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and Category:en:Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Category:en:Dera Ismail Khan Division, Category:en:West Punjab, and all the other categories for provinces and smaller administrative units of Pakistan and India which have been created by a certain POV-pushing IP over the past year. (I'm sure someone could make a list if necessary, though it would take a while, since the categories are not all sorted into any particular place in the category tree.) Most are empty, or contain only the entry for the place the category is named for; e.g. Category:en:Dera Ismail Khan Division contains only Dera Ismail Khan Division. They're encyclopaedic categories which, on Wikipedia, serve the valuable role of gathering in one place all the articles on famous musicians, artists, etc from Dera Ismail Khan Division — on Wiktionary, they have no place. We don't have comparable categories for any other states, as far as I can tell: we don't have Category:en:New York, Category:en:Worcestershire, Category:de:Brandenburg or Category:ru:Moscow Oblast. - -sche (discuss) 01:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- Making a list isn't that hard, since they only seem to have used three IP addresses:
- here, here and here. There's overlap between the lists, and a few edits are to categories created by others. For what it's worth, I think that they've tried to tone down the POV at least a bit, but they and/or their sources are so steeped in it that they may not realize how strong their bias is. Still, they have the same fatal combination of bad judgment and prolific output that marks some of our worst headaches- though not the willful stubbornness of, say, Drago (talk • contribs) or Gtroy (talk • contribs)/Luciferwildcat (talk • contribs), or our English sub-par supernatural/anime fan. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:40, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- In case it's not clear, I'm not suggesting that the categories are POV. A few might be (I think some categories were created for regions of Bangladesh that were named as if they were regions of Pakistan?), but the problem with the lot of them is that they are not useful to a dictionary. - -sche (discuss) 03:31, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- Strong delete as not relevant or useful. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:54, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Done. Thank-you to Chuck for the links that gathered all the affected categories into one place (well, three places). - -sche (discuss) 22:01, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
- Other relevant discussion: Talk:Paktika sector#RFV_discussion:_December_2013. - -sche (discuss) 03:22, 1 September 2014 (UTC)