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Could we make a category for house related things, with comics like this one and the fridge one and the life hacks series? genuine question I don't fully  understand categories.--[[User:Calpurnia Tate|Calpurnia Tate]] ([[User talk:Calpurnia Tate|talk]]) 13:55, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
 
Could we make a category for house related things, with comics like this one and the fridge one and the life hacks series? genuine question I don't fully  understand categories.--[[User:Calpurnia Tate|Calpurnia Tate]] ([[User talk:Calpurnia Tate|talk]]) 13:55, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
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:It can be done (not by me, but I've probably seen well over half the comic-category categories created). If you think that it's useful, I would suggest:
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:*Either here, below, or in the Community Portal pages, lay out your case.
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:*It helps if you suggest a name (or several alternatives) to encompass what you think is "a subject". Could be ''really'' broad ("Houses"), but I think you're looking to something a lot tighter. (Not quite knowing what you have in mind, so far, I'll wait until I see your next step before seriously suggesting/critiquing the possible choice(s)...)
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:*List the candidate comics. Obviously [[3059: Water Damage]], and very likely [[3037: Radon]], but "the fridge one" immediately reminds me of two different ones you could mean, for different reasons (possibly you'd want them both, and other 'fridge ones' I'm currently not counting!). My inkling is that ''some'' of the Life Hacks are relevent to your idea (e.g. [[1494: Insurance]], but maybe not for thst reason), though not others. And maybe checking the existing [[:Category:Tips]] (or similar) will add some (but not all) of that Cat to your list. ...in short demonstrate that "house related things" is a sane group (to which we can also attach a sand name).
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:*There's several people here who I know will see the fleshed out idea and might well implement it (hopefully not before others have chance to provide feedback, and... dare I suggest it... I might pop back up with steering suggestiions!). Certainly more likely to do so when justified. You should ''not'' (though people do) just add <nowiki>[[Some Category Name]]</nowiki> to the bottom of pages, seemingly at random, and hope someone will un-Redlink this Cat for you after the fact (it's harder to check what you're thinking of including).
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:*As and when it ''is'' set up, the resulting Cat-listing page can be freely nicified, maybe made a member of a some super-Cat, other categories made members of ''it'' and any further comics that you (and others) had accidentally not noted as equivalent can be added so easily. But we need to know where to start from. Which is up to you. (Or, having posited the possibility, someone else may jump in with a convincing grouping ...no guarantee it'll match what you think, though.)
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:Not the only way to procede (nor necessarily the most thorough), but a way which covers most of the bases. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.245|172.70.91.245]] 15:53, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

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I suppose that there'd be no way to make a 'no fault' claim on your policy. 141.101.98.248 18:22, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Bravo!172.70.163.15 09:57, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Will I have to buy a lithospheric humidifier if I live in a boat? 172.71.190.58 18:54, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

So is this a series now? Should we make a tag? Mushrooms (talk) 18:56, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Probably so. Maxwell's Demon was made a category with only three examples, so I don't see why subduction can't also be a category with 1194, 1388, 1829, 2616, 3021, 3059, and almost 2987. StapleFreeBatteries (talk) 09:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

um guys, you might wanna check the new what if video Caliban (talk) 19:04, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

What is going on with the templates? TomtheBuilder (talk) 19:28, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

He's on a real geology kick lately huh. Unfortunately zero of them are funny. 162.158.154.238 19:32, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Are you kidding? He rocks! Igneously, sedimentarily and metamorphically! 172.69.195.4 21:04, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
Oh, you mean ingeniously, sentimentally, and metaphorically. Yes. DKMell (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Ponytail is likely wrong here. Water leads to partial melting of the mantle above the slab, not the crust itself. Rhesus (talk) 08:15, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

An insurance company could totally defraud millions of Home and business owners by selling too cheap earthquake and volcano insurance with really long lifetimes before installing lithospheric dehumidifiers to make those phenomenons extremely rare. Homeowners beware! 162.158.103.36 13:29, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Could we make a category for house related things, with comics like this one and the fridge one and the life hacks series? genuine question I don't fully understand categories.--Calpurnia Tate (talk) 13:55, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

It can be done (not by me, but I've probably seen well over half the comic-category categories created). If you think that it's useful, I would suggest:
  • Either here, below, or in the Community Portal pages, lay out your case.
  • It helps if you suggest a name (or several alternatives) to encompass what you think is "a subject". Could be really broad ("Houses"), but I think you're looking to something a lot tighter. (Not quite knowing what you have in mind, so far, I'll wait until I see your next step before seriously suggesting/critiquing the possible choice(s)...)
  • List the candidate comics. Obviously 3059: Water Damage, and very likely 3037: Radon, but "the fridge one" immediately reminds me of two different ones you could mean, for different reasons (possibly you'd want them both, and other 'fridge ones' I'm currently not counting!). My inkling is that some of the Life Hacks are relevent to your idea (e.g. 1494: Insurance, but maybe not for thst reason), though not others. And maybe checking the existing Category:Tips (or similar) will add some (but not all) of that Cat to your list. ...in short demonstrate that "house related things" is a sane group (to which we can also attach a sand name).
  • There's several people here who I know will see the fleshed out idea and might well implement it (hopefully not before others have chance to provide feedback, and... dare I suggest it... I might pop back up with steering suggestiions!). Certainly more likely to do so when justified. You should not (though people do) just add [[Some Category Name]] to the bottom of pages, seemingly at random, and hope someone will un-Redlink this Cat for you after the fact (it's harder to check what you're thinking of including).
  • As and when it is set up, the resulting Cat-listing page can be freely nicified, maybe made a member of a some super-Cat, other categories made members of it and any further comics that you (and others) had accidentally not noted as equivalent can be added so easily. But we need to know where to start from. Which is up to you. (Or, having posited the possibility, someone else may jump in with a convincing grouping ...no guarantee it'll match what you think, though.)
Not the only way to procede (nor necessarily the most thorough), but a way which covers most of the bases. 172.70.91.245 15:53, 6 March 2025 (UTC)