Category talk:Second Cup

Introductory text

The purpose of Wikimedia Commons is described on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome The categories to which the category "Second Cup" belongs are sufficient to identify what Second Cup is, and to enable users who are seeking images of coffee cups, hands holding coffee cups, etc. to get to the Second Cup category page. Text at the top of category pages, in Wikimedia Commons, appears fairly rarely, and has a limited number of uses. Among them are disambiguation, explanations to the reader of what belongs on the page and what doesn't, suggestions directing readers to similar categories, and so on. The top of category pages is not the place for descriptive text about the category. This kind of text belongs in the Wikipedia article, and to some extent, in the description boxes of the images. For this reason, on 24 December 2011 I removed descriptive text from the top of the category "Second Cup" page dated 8 December 2011. Downtowngal (talk) 04:48, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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I left a long response explaining why brief text is useful. Short version, the purpose of categories might seem obvious, but this is an illusion. Good faith contributors routinely arrive at different interpretations of what "obviouxly" does and doesn't belong in categories. Introductory text really helps prevent the chaos that results when good faith contributors have a dispute over their differing interpretations of what is obvious. Geo Swan (talk) 09:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)