Category talk:Seals (emblem)

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Category:Seals

Convert to disambiguation page with (new) Category:Seals (emblem), Category:Seals (mechanical), and Category:Pinnipedia Themightyquill (talk) 12:20, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

 Support fully, this makes sense, none of those uses is overwhelmingly common compared to the others. Josh (talk) 01:30, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Support conversion to disambiguation. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:00, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Support the animal gets 19,809 views compared to 6,455 for the emblem, Seal (mechanical) also gets 2,975. "Seal(s) to me brings to mind the animal and the mechanical first. A Google image search shows all of the results for the animals so clearly not primary. Note that Category:Seal is already a DAB page. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:31, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

@Joshbaumgartner, Crouch, Swale, and Auntof6: of course DAB, but maybe we merge category:Seal (already DAB) and category:Seals together into one DAB? Although enwiki keep them in different DABs: en:Seal and en:Seals--Estopedist1 (talk) 08:49, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Maybe per w:WP:DABCOMBINE which does mention plurals but note that w:Seal and w:Seals are separate DAB pages. Also note that WP usually has the combined DAB at the singular form (such as w:Car (disambiguation)) but because we use plurals for classes of things we should probably place the DAB at the plural form. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:32, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Fine with me. Should also include Category:United States Navy SEALs.--Auntof6 (talk) 22:29, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Agreed with Crouch, Swale (talk · contribs) that it should be plural. We are discussion Commons categories, so plural is the norm, versus WP articles, for which singular would be the norm (and I would add, not to mention an entirely different rationale as to what and when to dab). Josh (talk) 18:21, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

I would lean towards having separate DAB pages for 2 reasons, firstly WP has separate DAB pages and secondly a category redirect would still require users to have to click through it. However it doesn't matter that much and the main point of this CFD is that neither the singular or plural have a PT. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:03, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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@Themightyquill, Auntof6, Estopedist1, and Crouch, Swale: Closed (consensus to move Category:Seals to Category:Seals (emblem) and for now leave a single redirect at Category:Seals) Josh (talk) 18:18, 12 October 2020 (UTC)