Category talk:Child deaths

This category is too broad and needs to be removed. Bookworm857158367 (talk) 18:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Agreed. After going through and finding so many more names than I had expected, I personally believe that this should become a large container category, and that more subcategories should be created, so that we can categorize child deaths by more than "murdered children" or "heads of state".
 * In particular, a larger category for "royalty who died young" would be a good idea; the vast majority of the people I found were royalty and nobles, and a category like this already exists solely for Thai royalty, so this would be worth examining.
 * One more thing: the reason why this category was allowed to stay despite being so broad had to do with the absence of names: many notable people could have been on the list, but were never added. After thoroughly adding roughly 200 names, it is obvious that this category can't stay, or should be split up more thoroughly. R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 04:09, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I recommend restructuring the category, in addition, rather than deleting it completely; all the names should be moved into new subcategories, but the container category should remain. R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 16:41, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I am planning on creating a new subcategory for "royalty and nobility who died as children"; this would properly mitigate the sheer amount of links in the large category, as many of the people I found fall into this classification.
 * To clarify, I added many of these names into the container category, in the hopes that filling the category would be good; in the process, however, I simply found that this category became so cluttered that it looked like it had been spammed. I say this because it may seem unclear WHY I created my own problem like this.
 * The only alternative is to create a new subcategory, and hope that others try to make more in the future.
 * For now, I also intend this to be the final new message on the talk page (from me, that is). R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 04:17, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Potential new subcategories
I've been thinking of multiple subcategories that it might be good to add to the main category, in an effort to properly classify more of the articles that are already here. Ideas include:

Children of U.S. presidents who died as children

Child soldiers killed in action

Child deaths from infectious diseases

These ideas are tentative and this is no indication that these subcategories will be added. R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 19:09, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Definition of "Child"
What has caused me much confusion and consternation is that the definition of "child" is so vague and hazy. It seems that anyone below 18 would be a "child", but a subcategory for "fictional child deaths" implies that this only applies to people below the age of 13. Nowhere does it explicitly say if the cutoff for being a "child" is, in fact, adolescence or adulthood. R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 14:19, 10 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I am working on cleaning up this category. Many of the people inserted into it did not, in a sense, die as children, as they were older than 13 when they died (13 is considered the cutoff for someone being a "child"). As such, many names will have to be removed, and I have begun work on this already. R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 17:02, 10 September 2022 (UTC)