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There's an aweful lot of pages called "this or that analysis", which are mostly categorized in Category:Scans and Category:Reports but also sometimes elsewhere. However, an analysis is neither a scan nor a report, but rather a distinct step between them. So, an analyses category seems useful. I imagine it would go under Category:Mathematics. Furthermore, I see no problem with this category also including analysis-related pages that aren't about a specific analysis, such as Tactical Analysis Division, Tactical Analysis, or Analysis sector. -- Capricorn (talk) 21:37, October 15, 2019 (UTC)

Agree. First you take readings, then you determine what those readings mean (by calculation and/or critical thinking), and finally you sum up your thoughts. --LauraCC (talk) 17:26, October 18, 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure Mathematics makes sense for most analysis pages. That said, I'm not sure having three distinct categories for these is the best idea either. There seems to be a lot of overlap, and some overarching category might be a better idea. I'm not sure what that would be beyond a "sci-fi technical sounding plot forwarder", but scans and reports are a form of analysis. - Archduk3 17:39, October 18, 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia categorizes "analysis" under "Critical thinking skills", "Research methods", and "Analysis", if that helps (I like the second one best.) --LauraCC (talk) 17:45, October 18, 2019 (UTC)

To be honest I only suggested Category:Mathematics because that was the best I could come up with, and I agree it's the weakest part of the proposal. Category:Science is the only other option I can think of, but it seems similarly imperfect. -- Capricorn (talk) 08:46, October 21, 2019 (UTC)

Created this, put under mathematics. -- Capricorn (talk) 10:34, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

Removed from mathematics. - Archduk3 13:29, December 5, 2019 (UTC)