Category talk:Lakes of Asia

Discussion from Categories for deletion

This category was listed for deletion on January 15, 2005 but consensus was to keep.

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Would it be worthwhile to delete Category:African lakes and Category:Asian_lakes and put the country subcategories in Category:Lakes by country? Articles about lakes that cross international boundaries could be added to multiple countries there, too. -- Beland 02:04, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think the question is, is it useful for us to have categories of landforms for each continent? For Category:Mountains, there is the same categorization by continent, except for North America. Some of us in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains, decided to drop that category quite a while back, I think primarily because there are several hundred mountains in NA that now have articles while other continents (except for Antarctica) have substantially less. This is probably due to the fact that the project has primarily a North American base of members at the moment. The continent categories also allow us to put mountains in categories where the Mountains of XXXX does not currently exist due to lack of articles. I think our decision was to only create such a category when there were at least 5 articles for the country's mountains. So for mountains, the continent categories are holding categories until the country specific category is created RedWolf 02:18, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Lakes are natural geographical features that often cross multiple countries. Most continents (Europe arguably being an exception if one regards it as a peninsula of Eurasia) are clearly physically/geographically dilineated rather than separated by often arbitrary (when one considers the physical landforms) political borders. As physical features, it is useful to see lakes within continent categories. —Lowellian (talk) 22:10, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

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