Category talk:Hurricane Katrina

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[edit] Reorganization

I did one of my normal category refactoring jobs on the New Orleans category (pushing the articles down to sub-cats), and have been opposed on a couple of actions by someone who has a problem with the fact that, even though the Katrina category is a sub-cat to N.O. History and thus a sub-sub to the N.O. category itself, the Katrina category itself does not imply N.O. directly. This has got me thinking to something I was already thinking about yesterday, and the opposer himself proposed something like this on my talk page: Breaking up this category into one or more geographical sub-categories. New Orleans is the obvious one, and even if it ends up being the only set broken out, this category is improved IMHO. The idea for New Orleans in particular is to create a sub-cat and any article in the Katrina category that is exclusively New Orleans centric would be pushed down into the N.O. sub-cat. And similar could be done for other geographical areas if there are enough articles on any other specific area to warrent a sub-cat (3-4 minimum, generally, IMHO when refactoring like this.) The N.O./Katrina category could then be separately parent-categorized to both Katrina and N.O. categories.

The big issue IMHO is what to name the N.O. sub-cat. I've not come up with a good name that gets across the idea that the category is a general one for articles that concern Katrina and N.O. Category:Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans? Category:Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans? Category:Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans? the last reads better, but the word "effects" is a bit more limiting than I would like. But I'm not coming up with better. - TexasAndroid 15:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, Katrina was not just New Orleans specific, and any article that is New Orleans specific IMO should have some New Orleans related topic. The Katrina category does not identify an article as such despite Hurricane Katrina being put in the "History of New Orleans" category. Hm, of the choices above I slightly lean towards the "Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans" category, as that is the best and simplest description of where the two categories intersect. (Yes, "effects" can be limiting; on Commons we've had categories for "aftermath" of hurricanes and I found that some usefull Katrina related images such as people lining up at the Superdome before the storm don't really fit into anything categorized as "aftermath".) -- Infrogmation 16:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)