Category talk:Norwich, Norfolk

 Oppose There is no such thing as a primary topic in Commons. There are close to 20 different Norwich in the world and each country has a different primary topic. --Foroa (talk) 20:38, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

There is a primary topic concept on Commons - as I have previously said here. In this case, Norwich, Norfolk is the primary topic on all Wikipedias, except the Bosnian and the Dutch ones. The statement that "Each country has a different primary topic" isn't really true either. For Norwich, the English one is primary throughout Europe. In the US/Canada, Norwich, ON may significant in Ontario, Norwich, CT in Connecticut - the others only will have local significance. At the national level, neither of those two will be "primary" (if its anything, its the English city).

Its easier to break down significance by language-groups than national-groups, for example using the WP standard of pageviews: For English, Norwich, England is 10 times more significant than any of the American ones, and the same is true for German and French. The Dutch case is more insightful, as that Wikipedia doesn't use the primary topic, but there again the English one gets 10 times more hits than the most popular of the others. Using pageviews is a method of quantifying importance and the crude way I have done so here is not really appropriate for Commons. Likewise a sweeping overgeneralisation that "different countries have different priorities, so we have should have none" cannot be backed up by evidence.

We do not serve our users by denying that some concepts are more "important" to them than others.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:18, 4 August 2011 (UTC)