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Proposals, March 2023

Amara (genus)

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The result of the debate was create upmerged Amara-stub template.
Stub for "Amara (genus)". It's a genus of beetles. There are between 60 and 70 stub articles, listed in three stub categories (only one of those categories is actually correct, and I plan to move the others--but I'd like to set up their own category). There could potentially be many more, since the genus does include over 600 species. NB: I propose naming the stub category "Amara (genus)" even though "Amara (beetle)" would normally be preferred, because the non-stub category for the genus is called "Amara (genus)." Uporządnicki (talk) 16:50, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

There are over 200 sub-categories under Category:Beetle stubs, many of them are for individual genera although quite a few are for families or other clades, so there is plenty of precedent. I don't see why the proposed stub category couldn't be called Category:Amara stubs, although I don't think that the category should be created until you can show that there are sufficient stub articles - Category:Amara (genus) presently has 80 members, and they're not all stubs. Start off with a stub template, called {{Amara-stub}} upmerged to Category:Pterostichinae stubs, apply this template to all appropriate stub articles, and when there are 60+ uses, create the corresponding category. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:02, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

I did say, between 60 and 70 STUB articles. They're scattered over 3 stub categories, and it was only those I counted. One category is currently correct (my proposed stub category would be a subcategory to that one). The second is the parent stub category to the first. The third is another stub subcategory--incorrect--to that parent stub category. Uporządnicki (talk) 18:39, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Plantdrew moved the article to Amara (beetle). Uporządnicki (talk) 18:45, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Please always link the names of pages (including categories) that you want us to look at, don't make us waste time guessing. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:21, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Mea culpa! Doing all this in odd moments between what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing! I'll try to do better. Uporządnicki (talk) 19:43, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

I've requested that the category for the genus be moved to "Amara (beetle)". Plantdrew (talk) 19:55, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

@Redrose64 (talk · contribs) What are those cl and tlx things you used earlier in this thread? Uporządnicki (talk) 20:38, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Templates that are used to link categories and templates respectively, without invoking them. See Template:Cl and Template:Tlx. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:21, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Tangential to this proposal, there's a big list of possible beetle templates proposed and approved at the 2011 archive which were never created. Are these still viable, and would they help with the size of the parent cat? Her Pegship (?) 15:07, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

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Library organization(?) stubs

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The result of the debate was created.
I propose a stub type for libraries that refers to library entities - systems, consortia, etc. There are 506 articles in Category:Library and information science stubs, many of which don't refer to a concept in library and information science, and which don't refer to a specific building or structure. PetScan shows 65 articles that can use such a stub type. Her Pegship (?) 23:24, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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