Category talk:Scanlation Images Allowed

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Do we really need this category specifically? Why don't we put all these files into Category: Scanlation Images? All that category is is a sub-category of two others. It just includes this one. The files in this category should go in there, so that's one less category to handle. This doesn't have to exist. 21:37, January 14, 2013 (UTC)

Category:Scanlation Images is a maintenance category, just like Category:Files to be Renamed or Category:Candidates for Deletion: it is used to mark some files as "needing to be updated with a raw image". It is empty right now, but is not necessarily empty all the time.

But the only images that can't fall in would be images that aren't allowed, would they not? So shouldn't they fall in the deletion category anyways? 23:20, January 14, 2013 (UTC)

Not always, Nada. If the image is properly sourced and all that good stuff, it's not necessarily delete-worthy. Nearly all the times I've used the category have been for old images though. (Also a couple Chinese scans that someone thought were Raws) 23:51, January 14, 2013 (UTC)

Admittedly, now that all scanlation images have been replaced, the category is seldom useful. But as JSD said, in some cases it can be…