User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories

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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000-related films
Active aircraft carriers of the People's Republic of China
Animated films conected to Motion films
Animated series needing more images
Alleged illegal copies of major motor models
Articles which have been seen by internationally recognised figures who have published work in the field
Bald People
Bands named after someone who isn't in the band
Bands Whose Names Are One Repeated Word
Bands Whose Names Have Animals in Them
Big Bads
Category name
Catholic boxers
Cavity wall
Celebrities who have been involved in incidents resulting in death
Characters whose faces are never fully seen
Chief Dark Lords
Churches named for St. Dunstan
Controversial birds
Cool Chefs
Crater cloud
Criticisms of critics of religion
Cypriot American football players
DrugsInFearAndLoathing
Early 1930s
Education, Social-Emotional Learning
English-language pastors
Famous androgynes
Famous bearded men
Fictional Aces
Fictional Bald Characters
Fictional Black African-American DC animated Superheroes with the power to manipulate electricity
Fictional bird lovers
Fictional characters who have the power of vocal persuasion
Fictional characters who love to shop
Fictional characters with diseases
Fictional Misses, Mrs., and Ms
Fictional Misters
Fictional trouble makers
Fluffy creatures
Games similar to baseball
Generals whose names sound like car brands
German-American Christians
German-American Methodists
Guerilla asso
Historically Italian-American colleges
Hungarian footballers in Spain
Infectious disease survivors
Jeremiah
Jigsaw's first three victims
Kitchen appliance bands
Men with hats
Men who wear tight pants
Musical artists who died at the age of 27
Musical groups with head in its name
Mysterious musicians
Mythological things at least in part based on chickens
Newcastle United F.C. Number 9's
Non-African American inventors
Orthodox text editors
Outstanding Canadians
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
Questions/Items/poeple that may have to do with the creation of the Universe
Random band
Red-haired kings
Rock Star Legends That Have Attended Texan International Schools
Samoan American football coaches
Saturnian jazz musicians
School districts at the top 7% in Pennsylvania on Pennsylvania standardized tests
Songs with Stuttering
State University of New York at Purchase famous alumni producers
Tiny and interesting places
Toho kaiju who never met Godzilla
Towns with Zombie Problems
Two Joysticks, no buttons
Uncertain galaxies
Uncertain nebulae
Uncertain stars
Unusual dates
Users names that are Vancyon
Vermont expatriates
Villages in Oxfordshire without Lamp Posts
Vlad
W Cloud cluster
Waltisim
Wars France lost
Wars Named After Objects and Other Things
Weapons of British
Women with very long hair