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Category:Georgia

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See also: Category talk:Georgia.

Georgia is ambiguous with two primary meanings - the country in the Caucasus and the American state. The country has greater political significance as a sovereign state, while the US state has both a higher population and stronger economy. Those two points mean it is likely the American Georgia gets more photographs uploaded, even without the Western bias of the internet. The country is at w:Georgia (country) on en.wikipedia, while other major languages are split three ways: Disambiguating the country, putting the country at the base name, or no conflict as the country has a different spelling (ie Georgien). Given this, plus the fact Commons should disambiguate if in doubt, Georgia should be disambiguated.

We should also consider ramifications down the category tree. For example, should Category:Sports in Georgia and Category:Oni, Georgia be treated differently? There is prior discussion at prior discussion at Category talk:Georgia.--Nilfanion (talk) 02:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Support, and many subcategories should be similarly qualified. Those for unambiguous places in the country might not need the qualifier. This page could become a disambiguation page -- there are several things that could go on it in addition to the country and the state -- the given name, a drink, a populated place in Vermont, some ships, a typeface, and maybe others. If moved, we should be sure to update Wikidata. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:22, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Neutral Weak support Support, per Auntof6, this was one I was thinking about nominating myself one day. While the current PT is the country, the English Wikipedia has the articles and categories disambiguated. Even though having the Wikipedia article on the country disambiguated is arguably US-centric, Commons should have higher standards for PTs and due to the amount of US readers/uploaders, we are likely to get many readers/files in the wrong place. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:55, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Satt 2's page views show that even on the English Wikipedia the country gets more views so globally the country must surely be dominant but is this enough?
The country has 173,042 views vs 71,491 on En and 1,538 vs 399 on ES. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Changing back to support, now because if we based names in German for example, the state would be at "Georgia" but in fewer languages is the country "Georgia". I'd also point out that it must be overwhelmingly likely to be sought/uploaded to or overwhelmingly more important, the first one seems to be quite clearly not met, the second, has been disputed. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:31, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Oppose: The fact that US State of Georgia has a higher population and stronger economy is pretty irrelevant. Across different Wikimedia projects the rule of thumb is that articles should link to whatever is the most popular search destination. According to Wikipedia visitor statistics, the country of Georgia is twice as popular as the state, receiving 3 million hits in the past year, as opposed to only 1.5 million for the State. The fact that "Georgia" on English Wikipedia does not default to the country is simply due to the politics and obstruction on the part of US-centric editors from the state of Georgia. I see no reason to mimic that here on commons. We already have a category for the state of Georgia, which is appropriately noted on the country page.--Satt 2 (talk) 15:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That makes sense for articles. If you're looking for the Wikipedia article on the US state and end up at the article for the country, you'll figure it out pretty quickly when the article says "Georgia is a country." Here on Commons, that's not the case. How many people could look tell just from the images which category they were looking at? Besides that, on Wikipedia, you'd be reading in a language you know. On Commons, where all category names are in English, a non-English speaker might not be able to tell from non-image clues. It's easy to just put Category:Georgia on something without seeing what that category is for. Bots miscategorize things that way all the time. We should be making it as easy as possible for people and bots to categorize correctly and to fnd the category they want. We do not have to match Wikipedia's names. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
When I'm adding a category, there's a drop-down list, which includes all the different possibilities based on whatever keyword I typed, including a separate entry for Georgia (State). Also, I don't agree that editors have to guess which category they are in by looking at images. The category page for the country of Georgia clearly states that it's a category for the country, not the state. Ultimately, it is the editor's responsibility to ensure that images are linked to the most appropriate category.--Satt 2 (talk) 13:25, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Not everyone sees those dropdown boxes: it depends on how you're adding the category. Bots certainly wouldn't see them. I didn't mean to say that people would be guessing which Georgia was meant. To guess, you have to know that there's more than one, which I suspect isn't the case with many people who are mostly familiar with one or the other. (Americans can be woefully ignorant of world geography, and I speak as an American.) That's not even mentioning readers whose English isn't good enough to understand the parent categories. I also wasn't referring only to adding categories: this is also an issue for people just using categories to find things. And you're right, it is editors' responsibility to get a category right, but we can help them along by eliminating ambiguities. Why would we not do that just because some of us can tell the difference the way things are? --Auntof6 (talk) 19:19, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6: Do you not agree that the setup on EN is US-centric? and we are a multi-language project not just an English one so even if the English Wikipedia has the basename as a DAB doesn't mean we should. We are talking about a country vs a subdiversion of a country. If Georgia had a state called "United States" should United States become a DAB? Indeed why isn't this titled Category:საქართველო? this probably indicates that globally this is the expected title. Indeed it is still called "Georgia" in some other languages (but not many[1]) and the average person would probably be looking for the country. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:05, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Commons uses the English names for categories. This is because categories can only have one title, and using a single language ensures a consistent setup. One benefit to this is seen with cats like Category:Sports in Georgia, instead of the equivalent phrase in Georgian. The only real exception is with biology - which are at the scientific name not the common English name (eg Category:Orcinus orca).--Nilfanion (talk) 15:11, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:16, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The setup on English Wikipedia qualifies the titles for both, which I think is neutral, not US-centric. It would be US-centric if the unqualified name was for the US state. If there were something else called "United States", then, yes, I would think Category:United States should be a dab. I agree that we don't have to follow Wikipedia's usage, but in this case they happen to have things set up the way I think Commons should do it (both qualified). I guess I basically don't think Commons should have unqualified primary topics: it's clearer all around if the unqualified term is a dab, for reasons I explained above. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6: "I basically don't think Commons should have unqualified primary topics" is a viewpoint I have a major issue with. If we did do that then we would need to move (for example) Category:United States because of the ship, Category:Science because of the journal and Category:Stars because of the Scottish village. I don't think anyone would seriously contemplate any of those changes - but the current situation for all of those is an "unqualified primary topic". The problem is where and how to draw the line: I know we have disagreed on several examples, but my positions have been "we should draw the line one way or the other in this case because of x" not "we shouldn't have a line at all".--Nilfanion (talk) 17:18, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, you have a point. I think I only had in mind places, not other kinds of things. In some cases where there's a main topic (science, the country) and things are named for it (the journal, the ship), and the two aren't the same kind of thing, then it's reasonable for the main topic to be the primary topic. In your examples, a place and a ship are not the same kind of thing, nor are an area of study and a publication. In our current case, though, we're talking about two places, so there's more potential for confusion. Those of us having this discussion may understand that the country of Georgia is more worthy of being a primary topic, but we aren't the ones doing all the categorizing. We need to think of all the people -- and bots, too -- who categorize, and give them the best chance of getting it right. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:14, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
And in this case I agree with you :) Georgia, the country, is more significant and if I had to pick one to have at the base name, I'd choose that without question. However, I do not think the country is orders-of-magnitude more significant than the state, so dab is right way forward. If the US state was called something else, I wouldn't dab the country because of the other things that share the name. That's notwithstanding the fact some of the others, like Georgia, VT, are also places and are the same type of thing.--Nilfanion (talk) 18:32, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Auntof6 what do you think about Category:Maryland/Category:Maryland, London and Category:Boston/Category:Boston, Lincolnshire? In this case I would say that the state is clearly primary (the area of London (named from the state) is clearly less important by a huge margin) but Boston, Lincolnshire is a relatively large town and Boston, Massachusetts was named after it while the state isn't named after the country. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:35, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
For Maryland, I would think Category:Maryland (state) or Category:Maryland (U.S. state), like the states of Georgia and Washington are qualified. For Boston, I would include the name of the state. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:43, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If Maryland is disambiguated on this basis, its worth considering if all US states should be disambiguated - for the sake of consistency. I'd suggest (U.S. state) in preference to (state) for clarity. For the record, 35 are ambiguous with other populated places outside the state, 7 with other geographic features (mostly rivers) and only 8 do not share a name with another geographic feature.
And just to say I'd oppose disambiguating those with only minor issues like Maryland (whereas a significant conflict like GA, NY or MS? Sure).--Nilfanion (talk) 21:51, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I would agree with that except if done they should be (state) not (U.S. state) per w:WP:PRECISION which keeps titles stable. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:37, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(state) alone is insufficient to disambiguate the U.S. state from the country in the Caucase. The country is also a state by itself (not a federation, even if it has autonomous regions). "(U.S. state)" is accurate here. Today's country is also disambiguated with the former USSR republic or two other former independent countries (including a medieval kingdom), which are also taking their own disambiguating suffix. The Caucasian country existed long before the U.S. state was founded and named (at that time, the medieval kingdom had disappeared, but it reappeared as a country in 1918, before being absorbed by the USSR and becoming once again independent and taking back its historical name, as a republic rather than a kingdom; but the Georgian culture has never disappeared when the U.S. state was founded: this country of the Caucase and its culture has more than 1 millenium of history, 5 times more than the U.S. state, and its culture is named by UNESCO as World heritage, notably for its language, alphabets and importance in the Christian history in the Caucase, along with Armenia with which it was unified for a long time long before the USSR annexed it and before the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire dismantled part of them, and still today Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan are threatening both countries and have partly invaded them). verdy_p (talk) 18:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I would just like to rule out natural disambiguation or comma space, like "Republic of Georgia" or "Georgia, Caucasus" for the country and "State of Georgia" for the U.S. state (there is more than 1 Georgia in the US so I wouldn't consider Georgia, United States). "Georgia" "country" gets 342,000,000 hits and "Georgia" "Caucasus" only gets 601,000 so probably parenthetical disambiguation is best. I wouldn't use natural as both appear to be obscure "Do not, however, use obscure" (w:WP:ATDAB. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:37, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I'm very surprised that the country hasn't always been at the disambiguated location. I came here upon finding that a photo of a shop in the southeastern USA was improperly put into Category:Shops in Georgia, and I was expecting either to redirect that category to the properly named Category:Shops in Georgia (U.S. state) or to empty it because it's a disambiguation category; I had no idea that the country's category tree was located here. Either way, Americans may expect this category tree to be the US state, and one problem with the current setup is that US images put into this tree won't easily be found as they would be if they were put into disambiguation categories. Silly decisions are sometimes made at en:wp, but most of the time our categories should follow their naming, and I see no reason to rehash all the years of arguments at en:Talk:Georgia. Nyttend (talk) 03:10, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Probably because its a country as opposed to a sub diversion of one. Did you think the country would be at "Sakartvelo" or "საქართველო"? In this case I agree disambiguation is the best option but surely the country is the best choice for Georgia if one is there though. The fact that the state has more images for shops that the country is additional evidence that the change is needed as, as you pointed out Americans are likely to miss-categorize. If I search for Georgia on Google I get information appearing for the country not the state on the top right, even though I look up American things sometimes but have never looked up things from the country. Crouch, Swale (talk) 02:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong  Oppose. Commons is not U.S.-centric. Next step what will be, disambiguating Rome in Rome, Italy just because there's Rome, Georgia? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 13:11, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    But it has a high risk of pages being added to the state (see also W:WP:ASTONISH). Also there are more than just these 2 topics. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Blackcat: why do you deem Commons would become -centric? It would only cease to be -centric. For Rome, Georgia again – demography, political importance, and duration of history are really strong arguments for keeping the present status. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 08:20, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Indeed @Incnis Mrsi: . You disambiguate when it's strictly necessary, not when an illiterate one cannot distinguish between Georgia, US State and Georgia, european country, or between Canton, China and Canton, Ohio. A regular user of Commons knows well the difference between the U.S. state and the former Soviet republic. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 08:29, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    As a regular wiki user working hard with categories on Commons I express a preference for systematic approach. When typing several category tags in HotCat in one minute, a contributor should not be compelled so solve puzzles. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:13, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe so, but I don't think we should assume that all categorization is done by regular users, or even by human users. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:49, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    And regular users may not be aware of the structure for Georgia. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:46, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    And if we had categories in German or Danish, we might have had the state at the unqualified name for longer, the country is called other things in more languages than the state, we need to keep in mind readers/users of those languages as well. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:36, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    False equivalence. To almost everyone in the world (including the United States), "Rome" refers to the city in Italy. The city in Georgia has a population less than 0.1% of the country. Whereas, the U.S. state of Georgia has a larger population, area, and economy than the country of Georgia, and several hundred million people may have heard of the state but not the country. Of course, still probably more people in the world have heard about the country, but we're not deciding between the country and the U.S. state; we're deciding between the country and disambiguation, which only requires that there exist significant confusion. There is significant risk that uploaders of images of the U.S. state will accidentally use categories for the country in the current setup, a risk that doesn't exist for Rome, Georgia. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. per above. -- Geagea (talk) 14:38, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. The word “Georgia” for a country in the Caucasus is an artificial construct resulted from attempt to Europeanize the Persian exonym “George-stan” used by some (even not all!) its neighbours. The endonym of the country is
    ქართული: საქართველო
    (translit: “Sakartvelo”) – nowhere close to “Georgia” even if drop “სა-” meaning “the place of”. Its other exonyms are:
    Аԥсшәа: Қырҭтәыла
    (“ķɨrţtwɨla” — roughly the same as the endonym),
    Русский: Грузия
    (“Gruzia”; similar to Persian but distinct enough), and
    Հայերեն: Վրաստան
    (“Vrastan”). On the other hand, the U.S. state is really named “Georgia”, was always named such, and is known under this name in the Americas, or certainly across the North America at least. But nobody presses for priority of the American state over Caucasian country, only for approximate parity between two entities. This change will also rectify problems with {{Countries of Europe}} existing due to ambiguity. The software support for “first try «Georgia (country)» then fall back to «Georgia»” is already deployed in sandbox. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:41, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose --Ⴂ. ႡႠႪႠႾႠႻႤ★ 13:16, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Giorgi Balakhadze: Why?, it isn't a vote. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:36, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Crouch, Swale: ah sorry. per above, there're lots of arguments and I agree with them.--Ⴂ. ႡႠႪႠႾႠႻႤ★ 15:40, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Neither is it Europe-centric. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:32, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would completely agree if we were proposing to move the US state to the unqualified name but all we are saying here is it should be a DAB because globally "Georgia" is likely to refer to both. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:58, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment How many countries have a qualifier after their name? The state of Georgia is not an full internal and external sovereign country, but Georgia the country is a full internal and external sovereign country. Making a qualifier of a single country, in Commons, an international project, where english is not "Primus inter pares", is making it more US-centric. Or will the Category:United States become disambiguation of Category:United States of America, Category:Mexico, Category:Brazil,Category:United States of the Ionian Islands, Category:Republic of the United States of Indonesia or the Category:United States of Colombia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tm (talk • contribs) 21:31, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe the United States should be moved to United States of America, I'd argue that that's its most common name in a generic context. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:03, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I will note that English Wikipedia currently disambiguates the term: Georgia (country) and Georgia (U.S. state). In comparison to English Wikipedia, Commons has two main differences, one in favor of the country and one in favor of disambiguation. On the one hand, Commons is an international project, so a non-English-speaking country intuitively would have more "weight" than a subdivision of an English-speaking country compared to English Wikipedia. On the other hand, as explained at Commons:Category disambiguation, categories are not articles, and should be held to a far higher standard for primary topic. If a reader searches for a title on Wikipedia and lands on an article they didn't expect, it's not a big deal, the right one is just a few clicks away. But if uploaders accidentally use the wrong category, it creates a lot of work for people to clean up. Categories are workhorses and aren't meant to look pretty; reducing the error rate and making their scope clear is more important than things like conciseness and political correctness. On the balance I find the second difference more compelling, so I would argue that there is even more reason to disambiguate on Commons than on English Wikipedia. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    And another in favour is that in some languages (such as German) the state is called Georgia but the country is called something else. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:03, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Georgia" has many meaning, not just the Caucasian country name or the US state name. It is most a first name for a woman. It is a title of a samous song (now the official anthemn of the US state). It is the name of various other items (iuncluding ships). In commons we should disambiguate as much as possible and avoid mixing everything in the category for the Caucasian country (notablywhen files are imported): it's best if importers really must specify and not assume anything about the intended meaning of the single amsbiguous terme "Georgia": if users don't choose, it's best to have their files fall into a category where they'll be easily located, and marked for recategorization (or recategorized properly).And there's no evident priority to grant to the Caucasian country or to the US state (both are very wellknown, and have frequent usages) or something else (a song, some ship, a first name, including queens, authors or other celibrities...). verdy_p (talk) 18:38, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Strong support for disambiguation. Enwiki en:Georgia is a DAB. Rational is to follow enwiki solution--Estopedist1 (talk) 07:49, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Support Having a Georgia (country) category will reduce miscategorization by uploaders who currently assume Georgia is intended for something other than the country. Waz8 (talk) 01:01, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
 Support georgia as dab.
georgia (country) for the country.
georgia (U.S. state) for the state in usa.
both topics are equally famous. using "georgia" for the country will inevitably let files from usa be constantly mis-categorised, requiring unnecessary curation work to move them to the correct cats for the american state. RZuo ([[User talk:RZuo

|talk]]) 03:54, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

 Support per Wikipedia standard. Laurel Lodged (talk) 07:26, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Strong oppose to the whole affair, as per Satt2 and Tm above. Also adding that: a) No other extant country is disambiguated on the top level, unless you count the Kongos and the Koreas (e.g.), which get differentiated against other top-level countries and without brackets. b) Commons serves all Wikipedia communities. en-WP shouldn't dictate how Commons works, most other languages do not disambiguate this: English and French are the largest exceptions, and yes I checked all language versions. c) such a huge change will benefit nobody - it's not as if the US-state is easier to link and categorize this way. Only Georgia becomes harder to properly categorize. Yes, miscategorizations occur of course, but it's not too hard to correct them, and other stuff constantly gets miscategorized as well. Thanks for re-opening this debate, by the way. --Enyavar (talk) 17:34, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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There's a clear consensus to move the category to "Georgia (country)". --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 07:00, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging all participants:

Re-opening  Wait I just saw this came up at COM:VP and was flabbergasted to see how this was closed. How in the world this got decided as a consensus when there are a large number of users who voiced a range of reasons in opposition to the proposal boggles my mind. In the case of a long-running and clearly contentious discussion, there are several appropriate steps to getting consensus on at least some elements of the proposal, but none of that was done here. Thus I am reopening the CfD as improperly closed. The following needs to be done before this can be appropriately closed:

  1. A summary proposal should be presented which includes any elements the proposing user feels there is valid consensus for, laying out exactly what is agreed upon, and how, in detail, it is to be implemented.
  2. Recognition of opposing points that have been raised, either by excluding elements that are opposed from the final proposal, by showing how such opposition has been taken into account in adjusting the final proposal, or at a minimum explaining why the consensus is still valid and the proposal should move forward despite the opposing points.
  3. Ping previous participants in the discussion, alerting them to the summary, especially including all participants who voiced dissenting opinions.
  4. Give sufficient time for participants to comment on the proposed conclusion. This is especially important for a long-running discussion or one with a significant period of inactivity, as not all participants may be as active, or as engaged on the issue, any more and will need time to get the notification and reacquaint themselves with the subject again. For a discussion such as this one, at least a month should be permitted before implementing a solution.
  5. Only if there is truly broad consent for the proposed conclusion should it be proceeded with. If opposition remains, the conclusion should be further refined to account for recent comments and the process repeated.
  6. The fact that a discussion is long-running and seemingly intractable is never a reason to bully through a conclusion. If consensus cannot be achieved, then the proposal should not be adopted.
  7. When a discussion with this much involvement is closed, it is important to close it properly, notify participants, and post it on the affected category talk pages.

Essentially, none of the above steps were done in this case. Closing a discussion like this without the above steps gives the idea that it was done sneakily in an attempt to get it through under the noses of those who have taken the time and effort to voice their concerns or opposition to such a proposal. I trust that this is not the actual intention of the user who closed this discussion, but it is important to take the extra effort to maintain the integrity of the CfD process and ensure that CfD conclusions remain respected by the Commons community. My re-opening of this discussion is not a rebuke of the user in question, and is not about them at all, nor is it a rejection of the proposed conclusion, being personally not sure whether I have any opinion one way or the other on the matter. It is merely an insistence that CfD conclusions actually reflect the true consensus of their participants and that integrity of the CfD process be upheld. If this goes through the steps above and results in consensus, I'm happy to lend a hand to implementation. Josh (talk) 16:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

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Proposed actions include the following. Some of these have already been taken per the premature closure earlier.

  1. Move Category:Georgia to Category:Georgia (country)
  2. Move Category:Georgia (disambiguation) to Category:Georgia
  3. Rename all of the 1000s of sub-categories of Category:Georgia to include "(country)" dab
  4. Change all templates which create links to Category:Georgia or any of its 1000s of sub-categories to work with the "(country)" dab

There are probably other aspects I am missing in the above list. If anyone wants to add to this list above, or modify and re-package the proposal below for consideration, feel free to do so. Josh (talk) 16:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment The first 2 items, which have been done, are easy. #3 and #4 require significantly more effort and an organized approach which was briefly mentioned earlier but seemingly never seriously addressed, leaving currently 1000s of mis-matched names and template errors to clean up. Planning for this needs to be part of any accepted proposal. Josh (talk) 16:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for reopening the discussion. I have already set "Georgia" as an alias of "Georgia (country)" in {{Country label}} as part of the cleanup. Once the cleanup is complete, the alias will be removed. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 16:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the discussion. I approve the change (not just for geographic/political importance, but because it is before all a name for people and many other things; adding the disambiguation prefix to the country, just like with the US state, and all other topics is correct; the unqualified title should have always been a disambiguation page, given the number of topics covered, independently of their "importance", which is highly biased by point of views of various users from different regions; Commons is international (and multilingual) and does not need to focus the relative importance an a specific region or culture). verdy_p (talk) 16:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, while parenthetical disambiguation is never used for any country other than Georgia, avoiding such disambiguation is not really a rule. If a new well-recognized country, named like a well-known country subdivision, is ever created in the future, such country can take the parenthetical disambiguator. Of course such chance is extremely slim, given the international law. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 16:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Sbb1413 First, thank you for your understanding with this process. I agree that dabbing a current country like this is not a violation of any rule, but it is unprecedented so I understand why folks might be hesitant to go there. We do dab a few countries, such as Republic of Ireland or State of Palestine, by using their full name, but this doesn't apply for Georgia since the country was very clear in 1995 that it was no longer Republic of Georgia, but just Georgia. Additionally, those names are eponymous with the larger region they are part of, which isn't germane to the Georgia discussion. I don't think of this process as us passing judgement on what is 'important' or not, though leaving one category undabbed while all others are dabbed does open the door to that interpretation, which we should avoid. I share concerns over the uniqueness of this situation, because unique situations are inevitably gotchas for unaware users and I believe that either dabbing or not is not going to appreciably change the fact that users will need to learn the uniqueness of this situation before they can reliably use these categories correctly. Thus, at the moment, I remain undecided on which is the best way forward. Josh (talk) 17:50, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Sbb1413: Ehr... I don't see all that clear consent. I see rather a split consensus, which suggests to put the question aside for some year (all in all this discussion has lasted 7 years for deciding nothing) and get back when ideas will be clearer. We don't have to reach a conclusion whatever it takes. -- Blackcat 18:28, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah I forgot: please restore "Georgia" as the country, because you don't have the consensus to move. Not, at least, before pinging all the participants to this discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackcat (talk • contribs) 18:32, 17 June 2024‎ (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I really don't have a strong opinion on how this should go, but I'd be interested in knowing: given the longstanding lack of a disambiguator, how often do photographs of the U.S. state of Georgia end up in the categories for the country of Georgia? If the answer is, effectively, "a lot", then the parenthetical word is probably a good idea, because sorting it through will be less work than the ongoing fixing of miscategorized photos. Otherwise, I would not add the disambiguating parenthetical word. - Jmabel ! talk 18:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I can only speak about "Old maps of Georgia" which is what I deal with a lot, and I found it happening occasionally. I sorted hundreds of maps, and can distinctly remember finding material less than a dozen of times? Surprisingly, I once also found it the other way around, because a subsubsubcategory was existing for "1777 maps of Georgia (U.S. state)" but not for "1777 maps of Georgia" (example year).
    I suppose it happens most often with the top-level category "Georgia", because inexperienced editors place stuff there - but we can't see that behaviour right now, of course. --Enyavar (talk) 20:10, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment Mis-categorization can also happen as a result of a dab, versus a redirect. I believe that the upload script has a warning if you target a dab, but users can click through that easily enough. Hotcat is worse, in that it has no resistance at all to adding a dab category to a file. Of course, dabs with files get flagged for maintenance more easily than US photos in the country's category would, but it is still a maintenance load, so dab is not a cure-all for mis-categorization. Josh (talk) 17:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think it is a good solution to have Category:Georgia as a DAB page and have clear names for Category:Georgia (country) and Category:Georgia (U.S. state). I would like to help to rename thousands of subcategories, but only if Cat-a-lot works again for categories with subcategories. And @Joshbaumgartner: Can your list with steps be integrated into Commons:Categories for discussion? --JopkeB (talk) 06:33, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @JopkeB That's a good plan, I will try and encapsulate it into a proposal on Commons talk:Categories for discussion and hopefully at least some of it can make it to the published guidelines. Also, +1 for getting cat-a-lot working correctly again...it is making routine maintenance anything but at times. Josh (talk) 17:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • This discussion has been open for more than 7 years and as far as I can see there is a rough consensus to move though I would as requested address the reasons in opposition for moving but otherwise I don't think we need to keep this open any longer. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There is no rush to action. There is a good discussion currently going, so we certainly do not need to curtail that. Not all users have the same activity rate, so there is indeed value to giving time for others to participate. Josh (talk) 18:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
i dont think there's still anything to discuss, or the original closure has any problem. what's all this waste of time?
just take a look at Category:Georgia (country) and it's so easy to spot many things that dont belong there, because they were just moved from Category:Georgia blindly. and these files are still misplaced there despite constant recategorisation effort.
Corky-Kell-Dave-Hunter-Classic-Logo-GCC3.jpg
Helen, Georgia.jpg
The Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail in Toccoa, Georgia.jpg. RZuo (talk) 19:40, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
is it a problem when for example Category:Bo, Sierra Leone is the 2nd largest city of the country with 200k population but is not titled Category:Bo?
if some people dont like parentheses so much, the two cats can be titled "Georgia, Eurasia" and "Georgia, United States". RZuo (talk) 20:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not all people recognize Eurasia as a continent, so the better, non-parenthetical name would be "Georgia, Caucasus". I thought the official name would be "Republic of Georgia" (or something), but it is not mentioned in the lead of Georgia (country), so it is not an option. On the other hand, two U.S. states have already used parenthetical disambiguators, like New York (state), Washington (state), so there is no problem with the name Georgia (U.S. state). Actually many of us have been Wikipedia users, and Wikipedia's naming conventions don't permit us to use parenthetical disambiguators too much in article names. So we don't like to name categories with parentheses, following the usual naming conventions. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 03:34, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Side fact, the Bengali Wikipedia article on the country of Georgia uses (রাষ্ট্র) (romanized rāṣṭra) as the parenthetical disambiguator, which means "(sovereign) state". While "country" means দেশ (romanized deś) in Bengali, we tend to avoid the term in favor of রাষ্ট্র for being more unambiguous, especially as the term রাষ্ট্র does not refer to the Constituent states, for which we use রাজ্য (romanized rājya, literally "kingdom"). Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 03:37, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Implement the 4 Proposed actions described above. It's the correct thing to do and aligns Commons with Wiki.
Laurel Lodged (talk) 07:35, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
...aligns Commons with the English Wikipedia. Not all the other language versions that Commons purportedly serves.
Nothing against RZuo, but this comma-separated suggestion adds even more categories that would need to be reworked.
Just. Why. This whole project is not necessary. --Enyavar (talk) 07:45, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
File:Dawson Municipal Airport.jpg
File:Georgia Visitor Information Center, Lowndes County building (SW corner).jpg
File:Former Love Lock Bridge, Savannah, Georgia.jpg
... RZuo (talk) 08:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
https://wikimap.toolforge.org/?cat=Buildings_in_Georgia&subcats=true&subcatdepth=2
File:Woodbine Lodge -326.JPG
File:Savannah Theatre Interior.jpg
File:Smyrna, GA Welcome Center.jpg
File:TKE Tower.jpg
and these can be found only because they have coord. pretty sure there are more without coords. RZuo (talk) 08:50, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
topic Georgia Georgia (U.S. state)
shops 108 2261
stadiums 251 3289
bridges 746 1572
lighthouses 43 177
hotels 320 1399
here i collected some stats.
without disambiguation, files from usa will keep getting misplaced into "georgia" on each and every level when users use uploadwizard, hotcat, catalot, etc.
those files will sit there waiting for other users to pass by, spot the mistakes and finally make extra effort to rectify them.
we can also imagine that this burden is mostly unnecessarily borne by georgian users, because categories about their country are usually watched and managed by them.
there're 3 Category:Users in Georgia, 60 Category:User ka and 243 active georgian wikipedia users, whereas there're 270+ en:Category:Wikipedians_in_Georgia_(U.S._state) and 110 in atlanta alone.
why do some users want to put the burden of recategorisation on the limited manpower that's already stretched? or will they promise they will watch thousands of categories of "georgia" and take on the job of recategorisation by themselves?--RZuo (talk) 08:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's no burdern and no emergency. It is important however for Causcasian Georgian users (whose manpower is very stretched), whereas the US users can support this task easily and once this work is done, it stays for good and for long for everyone (including those not in US or in the Caucase). US users are hugely manpowered, and can easily complete this cleanup task (including with the additional help of users from other areas that have understood the issue, and those working on other non-geographic "Georgia" topics) in a relatively small time, even if it's done incrementally by all of them. The more we progress on this cleanup, the less we'll have confusion and the more our data will be usable by everyone (and with less and easier maintenance after that, thanks to the tracking DAB if there are still errors). Wikimedia will play here its educative role to avoid/signal possible biases and false assumptions, educating them that "Georgia" alone is ambiguous when isolated out of any context. Caucasian Georgians users will also have a stable base to work with, in their small community, without having their content constantly "polluted" by unrelated US topics or putting a strong brake to their difficult progress. verdy_p (talk) 17:06, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment It's not a question of "burden" or "emergengency". Whereas I am dubious about disambiguating the Wikicommons entry of a sovereign country, I would nevertheless not be entirely against “Georgia (country)”. The problem is that changing such a name requires a SHEER consensus which, at the state, is still not clear: I wouldn't want that a Georgian (from the European Georgia) Wikipedian or Wikicommoner may think that, just because their country happened to be namesake of an US State, then they can be belittled and undergo a decision with little consensus. We have the time to find a large consensus on whatever solution. -- Blackcat 18:54, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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