cache_test_dummies:
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?
All I am saying is that it must be demonstrated that the category meets the criteria.
Then, I am challenging the statements made by the category leader, and others, about the usefulness of the category, as a way of fulfilling on of the criterion. So, is it unreasonable to ask that someone illustrated why they think their assertions are true?
silverquill: No one has yet explained or demonstrated how this category would "aid in accomplishing an everyday task more efficiently."
cache_test_dummies:
No one has done this for any other categories, either.
No, but, again, since the statement was made, I'm merely stating that the assertion has not been supported convincingly, in my opinion. I'm quoting what was said about this category, not another. So why bring up other categories?
Not every category has a utilitarian purpose to it. But, that is what is being used to state why this one fulfills that particular criterion.
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!
Nor am I just talking about personal interest. Most of us have voted for categories in which we have had no personal interest, but which we've recognized as worthwhile categories and a general positive contribution to the waymarking community as a whole.
cache_test_dummies:
That could be said of many categories. Yup - peer review is a flawed process, but it's the best we've got right now.
Of course that could be said of many categories! And, peer review is the venue in which this will be decided. But, my argument is that we shouldn't be made to feel as if we must vote for a category we feel is a bad category and a bad for waymarking, just because someone has created it, in the name of tolerance.