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Operation Stub Killer Update
Well almost a week into our first challenge to eliminate stubs we have mixed results. We actually increased the number of overall stubs we had from 742 to 774. However, we decreased the overall percentage of stubs down from being 75% of Wine related articles to 74%. Part of this is the growth that comes from discovering new wine related articles that already existed. Stub killing will obviously be an ongoing and constant battle. But we need everyone to chip in to kill off at least one stub per member. Unfortunately, we do have a hefty number of Wine Project members that are mostly inactive so if any of more active members can kill off 2 or 3 more that would be great.
How do you kill off a stub?
- The BEST way is to improve the article, add a section or two with a few references to bring it up to at least Start class
- Some items listed at stub may not be stubs at all and just need to be reassessed.
- Some stubs are about minor wine related items and could be better served by being merged into a bigger article. As a general rule of thumb, if you don't think there is more than a paragraph's worth of info that could be written about the subject-it will better served into a bigger article that covers that scope. Ex: There are several merge candidates to go into wine accessory. Just be sure to redirect the article title to the bigger article and delete the {{wine}} tag from the talk page.
- Some stubs are advertisements or about non-notable items. These items can be WP:PROD and later deleted.
Now let's kill some stubs! AgneCheese/Wine 19:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well, at least there are no stubs lefts in the articles tagged as top-level imp. That's a good start. Charleenmerced Talk 18:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
- I was thinking Agne, maybe we are going about this all wrong. Maybe we should see how many new Start (or other class articles) there are instead of JUST counting the Stubs. I have no idea how to check the difference in numbers though. But, I think there are quite a few more Start articles and that this shows a lot of improvement. Charleenmerced Talk 17:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
- And a lot more encouraging ;-). I just created a couple of articles, all stubs (seriously no more info) and all I could think was, well, this so increases the number of stubs. ;-0 --Charleenmerced Talk 13:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
This article is a WID nominee and I'm wondering if there is merit to merging the smaller "sparkling style" articles like Spumante, Frizzante, Crémant, Cap Classique, and Sekt into it. A significant advantage would be that it would reduce redundancy and duplication between the main sparkling wine article and the smaller stub articles (which may not grow out of their stub states). I encountered a similar situation when I was working on the Late harvest wine where I felt like I was just repeating some of the same info from the main articles talking about the various styles. Any thoughts? AgneCheese/Wine 07:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea to me. Each article could be merged into its own section in the sparkling wine article, and then you could redirect the articles to that section. ◄scharks► 07:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Picture requests
Does anyone have or can get any pictures for this articles? Charleenmerced Talk 19:45, 24 March 2007
- As a side note I've added a photo request parameter to the {{wine}} template. To request a photo add "
needs-photo=yes" to template on the talk page. These articles are then added to Category:Wine articles needing photos. ◄scharks► 02:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- That's great, thanks Scharks. Charleenmerced Talk 02:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced