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Was M Dudziac (FB) deleted
I had come across M Dudziac (FB) a while back on this wiki and was just checking if there was more than one character with that surname before putting it away. Was it renamed or deleted? Will delete this post once I get an answer. Thanks in advance. (Vaudree (talk) 03:09, March 21, 2016 (UTC))
 * I have reinstated the above discussion because another user deleted it on the grounds of his unilateral decision that this page is no longer to be used for deletion discussions, a decision which has since been overruled. Furthermore, the stated reason for deleting it (that this kind of thing "is best discussed on the article talk page") is plainly absurd, since this discussion is asking if/why the article was deleted, meaning that there isn't (as far as is known) an article talk page on which to discuss it. — RobertATfm (talk) 18:20, March 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * FYI, it wasn't a "unilateral decision", blame everyone for not even bothering to post in the discussion thread I made and bumped over and over again: after nearly a month of doing so and receiving zero community response, then usual practice is to assume that nobody cares or they're fine with the decisions, this is how it works every where else. Don't call decisions "absurd" simply because you don't understand how a wiki feature works.
 * Furthermore, article talkpages are not places to ask random questions. This doesn't even belong on a talkpage, the user could just make the effort to search and find the page. Talkpages are not forums for asking questions like this. --Sajuuk 18:24, March 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * The article wasn't renamed or deleted. It's at M. Dudziac (note the period) and has been since I created it. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 18:54, March 22, 2016 (UTC)

Category:Fathers et al.
I honestly don't see the utility in Category:Fathers, Category:Uncles, Category:Aunts, etc. I think these are designations that probably apply to most characters within the Harry Potter world, and I don't see value in categorizing along these lines. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 18:14, March 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with this. The point of categories is to make navigation easier by making it easy to find pages in which a user might be interested, hence categories which are too broad or too narrow are pointless. Before I gave the Coasterpedia wiki a thorough scouring with AutoWikiBot, it had such gibberish categories as "Coasterpedia". How does a category which includes every single article on the wiki do anything to aid navigation? — RobertATfm (talk) 18:26, March 22, 2016 (UTC)


 * I wasn't even aware those existed. Delete. --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 18:35, March 22, 2016 (UTC)