Category talk:Human reproduction

Are all articles in this category appropriate?

I came here because of a recent edit adding Combined oral contraceptive pill to this category. This does not make sense to me - preventing reproduction is addressed in the Category:Birth control, this category should (in my mind) be limited to achieving reproduction. Looking over articles currently included, other stand out to me as not quite fitting. I propose removing from this category:

• Endometrial cancer - already in Category:Cancer and, because it relates to a female reproductive organ, Category:Gynecology.
• Estrogen patch - used for treatment of symptoms associated with menopause.
• Growth hormone treatment - used primarily in children, not (as far as I can tell) associated with reproduction at all.
• Hormone replacement therapy - also used for treatment of symptoms associated with menopause. Maybe there should be a Category:Menopause.
• Hysterectomy - not done for purposes of reproducing. Not done for birth control, either, see related discussion at end of section Template talk:BirthControl/Archive1#Formatting.
• Menarche - already in Category:Menstruation.
• Morning sickness - should probably be in Category:Pregnancy instead of here.
• Oophorectomy - same rationale as for hysterectomy.
• Ovarian cyst - a gynecological problem, already in Category:Gynecology. Not directly related to reproduction.
• Ovary - an anatomy article. This category would get quite unwieldy due to size if it included all articles currently in Category:Female reproductive system and Category:Male reproductive system.

If there were only a few articles I thought inappropriate, I'd just discuss it on the article pages. But because there are so many, I'm proposing a centralized discussion here. I've put notices on the talk page of the articles in question pointing interested editors here. Lyrl ^Talk _C 14:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

(The following copied from my talk page, referring to the COCP article):

Hi. I feel that those items pertain to human reproduction in the sense that things that impede or prevent human reproduction are as much about human reproduction as are things that promote it.QuizzicalBee 15:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

How about including Category:Birth control as a daughter category of this one, instead of including the COCP article directly? Lyrl ^Talk _C 18:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

The purpose of the category is to list everything that pertains to human reproduction. All of these things do pertain to it, either in preventing it or facilitating it. We seem to have a disagreement as to the definition of the category. While some of these items already fit into other categories, like pregnancy or gynecology, there is no other category that includes all of these different issues, yet it is a matter of concern to anyone trying to get pregnant or having any problems with the reproductive system, and therefore it seems like a useful category.QuizzicalBee 20:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Looking more into how things were categorized before, and now realizing this is a brand-new category, I believe it is a definite improvement and thank QuizzicalBee for taking the time to do this sort of administrative work.

However, we do seem to have some disagreement. I thought the purpose of a category was to enable users to easily navigate between related topics. The approach QuizzicalBee has started, if taken to its (to me) logical conclusion, would list individually every single article currently in Category:Birth control, Category:Female reproductive system, Category:Male reproductive system, Category:Menstruation, Category:Pregnancy, and more. No rationale has so far been provided as to why these article should be listed individually (which will make a huge, difficult to navigate category) rather than making daughter categories (which still includes all the information, but can then be easily navigated).

Although how estrogen patches or growth hormone is even tangentially related to reproduction is something I'm not grasping. Lyrl ^Talk _C 21:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you're right. It makes sense to put the categories there instead of the items in the categories, plus any strays. I'll change it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by QuizzicalBee (talk • contribs) 00:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC).