Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 November 22

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Propose renaming Category:Gaelic-language magazines to Category:Scottish Gaelic magazines

Nominator's rationale: Procedural nomination to match e.g. Category:Scottish Gaelic literature, after inconclusive discussion on Speedy page. – Fayenatic London 11:53, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of Speedy discussion

Category:Gaelic-language magazines to Category:Scottish Gaelic magazines – C2C: All three category members were in Scottish Gaelic language; matches existing supercategories such as Category:Scottish Gaelic literature. Zerach (talk) 00:37, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This would be inconsistent with the Foo-language magazines convention of Category:Magazines by language. Assuming "Scottish Gaelic" is appropriate, should this be Category:Scottish Gaelic-language magazines? -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 05:19, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Black Falcon: I don't believe so. In most of those cases it's needed to resolve ambiguity—does "Portuguese magazines" mean magazines in the Portuguese language or Portuguese nationality of the writers, or based in Portugal? "Scottish Gaelic" refers exclusively to the language, so there's no ambiguity, and "Scottish Gaelic-language" is just redundant. Zerach (talk) 06:56, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note also the existence of Category:Esperanto magazines. So, "-language" appears to be for disambiguation only. —C.Fred (talk) 16:29, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]