Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/2019/October
Proposals, October 2019
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NEW PROPOSALS
silent-film-stub
{{silent-film-stub}} already in use by many of the old films, some are narrowed down to child cats and some aren't. Do with it what you will. — Ched (talk) 19:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- Note: Oh, and it's not listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types or Film stubs by genre — Ched (talk) 19:58, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Ched: Why have you posted this here? What is it that you wish to propose? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:01, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: - To be honest, I'm not sure Redrose. I was adding some stubs to articles, and couldn't find the {{silent-film-stub}} listed anywhere, but I noticed it was being used on a lot of the 1920 - 1927 old films. It seems to me that it should be listed somewhere. I thought at first I'd just add it to the "Film stubs by genre" cat - but to edit the page, I get:
- @Ched: Why have you posted this here? What is it that you wish to propose? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:01, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- {{WPSS-cat}}
- {{Parent-only stub category
- |article=[[Film]]|newstub=|category=Films by genre}}
- [[Category:Film stubs| Film stubs by genre]]
and I just wasn't sure what to do. Soooo - I did this 'request' things, and figured I'd watch and learn if someone came by and did something. Even more confusing (to me) is that it breaks down ever further to things like {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub}}. I didn't think we should just make stuff up as we went along - so I did this. Any info would be appreciated. (just leave everything the way it is?) — Ched (talk) 20:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- Ahhh - I walked away and came back, then realized I hadn't checked the Category:Film stubs pages. You can delete this if you want. If you don't then I will tomorrow. Although I'm still a bit confused by: [[Category:Film stubs| Film stubs by genre]] since they seem to be 2 different pages. Ugh - topic is way over-bloated IMO. — Ched (talk) 23:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- A few points:
- The line you quoted simply means that Category:Film stubs by genre is placed in the parent category Category:Film stubs, sorted by the term " Film stubs by genre" with a space before its name. It's just to list similar subcategories within Category:Film stubs together.
- Since the article on silent film is categorised in Category:Film genres, perhaps Category:Silent film stubs should be a subcategory of Category:Film stubs by genre rather than Category:Film stubs as well. Thoughts?
- The initial post does bring up another issue in that Category:Silent film stubs has over 1700 pages in it. It's already got a few subcats on its own, but there's certainly room for more. For starters, I propose creating Category:1920s silent film stubs / {{1920s-silent-film-stub}}. Petscan shows over 1000 potential articles that aren't already in Category:1920s film stubs or its subcats (which can also be subcats of the proposed category). Both the current and new categories would still be quite large, but it does make further subcategorisation a bit easier.
- Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 01:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- A few points: