I don't really have a horse in this race, but I still haven't seen any good reason for not allowing it. Nothing that I thought was a good reason, anyway.
silverquill:Okay, this is the purported reason for this category - not finding unique and interesting places to visit, but to help people find public facilities.
Many categories don't specify a reason for their existence. Are you saying that those that do must somehow demonstrate how the category can be guaranteed to deliver on it's stated purpose?
Or are you just saying that if some people don't find a category to be of interest, the category creators must demonstrate some purpose and explain how that goal will be reached in order to qualify as a viable category on this site?
Or is it something else? I get that some people don't find public toilets to be of interest. But clearly some do.
silverquill: No one has yet explained or demonstrated how this category would "aid in accomplishing an everyday task more efficiently."
No one has done this for any other categories, either.
silverquill: How many people are going to walk around with GPSr in hand with all the waymarks from this category loaded in just in case they're out and about and need to find a public restroom that they couldn't find more efficiently some other way?
I believe some will.
I assume you aren't looking for an actual number. If so, why don't we ask the same question for every category?
silverquill: It is fine to have the attitude, "Not my cup of tea, but I'm not going to rain on your parade," except that there doesn't seem to be very many people in the parade! That alone decreases its viability.
If you are basing your count of 'people in the parade' on the number of people who have posted in this topic, I'd say that isn't a viable way of gauging interest.
Peer review is a better way to gauge interest, so we'll see what happens now that the category
has been called to a vote.
silverquill: It is being said that we a category shouldn't get a nay vote just because we don't like it. That is partly true, but what we could end up with is a category hardly any one really likes or wants, but which most people voted for because - well, they thought someone, or a few wanted it!
That could be said of many categories. Yup - peer review is a flawed process, but it's the best we've got right now.
