Category talk:US naval ships

message: There has been some discussion of which of the various categories relating to U.S. ships should be kept. There does not really seem to be much of a consensus, but at the moment the de facto choice is :Category:United States Navy ships, since that is the only one populated. 
Most recently, this category was listed for deletion on November 8. As of today, November 23, no one has protested its deletion. However, because of past discussions and because it has often been used in the past, I have made it into a sort of "soft redirect" instead of deleting it. That way, if there needs to be further discussion, this is still here. I'm not claiming that this is what ought ultimately to be done (although I personally do prefer :Category:United States Navy ships). -Aranel ("Sarah") 22:36, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and deleted the first three. No one has commented on the last two and they've been on CfD for a week, so if it were just this I would go ahead and delete them (since they are empty and redundant and I don't think there is any cause to move all of those articles to one of the other categories—the discussion elsewhere has been that "U.S. Navy" is more workable for the child categories, which tend to have long names, but is it worth changing this, the parent category?), but see also #Category:US naval ships. I've been involved in this discussion, so I shouldn't be the one to make the call on CfD. -Aranel ("Sarah") 17:45, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: There's also :Category:U.S. Navy ships. I've been trying to figure this out (without much success) at Category talk:United States Navy ships. I think "United States Navy ships" is to be preferred. Aranel ("Sarah") 00:14, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Unresolved; see Category talk:United States Navy ships and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships. -- Beland 02:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD discussion

message: * :Category:US naval ships and :Category:U.S. Navy ships — duplicates of :Category:United States Navy ships
Gdr 00:17, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)
:I went ahead and deleted the first three. No one has commented on the last two and they've been on CfD for a week, so if it were just this I would go ahead and delete them (since they are empty and redundant and I don't think there is any cause to move all of those articles to one of the other categories—the discussion elsewhere has been that "U.S. Navy" is more workable for the child categories, which tend to have long names, but is it worth changing this, the parent category?), but see also #Category:US naval ships. I've been involved in this discussion, so I shouldn't be the one to make the call on CfD. -Aranel ("Sarah") 17:45, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc naval ships

message: Seems to be redundant with :Category:United_States_Navy_ships. -- Beland 22:59, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also :Category:U.S. Navy ships. I've been trying to figure this out (without much success) at Category talk:United States Navy ships. I think "United States Navy ships" is to be preferred. Aranel ("Sarah") 00:14, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Unresolved; see Category talk:United States Navy ships and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships. -- Beland 02:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:US_naval_ships]]