k:Can people try to add the entries they post here to the bottom of the main list on the main contest page too in the style given there, for the master list? It's just it's taking quite a while to do them all myself and judge the articles too! Thanks!
This is the main entry page for the Destubathon. All entries are to be submitted here between 0:00 UTC+0 on 15th October and 23:59 UTC+0 on 27th November. If the page gets too large though we'll find a way to address that as the contest proceeds. Remember before submitting entries that there should be no unsourced claims and that it's readable prose which counts, not overall article kb size, exclude references, infoboxes and tables when measuring and just copy the text on the screen and measure it! I've put up a tool in the Measuring tool section which you can all program in to make it easier to measure on that so look out for it and program it! Remember too that it is whoever wins the most destubs for the most countries who will be crowned the contest winner, but there are larger prizes for other aspects like independent Good Article work too. Best of luck and happy editing!
Geography stubs can be found in Category:Africa geography stubs and sub categories by country. Wildlife (or fauna) stub-lists have been prepared for a number of countries, but for the remainder finding wildlife stubs is a little trickier given that many are found in multiple countries and they aren't stub categorized by country, but there are so many stubs that finding one shouldn't be too difficult. Category:Fauna of Africa by region and Category:Flora of Africa by region subcategories and finding specific African nations from Category:Endemic fauna by country and Category:Endemic flora by country should be a good place to start and find articles. The idea is that you can find any stub and improve it, and then elect one country for it to represent, even if found in a dozen or more countries. As long as the article states that that it is found in that country or categorized as such.
This is a Destubathon, so missing articles in general are not permitted, so as to retain a focus on fleshing out existing entries. However, a number of African countries have very few women bio stubs in relation to men. The amount of women bios is often shockingly low, well under 10%, so it would affect the contest for countries which have less than half a dozen. As a result new minimum 1.5 kb readable prose entries for women biographies and topics will be permitted. No stubs though please, as the goal of this is reducing them overall! You can view a missing list of African women bios here.
If interested in working on women articles for this though, try to work on both destubbing existing articles and creating missing articles if you can, as it is a destubbing contest after all and the goal is to reduce the overall stub count by the end!
If you're not entering the contest or feel like creating some new articles on anything you want other than women bios, those will be permitted on the list at the bottom of the main page, but not on this page and won't count towards the contest credits. But some editors might spot some really notable missing articles and feel like contributing. Try to ensure that no new stubs are created though, as this is a Desubathon after all! Only start class entries over 1.5 kb.
You can check your entries using this tool before submitting here. The article readable prose, excluding sources and lists will have to be strictly minimum 1.5 kb (1500 bytes) to comply with the contest. Stubs expanded and new articles for women must all be minimum that once you've finished the article.
What would make it easier on this is if everybody programs their common.js in their preferences to contain:
Go into your preferences, click on the "Appearances" tab
Where it says "Shared CSS/JavaScript for all skins:", click "custom javascript
Paste the command given above into that and save.
Now approach an article and look in the tools section on the left. You should see "Page size". Click that for each article and you'll quickly get a reading without having to paste text all of the time and look externally.
Look out for where it says, for example: "Prose size (text only): 1684 B (289 words) "readable prose size" ". That's what we're looking for on this, that has to read over 1500 B when finished.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Lesotho stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Liberia stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Libya stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Education in Libya (diff): Added history section, expanded from 1435 to 4861 chars
@Cincotta1: the article looks OK but the idea is that when you've done there are no tags at the top and you take care of updating it at the same time. Can you update it a bit and remove the tag?♦ Dr. Blofeld08:56, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I updated what I could find and expanded post gadaffi history section. But I could not find replacements for most of the statistics provided in the brief overview section. Should I remove this entry into the contest? It's OK though the tag not ideal. If no sources exisat to update though I'd remove the tag as it's pointless.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC) Y OK Cincotta1!♦ Dr. Blofeld07:54, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Government of National Accord (diff): expanded with structure of GNA under the political agreement, historical background from failure of GNC to creation of GNA, expanded from 1212 to 6439 chars
Saharan striped polecat destubbed to 2065 B (350 words) "readable prose size" was 1547 B (257 words) "readable prose size", referenced with citations but still marked as a stub Y
Tarentola mindiae destubbed to 1758 B (309 words) "readable prose size"Y
Provinces of Libya destubbed to 2149 B (332 words) "readable prose size" was over 1500B but lacked citationsY
Nalut destubbed to 1590 B (271 words) "readable prose size" mid importance article and core stub.Y
Crete and Cyrenaica destubbed to 1556 B (258 words) "readable prose size"Y as long as it's all verifiable in ref 2.
North African ostrich destubbed to 4329 B (699 words) "readable prose size", was already over 1500 B but still has stub tag and needed citations. Subject currently extinct in Libya.Y
Libu destubbed to 1651 B (286 words) "readable prose size" but mainly through finding sources and citations Y
Senegalia laeta destubbed to 2535 B (428 words) "readable prose size"Y
HMS Greetham destubbed to 1588 B (288 words) "readable prose size" (was already over 1500 B but marked as a stub)Y
Balanites aegyptiaca destubbed to 4265 B (710 words) "readable prose size" was not a stub but on list as one, had one unfinished, unreferenced sentence now removed. -problems with refs 1, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 12 Quetzal1964♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:24, 27 November 2016 (UTC) Dr. Blofeld I have fixed those except that the Famine Food one which is live but gets a url error I can't see how to fix. I thought this destub was going to be a quick and easy! Quetzal1964 14:51, 27 November 2016 (UTC)Y[reply]
Cinyps, Libya destubbed to 1527 B (287 words) "readable prose size"Y
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Madagascar stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Andohahela National Park (core stub) – destubbed from 1476 to 2487 bytes; references added; removed unreferenced text; removed raw references; removed bare url; removed stub tagsY
Tsimanampetsotsa National Park (core stub) – destubbed from 1613 to 2492 bytes; references added, removed unreferenced text, removed raw references, removed stub tagsY
torotoroka scops owl destubbed to 1606 B (265 words) "readable prose size", should be combined with rainforest scops owl under Madgascar scops owl (on to do list) Y
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Malawi stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Yvonne Mhango - destubbing by Fsmatovu. Expanded from 891 bytes to 1572 bytes. Difference: 681 bytes of readable prose. Reclassified article's talk-page. Y
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Mali stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Mauritania stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Mauritius stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
It'll have to be removed to count as it's OR.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC) I have removed the OR and replaced the character count and diff in my entry here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:21, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Y It is often a pity to have to remove content which seems legitimate, but that problem is common to many older articles which need sourcing improvements. All content needs to be sourced and verifiable.♦ Dr. Blofeld10:28, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Morocco stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Taounate (destubbed core stub from 242 to 1535 bytes on 22nd October)Y Really delighted to see these articles being improved, I've long known about them needing improvement as I've worked a lot on Morocco and promoted Marrakesh a few years back.♦ Dr. Blofeld07:59, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the 2016 article to the main page as an article improvement but won't count for the contest. It would help if you could also post your entries on the main page, save me some time in trying to monitor this!♦ Dr. Blofeld11:45, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Mozambique stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Panda DistrictY Again it's really great to see you working on these, Mozambique is one of the "emptiest" countries in terms of information on its admin divisions and settlements.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Namibia stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Christ Church, Windhoek (diff, 1525 characters) @StAnselm: can you source " It was built in the Gothic revival style with Art Nouveau elements, and stands in the historic center of Windhoek. Its 24 m high spire was made, like the rest of the church, out of quartz sandstone mined at Guche-Ganus Farm in the vicinity of present Avis Dam. The portal and the altar were made of marble from Italy." and the last sentence?♦ Dr. Blofeld07:51, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Niger stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Nigeria stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
@Redolta: It needs a lot more sourcing yup, and it's not elligible for entry here as it wasn't a stub. But it certainly will be credited on the main article list.♦ Dr. Blofeld14:29, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Dr. Blofeld: Are you sure about that? The talk page says it's rated Stub-Class...
@Redolta: Hehe, that was a howler, should never have been rated stub. But contest rules means any article rated stub or tagged must be considered as such so you're right, this applies ;-). But try to source it and remove anything which can't be sourced. It has to be fully sourced to count. It's a very worthy article!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
@Redolta: It needs citations were tagged. Best to remove anything which you can't source.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:29, 21 October 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: Ok, thanks for the advice! ;) Redolta📱Contribs12:40, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sophia Omotola Omidiji[59] 2093 to 1579 characters (there was a whole section duplicated, plus some uncited information - I did a general tidy, fixed the citations and added a new source) Y
Chinwendu Ihezuo 421 B (72 words) "readable prose size" -> 4249 B (767 words) "readable prose size". Article nominated for deletion citing lack of notability. Built up article with sources to establish additional notability.
"the last of eight children of Vincent Ihezuo and Patricia Ihezuo" will need sourcing and it'll have to be kept before I can approve of course!♦ Dr. Blofeld11:54, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nigeria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics -> 1578 B (239 words) "readable prose size" to 5283 B (836 words) "readable prose size". Article listed as stub. Little work done on post Games news, almost all info pre-existed start of Games. Only tables were really added.Y
Nigeria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics -> Prose size (text only): 110 B (18 words) "readable prose size" to 3930 B (628 words) "readable prose size". Includes some reuse of text from 2016 article as same general concepts apply.Y
Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Paralympics -> 157 B (26 words) "readable prose size" to 5469 B (940 words) "readable prose size". Includes some reuse of text from 2016 article as same general concepts apply.Y
Sara Forbes Bonettahere to here; article not much longer as changes cancelled each other out, but I added images, cleaned up text and cited references. Could be still expanded but definitely better now imho. Might like to take this to GA, but it needs a assessment
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Rwanda stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Louise Mushikiwabo, expanded from 594 to 3201 bytes (and maybe more if I have time!).[75]@Amakuru: Nice work, just need to fill out the bare url refs that's all and I'll approve! This works fore google books at least.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 19 October 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: I've done that, as you requested, all refs are now formatted. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 20:40, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Y[reply]
