Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/08/Category:Logs
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Category:Logs is currently a soft redirect to Category:Woodpiles. However (for example) File:Timber for the construction of the Mechanics Pavilion at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, Seattle, Washington, ca 1893 (LAROCHE 166).jpeg or File:400 Y.O. Log - panoramio.jpg are logs, but not woodpiles. Seems to me that we need two separate categories, which can have some relationship to each other, but not a redirect. User:Rimshot points out that conversely this woodpile does not consist of logs (it is a pile of chopped firewood). Jmabel ! talk 15:05, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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- I agree. I think Category:Logs should be a subcategory of Category:Timber and Category:Woodpiles should be separate category. BMacZero (talk) 17:41, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- I guess you're right. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 20:01, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Ies: I believe you are the one other person who's been involved with this, so unless I see an objection from you the next couple of days, I will presume consensus. - Jmabel ! talk 21:41, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- No objection! -- Ies (talk) 16:02, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Jmabel, TwoWings, and BMacZero: Perhaps we should redirect Category:Logs to the disambiguation page at Category:Log? We could create a new category (e.g. Category:Logs (wood) ?) and put it in Category:Timber and Category:Logging, and of course, link to it from the disambiguation page. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:13, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- I'd be equally happy with that. - Jmabel ! talk 15:07, 17 2016 (UTC)
- Sounds great. BMacZero (talk) 21:10, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: Would that be a soft redirect like it has now or what? I don't think I've ever done a redirect to a disambiguation page; doesn't that mean that if someone put Category:Logs on a photo, then a bot would move it to the disambiguation page? - Jmabel ! talk 22:55, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, good point. I'm not sure how that works, but your guess is probably right. Hmm... I think you can put any image in a disambiguation page, though, so even if we turn Category:Logs into a dab page, people could still populate it. Better to have miscategorized images all in the same category? - Themightyquill (talk) 06:32, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
Category:Logs into a dab page. Content to Category:Logs (wood). - Themightyquill (talk) 16:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)