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Commons:Village pump

‎Category:Demolished buildings and the purpose of the category system: when we have categories with a commonality we build a top-level category to embrace them.
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Although I have just noticed [[Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2012/10/Category:Dead_men]], a discussion about people where the category is useless for a similar reason. In "Dead men" you ~~find~~ [[:Category:Dead people|would have found]] many media of alive men, just as "Demolished buildings" is full of media of intact buildings --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 05:02, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Although I have just noticed [[Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2012/10/Category:Dead_men]], a discussion about people where the category is useless for a similar reason. In "Dead men" you ~~find~~ [[:Category:Dead people|would have found]] many media of alive men, just as "Demolished buildings" is full of media of intact buildings --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 05:02, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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* I think [[:Category:Demolished buildings]] and [[:Category:Former buildings]] are mainly there as supercategories for other categories. For example, it's useful within a category of schools in a particular city to have a subcategory of those that have been demolished, and it's more or less our pattern that when we have categories like that with a commonality we build a top-level category to embrace them. - [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] ! [[User talk:Jmabel|talk]] 05:13, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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