User talk:Woohookitty

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Should this article have been undeleted without following the deletion review process? Level Spirit 02:17, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia templates

Hi— I noticed your template categorization work, so thought I'd ask the following. Since becoming involved in Wikipedia, I've mostly found myself working with templates and soon found Category:Wikipedia templates. I don't find this category particularly inviting, however, not least because its top level already looks pretty convoluted. Instead, the sort of thing I had in mind is here. It can also be frustrating looking for templates and/or categories that are tucked away in "navigational boxes", "infoboxes" and other such categories; I'm wondering just how user-friendly this classification by template design really is. Do you have any views on all this? Sardanaphalus 12:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Once I've found the kind of category I'm after, I guess I've found it a bit tiresome to have to delve into infobox/navigation subcategories as well as look through the templates in the parent category. I suppose I'd rather scan through one longer list and find out by clicking whether or not a template is infobox or navigation style. First, though, I'm thinking the more subject-orientated approach (the example appearance I linked) would need to be implemented. If I began to do this, do you think or know anyone who would mind? Sardanaphalus 12:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I understand what you mean about subdivision, whether infobox/navigation or another way, and suspect that ultimately it probably is a good thing. (One improvement might be if the names of these categories remained consistent and also used the word "templates", i.e. "...navigation templates" and "...infobox templates".) Is it possible to have Wikipedia stop people placing templates in a parent category rather than an infobox/navigation/inline/bar-type/etc category? That might be useful, assuming there isn't something I haven't thought of. I'll look around the innards of Wikipedia templates some more and try creating the User:Sardanaphalus/"Wikipedia templates" page appearance when I've a bit more time to devote to it. Thanks for your speedy reply! Sardanaphalus 12:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I recently discovered Wikipedia:Village pump, so do you think Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) is as good a place as any to ask about this "category control" idea? I have to go soon so sorry if no further reply for a while. Thanks for your time. Sardanaphalus 12:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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Mitsubishi Motors templates

Please consider recreating and repopulating this category. Despite your comments that "4 templates isn't enough for one cat", it served several purposes (not least of all keeping the parent category more organized).

Further, from what I can see at WP:OCAT, there's no fixed number (the exact words are "avoid categories that will never have more than a few members"), and past discussions seem to disagree with your judgement. According to User:jc37, "It was determined from several CfD discussions that "4" was the minimum number for a stand-alone category."[1] Further, the implication at Wikipedia talk:Overcategorization/Archive 5#Question about Small with no potential for growth is that it's acceptable for small categories to exist where they tidy parent categories (see User:Dr. Submillimeter's comment that "I really do not see the problem with having small categories that are part of a larger scheme".

Finally, the existence of the Mitsubishi Motors Australia and Mitsubishi Motors Europe articles could follow Mitsubishi Motors North America, which uses the {{Mitsubishi Motors North America timeline}}, That's two more regional timelines, and the existence of this document (see pp.26–27) allows for a (sourced) third timeline, of the Japanese market; seven potential templates in all, a healthier number, and potential for growth.

Regards, --DeLarge 22:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)