Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/08/Category:Woods
Multiple different meanings of "Woods" have been used to put photos in this category. Perhaps it should be turned into a disambiguation. Relevant categories where media and subcategories could go include Category:Forests, Category:Wood, Category:Woods (surname), and possibly others. See also Commons:Help_desk#Woods. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 20:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- I'll just mention again here the existence also of Category:woodlands, and the question of whether "woodlands" are distinct from "woods" (in the "treed area" sense), and moreover whether it is useful to distinguish in categories between "forests" and "woods" (in the "treed area" sense) -- whether a clearly defined distinction can be maintained here. ITookSomePhotos (talk) 21:44, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- ... and if we decide that it is not useful to differentiate "woods" and "forests" then IMO the category encompassing both should be called "Woods and forests" (or "Forests and woods"). ITookSomePhotos (talk) 09:15, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- "Woods" is generally the term for a small forest (the current scope of the category) and it generally doesn't mean the material as its generally uncountable however its debatable we need to make a distinction between woods (small forests) and normal forests just like the distinction between rivers and streams probably isn't appropriate. If we use "Forests" it makes sense to have this category as a DAB category as there are several other uses and Wikipedia has a DAB here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:30, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Just throwing in Category:Woods (golf) as another that should be on any dab page created. --Auntof6 (talk) 00:56, 15 August 2022 (UTC)