Category talk:Monarchs of the United Kingdom

This category does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography This category is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles British Royalty This category is within the scope of WikiProject British Royalty (a child project of the Royalty and Nobility Work Group), an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to British Royalty on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you should visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.British RoyaltyWikipedia:WikiProject British RoyaltyTemplate:WikiProject British RoyaltyBritish royalty articles United Kingdom This category is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles

The Anglican Communion (including Church of England) does not call itself protestant, but reformed catholic. Shouldn't they be under "Anglican Monarchs" nor "Protestant Monarchs"? --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per [1] @Marcocapelle:

Should this category be depopulated? (Likewise Category:British monarchs and Category:English monarchs)

Strictly applying OVERCAT to remove all pages from these because they're in the per-century subcategories would be a bad change. It would seriously devalue these overall categories as a listing of all such monarchs, and as a navigational feature. It is not common knowledge such that we can simply assume it for our readers to known the century to which Henry IV belonged.

There is also a concern from

OVERCAT is a regular source of damaging edits to the overall performance of the encyclopedia, in the pursuit of a pointless dogmatism. We shouldn't make that mistake yet again. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:03, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• The term "depopulation" is wrong here. This is diffusion. The subcategories remain part of the tree. This is standard categorization practice. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]