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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 09:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

COM:OVERCAT

Hi, thanks for the uploads.

Can you please go a bit easier on the categories (see the edits since). There's a principle here at COM:OVERCAT. Now I'm not a big fan of this, it's usually applied over-zealously, but it's a good idea. If an image could be in multile categories, but being in one of those categories always implies that it will be in another too, then we don't need to put it into the implied cat as well. So a Boeing 747-400 doesn't need to go into Boeing 747 and Boeing as well.

This can get a bit tricky with "temporary" categories. So an aircraft in a particular fleet (and certainly at a particular airport) might still get put into that fleet's category, even if it's also listed as one through a cat for that aircraft serial itself. Aircraft do change fleet, and they regularly fly between different places.

In some cases (planes and trains a lot) we'll have a category for that indivdual serial. So we can put classes onto that cat, because they are always going to apply. So "locos built in Doncaster" is better on the cat for a loco, not on the image of it – unless it's one of it actually at Doncaster, getting built.

Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 11:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)