Category talk:en:Heraldry
The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits (permalink).
This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.
(Not sure where best to put a suggested subcategory. Here? The BP?)
CAT:en:Heraldry has 600+ entries [update: now less, because I moved some to "Heraldic charges"] and more are on my list to add. We subcategorize "charges" and "tinctures" (I am migrating more entries to those categories as I go through the main category). Should we also put "heraldic attitudes" like at gaze, dormant, urinant in a subcategory? (On the model of {{lb|en|heraldiccharge}}, which displays the same as {{lb|en|heraldry}} but adds the "heraldic charges" subcategory, I'd create a label like {{lb|heraldic attitude}} to display heraldry but effect subcategorization.) The main issue I foresee is that the scope is a little fuzzy: I'd tentatively be inclined to include e.g. affrontant, and probably flotant even though it's an attitude of an object rather than a beast, but what about e.g. palewise (google books:"lions palewise") or flamant, are those attitudes or just descriptions? (Is it unmaintainable to have many fine-grained categories?) - -sche (discuss) 15:50, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
- I share your doubts. If the definition of what the subcategory is supposed to contain is unclear to ordinary editors (especially for a specialized topic like heraldry), you are going to have to constantly maintain the subcategory because most editors will probably just dump entries into the main category. — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:40, 15 May 2023 (UTC)