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Chrisdmiddleton (talk) 08:14, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Algebraic geometry journals

A tag has been placed on Category:Algebraic geometry journals indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:38, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging this one - it was created by accident. Chrisdmiddleton (talk) 08:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Actually I found the articles I had meant to put into that category, so it's no longer empty. Chrisdmiddleton (talk) 08:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, thank you for your efforts in categorizing articles, especially of academic/scientific journal articles. However, I note that quite a few of the new cats that you created only contain 1 or 2 articles (and I even saw 1 that only had a subcat). This may indicate that your cats are a bit too fine-grained. Having many cats with each only very few entries is not very useful, as the main use of cats is to find similar or related articles. Also, looking at some of the journal articles that you categorized, it is not always evident from the article why a journal is put in a certain cat. If a journal publishes articles on subjects A, B, and C, it is often more useful to put them in a higher level cat instead of A Journals, B journals, and C journals. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 09:39, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the thanks and for your input. Those are valid concerns - I'll my share thoughts as to why I was doing it this way.

Regarding the first point, some of the categories start out with only one or two but I was still making my way through the top level of math journals, so more will be added in most cases.

Regarding the second point, the main value I was seeing is that if someone is looking at a non-journal category, say dynamical systems, they could now easily browse all the journals for dynamical systems in one place, even if those journals cover multiple topics. The number of math journals which are truly nonspecific, which I was leaving in the math category is still very large. Chrisdmiddleton (talk) 15:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks for the clarification. However, one danger I see with your example is that for many journals that cover more subjects than just dynamical systems, one has to go to the tables of content to see whether articles on dynamical systems are include, which gets perilously close to OR... --Randykitty (talk) 16:34, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yeah, that's a valid concern - because of that possibility I tried to limit it to cases where the journal claims to only cover certain topics. If a journal just happens to have a tendency towards covering more of topic A than anything else, but is otherwise a general mathematics journal and markets itself that way, I wouldn't try to move it into a subcategory. Chrisdmiddleton (talk) 20:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)