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Commons:Village pump

‎Category:Demolished buildings and the purpose of the category system: new section
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I know descriptions can be and often are multilingual, but I'm wondering if there's any way to group or indicate images (template or category, maybe?) that are described in a particular language? I'm thinking this might be useful for maintenance, particularly for smaller languages -- for instance indicating uncategorized images that could benefit from review by someone who reads the language that they are described in; and perhaps for translation. Is there anything like this? Thanks, sorry if this is an old issue. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 02:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

I know descriptions can be and often are multilingual, but I'm wondering if there's any way to group or indicate images (template or category, maybe?) that are described in a particular language? I'm thinking this might be useful for maintenance, particularly for smaller languages -- for instance indicating uncategorized images that could benefit from review by someone who reads the language that they are described in; and perhaps for translation. Is there anything like this? Thanks, sorry if this is an old issue. -- [[User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] ([[User talk:Phoebe|talk]]) 02:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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== [[:Category:Demolished buildings]] and the purpose of the category system ==

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Further to [[Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2013/03/Category:Demolished_buildings|this CFD]]. Note that "Demolished buildings" is a subcat of "Former buildings" and means "buildings totally not there any more because they were demolished" (the obliqueness of the concept is part of what got it nominated in the first place).

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The question it raises is: are we categorizing media so people can find it, or are we categorizing everything that exists? This category is for a characteristic of the ''building'', and is only very vaguely related to the ''media'' in the category. Unless there is media of its destruction, which would be more easily found in [[:Category:Building demolition]].

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The question isn't really about the category: I don't seriously think that this category can be pruned off, as it has grown into a lovely tree over time :P but rather, does it matter that the category is not useful for finding ''media''?

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The most obvious example for me is [[:Category:People by date of death]] and its 12 trillion subcats, although I suspect they are a hangover from wikipedia, where they do actually serve a more obvious purpose.

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Perhaps the ''only'' thing you know about a building is that it was demolished, or the ''only'' thing you know about a person is when they died? Maybe intersecting categories would make these categories more helpful for finding stuff? --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 04:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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