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Ancient (India, Pakistan) cats

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Disambiguation subcategories

this section doesn't need a closing block, since it itself isnt a delete discussion... just prefaces the ones below

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) strongly suggests that subcategories of Category:Disambiguation be discussed on the MoS's talk page before creation. Despite this, quite a few sparely populated disambiguation categories of questionable utility have built up over the last few months. Most, if not all, of these should be deleted and their contents tagged with {{disambig}}. Since Category:Disambiguation isn't really intended to be browsed, these subcategories are really just a waste of space and time: why subcategorize a category whose contents aren't supposed to be found except via searches and accidental links? Furthermore, many articles in these subcategories aren't limited to the topic of the subcategory, making these even less useful as a navigational tool (if anyone ever actually uses them as such). -Sean Curtin 10:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination is based on a misunderstanding of the utility of these cats. Over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics we track changes to mathematical pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity. These are generated with automatic tools that, among other things, walk all pages that are underneath the Category:Mathematics. Without having this subcat, it is impossible to tell if some random disambig page is mathematical or not. These tools are presumably useful to other projects, so if some project wants to track thier articles, they would need a cat like this. linas 02:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, Merge, and/or Rename: these issues have been endlessly rehashed.
  1. Some folks don't want subcategories of disambiguation (usually the same folks that don't bother maintaining the existing lists already described at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links to disambiguation pages). Arguably, categories are preferable to lists in this case. There's no annotation. The only list actually needed for lonelypages prevention is Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages.
  2. Some folks note the pages are both in Category:Disambiguation and these subcategories, generally not a good idea. That's because certain rampant disambiguators want them all to have {{disambig}} and that puts them in the main category. I've previously proposed keeping these "lists of" under Category:Wikipedia administration adjacent to Disambiguation.
  3. Many of the names don't conform to the usual conventions. Renaming would be appropriate. These are pages with lists. The correct form is "Lists of ...."
  4. For example, after a TfD in January, the existing:
    1. Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title,
    2. Category:Lists of Interstate Highways sharing the same title, and
    3. Category:Lists of U.S. Routes sharing the same title.
  5. Other existing forms are:
    1. Category:Lists of ambiguous human names, and
    2. Category:Lists of ambiguous place names.
--William Allen Simpson 22:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As the comments below indicate, there is more support for the shorter version. Therefore, I've striken the renames, leaving the necessary merges.
--William Allen Simpson 15:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Multiple hip hop categories move

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