Difference between revisions of "Category talk:Infantry Battalions"

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I've started on unit type categories but need more research to get size categories right. I have a vague memory that Your Archives had trouble with large categories making it hard to find child categories, but that was a much older version of MediaWiki.--GavinRobinson (talk) 10:24, 11 November 2014 (PST)

Thanks Gavin! I've started using your [[Category:British_Infantry_Battalions]] and also started [[Category:Battalions_with_official_diaries]]. Similarly, I'll start using [[Category:Battalions_with_personal_narratives]] too.

On Wikipedia itself I get the impression that category pages are limited for the sake of the reader rather than the server these days.

Should we keep this as a parent category that only contains child categories, not pages, with the actual pages only in the national child categories?--GavinRobinson (talk) 03:52, 6 December 2014 (PST)

That works for me. It'd be good to have some explanatory text on this category page to gently introduce people to the complexities of untangling what 'infantry battalion' means in different contexts. --Mia (talk) 03:57, 6 December 2014 (PST)

And also because the 'specific type' field might link back to this page by default --Mia (talk) 04:01, 6 December 2014 (PST)

Current categories are listed in FAQ and help, it'd be good to resolve them ASAP so I can edit existing pages to bring them up to date and update the battalion pre-loading page template. --Mia (talk) 04:00, 6 December 2014 (PST)