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Problem: Pluralization of category names.

We want templates to help with categorization. Great!

Creature: Orc-Archer
Genus: Orc-kind
Species: Orc ... ooops... Orcs

Do you see the problem?

Do you want to explain to a user that the Type isn't "orc" for a single entry but "Orcs" so that the category is "Category:Orcs" versus "Category:Orc"? I don't.

When creating a single entry, the type specified will be "Orc" -- singular yet I find categories in the creatures area are plural -- Orcs, Goblins, Ents, Trolls, etc... I've started automation steps in at least a couple templates but not all things pluralize with the simple addition of an "s" to the word so we cannot easily automate this.

  • What's the plural of Uruk-Hai? Uruk-Hai *IS* plural.
  • How about Uruk?
  • What about the plural of Dwarf?
  • What about the plural of Elf?
  • What's the plural of Man?
  • What's the plural of Knife?
  • What's the pulral of Foot?

Now... what's the solution we want to implement?

I can make a template like Template:Genus that will map across the types to plurals but that is a hell of a lot of work and maintenance to keep up with... --Eleazaros 22:46, 4 March 2008 (PST)

Usage of Tolkien languages will complicate things even further, eg: Craban is singular, plural is not Crabans but Crebain ;) --Xander 02:26, 6 March 2008 (PST)
Is categorising of uncategorised pages also a task of this project? --Xander 03:48, 6 March 2008 (PST)
Yes, I would say so. --Fedaykin 06:11, 6 March 2008 (PST)
Hm, Special:Uncategorizedpages does not seem to track other namespaces than main =/ eg: Item:Gloves_of_the_North_Star does not have any categories and does not show up on Special:Uncategorizedpages at all... anyone know of other ways to track uncategorised pages? --Xander 06:50, 6 March 2008 (PST)
I'd say we'd need to look at the php file that controls that. It executes a SQL query is all and it could/should be expandable to the other namespaces if we want it to be.
--Eleazaros 08:30, 7 March 2008 (PST)
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