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User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories

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Introduction

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Categories are Wikipedia's infrastructure. Used correctly, they help to organize topics and improve navigation between articles on similar topics. Used incorrectly, however, they become a mess. I therefore spend some time adding comments at the categories for discussion page.

In the process of reviewing categories, I have frequently come across quite a few humorous categories. Some of these categories are overly-specific (Fictional Black African-American DC animated Superheroes with the power to manipulate electricity) while others are are overly inclusive (German-American Christians, People of Welsh descent in Great Britain). Some are just written with weird qualifiers (Cool Chefs, Outstanding Canadians), while others are written using poor English (Weapons of British). A few others are just bizarre (000-related films, Random band). Most of these categories are deleted after voting reaches a unanimous or near-unanimous consensus.

Presented below are a sample of the bizarre or inane categories that I have encountered. Each name is liked to the discussion page where it was decided to delete the category. The list currently contains categories discussions that were started between 27 October 2006 and 30 June 2007.

List of bizarre and inane categories

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A

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B

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C

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D

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E

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F

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G

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H

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I

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J

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K

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M

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O

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Panhandles
Pen spinning
People who have at some stage claimed they are not gay
People who can't speak normal English
People who died before the age of 50
People who have been pied
People with facial hair
People of Welsh descent in Great Britain
Players who have played for FC Barcelona and Real Madrid
Possible Replacements for Anchor Steve Bartelstein
Presbyterian actors
Primates of the Catholicosate of India of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church
Primates of the Catholicosate of the East and Malankara Metropolitanate of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Primates of the Catholicosate of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and All Armenians
Primates of the Catholicosate Patriarchate of Babylon of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East
Primates of the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Catholicosate Patriarchate of All Georgia
Primates of the Jerusalem Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Epitropia of the Holy Sepulcher in America
Primates of the Patriarchial Catholicosate of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and All Ethiopia

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