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Burial cats[edit]
Wikipedia is not meant to be a guide to finding the bodies of the deceased. I am unconvinced we need any burial categories at all. I think the only exception is if we can show that a burial amounts to an award. So military cemeteries might pass, and maybe a few other places. However we have to show it is a defining award. I think we should also limit categories to the first burial location. However the huge number of clearly not allowed categorizing of people by place as opposed to specific location of burial is a bigger problem. Overall it is a small problem. We only have at most a few hundred articles in any category, but it adds up to probably about 10,000 bio articles in a category thry should not be in, which is less than 1% of bios on deceased people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Category:Philosophers by ethnicity has been nominated for deletion[edit]
Category:Philosophers by ethnicity has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Psychastes (talk) 02:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
American expatriates in Liberia[edit]
Hello. I wanted to ask about a recent edit you've made, this one. Why did you remove the 'in Liberia' part of the category, moving the James Hall article to a diffuse category? James Hall served as governor of Maryland-in-Africa, now part of Liberia, and before then, he served as a colonial physician in the colony of Liberia. I don't see why the category 'American expatriates in Liberia' would be inappropriate. RoundSquare (talk) 18:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- The key is "now a part of Liberia". It was not a part of Liberia then. It was a distinct polity.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:48, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- I guess since he was a physician in the colony of Liberia I will restore him. However people should not be placed in such categories unless they lived in the polity in question based on the boundaries of the polity at the time.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:50, 9 May 2024 (UTC)