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My contirbution to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 January 4 re: Category:Wikipedians by (subjective categorization)

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  • Comment As the originator of Category:Wikipedians by sporting team (support) I just want to explain how it came into being. I was creating userboxes for sporting team supporters and wanted somewhere to put them, rather than leave them as orphans. I didn't see the point of creating a "List of ..." page and being relatively new to Wikipedia, I looked in Wikipedia:Wikipedians and saw various similar categories. I concluded that creating another one would be acceptable. As for my original motivation for creating the category, all of the userboxes are listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Rugby Union, so they would not be orphaned if the category was deleted.
If this category is deleted, shouldn’t others like it be deleted too in the interests of fairness, for example Category:Wikipedians by sport (playing) and Category:Sports fans on Wikipedia? Or are we only interested in deleting userbox linked categories?
Myself I have been contemplating whether Category:Wikipedians by sporting team (support) and the like are a wise way to use the resources of Wikipedia, but I have not come to a conclusion yet. I think we need to strike a balance between writing an encyclopaedia and creating a community.
- Blarneytherinosaur 07:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)