Category talk:Narrow gauge steam locomotives of the Isle of Man

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Category:Narrow gauge steam locomotives of the Isle of Man

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Superfluous to its parent category, Steam locomotives of the Isle of Man. All railway lines on the Isle of Man are narrow gauge, therefore this category causes unnecessary duplication. I Propose that this is deleted, with the two subcats going directly to the parent cat.   An optimist on the run! 16:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'd agree the basic observation here, the question is what to do with it.
First of all, Commons practice is frequently to just ignore the issue. There are many, many categories (especially for steam locos) where the only member of a category is a single subcategory. These aren't going away – I've tried to delete a few myself, sent off with a flea in my ear.
Secondly, given that these are narrow gauge, I would see the better solution to be keeping this cat and deleting Steam locomotives of the Isle of Man instead. With the parent categorisation migrating downwards onto this one. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:04, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Optimist on the run: Thoughts on this? It would be great to close the discussion. - Themightyquill (talk) 20:27, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral, now. Five years on and I'd forgotten about it! Pinging Andy Dingley for further thoughts. (NB My user name has changed since raising this). O Still Small Voice of Clam 06:51, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Same as before. I'd keep this, as the correct and more specific, and if our concern was in having too many layers I'd remove Steam locomotives of the Isle of Man instead. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Locomotives_of_the_Isle_of_Man too. I'd note that we already only have "narrow gauge" for the "diesels", which is what we want to end up with. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:27, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've no objection to that. O Still Small Voice of Clam 12:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Per above. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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