User talk:Pinkfud

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Good luck! --Panic (talk) 19:54, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Category question
Are you really sure my individual book pages should be in the main category "Geology"? They are already in their subject (book title) category, which is itself in "Geology". Since I plan to write an awful lot, it seems to me that the main cat will get cluttered beyond usefulness if we do this. -- Pinkfud (talk) 06:36, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Heck, you could have saved me some work by stating the name of the book :). I think you are referring to A Chronological Survey of Sedimentary Landforms in the Continental United States, my bad, I've fixed it now...
 * The idea is that all subpages should be tagged only with the book's category and subpages (you can put the templates in a subcategory of the book if you like, personally I don't think it is worth it but as it is now, in that book, they appear on the main category). Great work by the way... --Panic (talk) 07:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)