Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Transportation by country

The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. This is an archive of the discussion only; please do not edit this page. -Kbdank71 04:31, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Transportation_by_country

Subcategories are all "Transportation in Foo" except we have:

• Category:Transport_in_Ireland

"Transport" is the term actually used in Ireland.

This is a precedent-setting decision. Should we have a universal form for this type of category, or should we vary the form to allow a more local flavor? Consistency might make navigation easier, but for article text, there is a precedent to use local terminology if applicable. I suspect that "Transport" is also used the UK and some other Commonwealth countries. If we decide to allow variation in this type of case, should we actively investigate usage in the countries for which categories exist, or allow passive changes over time? What should we do about non-English-speaking countries? -- Beland 02:25, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See also the next entry...

• I would vote for Transport of Ireland, for the English forms, I think it is best to try to keep the international flavour of Wikipedia, we can easily add a category redirect for Transportation and Transport if there is confusion. But users in Ireland, England would look for transport and not transportation. Sortior 04:32, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
• It doesn't bother me to mix them up a bit if there are folks who seriously object to using Transportation as the standard, although it does tend to cause confusion in assigning categories. (It would always be necessary to check before assigning a transportation category.) -Aranel ("Sarah") 03:41, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Perhaps an energetic youngster or bot can be convinced to create the alternative redirects for all transport/transportation categories. —Michael Z. 05:08, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)
• "Transport" is the word used in most English-speaking countries, and the article on transport rests there. "Transportation" has very different connotations - particularly to an Australian! I'm guessing most Americans have no problem with understanding the Commonwealth English form of "transport", and, in the light of the different meanings of the word "transportation" (and that it's a much longer word!) it would be better if "transport" is used, jguk 18:08, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Attempting to impose the American word "transportation" on other English speaking countries is totally unacceptbale. Philip 03:27, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• I created most of the transportation in blah, as part of the Wikiproject airport stuff, but I will stick with the general consensus here, even though it looks wrong to me (I am a Canadian). Burgundavia 22:05, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
• What are the Australian connotations of "Transportation"? -- Beland 03:50, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Beland, see transportation :) jguk 19:31, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh. ::enlightenment:: -- Beland 03:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• What if we just say that the category should match the main article? (Whether "Transport in X" or "Transportation in X". Articles can easily be moved by folks familiar with local usage and categories can then be nominated for moving individually as necessary. -Aranel ("Sarah") 19:24, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Sounds good to me. I'll take care of implementing that, if there are no objections in the next 7 days. (Resetting the clock here because this is a novel suggestion.) -- Beland 03:35, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Please go ahead. Wincoote 14:08, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)