Category talk:Aircraft destroyed in accidents
Category:Destroyed aircraft currently contains over 200 aircraft registration sub-categories. Presently, there are over 63,000 such registration categories in Commons (a tiny percentage of candidate registrations), and most of those are potential additions to this and other sub-cats of "Aircraft by condition", because most aircraft have a finite life. The practice of placing registration cats into condition-related categories shows a fundamental misunderstanding of categories at Commons, which is a repository of media (eg static images), where categories form the structured catalogue, not the life histories of all real aircraft. All the images in a sub-cat should illustrate the parent category, and this category should contain only images qualifying as illustrations of already destroyed aircraft, not those of active aircraft. I propose we remove all sub-cats whose title and contents do not qualify as destroyed, scrapped, preserved, etc, that apply to real aircraft, and not necessarily any images at Commons. The classification as destroyed etc should then be applied only to individual images, unless new specific and relevant categories are created below a registration category. PeterWD (talk) 09:58, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Support Categories for individual aircraft should be removed since they contain media depicting the aircraft prior to its destruction (in most cases). Only media depicting aircraft in a destroyed state should be retained in this category. Josh (talk) 22:30, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Agree to Josh. --Achim (talk) 20:03, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
No opposition, starting to remove registration sub-cats. PeterWD (talk) 11:32, 8 August 2016 (UTC)