Category talk:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

message: What's the purpose of the "Detected ..." lists – or more exactly: what's the problem with the categories linked there? I can see how those with red links could likely be problem cases. But what seems to be wrong with the blue links? I see that some of these apparently have been found in no page at all - how can this be? And what on earth do the black non-links do there - how can something be linked and not appear as link? Lastly, how do I know which of these have been checked for false positives? (Maybe a list for correct positives would be in order.) — Sebastian (talk) 22:09, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
:I added some explanation and instructions to the project page.  Hopefully that answers your questions.  Thanks for asking; a lot of people wandering by here were probably wondering those things. -- Beland 05:25, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Detected ... lists

message: I've been trying to clean up some of the categories listed on the project page. But I and others have run into a problem at :Category:Agriculture. Pollinator is on a revert campaign. Maurreen 06:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Help?

message: Is this still a problem:  These can't be fixed until non-ASCII characters can appear in category names?  I've checked a few of them, and the categories seem to be holding up just fine with non-ascii characters.  --Kbdank71 17:15, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct..certainly since MediaWiki 1.5 went live, we have full Unicode support.  Thanks!  -- Beland 00:39, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character problems? 

message: Is there any meaningful difference between the two last sections of the project page ('Articles in category "Wikipedia categories in need of attention"' and 'Subcategories')? Apparently, categories can be tagged and added with either a template or a category. Should we settle on one and get the other deleted? Maurreen (talk) 02:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually that category talk pages end up under "Articles", categories tagged directly end up under "Subcategories".  I usually add the tag to the talk page, so I can write a note as to exactly what needs cleanup.  Usually this breaks down to "This is a mess" or "Too many articles".  The benefits of adding the tag to the category page itself include greater visibility and reader awareness.  Personally, I find no pressing need to enforce consistency, but if someone else wants to, that's fine with me. -- Beland 00:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference?

message: Can I rely on the listed 'linked from' articles as being exaustive? I am comparing
* Category:Alumni_of_the_%C9cole_Polytechnique linked from: André-Marie_Ampère Auguste_Comte etc.
* Category:São_Paulo_state linked from: Embu
in particluar. The first says 'etc.' - so I asssume I'll have to check every article in :Category:Alumni of the École Polytechnique to make sure that none of them are abusing URL encoding. :Category:São Paulo state is only lised as being badly linked to from one article - do I just have to check Embu, or every one of the 200+ articles in the category? SeventyThree(Talk) 05:12, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  badly named categories which are linked from several places 

message: Many of the categories with slases definitely need cleanup, but some, like Srem/Srijem seem appropriate.  In this case, these are references to the same place in the 2 prevalent languages of the area, and other constructions would be awkward.  Is this still an issue, it seems to work fine. SailorfromNH 00:52, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slashes in Categories - question 

message: I went through and cleaned house, putting a CfD on all the empty categories (see the  log). Semiconscious · talk 01:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Alma mater categories

message: (reposted from Categories needed): For some categories of people by nationality (for example, :Category:Economists by nationality), there exist categories for both British and English fill-in-the-blanks.  This seems odd to me; if someone is British but not English, wouldn't there be other subcategories of British in which to file them?  Should British just be a holding category for subcategories, or what?  And should both the British and English categories be under Fill-in-the-blanks by nationality, or just British?--ragesoss 05:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The best place to ast is probably Categories for Deletion, since they deal with that sort fo thing a lot. As far as I can tell, it's done on a fairly ad-hoc basis at the moment. SeventyThree(Talk) 14:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Question: nationalities: English vs. British

message: At the moment, this page is trying to do two things at once - be a category, and be a list of bad title found through database scans. I propose we split the database scan part to a different page (e.g. Wikipedia:Bad category names, to match the entry on ). That will leave this page as a category for pages with the  tag. It also makes the new page more suitable for , which is for projects which are "systematic (e.g. problems are found using software, not by humans)". Any objections/suggestions? SeventyThree(Talk) 01:05, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'm going to go ahead and do this now. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:03, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page split 

message: I have found three categories that appear to me to be duplication and/or overlapping. I wouldn't know what is the correct term, Anybody any idea whether the following should be joined, merged, or even left alone? I'm sure there's more... Probably Native if I looked further.
*Category:Aboriginal peoples in Canadian Territories 
*Category:First Nations in the Northwest Territories
*Category:Indigenous peoples of North America 
--Richhoncho 23:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Enquiry. "Indigenous, First Nations, or Aboriginal Canadians?

message: I may be missing something - but doesn't this category self-refer? Was this intended? Does it need attention?? Thanks, Ian Cairns 13:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-reference