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@Suzukaze-c: regarding this edit, perhaps "Sexuality" would be a better label? — SGconlaw (talk) 07:12, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- @Sgconlaw: They both already exist. Category:en:Sex; Category:en:Sexuality. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 07:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- @Suzukaze-c: so is a separate "Sex" label required? Which entries should go into "Sex", and which ones in "Sexuality"? — SGconlaw (talk) 07:21, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- @Sgconlaw: The category description doesn't help IMO, but the entries like "acephobic" and "allosexuality" in en:Sexuality is more indicative. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 07:23, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- @Suzukaze-c: yes, I'm just wondering whether it will be confusing to have so many overlapping categories. I have a feeling you're just going to get the same entries ending up in multiple categories. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:29, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
- @Sgconlaw: I think that tracking down the people who conceived these categories would be best. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 07:36, 30 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
I personally would find it a lot more useful if the (x politics) labels pointed to the corresponding Wikipedia articles (e.g. (Swiss politics) -> (Swiss politics)). Thoughts? Fytcha (talk) 13:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
- Aliases that should categorize to Category:World War I (to be created): "WWI", "WW I", "WW1", "WW 1", "World War 1".
- WWII: should categorize to Category:World War II (already exists): "WWII", "WW II", "WW2", "WW 2", "World War 2".
Some of these are already in use. For example, "WWI" and "WWII" have ~11 uses each. 98.170.164.88 00:59, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Hythonia: Sorry, the revert was a mistake. Still, I don't think we actually want to have this as a label though. Obviously not every category should have a label (just imagine {{lb|en|pizza}} for Category:en:Pizza) and I feel like this one belongs to the "shouldn't have one" group, just like e.g. Category:en:Functions, reason being that you can't restrict usage to "trigonometric functions": the word "sine" is restricted to mathematical contexts, not to "trigonometric functions" contexts, whatever that would be. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 00:05, 15 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
- @Fytcha: You might be right. I was inspired by
{{lb|-|pharmaceutical effect}}, which is displayed as (pharmacology) but puts the entry in the correct category. I'm more than happy to revert this if people think it's unnecessary. Hythonia (talk) 09:28, 15 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Could be added as an alias of "evolutionary theory". This is used in some entries. 70.172.194.25 09:05, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
- Done. Catonif (talk) 17:11, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
- @Catonif: Grazie! Could you also add the aliases proposed two sections above? 70.172.194.25 18:13, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
- Done. Prego :) Catonif (talk) 10:47, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Can this be added? This is to refer terms related indigenous Philippine folk religions.
With an alias of "Philippine folk religion". topical_categories should also be true. — 🍕 Yivan000 viewtalk 03:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Nevermind, it's in Module:category_tree/topic_cat/data/Religion. — 🍕 Yivan000 viewtalk 04:06, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
HALLO!! :D can you please add the label "turkish politics"? tia :3 sincerely yours, äkräm. 07:11, 7 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
edit request to go with gender-critical slang on labels/data
labels = {
aliases = {"gender-critical", "GC", "TERF"}
display = "]",
topical_categories = "Gender-critical feminism",
}
Juwan (talk) 11:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
edit request to add otherkin as a label:
labels = {
aliases = {"therian"}
display = "]",
topical_categories = "Otherkin",
}
Juwan (talk) 22:24, 26 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
- No objections to this, but looking at en:Otherkin, I don't see many examples where this would be useful. Sense 2 at alterhuman and sense 2 at kin are the only senses that need sense disambiguation (maybe plantkin too). "Otherkin", "Fictionkin" and most other words don't have any special meaning inside the otherkin subculture. Are there some other examples you were thinking of for this label? Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @Smurrayinchester for other entries, I planned to add these labels as a way to make clearer that they only apply in otherkin contexts and not anywhere else. Juwan (talk) 14:14, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
edit request. many terms are chiefly used in these contexts, thus I believe it could also be worth a category on its own.
labels = {
aliases = {"Japanese porn", "hentai"}
display = "] ]",
topical_categories = "Japanese fiction", "Pornography"
}
Juwan (talk) 22:57, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @JnpoJuwan It's a bit tricky, as there's a lot of crossover with Korean pornography as well. e.g. hentai does not have to be Japanese. Theknightwho (talk) 00:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @Theknightwho just like anime, the label should include "Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation", but that's a mouthful or.. a handful because we're typing. Juwan (talk) 07:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @JnpoJuwan That's true, but I'm pretty sure there are terms unique to pornhwa as well. I guess we could have both. Theknightwho (talk) 13:16, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @Theknightwho add both for sure! I don't know what terms these are but if people can use, that's good for me. Juwan (talk) 14:55, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- This makes more sense than our current tagging, which seems very inconsistent (gravure is "Japan", AV is "especially|in Japan|pornography", ahegao is "chiefly|Japanese fiction" and bukkake doesn't have any label at all - maybe it's too well known in the West for a Japanese tag). In general, it would probably be good to get porn terms out of the general Category:en:Japan category, since they aren't about Japan. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:25, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
both these communities use a lot of specialised slang and jargon in order to both euphemise and also to avoid filters, as such, in my opinion this warrants special labels. see the categories Category:Self-harm and Category:Eating disorders.
labels = {
aliases = {"eating disorder", "ED", "anorexia", "bulimia"}
display = "]s",
topical_categories = "Eating disorders"
}
labels = {
aliases = {"selfharm", "self harm", "self-harm community", "SH"}
display = "]",
topical_categories = "Self-harm"
}
note that "self-harm community" is to catch all the existing labels, as someone else added it as such. Juwan (talk) 11:26, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @JnpoJuwan They look fine to me, although a two-tier approach might make sense for these labels/categories, as with LGBT/LGBTQ slang, fandom/fandom slang, etc. Einstein2 (talk) 10:43, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- that's better for sure! I support that. Juwan (talk) 11:14, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- @JnpoJuwan Can you restate your proposal to include categories for slang specific to these communities? Also are there enough terms to warrant separating into "eating disorders" vs. "eating disorder slang" (not sure if this name is the best), or are most of these terms in fact slang? FWIW I am familiar with terms like pro-ana, pro-mia, thinspo, and such, although these terms have probably become widespread enough to not count any more as "eating disorder slang".
- Also, on a different note, I'm confused why we have a topical category "LGBT" but a slang category "LGBTQ slang". Surely we should adopt one or the other terminology for both? Benwing2 (talk) 05:11, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Oh, I forgot to mention, I don't think we should have aliases ED or SH for these labels. In general I'm opposed to short acronyms for labels because they're too cryptic and too liable to have collisions (e.g. ED is also a well-known acronym for erectile dysfunction). Benwing2 (talk) 05:52, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- what do you mean by restate? do you want me to include the code snippet that I want added? if so, there it is below. I believe that there are at least a lot of ED and SH slang, but that maybe my personal bias as that's what I mostly am interested in documenting rather than more technical or medical terms. the former would warrant the "ED/SH" label and the latter "ED/SH slang" (where ED/SH is either term, not both). to me, the labels themselves seem descriptive enough, although, your examples are good to note that these may have gone somewhat mainstream.
-- Module:labels/data/topical
labels = {
aliases = {"eating disorder", "anorexia", "bulimia"}
display = "]s",
topical_categories = "Eating disorders"
}
labels = {
aliases = {"selfharm", "self harm"}
display = "] ]",
topical_categories = "Self-harm"
}
-- Module:labels/data
labels = {
aliases = {"eating disorders slang", "anorexia slang", "bulimia", "pro-ana", "pro-mia"}
display = "] ]",
pos_categories = true,
}
labels = {
aliases = {"self-harm community", "selfharm slang", "self harm slang"}
display = "] ]",
pos_categories = true,
}
- for the "LGBT" vs. "LGBTQ slang", that's because recently Wikipedia updated its article from LGBT to LGBTQ (as the latter term is now more commonly used). that probably was someone who edited just one and forgot the other, please do that if you can! Juwan (talk) 11:32, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Hi, I will finish this "tomorrow" my time (which means in about 10 hours, after I have gone to sleep and woken up again). Note that we also need the appropriate category-tree changes for the slang categories if not done already. I'm going to add a field "catxref" to category definitions to facilitate displaying cross-references between categories in a way that correctly handles umbrella categories, so that e.g. "CAT:en:Eating disorders cross-references to CAT:English eating disorder slang and vice-versa, while the umbrella CAT:Eating disorders cross-references to CAT:Eating disorder slang by language and vice-versa. Benwing2 (talk) 10:11, 20 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- 2 different categories for words about SH and words about ED is necessary even though ED is a form of SH. Users should remember SH can cover behaviors beyond cutting such as burning, beating, bruising, poisoning, and scratching. SH can be the parent category while ED is a child category, much like mathematics is the parent category while geometry is a child category. Flame, not lame (Don't talk to me.) 15:33, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
It is either admirably idealistic or somewhat silly that a label of "rocketry" gets changed to "astronautics" upon display. That's an awful lot of rocketry of military missiles that's being glossed over down to nothing, there. This is rather like changing a label of "automotive" to display as "driving to church". I may fix this semantic misstep sometime, if my mood of I-don't-care-enough-to-bother might change. Quercus solaris (talk) 16:35, 13 April 2025 (UTC)Reply