Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
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This is a list of stub categories and templates. When you add a particular stub template to the very end of a stub article, that article is added to the template's related category and a stub message describing the category the stub belongs to appears in the saved, rendered stub article text, in the format:
This list is maintained and regularly updated by WikiProject Stub sorting (WP:WSS), the stub-sorting WikiProject, with the purpose of keeping a list of templates and categories the project approves, and so users can find the best-fitting stub template(s) for each stub article.
Note: Please do not add any other material here, as it will be removed.
Notes
Note to editors creating stub types
If you are creating a stub template and/or category which has been approved at the Stub sorting Project, please remember to update the corresponding stub type list on this page.
Note to administrators deleting stub types
It is very important that when you delete a stub type, that you also remove it from the stub type list on this page. This is essential not only for maintaining consistency, but also to prevent confusion among stub-sorters.
Please ensure that no red links are left on this page, as they can lead to unnecessary deletions. In cases where a stub category falls significantly below the threshold of 60 stubs (typically around 50), well-formed stub templates on the list should be upmerged into appropriate parent categories rather than being deleted or redirected.
An important note on stub icons
Sizes of stub categories
Maintenance note: reminder to all editors that the maximum section depth is 6 (WP:MAXLEVEL). Because all category pages are embedded in the WP:All stub types page, they should begin at level 3 (i.e.
“Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types” enters the record as wikimedia project page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wikipedia, WikiProject and Stub can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wikipedia, WikiProject and Stub provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6582241. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.