User talk:Aziraphale/categories

Counts

To anybody looking in: I don't try to claim I did all of these, I just like keeping track of the overall progress...

begin Monday: 3000+
end Monday: 2700
begin Tuesday: 2643
end Tuesday: 2369
begin Wednesday: 2340

Categories with more than one word - capitalize all, or only where appropriate?

"United States," not "United states," sure.

"Greek history" or "Greek History?"

Categories should be singular or plural?

"Musical instrument" or "Musical instruments?"

Your work on categories is fantastic! I've been doing some also. By the way, some of these uncategorized entries are uncategorized because the entry should be deleted. Just let us know if you come across any of those.

Offhand, I'd say "Greek History" with an uppercase "H", like "Ancient History". I don't know about the plural on the instrument and welcome others' thoughts.--Aschlafly 11:15, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

Andy, there's been some discussion about the articles you mentioned. A category existed prior to my work called "articles proposed for deletion," and I've been adding my suggestions there. I've tried to refrain from political or emotional decisions, sticking instead to articles that seem pointless or hopelessly mangled.

Thanks for your feedback on the capitalization issue, it's six of one and half-a-dozen of another to me... Aziraphale 11:35, 18 July 2007 (EDT) <-clearly not a baker...

Articles in serious need of help

Majority leader
Majority whip

The Zombie Jesus Memorial Hall of Deleted Articles to be Re-Directed

[[Zombie jesus]]
[[vaginal sex]]
[[Evolution of Homo]]
[[Evolution of Modern Man]]
[[Excrement]]

Your questions regarding categorisation

I believe that articles (other than proper nouns) should be in lower case, as it makes for easier linking. The same benefit doesn't apply for categories, but for consistency with article names, I'd go for lower case.

As far as plural vs. singular goes, I've wondered about this myself. What you could do is have a look on Wikipedia, not to see what they do, but to find where they've (probably) discussed this issue there and see what the pro and con reasons are.

Philip J. Rayment 20:30, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

• Yes, look, and do exactly the opposite here! I think we have discussed this more than enough over the months, and Andy's suggestion seems to fit with most user's ideas. Philip, we need to do what is familair to most US users, non-technical ones. --Sysop-TK _/MyTalk 20:34, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

Wait, I'm confused. Do most users feel all-caps for categories is preferred? There's a healthy mix of both in the categories list, which is why I've thrown it out there for discussion...

As for the plural issue... well, ditto. If I've missed a conversation somewhere I apologize, but the evidence in the category list is mixed, with slightly more of them, anecdotally, leaning plural vs. singular. In any event, thanks for the feedback, I appreciate the help in getting this figured out. Aziraphale 20:47, 18 July 2007 (EDT) <- Gray Ajah...