User talk:Антон Рюмин

Category:Russian scientists
Please stop adding most of these categories to pages. In most cases the pages are already in a subcategory of Category:Russian scientists. IronGargoyle (talk) 21:42, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I know you mean well, but I've reverted your changes because they aren't necessary. WP:SUBCAT applies. Thanks! &mdash; kikichugirl  speak up! 23:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Anton, although it has not been put to you very nicely, I now understand why your edits were undone. If a scientist is a Russian geologist, that is a subcategory of Russian scientists, so it is not needed, and in fact it is not useful to add the supercategory. It is more helpful to have scientists categorized specifically, because the higher level categories can have too many general articles in them.

So, if they already are a "Russian paleontologist," that also means they are a "Russian scientist." If they are not in any scientist by nationality categories, it is more useful to put them in a specific category, geologist, rather than just scientist. In fact, as I see it now "Russian scientist" is not a very useful category other than for holding subcategories where you place the biographies.

If there are many scientists in the "Russian scientist" category, it would be useful to find more specific categories for them.

Good luck with editing. MicroPaLeo (talk) 02:42, 15 January 2015 (UTC)