User talk:Alleged editor

Our categories are far more complex than you realize. It's generally not a good idea to just create a category specific to a single language and manually link it to an existing category. We have a system of modules with category definitions that are meant to apply to any number of languages. That means that Category:English noun-forming suffixes is just the English member of Category:Noun-forming suffixes by language. If you click on the "Edit category data" link you will find yourself in Module:category tree/poscatboiler/data/lemmas. Categories of the pattern "[part of speech]-forming suffixes" are defined automatically by the code, but the child categories are defined by adding a section for a new label. You have to be very careful to follow the correct format so that it's valid Lua code and uses the correct field names with square brackets, curly brackets, double-quotes and commas in the right places. Once you have that set up, you can create a category of that type for any language, put auto cat in it, and you're done.

As for your translingual suffix categories: I don't think they're a good idea. The endings in question were Latin endings that were arbitrarily applied to names at certain taxonomic ranks and were then specified by the taxonomic codes to always be added to names of those ranks. They have no grammatical significance whatsoever in taxonomical names, and the grammatical case stuff is really just trivia. What's more, there are a limited number of them- so there's not really much point in having a category.

I could say more, but that's all I have time for right now. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:03, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

=== I'm not familiar with wikis. Thank you for your help.

Categories
Please don't create any more categories. If you're interested in them, feel free to expand existing ones, but the categories you've created so far are not of enough use or interest to justify their creation. Ultimateria (talk) 23:45, 26 September 2021 (UTC)