Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/09/Category:WikiProject Iran by city
Most or all of these categories were created be a single user as part of some personal pet project and are for non-exiting WikiProjects. It seems pretty clear to me that we shouldn't have categories for non-exiting subjects. Especially on this scale. As it's just misleading and makes zero sense to have a categories for WikiProjects that aren't actually real to begin with. There also isn't enough sub-categories in these to justify their existence anyway and probably a lot of the sub-categories should just be deleted.
Apparently the creator of these categories, @Orijentolog: , thinks it's totally fine to have categories for their own personal made up Wikiprojects and decided to mass revert me when I tried to deal with them. So the question here is, should we allow for single users to mass create categories for made up personal WikiProjects like Orijentolog has done here or can these categories just be deleted since their existence is clearly pointless and goes against the guidelines? Adamant1 (talk) 08:19, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- First of all, I'm a member of WikiProject Iran for many years, hundreds of thousands of my edits are related to Iranian art, architecture and other topics, and I collaborate with other users who are members. It is not my "personal pet" project. You don't participate, and today you came with an idea to remove hundreds of categories and destroy the whole category tree, just because you have some personal ideas which I find as bizarre. Second thing, to repeat it once again here, these categories are not intended for existing WikiProjects, but for separating huge WikiProject Iran by particular city, although there are some particular projects like WikiProject Tehran. They serve as maintenance categories, containing 'technical' things unnecessary to see in a major category (see the linked case of Tehran). So I'm fine with it, others are also fine with it for years, and the only issue here is you. And no, these categories do not go against any guidelines. --Orijentolog (talk) 08:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- It is not my "personal pet" project. You seem to be the only, if not main, creator of the categories and I looked around before I nominated the categories for deletion to see if you discussed creating them anywhere. I couldn't find anything though. So it does seem like this is your "personal pet project" even if your claiming that's not what it is. Otherwise be my guest and point out where you have talked about creating these categories with other members of WikiProject Iran. I still think the categories should be deleted regardless, but I'm more willing to retract that if other members of project were involved in creating them.
- these categories are not intended for existing WikiProjects, but for separating huge WikiProject Iran by particular city As I said on my talk page there shouldn't be categories called "Wikiproject X" is the X isn't an actual WikiProject IRL. Otherwise it's just nonsensical and goes against the guidelines. I understand you created them to as maintenance categories, but as I've said elsewhere multiple times now it's not really clear that's what they exist for and there's no legitimate reason you can't do it another way then mass creating categories for fake, made up projects. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- there shouldn't be categories called "Wikiproject X" ... goes against the guidelines That's what you say. --Orijentolog (talk) 09:09, 4 September 2024 (UTC)