Commons:Categories for discussion/2017/09/Category:Degree of frost

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Category:Degree of frost

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Two issues here:

  1. "Degree of frost" doesn't seem an accurate name. "Frost" is not the same as "temperature".
  2. Issues with content in the subcats: Each of the subcats is for a specific temperature, some in Fahrenheit and some in Celsius. Some of the files in the subcats show a display of the temperature, and some state in the description what the temperature was at the time the image was made. I suggest having separate subcats for the different things. The former could be in a cat called "Thermometers by temperature shown", with subcats named something like "Thermometers showing -10°C". The latter could be in cats named something else -- I have no suggestion for those.

Auntof6 (talk) 00:25, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weird. I agree it doesn't make sense, but it was created by Benzoyl who is a good contributor here. What was your plan, Benzoyl?
"Thermometers by temperature shown" (or some equivalent) makes sense to me. Didn't we already have a discussion about this? - Themightyquill (talk) 17:17, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The beginning are (I saw) [1] etc. At that time I thought so, too, It's useful category. Thereby, I created this category.
"Category:Temperature" may be not suitable cat. But, "Category:Cold" is also not suitable.Do you have any good ideas... Thanks and sorry. --Benzoyl (talk) 05:19, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Now the current, Most of them in this category are, images of Thermometers. Thereby, Thermometers by temperature may be better cat-name.
By the way, There is "Category:Signs with numbers". --Benzoyl (talk) 05:30, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It should be by temperature shown, so that it's clear that it isn't the temperature of the thermometer itself. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:49, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

After looking around some more, I think these could be moved to Category:Celsius temperature and Category:Fahrenheit temperature, as appropriate (if they're not already there). Whether a temperature is cold or not is at least partly subjective and/or relative to something else. We could go a step farther and separate out the files that show thermometers (not all of them did when I checked earlier). --Auntof6 (talk) 05:49, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How about this:
I notice we don't have a category for outdoor weather thermometers. Is there a better term than Category:Outdoor thermometers ? - Themightyquill (talk) 06:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your good advice (lucid categorizing). Anyway, I was tried, creation of these category. You're right, It may need, Category:Outdoor thermometers. --Benzoyl (talk) 13:02, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6, Themightyquill, and Benzoyl: It feels like this is basically resolved and the only thing left to be done is actually deleting Category:Degree of frost, correct? --El Grafo (talk) 12:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@El Grafo: Thanks for the ping. I see that the category has (since?) been attached to a wikipedia article en:Degree of frost which helps explain the idea behind it, but I don't see how this would be a useful category to have. I think it's ready to be deleted. -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. The contents of this category don't match what the Wikipedia article is about. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:58, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. -- Themightyquill (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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