Category talk:Animals by geography

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[edit] Proposed naming conventions

This nomination aims both at selecting a standard for Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Categories by country and regularizing the various usages for child categories of Animals by geography.

Currently, styles in use include:

• Wildlife of foo
  • Africa, Europe, Madagascar, Sahara, Trinidad and Tobago
• Fauna of foo
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Chile, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Slovenia, category:Birds of Australia category:Birds of India
• Fooian animals
  • Arctic, Australian animals
• Fooian fauna
  • Argentina
• Foo animals
  • New Zealand, New Zealand (birds)
• Oddballs
  • category:Flora and fauna of Hong Kong, category:Hungarian breeds (of dog), category:Hawaii native fauna, category:Birds in Britain

I think the most straightforward option is "Animals/birds of foo". While "fauna of foo" is acceptable by itself, we might as well stay consistant with "animals" for child cats of "Animals by geography" and "Animals by country"...

Circeus 01:24, 25 October 2005 (UTC) (reposted by The Tom 03:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC))

• I suggest they should all be "flora and fauna" or "native animals and plants" and then subcategories for things like birds can be created as required. At the moment, many are almost empty. Honbicot 00:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC) (reposted by The Tom 03:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC))
• Surely there's a mild degree of silliness in using national boundaries to group species than in most cases cross dozens of them? Is a Badger a "Mammal of France", "Mammal of Germany", "Mammal of the United Kingdom", "Mammal of Ireland", "Mammal of Canada", "Mammal of the United States" ad nauseum? Would it make more sense to either go by continent, or develop some other sort of more ecosystem-friendly territorial rubric? -The Tom 03:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • It isn't being used on a large scale, and it shouldn't be, but people should be able to put plants and animals in country categories when they want to, and there should be a category to hold them. CalJW 14:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • It is reasonable to have endemic animals categorized by countries, and other animals categorized by continents/geographic ares/ecologic areas/whateve works best.Circeus 16:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)