Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:Books

&mdash; RyanCross (talk ) 07:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Books
"Books" is not a useful subcategory of Literary works. The main category is a bit of a jumble, due to the variety of ways that literary genre can be classified. This new, almost empty category adds nothing, and makes matters worse. The subcategory it contains is a bit of an outlier: it could be moved to an appropriate (possibly new) genre, or the articles it contains could be merged to author pages. I prefer the latter course, and tagged the articles accordingly, as most of these author pages are stubby. — Ningauble 22:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 23:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 22:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 01:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Sounds like a good category to have, but execution makes it worthless (and we already have many more productive categories in the field). BD2412 T 02:40, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It might be a good idea to reorganize Category:Literary works and Category:Literature by genre a bit, but the best taxonomic approach is not obvious to me. A discussion could be started at Category talk:Literary works if anybody wants to open that can of worms. ~ Ningauble 14:09, 10 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - per above assessment by nom and by . Cirt (talk) 06:39, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. - InvisibleSun 20:04, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see any reason Wikiquote shouldn't have a category that appears on almost all other Wikimedia projects, but I'm not familiar enough with the less detailed category structure here to know much about this issue. It does seem, however, that there are ample 'books' categories that could easily be added to this one, if lack of subcategories is the problem. This is, assuming you want pages about books; I'm not sure about that either. Richard001 06:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)