Category talk:Nigeria Professional Football League players

Category:Footballers in Nigeria by competition

@GiantSnowman: Would you please clarify your reasoning for these edits, which effectively reverted my previous edit? The latest edits are inconsistent with every other category in Category:Association football players by competition by country. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 21:19, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Also, Category:Footballers in Nigeria by competition was not eligible to be deleted under criterion C1 ("unpopulated for at least seven days"), but I will hold off on restoring it pending our discussion of the question above. Thanks, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 21:32, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Why have you subcategorised every single country, even those with only one subcategory (like this?) Not needed. I've also restored the category, apologies, I'd mis-remembered C1. GiantSnowman 07:28, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, and no worries on C1. I created the subcats mainly because domestic league categories (such as this one) were previously scattered between Category:Association football players by competition (mixed with various multinational competitions) and the country subcats of Category:Association football players by competition by country. The result was inconsistent and difficult to navigate, so I expanded the preexisting country scheme, which already had 60+ categories.

A league category should not be placed directly in Category:Association football players by competition by country (after all, a league is not a country, and not all leagues' names identify the country), so the only alternative would be to shift these domestic league categories back into Category:Association football players by competition, which does not help navigation. As far the problem of low membership, underpopulated categories can be acceptable when they are needed to complete a defined set (as in the case of by-country categories), and moreover nearly every country's category has room for growth as new categories are created for other competitions. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 17:52, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Yep, makes sense! GiantSnowman 19:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Great, thanks! -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 15:48, 9 August 2018 (UTC)