Commons:Categories for discussion/2019/03/Category:Store railway wagons
See also: Category talk:Stored railway wagons. I feel like the scope and purpose of this category needs to be discussed as opposed to a simple rename without discussion. My concern is that it seems to be being used as a catch-all for any railroad car/wagon not in immediate use, whether it is in storage or not. Several of the images in the category are clearly not stored but rather have been converted to entirely new purposes. It seems to me that either the scope needs to be redefined and the category name with it, or some of these images don't belong here. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:16, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- Given the apparent lack of input or interest here, I would suggest this category be deleted as ill-defined and therefore not useful in organizing images. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:41, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Stored vehicles are those that are depicted in a state of storage, meaning they are not in active service and are being retained for possible re-use or re-purposing in the future. I think that is a sufficient description to warrant keeping. Josh (talk) 22:49, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
- Given the apparent lack of input or interest here, I would suggest this category be deleted as ill-defined and therefore not useful in organizing images. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:41, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:Stored railway wagons. Even if we ultimately decide to delete, it should be named correctly until such time as that call is made. Josh (talk) 22:49, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
- After all this time I am unfollowing this discussion as I frankly don't particularly care anymore. But as I do so I'd note that the reason this came to my attention was that it was added to this upload of mine, of a very old Alaska Railroad car (I believe they changed the livery to our state colors of blue and gold upon statehood in 1958) that is over a hundred miles fromt he nearest rail, has no wheels, and has an addition on top that woud clearly make it entirely unsuitable for being re-introduced to service. This is in no way "stored" it has been repurposed as part of the ice making pant at our fish processing dock. Like several other entries in this cat it is a more obvious member of Category:Repurposed rail vehicles. The difference should be defined on the cat's main page if it is kept. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:49, 22 October 2019 (UTC)