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:*Many mines are both surface and underground, and change over time. The distinction between a quarry and a surface mine is also a bit vague. "A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted." [[:Category:Quarries]] Only a minority of articles about mines are characterised as surface or underground, and I doubt if the categorisation is useful to many readers. [[User:Rathfelder|Rathfelder]] ([[User talk:Rathfelder|talk]]) 16:43, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
:* It is definitely a fair question, but in any case we can't merge the nominated category without also merging all country categories. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 19:02, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
::*Definitely an issue about the subcats. But if this were approved, couldn't we just assume that the tree merges all the way down. Procedurally, someone would need to tag them all, but if we have duplicate categories for a short duration of both "mines" and "underground mines" cats for every country while awaiting their merger isn't an untenable situation. [[User:Carlossuarez46|Carlossuarez46]] ([[User talk:Carlossuarez46|talk]]) 19:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
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