Category talk:Lists

message: I feel this would be a viable subcategory. I would create it myself but I wont have time until the middle of next week to hunt down all the lists and recategorise them. 
sub-sub categories might be 
*lists of rail aciddents
*lists of railway stations
*lists of rail locomotives (possibly split into diesel, electric and steam)
or is this getting too specific? Thryduulf 01:47, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rail transport related lists

message: Currently the Lists category is very long while there are few subcategories and listings under those subcategories. According to what the  template says, we should work on subcategories. So I have a few proposals listed below for better organizing this. I would like some feedback. —Tokek 01:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposals for subcategories 

message: I think we could add the list of subcategories to the main category page by hand. The list is:
*:Category:Asia-related lists
*:Category:Culture lists
*:Category:Lists by form
*:Category:Geography lists
*:Category:Housekeeping lists
*:Category:Math lists
*:Category:Science lists
*:Category:Technology lists
*:Category:Lists of TLAs
As you can see the list is fairly short so there is no need for it to span multiple pages like it currently does. Without this, the user might not notice that there are more subcategories than the first page.
—Tokek 01:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List the subcategories by hand 

message: Sometimes the items listed in the Lists category aren't moved to a subcategory because there isn't a subcategory for it or a subcategory is too specific for it. I think the following new subcategories could be useful:
Subcategories that currently do not exist:
*Astronomy lists
*Geoscience lists
*Computing lists
*Literature lists
*Sexuality lists
*History lists
—Tokek 01:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add more subcategories 

message: Currently there is a Science lists and Nature lists category, both very sparsely populated. I think these two should be merged.
There is also a :Category:Lists of astronomical objects. I think this should be renamed to  :Category:Astronomy lists which would allow more lists to be addded.
—Tokek 01:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging or renaming existing subcategories 

message: Is there an unstated assumption that this category and its subcats only relate to standalone lists rather than  embedded lists?  This is not obviously a better policy so it needs discusion.  In which case, where is the borderline between the two types? Joestynes 10:08, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Embedded lists

message: This page seems to be half-way between an article and a list.  I don't know how to classify it.  --JeffW 05:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Japanese military-political doctrines in the Showa period]] 

message: I added a description of the way this page is organized.  I don't claim that it is well-written, and I invite anyone to improve on it.  In particular I'm not sure how to describe the topic lists.  Would it be helpful to suggest why they are there?  Perhaps something along the lines that they are a good way to get a broad view of a subject area.  --JeffW 19:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of page organization 

message: I move back  from the talk page to the category.  See User talk:Ruud Koot, item Should  be on talk pages?, and also cf. the first sentence in Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
:These notes are generally placed on top of category pages.
JoergenB (talk) 18:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Placement of catdiffuse template 

message: This page should not be speedy deleted because... --Bhebbard (talk) 15:21, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion