Category talk:Human reproduction

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Are all articles in this category appropriate?

I came here because of a recent edit adding Combined oral contraceptive pill to this category. This does not make sense to me - preventing reproduction is addressed in the Category:Birth control, this category should (in my mind) be limited to achieving reproduction. Looking over articles currently included, other stand out to me as not quite fitting. I propose removing from this category:

If there were only a few articles I thought inappropriate, I'd just discuss it on the article pages. But because there are so many, I'm proposing a centralized discussion here. I've put notices on the talk page of the articles in question pointing interested editors here. Lyrl Talk C 14:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(The following copied from my talk page, referring to the COCP article):

Hi. I feel that those items pertain to human reproduction in the sense that things that impede or prevent human reproduction are as much about human reproduction as are things that promote it.QuizzicalBee 15:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
How about including Category:Birth control as a daughter category of this one, instead of including the COCP article directly? Lyrl Talk C 18:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of the category is to list everything that pertains to human reproduction. All of these things do pertain to it, either in preventing it or facilitating it. We seem to have a disagreement as to the definition of the category. While some of these items already fit into other categories, like pregnancy or gynecology, there is no other category that includes all of these different issues, yet it is a matter of concern to anyone trying to get pregnant or having any problems with the reproductive system, and therefore it seems like a useful category.QuizzicalBee 20:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looking more into how things were categorized before, and now realizing this is a brand-new category, I believe it is a definite improvement and thank QuizzicalBee for taking the time to do this sort of administrative work.
However, we do seem to have some disagreement. I thought the purpose of a category was to enable users to easily navigate between related topics. The approach QuizzicalBee has started, if taken to its (to me) logical conclusion, would list individually every single article currently in Category:Birth control, Category:Female reproductive system, Category:Male reproductive system, Category:Menstruation, Category:Pregnancy, and more. No rationale has so far been provided as to why these article should be listed individually (which will make a huge, difficult to navigate category) rather than making daughter categories (which still includes all the information, but can then be easily navigated).
Although how estrogen patches or growth hormone is even tangentially related to reproduction is something I'm not grasping. Lyrl Talk C 21:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you're right. It makes sense to put the categories there instead of the items in the categories, plus any strays. I'll change it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by QuizzicalBee (talk • contribs) 00:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
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