Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/01/Category:Preserved steam buses in the United Kingdom

Category:Preserved steam buses in the United Kingdom

These aren't 'preserved', they were created recently, as rebuilds from steam wagons (which are arguably preserved). The regular hobgoblin of false consistency seems, once more, to be overriding accuracy. Also Martha ought to be included, as there are three (at least), not two. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:46, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have been diffusing the Category:Preserved buses in the United Kingdom as it had more than 2,400 sub-categories. I found these steam buses listed there and so continued to refer to them as "preserved". If that is incorrect it is an error not of my making. Geof Sheppard (talk) 18:51, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Andy Dingley the parent is Category:Preserved buses in the United Kingdom. Is it admissible to keep the nominated category? See also the hatnote of "Category:Preserved buses in the United Kingdom", which clarifies the meaning of "preserved" Estopedist1 (talk) 19:13, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This should be deleted and upmerged to Category:Steam buses in the United Kingdom. They are not preserved, they're simply new builds as buses (they're conversions from old (and preserved) steam wagons).

Category:Steam buses in the United Kingdom contains old photos of unpreserved steam buses, even some more photos of these same steam buses (I don't know why they've been split like that). But what we don't have are any examples of one of these old, original buses that has been preserved (as is common for Category:steam wagons and Category:traction engines, and yet we haven't needed specific preservation categories for those). So why is the only "preserved steam road vehicles" category we have the one with no content? Andy Dingley (talk) 20:07, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]