Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 September 3

Concepts by field discussion
Just wanted to offer my own personal thanks for everyone who participated in the recent discussion of concepts by field. glad we could hear so many differing views on that. I am opening this talk section simply in case anyone might wish to add any thoughts or comments on this topic. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 11:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_September_3#Category:Middle_schools_in_the_United_States_by_county
Hi! I saw Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_September_3 I'd like to re-establish Category:Middle_schools_in_the_United_States_by_county because there are in fact quite a few middle schools in the United States by county. However they tend to be K-12 private schools which cover up and until the 12th grade. Large urban counties tend to have large concentrations of such private schools, including those of New York City, LA County, Cook County, Harris County, Dallas County, etc. Also such categories can include the occasional middle schools which survive AFD such as Pershing Middle School (Houston) WhisperToMe (talk) 23:23, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what benefit there would be over and above using the existing structure at Category:Middle schools in the United States by state. There is nothing that says you can't create categories for specific counties and have one of its parent categories be something under its "state" in the "by state" category, assuming such a category would normally be create-able under Wikipedia rules.  In other words, it probably wouldn't happen for most counties but it has happened, see Category:Middle schools in Manhattan.
 * If you are asking to have Category:Middle schools in the United States by county re-created, similar to Category:High schools in the United States by county, you might want to post a note on WT:WikiProject Schools pointing to this discussion to see if it's going to be useful enough to restore.
 * I do want to thank you for bringing this to our attention, as I found two little-used categories that are of a similar vein: category and category. They must be fairly recent, I don't recall seeing them before.  If they were created after a discussion at the Schools WikiProject, then odds are high that the same WikiProject would endorse re-creating this category.
 * I also notice there is Category:Middle schools in the United States by city and its sub-categories.
 * Overall, I'm neutral but I would want to have input from the WikiProject that would use it the most. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  23:48, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I posted! I agree that such categories would not exist for most counties, but only for urbanized ones with many private schools. The counties I mainly had in mind aside for NYC include Los Angeles County, Cook County, Harris County, Miami-Dade County etc. BTW I created the elementary ones to tie up those urban counties mentioned in a common category. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)