Category talk:Named stars
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Split off Category:Named stars from Category:Stars
These categories are currently used for both types of star (white dwarf, neutron star, etc) and for individual named stars (Aldebaran, Sirius...). This split should sort that out. —CodeCat 23:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose. The idea of splitting isn't necessarily bad, but that's an awful name. Maybe stuff like white dwarf should be in Category:Types of stars? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:03, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- We already have Category:Named roads and Category:Place names. Since the rename of the latter to Category:Places was rejected, I can assume that people want "name" in the name of categories containing names. —CodeCat 00:11, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- I don't see how Category:Place names is relevant. The point is that if I have a star, and want to put it in a category, I'll never guess that Category:Named stars is where it belongs. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- And yet, people have clearly decided in the past that that same category is also a good place for white dwarf. Most of our set categories are for types of things. Category:Felids is not for names of individual felids, but for types of felids. Category:Headwear is for types of headwear, not specific pieces of headwear with a name. Category:Planets of the Solar System is for names of individual things, though, as is Category:Planets. We have a discrepancy in naming between adding a specifier for type (Category:Types of planets) and adding a specifier for name (Category:Named roads). —CodeCat 00:24, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- I don't see how Category:Place names is relevant. The point is that if I have a star, and want to put it in a category, I'll never guess that Category:Named stars is where it belongs. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- We already have Category:Named roads and Category:Place names. Since the rename of the latter to Category:Places was rejected, I can assume that people want "name" in the name of categories containing names. —CodeCat 00:11, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- It has been suggested before, and still seems plausible (although I know there are drawbacks to it), that we would benefit from some kind of naming scheme like prefixing or suffixing "topic" and "list" to the categories, as in "Stars (topic)" or "topic:Stars". - -sche (discuss) 06:52, 12 May 2017 (UTC)