Category talk:IPA symbols

RFM discussion: July–August 2011

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Category:IPA symbols

move to Category:mul:Phonetics. This doesn't fit in the topical category system at all and causes various problems. Since IPA characters are by definition Translingual (and no other terms are), the {{phonetics|lang=mul}} tag is a nice replacement for it. -- Liliana • 14:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

What problems? I think this exact move is a bad idea, because the current name is clearer and more intuitive. If anything, in my opinion, any category name should contain "IPA" in its title. --Daniel 14:37, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

The problem is that with the new vote, these get moved to Category:en:IPA symbols, since such categories (without a language code) should no longer have any entries. -- Liliana • 14:44, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

We also have Category:Translingual letters for these kinds of symbols. —CodeCat 14:47, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, are they letters or symbols? -- Liliana • 14:55, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Many of these are letters. They represent sounds. "[" can be used in IPA too, but is not a letter. --Daniel 15:02, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

They're not English, so don't move them. Problem resolved. DAVilla 14:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, don't add en:. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:02, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

So, what should we do? We now have three categories which fulfill roughly the same purpose: Category:IPA symbols, Category:mul:Phonetics, and also Category:mul:Phonology (which shouldn't exist at all, because phonology by definition cannot be translingual). Should all be merged into the first? -- Liliana • 08:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)