I think you didn't understand him   Noopur. He asked you (and i'm quoting):

Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding city/town/village or district (if there's no category) etc., or, a localized better 'fitting' i.e. the 'most fitting"' category(ies). Do not add - in addition - the categories of the "parent category", among them cities, states and countries etc.

Or in other words: Don't add a cat and a sub-cat. Like the cake and birthday cake case, you only need to put in one, so if is a Birthday Cake, use only this category. People who want to see a birthday cake and get to category Cake, will have a link to the sub cat.

Same goes to categories like  India - state - city - event. If the event is in city X (Let's use Delhi for example) you don't need to add as well the cat for the city, state and Country in the image. That is called over categorization.

But if you have a birthday cake for a party in Delhi in the event (again example): Wikipedia 10. You can - and you should - add the cat to the event  AND the category for the cake.

If you wanna see an example of a image with several categories but not overcategorized you can see this one for example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%C3%A9ria_at_Bom_Jesus_do_Monte.jpg who have 6 categories, but none is subcat of  another.
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On 13 March 2012 15:24, Noopur <noopur.raval@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Beria,

Here is the message this user left:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Noopur28#Your_uploads_in_December_2011.2C_referring_to_India_:_Categorisation 

My logic for adding 3-4 categories was that people usually search by keywords and not inside larger categories. So I would add around 3-4 categories. But, then this user told me to stick to larger parent categories. I am still unsure which is a better way so I stick to only India or a state category now. 

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Béria Lima <berialima@gmail.com> wrote:

Who asked you that and why?

You can add as much categories as you see fit, as long as they aren't redundant (Like add the categories "Cakes" and "Bithday cakes" to the same image).

I would like the message when someone asked you that
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On 13 March 2012 14:52, Noopur <noopur.raval@gmail.com> wrote:

 All help is welcome,
these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if
they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new
one you can create those and add the cat to these files.  

Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. I was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. 

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur <noopur.raval@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept
> the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was
> decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got
> around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up.
> There are several reasons for this:

It was clearly not your fault.  You are a new user and I should have
migrated these files to the regular categories.  I am now removing
[[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]]
and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]].  All help is welcome,
these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if
they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new
one you can create those and add the cat to these files.  I'm no
expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful
power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can
help you out with that.

We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of
[[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would
make it easier for the users to add these categories easily.

>
> 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make
> Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there.

Indeed.  A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of
images inspired creation of articles around important monuments.  See
[[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that).

>
> 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be
> migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are
> no one to judge whose image stays or goes.

Yes, indeed.

Thanks,
anirudh

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