Category talk:Cities named for Lenin
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For consistency, I would recommend to rename this category to Category:Cities and towns named for Lenin (if the cat is to contain no rural and urban-type settlements), or to Category:Places named for Lenin (if it is to contain all kinds of localities, including streets). See types of settlements in Russia for an explanation of the terms. See also Category:Cities and towns in Russia—another category that used to have the same problem.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 12:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- The problem with this proposal is that the category would no longer fit in with the rest of the categories in Category:Eponymous cities. However, there is no reason that Category:Places named for Lenin could not also be created. Then Category:Cities named for Lenin would be a subcategory of it. —Psychonaut 15:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- I see your point. My main concern, however, is terminology. There are no separate terms in Russian for "city" and "town", they are all called "gorod", which is translated as "city" for larger cities (I use 100K threshold, but that's by no means official) such as Novosibirsk or Nizhny Novgorod, and as "town" for smaller towns (such as Dalnegorsk, Pravdinsk, or Leninogorsk). Calling Leninogorsk a "city" is quite a stretch, and there is no point in creating additional Category:Towns named for Lenin because the difference between a city and a town is not set. We faced the same problem with Category:Cities and towns in Russia, which why it is called what it is called. Yet another solution is to rename the category to Category:Urban localities named for Lenin (that would also solve a problem of categorizing urban-type settlements, which under no circumstances can go to the current category under either its present or my proposed name), but that, although technically correct, sounds counter-intuitive, and it will stand out even more in Category:Eponymous cities.
- I will welcome your further thoughts on this matter. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 16:02, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
