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Wiktionary:Votes/2011-07/Categories of names
2 Jul 2011, 7:09 pm
Categories of names: Expanding the third proposal. | ← Older revision | Revision as of 18:09, 2 July 2011 | | Line 17: | Line 17: | | | *# Creating, and populating, all foreign-language versions of the aforementioned categories, except the ones that would have zero members, if any. | | *# Creating, and populating, all foreign-language versions of the aforementioned categories, except the ones that would have zero members, if any. | | | *#: For example, [[:Category:French names of oceans]]. | | *#: For example, [[:Category:French names of oceans]]. | | - | *# Deleting all old and redundant categories: [[:Category:Continents]], [[:Category:Countries]], etc. and their children. | + | *# Deleting all old categories that would be redundant to the categories created through this voting: [[:Category:Continents]], [[:Category:fr:Continents]], [[:Category:Countries]], [[:Category:fr:Countries]], etc. | | | * Rationale A: A category named "Category:English names of stars" can contain only proper nouns such as ''Sun'' and ''Aldebaran''. On the other hand, the purposes of categories named "Category:Stars" and "Category:en:Stars" are very understandable, but arguably inaccurate to some extent; the English version can possibly contain ''red giant'', ''supernova'', and even ''starlight'' as well. | | * Rationale A: A category named "Category:English names of stars" can contain only proper nouns such as ''Sun'' and ''Aldebaran''. On the other hand, the purposes of categories named "Category:Stars" and "Category:en:Stars" are very understandable, but arguably inaccurate to some extent; the English version can possibly contain ''red giant'', ''supernova'', and even ''starlight'' as well. | | | * Rationale B: People are, by default, not expected to understand language codes. The proposed names are in line with the idea of deprecating language codes piecemeal from all category names, which some people repeatedly seem to approve in [[Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2011-05/Add en: to English topical categories, part 2|this other linked voting]]. | | * Rationale B: People are, by default, not expected to understand language codes. The proposed names are in line with the idea of deprecating language codes piecemeal from all category names, which some people repeatedly seem to approve in [[Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2011-05/Add en: to English topical categories, part 2|this other linked voting]]. | |
