Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/10/Category:Smoking
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I think this category should be taken out of the tobacco category, and should be for all smokeable materials. I think we should create Category:Tobacco smoking, for all the categories and images specific to tobacco smoking. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:40, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Comment I think that "Smoking" as a category name is too generic, period. Fires smoke, volcanos smoke, signs indicate smoking is or is not allowed, etc. If this is about Tobacco, then Category:Tobacco smoking, Category:Cigarette smoking, Category:Pipe smoking, or something along that line makes more sense to me. The category of Category:Smoking could become a meta category that collects all the different types of smoking things together to help people find the correct one to sort into. —Willscrlt ( Talk | w:en | b:en | meta ) 05:09, 12 October 2013 (UTC)- Comment Agree with Will, although I actually think Category:Smoking should be a DAB page. I think it would be one awkward meta category that includes both cigarette smoking and smoking volcanoes as one overall subject, and technically it wouldn't actually be a proper meta category. Apologies if I have read Will's comments too literally.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:56, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- Not too literally in my opinion. :-) I'm glad that you see my point. It probably even gets worse when we start trying to translate "smoking" into other languages. There probably are cases where the different meanings of smoking have different words. I'm not sure how DABs in categories work here on Commons, but pretty much anything that points people to the correct more-specific category would be fine with me. —Willscrlt ( Talk | w:en | b:en | meta ) 10:20, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Here is an example. When categorizing using hotcat, if a contributor enters in the name of the DAB category, hotcat immediately shows the category options instead of allowing the contributor to place the image in the DAB cat.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:54, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Comment great ideas, cant argue with them. Im not sure whats best, a DAB or a generic category, but we need a better definition of Smoking as a category.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:42, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- No objections, so done. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:57, 4 December 2013 (UTC)