opportunity for properly named redirects to exist.
1274:. All new categories should avoid the use of the term "-related".
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The general form of stub category names is "Noun stubs" (e.g.,
630:. As topics (which usually but not universally coincide with
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1287:"Category: Foo" or "Category: Foos" → "Category: Foo stubs";
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not space before the word "stub", and that it is entirely
1290:"Category: Fooian bars" → "Category: Fooian bar stubs";
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to names which more closely follow these conventions.
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to its creation and placement in articles or tables.
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Taiwan – Republic of China (Taiwan, Chinese Taipei)
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Ambiguous abbreviations should be avoided, however.
1126:PunjabIN – Punjab in India, not Punjab in Pakistan
66:Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals
1266:At one time, stub categories often used the form
1100:TAAF – French Southern and Antarctic Territories
809:-rail-transport- (rail transport/transportation)
461:Very high-level stubs are formed by combining a
1094:SaintVincent – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1106:USVirginIslands – United States Virgin Islands
377:For a full list of stub types in use, see the
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973:Current abbreviated subdivisional components
846:, and to combine with major stubs to create
592:Compound stubs, which make use of the major
60:To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts,
1088:BosniaHerzegovina – Bosnia and Herzegovina
408:Stub category names should be in the form
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1242:). The format "Adjectival stubs" (e.g.,
802:We also have a few with disambiguators:
18:Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Stub sorting
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1097:SaoTomePrincipe – São Tome and Principé
1085:BIOT – British Indian Ocean Territories
786:-transport- (transport/transportation)
1056:BritOT – British overseas territories
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806:-bridge-struct- (bridge (structure))
36:Before proposing or creating a new
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501:, respectively). Most stubs are
780:-struct- (building or structure)
774:-school- (non-university school)
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62:please discuss any new stub type
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505:stubs, formed by combining one
426:Category:Politics-related stubs
1268:Category:Subject-related stubs
1103:Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago
418:Category:England-related stubs
360:stub deletion/merging/renaming
42:How to propose a new stub type
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1082:Antigua – Antigua and Barbuda
753:-noble- (nobility or royalty)
1091:Marshalls – Marshall Islands
864:, those about India receive
1005:CentralAm – Central America
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1195:US-rail-transport-bio-stub
896:(note "de" not "De"), and
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1262:Deprecation of "-related"
1244:Category:Historical stubs
1074:Places with complex names
994:AfricaS – Southern Africa
792:-university- (university)
783:-theat- (theater/theatre)
765:-politician- (politician)
759:-party- (political party)
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985:AfricaC – Central Africa
795:-videogame- (video game)
691:Knowledge (XXG) article
430:Category:Political stubs
369:WikiProject Stub sorting
109:WikiProject Stub sorting
1217:Stub template redirects
1176:(South American actors)
1033:SEAsia – Southeast Asia
1008:SouthAm – South America
414:Category:Politics stubs
1272:Category:Subject stubs
1240:Category:History stubs
991:AfricaN – North Africa
723:-bcast- (broadcasting)
422:Category:English stubs
410:Category:England stubs
162:Stub types (full list)
64:you wish to create at
1111:Ambiguous place names
997:AfricaW – West Africa
988:AfricaE – East Africa
145:Stub types (sections)
1183:Japan-sport-bio-stub
1164:(Mexican television)
1047:UK – United Kingdom
1024:CAsia – Central Asia
891:IledeFrance-geo-stub
756:-org- (organization)
639:India-sport-bio-stub
225:Knowledge (XXG):Stub
1152:(Canadian politics)
1044:EU – European Union
1027:MEast – Middle East
1014:NYC – New York City
1011:US – United States
1171:SouthAm-actor-stub
1053:– Northern Ireland
1030:SAsia – South Asia
750:-myth- (mythology)
744:-gov- (government)
732:-compu- (computer)
605:Australia-bio-stub
473:component and the
364:new stub proposals
213:Redirects category
196:Naming conventions
798:-writer- (writer)
789:-tv- (television)
768:-reli- (religion)
762:-poli- (politics)
741:-geo- (geography)
735:-edu- (education)
726:-bio- (biography)
583:opera-singer-stub
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717:-actor- (actor)
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38:type of stub
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547:France-stub
477:component (
236:Discussion
1301:Exceptions
1001:Americas:
969:families.
921:japan-stub
911:Japan-stub
869:India-stub
831:China-stub
669:lower-case
632:categories
465:component
452:Components
273:Discussion
1062:Oceania:
818:component
683:component
656:component
496:hist-stub
366:, and by
242:Proposals
96:WP:WSS/NC
89:WP:WSS/NG
81:Shortcuts
1317:Category
1040:Europe:
981:Africa:
701:bio-stub
693:category
673:singular
557:geo-stub
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