Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Supermarkets in the United Kingdom


 * Category was emptied before the 7 day waiting period and was deleted sometime thereafter.

Discussion moved from Categories for deletion, originally listed January 2, 2005.

This category appears to be a variant on a disambiguation page for Safeway. Only one British supermarket is in it. There is an active category called Category:British supermarkets. Philip 10:03, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep unless better names can be determined. I see why this name appears preferable; it certainly sounds better. However, I've drawn a distinction between "Supermarkets of X", i.e. from the country and "Supermarkets in X", i.e. operating in the country. Can you come up with alternative names for these that do not lose that distinction? Mr. Jones 13:46, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * What's the point of having a category which: a) doesn't contain what the name says it contains; b)no one is using? Also the British Safeway company was taken over in March last year. If this category is retained all it will do is take up space. I can see no merit in maintaining the distinction you propose at the category level; the fact that only one of the groups has been used (even though the other was on the main UK menu} suggests that this is the prevalent opinion of the UK Wikipedians.
 * I could easily suggest two formats of category name which would be clearer than yours (there is just no way the intention of yours will be universally appreciated so they will just cause inaccurate categorising when one of them is not totally ignored), but I'm not going to because I think your purpose is misguided. On the other hand, if you want to draw up two sets of lists, that might be useful, but surely a user who looks at a list of British Supermarkets is going to expect to find ASDA on it, and if it isn't there, they will propbably not look for a semantic explanation, but simply assume it is a mistake or oversight. I will make a note at the top of the British Supermarkets page of which ones are not UK owned.Philip 16:37, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * User:Gbr emptied the category yesterday.Philip 16:56, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)