Category talk:Sailing

CfD Debate

 * Category:Sail to Category:Sailing
 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was merge and delete -- Rick Block (talk) 17:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

These two categories are nearly identical, so that most entries and subcategories appear in both, and in fact both are subcategories of each other. I think that "sail" and "sailing" have identical meanings, but I could be wrong about that. I suggest category:Sail be deleted, and all entries that aren't already there be merged into Category:Sailing.--Mike Selinker 16:06, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Support This is like Garden, which was merged into Gardening a while ago. CalJW 20:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Move All to Category:Sailing. --דוד ♣ D Monack 22:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Boatman 10:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge Joshbaumgartner 17:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. "Sail" is a more outdated term (Age of Sail), and is potentially confusing.  "Sailing" does not have this problem. siafu 01:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Cleanup of sub-categories
I thought I ought to leave a short message here making note of the fact that I just spent an hour or so cleaning out all of the excess, inapt sub-categories that were cluttering this category. I reduced the total number of sub-cats from 50 down to 23, which includes one new sub-cat that I added. The majority of these excess sub-cats had been added, wrongly, by a single editor. In many cases they were already listed under other sub-cats of Category:Sailing, and should not have been redundantly listed as direct sub-cats; many others simply did not belong under this category at all, as they pertained to broader aspects of water transport. Lastly, I moved up to the head of the sub-cats so readers will be sure to find it very easily.

Considering how important navigation is to sailing, this should greatly assist readers in navigating the contents of this category. Cgingold (talk) 03:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)