Talk:Chaplin's patent distilling apparatus

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This article was nominated for deletion on May 31, 2011. The result of the discussion was keep.

Categorization[edit]

This article is overcategorized.

This article is currently categorized under Category:Evaporators,Category:Distillation,Category:Water desalination,Category:Steam power,Category:Marine propulsion

Category:Evaporators is a child of Category:Distillation and Category:Water desalination, so this is excessive categorization per WP:OC
While this device is steam powered, it is not an article on steam power, so Category:Steam powered appliance may be appropriate (if someone were to create it), but Category:Steam power does not seem appropriate. Otherwise everything powered by electricity would end up under Category:Electric power
Category:Marine propulsion seems highly inappropriate, since this is not a marine propulsion unit. True, it harvests steam from marine steam boilers, but it can harvest steam from any steam boiler. Further, this is under "Steam power" and "Marine propulsion", but we already have an intersection category, Category: Marine steam propulsion‎.

-- 70.49.127.65 (talk) 04:05, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Category:Evaporators is a child of Category:Distillation and Category:Water desalination, so this is excessive categorization per WP:OC"

No, because this isn't a defining relationship. Not all evaporators are used for water desalination, thus we can't imply this about sub cats of it.

Secondly, evaporators like this (and especially Chaplin's, in its historical context) have particularly close links with Category:Marine steam propulsion and belong within it. The parent categories aren't needed, so why not move this article's categorization into that cat? However that's not what the IP address has been doing, it has just been stripping cats wholesale. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:30, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't move it to Category:Marine steam propulsion because it is not a propulsion unit. However, you could have done that. I stripped Category:Marine propulsion because it isn't a propulsion unit. 70.49.127.65 (talk) 11:29, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rename?[edit]

Chaplin's Patent Distilling Apparatus is a little more terse, gives the essence of what this is about more clearly and it also follows the printed advert (presumed to be the source for the name) more clearly.

Thoughts? Andy Dingley (talk) 11:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. —Guan aco 07:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]