There is a bit of confusion on the German mailing list about the
commons page [[List of dog breeds]]. As a brand-new commons admin, I
would also like to know what the community position on this issue is.
What happened is that this page is a kind of "meta-gallery",
consisting of a sortable table of links to all different breeds of
dogs. It does not contain images and is therefore not a gallery,
strictly speaking. However, it has been in existance for about a year
and a half, and several users worked on it during this time.
Then it was suddenly deleted, without any "official" process, and
without giving a reason for the deletion. I looked on several pages
describing the commons "mission", and deletion criteria, but didn't
find anything that says "lists gotta go", so I undeleted the page for
now.
While one could argue that a list has no place in the main "gallery"
namespace, I see a potential usefulness that exceeds the current
category system. What's the general opinion on this?
A possible solution would be adding small thumbnails, one example of
each dog breed, to the table rows, effectively making it a gallery,
just an unusual one. On the other hand, if such a hack is needed to
bend the rules, we might want to think about the rules again...
Magnus