Category talk:en:Place names

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toponyms

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RFM discussion: March–May 2017

Latest comment: 7 years ago11 comments5 people in discussion

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Our practice is to name topica/set categories based on the referent, not on the word. We have Category:en:Felids rather than Category:en:Names of felids or similar, and Category:en:Languages rather than Category:en:Language names. The words in this category do not refer to names, they are names that refer to places. —CodeCat 14:20, 19 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • The title is more precise than "Places". I think it may be handy for any places, like unincorporated communities, which don't fit into another category, such as Towns, Cities, Villages, Regions etc. I would suggest leaving it as it is. DonnanZ (talk) 13:10, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Move per nom, IMO. I don't see how something would be a placename without referring to a place; are there examples? Btw, the category currently includes everything from the very broad Northern Hemisphere to Northern Europe to North Britain to Midlothian on down to the very specific, like Peckham; is it meant to include all places or should some of these be moved to more specific categories? - -sche (discuss) 16:56, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
We already have a bunch of finer categories, including Category:en:Polities which seems to be for man-made divisions. —CodeCat 17:02, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Peckham has been moved to Category:en:London. Midlothian has two other more suitable categories, so "Place names" has been removed. It may be possible that new homes can be found for other "waifs and strays" in Category:en:Place names. DonnanZ (talk) 18:10, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Seems logical. Equinox ◑ 20:20, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Oppose — leave it where it is or move it to Category:English toponyms. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 22:59, 3 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
Why? —CodeCat 23:00, 3 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
@CodeCat: Because I see some merit in your arguments, find something ridiculous about the category name Category:en:Places, and believe Category:English toponyms to be a better name which is neither subject to your criticism nor primâ facie ridiculous. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 02:34, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
"Toponyms" suffers from the same problem as "place names": under our category naming scheme, it should not have the content this category has : but this category can serve as a category for words relating to placenames, like "hydronym", I think. - -sche (discuss) 21:23, 14 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
In a section above, Makaokalani agrees this category should be renamed to fit the scheme. I'm going to create parallel categories, for now. - -sche (discuss) 21:23, 14 May 2017 (UTC)Reply


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