Category talk:World War II weapons of Russia
Category:Military equipment of Russia by period[edit]
Excess and useless categorization. I think that all categories in this category are not needed, because:
Category:World War II military equipment of Russia = Category:Great Patriotic War equipment
Category:Post-World War II military equipment of Russia - "Post-World War II" is not correct criterion for categorisation, it not using for any other countries (see e.g. Category:Military equipment of the United States, Category:Military equipment of the United Kingdom, etc).
Also, all subcategories (as World War II infantry firearms of Russia, World War II infantry weapons of Russia, etc) of these categories are clearly excess. Лапоть (talk) 09:07, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
- I agree 100%. Use 'by year/decade/century' categories where time period needs to be defined. "Post-anything" names are not appropriate. Any of these 'periods' are pointless and imprecise. To be a 'World War II weapon', does that mean the weapon was made during World War II, designed for World War II, still in service during World War II, actually was used in World War II? All are valid, and different people will think of different ones as being the primary meaning of the phrase, which makes it pointless to categorize by it. I get why people think it makes sense, afterall how many books are there about 'World War II aircraft' or 'infantry weapons of the Vietnam War' or some such? But the scope of a book is wholly the decision of its author, and each can have their own criteria for what gets included in their book or not. We need a clear and concise way to define this and without one, we should not be using categories like this. I recommend we simply delete these and all similar categories, making sure content is appropriatly categorized. Josh (talk) 00:58, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
@Лапоть: Closed (no objections; delete 'by period' categories save for 'by year/decade/century' categories) Josh (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2019 (UTC)