[WikiEN-l] Citation categories?
SPUI
drspui at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 02:57:26 UTC 2005
A while ago I was reading an article about something in Texas and came
across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Handbook_of_Texas_citations
on the bottom. That category is added by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Handbookoftexas , a useful
external link template. But the category seems like simple clutter in
the list of categories on the article. So I listed it for deletion (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_September_23#Category:Handbook_of_Texas_citations
). Due at least in part to someone spamming the talk pages of Texas
Wikipedians, the category was kept.
I honestly don't understand any of the arguments for keep. Some are
plain erroneous (one person likens it to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1911_Britannica , which is for
articles that *contain* text from the 1911 EB) and others don't make sense.
Basically I'm asking for a reason why this category should exist, and
why I shouldn't be bold and remove it from the template.
More information about the WikiEN-l
mailing list