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to see if I had put something on the category page explaining how it was supposed to be used, but unfortunately I can't do that because it has been deleted. It looks like people added stuff mostly to Category:Storms without realising that Category:Storm may have been more appropraite, and this led to
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I probably moved some articles around to merge the two categories before nominating it for deletion, but I doubt it was that much. Perhaps a distinction should be made between storm meteorology and individual storms, but calling categories "Storm" and "Storms" and expecting the reader to know which
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deleted - the deletion debate explanation doesn't really satisfy me, as there seems to have been no consideration of why the separate category existed in the first place. It seems that the assumption was that these were duplicate categories. Would I be right to say that this assumption was
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is one possibility, but can anyone think of a better name for a category for the articles about the topic of storms, rather than the category for the history of storms? Maybe keep "storms" as the top-level category, and move all the "historical" articles to a suitable
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is which isn't going to work. Also, I agree with the above statement that the distinction should be made further down in the category tree - this has also been done for
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is mostly populated with articles about the topic of storms rather than individual historical storms while the subcategories of
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The deleted category page contained only its parent categories until the deletion nominator tagged it for CfD and added
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I'd assume the CfD voters thought it was a duplicate. Looking at the situation now, it seems that
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include mostly historical events. The parent category for historical events seems to be
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and related subjects on Knowledge. To participate, help improve this article or visit the
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didn't tell me much, so I had to rummage around the archives to find the debate
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used for the general topic (types of storms rather than specific storms). --
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does a pretty good job at doing this, I think (I'm biased of course). —
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the CfD listing when the clear separation began to blur once again.
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I'm trying to start a discussion here about the deletion of
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Now, going back to this several months later, I find that
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