Category talk:Portable buildings
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Is Category:Mobile buildings redundant with Category:Portable buildings? The latter is a subcategory of Category:Portable structures but the former has no mobile-related parent category, aside from Category:Manufactured homes. -- Themightyquill (talk) 08:33, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- I'd expect something mobile to have wheels, or to be some kind of sled or watercraft, while something portable just needs to be able to be transported easily, e.g. by means of a vehicle. --Schlosser67 (talk) 09:30, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
- I think it depends on what "easy" means in this context. It isn't super hard to move a "mobile home," but "mobile" is sort of a misnomer since they can technically move regular houses. It has to do with money and time more then anything. So categories like Category:Portable structures and Category:Caravans (mobile home) just get at better as to what these categories are specifically about. Another way to do it would be to create categories based purely on architectural/material terms. For instance Category:Demountable structures or Category:shipping container buildings Etc. Etc. Something along those lines gets rid of the potentially ambiguous value judgements that I just don't think people having to categorize media should have to do deal with, let alone can. Like what qualifies as a "mobile building." (You could almost include teepees and sheds/backyard storage buildings in that BTW, but it would be ridiculous to do so because there's obviously a real life difference between a metal shed and a Manufactured homes that really negates any need for them to share a parent category like Category:Mobile buildings). --Adamant1 (talk) 16:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Merged to Category:Portable buildings. -- Themightyquill (talk) 10:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)