Category talk:English greetings
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There's already Category:Greetings, which should probably be used. -- Prince Kassad 22:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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< Prince_Kassad> only a single entry < Prince_Kassad> rfd? < mutante> hmm, is there some other category with different spelling < mutante> Category:Greetings? < mutante> yes, move that one into Category:Greetings and delete Category:English greetings < mutante> categories on en. dont have "English" in their names < Prince_Kassad> hmm < Prince_Kassad> added to rfdo. < mutante> changed the entry, now its empty < mutante> just copy/paste the last lines into the RFD ? < mutante> would even just delete it, its an empty category, and it can be recreated so quick, so wth < mutante> clearly we dont have the "English" in category names anyways < mutante> and the correct category exists and isnt small < mutante> and after all "Empty Category" is even in the "Reason for deletion" drop-down
Mutante 22:36, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
- This related to WT:RFM#Category:Greetings where I opposed the move to Category:English greetings. Ergo, delete, it's a topic, so it should be a topical category, not a lexical one. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
¶ Just found this category today. Why not delete it now? 75.142.190.21 15:51, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Deleted. --Mglovesfun (talk) 16:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
- For context, if anyone stumbles across the above conversation over a decade later: the reasoning originally given for this category's deletion no longer applies.
Category:en:...is a topic category (e.g. terms about greetings), whileCategory:English ...is a term category (e.g. terms that are greetings). Theknightwho (talk) 17:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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Topical and set categories group terms based on what they refer to, but this category doesn't contain terms for greetings, it contains terms that are greetings. In other words, the name of the category refers to the word itself, not to its meaning, like Category:English nouns and unlike Category:en:Colors. So the category shouldn't be named and categorised like a set category, but instead should be named Category:English greetings. It belongs somewhere in Category:English phrasebook or Category:English terms by semantic function or something like that. —Rua (mew) 21:21, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Support per nom. - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 06:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
- See also an old RFM for cat:Greetings which is basically a duplicate of this proposal, and the RFD of what used to be at cat:English greetings. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 01:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Moved. Theknightwho (talk) 22:13, 12 June 2024 (UTC)