Category talk:Welsh towns and villages

Would it not make sense to merge this category with "Welsh locations". It seems to me there are many different subcategories, when having just two for "Cardiff" and "Wales" would be sufficient? Geek Mythology 16:50, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Not really. Our category tree has developed such that "category: locations" is sort of a parent category for various geographic sub-units. If we were to start collapsing the category tree as you suggest, we'd logically have to disband all the subcategories of category:Welsh locations, which would means that you'd end up with hundreds and hundreds of pages in a single category.  For bigger regions, like Category:English locations, you might end up with thousands of pages in a single category — something that just wouldn't be manageable.


 * The general trend should be for more specificity in the category tree, not less. There are occasional times where we might make a category that's too specific, but they really are rare. Certainly, Welsh towns and villages is a nice, healthy size. 23:08: Wed 11 Sep 2013