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Lakes in Maine have been subcategorized by county. I randomly checked six other states, and in every case, landforms were subcategorized by county, while lakes were categorized simply by the state and not subcategorized by county. Thus, an article on a lake would be in one category for landforms in that county, as well as in the Lakes in Maine category. Unless it was just a freak accident that the six states I checked all happened to have that system, I'm thinking it would make sense to categorize lakes in Maine according to that same system, to increase consistency across Wikipedia. Thoughts or objections? Jbening (talk) 03:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Last year, Hmains attempted to have Maine lakes categorized like the other six states I checked (see my post from last September immediately above), but was reverted by Namiba. Yesterday he had another go at it, and Namiba again reverted, citing no consensus for that approach. I don't care strongly one way or the other, but it does make sense to me to have as much consistency in Wikipedia as possible, which would I guess have me siding with Hmains. Does anyone other than Hmains and Namiba care about this? If so, could someone chime in with an opinion? By the way, this has got to be the slowest edit war I've ever seen on Wikipedia. Fortunately, the 3RR is by day, not by decade. :) Jbening (talk) 04:55, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No replies for almost five days. This is looking a lot like the only three people in this big crazy world of ours that care about the category structure for water bodies in Maine are Namiba, Hmains, and myself. Hmains has just reasserted his choice, that the lakes in Maine category be all-included. This preserves the by-county categories (which I personally would vote to delete, since none of the six other states I chose at random to look at sub-categorize bodies of water at that level of detail), while achieving on the category page the virtues of statewide categorization of lakes. It strikes me as a reasonable compromise. The only dissenting vote that has made itself heard is Namiba's, who, it is worth noting, created the by-county categories in the first place. Jbening (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
