User talk:Krik/2
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London Category
You seem to been changing Category:London UK to Category:London. This will need to be reversed as some of the other 'London's are quite major (especially the Canadian one) and making this change will lead to dis-disambiguation when they start being entered into categories. Retaining 'UK' makes a LOT of sense therefore! --VampWillow 14:47, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Since there were only a few articles in the London category I was able to make changes without too much hassle. The London category is now a disambiguation with Category:London UK and Category:London Canada Any other "London" categories can be made sub categories of Category:London.
- But does that make sense to create ambiguous entries when they were quite clear beforehand? Not really ... it complicates matters quite a bit and will certainly lead to errors down the line as more things get added to categories. This seems like a change for change's sake and I plan to revert it later today in favour of the more logical original solution. --VampWillow 15:39, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- addendum: It should be London Ontario, etc. rather than London Canada of course ;-) --VampWillow 15:40, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thankyou for doing the revert yourself. Much appreciated. I suspect that some of the catlinks could do with changing though (stations, for example) so some suitable plan to talk about would be great... --VampWillow 16:06, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Centagon"
Why is "centagon" logical to you?? Look at the table at polygon and it has all the correct names of polygons, and some incorrect names to avoid because the prefixes are Latin, not Greek. 66.32.255.134 22:41, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Centagon makes more sense to me because I am used to the latin prefixes of shapes such as Nonagon and Septagon. Krik 22:53, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC).
- But, "-gon" is a Greek suffix. If the word really were Latin, it would be "septangle", not "septagon". 66.32.255.134 23:04, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I have added "avoid centagon" to the list. Ater doing some research "Nonagon" is in far wider use than "emmenagon", so it seems to be an exception to the usual rules. Google corrects me on septagon, but not on nonagon. Krik 23:11, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- But, "-gon" is a Greek suffix. If the word really were Latin, it would be "septangle", not "septagon". 66.32.255.134 23:04, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)