Category talk:Locations in the North

Delete or not delete
Should this category be deleted, then, if it's not being used? Coswig (talk) 03:02, December 18, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, Cos... good idea, but there is also a Category:Settlements of the North... each state they are not used categories... but I have no problem deleting them... let's see if either High admin BatCat or Admin Movie agree or disagree :) -Darkwynters (talk) 02:17, December 19, 2013 (UTC)


 * "The North" is a well-defined region of the Realms, such as marked on the map on page 7 of Player's Guide to Faerûn or the sourcebook The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier (which admittedly covers much more than marked in the PGTF regions system). "The North" is a canon area; "Northwest Faerûn" is an arbitrary region defined for organisation on the wiki. But, admittedly, "Northwest Faerûn" pretty much exactly covers maps of "The North" in 2nd edition, making a separate category redundant.


 * I don't know. I'd rather keep some official representation of the North, but it's redundant, and "the North" is just confusing to newbies (lots of Realms have a North). Perhaps these categories could be redirected to equivalent Northwest Faerûn categories, just as the North currently does? — BadCatMan (talk) 08:27, December 19, 2013 (UTC)


 * It makes sense for the North to redirect to Northwest Faerûn, but if the North categories are not being used, it seems like it would be less confusing to just delete them all so that it's not an option to add them to any page. Otherwise they're empty categories that pop up when people are categorizing pages . . . only we don't actually want any pages to be categorized as such, apparently! Coswig (talk) 02:10, December 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * I agree, Cos. If it is not deleted, it will pop up. -Darkwynters (talk) 04:58, December 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, true. I was thinking of if someone types in "Category:Locations in the North" or whatever expecting to find a category, they'd get nothing, but you're right, it would be more trouble than it's worth. (Personally, I think our compass-points system, Northwest, West, etc., is unnecessary and troublesome, but it's too late to do anything about now.) So, yeah, delete it. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:40, December 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * BadCat, so you are saying... you would rather have all locations connected to just Faerûn, such as Cassius:


 * Category:Inhabitants of the Ten Towns
 * Category:Inhabitants of Icewind Dale
 * Category:Inhabitants of the Frozenfar
 * Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
 * Category:Inhabitants of Toril

And not even have the direction locator... interesting -Darkwynters (talk) 22:56, December 20, 2013 (UTC)