User talk:Laurel Lodged

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Arnaud Palastowicz (talk) 15:38, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

File:College Green Easter 2016.jpg

I've moved and renamed this image to its correct identity. Easy mistake to make but College Green ends roughly where you took the image from, being a view of College Street. Ww2censor (talk) 13:12, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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Catholic vs Roman Catholic

Firstly, decisions made at English wikipedia are not binding at Commons. The two projects have different needs. Second, "(Roman) Catholic churches" and "buildings of the Roman Catholic Church" are not synonymous. The Catholic Church owns buildings other than churches. Third, the whole category tree is at Category:Roman Catholic churches. There's no reason that Ireland should be treated differently. If you don't like "Roman Catholic churches", please nominate the base category for discussion. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:15, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

1. While they not be binding, they have a high degree of authority in the wiki world. Since there are more eyes on the English wiki than are on Commons, it follows that the categorisation comes under more scrutiny and is therefore of better quality. We should reject wii precedents with great reluctance. 2. I fully agree that "(Roman) Catholic churches" and "buildings of the Roman Catholic Church" are not synonymous. It was to avoid that very error that I renamed some of the categories to more fully distinguish between buildings of the Catholic Church that happen to be church buildings versus other buildings of the Catholic Church (e.g. baptistries, bell towers, episcopal palaces). Your question precedes my work but not my thinking on this topic. I have just now created Category:Buildings and structures of the Catholic Church in Ireland to cater for the gap. 3. Now that the scheme has been demonstrated to be successful in a few counties, it is perhaps a good time to bring it to wider discussion. @Themightyquill: Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:44, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Archbishops_of_the_Archdiocese_of_Armagh

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Auntof6 (talk) 04:50, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Category:Christians_by_nationality

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Estopedist1 (talk) 05:45, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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Pubs in Dublin (City)

A category for pubs in Dublin City has already been created. There is no need to set the same category and split it up again. This project has taken me several months to complete. Can you please the Dublin City pubs back into Pubs in Dublin. Financefactz (talk) 15:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

@Financefactz: I agree that having both Category:Pubs in Dublin (city) and Category:Pubs in Dublin is superfluous. One of them needs to go. I think the one with the greater name precision should remain - Category:Pubs in Dublin (city). The Category:Pubs in Dublin cannot be merged into Category:Pubs in Dublin (city) just yet, however, as it has lots of pubs that are in the surrounding counties of Fingal, South Dublin and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. I have created categories for these counties and am in the process of dispersing the pubs among them. When this manual dispersion is complete, then Category:Pubs in Dublin may be deleted. I'd appreciate your help with that work. Thanks, Laurel Lodged (talk) 07:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Financefactz: I see that you blanked the contents of Category:Pubs in Dublin (city). That was improper and out of process. Please arrange to restore it. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:13, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

There was already a Category:Pubs in County Dublin page in existence but you seem to have thought that Category:Pubs in Dublin related to the county. I have been working on this for a long long time and have create c.200 categories for individual pubs. Before re-categorising them into council areas I needed to identify where each pub was first. So far we had only made it through part of Fingal. I suggest rather than recategorize 200+pubs just leave them as Pubs in Dublin (which relates to the city). It is already a subcategory of Pubs in County Dublin to avoid any ambiguity. Financefactz (talk) 08:48, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy with the tidy and the eventual move to Pubs in Dublin (City). thanks for helping out. Financefactz (talk) 14:13, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Churches_and_monasteries_in_County_Cork (diff # 477250608)

Can you help me understand why my change was reverted? My thinking was that the redirected category would serve users better by redirecting to buildings and structures of all religions in Cork. Any insight appreciated. Thanks! --Donal.hunt (talk) 12:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

I came here to raise a similar point/question. And find this handy thread. As per Donal.hunt I can see absolutely no reason why Category:Churches in County Cork or Category:Churches and monasteries in County Cork would redirect specifically to the (sub)category for Protestant places of worship in the county. Not when there are other (less specific) cats available. And when, because of this redirection, at least a few RC churches had been miscategorised. Absent any logical explanation for this configuration, I have changed the relevant cat redirects. Guliolopez (talk) 18:05, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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Howhontanozaz (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Moves

You're not only moving categories with a false reason (completely changing names is not "anglicization") but you're also moving the wrong village categories. "Ulu Qarabəy" and Shahmansurlu/Shahmasur are 2 different villages. — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 21:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

@Golden: Shahmasur, Nagorno-Karabakh is also known as Shahmansurlu (Azeri: Şahmansurlu). Am I missing something? Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:11, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

You moved the category Category:Ulu Qarabəy. Shahmansurlu doesn't have a Commons category. — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 21:12, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Apologies. My mistake. Too many tabs open. I rectify the error shortly. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:29, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Please double check before making moves as you unfortunately almost always leave some spelling mistake. You left one again on Category:Nareshtar, Nagorno-Karbakh (Karbakh). I fixed it for you. — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 21:40, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Unnecessary disambiguation

Hi. Please don't use unnecessary disambiguation terms in category titles. I just moved one of your recent moves from "Kanach Tala, Nagorno-Karabakh" to "Kanach Tala". If there's no place with that exact name elsewhere, then the disambiguation term (in this case, ",Nagorno-Karabakh") is unnecessary. — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 16:35, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@Golden: Thanks for your earlier note above. I meant to reply but forgot. Regarding "Nagorno-Karabakh" as a geographic disambiguator, my thinking on this was that it was an olive branch to turkic editors. It neatly elides as to whether it is in Artsakh or Azerbaijan and so should discourage edit warring. But if you're happy to do without it, then I'm fine with that too. Laurel Lodged (talk)

By the way, can you suggest what to do with Category:Kiçik Qaladərəsi ? Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:21, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

In what regard? — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 17:42, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@Golden: Category:Hin Shen is a redirect. So should I name it "Hin Shen, Nagorno-Karabakh"? Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

You can manually switch their content to change which one is a redirect and which is the main category. I did it for you. — Golden ^{call me maybe?} 18:31, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

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Category:Gaelic_Athletic_Association

Thank you for your help with the GAA categories! Much appreciated -- Deadstar (msg) 10:44, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Category:Gothick churches in Ireland: Revision history

Hi Laurel, Gothick is not at all a misspelling of Gothic. Gothick is something like a variant of Gothic Revival, with the difference that Gothic Revival tries to imitate medieval Gothic, whereas Gothick applies Gothic details on buildings whose "body" rather is laid out according to a newer style, Neoclassical, Georgian or whatever.

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/art-and-architecture/architecture/gothick
• Historic England, official List entry no.1063173 on the Church of St Swithin, Baumber, Lincolnshire, "The C19 choir stalls and octagonal moulded font match the C18 Gothick fittings. In the nave are 4 hatchments to the Lievesey and Clinton families, and a Commandment Board. Monuments. At the west end of the south aisle is a large ledger slab with Lombardic inscription to John Eland and his 2 wives d.1473. On the south wall is a tablet to the Barber and Rowlands families d.1776-1797."

Please repair as soon as possible all damage you caused by your redirects.--Ulamm (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

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A1Cafel (talk) 02:38, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Baptistry of Montserrat

Hi! I reverted your categorisation because this is not the baptismal font but a mural inside the baptistry. Montserrat baptismal font is this one. Thanks! Enric (talk) 12:43, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

"Buildings and structures" categories

Hi, Laurel. Thanks for creating these categories. You might not have known, but some time ago it was decided that categories should not be named "Buildings and structures". Here are two discussions that were had about that:

• Commons_talk:CommonsProject_Architecture#Category:Buildings_and_structures, in 2008
• Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2017/05#Should_categories_combine_buildings_and_structures?, in 2017

Please change the categories you created so that each category name mentions only one or the other, and please do not name any more categories this way. If you don't want to make separate categories for buildings and structures, they can all go under structures. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I think that the reasoning for the decisions was flawed. I fail to see a good reason for departing from the Wikipedia standard in this area. Can you advise of the best forum to revisit this flawed decision? Laurel Lodged (talk) 07:11, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Probably at Commons:Categories for discussion, but making sure to notify the people at Commons:CommonsProject Architecture because they coordinate architecture-related things, including categories.

Note that I moved your reply here to keep the conversation thread in one place. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:44, 9 October 2023 (UTC)