Category talk:Creeks by country

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ŠJů marked Category:Creeks by country with the move tag for merging with Category:Streams by country, with the reasoning "merge the whole tree as a duplicate". [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/creek Creek is a broad name to describe a creek or narrow river, though Stream is more of a European term regardless, while places like Australia and the US rarely use the term "Stream". Removing "creek" would disrupt some categories of named creeks, since some are not streams but not quite a river. Bidgee (talk) 22:41, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Added Category:Creeks to this discussion as well. Bidgee (talk) 22:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Bidgee: At this moment, the category Category:Creeks has a description: „Here are streams with word Creek in its name.“ Such specific scope make sense only for English-language countries, and the category name should be not confusing (Category:Streams named "creek"?). However, many of contained files and subcategories don't meet the description. Generally, Universality principle of categorization requieres to have category names universal; identical items should have identical names for all countries and at all levels of categorization. All non-English countries have to be reconciled with universal English terminology even though their national conceptualization can be different – thus also English-language countries should suppress their local language specifics and yield to universal terms, if possible. Naturally, distinctions between various types of watercourses are soft and blurred and can pervade and overlap. --ŠJů (talk) 00:04, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This discussion is largely superceded by another one linked above. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:24, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bidgee, ŠJů, and Themightyquill: Closed to merge into Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/04/Category:Rivers. Josh (talk) 21:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]