Commons:Categories for discussion/2021/02/Category:Paintings by surface
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Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this the exact same meaning as Category:Paintings by substrate? I'm not a painter but the dictionary definition and online discourse would suggest so. BriefEdits (talk) 00:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- @BriefEdits: That could be. Category:Paintings by substrate was created later and Category:Paintings by surface follows the model of Category:Categories by surface. @Wmpearl: Did you mean to differentiate between the two, or did you just not see Category:Paintings by surface when you created Category:Paintings by substrate? - Themightyquill (talk) 13:22, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: I think like you, both are obviously the same. I think the only reason why nothing happens here since more than one year was the word substrate which we are maybe not very colloquial. But if we look at substrate we found other usages of the word but still with the broad meaning of ‘surface’, e.g.:
- Substrate (biology), the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the surface or medium on which an organism grows or is attached
- Substrate (locomotion), the surface over which an organism locomotes
- ...
- So I think we can merge it, what I ve just done. Hope you are fine with that!? And @BriefEdits and Wmpearl: you too!? Regards, --W like wiki good to know 21:42, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Sure, seems fine to me. -- BriefEdits (talk) 18:04, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Themightyquill: I think like you, both are obviously the same. I think the only reason why nothing happens here since more than one year was the word substrate which we are maybe not very colloquial. But if we look at substrate we found other usages of the word but still with the broad meaning of ‘surface’, e.g.:
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Merged after consens. Added description "This category is for paintings by surface/substrate" to the category. --W like wiki good to know 16:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)