Category talk:Artillery cartridge sleve

What?

Does anyone have a clue what this cat means? Or should we just delete it? Andy Dingley (talk) 14:25, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi Andy. There is no such word as "sleve" in English. It seems the person who created the cat is a German-speaker, not a native English-speaker. I think the cat is for artillery propellant charge cases, if that is the correct term. The cat is worth keeping but needs renaming. I am not familiar enough with the topic to know if there is a more concise, and still apt, name than Category:Artillery propellant charge cases. Possibly Category:Propellant charge cases. I'm not sure. Nurg (talk) 08:33, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

I would agree that it's something like that. But "like" isn't good enough. In particular, is this for Category:Propellant bags, for Category:Propellant charge cases (carrying cases for bagged charges), for Category:Cartridge cases in larger artillery sizes or for Category:Quick-firing artillery where the round and propellant casing are handled as one unit?

We could justify any of these. But there's little need for an overall category (we have "artillery ammunition") and certainly not for one that's so unclear no-one knows what it's for.

It's linked to its own Wikidata QID (Wikidata is unsourced, so no use for anything) and the very thin German page at de:Kartusche (Munition). That seems the same scope as Category:Cartridge cases, which this clearly either isn't, or would be a trivial duplicate of. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:38, 20 January 2023 (UTC)