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Cat as "Category:port cranes" ?

This is a "crane in a port", but it's not a crane used for the transhipment of goods, i.e. the business of a port, ergo not a port crane as such for the purposes of categorization. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but that definition is rather sneaky, since it argues that port cranes automatically are for goods transshipment only. This crane use (lifting boats) is useful only in a port, so "port crane" makes perfect sense to me, while "cranes in a port" is rather cumbersome, and might even be considered a topcat above your definition of "port cranes".

I am not opposed to a clarification of the sorting structure here, but it would need to be something along the line of "ship hauling crane" as a subcat of "port cranes" or such, rather than kick it out of the "port cranes" cat. Ingolfson (talk) 22:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)