Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Weapons of the Czeck Republic

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Category:Weapons of the Czeck Republic

There's an obvious spelling error "Czeck" -> "Czech", but I also wonder if it should talk about the Czech Republic if it will include stuff older than 1993. Something more generic should be used if so. --Joy [shallot] 23:16, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Summary after 2 weeks — only support is for Move to Category:Czech weapons => move to section 5.2 below

• 0 Delete: none
• 0 Keep: none
• 2 Move: Gene Nygaard; A D Monroe III

Move - Reinstate Category:Czech weapons or rename to something else more sensible than "Weapons of the Czech Republic" which didn't exist until 1993. It was much better under the old name, before some fool changed it. It was Category:Czech weapons before. That's what it should be returned to; in English Czech is often used as the adjective relating to Czechoslovakia before it split into the Chech Republic and Slovakia. Gene Nygaard 15:04, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Move to Category:Czech weapons as suggested by Nygaard. I know the standard is "Weapons of Foo" instead of "Fooian Weapons", but in this case (and a few others), the state of Foo is too limited, only the culture of Fooian covers the category. --A D Monroe III 13:43, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment We should treat this the same as we did the Russia/Soviet Union problem. Any given article will go in one, the other, or both, as appropriate. We just need new categories for predecessor countries, unless they already exist. (Sorry about the slip of the finger, BTW.) -- Beland 07:31, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well, sure, we could fragment everything down into Category:Weapons used by Slovakia and Weapons used by Czechoslovakia and Weapons used by the Czech Republic, as well as Category:Weapons sold by the Czech Republic and the like. But what's the point? (Granted, there are likely more of them than the three now listed in the wrongly named category, but so what?) Furthermore, an article listing all the categories that some weapons fit into is just going to be an invitation for some editor to bitch about excess categorization and take out a few of them.

There are several differences between this and the Russia/Soviet Union problem.

Of course, for the World War I weapons, we'd also have to create Catgory:Weapons of Bohemia (see History of the Czech lands) and the like. Or would you lump it into a Category:Weapons of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, rather than having Bohemia as a subcategory of that? Gene Nygaard 14:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)