Category talk:Dragon weapons

Does anyone else thing this category is completely invalid? These items are most certainly NOT a "family", in the way that Celestial or Zodiac weapons are. Dragons are a very common theme in fantasy games, and most of these items have no connection other than having something to do with dragons. I vote for this category to be deleted. On this topic, what about other categories that are based on similarly shaky grounds? For example: Category:Ruby items There are only two items, and this category's existence has already been questioned. Category:Runic items  These items share NOTHING in common which would have them be a "family", except a word in common. The Runic Hammer is an incredibly common skin that is found in all campaigns. The Runic Blade is a fairly rare skin that used to only be found in the HoH chest and is now only in GW:EN and core areas. The Runic Maul is exclusively from Factions. The Runic Shield is a low level collector's shield, for chrissake. Category:Aureate items  "Aureate" just means golden. These items share nothing in common that would make them a "family" besides the fact that they are golden; they don't share a drop area, and they're not even from the same campaign. This is another case of over-categorizing.

The weapons family category seems to be populated with quite a few invalid categories. What are everyone's opinions on the deletion of the above categories? Since it is such an overhaul, I don't want to GW:BOLD without support. Thanks! Ailina 23:58, July 22, 2010 (UTC) PS, sorry that the categories aren't linked. For some reason, the links wouldn't appear.
 * I'd side with you on this issue - but I'd also like to have more users chime in with their views. If we get it, I can easily remove the selected categories with a bot. --  Random Time  00:38, July 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't even know those categories existed. They do seem certainly pointless and I won't miss them.  Voting delete. Ethigenetic 01:08, July 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * We don't vote. We're operating by consensus, i.e. giving the best argument a chance to prevail. -- ◄mendel► 09:03, July 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * This category was created by User:Drakeskullnl who is (was?) in the guild R I S E Against [DRGN], and yes, they have a dragon on their cape. So I suppose he wanted for himself or his guildies to use "dragon" items, how little of a family they appear to be. Likewise, the runic and aureate weapons share a design feature that some people may be attracted to.
 * For the ruby items, that category is very small. However, the interesting thing about it is that these items do salvage to ruby. Going by the salvage categories, there are only a select few more weapons that do: Amethyst Aegis, Iridescent Aegis, and Jeweled Daggers. Some of these also salvage into sapphires and diamonds; a weapons that also does is the Diamond Aegis. Put these in and rename it "Jewel weapons", and it's not too small any more.
 * So some people found/find these categories useful, they're reasonably full, what's the problem? The problem seems to be that they don't fit with the other categories in Category: Weapons by family, most of which are much more cohesive in terms of design and where they are available. The least controversial remedy then seems to be to take these four categories (well spotted, by the way!) out of Category: Weapons by family and put them in a category of their own, maybe "Weapons by design"? Weapons by family could be a subcategory of that, and we'd have these 4 categories in it as well. What do you think? -- ◄mendel► 09:03, July 23, 2010 (UTC)