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On this WikiProject Stub sorting subpage, you can propose new stub types (please read the procedures beforehand!), as well as the reorganization and subdivision of existing stub types. You can also discuss anything else related to stubs on the talk page.

Proposing new stub types – procedure

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Important: If you wish to propose the creation of a stub article you've come to the wrong place. If you don't have a username yourself, please go to WP:AFC for proposing a new article. If you already have a username, you can create the article yourself. If you don't know how, add {{Helpme}} to your user talk page to request help from other editors. This page only deals with stub templates and categories; we cannot help you with creating articles.

Proposing new stub types
If you wish to propose a new stub category and template, please follow these procedures:
  1. Check the List of stub types or under Category:Stub categories to make sure that your proposed new stub does not already exist.
  2. List it at the top of the current month's section, under a header, like the ones shown (if any). Sign it with a datestamp (~~~~).
    • Please bear in mind that a stub category isn't about the importance or notability of the topic!
  3. Find a good number[1] of stub articles, as many as you can, that will fit that template. You may use this tool to scan through categories; tagged stubs are always in Category:All stub articles and transclude {{asbox}}. Each of these articles can be:
    • currently marked with {{stub}};
    • currently marked with another type of stub tag (in which case you should justify why your tag is better for the article than the current one);
    • a stub whose categorisation is highly ambiguous or questionable;
    • not marked as a stub.
  4. If you use any category scan (from the tool mentioned above or from any other), please link to it so that other users can confirm that the results are still accurate.
  5. Others may do the same, if they so desire.
  6. 5 days after listing it here, if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and/or template following the format on Wikipedia:Stub. List the new stub type on the stub types list in an appropriate section. If consensus is not clear, or discussion is still ongoing, the proposal will remain open until consensus can be reached.
  7. If you wish to propose a stub type which does not currently have 60 articles that could use it, you may propose an upmerged template in a similar way. An upmerged template would feed into currently existing stub categories until such time that there are enough stubs for a separate stub category. At that point a category for it may be separately proposed. Some times, it may be difficult to be sure how many stubs would get a tag - in which case you can also start with an upmerged stub tag until you're sure there are enough.

DO NOT place a proposal here for any stub type which has already been created and is being discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. The proposal page is only for stub types that have not yet been created, and it is better to keep any discussion of such stub types in one place rather than splitting it between different pages. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion is the correct page for proposals to delete a stub type.

^ Good number means about 60 articles or more, or 30 or more if it is the primary stub type of a WikiProject, though this figure may vary from case to case.

"Speedy creation"

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A stub type may be proposed for "speedy creation" if it meets one of the following criteria:

  • S1 - the creation of a category for which an approved upmerged template already exists and is now in use on more than 60 articles.
  • S2 - the creation of an upmerged national-level template for a subject in which other such national-level templates currently exist (e.g., X-bio-stub, X-hist-stub, or X-geo-stub, where X is the name of an internationally widely recognised country) or other instances where a clearly established pattern of similar subtypes exists. The proposed topic may not be controversial in scope.

List speedy creation proposals in the same proposal listings as normal stub proposals below.

Proposals, October 2025

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Please check how many articles qualify for a stub type before proposing it.

NEW PROPOSALS

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Hymenobacter stubs

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I propose making Hymenobacter stubs ({{Hymenobacter-stub}}) for over 60 articles in Cytophagia stubs - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat01:23, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Myrmicinae sub-stub

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Myrmicinae stubs is pretty big; I propose the following split:

Potter wasp sub-stub

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Potter wasp stubs is pretty big; I propose the following sub-stub:

Cicindelidae sub-stubs

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Cicindelidae stubs is pretty big; I propose the following splits:

Lebiinae sub-stub

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Lebiinae stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following split:

Trechinae sub-stub

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Trechinae stubs is pretty beefy, and not in the good way. I propose the following split:

Platyninae sub-stub

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Platyninae stubs is pretty big; I propose the following split:

Staphyliniformia stubs

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This category/template, Staphyliniformia stubs ({{Staphyliniformia-stub}}) will contain Staphylinoidea stubs and 353 pages - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat23:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bostrichoidea sub-stubs

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Bostrichoidea stubs is a little big; I propose the following splits:

Elaphidiini sub-stub

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Elaphidiini stubs is pretty big; I propose the following:

Saperdini sub-stub

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Saperdini stubs is pretty beefy. I propose the following subcats/temps:

Onciderini sub-stub

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Onciderini stubs is pretty big. I propose:

Mesosini sub-stubs

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Mesosini stubs is pretty beefy, and not in the good way. I propose:

Agapanthiini sub-stubs

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Agapanthiini stubs is getting really big; I propose the following splits:

Barisal Division geography sub-stubs

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Barisal Division geography stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following subcats/temps:

Proposals, September 2025

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Cambodia geography sub-stubs

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Cambodia geography stubs is pretty big; I propose the following subcats/temps:

Mersin Province geography sub-stubs

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Mersin Province geography stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following splits:

South Korean railway station sub-stubs

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South Korean railway station stubs is pretty big; I propose the following subcategories/templates:

Support no issues here that i can see. Waacstats (talk)

Yorkshire and the Humber railway station sub-stub

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I propose the following as a subcat of Yorkshire and the Humber railway station stubs and Railway stations in Yorkshire:

Given the size of the split is it worth splitting this directly to North/South/West and East Riding? Waacstats (talk) 08:26, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not keen on having Yorkshire railway station stubs as a single sub-group because they make up the vast bulk of Yorkshire and the Humber railway station stubs: there are comparatively few that aren't in Yorkshire. The ones that would be left behind would comprise those in North Lincolnshire (20 stub articles out of 46) together with those in North East Lincolnshire (2 stub articles out of 36), which even taken together don't have many stations. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Italian railway station sub-stubs

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Italian railway station stubs is pretty big; I propose the following subcategories/templates:

Support the idea here but we normally go with the place name as you have above rather than a demonym. Waacstats (talk) 08:06, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So it would be Lombardy, Apulia, Lazio and Piedmont for the categories, too? - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat23:58, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gaziantep Province geography sub-stubs

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Gaziantep Province geography stubs is pretty big; I propose the following subcategories/templates:

Altered the Nizip district for you (missed space) other than that these look ok. Waacstats (talk) 07:59, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kastamonu Province geography sub-stubs

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Kastamonu Province geography stubs is looking pretty big; I propose the following subcats/temps:

Support these. Waacstats (talk) 08:03, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Castilla–La Mancha geography substubs

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Castilla–La Mancha geography stubs is pretty beefy; I propose the following subcats/temps:

Not seeing any issues on these. Waacstats (talk) 08:02, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Basque Country geography sub-stubs

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Basque Country geography stubs is pretty big; I propose the following splits:

Other than the Basque being a country rather than a county (I changed the category link) these look goods. Waacstats (talk) 08:01, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks :D - OpalYosutebitotalk』 『articles I want to eat15:10, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cassidinae stubs

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By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituency stubs

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Colorado, Louisiana and New Mexico

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Veneto geography stubs

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Bacteroidota stubs

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Kachin State geography stubs

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Cymbidieae stubs

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Italian film actors

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Hemilophini stubs

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Mississippi politician stubs

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Tineidae

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Speedies

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Bolu Province geography sub-stubs

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Aegean region geography sub-stub

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Afyonkarahisar Province geography sub-stubs

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Scythrididae sub-stub

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Xyloryctidae sub-stub

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Coleophoridae sub-stub

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River sub-stubs

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Lebanon geography sub-stubs

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15th-century English MP stubs

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Australia politician stubs

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Polish Sejm member stubs

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Speedies

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Split of Great Britain MP (1707–1800) for England stubs

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Split of South Australia geography stubs

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Split of Aasturias geogrpahy stubs

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Cycling race stubs

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Split of Prešov Region geography stubs

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Sport of athletics stubs

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Urmia_County_geography_stubs

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Speedy

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American physicist stubs

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Cassidinae stubs

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Galerucinae stubs

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Northern Ontario geography stubs

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Cologne S-Bahn stubs

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Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stubs should be split to match the split of the parent article (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) to Cologne S-Bahn.

In the alternative, station articles served by the Cologne S-Bahn and not the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn could be upmerged into North Rhine-Westphalia railway station stubs. Mackensen (talk) 01:39, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It doesnt look like there are enough articles for a category, I was going tosuggust we create the template and use that to upmerge to both categories, but I suppose there is no guarentee that all the articles to do with Cologne S-Bahn are stations (different lines, the trains people involved etc). Maybe for now we just put both templates on any that need them. Waacstats (talk) 17:10, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Cologne S-Bahn stubs would only be a subset of North Rhine-Westphalia railway station stubs; I'm fairly certain it doesn't cross into another state. I'll just re-categorize as appropriate. Mackensen (talk) 20:05, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
May I suggest that, since Cologne is a location, we should capitalize the template: {{Cologne-sbahn-stub}}? Also, should "SBahn" also be capitalized in the template? Her Pegship (?) 19:54, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

20th-century painting stubs split

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1930s comedy film sub-stub

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Proposals, August 2025

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Minas Gerais geography stubs

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Erebinae stubs

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Marginellidae stubs

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Hepialidae stubs

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Pooideae stubs

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Heterobranchia stubs

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Bombycoidea stubs

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American Civil War biography stubs

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New South Wales geography stubs

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Photography stubs

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Georgia_(U.S._state)_politician_stubs

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Faboideae stubs

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Speedy

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Split in Turkey

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Two Austrian geo splits

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Võru County geography stubs

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Speedy categories

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Spilomelinae sub-stubs

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Coccinellidae stubs

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Ardabil province geography sub-stubs

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Crambini stubs

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Flavobacteria stubs

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Actinomycetota

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Rugby union orgs

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Split of steroids

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Speedies

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Speedys

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Apocynaceae

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Hypsogastropoda stubs

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Limenitidinae stubs

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Miridae stubs

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Milesiini stubs

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Mesostigmata stubs

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Staphylinidae stubs

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Speedy

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Large Olympic medalists stubs

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Sports biographies

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Ascomycota stubs

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Cumberland geography stubs

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Theclinae stubs

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Protein stubs

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Speedy categories

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Biologist

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Proposals, July 2025

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Canada lake stubs

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Speedy

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I really hope this is the last of them...

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Iran road stubs

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Mine stubs

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Burmese film stubs

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Proposals, June 2025

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Another German geography stub proposal

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A speedy

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Alabama Registered Historic Place stubs

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Idaho Registered Historic Place stubs

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Georgia (U.S. state) Registered Historic Place stubs

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Indian film actor subs

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Oregon Registerd Historic Places stubs

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Texas Registered Historic Place stubs

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speedy

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Iranian politician stubs

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German writer stubs

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German film actor subs

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Canadian screen actor subs

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speedy

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Indian actor stubs

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Yemen geography substubs

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Purba Bardhaman district geography stubs

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Speedy parent category proposal

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Buprestidae sub-stubs

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Ammonite sub-stubs

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Epidendreae sub-stubs

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Acrotaeniini stubs

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