Stub template names should be in the form xx-stub (or xx-xx-stub, etc.

), with the
parts separated by hyphens, not spaces.
Capital letters should be used where (and only where) they are normally used –
i.e., for proper nouns like personal or place names.
Where a place name is part of the stub, this name is normally (but not always)
written in full (exceptions are listed below).
Stub template names with three parts (xx-xx-stub) or more are normally used only
when an existing Wikipedia article category is divided into subcategories e.g.,
dividing biography stubs by nationality).
Stub category names should be in the form Category:England stubs, Category:Politics
stubs — not Category:England-related stubs, Category:English stubs,
Category:Politics-related stubs, Category:Political stubs.
These are only conventions, and may have exceptions where warranted, but the fewer
exceptions there are, the better.
Many existing stubs and their categories do not follow these guidelines, but some
of these may be changed to names which more closely follow these conventions.
Stub templates
Components
Order and form
Very high-level stubs are formed by combining a subdivisional component or a major
component and the stub component (e.g., {{Germany-stub}}, {{hist-stub}},
respectively). Most stubs are compound stubs, formed by combining one subdivisional
and one or more major components (or no subdivisional but just two or more major
components), and the stub component, in that order. Note that noun forms are used
in templates rather than adjectival forms. When the name has three or more parts
(xx-xx-stub, etc.), hyphens not spaces are used between all sections. This usually
happens in two cases:

When a compound "child" stub type is created by the intersection of two (or more)
"parent" stub sorting topics (e.g. {{France-geo-stub}}, which is the intersection
of {{France-stub}} and {{geo-stub}}).
When the subject of a stub has two or more parts to its name (e.g. {{DC-Comics-
stub}}, {{opera-singer-stub}}; the latter type should be avoided, by running words
together, as in EXAMPLE HERE, since this allows creation of shorter compound stubs,
e.g. EXAMPLE HERE.
Compound stubs, which make use of the major and subdivisional components, are
formed by subdividing a subdivisional stub sorting topic into smaller, more
specific, child subtopics of the original topics, most often by location. Thus, the
majority of compound stubs are formed by a combination of a geographical location
subdivisional topic and one major topic, e.g. {{Australia-bio-stub}}, or {{Kansas-
geo-stub}}. Other intersections of two topics result in non-geographical compound
stubs of the same form, such as {{sports-bio-stub}}. As topics (which usually but
not universally coincide with categories) further subdivide, additional
disambiguating major components may be added, as in {{India-sport-bio-stub}}.

Regardless, a standardized format should be used for the major component, and a
(different) standardized format for the subdivisional component(s) if any, along
with the fixed-format stub component. These formats are as listed below:

The stub component

All stub templates should have names ending in "-stub". Please note that there is a
hyphen not space before the word "stub", and that it is entirely lower-case and
singular (not "stubs").

The major component

Below is a list of some of the available major component general topic areas, used
for the middle component(s) of compound stub names. Each major component refers to
a very high-level, general Wikipedia article category which has been split, with a
specific subdivisional component (and sometimes with other major components), to
make the new child topic. Major components are used to create the most general
high-level stub templates, such as {{bio-stub}}.

All major components are entirely lower-case (and, as shown, are separated from
other components with hyphens.) Many of them are abbreviated, to avoid having to
use long words like "geography" in thousands of stub templates, at the expense of
some clarity — of current stub topics, the most ambiguous are probably bio-stub
(biography, not biology) and geo-stub (geography, not geology) — but their number
is limited so this is not seen as problematic.

-actor- (actor)
-album- (album)
-bcast- (broadcasting)
-bio- (biography)
-book- (book)
-compu- (computer)
-edu- (education)
-film- (film)
-geo- (geography)
-gov- (government)
-hist- (history)
-myth- (mythology)
-noble- (nobility or royalty)
-org- (organization)
-party- (political party)
-poli- (politics)
-politician- (politician)
-reli- (religion)
-road- (road)
-school- (non-university school)
-sci- (science)
-struct- (building or structure)
-theat- (theater/theatre)
-transport- (transport/transportation)
-tv- (television)
-university- (university)