Renaming Shooting Category [closed]

Question

I would like to point out here that naming categories carefully is important. 

[[Category:Shooting]] has been misinterpreted to include victims of a mass shooting incident. I can understand how that happened. With the use of our category "picker" tool, a person would not necessarily know that the category refers to the sport of shooting and not acts of violence against other humans.

This occurred recently with the addition of [[Category:Friends]], which was referring to the television show. I saw the potential for mistakes there (personal friends, Religious Society of the Friends?) and have renamed that category to [[Category: Friends (tv show)]] so that it is not as easy to misinterpret. 

I am going to rename [[Category:Shooting]] to [[Category:Shooting Sports]]. Or does anyone have a better name for that? I thought about [[Category:Competitive Shooting]] but some people do not compete and shoot just as a hobby.

I would encourage ANYONE who categorizes to at least read the category page to see if you're using the correct category for a profile, at least the first time you use it. It takes only a minute of your time.

Comments

Natallie, Thank you so much for this catch. It could be very misleading to anyone (like me, still trying to figure this all out).

Answer 1

I agree that a rename is in order. In case you're not already planning to do this, I wanted to point out that it has a subcategory Australia, Sports Shooting as well as "New Zealand, Shooting", "Shooting, Bisley" and "Shooting, Wimbledon". All should be standardized with the same name for Shooting Sports or Sports Shooting, although the Bisley and Wimbledon categories seem to be intended more for specific competitions, so those ones could perhaps be something more like "Shooting Competitions, Bisley, UK".

Comments

Yep, my plan was to look those over as well. They need more consistency. Thanks, Christy.

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I've changed the Australia one.