Category talk:Capital cities
Latest comment: 6 years ago by -sche in topic RFM discussion: October 2015–January 2018
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Assuming that Category:Capital cities is for capitals of countries, such as Paris, Rome, etc., then the name Category:Country capitals would be more specific.
We have Category:US State Capitals for some "capital cities" that are capitals of states, not countries; and today I created Category:State capitals of Brazil as a similar category, so I would appreciate if the "Capital cities" category used a clearer name. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 22:15, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose: Capital cities should be kept as a container category, at least. And you're going to have to create a lot more subcategories if you want capital cities to be empty. Purplebackpack89 05:25, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- If we do decide to rename, it should be to the more natural-sounding Category:national capitals, which is based on what people usually call them. Most types of capitals are modified by an adjective rather than an attributive noun, as in, for instance, provincial and regional. For some reason, state doesn't seem to have a common adjectival counterpart, so it's an exception. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:28, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz I can understand putting capitals in Category:National capitals, but shouldn't that be a subcategory of Category:Capital cities? Purplebackpack89 16:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- Point taken about using Category:National capitals rather than Category:Country capitals. Also I'm cool with keeping Category:Capital cities as a supercategory for other capitals categories. One question: Should we use Category:Capitals rather than Category:Capital cities? Are there any "capital towns" or "capital municipalities" out there, thus making the name "capital cities" less inclusive? --Daniel Carrero (talk) 01:19, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
- There are for some of the smaller, less-populous entities that have capitals. Purplebackpack89 16:27, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Point taken about using Category:National capitals rather than Category:Country capitals. Also I'm cool with keeping Category:Capital cities as a supercategory for other capitals categories. One question: Should we use Category:Capitals rather than Category:Capital cities? Are there any "capital towns" or "capital municipalities" out there, thus making the name "capital cities" less inclusive? --Daniel Carrero (talk) 01:19, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz I can understand putting capitals in Category:National capitals, but shouldn't that be a subcategory of Category:Capital cities? Purplebackpack89 16:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
- Stale; not moved. - -sche (discuss) 20:25, 14 January 2018 (UTC)