Category talk:Useful links

Mmmm. We already have Category:Sites for teachers and students, Category:Sites for students and Category:Sites for teachers - so I'm not sure that we need this one. Any thoughts?--Bob M 13:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it does seem a bit like the others but I was trying to make a bluelink with "useful sites" (for veteran teachers) over at the Main Page and it didn't work out. Was going to broach the matter with you, but had to shoot off. I'm easy either way.--Technopat 15:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, well I think I'll zap it. Cause the others are more meaningful anyway.  Cheers.  :-) --Bob M 16:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fine, but I do think a link of some sort should be put in at the Main Page for those seasoned teachers who might just want to have a butcher's.--Technopat 17:12, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Interesting experience here. I had an inspiration last night which would help solve the nagging feeling that the useful sites were too dispersed and that we needed an alphabetical index. So while the kettle was doing its stuff I sat down here to set it up... Does the fact that the issues crops up again (and again) add any weight to it?--Technopat 08:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I'm not sure where you want to go with this. [[Image:Scratchchin.gif]] There are probably thousands of links on the net which could conceivably be useful - well hundreds anyway.  We've got a category "sites" for teachers which will link to a review of the site.  If we create another article "Sites for teachers" we will duplicate what the category is supposed to do.  When we get more sites in the category we can use sub categories to identify "High traffic sites" "Sites with forums" "Sites with job offers" or whatever.  Having a separate "Useful links" page would seem to simply duplicate what the cats should do.  Furthermore to make this useful we would need to put in some text explaining why the link is useful for teachers. And if we do that - why not write an article?
 * Having said all that if you really want to create such a page then I won't stand in your way [[Image:Nods.gif]] - I just remain unconvinced of its utility. --Bob M 16:37, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Having carefully typed all the above I've just noticed that this is a cat and not an article. [[Image:Ashamed.gif]]  So could you just imagine that everything I wrote was about an article and not a cat and see if it still makes sense?--Bob M 16:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Greetings Bob M. Your new power supply seems to have recharged yer batteries as well! Back on topic, it's just that I keep coming across categories that I didn't know existed and thought that having a catch-all - in alphabetical order - would be a good place to dump any new links appearing in articles until they got themselves better classified. I wasn't thinking of a general list of the many sites around, but only of those that are specifically "recommended" in Teflpedia articles. The problem with some of the existing categories is that they often offer much more than the existing category title suggests, so I thought that maybe a more general one would be of use. The categories, like the blueLinks, are great ways of cross-referencing and as it don't take up no space...--Technopat 16:56, 14 June 2009 (UTC)