Category talk:Images with meaningless prefixes

 

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If this category serves any purpose, which I am sure the creator will say it does, it needs to be renamed to reflect this. ~riley (talk) 01:28, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

This category was not necessarily meant to be there forever. I saw that Cultural heritage monuments in Thailand currently starts with 199 images like (2019) Wat... So I collected some examples of images with similar bad names. (E.g. almost all images by Lupus in Saxonia are among them.) We surely agree that images like + 00000000002 Panorama Image... or ! ! ! ! Generals House... were rightly renamed. So this is a special case of Media requiring renaming. It is a silly category name for a silly problem. Sure, it could be renamed. I personally think a description on the page is more useful than a perfect name. Watchduck (quack) 09:44, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

If kept, it should be kept as a maintenance category and removed from Category:Lexicographic order. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:52, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Nobody is looking for a perfect name - that said, as with any category, you need to have some level of understanding of it's contents by reading the name. I would be happy support keeping this category if renamed and marked as a maintenance category. ~riley (talk) 04:32, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Something like Images with meaninless prefixes would make sense. The description could add that the focus is on those that reduce the lexicographic rank. (Unlike e.g. the tilda, as seen in File:~A Long Journey~.jpg.) Watchduck (quack) 15:48, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

I support Category:Images with meaningless prefixes. ~riley (talk) 22:26, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

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Moved to Category:Images with meaningless prefixes. - Themightyquill (talk) 03:02, 15 November 2019 (UTC)