Category talk:Dragons
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The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others.
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Category:Dragons and Category:Merpeople and their subcategories[edit]
These are way too specific. Category:Mythological creatures is enough. --WikiTiki89 16:03, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- There's 12 entries in Category:en:Dragons and 23 in Category:en:Merpeople. The first is maybe questionable, but I don't see any need to merge a category with 23 entries into a larger category.--Prosfilaes (talk) 06:58, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- Note that 2 of the 12 Dragons are currently at RfD Purplebackpack89 18:19, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- I think that Category:English words prefixed with mer- is a better category for the merpeople. (I didn't even know it existed, and it turns out it has more entries than Category:en:Merpeople!) --WikiTiki89 11:54, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- I don't use the categories much, but I don't see the advantage in dumping 23 more entries into an already full Mythological creatures. Splitting out groups of 20 for subcategorization is usually a good thing in my experience from other Wikis.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- I agree with the principle of splitting out scores of entries into subcategories, but perhaps a more general category for aquatic mythological creatures would be preferable, which could also encompass naiads and nixies and kelpies and kappas and so forth. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- I don't use the categories much, but I don't see the advantage in dumping 23 more entries into an already full Mythological creatures. Splitting out groups of 20 for subcategorization is usually a good thing in my experience from other Wikis.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- I think that Category:English words prefixed with mer- is a better category for the merpeople. (I didn't even know it existed, and it turns out it has more entries than Category:en:Merpeople!) --WikiTiki89 11:54, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- Note that 2 of the 12 Dragons are currently at RfD Purplebackpack89 18:19, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- Abstain. Looking at Category:en:Dragons, it now has 16 entries while its immediately larger broader category Category:en:Mythological creatures has 127 entries. Looking at Category:en:Leprosy, it now has 15 entries. I deemed Leprosy too specific or granular and Diseases the appropriate granularity but I was outvoted in Category talk:en:Leprosy. As for granularity, the relationship dragons :: mythological creatures seems very much like leprosy :: diseases. Category:en:Merpeople has 33 entries. I would vote delete but I do not want to go against a broad trend of keeping highly granular category if there is such a trend; the leprosy discussion suggests there is such a trend. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:52, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- Abstain. Conceptually, these seem too specific... and yet the "mer" category has 33 entries in it, and the "mer- prefix" category has enough more to bring the total to almost 50 entries. It seems tolerable, though not necessary, to split 50 entries off from a broader ~150-entry category. - -sche (discuss) 03:48, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Closed as no consensus to delete: This thing has been open for almost two years. There's two votes for abstain, a soft keep by Prosfilaes, and the nomination to delete it. There's been enough time for additional people to come forward to support deletion, but none have. Purplebackpack89 19:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)