We might want to keep this for some time for cleanup purposes, given that the user created many "user" categories for people who may not want them, but in general, I don't think categories should be categorized by the user who created them. ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's unconventional (I don't think anyone else has a category of categories they created), but I don't see the harm in it either. Earlier I made an argument for ownership of one's own user space, and I extend that to this category as well. The user categories don't have to be deleted, just the ones that are unwanted, but they do need to have a usercat template and be re-categorized. Mdd has had a tendency to treat user categories as regular subcategories and removes the "parent" topic categories, so those would have to be re-applied. ReneeWrites (talk) 17:19, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Seems harmless if Mdd wants to track it. Obviously, a user category rather than topical, but we tend to let people do what they want with user categories related to their own work. - Jmabel ! talk01:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Instead add better support to see one's created categories like some search operator (see phab:T188125 which is related). Moreover, the category is misleading since it's incomplete. The categories created by a user can be seen using Quarry, see Quarry:query/88374 for many created by this user, many of which are not in the category. However, this query doesn't show all categories created by the user either and depends on some specific edit summary. So I think categories like this one (there are a few more like it) should only be deleted once the query has been adjusted to check whether the edit is a page creation and the page in namespace category instead of using less reliable ways. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, nobody else does it, but that doesn't mean that it goes against a rule.
Keep, while it's certainly unique, I don't see anything wrong with this. As long as it doesn't turn into some weird obsession where they would speedy delete a category only to re-create it later to somehow try to get a higher count, this could be something they see as a good way to count and track the amount they have contributed to the Wikimedia Commons. Just because it's idiosyncratic doesn't mean that it's wrong, if they take pride in their categorisation creations then it's something that they should be able to feel pride with. My main issue with them isn't their category creations, rather it's their odd deletions which they masquerade as "clean up's". Also, this is simply a way to showcase their contributions to this project, it's not like they claim ownership over any of the categories they've created. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 04:27, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Users can use watchlists or pages in their user page as @User:Watchduck suggested earlier this year.
I think others were deleted. Not sure why this one was missed. And yes, it being idiosyncratic isn't compatible with our educational or informational approach. ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 07:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep It's unconventional (I don't think anyone else has a category of categories they created), but I don't see the harm in it either. Earlier I made an argument for ownership of one's own user space, and I extend that to this category as well. The user categories don't have to be deleted, just the ones that are unwanted, but they do need to have a usercat template and be re-categorized. Mdd has had a tendency to treat user categories as regular subcategories and removes the "parent" topic categories, so those would have to be re-applied. ReneeWrites (talk) 17:19, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Delete Instead add better support to see one's created categories like some search operator (see phab:T188125 which is related). Moreover, the category is misleading since it's incomplete. The categories created by a user can be seen using Quarry, see Quarry:query/88374 for many created by this user, many of which are not in the category. However, this query doesn't show all categories created by the user either and depends on some specific edit summary. So I think categories like this one (there are a few more like it) should only be deleted once the query has been adjusted to check whether the edit is a page creation and the page in namespace category instead of using less reliable ways. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC).png)