Category talk:Scottish athletes

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Keep. This was a perfectly legitimate category that listed Scottish athletes, as opposed to athletes from other nations of the UK. These athletes compete for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games, for example. I don't know why this is a candidate for speedy deletion: it's just as legitimate a category as Category:Scottish cities. -- Avaragado 19:36, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

CFD discussion

 * Category listed for deletion on February 11, 2005. Consensus was to keep.

category:English athletes, category:Welsh athletes, category:Scottish athletes

British athletes compete in international competitions for Great Britain. Therefore the aim of categorisation fo listing like articles together is violaed. These should be merged back into Category:British athletes. Dunc|&#9786; 11:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * British athletes compete in some international competitions for Great Britain. In many - such as the Commonwealth Games - they compete for their individual home countries. Therefore, all of these should be kept as subcategories of Category:British athletes. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 11:49, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The categorisation can't ever be perfect anyway, as Great Britain technically shouldn't include Northern Ireland. It's easier and less controversial to classify by nation/UK region. zoney &#09827; talk 12:00, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with Dunc. Jihg 13:08, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Um - which? Dunc asked for them to be deleted! Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]]
 * keep I did this. I am doing it for all GB and Northern Ireland sportspeople. I want all English people/ Scottish people etc to be accessible from the English people/Scottish people etc main categories. This is the only way to deal with the inconsistency in categorisation across the board. It used to be a mess, with for example half the most famous English such-and-suches in "English such-and-suches" and the other half in "British such-and-suches" and no link between the two for many categories. Exceptions are an unwelcome complication. All British athletes still are in "British athletes", but just one level further down. Philip 16:54, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I helped populate these several months ago, but they were summarily deleted without proper discussion. There was a vote to undelete which passed. See this diff on Votes for Undeletion for the removal of the last discussion I saw. -- Avaragado 19:23, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)