Category talk:Aircraft at RAF Museum Cosford
Delete and upmerge to Category:Aircraft at Imperial War Museum Duxford, as it was before. "Aircraft by aircraft type" is a pointless tautology. All this does is to split the files away from the categories (making categorisation harder) and mostly it makes navigation paths longer for readers. There is no advantage to having two categories here. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Likewise Category:Aircraft at RAF Museum Cosford by aircraft type, Category:Aircraft by type by location (and probably others) Andy Dingley (talk) 16:51, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Very unhelpful over categorisation that makes image sorting extremely difficult. Members of the public take photos with bad file names (not knowing what the aircraft types are), I have been working recently towards sorting them in to their correct categories (my main aim is searching for images for Wikipedia articles, I have found quite a few). There are almost 200 museum aircraft collection categories, they follow a parent category structure, the Cosford and Duxford type categories made them the two odd ones out. I have repopulated the original categories as allowed by the CFD template and was also advised by a Commons admin to do the same after another problem category discussion.
- I appreciate that there is a backlog but this CFD has been unactioned for almost four months, to make any progress editors will have to be bold and undo categorisation against consensus and standing convention in future. Nimbus227 (talk) 18:58, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley and Nimbus227: Closed (no objections) Josh (talk) 02:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Clarification: When I first closed this, I missed the inclusion of Category:Aircraft by type by location. As this is a different beast than the other two categories mentioned, I am only applying this CfD to Category:Aircraft at Imperial War Museum Duxford by aircraft type and Category:Aircraft at RAF Museum Cosford by aircraft type. If it is felt we should still do something with Category:Aircraft by type by location, a new CfD specific to that category would be far more appropriate to cover its peculiarities. Josh (talk) 03:35, 1 April 2022 (UTC)