Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 May 19

Post-close comment regarding Category:Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail

 * Comment. It's disappointing that no-one followed the guidelines and notified me about this discussion as the creator of and contributor to the category. The articles could easily have been amended to mention this key stage of the European Industrial Heritage Route. Often, the categorisation of Germany-related articles structure in German Wikipedia is naturally more detailed and worth importing to develop and improve our coverage. In this case it enables people to quickly locate and find out about the important waypoints on this route. I realise these comments come too late to influence the decision, but please consider notifying significant contributors in future CFD's. Thanks. --Bermicourt (talk) 12:39, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The creator of that category was notified and anyone else who had that category on their watchlist would also have been made aware (and possibly also editors looking at any relevant wikiproject article alert lists).
 * Re enabling people to find out about things on the route - that would be better done using a list - one reason being that a list can contain redlinks (for things that are on the trail but do not (yet) have a En Wp article) - see, for example, the list at Template:Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail. It's also common for such lists to contain links to articles in the native language wp. DexDor(talk) 04:28, 9 June 2016 (UTC)