Category talk:Indicator

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Category:Indicator

Move to Category:Indicator (genus) like en:Category:Indicator (genus) for clarity. Themightyquill (talk) 08:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

English Wikipedia has other naming conventions. Namely, the noun in plural usually redirects to the same noun in singular. On Commons, contrary, categories of things are, as a rule of thumb, in plural. But Taxon categories use Latin names in singular and nominative. Hence, if an experienced Commons editor encounters “Category:Indicator” trying to tag “an indicator” without seeing anything in Category:Indicators at all, it should serve a pretext for alert. An experienced categoriser should not walk away after placing pages into categories having obvious anomalies in naming. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:49, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Agreed, however, we have many inexperienced users and even bots adding categories. And even experienced users frequently make mistakes when category names are somewhat ambiguous. Note the misplaced files currently in the category: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Moreover, and most importantly, there is absolutely no advantage to having a somewhat ambiguous name like Category:Indicator over Category:Indicator (genus). - Themightyquill (talk) 13:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

We might place a {{Disambig}}, but do you really expect a casual uploader to resolve it? As for bots, silly mistakes happen, but it is a pretext for the community to pressure botmasters to build decent sanity checks in, not to create unnecessary complications for human category-workers. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:28, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

What's the unnecessary complication? There remains no advantage to having the category at Category:Indicator. - Themightyquill (talk) 13:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I simply would have changed this category to a disambiguation page without asking as a disambiguation page states clearly that no files should be in it. Kersti (talk) 08:08, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@Kersti Nebelsiek, Themightyquill, and Incnis Mrsi: user:Kersti Nebelsiek has done some changes in this category, although the discussion is not closed yet. I suggest to make category:Indicators (disambiguation) and to redirect Category:Indicator to this plural form. Clarification seems to be more important than one exception: bird genus named "Indicator"--Estopedist1 (talk) 05:47, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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Please read the date - the last one to write anything was 23 January 2018. Someone should have closed it and therefore I did it. To put it on the talk page was only for information. In many cases people categorice without looking in the category and therefore it is helpful if the category vanishes bceause if you enter Category:Indicator, the category is not visible in the main category line, this is why indicator is the name of the disambigustion page. --Kersti (talk) 17:51, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done it seems that this has already been resolved  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:28, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

This could be used for the bird genus Indicator. Shyamal (talk) 09:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)