Category talk:Papuan languages
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Deletion debate[edit]
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As the category says: the term is defined negatively and does not imply a linguistic relationship - therefore it should be replaced by genetic language family categories. -- Prince Kassad 17:15, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
- Is Papuan commonly used? We have many non-genetic groups like Category:Languages of Asia. --Bequw → τ 03:35, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- I have yet to see this term being used in academic publications. And yes we do categorize the languages by country as well (cf. Category:Languages of Papua New Guinea). -- Prince Kassad 05:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- Then you might start with some of the publications listed as References on the Wikipedia article about this group. --EncycloPetey 14:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- This category is not a problem as-is, but it will be when we actually cover all those languages. Then we will have a huge category with over 700 subcategories, which will be extremely unwieldy and cannot be split up due to its nature. Therefore, it's better to think ahead and switch to genetic language family categories. (It will be needed anyway when Daniel. creates
{{familycatboiler}}like I told him to) -- Prince Kassad 14:30, 27 September 2010 (UTC)- note that I have created Category:Languages of West Papua, which together with the PNG category above should fulfill the role of categorizing all Papuan languages together. -- Prince Kassad 12:25, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
- This category is not a problem as-is, but it will be when we actually cover all those languages. Then we will have a huge category with over 700 subcategories, which will be extremely unwieldy and cannot be split up due to its nature. Therefore, it's better to think ahead and switch to genetic language family categories. (It will be needed anyway when Daniel. creates
- Then you might start with some of the publications listed as References on the Wikipedia article about this group. --EncycloPetey 14:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- I have yet to see this term being used in academic publications. And yes we do categorize the languages by country as well (cf. Category:Languages of Papua New Guinea). -- Prince Kassad 05:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Kept, no consensus, and no realistic chance of achieving one. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)