Category talk:Slaves
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Created by @Sokkjo AKA @Victar (BTW can you pick one account and use it? I don't understand why you are now using two.) Duplicates Category:Slavery. If Category:Slaves were a set category, that would be a different story, but its intent appears to be a topic category, and it contains only Proto-West-Germanic entries that belong under Category:Slavery. Benwing2 (talk) 08:51, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
- (This is starting to sound like a personal attack.) Category:Slavery is the societal concept and includes terms like “plantation”, whilst Category:Slaves refers specifically to enslaved peoples. Having Category:Slaves places them under Category:People, and also saves me not to have to write
{{topics|Slavery|People}}. -- Sokkjō 20:33, 29 September 2023 (UTC)- @Sokkjo Not a personal attack; my apologies if it appears that way. Is Category:Slaves meant to be a topic or set category? That isn't clear to me. If a topic category, it's definitely redundant to Category:Slavery; otherwise you need to clarify what goes in it. Note also that a clear decision was made a few months ago that we don't create intersection categories; at that point I deleted various Category:Male OCCUPATIONS and Category:Female OCCUPATIONS categories and recategorized them using Category:OCCUPATIONS + Category:Male people or Category:Female people. Benwing2 (talk) 22:00, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, Category:Slaves is a set list, unlike Category:Slavery -- like Category:Art is to Category:Artists -- for terms like field slave, house slave, wage slave, etc. -- Sokkjō 03:41, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Sokkjo OK. I see you only just now made it a set category, and you still haven't updated the description, which still indicates that it's a topic category. In general you need to be less sloppy about this, esp. as it's fairly likely the set and topic categories will be split into different namespaces (per a recent Beer Parlour discussion). Benwing2 (talk) 05:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, Category:Slaves is a set list, unlike Category:Slavery -- like Category:Art is to Category:Artists -- for terms like field slave, house slave, wage slave, etc. -- Sokkjō 03:41, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Sokkjo Not a personal attack; my apologies if it appears that way. Is Category:Slaves meant to be a topic or set category? That isn't clear to me. If a topic category, it's definitely redundant to Category:Slavery; otherwise you need to clarify what goes in it. Note also that a clear decision was made a few months ago that we don't create intersection categories; at that point I deleted various Category:Male OCCUPATIONS and Category:Female OCCUPATIONS categories and recategorized them using Category:OCCUPATIONS + Category:Male people or Category:Female people. Benwing2 (talk) 22:00, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Keep as a set category. Ioaxxere (talk) 07:13, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep as a set category. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 20:03, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- Striking as resolved (kept as a set category). - -sche (discuss) 17:08, 28 March 2024 (UTC)