Category talk:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines in the United Kingdom
Latest comment: 7 years ago by DePiep in topic Purpose of name prefix?
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Purpose of name prefix?
edit@DePiep: - Can anyone explain why this category is necessary, yet a comparable category wasn't Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 6#Category:Articles that mention a specific track gauge? Andy Dingley (talk) 19:28, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- I don't know why you're pinging DePiep - this category was created by @Tim!, and I'd also like to know the purpose of this category. Optimist on the run (talk) 20:03, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
It's a category for "eponymous" UK railway line categories, a subcat of the existing Category:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines. The rather unusual name is a result of this CFD. Tim! (talk) 17:53, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- Why should any category be named "Category named after <foo>" rather than simply "<Foo>s"? Why isn't this just Railway lines in the United Kingdom?
- My reason for posting here, and for pinging DePiep, was that a recent CfD (which I didn't agree with) deleted another set of "railway maintenance categories". Are such categories (evidently useful) forbidden here? Or is there some cunning mantra to having them preserved? Andy Dingley (talk) 18:30, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- As Andy says. No, has no relation to the recent Track gauges CfD. The only reason I can think of is that these are administrative (hidden) categories, next to plain content categories named Railway lines in the United Kingdom. Prefix "Wikipedia" then hinting to the admin setting (a bad hint). List: Special:PrefixIndex/Category:Wikipedia categories_named_after. So far I'm not happy with this naming pattern. -DePiep (talk) 12:25, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- If there is to be a functional and managerial difference indicated by name, then "Maintenance categories named after ..." would be a better pattern. If they're on :en:WP, then they're all "Wikipedia categories". Andy Dingley (talk) 12:32, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- As Andy says. No, has no relation to the recent Track gauges CfD. The only reason I can think of is that these are administrative (hidden) categories, next to plain content categories named Railway lines in the United Kingdom. Prefix "Wikipedia" then hinting to the admin setting (a bad hint). List: Special:PrefixIndex/Category:Wikipedia categories_named_after. So far I'm not happy with this naming pattern. -DePiep (talk) 12:25, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- Same for
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after North American Class I railroads
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after North American passenger railroads
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines in Norway
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines in Sweden
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after railway lines in the United Kingdom
Looks like a CfD i sneeded to clear this up. -DePiep (talk) 10:39, 23 December 2016 (UTC)