Wikipedia talk:Afd categories

message: The code permits multiple sorting templates by duplicating the REMOVE WHEN CLOSING template. Is there a circumstance that this is good for? Or is it simply a side-effect of the way we use templates? The only thing I could think of would be an article like "Coverage of the 2008 Election", which (ignoring the fact that it would likely not be up for deletion) would fit M - Media and S - Society. I don't know if multiple catagories would matter elsewhere, but maybe I'm missing something? ZZ  Claims ~ Evidence  03:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't a deliberate decision to allow this when I drafted the coding behind the current system, it just happened that way. Some users seem to find this ability useful, although the coding of  doesn't provide an obvious means to do that and the second cat has to be added later. --ais523 09:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool, thanks. I've been working on clearing the backlog at Not Yet Sorted and Nom Unsure of Catagory, and I hate putting something under unclassifiable simply because I can't pick between two equally plausible catagories. This will help, though I doubt I'll use it more than once in a while. ZZ  Claims ~ Evidence  13:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Catagories 

message: I Afd'd Currency correlation and decided that as mathematics isn't science, I'd class it unknown. If it is a science then some clarification would be good. Thanks -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 12:09, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematics ? 

message: In looking through the sorted deletion debates, I frequently find the same type of article being sorted multiple different ways. For instance, I find a lot of schools in both Places and Groups, Bands in both Music and Groups, sports teams in both groups and sports, and so on. Since the whole point of these categories was, I thought, to group similar debates for ease of navigation, it would make sense to have some sort of notion as to what debates fit which categories. I've tried to set down my thoughts on what goes where, and would invite input from anyone who happens to have this page on their watchlist. I'm not proposing a policy, or even a guideline - just an essay that, I think, may help clarify some of the more foggy cases. I've written a draft of the essay here. Thanks. UltraExactZZ  Claims ~ Evidence  14:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. I suggest that whatever goes on :Category:AfD debates be a very short list of common items beside each subcat, like the table you have at the top, with a link to the longer essay for those interested. –Pomte 23:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting Deletion Debates 

message: Is there any meaningful difference between these classifications? It seems to me that, for the purpose of categorizing AfD debates, "not yet sorted" effectively covers any circumstance where a debate is not sorted into one of the topic-specific categories. After all, how important is it to know that the nominator is "unsure" versus just knowing that the debate is unsorted? I propose merging the "I", "?" and "U" codes and using them to populate one category: :Category:AfD debates (Not yet sorted). -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The template has been updated, as has the main page at CAT:AFD. Since :Category:AfD debates (Nominator unsure of category) is empty already, should we go ahead and send it to CFD? UltraExactZZ  Said ~ Did  14:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: CSD C1 will do the job. — This, that, and the other (talk) 02:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Indiscernible or unclassifiable", "nominator unsure" and "not yet sorted" 

message: I know this is something of a low-traffic talk page, but would anyone care if I archived the 2006 discussions above? We need to keep them, if only to show how we got where we got, but there's no real need to keep them here. UltraExactZZ  Said ~ Did  20:54, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've archived everything on this page older than May 2007. UltraExactZZ  Said ~ Did  18:06, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Archive

message: Comments please, on Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 26#Semi-automate DELSORT based on Project tags. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 14:11, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi automation