Category talk:Old English verbs

RFM discussion: November–December 2013

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Old English strong verb categories

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Hello, there are 7 templates for Old English strong verb classes:

• Category:Old English class I strong verbs → Category:Old English class 1 strong verbs?
• Category:Old English class II strong verbs
• Category:Old English class III strong verbs
• Category:Old English class IV strong verbs
• Category:Old English class V strong verbs
• Category:Old English class VI strong verbs
• Category:Old English class VII strong verbs

To give those categories a uniform content, inter alia the accompanying strong class category (e.g. Category:Class 1 strong verbs by language) there is the template {{poscatboiler}}. But to use the boiler the categories would need Arabic numerals (The Roman numerals are for differentiation of weak inflection, see Appendix). The best way to handle was if {{poscatboiler}} would tolerate not unified titles e.g. type {{poscatboiler|ang|class 1 strong verbs|title=class I strong verbs}}, but this is right now not technically possible.
Three ways to proceed:

1. program an exception in {{poscatboiler}} as described above
2. rename every category consequently  Done
3. do not use {{poscatboiler}} and type every category an description manually to every category

Greetings --Bigbossfarin (talk) 21:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

All other Germanic languages use the digits 1-7, so I think it would make more sense to bring the Old English categories in line with that. —CodeCat 23:10, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done Thank you for your opinion! I found a really easy way to get the new category system: I programmed a switch in {{ang-verb}} so that every verb automatically gets in the right category.--Bigbossfarin (talk) 17:57, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I think the categorisation should be done by the inflection templates, not {{ang-verb}}. —CodeCat 18:15, 30 November 2013 (UTC)