Disputatio Categoriae:Museum Solitarium

About "Categoria:Eremitagium"[fontem recensere]

I don't understand the purpose of this category, now that the Hermitage museum has been moved elsewhere. If this is now meant to list hermitages or retreats, presumably it should be plural. Whether "eremitagia" is the best word to choose, I don't know: my dictionary suggests "Secessus" ... but maybe there are other terms too. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:57, 18 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so now "Categoria:Eremitagium (Petropolis)" is a subcategory of this one. How does that make sense? The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is not a kind of hermitage, it is a museum. If it once was a hermitage (which I don't know), the article needs to say so. Otherwise, it doesn't belong here, does it? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:29, 19 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It looks to me as if all this has happened because I, when creating the article "Eremitagium", unwisely didn't call it "Eremitagium (museum)" or "Eremitagium (Petropolis)". So, Alex, you have corrected that, and created a page "Eremitagium" about medieval hermitages. You were right there. That's fine.

But it doesn't work the same way for categories. There can't be a justification for a "Categoria:Eremitagium" (so far as I can see), because category names have to be plural, unless they are about single indivisible things (like a museum). So, if you think Categoria:Eremitagium is inappropriate as a category name for the museum, it has no other reason to exist, and we just have to delete it. Isn't that right really? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:46, 19 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I used this category, because it was already there. I have no objection to moving or replacing it by "categoria:eremitagia". (On German wikipedia the principle is to use only the singular form, so I had no problems with singular either.) --Alex1011 (disputatio) 17:09, 19 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, yes, I see how it was. It's true that we differ from German wikipedia on this. Thanks for your reply! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:59, 19 Ianuarii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so Categoria:Eremitagium is now useless and I have deleted it. I think the spelling "hermitagium" may be the oldest medieval form, sio I have moved the brief page about hermitages to that spelling. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:32, 17 Aprilis 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now that a category is needed for hermitages, I have created one. The classical term seems to be "Categoria:Secessus", so that's what I have called it. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:14, 21 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As far as the museum is concerned, I have now found a real Latin name, "Museum Solitarium", and moved the page and category. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:46, 19 Iunii 2015 (UTC)[reply]