Commons:Categories for discussion/Archive/2018/04
Sorry. I know I sometimes open many cats for discussion. This is why I'm trying to stop myself these days on this area, but it's like an addiction: Can someone please explain me what is the sense in having this cat and its two children? There are also similars on tennis. I think we could reduce the number of all these cats and subcats which would make it easier to find younger people running after a ball. OTOH "football ball boys" is too difficult to pronounce; reminds me of balls (or people) "associated with association" football. E4024 (talk) 12:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Upmerging to Category:Ball boys and girls perhaps? --E4024 (talk) 13:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, there was also Category:Beach volleyball ball boys and girls; therefore too many images to put under one cat; but I'm sure we can do better than this. --E4024 (talk) 13:02, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I understand the problem. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Speedily closing. --E4024 (talk) 11:45, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
The category is empty. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- There is no need for any discussion. As soon as such a (maintenance-)category is empty / has been emptied, just insert {{Speedydelete|1=Category is empty}} and the category will be deleted usually within a few hours. --Archie02 (talk) 18:08, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Category has been deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Arishfa Khan Jiv Jiv Jiv (talk) 12:22, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes? --E4024 (talk) 12:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Nonsense nomination, only edit by the user. - Themightyquill (talk) 15:29, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Is not the same thing with Category:Slave Market in Rome (Gérôme)? E4024 (talk) 12:20, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
The category description addresses this: "Gérôme painted six slave-market scenes set in either ancient Rome or 19th-century Istanbul. The subject provided him with an opportunity to depict facial expressions and to undertake figurative studies of sensual beauty. He painted another view of the same event--Slave Market in Rome (St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum)--in which the viewer looks over the heads of the spectators towards the slave." - Themightyquill (talk) 15:05, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
domestic violence 120.21.195.189 09:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Nonsense nomination by anon-ip. - Themightyquill (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Request for deletion. Category are twice. And empty. Richard Reinhardt (talk) 10:18, 5 April 2018 (UTC) Spelling Mistake of name bin Salman. reason why twice.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 10:19, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Richard Reinhardt: The correct spelling is "Mohammad bin Salman" (small b), correct? So it's Category:Mohammad Bin Salman in art that should be deleted, not the one you've nominated? - Themightyquill (talk) 15:02, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- ok, this is surely not my language :-) --Richard Reinhardt (talk) 17:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Mohammad Bin Salman in art deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 21:28, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Deletion and move to right spelling from category name "bin". https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2018/04/Category:Mohammad_bin_Salman_in_art Richard Reinhardt (talk) 17:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Delted in favour of Category:Mohammad bin Salman in art for proper capitalizations. - Themightyquill (talk) 21:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
This category name is highly confusing in that the word commonly meaning royalty. This should be disambiguated and it contains a lot of incorrect images. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Please note that it is a subcat of the red cat "Maria of Icelandic Mann"... --E4024 (talk) 07:36, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- The category seems to have been created for File:Maria of iceland.jpg which I've nominated for deletion. I've emptied the category. @Crouch, Swale: If you'd like to create a disambig page for everything named Royal, you're welcome to do so. Otherwise, we can just delete. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:46, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
The result was resolved by converting into a disambiguation page. File:Maria of iceland.jpg has been removed anyway. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:54, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Needs disambiguation. Move to Category:Supervision (console game) ? Themightyquill (talk) 12:26, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Wait, Category:Watara Supervision already exists. I'm going to move it to a "see also" and change this category's parents. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:27, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Disambiguated. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:30, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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Not done: gibberish; nothing to discuss. --Rodhullandemu (talk) 18:58, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I know my English sucks but still believe this cat title should be changed (corrected). It could at least use a hyphen. E4024 (talk) 07:59, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'm closing this, because I know my English sucks. --E4024 (talk) 08:00, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done - speedily closed. Sorry. --E4024 (talk) 08:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Another wrong categorization with unnecessary capitalization. I will move the files to their correct cats and get this deleted. E4024 (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I marked it as empty for deletion, after taking the files to Category:Yashmak or its subcat. --E4024 (talk) 13:47, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. Taivo (talk) 13:57, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
no difference to Category:Books about medicine; we additionally have one category per year, like Category:1838 books and Category:1838 in medicine, which is are precise Jochen Burghardt (talk) 10:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- "Old books about medicine" is not the same as (all) "Books about medicine". The cat for antiquated books should be a sub-cat of all books. Books by year is nice if you know the year, but not when you don't. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:01, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- So after how many years do you consider a book to be antiquated? Do you move each such book from Category:Books about medicine into Category:Books and other writings in the history of medicine by hand, or is there a bot which performs this task automatically? - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 22:07, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree that this category name is unclear and unhelpful. @WhatamIdoing: How would you feel about creating Category:Books about medicine by century, equivalent to Category:Cookbooks by century? - Themightyquill (talk) 11:02, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- The cat includes things that aren't books, but other than that, I've no particular objection. We should have at least a guess at a century for nearly everything. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok for me. What about "Publications about medicine by century", to indicate not only books are meant? - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 08:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Works for me. Themightyquill, does that work for you? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:46, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- @WhatamIdoing and Jochen Burghardt: Yes, that's fine with me unless you'd prefer to match more closely the parent category Category:Medicine-related publications and media with Category:Medicine-related publications and media by century or Category:Medicine-related publications by century. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:21, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- @WhatamIdoing and Themightyquill: Matching the names is a good idea. I'd prefer the shorter suggestion, Category:Medicine-related publications by century. Should we wait until 16 April before closing this discussion, as Commons:Categories for discussion#Closing a discussion says? - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 15:48, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- If the category's creator, WhatamIdoing, is okay with it, I doubt we'll get much additional input by waiting another 10 days. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:30, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- If it makes you happy, then it makes me happy. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:48, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- If the category's creator, WhatamIdoing, is okay with it, I doubt we'll get much additional input by waiting another 10 days. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:30, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Implementing the consensus:
- creating Category:Medicine-related publications by century and appropriate subcategories;
- contents of Category:Books and other writings in the history of medicine shall be dispatched into the latter;
- dispatching will take some days.
mis-named duplicate of Category:2016 in Montreal. Contents moved there. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- I tagged it with {{Category renamed}} to get it deleted. @Shawn in Montreal: For future reference, this is a better option for cases like this that don't really need discussion. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:13, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Category has been deleted. Closing discussion. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:28, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Empty category that shouldn't have content (force categorization superseeded by template auto-categorization that would not add any media here) IJReid (talk) 15:53, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have just realized that the criterion SD-G1 is applicable in this situation, so this discussion can be closed and I will add the Speedy-Delete tag instead. IJReid (talk) 15:55, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Speedily deleted in the meantime. --rimshottalk 22:40, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Rename to Category:Source images for stitched panoramic photographs or something similar? For clarity, because these aren't panoramic images. Themightyquill (talk) 07:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea to me. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Source images for stitched panoramic photographs. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:02, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Hoax state with nothing but Wikipedia mirrors and personal blogs to be found on the internet, see en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MUHAMMAD SAFIULLAH/Archive, Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/02/Category:Monarchs of Sultante-e-uzma empire of Khora Siyal. and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Arhamkot.png. HyperGaruda (talk) 08:40, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted by Túrelio after emptied by deletion of images. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I created this category but mis-spelt it. I have created a correctly spelt replacement. Please delete this one. Sorry! Motacilla (talk) 17:20, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Motacilla: This kind of thing doesn't really need discussion. You can tag this category with {{Bad name}} and it will get deleted. I would do it myself, but I don't know the new name. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:40, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: Bad name, redirect probably isn't needed. --Guanaco (talk) 08:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Wrong title I renamed to the correct name Leonardo.G G (talk) 03:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Not done: No need to delete the redirect to Category:Flávio Rocha. --Achim (talk) 14:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Isn't the plural just "bison" not "bisons" ? So rename this and the many sub-categories? Themightyquill (talk) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: It should be bison; it is bison now. --Guanaco (talk) 19:01, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Should be renamed Category:Tram transport in the canton of Geneva, to match with many other and reduce confusion risk with Category:Trams in the canton of Geneva. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 14:27, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for the correct name. The change is done.--MHM (talk) 16:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
By the way, most of the categories in Category:Tram transport in Switzerland by city are inaccurate, because the tram networks always goes far away out of the city, in the corresponding Swiss cantons. And sometimes further e.g. in France (Basel, soon also in Geneva). OR, do we expect the name of the city means "tramway network centered in the city of xxx"? On another side, we have already some categories aligned on the cantons, e.g. Category:Transport in Switzerland by canton. -- MHM (talk) 16:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- I’d say that yes, we do «expect the name of the city means "tramway network centered in the city of xxx"», at least in most applicable cases. (Some exceptions: Category:Coastal tram, Belgium, Category:Trams in Upper Silesian urban area, et&nbs;c.) Of course, specific implementations should be informed by local specificities. I don’t know the CH situation well, but it stands to reason that while considering Geneve-city and Geneve-canton to be the same in practical terms, larger cantons such as Bern or Zürich might not gain from that same treatment. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 17:37, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: deleted. --JuTa 12:28, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
If we have a Category:Females wearing hijabs, this can easily be moved to Category:Non-muslim women wearing hijabs as a subcat to that. E4024 (talk) 13:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- There's already a discussion open at Commons:Categories for discussion/2014/12/Category:Hijab like dressing of non-muslims. Sarbaze naja removed the notification template from the category without explanation in May 2016. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:52, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted from previous discussion. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:39, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Is Category:Hari Parbat redundant with Category:Hari Parbat, Srinagar or should the latter be a sub-catgory? Themightyquill (talk) 10:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- That's two different subjects.
- I can't remember, but when I created the category last year, I was only aware of a mountain of that name in Azad Kashmir Pakistan. However, there is little information about that mountain...
- Guess we should move the category to Category:Hari Parbat, Shounter Valley and put all those mountain pictures there and have all other at "..., Srinagar".
- There are no disambiguation pages for categories, are there? --Rupert Pupkin (talk) 11:09, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, we can do that, and yes, we can create a disambiguation page at Category:Hari Parbat. I'm not sure how to wikilink en:Hari Parbat which seems to cover both the mountain and the stuff on it. That is what Category:Hari Parbat, Srinagar is, right? Stuff oun the mountain? - Themightyquill (talk) 13:49, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, I moved it to Category:Hari Parbat, AJK. AJK is the official abbreviation for the Pakistan Region Azad Kashmir. en:Hari Parbat covers the "mountain" (or hill) in Srinagar, India, with the temples and stuff on it. All other interwikis refer to this one, too. I had to edit it on wikidata by hand...
- How do you create a disambiguation category? --Rupert Pupkin (talk) 22:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
@Rupert Pupkin: I'm not a huge fan of acronyms in category names, but whatever. To create a disambiguation page, just type out the different options and add {{Disambig}} to the bottom, as I've done at Category:Hari Parbat.
Disambiguated to Category:Hari Parbat, AJK and Category:Hari Parbat, Srinagar. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:04, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Appears to be a vanity category created by a new user. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 16:51, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:16, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
We have Category:Fruit compotes. Does this also have vegetables or what? E4024 (talk) 08:56, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- @E4024: Kompot is a beverage of Slavic origin. Compote isn't a beverage, and it doesn't have Slavic origin. --Comedora (talk) 09:07, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Then don't add Turkish desserts there. They are not Slavic and not a "beverage". --E4024 (talk) 09:10, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- BTW, just for curiosity, are you a new user or changed name? --E4024 (talk) 09:12, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Seems to be a different topic entirely. I've added a category description and wikidata links to help clarify. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:09, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
A colleague of ours insists in opening cats with wrong capitalization. I could move it; but I believe it's better to discuss it here, that may help them to stop doing this. E4024 (talk) 07:34, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agree that these are wrongly capitalized. The first word in each cat name is capitalized, as are any proper nouns. Everything else is all lower case. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
No discussion needed. Moved to Category:Ancient Egyptian beer industry. @E4024: Nominating categories that are obviously mispelled or with incorrect grammar for discussion is a waste of everyone's time. Please make the changes, or, if you are unsure, simply ask someone to double check. Rather than assuming that someone "insists" on doing something wrong, please assume good faith. A wise person recently said, "sometimes please consider people ... who have learned English in school or language courses please." - Themightyquill (talk) 12:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Please see Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/04/Category:Ancient Egyptian Beer industry. Same issue. E4024 (talk) 07:35, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
No need for discussion. Moved to Category:Ancient Egyptian granaries. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
If this zoo is in the city of Arbil, should be renamed to "Arbil Zoo". E4024 (talk) 15:55, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree as the Creator of the Category and I intended to do so but I did not have the authority to do it. Sarbast.T.Hameed (talk) 16:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Closing as Done. --E4024 (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
As we have Category:Iraqi Kurdistan there is no need for this wrongly-titled page. Let's delete it. E4024 (talk) 14:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- As the creator of the Category:Iraq-kurdistan, I suggest to Redirect it to the other Category:Iraqi Kurdistan. Sarbast.T.Hameed (talk) 15:41, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think so. It's a wrong name. Please empty it; and I will ask an admin to delete. --E4024 (talk) 15:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- OK it is Done and the Category is ready for deletion. Sarbast.T.Hameed (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think so. It's a wrong name. Please empty it; and I will ask an admin to delete. --E4024 (talk) 15:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks Admin. --E4024 (talk) 16:48, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Meaningless cat which does not include what we call "films". Should be deleted. E4024 (talk) 11:57, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why? The items in the category all refer to documentary films about former Muslims. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:29, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I also have several "why" questions but keep them to myself. --E4024 (talk) 13:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I asked why you think the items in the Category:Films about former Muslims "[do] not include what we call "films"". The items that are currently in the category all refer to documentary films. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:54, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- E4024 You'll need to provide an answer if you actually want yor deletion request to be acted upon. If you don't really expect it to be deleted, you are wasting everyone's time. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I asked why you think the items in the Category:Films about former Muslims "[do] not include what we call "films"". The items that are currently in the category all refer to documentary films. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:54, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I also have several "why" questions but keep them to myself. --E4024 (talk) 13:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Nederlandse Leeuw, you don't have to thank me for (your) opening of Category:Films about religion and for adding (again, yourself) Category:Christmas films in there. Now we have two cats for films about religion, one, a classical, a must: "Christmas films", two "Films about former Muslims"... Former Muslims? Buddy, this is an oxymoron (something not related to oxen nor Moron Air Base, not even to the moron that writes these words :) but to the fact that former members of a religion are not any more members of that religion. Anyhow, indeed Christmas films are also generally not about Christians, but Jews and "former Jews", except the Roman Governor and his reckless infidel soldiers. (Well, of course there were no Christmas films back then, either. I watched a lot of these films and learned a few things.) In the end we cannot even say that Christ was a Christian, right? He "died" (sort of; sorry, believers) without knowing that he established a religion under the name Christianity. I'm trying to attract the attention to the fact that if we are so concerned about former... people, other people could think we have an agenda or something. Imagine, the only films about religion cat in Commons was about "former" Muslims until I opened another stupid CfD! Let's see how I will save face from this grave mistake of mine: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Help! --E4024 (talk) 13:33, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- None of that seems to be relevant to this CfD. I'm going to close unless you can explain your argument, preferably without further digressions, or "jokes". - Themightyquill (talk) 10:32, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
No clear explanation given for nomination. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:19, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
This category contained photos of artwork deleted because of no-Fop in France. It is now empty. It is to be deleted. Civa (talk) 09:12, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted as empty. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Sorry: I mis-spelt this category when creating it. I have now created a correctly-spelt version. Please delete this one. Motacilla (talk) 05:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have tagged it with {{Bad name}} to get it deleted. @Motacilla: , since this kind of case doesn't require discussion, using {{Bad name}} is a better way to handle it. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:11, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Closing: cat has been deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:02, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Unneeded Category. There is another cats as Category:Views of trains instead of this. Sathish kalathil (talk) 08:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete because it's empty. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:00, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agree--47.151.26.64 01:07, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- I marked it as empty for deletion. --E4024 (talk) 09:09, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done - Deleted by Taivo. --E4024 (talk) 12:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Propose merge to Category:Interns. Clearly the two are the same topic, and it seems to me that we should parallel the handling of Category:Apprentices. Jmabel ! talk 23:19, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Merging. It's had 3 weeks, not controversy. - Jmabel ! talk 15:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Isn't this a duplicate of Category:Bipolar circuits? --ghouston (talk) 11:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I'll redirect it. --ghouston (talk) 03:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Subcat of Category:Yevgeny Dodolev. Different people? E4024 (talk) 12:43, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- The one and only file there is under protection since many years (2010). I don't know if that may have helped the confusion (mine). --E4024 (talk) 08:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete--47.151.26.64 00:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- It's just different transliterations of same name (Евгений == Eugene). Sure, only one category should left, but are there any agreement about Russian-to-English transliteration? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- We don't know how to do it. --E4024 (talk) 13:40, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- As the majority of files are under "Yevgeny", I will boldly take the only file here to that cat and make this an RD; later Russian-speakers may discuss to find the best name. I entered here only to correct an anomaly, please discuss it without me if necessary. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 07:01, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- There was almost no participation at the CfD. Therefore I'm closing it as Done as I made it an RD. We can always change things if others disagree with me. --E4024 (talk) 07:05, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Please delete this vandalism — Bukhari (Talk!) 17:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: As per request. --jdx Re: 07:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Delete. Category:Middle Ages refers specifically to a European historical period that isn't helpful or accurate elsewhere. Themightyquill (talk) 19:35, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- What about renaiming it Category:Tibet during the Middle Ages ? --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 12:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Rédacteur Tibet: It's the concept that makes no sense here. "Middle Ages" is almost exclusively a European conception, possibly extended to the middle east. It would refer to the pediod between the Category:Roman Empire in Tibet and the Category:Renaissance in Tibet. It's about as useful as Category:France during the Ming Dynasty. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:44, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- I understood your point. Yet, Tibet had contact with Europe during the Middle Ages. Category:Tibet during the Middle Ages seems therefore appropriated. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 10:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Rédacteur Tibet: It's the concept that makes no sense here. "Middle Ages" is almost exclusively a European conception, possibly extended to the middle east. It would refer to the pediod between the Category:Roman Empire in Tibet and the Category:Renaissance in Tibet. It's about as useful as Category:France during the Ming Dynasty. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:44, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- Highly limited, mostly if not entirely indirect contact. Tibet also had contact with Europe during the Renaissance and France had contact with China during the Ming Dynasty. That doesn't make it appropriate. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- Well, as a matter of fact, there are pictures figuring Tibet designed in Europe during the Middle Ages. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 16:03, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
- Can you point me toward the images you are talking about, so that I can understand? - Themightyquill (talk) 12:15, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
- There are at least two illustrations in a book from Jehan de Mandeville, as well as two others in the Livre des merveilles. They are reproduced in Michael Taylor Le Tibet de Marco Polo à Alexandra-David-Néel, translation: Annie Saumont, Office du Livre, Fribourg / Payot, Paris 1985. German : (Mythos Tibet, translation: Karin Brown, Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1988). For the book of Marco Polo, there is an illustration at "CHAPITRE XXXVI" here: [1] --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 12:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
- Can you point me toward the images you are talking about, so that I can understand? - Themightyquill (talk) 12:15, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
- Well, as a matter of fact, there are pictures figuring Tibet designed in Europe during the Middle Ages. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 16:03, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
- So as far as you know, the maximum potential for images in this category (as you define it) is likely 4? And none of these four images are currently here? I'm afraid this is a very weak argument to keep. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:10, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Please note that I do agree that the initial name "Middle Ages in Tibet" can not be kept. I know of 5 images of "Tibet during the Middle Ages". Do you agree that this later expression is appropriated for these 5 images ? If not, what expression would you suggest? What about "Tibet in medieval art" ? --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Tibet in medieval art sounds quite sensible. We don't have a natural home for it, besides Category:Medieval art by subject but that's doesn't eliminate that option. Alternately, if all the images display Tibetans not just landscapes, maybe Category:Tibetan people in medieval art which would fit in Category:Ethnic groups in Medieval art and Category:Tibetan people in art? - Themightyquill (talk) 20:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- I think Category:Tibetan people in medieval art is the best. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 20:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Tibet in medieval art sounds quite sensible. We don't have a natural home for it, besides Category:Medieval art by subject but that's doesn't eliminate that option. Alternately, if all the images display Tibetans not just landscapes, maybe Category:Tibetan people in medieval art which would fit in Category:Ethnic groups in Medieval art and Category:Tibetan people in art? - Themightyquill (talk) 20:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Please note that I do agree that the initial name "Middle Ages in Tibet" can not be kept. I know of 5 images of "Tibet during the Middle Ages". Do you agree that this later expression is appropriated for these 5 images ? If not, what expression would you suggest? What about "Tibet in medieval art" ? --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Tibetan people in medieval art. @Rédacteur Tibet: Thanks for your help with this. I hope you can provide some images of this category soon. - Themightyquill (talk) 21:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Requesting rename to Category:Stations of Osaka Metro. Because Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau was changed to Osaka Metro from April 1, 2018. そらみみ (talk) 03:45, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
- Also these categories below.そらみみ (talk) 04:08, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Railway lines of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau → Category:Railway lines of Osaka Metro
- Category:Rolling stock of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau → Category:Rolling stock of Osaka Metro
- Category:Osaka Municipal Subway icons → Category:Osaka Metro icons
- Category:Rail track diagrams of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau train stations →
Category:Rail track diagrams of Osaka Metro → renamed to Category:Rail track diagrams of Osaka Metro stations per request here - Category:Train station signs of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau → Category:Train station signs of Osaka Metro
- Category:Nakatsu Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Nakatsu Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Namba Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Namba Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Shin-Osaka Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Shin-Osaka Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Tennoji Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Tennoji Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Umeda Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Umeda Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Hirano Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Hirano Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Imazato Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Imazato Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Tengachaya Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Tengachaya Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Kyōbashi Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Kyōbashi Station (Osaka Metro)
- Category:Train interiors of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau → Category:Train interiors of Osaka Metro
- Category:Bogie trucks of Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau → Category:Bogie trucks of Osaka Metro
- Category:Trains at Umeda Station (Osaka Municipal Subway) → Category:Trains at Umeda Station (Osaka Metro)
- Delete--47.151.26.64 00:28, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
No need of deletion: these categories should be renamed.--miya (talk) 11:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
@Miya: Agreed. Would you like to do the renames so we can close this discussion? - Themightyquill (talk) 22:55, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: According to COM:VP/Ja User:そらみみ has already requested moves at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/Category moves#Category move commands. I've never handled this kind of requests. Should I click "Approve" there to rename?--miya (talk) 00:59, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
- I've never done it either, but I've just approved them. Thanks for noticing! - Themightyquill (talk) 08:10, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
- I removed the completed rename commands from commands page and approved the last request. ;)--miya (talk) 15:25, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
- Now all those categories have been renamed.--miya (talk) 11:40, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
- I removed the completed rename commands from commands page and approved the last request. ;)--miya (talk) 15:25, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
- I've never done it either, but I've just approved them. Thanks for noticing! - Themightyquill (talk) 08:10, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
All renamed.--miya (talk) 10:59, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
The correct name should be: Acer palmatum 'Mikawa yatsubusa' Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 19:09, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition in a month. Moved to Category:Acer palmatum 'Mikawa yatsubusa' and deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:01, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
This category should be renamed to: Acer palmatum 'Gwen's Rose Delight' Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 19:14, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition in a month + obvious grammar. Moved to Category:Acer palmatum 'Gwen's Rose Delight' and deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:02, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
图像质量低,模糊不清 Tyg728 (talk) 12:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Tyg728: You said "Image quality is low and blurry" but you have nominated a category for discussion, not an image for deletion. Was this an accident? Not all the images in this category of of poor quality. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- 操作失误。--Tyg728 (talk) 11:29, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Nomination was perhaps accidental. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Valery or Valera? Exhibition or Exhibition of (by?)... Look at the parallel cats also please. E4024 (talk) 13:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- A google search suggests fairly similar numbers for either transliteration, though slightly higher numbers (239:180) for a Valera Pesin from Belarus. - Themightyquill (talk) 15:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Сам художник позиционирует себя именно как Валеру, а не Валерия. Посмотрите его галерею на фэйсбуке, она называется Valera Pesin gallery. The artist himself positions himself exactly as Valera, and not Valery. Look at his gallery on facebook, it's called Valera Pesin gallery. --Tatiana Markina 07:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Tati, then why did you open this cat under Valery? --E4024 (talk) 07:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Сам художник позиционирует себя именно как Валеру, а не Валерия. Посмотрите его галерею на фэйсбуке, она называется Valera Pesin gallery. The artist himself positions himself exactly as Valera, and not Valery. Look at his gallery on facebook, it's called Valera Pesin gallery. --Tatiana Markina 07:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Exhibition by Valera Pesin in the Minsk Contemporary Arts Center (2015-03-04). - Themightyquill (talk) 18:32, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Nominating per Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/01/Category:Unidentified vans in Finland –Davey2010Talk 00:07, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted per nomination. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:39, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Nominating per Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/01/Category:Unidentified vans in Finland –Davey2010Talk 00:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC) --- Deleted per nomination. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
I find such cats extremely subjective but if other people like them, they should at least correct the title. E4024 (talk) 15:48, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- @E4024: Subjective in what way? I agree the typo should be corrected. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Other than the typo, the existence of such cats seems fine to me. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Stalled discussion. Closing. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Please delete category, wrong spelling of the location Reppinichen Giorgio Michele (talk) 07:39, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Upmerge to Category:Music performances ? Aren't they redundant? Themightyquill (talk) 10:39, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Content merged to Category:Music performances, then category deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
replaced by Category:Viktor Heideloff, Hohe Karlsschule Gerd Leibrock (talk) 09:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted by Túrelio. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:35, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Non-notable organization; membership is not a defining characteristic of these cities, and there's no need for a category of them. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:31, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted, along with Category:League of Historical Cities which was otherwise empty. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Should be merged into Category:Emblems of municipalities. Xeror (talk) 06:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why? We have separate Category:Cities and Category:Municipalities categories. Why merge them here? - Themightyquill (talk) 11:27, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Because cities is a subset of municipalities and Category:Cities is a subcategory of Category:Municipalities. It's ambiguous which category should, say Category:Emblems of Pretoria (currently under Category:Emblems of municipalities), be put under. And there are currently not many subcategories, this makes categories easier to find. A redirect from Category:Emblems of cities to Category:Emblems of municipalities would do the work. --Xeror (talk) 18:10, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- That makes sense. Let's keep the redirect though. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:15, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
- Because cities is a subset of municipalities and Category:Cities is a subcategory of Category:Municipalities. It's ambiguous which category should, say Category:Emblems of Pretoria (currently under Category:Emblems of municipalities), be put under. And there are currently not many subcategories, this makes categories easier to find. A redirect from Category:Emblems of cities to Category:Emblems of municipalities would do the work. --Xeror (talk) 18:10, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition in a month. Upmerged. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:40, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
I think it would be better if the name was 'Commissieweg 2, De Wijk' because all other categories of streets of the de Wijk have this format. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 18:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Commissieweg 2, De Wijk. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:42, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Alcove paintings (empty except one category)
- Category:Alcove paintings by country (empty except one category)
- Category:Alcove paintings in Austria (empty except one category)
- Category:Alcove paintings in Carinthia (empty except one image)
- Category:Alcove paintings in Austria (empty except one category)
- Category:Alcove paintings by country (empty except one category)
Is this really necessary? - Themightyquill (talk) Themightyquill (talk) 20:05, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Content has been added. I'm still not sure it's worthwhile, but at least it's not emtpy. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
There seems not to be a St Stephen's church in Hereford. Motacilla (talk) 15:02, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Since the nominator has emptied the category I have no objection to its deletion. WereSpielChequers (talk) 20:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:53, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
All the other national "waiters" cats are made with "from", I don't know why. Indeed if you go to any country which receives many tourists, you see that generally the waiters are not from that country, but from countries that give youth emigration to those countries. For instance, in Spain many waiters are either from Latin America or from Romania; in Turkey, every passing day we have more waiters from Central Asian countries, at present they generally work as "komi" - assistant to the "real" waiter- but soon will become professional waiters. I believe "waiters in" could be better than "of" or "from"; hoping that no-one will come to ask me what will happen with a Spanish waiter who has gone to Morocco for vacations... E4024 (talk) 12:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- See Commons:Category_scheme_People#People_by_country_/_People_by_occupation_by_country. This should be Category:Waiters from Canada. A Romanian-born waiter in Spain could be in both Category:People of Romania and Category:Waiters from Spain. Usually, those taking the photo will not stop to ask the birthplace of their serving staff. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:44, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Waiters from Canada. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:10, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Rename to "Public nudity" as grammatically better and to match consensus naming on WP articles Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Public nudity. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Can somebody tell me how this cat is categorized? Because cyberwarfare is not per se esnionage as there exits also destructiv cyberwarfare technology. Sanandros (talk) 19:19, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- It was originally just Category:Computer security and Category:Warfare by type. Everything else was added in this edit. Given that so many categories were added at once and that some of the added categories are red links, I would guess they were copied from somewhere else. Probably English Wikipedia: w:en:Cyberwarfare and/or w:en:Category:Cyberwarfare. (To back that up, the red-linked category Category:Battles and conflicts without fatalities is present on w:en:Category:Cyberwarfare and the similarly red-linked categories Category:Mass intelligence-gathering systems and Category:Military intelligence collection are present on w:en:Cyberwarfare.) So, probably just a copy-and-paste job. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 20:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. This category has, for instance, no place being a sub-category of Category:Spyware. AdamBMorgan What do you think would be appropriate parents? Category:Information security, Category:Warfare of the Modern era- Themightyquill (talk) 13:36, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- So I'd like to oriantate on the de wep de:Cyberkrieg as usually in de wp the categorization is done with more care as on en wp. But in this case I'm also not so much agreeing with the de wp categorization. So I'd suggest Category:Warfare by type and Category:Internet. But I think we have currently here also a lot of overcat but unfortunately I can't create a tree with vcat right now.--Sanandros (talk) 19:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with the suggested four categories (Category:Information security, Category:Internet, Category:Warfare of the Modern era & Category:Warfare by type) and would lose the rest. There's still a little overlap even with those four but they cover different areas. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- So I'd like to oriantate on the de wep de:Cyberkrieg as usually in de wp the categorization is done with more care as on en wp. But in this case I'm also not so much agreeing with the de wp categorization. So I'd suggest Category:Warfare by type and Category:Internet. But I think we have currently here also a lot of overcat but unfortunately I can't create a tree with vcat right now.--Sanandros (talk) 19:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. This category has, for instance, no place being a sub-category of Category:Spyware. AdamBMorgan What do you think would be appropriate parents? Category:Information security, Category:Warfare of the Modern era- Themightyquill (talk) 13:36, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Limited categorization to Category:Information security, Category:Internet, Category:Warfare of the Modern era & Category:Warfare by type. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:42, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Does any of the content in this category actually belong here? Is there potential for images depicting "cyberspace" ? Current parents are Category:Alternate reality and Category:Cyberpunk themes? I'm leaning toward deletion, but I'm open to other ideas. Themightyquill (talk) 07:35, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- The parent categories don't seem to fit. I think all this content could be moved to either Category:Internet or Category:World Wide Web (I've never been clear on the difference). --Auntof6 (talk) 07:56, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:47, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Not commons style categorization. Move images appropriately and delete. Themightyquill (talk) 11:03, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Is it intersecting too many things, or just badly named? How about Category:Campaigns in Italy of the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815? --Auntof6 (talk) 11:06, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: Firstly, from what I see, the Napoleonic Wars only lasted from 1803 to 1815 (though I'm no expert). Second, these aren't clearly images of campaigns either. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:52, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- And most imporantantly, none of the images was from 1800-1815 - they were all from the 1790s and the French Revolutionary wars. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:05, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Deleted as empty. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:05, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
While waiters are "from" in national cats, waitresses are "of". Sorry, I cannot bring every individual country cat here. E4024 (talk) 14:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- There's one exception (Category:Waiters of Canada), but, yes, these should all be "from". --Auntof6 (talk) 16:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- You're right. I see that there is also a discussion on that cat. --E4024 (talk) 07:53, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- No opposition. @Ruthven: Would you help set this up on commons delinker? Thanks! - Themightyquill (talk) 08:11, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Done: per discussion. Ruthven (msg) 13:43, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
It is empty. Almondega (talk) 20:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition. Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I doubt this cat is necessary, with the single and irrelevant file in it, therefore propose its deletion. (In case we have better files to add into this cat, then we should do it.) E4024 (talk) 15:17, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. I can't imagine there would be much additional content to add in the future. "Foreign policy" doesn't have so many photo
opportunities. Evidence: She's been chancellor since 2005 and there's only one image in the category. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:45, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition. Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:04, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I opened this expecting to see Murphy beds. What's a wall bed? Themightyquill (talk) 15:08, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- For that matter, what's a wall basement, as indicated in the description of the only file here? Maybe it's supposed to mean the base of the wall? --Auntof6 (talk) 17:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- It is that part on which the wall is stays.--Juandev (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Juandev: I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the ground that a wall is built on? Do you mean the bottom part of the wall itself? --Auntof6 (talk) 21:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- It is that part on which the wall is stays.--Juandev (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Juandev: Like this: en:Wall footing? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:20, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Wall footings. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Anyone have a preference between Category:Praying walls and Category:Prayer walls? Themightyquill (talk) 15:16, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes: prayer walls, unless there are walls that do the actual praying. :) --Auntof6 (talk) 15:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Redirected to Category:Prayer walls. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Empty category which should be Clinicumsgasse - to be deleted please NearEMPTiness (talk) 05:49, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted by Túrelio. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
It's unclear what this category is supposed to be. It currently contains only Category:Snow in Calgary, which wouldn't really fit under any landscape category. Auntof6 (talk) 06:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- No ideas or additional content in a month. Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there any reason not to merge this to Category:Winter in Iceland? Auntof6 (talk) 07:32, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- It would need to be a pretty great reason. =) - Themightyquill (talk) 09:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Redirected to Category:Winter in Iceland. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Move to Category:Port Arthur, Australia or Category:Port Arthur, Tasmania. It's pratically already a disambiguation page with all the "see also" links at the top. Themightyquill (talk) 14:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, rename the cat and make this page a disambiguation page. I suppose we should verify that the things currently on this page are for the Tasmanian place. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:58, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Support But should be the 2nd choice "Port Arthur, Tasmania" as there is also w:Port Arthur, South Australia and per w:WP:NCAUST. While this is a significant heritage site, it only has a population of 251, compared to 53,818 for Port Arthur, Texas and 324,773 for the Lüshunkou District. Also the one in Texas has slightly more images that the one in Tasmania. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:46, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Port Arthur, Tasmania. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:15, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there a need for both Category:Subarctic America and Category:Subarctic North America? Surely no part of South or Central America is considered sub-arctic. I'd suggest a merge to Category:Subarctic North America and renaming associated categories. It can go in Category:Geographic regions of North America. Themightyquill (talk) 13:51, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with not having both and with picking "North America". We probably shouldn't have any categories referring to a geographic "America" because that's such an imprecise term. --Auntof6 (talk) 15:02, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Merged to Category:Subarctic North America. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:44, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
We have very few "Foods of" categories and also having "Food of", "Food products of", "Food industry" etc cats, these seem unnecessary. I was not going to open this discussion but was reverted, therefore we're here. E4024 (talk) 11:29, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- As I first uploading the image there were many "Foods of (country)" categories automatically suggested hence I have started the Foods of Mongolia category. Orgio89 (talk) 12:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Many? Show me 7 or 8 please. --E4024 (talk) 12:21, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- This one for example? --E4024 (talk) 12:23, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- There are "Category:Foods of Qatif", "Category:Foods of East Timor", "Category:Foods of Indonesia", "Category:Foods of Iceland", "Category:Foods of Hong Kong fast food restaurants", "Category:Foods of Chinese style restaurants in Hong Kong" categories in the commons and can you explain why "Foods of Mongolia" category cannot exist here? I just made screenshot of that automatic category suggestion and is showing 9 "Foods of .." categories . Orgio89 (talk) 12:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- OK I uploaded the screenshot that sugesting 9 "Foods of ..." categories hope this is more than your requesting of 7 or 8 categories: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foods_of_categories_screenshot_for_discussion_purposes.jpg Orgio89 (talk) 13:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- There are "Category:Foods of Qatif", "Category:Foods of East Timor", "Category:Foods of Indonesia", "Category:Foods of Iceland", "Category:Foods of Hong Kong fast food restaurants", "Category:Foods of Chinese style restaurants in Hong Kong" categories in the commons and can you explain why "Foods of Mongolia" category cannot exist here? I just made screenshot of that automatic category suggestion and is showing 9 "Foods of .." categories . Orgio89 (talk) 12:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- If you want Mongolian categories to be different than the great majority, I will wish you success and beg leave. I can help you only if you want help, if not, sorry. Have a good week-end. --E4024 (talk) 14:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Orgio89! Your mistake is quite reasonable when you saw all those other "Foods of..." categories. If you check, though, almost all of them simply redirect to "Food of..." categories. They're meant to help people looking for this content with the word "foods" instead of "food", but in this instance, they ended up confusing you. Moreover, Category:Food of Mongolia has existed since 2009, and there's obviously no need for both! But thanks for uploading images and for trying to categorize them appropriately. It's much appreciated. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:23, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted in favour of Category:Food of Mongolia. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:49, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
incorrectly named category, images moved to correct category, which is Category:Palace of Florence Apartments Ebyabe (talk) 21:54, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
No opposition. Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:50, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposal to be renamed (Porto) instead of (Oporto) JotaCartas (talk) 04:40, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- I can add that there are 135 categories finishing with "(Porto)" vs 5 with (Oporto). And there are 889 categories containing the name "Porto" vs 39 with the name "Oporto". It is a matter of standardization.--JotaCartas (talk) 07:09, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- Disagree -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Tuvalkin: : It's not a vote. Why do you disagree? - Themightyquill (talk) 22:07, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, it is a vote. I disagree that Category:Rua Gomes Freire (Oporto) should be renamed Category:Rua Gomes Freire (Porto). And in general I disagree that "Porto" and not "Oporto" is the correct (or merely preferable) term to render in English the Portuguese toponym "Porto". -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 11:09, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Well, then you're outvoted 2:1. Moved to Porto to match with category tree. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:15, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposal to be renamed (Porto) instead of (Oporto) JotaCartas (talk) 04:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I can add that there are 135 categories finishing with "(Porto)" vs 5 with (Oporto). And there are 889 categories containing the name "Porto" vs 39 with the name "Oporto". It is a matter of standardization.--JotaCartas (talk) 07:14, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- Disagree -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Porto to match with category tree. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:18, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposal to be renamed (Porto) instead of (Oporto) JotaCartas (talk) 04:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Disagree -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Explanation
- moved down so that the vote above is not misunderstood
I can add that there are 135 categories finishing with "(Porto)" vs 5 with (Oporto). And there are 889 categories containing the name "Porto" vs 39 with the name "Oporto". It is a matter of standardization.--JotaCartas (talk) 07:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- If you want to propose a general renaming of all instances of "Oporto" to "Porto", then do so, instead of sneaking individual renamings one by one. Especially if you’re argueing solely on the base of numbers. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- Reply in kind: In Category:Praia there are many more items pertaining to Category:Beaches than to a city in Cape Verde — an example among many. Should we submit to this kind of tyranny of numbers, or should we discuss calmly what’s the best translation of the Portuguese toponym "Porto" into English? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Porto to match with category tree. Category:Praia has been a disambiguation page since January 2017, so that argument makes no sense. The category tree starts at Category:Porto. If you want to move it to Oporto, then you're welcome to start that discussion. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:22, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposal to be renamed (Porto) instead of (Oporto) JotaCartas (talk) 04:42, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I can add that there are 135 categories finishing with "(Porto)" vs 5 with (Oporto). And there are 889 categories containing the name "Porto" vs 39 with the name "Oporto". It is a matter of standardization.--JotaCartas (talk) 07:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- Disagree -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:22, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Rua do Almada (Porto) to match with category tree. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:27, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposal to be renamed 'Porto' instead of 'Oporto' JotaCartas (talk) 05:00, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Disagree -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 12:22, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Bank buildings in Porto to match with category tree. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:30, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
DAB to Category:Orange (colour) (like w:Orange (colour)) this has images for the fruit (the original meaning, even though that is at the plural and oranges are orange) and there have been images for Category:Orange, New South Wales before (check the other Panoramio files). Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:35, 20 April 2018 (UTC) I have also cleared out many images for oranges and NSW. I'd also point out that Orange, California has a population of 140,504. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Makes sense to me. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:07, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved, no objections, I just cleared out more incorrect images. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:32, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
This category appears redundant with Category:Tert-butyl carbamates. The BOC group is not always used as a protecting group, so maybe that's a distinction, but the two categories each have files that are inconsistent with this distinction. I suggest simply merging into Category:Tert-butyl carbamates. ChemNerd (talk) 15:47, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I would draw a distinction between the Boc group itself and compounds containing the group. Boc-protected amines are tert-butyl carbamates but Boc2O, for example, is not – it doesn’t contain any nitrogen.
- Ben (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have sorted the files according to your suggestion and I withdraw this deletion request. ChemNerd (talk) 20:52, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Nomination withdrawn. Thanks ChemNerdand Benjah-bmm27 for discussing so politely and effectively. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:18, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
empty; unused category redirect Kaganer (talk) 23:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Unappropriate name: posting of personal information. Bogomolov.PL (talk) 06:41, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Bogomolov.PL: Are you okay to delete this redirect? - Themightyquill (talk) 18:48, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm OK. Bogomolov.PL (talk) 17:49, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:21, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
An unnecessary and largely unused additional level of categorization. Upmerge to Category:15th-century architecture. The same with Category:18th-century buildings. -- Themightyquill (talk) 10:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. The hierarchy in most branches if the category tree is as follows:
- Architecture (includes categories for architectural styles, architectural elements, structures, and more
- Structures: includes categories for things that are constructed, such as brudges, monuments and memorials, and buildings
- Buildings: includes categories for things like churches, temples, houses, shops, hotels, etc.
- Structures: includes categories for things that are constructed, such as brudges, monuments and memorials, and buildings
- Architecture (includes categories for architectural styles, architectural elements, structures, and more
- Why should this be different? Instead of eliminating these categories, populate them, and create them for other centuries. That would make it easier to find what you're looking for. Right now the "nth-century architecture" categories are a mix of different things (some of which are sorted together and some of which are not), and could use organization. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:33, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, valid point, but it's a massive project. We have Category:Buildings by year of completion, so maybe we should rename to Category:Buildings completed in the 15th century for clarity. But we don't have Category:Buildings completed in the 1980s or even Category:Buildings completed in 1985. We have Category:1980s architecture and Category:Built in 1985, neither of which are explicitly about buildings (rather, buildings and structures). If we want to populate this new category tree, we'd need to make a new category for every decade and for every year, and then for every decade and every year for every country, and then for every city, etc... - Themightyquill (talk) 06:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- I guess, we have a problem at the moment in that Category:Built in the United States in 1840 is a subcategory of Category:Buildings in the United States by year of completion, but the former can and does include non-buildings, like Category:Bridges in the United States completed in 1840. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:57, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, valid point, but it's a massive project. We have Category:Buildings by year of completion, so maybe we should rename to Category:Buildings completed in the 15th century for clarity. But we don't have Category:Buildings completed in the 1980s or even Category:Buildings completed in 1985. We have Category:1980s architecture and Category:Built in 1985, neither of which are explicitly about buildings (rather, buildings and structures). If we want to populate this new category tree, we'd need to make a new category for every decade and for every year, and then for every decade and every year for every country, and then for every city, etc... - Themightyquill (talk) 06:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think we'd have to create all the decade/year/country/city subcats right away just because we had the higher-level categories. There seem to be a fair number of users who like doing that work, so I'd bet they'd get created if needed. I do think we should create the high-level structure and building categories, though, and I'd volunteer to work on that. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Nomination withdrawn. - Themightyquill (talk) 15:46, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Move to either Category:Food of fast food restaurants or Category:Fast food restaurant products which seems to match the content (i.e. drinks too). Themightyquill (talk) 16:26, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
No objections. Moved to Category:Fast food restaurant products. - Themightyquill (talk) 15:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Per w:WP:IRE-CATS and w:WP:DABCONCEPT we should move this to Category:Republic of Ireland or Category:Ireland (state) and move the island to the base name, the ROI would show up as a sub cat but a hatnote to it and the DAB page can also be included. Alternatively it could be a DAB with the island and state listed first, or it could be left where it is and a hatnote added for the island and other uses. See Category talk:Ireland for past discussion. IT Wikipedia has "Categoria:Irlanda" for the island at the base name even though the ROI is at the base name in the article namespace. If this is implemented then we would then have Category:Foo in Ireland with Foo in the Republic of Ireland and Foo in Northern Ireland, for example Category:Roads in the Republic of Ireland and Category:Roads in Northern Ireland would be in Category:Roads in Ireland. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have now created Category:Ireland (disambiguation). Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- What about pre-1921 Ireland? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- That covered the whole island. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: I think I misundertood. I thoughy you were suggesting that Category:Ireland (island) should be the base category, with Category:History of Ireland (island) etc as subcategories. But you're actually suggesting that Category:Ireland should encompass the whole island. That works for me. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:47, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: Category:Ireland (island) is the whole island, yes I am proposing that that should be at Category:Ireland so Category:History of Ireland (island) would be at Category:History of Ireland and could contain Category:History of the Republic of Ireland and Category:History of Northern Ireland. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:26, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: I think I misundertood. I thoughy you were suggesting that Category:Ireland (island) should be the base category, with Category:History of Ireland (island) etc as subcategories. But you're actually suggesting that Category:Ireland should encompass the whole island. That works for me. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:47, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- That covered the whole island. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- What about pre-1921 Ireland? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- We must have a cat for the island and others for the entities on it. We should do the same for the Island of Cyprus. --E4024 (talk) 09:07, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- There isn't separate cats for the island of Cyprus so that's moot here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't know what moot means but we have quite a separation in Cyprus: UN Zone, Sovereign Bases Area, TRNC, and the southern part that continues to use the name of Republic of Cyprus. --E4024 (talk) 11:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- I was saying that because there is no separate category for each, there is no debate on which should be at Category:Cyprus. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:33, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks; sometimes please consider people (like me) who have learned English in school or language courses please. --E4024 (talk) 11:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- I was saying that because there is no separate category for each, there is no debate on which should be at Category:Cyprus. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:33, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't know what moot means but we have quite a separation in Cyprus: UN Zone, Sovereign Bases Area, TRNC, and the southern part that continues to use the name of Republic of Cyprus. --E4024 (talk) 11:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- There isn't separate cats for the island of Cyprus so that's moot here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- No opposition in months, Crouch, Swale, if you want to go ahead and make the changes. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:33, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
The result was moved, inline with w:WP:DABCONCEPT, ROI can easily be found as it is in the hatnote and appears as a subcat. Note that Countries of Europe template still needs to be fixed. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:11, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Delete page Márcio Luiz Oliveira (talk) 04:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
No reason given. Kept. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:39, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
I see some serious redundancy between the contents of Category:Prejudice and discrimination, Category:Prejudice, Category:Discrimination and Category:Prejudices, and possibly Category:Persecutionand Category:Personal bias. Perhaps we could simplify/reorganize/clarify a bit? Themightyquill (talk) 18:26, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- You'll all be glad to know that we used to have a "bigotry" category as well, but deleted it. =) - Themightyquill (talk) 18:29, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Allforrous: I noticed you've been working with these, so I thought I'd ping you to get your input as well. Thanks for cleaning out Category:Bias. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
This would appear to be another mirror of the English Wikipedia. It's easy for me to see now how concepts should not be Commons categories. Bigotry is a separate concept from all these. - Bossanoven (talk) 21:13, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- I propose:
- Category:Prejudice and discrimination (keep)
- Category:Prejudice and discrimination by country (replacing Category:Discrimination by country)
- Category:Affirmative action
- Category:Anti-discrimination
- Category:Chauvinism
- Category:Stereotypes
- Category:Videos of prejudice and discrimination (replacing Category:Videos of prejudice and Category:Videos of discrimination)
- Category:Political correctness
- Category:Segregation
- Category:Prejudice and discrimination by type (create)
- Category:Ableism
- Category:Ageism
- Category:Ethnic discrimination
- Category:Discrimination based on gender (replacing Category:Sexuality and gender-related prejudices)
- Category:Discrimination based on sexual orientation (replacing Category:Sexuality and gender-related prejudices)
- Category:Racism
- Category:Religious discrimination (replacing Category:Religionism)
-- Thoughts? - Themightyquill (talk) 16:55, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
No opposition in months. Closing as per proposal above. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:24, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
This is about an extremely short, uninteresting, street. The only notable building is Willem de Zwijgerkerk (Amsterdam), which has its entrance and formal and postal address at Olympiaweg (14), Amsterdam. Paulbe (talk) 21:43, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Closing: cat was deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:57, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Appears to be a misspelling of Unidentified Caryophylliidae, which latter matches the enWP article and the Wkispecies entry. Per enWP there also appears to be a tentative botanical name spelt this way. —Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:08, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Redirected. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:02, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
"Sura titles" of the Quran: Our category titles have a different format. For instance, Category:Titles of the... E4024 (talk) 08:56, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- It seems to duplicate Category:Qur'an headers. --HyperGaruda (talk) 16:04, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Redirected to Category:Qur'an headers. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the exact distinction between Category:Victims of war and Category:War casualties. Perhaps better to upmerge to Category:People associated with war? Themightyquill (talk) 22:09, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Merged into Category:War casualties. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Requesting rename to "Category:Ōmoto Station". As no other stations with the same name now. そらみみ (talk) 11:07, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done.そらみみ (talk) 04:06, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Requesting moving to "Category:Tomida Station", because no other stations with the same name. そらみみ (talk) 13:38, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done.そらみみ (talk) 04:04, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Could this category be renamed to 'RuPaul's DragCon LA 2017' to add a bit more information? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 19:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think this is good.. Because there are Pictures of Drag Con New York and soon pictures of LA 2018. --CHR!S (talk) 16:50, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Subdivided by year. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:14, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
The 'Winners' in the name of the category should be without a capital. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 19:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:RuPaul's Drag Race winners. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Please remove it, I've made mistake in this category name Pikador (talk) 07:37, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted in favour of Category:Nature reserve Źródła Borówki. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Move to Category:World War I by subject. As it is, this category has no logical categories aside from Category:World War I. Category:Wars by subject exists and has no World War I category. Themightyquill (talk) 07:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:World War I by subject. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:57, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Could we harmonize Category:Ancient Egyptian cuisine, Category:Food and cooking in ancient Greece, and Category:Ancient Roman food? Note that there is also Category:Food of ancient Egypt so these may not necessarily be exact peers. Themightyquill (talk) 07:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Harmonized as Category:Cuisine of ancient Egypt, Category:Cuisine of ancient Rome, Category:Cuisine of ancient Greece. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
delete this category because it is empty. 47.151.26.64 07:42, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Es un taxón aceptado aqui, confirmado en enero 2018.--MILEPRI (talk) 07:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- That page spells it Acacia mitchellii not Acacia mitchelii.--47.151.26.64 00:00, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Es un taxón aceptado aqui, confirmado en enero 2018.--MILEPRI (talk) 07:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- There’s also Acacia mitchellii: which is the correct spelling? The image in that cat has only one L in the filename, but if the species is named after someone called Mitchell, I wouldn‘t expect the last L to be dropped.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 08:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, Acacia mitchellii is the correct spelling.--47.151.26.64 00:00, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- There’s also Acacia mitchellii: which is the correct spelling? The image in that cat has only one L in the filename, but if the species is named after someone called Mitchell, I wouldn‘t expect the last L to be dropped.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 08:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Deleted. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:13, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
As we don't have a cat for "Arabic chicken" there is no need for this cat. Please, now we have only Category:Chicken dishes of Tunisia as a subcat here. Tomorrow someone will come and say "We are Zamazigs" etc and reject the "Arabic". Let us please classify cuisines only for countries and cities. Not "Arabic" etc. Arabic is a language. E4024 (talk) 08:45, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Isn't your problem with Category:Arabic cuisine then? There is also Category:Arabic rice dishes. Perhaps you could tag those both for discussion as well. We do have Category:Cuisine by region, so perhaps it would make sense to have Category:North African cuisine as well - we do have Category:North African style restaurants already. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:28, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Closed as kept. As Themightyquill, "Arabic" refers to the type of cuisine, not a variety of bird. Valid sub-category of "Arabic cuisine". -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 01:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
This meta category has amassed 77,326 subcategories and needs diffusion. Part of the problem is that for quite some time there have been several subcategories in Category:Aircraft by registration by type following the scheme of "Boeing 747 by registration" and the like, but people still keep adding both Category:Aircraft by registration and "Category:<Aircraft type> by registration" to the main categories where individual aircraft by registration are gathered. E.g. Category:EC-MLD (aircraft) is categorised both in "Category:Aircraft by registration" and "Category:Airbus A321 by registration". Contrary to COM:OVERCAT this seems to be the rule at aircraft categories rather than the exception. I am presenting this issue here because Ardfern suggested that it be discussed with Commons:WikiProject Aviation only. However, I don't think that local consensus can trump a Commons-wide policy, so exceptions need to be approved here. De728631 (talk) 16:45, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why does a function (set) with 2 parameters - "Aircraft (by registration, by type)" have a superfunction (superset) with 1 parameter - "Aircraft (by registration)"?
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- That is how Wikimedia categories work. We define more specific categories the further we go down the category tree, and that means that more parameters come into play while the definition set out in a simple top category still remains valid for all elements further down the hierarchy. "Aircraft by registration" is for images where just the registration number is known. "Aircraft by registration by type" is a container for aircraft categories where the registration and the type is known, and "Category:Kawasaki C-1 by registration" and the like would be the next level. The problem, however, is that subcategories should only be part of one category level further up the direct line, and not be sorted into two related parent categories. De728631 (talk) 21:07, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Having so many entries isn't always a reason to diffuse a category. This isn't a standard-type category. Another example of this type of category is Category:People by name, which has even more entries: 366,781 when I checked just now. There are categories that are subsets of that one, such as Category:Men by name and Category:Women by name (see Category:People categories by name for others), but the contents of those categories are also in Category:People by name. We should handle similar categories such as this one the same way. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:36, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- First, what is a "category tree"? If it is a taxonomy , then we have: ROOT <- 1) SUBROOT1 (by A); 2) SUBROOT2 (by B); 3) SUBROOT3 (by A, by B). Examples: "Aircraft by parameters" <- 1) "Aircraft by registration"; 2) "Aircraft by type"; 3) "Aircraft by registration by type" --Fractaler (talk) 08:28, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe I didn't make it clear enough when I started this discussion, but my main concern is not so much the way we may want to diffuse this category in the future but a massive case of overcategorisation right now. Contrary to the Commons policy on categories, there are probably hundreds of subcategories that are placed into a category and its parent. So my approach is to remove all those subcategories from Category:Aircraft by registration that have already been sorted into a category "by registration by type". This is the commonly accepted standard to solve the issue, but it has been challenged in this case and needs discussion. De728631 (talk) 09:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- We have now, for example, 3 sets: 1) Category:Aircraft by registration, 2) Category:Aircraft by type, 3) Category:Aircraft by registration by type (the same for Category:People by name, Category:People by gender, Category:People by name by gender, etc.). So, category tree (by the commonly accepted standard) must be ...? --Fractaler (talk) 10:38, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe I didn't make it clear enough when I started this discussion, but my main concern is not so much the way we may want to diffuse this category in the future but a massive case of overcategorisation right now. Contrary to the Commons policy on categories, there are probably hundreds of subcategories that are placed into a category and its parent. So my approach is to remove all those subcategories from Category:Aircraft by registration that have already been sorted into a category "by registration by type". This is the commonly accepted standard to solve the issue, but it has been challenged in this case and needs discussion. De728631 (talk) 09:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Level 1, two independent parent categories: Category:Aircraft by registration / Category:Aircraft by type
- Level 2, merged meta category: Category:Aircraft by registration by type
- Level 3, category names contain the specific type: Category:Airbus A380 by registration
- Level 4, registration category: Category:B-6140 (aircraft) which should not also be in Category:Aircraft by registration
- Level 3, category names contain the specific type: Category:Airbus A380 by registration
- Level 2, merged meta category: Category:Aircraft by registration by type
- De728631 (talk) 12:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Aircraft by registration, however, may very well contain registration categories like "Category:D-ECAB" if the aircraft type is unknown. Once the type becomes known, the registration category should be placed into "<Aircraft type> by registration" instead. De728631 (talk) 12:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Level 4 - you are right, here COM:OVERCAT. But also I mean (level 2->level 1), why the set Category:Aircraft by registration by type must be a subset of the set Category:Aircraft by type (or Category:Aircraft by registration)
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?--Fractaler (talk) 13:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- For the record, we agree on COM:OVERCAT. As to your question: It is the logical taxonomy for breaking down Category:Aircraft by registration and Category:Aircraft by type. Category:Airbus A380 by registration, Category:Jetstream 31 by registration etc. need to have parent categories and it would be improper to put them directly into Category:Aircraft by registration and Category:Aircraft by type because there are dozens of these "by registration by type" categories. A meta category for hosting them is not only justified but needed to make things more accessible, so that is how the connection between Level 2 and Level 1 works. De728631 (talk) 15:09, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm going to ignore the application of set theory above (IMO it isn't an appropriate model for Commons), as abstract theory is unlikely to be informative to a specific problem.
I will stick to practical concerns. Say I have a photo of the plane with registration G-BOAC. I don't have a clue what sort of plane that is, but if I create its category I can place it in Category:Aircraft by registration based on what I do know. Alternatively, imagine I am seeking images of G-BOAC. I know its registration, so its reasonable to use Category:Aircraft by registration to try to locate it. If its directly in that category, I can find it. If its buried in a "by type" subcategory I cannot find it, as I do not have that information. In both cases, having the individual plane's category in Category:Aircraft by registration is helpful. Removing it from that category is harmful.
To put this a different way, "I want a plane with registration G-BOAC" is not sensibly narrowed down by instead saying "I want a Concorde with registration G-BOAC". In contrast "I want a Concorde" is sensibly refined with "I want a Concorde with registration G-BOAC". That suggests Category:Aircraft by registration by type should be a subcat of "by type" but not "by registration".--Nilfanion (talk) 20:39, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- If you're looking for a specific category G-BOAC, your first start should be the search field anyway. It will guide you directly to the desired category without you having to browse the category tree. It is the fastest solution for "I want a plane with registration G-BOAC", so a direct entry in Category:Aircraft by registration is therefore not even necessary. Also, Category:Aircraft by registration by type includes the "registration" element, so the question would still arise why it is not linked back to Category:Aircraft by registration. Per our category policy, "each category should itself be in more general categories, forming a hierarchical structure." The hierarchical structure would be broken if Category:Aircraft by registration was not involved. Pinging @Joshbaumgartner: who created "by registration by type" as he might want to comment here too. De728631 (talk) 23:24, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- PS: What I'm trying to demonstrate is that navigation in the category realm works both ways, not just top-down. So if I want to browse back from G-BOAC via "Concorde by registration" and further up the tree, I should be able to arrive at "Aircraft by registration" as well. De728631 (talk) 23:31, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- With bottom-up navigation, you can get to Aircraft by registration by some obvious logical route, no matter how its categorised. That is not true for top-down navigation unless it is directly in by registration. Breaking registrations down by type is simply NOT helpful for navigation. Outright deletion of by registration by type is preferable to have it messing up the utility of the by regisration category.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Now you are contradicting yourself. A few paragraphs further up, you suggested that "Category:Aircraft by registration by type should be a subcat of 'by type'" rather than by registration while you are now outright opposed to "Breaking registrations down by type"? De728631 (talk) 18:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Uhh.. '"by registration by type" should be a subcat of "by type" rather than "by registration"' is consistent with 'don't break registrations down by type'? The latter statement is stronger, but doesn't contradict the former. If you already know the registration, adding in the type of aircraft doesn't narrow things down further, you already have a unique plane. (As an aside, to me "aircraft type" implies things like "helicopter" or "wide-body airliner" not "Boeing 777"). What benefit is there to any user in removing categories like Category:G-BOAC (aircraft) from Category:Aircraft by registration? IMO the only logical subcats for aircraft by registration are for the countries of registration. That would link all G registered planes together, and would allow G-BOAC to have a sortkey starting with B instead of G - making it slightly easier to find in the still huge list.--Nilfanion (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- We do have country-specific categories. Category:Aircraft registered in the United Kingdom is a parent for all G- registration categories, and there are lots of other such categories for more or less any registration prefix. And "type" is the official ICAO designation for what may otherwise be called an aircraft model. Using "model" for general aircraft categories is problematic though, because it should only be used for categories of scale models. Hence the "by type" wording of the subcategories that was rightfully introduced by Uli Elch. De728631 (talk) 19:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- And those are the only ones that logically belong under by registration. As they are aspects of aircraft registration, not an otherwise unrelated aspect of aircraft.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Are you sure?
Aircraft by registration
`-- Aircraft registered in the United Kingdom
`-- Aircraft registered in France
`---G-BOAC
`---F-IBEX
- That way you would empty "Aircraft by registration" of all registration categories, because per COM:OVERCAT they would have to be sorted into the relevant country-specific subcategories, leaving you again with no direct search options. At the moment, "Aircraft by registration" and "Aircraft by registration country" are at the same level in Category:Aircraft registrations and that is a good structure. De728631 (talk) 20:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- And I agree with that structure. My point there is if we don't want to merge those two related concepts (the registration code and the registration country), why would we want to link two entirely unrelated categories?--Nilfanion (talk) 21:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- And those are the only ones that logically belong under by registration. As they are aspects of aircraft registration, not an otherwise unrelated aspect of aircraft.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- We do have country-specific categories. Category:Aircraft registered in the United Kingdom is a parent for all G- registration categories, and there are lots of other such categories for more or less any registration prefix. And "type" is the official ICAO designation for what may otherwise be called an aircraft model. Using "model" for general aircraft categories is problematic though, because it should only be used for categories of scale models. Hence the "by type" wording of the subcategories that was rightfully introduced by Uli Elch. De728631 (talk) 19:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Uhh.. '"by registration by type" should be a subcat of "by type" rather than "by registration"' is consistent with 'don't break registrations down by type'? The latter statement is stronger, but doesn't contradict the former. If you already know the registration, adding in the type of aircraft doesn't narrow things down further, you already have a unique plane. (As an aside, to me "aircraft type" implies things like "helicopter" or "wide-body airliner" not "Boeing 777"). What benefit is there to any user in removing categories like Category:G-BOAC (aircraft) from Category:Aircraft by registration? IMO the only logical subcats for aircraft by registration are for the countries of registration. That would link all G registered planes together, and would allow G-BOAC to have a sortkey starting with B instead of G - making it slightly easier to find in the still huge list.--Nilfanion (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Now you are contradicting yourself. A few paragraphs further up, you suggested that "Category:Aircraft by registration by type should be a subcat of 'by type'" rather than by registration while you are now outright opposed to "Breaking registrations down by type"? De728631 (talk) 18:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- With bottom-up navigation, you can get to Aircraft by registration by some obvious logical route, no matter how its categorised. That is not true for top-down navigation unless it is directly in by registration. Breaking registrations down by type is simply NOT helpful for navigation. Outright deletion of by registration by type is preferable to have it messing up the utility of the by regisration category.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- I do not understand what "specific problem"? Where can user place Category:G-BOAC (aircraft) based on what user do know or how can user find Category:G-BOAC (aircraft)? Who is the taxonomy for, who is the end user? What is the problem: creating a taxonomy or navigate (by navigator!) through it? Also, just for clarification: set theory is not a model. --Fractaler (talk) 08:42, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Specific as in actually discussing the particular concern raised. Not discussing general points which could equally apply to any category. The application of set theory to Commons categories is the problematic case. Its based on the assumption that subategories must be subsets. That's clearly not true in many cases.--Nilfanion (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Erm, if a subcategory is not a subset of its parent categories, where is the navigational benefit? Categories in a category tree shall "reflect a hierarchy of concepts, from the most generic one down to the very specific". De728631 (talk) 19:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- See this discussion. The navigational benefit is from linking two related concepts, but that relationship is not necessarily that between a set and its subset. The photos of a building in a city are a subset of the photos of the city. The photos of a building built by an architect are not a subset of the photos of the architect.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- "See this discussion." TLDR, and too much set theory. Still, there is a relationship between the architect and his buildings, so the photos of buildings are a subset of images related to the architect. De728631 (talk) 20:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- The short version is that the real issues start to appear at the 2nd order. The building could easily be a subcat of an entirely different city (the birthplace of the architect). That relationship is tenuous, but the two steps to get there are perfectly valid. Its conceivable that someone would place a photo of the building directly in the architect's category; its implausible that they would place it in their birthplace's category. That relationship is clearly not a strict subset-of-subset relationship, in contrast to building-city-country which would be.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- "See this discussion." TLDR, and too much set theory. Still, there is a relationship between the architect and his buildings, so the photos of buildings are a subset of images related to the architect. De728631 (talk) 20:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- See this discussion. The navigational benefit is from linking two related concepts, but that relationship is not necessarily that between a set and its subset. The photos of a building in a city are a subset of the photos of the city. The photos of a building built by an architect are not a subset of the photos of the architect.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- "Its based on the assumption that subategories must be subsets": first, its based on the assertion that must be a definition ("by list" or "by giving a property"). So, still no definition "by list" or "by giving a property". Also here, " The photos of a building in a city" (Category:Buildings by city? Category:Photos of buildings in a city?) - where can we read the definition of this term? When there are no definitions, then there are disputes. Do we need disputes? --Fractaler (talk) 08:13, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Set theory is nice, but should not trump what works best for a real application on Commons. Josh (talk) 21:33, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
- What does "works best for a real application on Commons" mean? As can be seen from the template with the taxonomy above, for example, in Category:B-6140 (aircraft) -> Category:Aircraft by registration -> Category:Aircraft registrations -> Category:Aviation data -> Category:Data, set theory is simply not used ("B-6140 (aircraft)" is not "Data"). --Fractaler (talk) 07:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Fractaler: : What is your proposal then? Which of the links you listed is invalid and should be broken? Josh (talk) 22:19, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- What does "works best for a real application on Commons" mean? As can be seen from the template with the taxonomy above, for example, in Category:B-6140 (aircraft) -> Category:Aircraft by registration -> Category:Aircraft registrations -> Category:Aviation data -> Category:Data, set theory is simply not used ("B-6140 (aircraft)" is not "Data"). --Fractaler (talk) 07:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Erm, if a subcategory is not a subset of its parent categories, where is the navigational benefit? Categories in a category tree shall "reflect a hierarchy of concepts, from the most generic one down to the very specific". De728631 (talk) 19:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Specific as in actually discussing the particular concern raised. Not discussing general points which could equally apply to any category. The application of set theory to Commons categories is the problematic case. Its based on the assumption that subategories must be subsets. That's clearly not true in many cases.--Nilfanion (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
We should retain current use of Category:Aircraft by registration. It is an index of all aircraft registrations, regardless of further sub-categorization that can occur. Sub-categorization can be done by type, by country of registration, or by any number of other criteria. It is best if a registration is accurately categorized by all relevant methods, not just one. However, none of that changes the fact that it is both valuable and without harm to have an index that retains a link to all registrations. Since it does no harm and provides value, the current structure and method of using Category:Aircraft by registration should be retained. Josh (talk) 21:33, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Aircraft by type must be a subcategory of Category:Aircraft by registration? --Fractaler (talk) 07:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Now that would be ridiculous. De728631 (talk) 12:21, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- @De728631: : It is ridiculous. Category:Aircraft by type is NOT a subcategory of Category:Aircraft by registration, nor should it become one, nor is anyone proposing that. As I stated above, we should retain current use of Category:Aircraft by registration. Josh (talk) 22:19, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Now that would be ridiculous. De728631 (talk) 12:21, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Commons talk:Categories#Diffusion of Category:Aircraft by registration. Auntof6 (talk) 15:51, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Moved discussion text to this page so it will reflect in real time on both Commons talk:Categories and Commons:Categories for discussion. Josh (talk) 21:45, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- There is no problem with having all single-aircraft registration categories in the main "Aircraft by registration" acting as a super-category. This is not uncommon practice. A standardisation of the "by type" subcategories is always a good thing, of course. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
There are some valid reasons to rethink exactly how Category:Aircraft registrations is structured. Never mind the hashing about whether or not a guideline is being obeyed or whether we are properly applying set theory, none of that is terribly valuable. The category does however beg some more clarity and streamlining. There are a couple issues which we can deal with in pieces, or as a whole. Josh (talk) 23:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- 1 - xxxx (aircraft) categories are aircraft registrations, not aircraft. However, they are often treated as aircraft, especially since they say 'aircraft' parenthetically. This is not a problem for most common usage, but is exposed in corner cases and when analyzing the category structure. Keep in mind an aircraft may be assigned several registrations over its life, and some registrations may be assigned to different aircraft over time. Specific sub-categories of an aircraft registration category can be created to show its application to different aircraft (e.g. Category:N305FA (aircraft) into Category:N305FA (Boeing 737) and Category:N305FA (MD-83)). Proper names should be 'Aircraft registration N305FA' with sub-cats 'Aircraft registration N305FA assigned to Boeing 737 c/n 28662' and 'Aircraft registration N305FA assigned to MD-83 c/n 49398'. I am not proposing renaming these categories, unless someone is up for moving 75,000+ categories. The current abbreviated names are fine, but we should have a better description of what exactly those categories cover.
- 2 - Category:Aircraft by registration is named incorrectly. As noted above, the sub-cats are aircraft registrations, not aircraft, so the correct title should be Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list) or some other such appropriate title to indicate it is an index of all aircraft registrations ordered alpha-numerically. As it is, the current name adds to the confusion referred to in note 1 above. It may be appropriate to make this category a hidden cat while we are at it. Once this is done, sub and meta cats can be moved directly under Category:Aircraft registrations.
- 3 - Military identification numbers are not consistently treated. These are sometimes treated as aircraft registrations and other times as serial numbers or some other unrelated tree. Category:Aircraft registrations should cover all individual aircraft identifications assigned by authorities, military or civil. Sub-categorization can break down between assigning authorities for those that it is helpful for, but not all users will know what the issuing authority is for a particular identifier. No rename is needed, but a better description is required to make it clear what the category covers.
- 4 - Category:Aircraft by registration country is named incorrectly. As above, a more clear and concise name should be used, such as Category:Aircraft registrations by country of issue, to make it clear that the items within are aircraft registrations and that they are ordered by the country which issued the registration. It should be listed directly under Category:Aircraft registrations and not under Category:Aircraft by registration/Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list). Category:Aircraft by registration continent should get similar treatment, though 'continents' do not issue registrations, countries do.
- 5 - Category:Aircraft by registration by manufacturer and type are incorrect. They should be renamed Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned and sub-cats of that can parallel the categorization of Category:Aircraft to the level appropriate. Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned should be directly under Category:Aircraft registrations.
Some tweaks like these would allow the continued use of aircraft registration categories essentially as they have been used for the 75,000+ registrations in place, while at the same time adding clarity and cleaning up the structure of the category quite a bit. They will hopefully go some way to satisfying concerns over COM:OVERCAT and the set theory issues raised by De728631 (talk · contribs) and Fractaler (talk · contribs). Josh (talk) 23:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- "What is your proposal then?": set theory requires a definition, and therefore here, in the disputed case, it makes sense to give definitions to the term. What definition should the term "B-6140 (aircraft)" have for a more general term to be the term data"? The same for "aircraft by registration", "aircraft registrations", etc. --Fractaler (talk) 07:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Fractaler: As stated in the list above, definition of Category:B-6140 (aircraft) is an 'aircraft registration'. Not sure what definition you are looking for beyond that. Josh (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think we need to differentiate between xxxx (aircraft) and xxxx (aircraft registration) and all subsequent namings. Apart from Category:Temporary aircraft registrations that are used for test and transfer flights, registrations are seldom changed over the life of an aircraft frame and the registration is therefore often synonymous with the single airframe it got assigned to. We already have Category:Re-used aircraft registrations and its appropriate sub-categories as you showed above.
- @De728631: You are incorrect that registrations are seldom changed; it is common practice to change a commercial aircraft registration several times during its life, especially when it changes ownership. I would not advise eliminating the existing sub-categorization of xxxx (aircraft) into xxxx (specific aircraft) categories. Assuming synonymy between an aircraft and its registration is a mistake. As stated, I am not proposing that these categories be renamed, but merely that we have better definition of them as being specifically related to that aircraft registration. Josh (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, you wrote "Category:Aircraft by registration is named incorrectly. ... the correct title should be Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list) or some other such appropriate title", or "Category:Aircraft by registration by manufacturer and type are incorrect. They should be renamed Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned". Isn't that renaming? Apart from Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list), I think this is unnecessary, and imho Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned would be outright confusing. Btw, you created the two latter categories (by registration by manufacturer / by registration by type [model]) last year, so how come you changed your mind now? As I see it, the focus is already on the registration numbers now – even with names like "xxxx (aircraft)". If it's really that common for commercial registrations to be changed, Category:Re-used aircraft registrations with xxxx (specific aircraft) subcategories should become more populated though. Different aircraft should not be lumped into a single registration category. De728631 (talk)
- My apologies for not being clear. I don't propose changing the xxxx (aircraft) naming scheme. I do however, think that the meta cats they are in should be renamed per my suggestions above. You are right that some of them are ones I created myself under flawed names. I named them as I did in order to keep with the naming of Category:Aircraft by registration, but I wasn't thrilled by it at the time, and I am even less so now. I'm not sure what you are concerned about with lumping. As it stands now, if a registration is applied to multiple aircraft (which is less common than one aircraft having multiple registrations), then it should be broken down (see Category:N305FA (aircraft)). The main registration category should be also categorized in Category:Re-used aircraft registrations. That is current practice, and I don't think anyone is suggesting changing it. Josh (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, you wrote "Category:Aircraft by registration is named incorrectly. ... the correct title should be Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list) or some other such appropriate title", or "Category:Aircraft by registration by manufacturer and type are incorrect. They should be renamed Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned". Isn't that renaming? Apart from Category:Aircraft registrations (flat list), I think this is unnecessary, and imho Category:Aircraft registrations by aircraft assigned would be outright confusing. Btw, you created the two latter categories (by registration by manufacturer / by registration by type [model]) last year, so how come you changed your mind now? As I see it, the focus is already on the registration numbers now – even with names like "xxxx (aircraft)". If it's really that common for commercial registrations to be changed, Category:Re-used aircraft registrations with xxxx (specific aircraft) subcategories should become more populated though. Different aircraft should not be lumped into a single registration category. De728631 (talk)
- @De728631: You are incorrect that registrations are seldom changed; it is common practice to change a commercial aircraft registration several times during its life, especially when it changes ownership. I would not advise eliminating the existing sub-categorization of xxxx (aircraft) into xxxx (specific aircraft) categories. Assuming synonymy between an aircraft and its registration is a mistake. As stated, I am not proposing that these categories be renamed, but merely that we have better definition of them as being specifically related to that aircraft registration. Josh (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Military ID numbers are a problem though. Apparently there are in fact two major approaches among the armed forces of how to apply such registrations, namely using an aircraft's generic serial number (e.g. US Air Force, Italy) or issuing an unrelated ID (Germany, UK, Netherlands, etc.) Sometimes like in Italy or Spain, there are even two parallel schemes of markings on a single aircraft, such as an internal squadron ID (e.g. 41-12) and a permanent serial number. This has already led to inconsistent category schemes as in Category:Military aircraft registered in Spain or Category:Military aircraft registered in Italy (see the MM##### serials). So these need some consistency. De728631 (talk) 09:54, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- The US is no different than Germany or the UK: none use a 'generic' serial number, but instead assign their own numbers per whatever system they have established at the time. Some of these systems adopt the serials already assigned by other agencies or the manufacturer, but again, the sytems are set by each individual issuing authority. What is fundamentally different are identifiers that are assigned for the service life of an aircraft (such as the US Navy's BuNo) vs. those that are assigned to indicate organizational assignment and may be changed throughout its service life (such as the US Navy's tactical codes). However, in all cases, just as with civil registrations, the categories are for the identifier, not the airframe, and thus they should all be handled within the same consistent structure regardless of local differences in how such numbers are devised. Josh (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying the service-life ID vs tactical code schemes. It is essentially what I tried to write above but maybe it didn't come through. I agree that in the future we should not use any tactical codes for "registration" categories but stick to BuNos, serials and other such official "top-level" IDs. Where applicable, we should redirect existing "tactical" categories to categories with the official registration number, e.g. Category:43-28 (aircraft) → Category:UD.13-28 (aircraft). De728631 (talk) 20:48, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- I totally agree with you that the 'tactical codes' and the like should not be necessarily considered aircraft registrations, while 'serial numbers' like BuNos, etc. should be under aircraft registrations. I also agree that it is curently not consistent and has been hard to know exactly how to proceed with those kinds of categories. We can have 'tactical code' categories, but they should be kept in their own category. The difficulty will be that many users may not be aware of the differences. Josh (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- For 'tactical codes' I assume you mean Squadron Codes and yes users may not be aware of the differences. Even aircraft enthusiasts get it wrong. A Chilean aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow was widely quoted in reports as having a serial which later turned out to be a squadron code. Seperate categories for these could be useful? eg Aircraft of 32 Squatron for example. SkymasterUK (talk) 10:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- I totally agree with you that the 'tactical codes' and the like should not be necessarily considered aircraft registrations, while 'serial numbers' like BuNos, etc. should be under aircraft registrations. I also agree that it is curently not consistent and has been hard to know exactly how to proceed with those kinds of categories. We can have 'tactical code' categories, but they should be kept in their own category. The difficulty will be that many users may not be aware of the differences. Josh (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying the service-life ID vs tactical code schemes. It is essentially what I tried to write above but maybe it didn't come through. I agree that in the future we should not use any tactical codes for "registration" categories but stick to BuNos, serials and other such official "top-level" IDs. Where applicable, we should redirect existing "tactical" categories to categories with the official registration number, e.g. Category:43-28 (aircraft) → Category:UD.13-28 (aircraft). De728631 (talk) 20:48, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- The US is no different than Germany or the UK: none use a 'generic' serial number, but instead assign their own numbers per whatever system they have established at the time. Some of these systems adopt the serials already assigned by other agencies or the manufacturer, but again, the sytems are set by each individual issuing authority. What is fundamentally different are identifiers that are assigned for the service life of an aircraft (such as the US Navy's BuNo) vs. those that are assigned to indicate organizational assignment and may be changed throughout its service life (such as the US Navy's tactical codes). However, in all cases, just as with civil registrations, the categories are for the identifier, not the airframe, and thus they should all be handled within the same consistent structure regardless of local differences in how such numbers are devised. Josh (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- definition of Category:B-6140 (aircraft) is an 'aircraft registration' : now Category:B-6140 (aircraft) does not have any definition. But, for example, Category:Civil aircraft by country, Category:Airliners of Spain, Category:Four-engine airliners, Category:China Southern Airlines have (even human readable, not to mention the machine-readable, as, for example, in Wikidata or Commons' Category:Airbus A380). --Fractaler (talk) 12:17, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Do you mean that the definition should be reflected in the name of the category? De728631 (talk) 15:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Now on the page Category:B-6140 (aircraft) we can see such static information: Airbus A380-841, cn/serial number: 120, *China Southern Airlines 2013 to date as B-6140. No "is an 'aircraft registration'" on the page. And the pages from the examples have definitions on their pages ("China Southern Airlines is an airline based in Guangzhou in the Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China (PRC)", etc.). --Fractaler (talk) 06:26, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
- Do you mean that the definition should be reflected in the name of the category? De728631 (talk) 15:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Or, for example, Wikidata's definitions:
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- Those infoboxes are well suited to gallery pages, but not so much for categories. Wikidata doesn't have items for individual aircraft registrations
as far as I am aware. I just looked it up and there are no items with instance of: Q838849 (aircraft registration) Josh (talk) 21:17, 12 April 2018 (UTC)- Do you mean these items? About definition: in order to be able to display the definition (by version of WD, if there is no version of Commons) on a category page, I'm now trying to make a template {{DescriptionWD}} (using Module:Wikidata description). For example, "aircraft registration": registration and identification assigned to an individual aircraft by national aviation authorities --Fractaler (talk) 07:59, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Try Template:Individual aircraft and Template:Wdd. Josh (talk) 19:07, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Fractaler: Yes, none of those items you linked are instances of aircraft registrations. Josh (talk) 19:18, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Do you mean these items? About definition: in order to be able to display the definition (by version of WD, if there is no version of Commons) on a category page, I'm now trying to make a template {{DescriptionWD}} (using Module:Wikidata description). For example, "aircraft registration": registration and identification assigned to an individual aircraft by national aviation authorities --Fractaler (talk) 07:59, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Those infoboxes are well suited to gallery pages, but not so much for categories. Wikidata doesn't have items for individual aircraft registrations
@De728631, Fractaler, Nilfanion, Auntof6, and Huntster: Can we possibly close this out? There was a lot of discussion but not much in the way of specific proposals or consensus of said proposals. The OP (de728631) was correct that this category violates COM:OVERCAT when sub cats such as Category:Airbus A320 by registration are included. There is no reason it should, so I propose we fix this by simply restricting this category to actual categories which include the registration in their name (e.g. Category:B-6140 (aircraft)) and not other metacats and such. For the purposs of this category, the term 'registration' includes all officially assigned aircraft IDs, and thus includes civil aircraft registrations issued by national aviation authorities as well as military aircraft serial numbers assigned for the aircraft's service life. Is it possible that we can agree on this simple tweak to come into compliance with COM:OVERCAT and then tackle the other issues raised above in their own conversations? Josh (talk) 22:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- I've previously expressed my opinion that keeping this a super-category for all registrations is not an issue and is a reasonable exception (as with Category:Ships by name and others). There is the very real potential for a flat-list to be useful to end users. — Huntster (t @ c) 23:07, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, I think this should be a flat category containing all registrations. I understand the concerns about overcategorization, but I think categories containing all individual entries are useful. Maybe this cat should be renamed to indicate that it's a flat category. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:39, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: Would it make sense to have Category:Aircraft by registration (flat list) as one of many subcategories in Category:Aircraft by registration ? - Themightyquill (talk) 08:29, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
- I think that would make sense. That way we'd have a cat with a subcat for each registration ID, and we could also have categories that group the IDs by whatever criteria are useful. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:04, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: Would it make sense to have Category:Aircraft by registration (flat list) as one of many subcategories in Category:Aircraft by registration ? - Themightyquill (talk) 08:29, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
@Huntster, Auntof6, Themightyquill, and De728631: Closed (no consensus for a significant change to how category is used; category is exempt from COM:OVERCAT limitations; perhaps can be styled as a flat list in the future if someone wants to take on that task; any further discussion can be a new CfD) Josh (talk) 18:49, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
This category is redundant to Category:Nurse costumes. Whether the costumes are sexy or not sexy is subjective. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 21:23, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- It don't think it's redundant -- "sexy nurse outfits" are not nurse uniforms that happen to be sexy, but a particular type of highly-specialized Halloween costume or costume-party outfit, which actual qualified working nurses generally wouldn't be seen dead in. (Note that very few actual qualified nurses have worn skirts or dresses on the job in the last 40 years.) "Sexy nurse outfits" bear the same relationship to professional nurse attire that Category:French maid outfits bear to uniforms worn by actual cleaning personnel... AnonMoos (talk) 21:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think we agree that there is a difference between people wearing costumes to pretend that they are nurses and nurses wearing their uniforms. What we have now is a category of costumes and a subcategory also of costumes. We didn't actually have a category for actual nurse uniforms, so I have created Category:Nurse's uniforms for the uniforms only. Can we get rid of the "sexy" one now, or should we discuss which ones are sexy and which ones aren't? World's Lamest Critic (talk) 03:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- I highly approve of the creation of Category:Nurse's uniforms (thanks), but that doesn't change the fact that "sexy" in "sexy nurse outfits" is not a subjective evaluation, but rather a descriptor of the nature and purpose of such outfits. Do a Google search on the words nurse halloween and see how often the word "sexy" is included in the results... AnonMoos (talk) 03:53, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Look through the ones left in Category:Nurse costumes. Are they different from the "sexy nurse" category? Are the costumes in File:21.7.16 Eurogym 2 038 (28195829260).jpg sexy or non-sexy nurse costumes? Given that people are not typically wearing accurate nurses uniforms for costumes, whether or not they are "sexy" is subjective. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 14:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- File:Nurse16thcentury.jpg isn't wearing any special outfit or costume at all, but normal women's clothing for the period. I have very little idea what's going on with the "Eurogym" nonsense, but the skirts are much much shorter than real nurses ever wore (back when they wore skirts), which moves it pretty firmly into the "sexy" column (ditto File:Zombie Nurse (5134635912).jpg). -- AnonMoos (talk) 19:58, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- No one expects cheap Halloween or dress-up costumes to be historically accurate. A nurse costume is a nurse costume. Once distinguished from nurse's uniforms, there is no useful reason to divide them into "sexy" or not "sexy" based on subjective ideas of what is sexy. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 21:29, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- It derives from the nature and purpose of the outfit, not subjective evaluation. The person or company who made the dress in File:Dragon Con 2006, The Twilight Zone, The Eye of the Beholder (244341293).jpg clearly did not intend to sex it up. With many of the others, the opposite intention is clear. There are a few where it's hard to tell due to a limited view, or the "costume" consisting exclusively of a headpiece, but those are marginal cases... AnonMoos (talk) 14:05, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- A nurse costume is a nurse costume. Differentiating by what you think is the "intention" of that costume is subjective. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 14:31, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- No it's not -- it's a commercial category. AnonMoos (talk) 06:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Comment I note that the phrase "sexy nurse costume" gets 952,000 hits per google. It seems a cultural archetype rather than a personal judgement. (I tried searches for other professions in place of "nurse". "Sexy maid costume" comes in a distant second with a bit over 200,000 hits, only a handful over 100k, most under 1k if not significantly less.)-- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 01:55, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- Google says there are about 1,750,000 hits for "sexy cop costume". We don't have a category for that. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 03:30, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- OK. I'd googled "police" rather than "cop". Looks like you found the new winner. --Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 07:28, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- And zero hits for "sexy Wikimedian costume". -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 07:31, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- OK. I'd googled "police" rather than "cop". Looks like you found the new winner. --Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 07:28, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- Google says there are about 1,750,000 hits for "sexy cop costume". We don't have a category for that. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 03:30, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- I suggest closing this as "Kept" as no consensus to delete or merge. Discussion has been open almost a year. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 01:52, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Closed as kept, no consensus to delete nor merge; no active discussion for months. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 14:17, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
This post should not be named "Neumünster Prison" but "Solidarity with Puigdemont". It provides almost no useful information about the prison. Only interesting as support for Catalan separatists. 192.1z64.136.20 17:29, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Tose pics are taken at Neumünster prison, this is a fact. So they illustrate that building. I shall not respond to anonymous critics that don't have the courage to say who they are.--Flamenc (talk) 18:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Firstly, please both of you avoid personal attacks. Second, I agree that all the images were taken at Neumünster prison, so there're perfectly appropriate for the category. For those images specifically showing protests/protest signs at the prison, a sub-category of Category:Neumünster Prison (JVA) could be created. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:39, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Not done: per discussion. --ƏXPLICIT 01:28, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
I think this is not a good categorization and must be eliminated. I already presented to speedy deletion one of its four subcats. Another one, "Tamil people by occupation": Tamil people are an ethnic group, a people, a nationality. They have no need to be defined "by language". We should empty the present cat and delete it. E4024 (talk) 07:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Tamil people is categorized as Category:People by language. It seems to me, then, that the problem starts there. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:30, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have linked a related discussion of a category that seems to be a duplicate of this one. I think both could be eliminated. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:51, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, Aunt. It shows I was right... --E4024 (talk) 14:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Done: per discussion. --ƏXPLICIT 01:33, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
We have no "Medical corps" cat for any (current or former) country; therefore we do not need any for the Ottoman Empire. OTOH, the cat-opener continues their practice of wrong capitalization, despite having been spoken to. I will get this cat deleted. If there is any compelling reason to keep it -after correcting the title- please write here ASAP. E4024 (talk) 08:19, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: per nomination. --ƏXPLICIT 01:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Unnecessary subcategory: only had 2 files (recategorized) Xeror (talk) 10:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose. @Xeror: You removed File:Flag of Detroit (1976-2000).png, File:Flag of Detroit (1972-1976).png, File:Flag of Detroit.svg, File:Flag of Detroit (1976-2000).svg, File:Flag of Detroit (1948-1972).png, and File:Flag of Detroit, Michigan.png from this category outright, why? Then, you moved File:Flag of Wayne County, MI.png and File:Flag of Wayne County, Michigan.png to Category:Flags of counties in Michigan, but not to Category:Wayne County, Michigan, why not? Also, why empty this category before even starting this discussion? Furthermore, what is so wrong with having an 8-member category like this in the first place, or this specific one? What makes it "Unnecessary"? The center of the United States automobile industry, Wayne County, Michigan is a documented place with a population of 1,753,616 as of last year. It has 8 flag files and they deserve a category. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:11, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Jeff G.: It's my mistake that I forgot to add back Category:Wayne County, Michigan to those two files when moving them. The reason that it's unnecessary is that basically nearly every county would have to have its own subcategory Flags of XXX County, <State> even though a county normally only has one flag, e.g. File:Flag of Nassau County, New York.svg and File:Flag of Nassau County, NY.png would need a subcategory Flags of Nassau County, New York; and File:Flag of Westchester County, New York (1939-1985).png and File:Flag of Westchester County, New York.png would need a subcategory Flags of Westchester County, New York. Flags of Detroit belong to Category:Flags of municipalities in Michigan. There is no direct subordinate relationship between cities and counties in many cases. Many cities span across more than one county. --Xeror (talk) 12:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose. Per @Jeff G.: – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 11:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Not done: per discussion. --ƏXPLICIT 01:39, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure I understand the point of this category or its relation to Category:Markets in the United States. Themightyquill (talk) 10:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Done: per nomination. --ƏXPLICIT 01:44, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Overcategorization, IMHO of course. E4024 (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete--47.151.26.64 00:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete--Allforrous (talk) 00:48, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Done: per discussion. --ƏXPLICIT 01:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Because; how are we to be sure that some of these are not from transgender people? Did you get proof of gender or maybe only women whom have had a child; should provide a proper picture. Otherwise; these may not be correct. 98.159.32.146 07:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep, they look female enough, COM:CENSOR, no policy-based reason for deletion presented. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 08:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think we can consider vulvas, vaginas, labia, etc. to be female organs even if they belong to 1) a transman who has not had gender reassignment surgery or 2) a transwoman who has had the surgery. In this situation, we are talking about the organs, not the people they belong to. Unless and until we have a different term for this ("reproductive organs related to being pregnant, carrying a fetus, and giving birth"?), this may be the best we can do. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:07, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: Thank you for that opinion, would you care to !vote? — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:11, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- Vote on what, exactly? This is cats for discussion, not for deletion. The editor who started this discussion seems to have an issue with whether the files in the category fit the cat name. They don't seem to be saying the cat should be deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I believe there is sufficient consensus to take no action on the original poster's suggestion. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Inceldom and subcategories
[edit]- Category:Inceldom among animals
- Category:Inceldom in art
- Category:Inceldom in history
- Category:Inceldom in media
The category and its subcategories consist primarily of subjective opinions of other images on Commons, and some instances of attack images. Examples include editors labelling a female lizard rebuffing a male's courtship as "inceldom among animals". Given that "inceldom" is not a notable sexual identity (or medical condition) there is no educational value served by maintaining this category. RA0808 (talk) 17:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete these. The topic is so subjective that the only things I think could be included are literature specifically about the topic, conferences that discuss it, and similar things that explicitly mention it. If we're going to include everyone who would like to have a sexual partner, what would be next: people who can't get dates? In the case of animals, we certainly can't always know if their situation is involuntary, and we shouldn't look at them through the lens of human sexuality anyway. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep the main category as well as the media category. Weak keep for the animal category. Delete the rest. My purpose for keeping these is that this seems to be a significant social phenomenon as even a cursory google search will attest. The only reason it seems subjective is because the concept is not thoroughly defined by academia, however due to recent influx of interest that is obvious bound to change. if we delete this now, it is possible commons will never find anyone willing to pt time and effort to revive the topic hence making commons deprived of possible edcational topics. 88.104.46.200 22:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why keep the media category? The contents are images from the promotion of the NBC sitcom en:Undateable, whose wiki articles, unsurprisingly, make zero mention of incel culture. And I daresay any attempt to stick an incel spin into the enwiki article would be quickly reverted. This seems to me to be another example of an editor using the Commons, which is subject to less scrutiny than enwiki, to create subjective misleading linkages to incel culture for the purposes of promoting or legitimizing it, here. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 20:19, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- Delete. Clearly an attempt to draw together a bunch of disparate items regardless of accuracy or relevance. There's a cartoon from 1903 purporting to be of a 21st century concept. Unless we have some kind of reliable source documenting a link, this is inappropriate categorization. Gamaliel (talk) 13:32, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. There are currently 4 relevant images. The delete rationale does not concur with reality since google search returns give 2,170,000 results, so obviously it is notable. Also, the fact that inceldom has been studied by some academics (although admittedly to a limted extent) such as Gilmartin and Donelly means that there is an educational component, even though that shouldnt be a necessity since the subculture alone is notable in and of itself. Tbaend (talk) 17:27, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
- Delete. Maybe keep the "inceldom" top level category, but there is not enough content to justify the others. "Inceldom among animals" should absolutely be deleted, since as far as I'm aware no animals are members of the online subculture... – GorillaWarfare (talk) 16:41, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- Rename main category back to Category:Incel, from which it was wrongly moved, to match articles, and Delete subcategories. There definitely seems to be some POV pushing here with the subcats. The notion that celibate animals are participating in something known as 'inceldom' is ludicrous. We need to be on guard against any attempt to equate any celibate male (as I happen to be, alas) with being somehow part of Incel culture and its value system, or using the Commons as a en:WP:WEBHOST for its followers, or as a platform to misuse images to create en:WP:SYNTH meanings to attempt to justify this ideology. Without wading too much into the muck of this, my guess is incellies didn't get their way on enwiki or someplace and are attempting to use the Commons to host content or push views. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 18:20, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Done: moved main category back to Category:Incel, deleted the rest. --ƏXPLICIT 23:31, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Maybe we should delete this RD; it confuses people. E4024 (talk) 14:22, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep--47.151.26.64 00:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why, its not ambiguous and is likely to collect things. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- It's an RD, it does not collect anything. Does it collect Foods of fast food restaurants, for example? It only helps some users to open cats having the word "foods" in them. IMHO, of course, as always. --E4024 (talk) 11:15, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- People will naturally expect to find the cat at "Foods" as most categories are in plural, if this is deleted, it could cause files to have a red cat. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:41, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think this redirect should be kept as it is "likely to be used by others" as specified by the template. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Not done: kept per discussion. --ƏXPLICIT 23:36, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Rename to Category:Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple to distinguish from parent category Category:Thirumayam ? en:Thirumeyyam redirects to en:Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple. Themightyquill (talk) 14:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, agree move to Category:Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple ref :en:Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple, thx, Roland zh (talk) 18:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
The town and the temple has a separate category. Estopedist1 (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
We have mostly pics of individual people here. I frankly doubt we need this cat. E4024 (talk) 15:30, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Where do you propose we put images of complete boards of directors? Just Category:Group photos and the rather overflowing Category:Management ? I would definitely support a move to Category:Boards of directors and the removal of any individual portraits from this category. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agree with Themightyquill. Ldorfman (talk) 11:52, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Almost consensus. Changes are made Estopedist1 (talk) 16:25, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
There are images of various bridges inside this category. First of all, there seem to be several bridges named "Passaic River Bridge". See en:Route 46 Passaic River Bridge. And then some people seem to believe that this is the category for all "bridges over the Passaic River". We should rather have a Category:Bridges over the Passaic River that has subcategories for individual bridges. Passaic River Bridge should be a disambiguation only. Sitacuisses (talk) 20:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- That makes sense to me, Sitacuisses. If you make he other categories and sort the images, I'll make the disambig page. -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:43, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussion. In 2019, the nominated category was redirected to Category:Bridges over the Passaic River (same cat in enwiki en:Category:Bridges over the Passaic River) by user:Famartin. Is the current situation acceptable, @Sitacuisses and Themightyquill: ?--Estopedist1 (talk) 14:05, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Converted to disambig page for bridges with that name. Other bridges over the river at Category:Bridges over the Passaic River. -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:13, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Right now we have Category:People by intelligence agency inside but not every memeber of a intelligence agency is also an analyst. Sanandros (talk) 20:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. Remove that category, and place individual intelligence analysts in Category:Intelligence analysts as well as the category for their agency. If someone wants to create Category:Intelligence analysts by agency they can. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:17, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussion. @Sanandros and Themightyquill: enwiki has also en:Category:Intelligence analysts with the hatnote "This category is for articles about people who have worked in a professional capacity as an intelligence analyst for a government intelligence agency (including civilian, military and police intelligence agencies)." Do we follow enwiki?--Estopedist1 (talk) 23:04, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
- Take the people by intelligence analyses cat out and I'm happy.--Sanandros (talk) 20:52, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Removed Category:People by intelligence agency from Category:Intelligence analysts -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:40, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
At very least, this should be Category:Mysteric religions in the ancient world. The whole title sounds strange to me, but I don't know anything about en:Greco-Roman mysteries. Themightyquill (talk) 20:20, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- No problem. For a correct synthaxe in a category name it's not necessary to know the content of the object. Change the name. Thanks. --DenghiùComm (talk) 20:32, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Moved to Category:Mysteric religions in classical antiquity. -- Themightyquill (talk) 20:32, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Some of the subcats here have newspaper names capitalized and some others not. I guess we should have a standard practice. Please do not get unnecessarily mad at me for doing it this way; if not I would have to open too many cats to discussion. I'm sure that would be more disturbing and time consuming; so, especially people who know Russian also please say something constructive to help with this CfD. E4024 (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with you that names must have a standard. Maybe in help pages we can find guidelines for that? --Butko (talk) 06:17, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussion. Enwiki en:Category:Newspapers published in Russia is using predominantly capitalized titles. There should be the standard rule in English-language? Maybe @Auntof6 and Themightyquill: can help?--Estopedist1 (talk) 13:37, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Closing without action on this category, as it is a reasonable and used intersection of two categories. Certain categories may benefit from improved naming, but that is not an issue with this particular category. -- 22:46, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
This discussion encloses also Victims of colonialism. Both categories are a clear POV. Imperialism is a term created by the political opponents of capitalism. Is not a, so to say, self-conscious doctrine like Fascism of Communism which definitions are widely agreed upon everyone (no metter if oppnents). Thus is a POV definition. Further, it had only a subcategory, which is related to a massacre of the Vietnam War. Nothing related to the imperialism. As a matter of fact, I think the whole tree Imperialism as problematic and out of scope here. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 17:57, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think Category:Atrocities of the Congo Free State would need a convincing good alternative parent category if these are both to be deleted. Were Category:Herero and Namaqua Revolt renamed to match its wikipedia article, it wo/uld also fit. I'm not sure Category:Victims of communism is so NPOV in the way it is filled here. For instance, I'm not entirely convinced that everyone killed at the Berlin Wall is a victim of communist ideology. Leaving Category:Battle of Huế in Category:Victims of communism while Category:My Lai massacre has no such ideological parent, is similarly problematic. Category:Imperialism is an accepted subject of historical study (by both supporters and opponents) and is most certainly not out of scope. I'd love to see some evidence that the term was created by opponents to capitalism. I think you'd have a very hard case to argue that fascism was self-concious doctrine taken up by those it describes with a definition widely agreed upon by everyone.- Themightyquill (talk) 22:33, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
- Fascists call themselves as "fascists", @Themightyquill: . I am Italian thus I well know the history of Fascism. In 1932 there was the Mostra Nazionale della Rivoluzione Fascista (National Exposition of the Fascist Revolution). Have you ever heard anyone acting as so-called imperialist call themselves imperialist? That's what I mean, hope that what I said makes sense. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 11:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Blackcat: In common usage as on commons, fascism is not limited to Italian fascism. And yes, I suspect some of those in favour of empire (White Man's burden, etc) would have used the term as a self-description, though admittedly, it was (and is) primarily used in a negative sense. I don't suspect many terrorists call themselves terrorists either, but we still have a category for their victims. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes but terrorist is a less vague definition than imperialist, @Themightyquill: . How do you define an imperialist? How do you classify a crime of war crime of imperialism (unless you want to consider all the modern wars since WWI wars of imperialism)? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 17:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Blackcat: In common usage as on commons, fascism is not limited to Italian fascism. And yes, I suspect some of those in favour of empire (White Man's burden, etc) would have used the term as a self-description, though admittedly, it was (and is) primarily used in a negative sense. I don't suspect many terrorists call themselves terrorists either, but we still have a category for their victims. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Fascists call themselves as "fascists", @Themightyquill: . I am Italian thus I well know the history of Fascism. In 1932 there was the Mostra Nazionale della Rivoluzione Fascista (National Exposition of the Fascist Revolution). Have you ever heard anyone acting as so-called imperialist call themselves imperialist? That's what I mean, hope that what I said makes sense. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 11:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Personally, I think terrorism has a pretty vague and subjective definition too. Why would I start at WWI? Arguably, that's when empires started to collapse. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes but terrorism is a hugely intersubjectively assessed definition. Journalists, historians, law enforcers, agree that terrorism is generally the use of violence by paramilitary organizations in order to create terror and undermine the authority of a government [I reckon that there's more than this]; whereas we can identify victims of terrorism according to commonly assessed parametres, how can we define a victim of colonialism or imperialism? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 20:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- All of these categories are subjective. It's similarly difficult, for instance, to classify "victims of communism" according to commonly assessed paramters. You have yet to suggest a suitable alternative for the sub-categories mentioned above, making your argument seem increasingly ideological rather than technical in nature. If you're concerned about the nebulous nature of the word "imperialism" how about "Victims of European imperial expansion" ? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- But what about none of them instead? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 08:56, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- All of these categories are subjective. It's similarly difficult, for instance, to classify "victims of communism" according to commonly assessed paramters. You have yet to suggest a suitable alternative for the sub-categories mentioned above, making your argument seem increasingly ideological rather than technical in nature. If you're concerned about the nebulous nature of the word "imperialism" how about "Victims of European imperial expansion" ? - Themightyquill (talk) 10:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes but terrorism is a hugely intersubjectively assessed definition. Journalists, historians, law enforcers, agree that terrorism is generally the use of violence by paramilitary organizations in order to create terror and undermine the authority of a government [I reckon that there's more than this]; whereas we can identify victims of terrorism according to commonly assessed parametres, how can we define a victim of colonialism or imperialism? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 20:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- I've already answered that question. - Themightyquill (talk) 17:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes but again: historians generally agree about the event horizon within which every ideology has its victims. They may disagree about the quantity of victims and the diametre of the horizon but the bottom line is that they agree that this horizon exists. Now, even considering imperialism as an issue per se (which is not granted because many historians don't see the expansion on new markets as imperialism) the main problem is how to consider the people dead in an episode of war "victims of imperialism" (not that changing into european imperial expansion is any better...). -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 18:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
PS and, even more shortly: we are not historians nor we have to do their work. There's a shared narrative about victims of communism, victims of fascism, victims of Inquisition, and so on, but victims of imperialism is not a shared view (undue weight) since is a cultural product of historians and economists of Marxist area....
- Yes but again: historians generally agree about the event horizon within which every ideology has its victims. They may disagree about the quantity of victims and the diametre of the horizon but the bottom line is that they agree that this horizon exists. Now, even considering imperialism as an issue per se (which is not granted because many historians don't see the expansion on new markets as imperialism) the main problem is how to consider the people dead in an episode of war "victims of imperialism" (not that changing into european imperial expansion is any better...). -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 18:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- I disagree with your description and analysis of the category, and you've cited a wikipedia policy, not a commons one. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:25, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Closing with no action taken; no new discussion since May 2018. No consensus to delete or rename category. (As an aside, the nominator's statement that that the term is of "political opponents of capitalism" seems unfounded, as empires that victimized populations date from antiquity, and the Spanish Empire at it's height, whether one follows the definitions of Marx or Adam Smith, was not capitalist, etc; see also en:w:Soviet Empire for viewpoint that "communist" states can also be imperialist... though such is a discussion for elsewhere; I am simply noting that the nominator's viewpoint is not universally held.) -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:58, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
We have a gallery DAB page at Maine, which only lists categories, should this be moved to Category:Maine (state) or should the DAB be moved to Category:Maine (disambiguation). Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:36, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd say move this cat as suggested, because I believe in qualifying anything like this, then move the gallery disambiguation page to a cat disambiguation page. Along with qualifying the state category, many subcats would need the same change. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:55, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd be OK with that, however I think that there is a strong possibility of the state being primary dispute the French province. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- Its unusual for the DAB to be at Foo and the primary topic be at Category:Foo, its more common to be more the other way round, like how Category:Whitby is a DAB but Whitby redirects to Category:Whitby, North Yorkshire. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd point out that the DAB has been deleted, but I'll leave this open as Auntof6 supports disambiguation. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:37, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Its unusual for the DAB to be at Foo and the primary topic be at Category:Foo, its more common to be more the other way round, like how Category:Whitby is a DAB but Whitby redirects to Category:Whitby, North Yorkshire. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd be OK with that, however I think that there is a strong possibility of the state being primary dispute the French province. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- I've created a disambiguation page at Category:Maine (disambiguation) with info lost when Maine was deleted. Whether Category:Maine should be converted to a disambiguation page instead still needs to be decided. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:14, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: thanks for creating that page but shouldn't the edit history at Maine also be moved to Category:Maine (disambiguation), though a history merge. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:17, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- Do you think that's important in this case? - Themightyquill (talk) 11:25, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- Not particularly, but still useful. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:27, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- Do you think that's important in this case? - Themightyquill (talk) 11:25, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: thanks for creating that page but shouldn't the edit history at Maine also be moved to Category:Maine (disambiguation), though a history merge. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:17, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- I say keep Category:Maine for the U.S. state. On Commons, our driving guiding principles should be those that best help organize existing media and future additions, i.e. utility and practicality over semantics, linguistics, or national pride. The U.S. state is the undisambiguated usage in the majority of languages on WIkipedia (Maine (Q724)), while the French province is almost always disambiguated (Maine (Q732738)). The historic French province was apparently abolished in 1790, and the region occupied by the former province has a present population of around 850,000, while the U.S. state is still quite real as a political and geographical entity, with a population over 1.3 million. There are presently 35 top-level categories and over 1,300 top-level files in Category:Maine alone, versus 5 categories and 19 files in Category:Maine (province). We should ask: what is the likelihood that the average user, either seeking to find or upload an image, will reach the unintended category: given that the province of Maine ended some 40-50 years before the first photograph was ever made, it can be reasoned that someone seeking to upload a photograph of, say, "people in Maine" are most-likely to be imagining the U.S. state. Our categorization scheme should best reflect and accommodate prevailing usage, although I have no objection to liberal usage of hatnote templates to help direct a minority of users who may be temporarily confused. --Animalparty (talk) 05:32, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
- Putting the primary topic at the unqualified title works well at Wikipedia, because Wikipedia deals with text. When reading an article there, it's easy to tell if it's about the topic you're interested in. If a person is looking for the French province and finds en:Maine, they will know it's the wrong topic as soon as they see the hatnote or the first sentence.
- Commons, though, deals with files, not text. Someone looking for files about the French province might be able to tell that Category:Maine isn't what they want by looking at how it's categorized or at any hatnotes there might be, much as with Wikipedia. However, much of the work here is putting files into categories, and that's where we get into trouble when we follow Wikipedia's practice. Here are some scenarios that illustrate this:
- Files get categorized by people and bots who don't (and sometimes can't, in the case of bots) check each category they assign. If a file has a list of key words, all the keywords might be assigned as categories, whether or not they exist and whether or not some of them need to be combined to be correct. For example, a file related to New York City might be assigned to Category:New, Category:York, and Category:City. A person using HotCat to categorize sees only category names, not any context that could guide them to the correct one.
- If the unqualified name happens to mean something in a language other than English, things for that meaning can get assigned to the category. For example, Category:Praia (Cape Verde) used to get random beach pictures before it was qualified, because praia means beach in Portuguese.
- Not everyone understands the concept of primary topic. Even with people who do understand it, they might not know, agree, or be able to tell which meaning is primary when assigning categories. People who live in the French province of Maine might not know about the US state.
- If a file gets into an incorrect category, it can be impossible to detect that. A tree, a person, or a street in the state of Maine may be indistinguishable from one in the French province. The only clues are in the file and file description, and those often have nothing helpful.
- One could argue that people and bots need to be better at categorizing, and that's true in many cases. However, reality is that these kinds of mistakes are made, and having qualified category names gives us a better chance of assigning correct categories. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Closed Stale discussion with no new input in more than 3 years. No consensus to change or move. Leaving Category:Maine as the US state, as that is the primary usage and consistent with en:w and wikipedias in other languages. Hatnote to Category:Maine (disambiguation) placed at top of category. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:08, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
If we have no rule about the difference between Category:Pubs and Category:Bars, how are we meant to decide which content goes where? Why is Category:Ruin pubs not Category:Ruin bars and a sub-category of Category:Bars?[2] [3] Are Category:Pub signs, Category:Tavern signs and Category:Bar signs different in any visble way? I expect some people might oppose a merger, but perhaps we can organize this in some better way. Themightyquill (talk) 14:44, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- I wouldn't necessarily suggest a merger into Category:Pubs but I do note that Category:Bars ends up containing images like this and this. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Keep Category:Pubs as is, Category:Bars should be a DAB page, I'm astonished that we don't have a category for metal bars (as noted). I'm not sure if we need separate cats due to confusion but WP has 2 articles and this does explain the difference. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have started Category:Bars (objects), I'd even argue that the WP article should be moved but the Commons cat, definitely. I'd not expect it to be about the drinking establishments. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd say the difference between the two is highly dependent upon your particular region - rules for admission to children vary by district, and atmosphere is not subject to laws. A bar can be a discotheque or a pub. A pub can serve food or not. I'd agree that "pub" or Public House is used more in countries with a connection to the UK but Category:Pubs by country defies that. So we can pick one generic term for everything, or categorizing drinking establishments based on their name, in which case we also need to create category trees for Category:Taverns, Category:Saloons and Category:Lounges, as well as "Kneipe" or "Wirtshaus" (german), "kocsma" (Hungarian), "pivnica" (czech), etc. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'd agree that there isn't much point in making a distinction, maybe we should just turn Category:Bars into a DAB page and move the contents to the equivalent category in Category:Pubs. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Crouch, Swale: How is Category:Bars (objects) intended to relate to Category:Bars and rods (which is listed as part of the existing disambiguation category at Category:Bar, as mentioned right at the top of Category:Bars)? And you also want to turn Category:Bars into one? It's always good to have a look around to see what already exists before creating new categories, you know... —LX (talk, contribs) 14:27, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks LX I have merged it, I did have a look around but surprisingly couldn't find anything. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:42, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
- I'd say the difference between the two is highly dependent upon your particular region - rules for admission to children vary by district, and atmosphere is not subject to laws. A bar can be a discotheque or a pub. A pub can serve food or not. I'd agree that "pub" or Public House is used more in countries with a connection to the UK but Category:Pubs by country defies that. So we can pick one generic term for everything, or categorizing drinking establishments based on their name, in which case we also need to create category trees for Category:Taverns, Category:Saloons and Category:Lounges, as well as "Kneipe" or "Wirtshaus" (german), "kocsma" (Hungarian), "pivnica" (czech), etc. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- I have started Category:Bars (objects), I'd even argue that the WP article should be moved but the Commons cat, definitely. I'd not expect it to be about the drinking establishments. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: I agree with turning Category:Bars into a DAB page. I'm not sure privileging Category:Pubs as the catch-all makes sense. I'm now either thinking Category:Alcohol drinking establishments or Category:Bars and pubs (Category:Pubs and bars?). - Themightyquill (talk) 06:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- That seems a bit of an odd title, and I think "Pubs" is unambiguous and clear enough to be at the baename and used for both, but that might be different in different countries. See w:WP:ATDAB and the example of Elevator/Lift. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:50, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Well, if that's consensus, I'll accept it. I thought of Category:Bars and pubs after seeing Category:Roads and streets but that's not an ideal system either.
- Looking at Category:Bars, some of the sub-categories would need to change as well.
- That seems a bit of an odd title, and I think "Pubs" is unambiguous and clear enough to be at the baename and used for both, but that might be different in different countries. See w:WP:ATDAB and the example of Elevator/Lift. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:50, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Abandoned bars rename to Category:Abandoned pubs.
- Category:Bar furniture rename to Category:Pub furniture
- Category:Historical bars and cafés rename to Category:Historical pubs and cafés
- Category:Bars on ships rename to Ctegory:Pubs on ships
- Category:Black and white photographs of bars merge to Category:Black and white photographs of pubs
- Category:Former bars merge to Category:Former pubs
- Category:Interiors of bars merge to Category:Interiors of pubs
- Category:Bar signs merge to Category:Pub signs
- Category:Cocktail bars merge to Category:Pubs ?
- Category:Ice bars - ?? Ice pubs? I have no idea.
- Category:Gay bars (stay the same per common usage)
- Category:Honky tonk bars (stay the same per common usage)
- Category:Tapas bars (stay the same per common usage)
- Category:Tiki bars (stay the same per common usage)
- Category:Wine bars (stay the same per common usage)
- Category:Saloons merge to Category:Pubs ? Or renamed Category:Western saloons to match en:Western saloon ?
- Category:Bars-restaurants merge to Category:Pubs ?
- Category:Non-alcoholic bars, delete, with contents referenced in the disambiguation page?
- Does that make sense? - Themightyquill (talk) 11:49, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yes I'd agree with those changes, noting that common use for keeping some is good. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Ditto. Category:Saloons might also refer to vehicles, so prefer Category:Saloon bars, once common in the UK. Rodhullandemu (talk) 16:16, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Rodhullandemu: You prefer Category:Saloon bars over Category:Western saloons? I would think it would make more sense to match the wikipedia article in this case, emphasizing it essentially as a western-themed pub. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: I think they are different things. In the UK some pubs had separate rooms, basically separated along class lines; the saloon bar (sometimes lounge bar) was up-market while the public bar had only basic appointments and intended for workers. They often had separate entrances. So I have no problem with Western saloons but perhaps Saloons should be a disambiguation page. Rodhullandemu (talk) 08:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Rodhullandemu: You prefer Category:Saloon bars over Category:Western saloons? I would think it would make more sense to match the wikipedia article in this case, emphasizing it essentially as a western-themed pub. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- Keep Category:Pubs, it's a very common description of something in UK English that is not a 'bar' (though pubs have bars and there are drinks establishments called bars in UK English too). I'm sure 'Bars' can mean something similar in American English, but as others have pointed out, Bars can be other things too, so I'm surprised it isn't already disambiguated. Sionk (talk) 19:40, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- In case it's of interest, in American English, the word bar by itself can mean many things. Even when it's understood to be referring to a place related to drinks, it can mean an establishment whose primary business is selling alcoholic drinks, a part of a larger establishment where drinks are sold/prepared (such as a bar inside of a restaurant), or even a small area in a home or at a social function (such as a wedding) where alcohol is kept and where drinks are poured/mixed. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:39, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- I think in England, a bar is the place where things are served, while "pub" refers to the whole building. I'd note the discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion/2012/10/Category:Inns in the United Kingdom, @Nilfanion: and @Nyttend: . Crouch, Swale (talk) 06:35, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- All the pubs I've been in (which is admittedly few) have served both food and drinks. Is that not the case with all pubs? --Auntof6 (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, in this case the bar is what also serves the food and other drinks as well. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:19, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- All the pubs I've been in (which is admittedly few) have served both food and drinks. Is that not the case with all pubs? --Auntof6 (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- I think in England, a bar is the place where things are served, while "pub" refers to the whole building. I'd note the discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion/2012/10/Category:Inns in the United Kingdom, @Nilfanion: and @Nyttend: . Crouch, Swale (talk) 06:35, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- In case it's of interest, in American English, the word bar by itself can mean many things. Even when it's understood to be referring to a place related to drinks, it can mean an establishment whose primary business is selling alcoholic drinks, a part of a larger establishment where drinks are sold/prepared (such as a bar inside of a restaurant), or even a small area in a home or at a social function (such as a wedding) where alcohol is kept and where drinks are poured/mixed. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:39, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- Comment All the alternative meanings for bar mentioned by Auntof6 (except the establishment itself) would apply in the UK. An additional complication surrounds those occasions when "bar" is used to mean the establishment. For instance a typical British gay bar would be a nightclub, and would emphatically not be a pub. So in the UK, gay bars are not seen as a subset of pubs. I'd imagine that in the US, gay bars are seen as a subset of bars? Similar issues will surround the other types of bar which exist in the UK, like cocktail bars and wine bars.
- I'd suggest some of the renames proposed above are incorrect for UK usage: The drinking venue within a ship would be a bar, while things like stools and counters are bar (not pub) furniture.--Nilfanion (talk) 07:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
@Nilfanion, Auntof6, Crouch, Swale, and Sionk: I realize the different names for alcohol drinking establishments are not synonymous. It's obvious that they have different meanings. But those differences vary greatly from place to place. I ackowledge that most people would not necessary think of certain types of "alcohol-drinking establishments" as "public houses/pubs" but unless we can accept "pubs" a catch-all term, then we need a different base category, either Category:Alcohol drinking establishments or Category:Pubs and bars. Night club-style places might dominate for "gay bars" but the term en:Gay bars is surely not limited to that definition, in the US or the UK. And surely the term "bar" in "gay bar", "wine bar" or "cocktail bar" refers to the whole place, not the drinking counter or a place for drinking within a larger location like a cruise ship. For the reasons stated above, it doesn't make sense to categorize these places by name, unless we want a multiple name category trees for each language on earth. Right now we have
And that doesn't seem to bother anyone, because everyone knows that, despite variations, pubs and bars have the same base meaning. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- I'd note that in the case of Category:Petrol stations by country there is Category:Gas stations in the United States and Category:Petrol stations in the United Kingdom due to the different term for the same thing, maybe that should be the case here, but Bars appears to be too ambiguous as Category:Bars in the United States could attract other things as pointed out by Auntof6, so maybe just using pubs would work globally. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:49, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Nightclubs and pubs are definitely distinct concepts. A gay bar is typically a nightclub, but might be something else. Having the generic gay bar category in both is problematic, as each individual establishment is one or the other. Ultimately a pub is a class of establishment, and a bar is a different class of establishment. The set union of "pub in en-gb" and "bar in en-us" is not "pubs" and is not "bars".
- With regards to the furniture, that tree makes perfect sense in UK terms: A pub contains a bar, which is either a room or a distinct area in a larger room, and that is where the bar furniture is located.
- Whatever the outcome of this I have a strong dislike for a combination term like "pubs and bars". That just begs for people to create the two obvious and natural subcategories, does not really capture everything in a strict sense and so is not a stable long term solution. I can live with pubs as the top-level category, but it needs to be treated with caution. And it needs to respect regional variation in the country-level categories.--Nilfanion (talk) 08:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- We already have an upper level category Category:Drinking establishments so I don't see it making any positive contribution to create a Category:Alcohol drinking establishments or Category:Pubs and bars (after all, we have juice bars too, which are non-alcoholic). The original suggestion was about merging Category:Pubs and Category:Bars, which hopefully will be knocked on the head. It would be wrong, in such a global multilingual platform such as Wikimedia to restrict definitions to one particular world view. Sionk (talk) 09:01, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think juice bars is any more of a threat to confusion under Category:Pubs and bars than Category:Gas bars. I don't like the combination either, but no one has come up with a decent way to avoid having Category:Kneipen, Category:Wirtshausen, Category:Taverns, Category:Saloons, Category:Kocsmak, Category:Pivnicy and every other possible name for pub and bar in each other language. If we just accept that these words can't be clearly defined but continue to use them as broad categories, they become useless and untranslatable. "Bar" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing in different regions of the United States. I can't think of an equivalent, but it would be something like having Category:Beverages, with sub-categories like Category:Soda & Category:Soda in California, Category:Pop & Category:Pop in Ontario, Category:Fizz drinks & Category:Fizzy drinks in the United Kingdom, but then also, at random, making Category:Soda in Uzbekistan, Category:Pop in China, and Category:Fizz drinks in Croatia. And also having Category:Lemon-flavoured fizz drinks, but Category:Cola-flavoured pop and Category:Orange-flavoured sodas -- Themightyquill (talk) 18:38, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Its not that one is the typical US term and the other is the typical UK term for the same concept, as is the case with soda/pop etc. The problem is bars are a subtly different concept to pubs. A better analog might be something like "conifers" and "evergreens". To residents of the UK, its likely the trees they think of for either grouping happen to belong to both, but that doesn't mean the terms are interchangeable.
- Same is true for bars/pubs and that is because both "pub" in en-gb and "bar" in en-us relate to specific aspects of their national cultures. They are not synonyms needing a single category, but are two heavily overlapping aspects of a broader concept.
- The various similar concepts in other countries are not identical to either of the two English language terms. There is nothing wrong with having categories for "pubs in the UK" and "bars in the US", and the same is true for the appropriate local terms in other countries. They describe well-defined specific concept in those nations. However, a category like "pubs in Saudi Arabia" is dubious. Instead of trying to shoehorn them all into the same box, ignoring the subtle differences, just go to the higher level concept. We should embrace the differences between different nations, and acknowledge that a German gasthaus is different to an Irish pub. Category:Drinking establishments is fine.
- To amplify that, calling a typical bar in NYC a "pub" would seem unnatural to Americans (what's a pub or isn't that one of those English/Irish-themed places?). It would also seem unnatural to a Brit (that's not a pub!). The same is true for calling a pub in London a "bar", it would seem wrong to both a resident Brit and a visiting American.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Nilfanion: I would respectfully suggest that your understanding of the usage of both "pub" and "bar" in North America (or perhaps, outside the UK) is confused. Pub and bar can indeed be interchangeable in some regional contexts, even if they can't be in the UK. One city, chosen at random. Whatever is done in the UK tree (where the rules are apparently stricter), we need something for the rest of the world, to avoid a different category tree for each language and each country. :Or we end up with this: Category:Bares, botecos, botequins e tavernas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro and this Category:Bars and nightclubs in Toronto - Themightyquill (talk) 21:25, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Some bars are pubs. Some pubs are bars. That is not the same as a 1:1 correspondence. That is reinforced by your Seattle link, which implies some bars in Seattle are pubs and some are not. And what is wrong with having the already existing global term (drinking establishments) and appropriate regional names?--Nilfanion (talk) 21:34, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Nilfanion: As you seem to agree, there aren't always clear/appropriate regional names the way there are in the UK. So in those cases, we put all pubs and bars in the base category Category:Drinking establishments in the United States, etc? I was hoping we could find a more specific term to at least narrow the scope to alcohol-drinking establishments. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:35, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
- Some bars are pubs. Some pubs are bars. That is not the same as a 1:1 correspondence. That is reinforced by your Seattle link, which implies some bars in Seattle are pubs and some are not. And what is wrong with having the already existing global term (drinking establishments) and appropriate regional names?--Nilfanion (talk) 21:34, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
May 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, but perhaps something that rolls off the tongue (or fingers) faster than Category:Establishments that primarily serve alcoholic drinks in the United States ? =) - Themightyquill (talk) 13:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
- IMO just "drinking establishment" is fine, its implicit that the primary purpose is to serve drink, as opposed to a restaurant which is primarily about food. The non-alcoholic aspect of this is a bit irrelevant, as a bar that only serves non-alcoholic drinks is still a bar and as such is still highly related to its alcoholic equivalents. And almost every place that sells alcoholic drinks will also sells non-alcoholic ones. Therefore, don't waste time over-complicating it :)
- Appropriate regional terms can be used to avoid that clunky title. I note that in the US the phrase "bars and restaurants" appears well understood, and often has some sort of legal basis (such as the 51% law in Texas). That would suggest that in the US, "bar" may be a suitable term for all places that sell drinks and are not restaurants.--Nilfanion (talk) 15:22, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
- Could a coffee shop be considered a drinking establishment? --Auntof6 (talk) 21:44, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: Yes, cafes and tea houses/rooms are currently in Category:Drinking establishments, and none of the parent categories relate to alcohol. - Themightyquill (talk) 22:54, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
- Would support having a single term at least at national level. I am struggling to see the difference between the contents of Category:Bars in the London Borough of Croydon and Category:Pubs in the London Borough of Croydon except in some cases (not all) the name. Most of the content in the former category was moved there from the latter cat. I always thought Bar refereed primarily to Category:Bar counters and more loosely to establishments containing them which can also be called a pub, tavern etc. Oxyman (talk) 20:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Category:Pubs as is. Visually, pubs are - at least in Britain - very different to bars, i.e. very traditional, with old wooden floors and furniture and brick walls, sometimes also with gardens. Pubs also have an emphasis on serving pints of beer (rather than cocktails and other fancy drinks found in bars). Bars are open later, don't admit children and generally have louder music. Lamberhurst (talk) 10:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Keep both Category:Bars and Category:Pubs. en:Bar is a broad term for all commercial places selling beverages for on-premises consumption. Pubs are more specific to British cultural influence. The exact meaning and inference of both words will vary widely based on local customs, laws, and commercial interests, but Category:Bars as the broad category, and Category:Pubs for the British-styled definition as provided on that category seem fine to me to keep as is. Josh (talk) 20:30, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- If we are to keep a separate Bars category for the drinking places then I'd still suggest renaming to a qualified term to avoid confusion with the other types of bars. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
- Note that w:Bar is now a DAB with the establishment back at w:Bar (establishment) so we should move to something like Category:Bars (establishments). Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- If we are to keep a separate Bars category for the drinking places then I'd still suggest renaming to a qualified term to avoid confusion with the other types of bars. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
- IMHO, "pubs" are a subset of "bars" (as seen in France), just with a British (or Germanic) style, and we expect to be able to drink a choice of good beers there. Pubs are normally only indoor with a "cosy" ambiance (though they also may have terraces outdoor, open with good weather conditions). Both bars and pubs may serve food (including takeovers and fastfood in cartons, not just on a normal plate). Bars vary a lot in terms of space; they are not necessarily buildings, they may just be a dedicated place where we can find drink sometimes limited to just a piece of furniture or equipment, and bars don't necessarily have personal to serve you, they may be in self-service (see "mini" bars in hotels). They can be cabans on a beach. Or just installed in private homes, they are not necessarily commercial "establishments" (you may find bars in associations or workplaces, even if you don't find alcohol, with just some equipement in self-service, sometimes a table and maybe some chairs to sit down, and you may have to wash the glasses/cups/spoons/plates and tables yourself. So bars are not a subset of "drinking establishments", though "pubs" (that are a subset of "bars") are establishments (but also not necessarily commercial). Whever you find food or not in bars or pubs is independant. If you find food, they qualify as "restaurants", and "pubs" or "bars" that serve food commercially are called "brasseries" (very near from commercial "pubs", except that the English cosy style is not required, and you must be able to be served on table; this is not always the case with English "pubs", that don't necessarily have individual tables, just a "bar" in front of servers, the rest of the room may be for drinking in standup with your glass in the hand, or far dancing and listening music). You may or may not find music played in pubs and bars (by artists playing live, with a scene or an instrument like in "piano-bars", or with a DJ, or just a radio). So in concusion, all "pubs" are "bars", all "pubs" (but not all "bars") are "establishments". Not all pubs or bars are restaurants. All brasseries (like also fastfoods) are restaurants (the difference being the form of service for all these restaurants, but all may include takeaway service, while brassseries must include a service on table). It is then impossible to merge all these categories, they are clearly not equivalent. verdy_p (talk) 20:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Whatever is decided about the parent category, I vote to NOT try to impose some artificial linguistic uniformity on all subcategories. For example, categories like Category:Pubs in County Cork and Category:Bars in Chicago are both appropriately named as they are. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I just noticed that this discussion has been open since April 2018, and my comment above was the only contribution in almost a year. I suggest this discussion be Closed unless there is a counter argument that leaving it open is likely to generate more discussion leading to improvements in categorization. Both "Category:Pubs" and "Category:Bars" have "see also" notes to each other, and both are subsets of "Category:Drinking establishments" and "Category:Alcohol culture". This seems appropriate. As discussed above, definitions of the two terms seem to have various different nuances depending on location and culture. IMO we can wrap this discussion up, keeping both "Pubs" and "Bars" categories. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:39, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- I agree, close this discussion. Simon Burchell (talk) 12:40, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Closed, both categories kept, per discussion. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:12, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Look at the two subcats: Neither "Hungarians" nor "people of Italy" are ethnic groups. As nationality, ethnicity are highly conflictive and complex concepts, we should better find a less controversial name for this cat. E4024 (talk) 09:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- I agree it's imperfect, but I think it's fine. - Themightyquill (talk) 09:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Neither of these is an issue about this category, but about what is included in it. I agree that "people of Italy" is dubious. "Hungarians" can refer either to an ethnic group or to the people of the modern country of Hungary. If it's meant in the former sense, it belongs here. - Jmabel ! talk 15:57, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussion. @Themightyquill and Jmabel: We also have Category:Montages of people by country. I suggest to remove categories "People of Foo country" from the nominated category. Are we then solved this CFD?--Estopedist1 (talk) 20:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'd be fine with that. - Jmabel ! talk 22:17, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- Me too. Move the "people of" categories, and leave the rest. -- Themightyquill (talk) 22:26, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Kept. Stale discussion, & it looks like people were generally satisfied with the removal of certain subcats. - Jmabel ! talk 01:18, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Move to Category:Sugar mills (machinery) (or Category:Sugarcane mills (machinery)) to make a clear distinction from Category:Sugar factories as per en:Sugarcane mill Themightyquill (talk) 11:42, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Or perhaps, create Category:Sugarcane mills (machinery) and turn this category into a disambiguation page? - Themightyquill (talk) 08:31, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: The current format with a duplication of categories is very confusing, and it should be resolved as soon as possible. Please do as you think is better.-- Darwin Ahoy! 11:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, I'm just going to divide the topic into sugar cane processing vs. sugar beet processing in the meantime, thank you Ruff tuff cream puff (talk) 03:15, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- Great idea, Ruff tuff cream puff. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:40, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, I'm just going to divide the topic into sugar cane processing vs. sugar beet processing in the meantime, thank you Ruff tuff cream puff (talk) 03:15, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Stale discussion. @Themightyquill, DarwIn, and Ruff tuff cream puff: The nominated category is transformed into the DAB. Sidenotice: it is possible to rename Category:Sugar factories (currently a redirect) into Category:Sugar refineries per enwiki--Estopedist1 (talk) 21:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Estopedist1 I don't think a factory is the same as a refinery. At least historically. Darwin Ahoy! 23:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- This continues to be a complex subject. I placed a referenced definition of mill, refinery and factory on: en:Beet sugar factory. Even so, I am not completely sure yet. Definitions have changed over time. In the past, many beet sugar factories did not refine their raw sugar, but in the United States all sugar factories now do refine their own sugar. The concept of refining also seems to have a meaning depending on location. In rich countries, only white sugar is considered to have been refined. Poor countries also seem to consider plantation white or turbinado sugar to have been refined. Therefore, a modern cane sugar mill/factory seems to be called a mill or factory depending on what is produces, even though modern cane mills and factories are very much the same in a technical sense. As a consequence, the western world has cane sugar mills and beet sugar factories, and poorer countries have cane sugar factories.
- However, the distinction between refinery and factory is simple. I do not know of an expert reference that calls a facility that uses sugar beet or sugar cane as raw material a sugar refinery. On the other hand, both a beet sugar factory and a cane sugar mill/factory use those as raw material.Grieg2 (talk) 13:21, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Propose to close this discussion @Themightyquill, DarwIn, Ruff tuff cream puff, and Estopedist1: I want to close this discussion. It started with an idea to add or move to Category:Sugarcane mills (machinery) in order to make a distinction between sugar mills and sugar factories. Then there was an option to distinguish between sugar cane processing and sugar beet processing. Finally Darwin correctly noted that a factory is not the same as a refinery. However, the result is that this stale discussion blocks actions to correct the categorization.Grieg2 (talk) 05:44, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- @Grieg2 I agree that this can be closed and the categorization corrected accordingly Darwin Ahoy! 20:16, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- Sure, that's fine with me. I looks like I jumped the gun and made changes before initiating discussion, or before letting it finish. Feel free to fix it however makes sense. -- Themightyquill (talk) 10:49, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Consensus that a sugar factory is not a refinery. Closing the discussion.@Themightyquill, DarwIn, Ruff tuff cream puff, and Estopedist1:
In recategorization I will use this definition:
- A facility that uses (or can use) sugar beet or sugar cane as raw material to produce sugar, is either a sugar mill or a sugar factory. This is often subject to local use of the term, or the exact process used.
- A sugar refinery is a refining facility that cannot make sugar using sugar beet or sugar cane as raw material.
The current system of categorisation for rivers and streams has only minimal description Rivers are large flowing bodies of water and Here are streams, creeks, brooks...... The assumption being that the Category:Rivers only includes named rivers (River X), (Y River) etc., and that Category:Streams contains all other creeks, brooks etc.
Discussions regarding UK rivers here and at Wikipedia here, reveals that this distinction between rivers and streams is poorly defined. Using nomenclature only causes issues, as larger streams can be longer, have a greater drainage area or flow than smaller rivers. Large rivers such as the Nile or Amazon are not in dispute, but any attempt at distinction between smaller rivers and larger streams becomes unworkable very quickly (see here for some US examples).
It is proposed that the Rivers and Streams categories (and their sub-cats) are combined under the Rivers category (which has been the approach on en Wikipedia since 2016), or some other name such as Natural watercourses. Jokulhlaup (talk) 10:59, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support - I concur with the infeasibility of defining at a useful set of distinguishing characteristics for small river categories. I have decades of professional experience working as a field engineer assessing natural runoff features in areas of various geology, precipitation, and snowmelt patterns within the United States. Aside from the local dialects referring to similarly sized drainage feature as either a stream, a creek, a brook, a bayou, a swale, a draw, a gulch, or an arroyo, there is a tendency to name features in accordance with their size relative to other local drainage features. The largest local drainage in an arid region is often called a river, while drainage features carrying greater flow through moist terrain are called brooks or creeks. Catchment basin area cannot be readily determined for drainage features in flat terrain or those fed by lava tubes or limestone caves. If flow criteria were to be a differentiating factor, there would be problems deciding whether average flow, or average surface flow (neglecting subsurface flow), or average rainy season (or meltwater) flow, or peak flow should be used. Average flow is available only for drainages with a long history of measurement and subject to changes through consumptive water use or climate change, while peak flow is largely statistical approximation depending on the frequency of peak flows, and the likelihood they will destroy gaging systems. Thewellman (talk) 18:22, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Can we use Strahler Stream Order, discharge (average, max, min) to classify? --Fractaler (talk) 09:57, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support merging per User:Jokulhlaup and User:Thewellman. There is no clear boundary between a "river" and a "stream", and assigning one based on basin size, flow, stream order, etc., would be both arbitrary and unworkable, while a distinction based on local nomenclature arbitrarily forces images of objectively similar physical features into separate categories. --TimK MSI (talk) 11:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support per above. I don't think there is an issue with just calling them all "rivers". I also want to point out that stream order specifically is unworkable. The categories are for the whole length of the river, from source to mouth. The headwaters will often have a stream order of one, but are still part of the major river.
- One caveat is Category:Streams contains some non-natural watercourses. Ditches and flumes are best moved elsewhere.--Nilfanion (talk) 18:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- Support, as has been pointed out, there is no clear distinction. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:17, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Support, per above and the discussion here. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:33, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
- Comment I'll just note that a similar discussion has been open at Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/05/Category:Brooks since May 2016 and also has unanimous support. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:53, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Jokulhlaup: You've received pretty unanimous support, and no serious opposition in months. Would you like to go ahead and do the merging yourself? - Themightyquill (talk) 12:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping, things have just got busy in RL at the moment, but I should have time later next week to see what is involved--Jokulhlaup (talk) 17:18, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- ::@Themightyquill: given the extent of the changes that this CfD will generate, I think it would be advisable to close the discussion formally. As the nominator I don't think I should do that, are you able to close it yourself, or should I ask at COM:AN instead ?--Jokulhlaup (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping, things have just got busy in RL at the moment, but I should have time later next week to see what is involved--Jokulhlaup (talk) 17:18, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- I thought more of the affected categories were tagged. I'll tag them now. Let's give it another week. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:23, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Also applies to:
- Category:Brooks (and subcategories)
- Category:Creeks (and subcategories)
- Category:Diagrams of streams
- Category:Forks (water stream)
- Category:Frozen streams
- Category:Streams by country (and sub-categories)
- Category:Streams by mountain range
- Category:Streams in art
- Category:Supraglacial streams
- Category:Unidentified streams
- Are there others that would also be affected? - Themightyquill (talk) 14:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- I have added the following--Jokulhlaup (talk) 16:52, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose I cannot agree on merging everything into "River" is the right way, but may have weak support if it was "Rivers and streams" with a good explanation on how to ensure we don't end up with a crowded category. Big issue we will see is having Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Brooks etc all in a single category down to the state level for example. Interestingly Geographical Names Board of NSW give a very good description on Creeks, Rivers, Streams etc (sadly can't paste them due to Crown Copyright/CC-BY-ND-3.0) that it names and designates in NSW but would be similar in other Australian states and possibly some other countries. Bidgee (talk) 06:21, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- I would think sorting them geographically would prevent any unwanted overcrowding. Most creeks and streams can be separated down to the municipal level if necessary. Also, I don't think the descriptions at the link you cited are helpful at all. Stream is defined as "Small river, brook" and Rivulet is described as "Small stream". Those are definitions everyone knows, but they aren't good for categorizing anything since "small" is highly subjective. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:53, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- A recent CfD proposal was made re: Category:Creeks by country. I have closed it to merge it into this one. Josh (talk) 21:12, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose To merge stream and river would be an oversimplification I think. It is a bit like deciding which plants are trees and which are shrubs or saplings. All trees start as saplings, but at some point, you cannot say exactly where, it changes from one to the other. One definition of a tree is that it is woody and you can climb it. Similarly one could conceive of a rough definition that distinguishes rivers from creeks. A river can sweep you away, for instance, but a creek usually doesn't. Or you need a bridge supported by pillars to cross a river, but at a creek some covered culverts will do. Most languages I suspect clearly distinguish between the two. In German for instance: Bach and Fluss. And there are some drainage lines that don't fall easily into these two. Desert wadis that have irregular flow: sometimes rivers, sometimes only a dry gully. And rivulets that tumble or trickle down from steep slopes may also be irregular: neither a creek or a river. JMK (talk) 20:00, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
- so, we need a category that encompasses all "long and narrow flowing bodies of water".
- here i offer a non english speaking perspective. in non-english speaking countries you more rarely find such things named "creek" "stream" etc. we just call them all rivers when we have to translate their names.
- so i think, any use of those synonyms of river is due more to local and historical reasons, rather than a rigid scientific objective definition. and even if such definitions exist, they often vary across different countries.
- my suggestion:
- use "rivers" as the overall parent cat.
- only in certain countries where the usage of other synonyms are prevalent, there can be "creeks of the united kingdom", etc.
- only if their names bear those words "creek"/"stream"/... should they be categorised under those specific cats. we dont make arbitrary definitions based on length/width/volume... but only their english names.
- but all those categories with the synonyms in titles should be categorised under for example "rivers of the united kingdom".
- RZuo (talk) 14:38, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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ŠJů marked Category:Creeks by country with the move tag for merging with Category:Streams by country, with the reasoning "merge the whole tree as a duplicate". [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/creek Creek is a broad name to describe a creek or narrow river, though Stream is more of a European term regardless, while places like Australia and the US rarely use the term "Stream". Removing "creek" would disrupt some categories of named creeks, since some are not streams but not quite a river. Bidgee (talk) 22:41, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
@Bidgee, ŠJů, and Themightyquill: Closed to merge into Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/04/Category:Rivers. Josh (talk) 21:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC) |
Closing the discussion with no consensus, keeping both category trees separate. Although many have supported the proposal to include streams under rivers, the arguments against the proposal are hard to refute. So whether a watercourse is a river or a stream is now up to the individual users. Watercourses is an unambiguous term and it may be used instead of rivers or streams. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 18:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
DAB to Category:Hamlet (play) or Category:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, there are images that are not for this, there are individual places and other things called "hamlet" and there is the small settlements, even though that cat is at Category:Hamlets it appears to be collecting things for that or at least could. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Since there are other places called Hamlet, I'd support converting it into a dab page, and move play related content to Category:Hamlet (play). - Themightyquill (talk) 10:03, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose move. Everyone in the world calls the play Hamlet. The fact that a relatively few other things have the word "Hamlet" in them doesn't warrant moving: Should we also rename Category:Africa and all of its subcategories because an unincorporated community in Ohio and a boat share the name, and a tiny fraction of illiterate people might get confused? Hamlet singular should stay for the play, "Hamlets" plural should remain at Category:Hamlets. Dabification should not be the default response to any two concepts with a shared name: primary usage should also be considered. --Animalparty (talk) 19:27, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- Disambiguation is not always the case when there are 2 or more ambiguous topics but its often the case, see Category:Perth, Category:Bedford and Category:Ford for example. As noted there were incorrect images in the category. Crouch, Swale (talk) 06:37, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: Incorrect categorization requires mere moving to correct category (Commons will always need curation, in spite of our most valiant efforts). Please then propose moving Category:Earth, because from the name alone I can't tell whether it refers to the famous American band or the well-known 1930 Soviet propaganda film or my favorite city in Texas or another word for soil or one of eight planets in an arbitrary solar system in the Milky Way. --Animalparty (talk) 02:30, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Animalparty: given the soil, the planet should probably be moved to (feel free to propose that) but its not like Category:Paris or Category:London because like Category:Mercury, Category:Orange and Category:Perth there are 2 prominent topics called "Hamlet" and while the play may be better known today the settlement type has more long-term significance. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:51, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: Incorrect categorization requires mere moving to correct category (Commons will always need curation, in spite of our most valiant efforts). Please then propose moving Category:Earth, because from the name alone I can't tell whether it refers to the famous American band or the well-known 1930 Soviet propaganda film or my favorite city in Texas or another word for soil or one of eight planets in an arbitrary solar system in the Milky Way. --Animalparty (talk) 02:30, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose move per Animalparty, and per the arguments presented when the nominator made the same proposal at enwp. --Xover (talk) 18:48, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Weak oppose DAB. Since category names for things are plural here on Commons, I find "Hamlets" to be sufficiently distinct. Additionally, there shouldn't be many images getting directly categorized into Category:Hamlets that might accidentally end up here. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Obvious consensus to keep this category as it is. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 06:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
Rename to Category:Pubs in Australia to match the category tree. Themightyquill (talk) 11:54, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Please see the 2011 Hotels in Australia CfD, which relates to this. Bidgee (talk) 17:49, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Naming conventions for "pubs" in Australia and New Zealand are different than those in Britain/Ireland - most are called "X Hotel". Renaming this category in Australia for the sake of consistency with the UK convention would create confusion for Australian users and I am not sure why the Australian nomenclature must fall into line with British use anyway. My alternate proposal - rename Category:Pubs in the United Kingdom to Category:Hotels and pubs in the United Kingdom! -- Mattinbgn (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- It's not just the British use of "hotels" - it's the everywhere-but-Australia use. I can see that Category:Hotels in Australia is somewhat ambiguous, but this category doesn't help with that anyway, does it? Category:Pubs in Australia is surely not ambiguous to anyone in Australia. Even if it's called Hotel, if you described it as a pub, everyone (in Australia and the world over) would know what you were talking about. So there's no harm in just using "pubs". Because "Hotel" is ambiguous, both categories need descriptions pointing to the other category. They have that, and they could still have that after the move. - Themightyquill (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Renamed to Pubs in Australia. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 06:08, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Religion in ancient world should be Category:Religion in the ancient world Category:Religion in ancient history is a little awkward. And they are redundant. I think the latter is better, but maybe someone has a good argument for "ancient world" ? Themightyquill (talk) 20:14, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- We have category Category:Ancient religions, could they be merged? Ruff tuff cream puff (talk) 02:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- All fixed. Thanks.--Sanya3 (talk) 23:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Formal closure of this discussion. Everything has been fixed. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:34, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm not sure of the need for Category:Photographs of the Milky Way or Category:Photographs of the Moon over just Category:Milky Way Galaxy or Category:Moon. (We don't have, for instance, Category:Photographs of hats, just Category:Hats. Perhaps we could do Category:The moon from Earth and Category:Milky Way Galaxy from Earth if necessary? Themightyquill (talk) 08:17, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agree that we don't currently need Category:Photographs of the Milky Way. If it had appropriate subcategories, maybe, but currently it doesn't. The three subcats could possibly go in a cat called Category:Views of the Milky Way or Category:Milky Way by viewpoint, or just grouped together under the main Milky Way category.
- Category:Photographs of the Moon, on the other hand, does seem to have appropriate subcats (along with some that are not). The astronaut photography subcat could stay, along with Category:Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 images. Files and other subcats can be merged to Category:Moon with some category renames:
- Category:Moon photographs by country should be renamed to Category:Moon by country. Its children should be renamed to "Category:Moon from <country>".
- The "photographs of" subcats should be renamed to Category:Waning moon and Category:Waxing moon
and moved under Category:Lunar phases.
- Those are my thoughts. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 images suggests the category should contain any images taken with that category, not just ones of the moon. It should maybe be renamed to match the sub-categories of Category:Astronomy digiscoping. It might also make sense to have a sub-category like Category:Lunar digiscoping. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Themightyquill (talk • contribs) 10:29, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Good point, although the category's text description says that the cat is for "telescopic images or photos of the view of the Moon". --Auntof6 (talk) 10:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 images suggests the category should contain any images taken with that category, not just ones of the moon. It should maybe be renamed to match the sub-categories of Category:Astronomy digiscoping. It might also make sense to have a sub-category like Category:Lunar digiscoping. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Themightyquill (talk • contribs) 10:29, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- I'm collecting real media files taken not from Earth now (at Category:Extraterrestrial media) and Category:Photographs of the Moon can be useful for this (but not completely, the better would be Category:Photographs of the Moon from the Moon). I consider it quite separate from Category:Moon because latter contain also schemes, drawing and other media related to the Moon, not only its photographs. So I don't understand why it (and another category) should be deleted. --Infovarius (talk) 21:51, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- Because photos dominate at commons, we are more likely to sub-categorize Category:Moon into Category:Diagrams of the moon and Category:Drawings of the moon and leave photographs as the implicit default. We do have Category:Astronaut photography of the moon, and Category:Lumenera Skynyx 2-1 images of the moon, and Category:Moon photographs by country. Your suggested Category:Photographs of the Moon from the Moon would be a reasonable sub-category of the first. I'm not fully convinced photos of the moon should be categorized by country, but I doubt I'll be successful in proposing its deletion. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- “Photographs of the Moon” has little merit. All photos of that body should go under such categories as Moon from Earth, Moon from the Moon, Moon from outer space, and Moon from Mars. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:14, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
stale discussion. The nominated category is deleted by user:Themightyquill. I agree with user:Auntof6's proposals. But I guess that we should close this CFD and start new one at Category:Photographs by topic (or if this is too big question because already discussed Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/11/Category:Photographs) then to start with Category:Photographs of astronomy--Estopedist1 (talk) 08:15, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Formal closure of this discussion, since the category in question has been deleted. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Do not all living creatures "behave" any time? One has to specify the kind of behavior to have useful categories. Jotzet (talk) 12:18, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- I've split it into burrowing, eating, and fighting subcategories. Abyssal (talk) 12:40, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Perhaps a move to Category:Gopherus polyphemus by behavior would highlight the fact that it's a category for categories, not for images. But this applies to a great many categories in Category:Behavior by animal - Themightyquill (talk) 18:32, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- Upmerge to Category:Gopherus polyphemus. Discourage increasingly hair-splitting sub-sub-meta-sub-categorization. --Animalparty (talk) 18:36, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- I find the distinction provided by the categories created by Abyssal to be useful, especially given that there are many images of Gopherus polyphemus, but I don't oppose placing those three categories directly in Category:Gopherus polyphemus. – BMacZero (🗩) 03:58, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Deleted. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:19, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Shoud be "Category:Perry" - see, for example en:Perry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Comment Category:Perry is now a DAB and there is a discussion at w:Talk:Perry#Requested move 25 January 2019 so maybe this should be moved as proposed but to Category:Perry (drink). Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
- Support for Category:Perry (drink), because enwiki article is under en:perry--Estopedist1 (talk) 20:53, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Moved. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:54, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Made for one painter, and with a wrong capitalization. If there is a consensus on having a tailor-made cat, I will correct the title. E4024 (talk) 13:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Move to Category:Heraldry in art ? - Themightyquill (talk) 13:40, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete--47.151.26.64 01:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete or first find other files and cats to fill it; "tailor-made" is the key to my CfD. No personal promotion in Commons, please. This is an education project. --E4024 (talk) 06:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Category:Seals in art and Category:Coats of arms in art could both fit in Category:Heraldry in art... - Themightyquill (talk) 17:16, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
- Looking at the paintings made, files uploaded, categories created etc by the same artist/user, we have a personal promotion effort in Commons; and this is an abuse IMHO. We should control the contributions of this user under various user names. Sorry for being so transparent. --E4024 (talk) 08:45, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with themightyquill. Category:Heraldry in art sounds like a useful category and I have no doubt we have files to fill it. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:05, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
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Uncategorized cat. I do not think (as regards the info within) that this cat requires a title in French. It does not seem to be a proper name/noun. ("Properties" or "Real estate" of some family.) E4024 (talk) 16:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- This is, at the moment, a single-file cat, but looking at the cat opener's uploads, there will be more material to add. --E4024 (talk) 16:15, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Je suis un néophyte en matière de catégorisation. En chargeant cette photo sur le commons je ne savais pas comment faire. Cette catégorie "Properties of Marsac family" serait-elle utile ? Y aurait-il d'autres catégories qui pourraient convenir ? Une aide de votre part serait bien venue !
Cordialement
GrosjeanVessot3 (talk) 15:15, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Why not? I see that you have also initiated a red Category:Marsac family; if you have images of people too, better complete and use that one instead. Au revoir. --E4024 (talk) 15:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussion. The nominated category, which is one-member (only file) to be deleted. The only file to be upmerged to Category:Marsac family--Estopedist1 (talk) 22:53, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
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Please. We have no continent, country or region called Arabia. Ashashyou, is this a joke? E4024 (talk) 07:48, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- @E4024: Please be civil and assume good faith. en:Arabia links to en:Arabian Peninsula which features "Arabia" in bold as an alternative name. I'm not suggesting we keep the category as is, but "Arabia" is certainly a long-standing way of describing the region. - Themightyquill (talk) 15:10, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- What would be the difference with Category:Arabic cuisine? --HyperGaruda (talk) 14:06, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
- I don't see a difference between Category:Cuisine of Arabia and Category:Arabic cuisine. I suggest the former be merged into the latter. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- I agree with user:BMacZero. Category:Arabic cuisine to be retained. Subcategory name is also Category:Arabic cuisine by country. Noticing also other participants @Ashashyou, E4024, HyperGaruda, and Themightyquill: --Estopedist1 (talk) 14:41, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
- They are not synonymous. en:Arab cuisine refers to "the various regional cuisines spanning the Arab world, from the Maghreb to the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian Peninsula." Cuisine of Arabia, by contrast, would be just cuisine of the Arabian Peninsula (Oman, Saudia Arabia, UAE & Yemen). That said, I'm fine with deleting this and keeping Category:Arabic cuisine since there would be enormous overlap and we have no cultural subcategories of Category:Arabian Peninsula.` - Themightyquill (talk) 16:59, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
- @E4024, Themightyquill, HyperGaruda, BMacZero, Ashashyou, and Estopedist1: What should we do with this category? Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Sbb1413: I see only support for and no objections to the idea of merging Category:Cuisine of Arabia into Category:Arabic cuisine, other than themightyquill's technical distinction; that seems like a safe close to me. – BMacZero (🗩) 18:21, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @E4024, Themightyquill, HyperGaruda, BMacZero, Ashashyou, and Estopedist1: What should we do with this category? Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 15:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @BMacZero and Sbb1413: Is that consensus to merge into Category:Arabic cuisine? I'd support it. -- Themightyquill (talk) 08:30, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, I support merging Category:Cuisine of Arabia to Category:Arabic cuisine. Although I like to merge the latter to the former in line with country category scheme, I don't think applying the same rule for regions make sense, since region categories are often considered "auxiliary" to country categories. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 08:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
I redirected Category:Cuisine of Arabia to Category:Arabic cuisine. – BMacZero (🗩) 00:07, 18 January 2025 (UTC)