Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Military equipment

The following discussion comes from Categories for deletion, where it is currently listed as unresolved. It may be reviewed again in the future in the light of evolving standards and guidelines for categorization. 22:08, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Military equipment
I'm not sure whether these childless orphans should be deleted...these categories seem to be in a state of flux. -- Beland 09:50, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * There seems to be uncertainty about what to do with these. Some of them clearly need to be deleted, but not yet, so here's the archive. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 15:39, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Category:American_tanks_(1940-1949) -> Category:American_tanks
 * Category:German_tanks_(1930-1939) -> Category:World War II German tanks
 * Category:German_tanks_(1940-1949) -> Category:World War II German tanks
 * Category:Supertanks -> Category:Super-heavy_tanks
 * Category:Tanks_(1930-1939) -> Category:World_War_II_tanks
 * Category:Tanks_(1940-1949) -> Category:World_War_II_tanks
 * Category:World_War_II_American_tanks -> Category:World War II American armored fighting vehicles
 * Category:World_War_II_British_tanks -> Category:World_War_II_British_armored_fighting_vehicles
 * Category:World_War_II_French_tanks -> Category:World War II French armored fighting vehicles
 * Category:World_War_II_Soviet_assault_guns -> Category:World_War_II_Soviet_infantry_weapons
 * Category:World_War_II_assault_guns -> Category:World War II infantry weapons

The problem with the above is that there are two competing philosophies about how to categorise militairy equipment at the moment. The first one insists on categorising by decade, the second one, which has my favour, has been arguing that it is pointless splitting World War II German tanks per decade, rather than include them all in a Category:World War II German tanks. Some discussion of this problem has been posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weaponry. I would suggest leaving these categories alone for the moment --Martin Wisse 07:46, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)