160:(...) SmallCat has been part of a guideline since 2006. Originally named "No potential for growth", it was changed after editors were using it to delete categories based purely on numbers. There has been an ongoing desire, never reaching consensus, to apply a strict numerical threshold for SmallCat (jc37 evidence). Use of such numerical thresholds, even if phrased as a "rule of thumb" or similar such phrase, in CFDs is therefore not supported by the guideline. However, reasonable editors can reach differing conclusions about other elements of the guideline, including the potential for growth and whether categories
797:): An unfinished or under-populated category is not a harmless thing. As such, you should establish its purpose and scope clearly, and properly populate and parent it before moving on to do other things. The community would prefer to keep a newly-built house, but if there are not enough items to populate the house with yet, then it's better to merge it back to the old house where the items were fine, and will be fine for the time being. That's also where readers and editors are more likely to find the items for the time being. It saves everyone time while navigating categories.
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broader scope and meaning that still applies to all items in the nominated category. Merging acknowledges that connection. A reader or editor will probably still be able to find very easily what they are looking for by navigating between the items in the broader category. A category which has been "(up)merged for now" could be re-created in the future if there are enough items (preferably at least 5) within the broader category to merit a subcategory for a more specific subset of items.
787:): Building an article or a category (tree) requires appropriate planning and effort. Do it wrong, and we might have wasted time and effort while having to start over. Even if our building is kept, there's a maintenance cost to everything we build. So it's best to make sure we're going to use the building for its intended purpose once it is finished, and not hope one day renters will show up.
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script. (This script didn't exist back in
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tree which combines "nationality, genre and instrument", and then proceeds with 2 redundant layers, then an under-populated layer with only 3 pages and then a poorly-populated, final subsubsubsubcategory with only 8 pages? Which reader benefits from this detour circus? Which reader is thinking, "I'd
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Critics have claimed that it can be employed as a pretext to oppose the deletion or merger of any category whatsoever, no matter how unimportant/unhelpful that category is in practice. Concerns of unforeseen consequences are held to be overblown; these are held in check by other policies such as
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have no realistic potential for growth? The place can grow in size, and/or it can acquire a concentration of schools for some reason or another. So how should we objectively determine whether there is realistic potential for growth, and how much growth/how fast growth is
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certain important/helpful categories, or that it can be employed as a pretext to oppose the deletion or merger of any category whatsoever, no matter how unimportant/unhelpful that category is. As a result, there is no consensus on how to interpret it,
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