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