Why I very rarely vote no -
1) Judging 'too regional' is difficult. Many of us are in the
U.S. or Canada and they are relatively huge countries. Waymarking
was started/defined by including a McDonalds category made by
TPTB. McDonalds isn't commonly everywhere in the world so why
deny other countries and continents their franchises. Franchises
limited to one town is pretty regional, but several towns in several
states isn't so regional. The judgement on this isn't so easy.
2) 'Too pervasive' is much easier to judge. On the other
hand, I have seen few to none of these. Confluences was the only
one that ever bothered me.
3) In determining what is interesting, one must have a global
point of view - not as in planet-wide but in terms of all kinds of
people and personalities. I commonly vote yes on categories that
I have absolutely no interest in, or even some negative interest in,
because I know that there are other people that have that kind of thing
as a primary interest or even lifelong hobby interest. It would
be un-global of me to attempt to deny them.
4) There are 2 totally different aspects of 'poorly written
category'. One is a category that has lots of spelling errors,
grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, organizational problems,
etc. I don't vote no on these on this account. This is
Waymarking not Creative Writing. Instead of voting no, I suggest
all the fixes needed. The other kind of 'poorly written' category
is a category that makes no sense. These are uncommon, but I have
seen them and voted no. They probably seem clear to the people
that wrote it up, but they are incomprehensible to me - I have little
or no idea of what is meant or required by the category. In my
opinion, the whole concept needs to be re-thought and re-written from
scratch.