Category talk:Languages by country

RFM discussion: January 2017–February 2023

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Category:Languages by country

Upmerge If all of these subcategories were emptied, the parent category would only have a little over 200 entries, which is very navigable and also what one would expect from the name of the category itself. Categorizing by continent isn't really necessary (where does Russia go? Is France in five categories?) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

• Support, straightforward enough. --Tropylium (talk) 16:27, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
• Support, the official languages could be categorized by country and continent on wikipedia (but it would not make sense on wiktionary), the categorization of languages independently by country and continent without other criteria, however, has no sense at all because they can be spoken in any nation of any continent, as well as in every ocean and even on the international space station (ISS), so a the category "Languages by country" (or more correctly "Languages by continent") have no sense to exist on wiktionary or other wiki-projects. --DelvecchioSimone12 5 96 (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• Support, the category is quite messy as is and it would be more practical to have a category for "Languages by continent" instead. This would allow for tidying up the countries into a list of the six continents (or seven, depending on the continental model) with permanent indigenous residents that would in turn list all recognized countries within the continent in question. 24.242.250.170 14:34, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

  @24.242.250.170 That is what this category is though (languages sorted by continent), except that it not named as such. Are you suggesting moving it to Category:Languages by continent? - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 21:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@Koavf If I understand your proposal correctly it sounds like it would be more suited to WT:RFM. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 21:32, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Makes sense. Do you think I should copy/paste it there? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@Koavf Hey, thanks for the fast response. I think you should cut/paste it into the January 2017 section there. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 21:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Good thinking. I'll put it there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Support per nom. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 06:55, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

IMO we have enough support for Justin's proposal, but it would be nice to have a bot implement it. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 03:45, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Done: User:ExcarnateSojournerBot/Past projects § Recategorize grandchildren of Category:Languages by country. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 06:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)