Category talk:Suevic

RFDO discussion: March–April 2015
What is this supposed to be? It's sorted in the language category tree, but doesn't follow proper nomenclature and I don't know a language with this name. -- Liliana • 22:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It's an artifact of how handles etymology-only language codes. User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV‎ had a few etymologies that referred specifically to this, so CodeCat added it to the etymology-only languages for him. See Suebi. The template generates a link to the language category for any language that has a code, but no one has really worked out what kind of categories the etymology-only languages should have, so it just does whatever the code defaults to- usually just the bare name of the language.


 * This puts redlinks in the derivational categories, which show up in Special:WantedCategories- they're kind of like the flashing "12:00 AM" display on electronic devices with no time set: after a while you get so tired of seeing them that you just create a dummy category so you don't have to look at them. That's what this is. There are probably a good many others. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:51, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It does have an etyl: code. Should it? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, especially if we're referring to it in etymologies. And I notice that it has such a code (perhaps added after the comments above were made): gem-sue. - -sche (discuss) 17:22, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The category seems OK now; it fits how other etymology-only languages' categories are named, e.g. Category:Provençal, and it is only categorized a little differently because it's not strictly a regional variety of another language like Provençal is. - -sche (discuss) 17:32, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * So, is this RFD resolved? - -sche (discuss) 20:31, 25 April 2015 (UTC)