Category talk:Monuments and memorials by person

This category was nominated for deletion on 27 April 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

Deletions of sub-cats[edit]

@Carlossuarez46: you referred at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_February_19#Category:Reminders_of_Skanderbeg to "ample precedent" for deleting sub-categories of this one. Please could you name a few? – Fayenatic London 22:00, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london:

A few, per request: see [[1]], [[2]], [[3]], [[4]], [[5]], [[6]], [[7]], [[8]],

stretching back to 2007 as fa as I can tell, and running right up until late last year, a selection of the "ample" precedent; we have US presidents, Soviet figures, religious figures, sports figures, a few people I have no clue about, but they all lost their categories of things named after them....with more digging we may even find ourselves. :-) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:45, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for that. I think lists are worth having, but these are persuasive regarding categories. – Fayenatic London 12:29, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is in fact a good reason to group these articles together as they all share something in common - they are all things which memorialise a particular person. The statement on overcategorisation at [[9]] states that a category may be useful if the people, objects, or places are directly related and indeed these objects and places *are* directly related as they all memorialise the same person. MurielMary (talk) 07:42, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]