Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/09/Category:Love hearts
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Unclear category definition/redundant:
What even is a "love heart" as opposed to a regular heart symbol? The category has zero interwiki links, no description, nothing other than a French translation. The whole thing should probably be merged into Category:Heart symbols El Grafo (talk) 14:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
- related:
- Category:Red love hearts → Category:Red heart symbols (pointless distinction)
- Category:Green love hearts → Category:Green heart symbols (to harmonize with the rest of Category:Heart symbols by color)
- --El Grafo (talk) 15:28, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
- related:
Support Merging. Love hearts is a very loaded term, Heart symbols is a lot clearer and more neutral. Kritzolina (talk) 14:23, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Oppose merging. Kritzolina, you yourself mentioned in another talk page discussion that images such as File:Sustainable Development Goal 3.png show heart symbols that are not love hearts. However, most photos on Category:Heart symbols are actually love hearts and this is the most common use of the symbol. However, being it can be and is used in other contexts as we discussed on another talk page (such as in health and lives in video games), I think it’s better keeping these as separate categories as is currently the case. We could however trim Category:Heart symbols by moving most of the photos in it to Category:Love hearts. I also think it would be helpful to cut most of that discussion on File talk:Reeperbahn on a spring afternoon 2022.jpg and instead move it here where its far more relevant. The request for comment on that page has drifted off-topic to what should be placed there, rather than the exact issue with that specific photo. Helper201 (talk) 18:45, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
- Support Merging. Why should we try to interpret the meaning of a photograph every time we try to sort it instead of just describing what it shows? By the way, "Love Hearts" seems to be the name of a type of candy (see w:Love Hearts). Bücherfresser (talk) 09:24, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- Support Merging. In English Wikipedia there is no separate article for "Love heart". "Love heart" redirects to "Heart symbol". In that article "Love heart" is not mentioned and thus not defined. "Love heart" cannot be found in Webser's ([1]) or in dict.cc ([2]). It does not seem to be a very commong term in the English language, at least not in dictionnaries. The article "Heart symbol" in English Wikipedia is interlinked with articles in 34 other language versions of Wikipedia. Compared to "Love heart" it is a culture-neutral termin while there is a tendency that "Love heart" constitutes an English-speaking bias. Best withes, --Leserättin (talk) 11:54, 22 September 2023 (UTC)