Category talk:London

For Category:In London
 * See: WT:BP

Too encyclopedic. Sets a dangerous precedent for things like, , etc. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please do not duplicate discussions. You've started a discussion on this topic in the BP.  Please let that discussion reach a conclusion or we'll have two threads on this topic in two locations. --EncycloPetey 21:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well since the pages have different functions the discussions should be different too, plus there seemed to be a consensus on that page, so I decided to go for the deletion. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:24, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I can imagine three kinds of “London” labels and categories.


 * 1) Regional dialect label, for terms used chiefly in London.  The label is  and Category:London English.  (Somewhat misused, because at least half of the category members are not chiefly restricted to use in London.)
 * 2) Thematic label.  Encyclopedic, classifying things, not words.  Wikipedia already does this, and they will always do it better than we will.  What's the point of wasting energy and causing confusion by duplicating their efforts, badly?
 * 3) Geographic label for the referent:, Category:In London.  The COD and its descendants use these in a consistent, documented form (e.g. “in the UK”, in contrast to the dialect label “Brit.”).  This could be used to disambiguate the two Sohos for example, but editors would immediately start confusing it with either of the two kinds of labels.  I thought this would be a good idea, but I'm starting to think that in practice it's best for us to keep this in the text of the definition.

Delete —Michael Z. 2009-07-15 03:21 z 
 * Please vote on this. I don't think it's appropriate for me to delete this on a 2-0 consensus. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Move to Category:London. I don't think this duplicates Wikipedia, but categorises the London-related Wiktionary definitions that have merits to exist (if they indeed do) and is useful in that. All of the geographical category pages could have a boilerplate warning not to create articles that don't meet the criteria for inclusion. Other than that, I don't see harm in category creep. This could also be one parent category for Category:London English; cf. the way countries are arranged. Wipe 23:05, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Moved per above; no consensus on the deletion, will be archived to Category:London where it will be more findable. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)