Familypedia talk:By location category scheme

United States Census
The page United States Census was added to this site about two months before the "by location category scheme" was. So were the related pages United States Census, 1790 and United States Census, 1840, with latent links to about 20 similarly-named pages. Nobody had queried the word order in the name - either on its talk page or in Forum:Census pages - until I tried to make subcategories with corresponding names. Phlox was a little harsh but technically correct in complaining that the name violates the category scheme that has just been put up here. The scheme is still a "Proposed Policy" on Commons, and I regard it as a proposed policy here until there's a bit more comment on it.

In principle I like the category scheme and am willing to spend some time taking part in eradicating violations. I wonder whether anyone thinks "United States Census" is one of the "Fossilized expressions" that can be excluded. If not, we should seemingly be:
 * renaming it "Census of the United States"
 * renaming related pages to match as closely as possible. Does that mean putting the date at the start, eg "1790 census of the United States"? (I'm happy with that - someone looking for a 20th century ancestor can instantly see that a name starting with "1790" is not worth studying.)

Then what about pages (including categories) covering a single state's census details? Subpages?

Robin Patterson 05:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)