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Language/nationality categories
[edit]In most categorization schemes for books, the nationality categories are nested within the language categories, which has always felt very weird. I've seen people remove the language categories as it's already nested in a nationality subcategory, which I feel is actually a loss of information. A book can be French, and first published in English, or it can be Swiss and published in German, French, Italian, etc. I feel like initial language of publication is defining apart from nation. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hm, I share the sense that language and nationality are only correlated, not logically nested. Just consider Canada and French/English. A pure and precise ontology would probably have language and nation categories existing in parallel, at equal placement in the hierarchy. But I’m not sure how much appetite there is to essentially double-tag all works, as eg both “French books” and “books in French”. I don’t consider myself well informed about the best way to organize Wikipedia category infrastructure. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 04:16, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's an awkward situation. With countries like France specifically it may pose an issue - but with ones like Switzerland or Canada it is the reverse. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:59, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- This is absolutely one of my current bugbears. It's especially frustrating in the novels section, which seems to have created a system where certain non-English language books (see every entry in Category:Hong Kong novels) are in the English-langauge categories, because they were published by authors who came from a country which speaks English as an official language. Additionally, many historical European books, no matter what country they were from, would have been published in French or Latin. Our current categorization system accidentally implies that many of these books were written in modern European languages, because we expect our country-level categories to serve this dual purpose. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 01:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- @GreenLipstickLesbian I agree, I think the mild annoyance of double categorization is better than being flat out wrong. PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Discussion related to new religious movements, Scientology, and book categorization
[edit]There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scientology#Open discussion about categorizing Hubbard's Scientology books that members of this project might find interesting. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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Link: Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 December 28#File:The Computer Book (BBC 1982).jpg. George Ho (talk) 20:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 25 § Cults, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 00:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)