Category talk:Monarchs of the United Kingdom

Protestant?
The Anglican Communion (including Church of England) does not call itself protestant, but reformed catholic. Shouldn't they be under "Anglican Monarchs" nor "Protestant Monarchs"? --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Depopulate?
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Should this category be depopulated? (Likewise Category:British monarchs and Category:English monarchs)

Strictly applying OVERCAT to remove all pages from these because they're in the per-century subcategories would be a bad change. It would seriously devalue these overall categories as a listing of all such monarchs, and as a navigational feature. It is not common knowledge such that we can simply assume it for our readers to known the century to which Henry IV belonged.

There is also a concern from WP:PERFCAT, which is regularly cited to delete categorisation for groups such as "Cold War aircraft". Now I wouldn't go that far, but Category:English monarchs is very strongly defining in a way that "British monarchs of the 11th century" is much less so.

OVERCAT is a regular source of damaging edits to the overall performance of the encyclopedia, in the pursuit of a pointless dogmatism. We shouldn't make that mistake yet again. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:03, 29 March 2020 (UTC)


 * The term "depopulation" is wrong here. This is diffusion. The subcategories remain part of the tree. This is standard categorization practice. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2020 (UTC)