Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/12/Category:Copyright deletion requests
As probably the majority - or at least a very large part - of deletion requests on Commons are related to copyright, I question the usefulness of this category, created in 2017. The currently 43 DR pages directly in this category, out of potentially many tens of thousands, or 38 in Category:Copyright deletion requests/deleted, and the nine(!) in Category:Copyright deletion requests/kept, seem arbitrary. As the more specific subcategories, particularly Category:Copyright deletion requests by artist, seem more useful, I think a solution could be to make this a {{CatCat}} and remove it from all DR pages that don't pertain to a more specific subcategory; also remove the generic "deleted" and "kept" categories there. Gestumblindi (talk) 19:09, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Gestumblindi I have already started Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/12/Category:Licensing-related deletion requests, where I claimed that both this category and its parent category Licensing-related deletion requests are poorly defined. Can we merge these discussions? Brianjd (talk) 12:31, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- No opposition from me; if you want to merge this discussion into the one started by you, feel free to go ahead. Gestumblindi (talk) 19:05, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Gestumblindi It is interesting that every DR page in the ‘/kept’ subcategory and most DR pages in the ‘/deleted’ subcategory has been visited by me (as shown by the way my browser formats the links). It is likely that most, if not all, of those DR pages were added to those categories by me too. I know that I have been adding many DR pages to Copyright deletion requests, then moving them to the appropriate subcategory when they are closed. Brianjd (talk) 12:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Merged into Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/12/Category:Licensing-related deletion requests. Brianjd (talk) 06:11, 13 January 2023 (UTC)