Category talk:Photographs of flags

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Proposal new Category:flag photographies

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The Category:flags and his subcategories contain numerous designed flags, and an increasing number of flag photographies. For these photographies a separate category is desirable. That is why I propose Category:Flag photographies and corresponding subcategories, similar to the coat of arms photographies, which for Germany have been put in the Category:coat of arms photographies from Germany and his subcategories. Havang 17:38, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, what is photographies supposed to mean? The plural of photograph is photographs. As for the usefulness of a new category: I think it can be useful, especially for very crowded categories of flags. I would propose a new category tree as follows:
  • Flags
    • Photographs of flags
    • Flags by country
      • Photographs of flags by country
      • Flags of Italy
        • Photographs of flags of Italy
... and so on, with all Photographs of flags by/of XXX being in two categories: one from the photographs of flags tree and one from the normal flags tree. That way, there is no need for the photographs-of-flags tree to be complete. --rimshottalk 13:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think your proposal for a category structure is good. 'Photographies' is probably only a mistake by a non-native English speaker (in some languages 'photography' and 'photograph' is the same word (and the word sounding like the English 'photograph' means 'photographer')). /Ö 14:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that occured to me as well (Fotografien - Photographies), after I wrote the reply. I'm a native speaker of German, so I probably should have seen that earlier. --rimshottalk 16:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have added a category discussion link to Category:Flags and the flags project. I think we will get more input soon ;) --rimshottalk 13:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
... or so I thought :| --rimshottalk 12:57, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I support this. If you want to start it up, I'll help you populate the categories. Cheers, Rocket000 18:27, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've created the tree for Italian flags, down to Category:Photographs of flags of regions of Italy and for German flags down to Category:Photographs of flags of Germany. Feel free to populate those, and to create more as you see the need. --rimshottalk 11:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, very good all this. photographies is a gallicism, I (and the Germans) mixed up languages in the Babel of commons, sorry. Havang 11:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'd say the creation of these categories is up and running now. --rimshottalk 11:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This category was created due to the discussion at COM:CFD. --rimshottalk 11:42, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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