Category talk:American people stubs

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[edit] Not enough subcategories

Isn't it obvious there are not enough subdivisions for such a broad & over-populated area? I come here repeatedly checking for a deeper sort, and go away w/o sorting the stub further bcz i don't want to learn how to create sub-stubs and don't feel clear i've doped out the right degree of refinement even if i had learned. I may just start adding rd-lk sub tags & putting What-lks-here links for them on Category:American people stubs, as the most practical means for on the long term getting proper stub tags into the stubs.
--Jerzy•t 18:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Please don't do that, I am going to begin a regex for specific key words. This will remove articles that belong elsewhere by the fastest way possible. Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I have found over 300 articles that go into musician stubs. More to come!!! (in a week from this post)Eagle (talk) (desk) 17:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Very good work on this, Eagle. You've found so many I'm already re-splitting the category! I agree with both of you; it urgently needs more categories, but making redlinks isn't a good idea; they're as likely to be "fixed" back to what they were, as for anyone to notice and think to create the category. Best way is to go to WP:WSS/P, where you'll hopefully find help with the technicalities of creating the templates and categories (or get someone else to do it), and such like. (I've proposed both US-artist-stub and US-sportsbio-stub recently for example.) Alai 05:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regex

Beginning with...

  • Actor (incomplete)Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I am searching for instances of the word "actor" or "Actor".
ABORTED due to large number of musicians found.
  • Musician(complete)Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:36, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I am searching for, "songwriter","singer","bandleader","composer","dancer","musician","conductor"
MAY also remove the US-bio-stub tag from articles that have other stubs, as some articles I am incountering already have 2 or 3 stubs.
IN ADDITION Long articles (over 4000 charecters will be removed rather than passed on as a stub to the Musician stub category.
  • (incomplete)Articles that already have 2 or more stub categories other than this. In that case I will remove them from this category. (As of now this category is so full as to be of little use)Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Changing methods, Going though each and removing those I know fit into ANY sub category. NO REGEX.Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current number of articles in category

According to Auto Wiki Browser

  • 3859 articles Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • 3742 articles Eagle (talk) (desk) 05:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Over 100 US-musician articles moved to the proper category. The best part...? I'm not even half-way through this category. I still have 2000 articles to regex through!!!!
  • 3643 articles Eagle (talk) (desk) 06:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Still 1200 more artices in this category to regex through!!!!! Will get to them in one or two days.Eagle (talk) (desk) 06:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • 3529 articles Eagle (talk) (desk) 17:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • 3527 articles Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American/United States mix?

Why does this category have subcats with such a mix of titles that begin with either American or United States? Can't we decide to use one term or the other here? --Ohms law 17:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)