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Rd232 (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

"Books by authors from Romania" and "Books from Romania by authors" are not the same thing

To me the category "Books from Romania" refers to books published in Romania. The change you made doesn't reflect the content correctly, unless "Books from Romania" has a different meaning than my understanding. "Books by authors from Romania" = books written by Romanian authors while "Books from Romania by authors" = books published in Romania grouped by authors. The category "Books by authors from Romania" reflects its content with no confusion. "Books from Romania by authors" it happens to contain "Books by authors from Romania" but not entirely. For example, in "Books by Nicolae Iorga" you will find plenty of books published in Paris. Famous authors have their books translated and published in other countries than their native country or not even translated but published in a different country than their native country. Whether published or not in his/her native country you will include them in this category: "Books by [author]", but then it doesn’t make sense to have this whole category included in "Books from [country] by author" since some of the books are published in multiple other countries. So, the category "Books by [author]" being included in "Books from [country] by author" is not a good idea. Can you please revert the change? Luanlou (talk) 00:46, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Can I get un update on my request? Thank you! Luanlou (talk) 00:26, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

@Luanlou:Sorry for the delay. I couldn't get to it before. I have reverted my change, but then I have also put the original category up for discussion. We don't have any categories for books by authors from a specific country, so I don't know if people will want to keep this one. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:06, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! I can add more details on the discussion page. Also, if it's not too complicated, could you move all the categories with writer names from Category:Writers from Romania to a new category called Category:Writers from Romania by name? Luanlou (talk) 01:56, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@Luanlou: Done. Check the category: if I moved any that don't belong there, go ahead and move them back. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:52, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

The new category looks good. Thank you! Luanlou (talk) 03:10, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

After Dark images category?

Hi thank you for (many years ago now) creating this:-

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:After_Dark

I have an interest in this category page (which to my shame I have only just discovered) as most if not all of the images originated with work I uploaded. Might you help me with a couple of no doubt straightforward questions (apologies for not knowing the answers: I have been editing for a while but only sporadically and have no "advanced" editing skills)?

i/ There was a period when only some of the images I uploaded to English Wikipedia had been moved to Commons, some were only on Wikipedia. How can I check if there are any left which have not yet made it across (a process which incidentally I have never understood how to do)?

ii/ Over the years I have uploaded other images (not connected with the tv programme After Dark) - how can I search for these?

Thanks again. AnOpenMedium (talk)

Just posted these questions to Help. 95.148.31.242 13:59, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Removal of category

Why did you remove the category? If it's based on Bobcat it should be in the category. Or? --|EPO| ^da: 17:54, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@EPO: That category is a disambiguation category, which shouldn't be on any files. I didn't see anything in the image with the Bobcat brand on it. If I missed it, feel free to put the vehicle category on it. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:45, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

As others I failed see that it was a disambiguation category. However the ladder is built on a special bobcat base. I will find a more specific category. Keep cat'ing! --|EPO| ^da: 10:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Request

Please, can you solve this easy moving request: Category:Pfarrkirche hl. Petrus und Paulus, Birkfeld. I hope file mover rights should be sufficient to do this--Estopedist1 (talk) 09:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Estopedist1: Sorry, I can't do that one because the desired name already exists (as a redirect). --Auntof6 (talk) 00:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Your revert

Hi, I'd happy if you could explain me your last revert. What do you expect there that wouldn't be a category? I'd really like to know. Thanks. --Birdie (talk) 09:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@Birdie: I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you be specific about which revert you're referring to? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:44, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

You removed "catcat" from [[category:Buildings in Arrondissement Château-Thierry]] with the commentary "Not a cat only category". --Birdie (talk) 09:47, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@Birdie: Do you mean in Category:Buildings in Arrondissement Château-Thierry? If not, please specify which category you're looking at. If you mean that category, I removed the catcat template because there's no reason there can't be files in it. The category is a general one for buildings in the arrondissement: the category name doesn't specify any restrictions that wouldn't allow files. If you want, you could put {{Categorise}} on it. However, if you look at the categories for the other arrondissements, they don't have any such template. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:53, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

In France, contrary to the US, there's not a single part of the territory which doesn't belong to a "commune". So, every picture that would be put on "Buildings in Arrondissement..." should instead put in a "Building in commune x" category that would be a daughter category from "Building in Arrondissement...". Indeed, the other categories don't have the labels but, if you look at my work here, little by little, the parents categories I'm working on have just categories as daughters. Am I clear? --Birdie (talk) 10:02, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@Birdie: I understand what you're saying. However, to be a metacat, the category name has to specify what the grouping is. In this category, it isn't communes, because there are also categories like Category:Churches in Arrondissement Château-Thierry. To be a metacat, the category name would need to be something like Category:Buildings in Arrondissement Château-Thierry by commune. I think the best that can be done with these is to use the categorise template. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:05, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Understood. So I guess I will treat them as a metacat w/o calling it one. I mean, trying to keep the categories clean of any picture w/o putting the label. It's such a steady work. You will have always ppl adding father cat even if it is nonsense. Like adding "cities in the USA" to an item already categorized as "cities in Colorado". I'd like to know why! Have a nice day, thank you for the explanation. --Birdie (talk) 10:18, 11 March 2020 (UTC)