Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/08/Category:Constructions
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What's the difference between Category:Construction and Category:Constructions? I think Category:Construction is for the subfield of civil engineering, while Category:Constructions is for individual instances of construction. If so, their parent categories should be rectified. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 02:42, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- As far as I know:
- Construction (without the s) is for the proces of building a structure.
- Constructions (with a s) is for how a structure, or part of it, is (exactly) put together.
- But I am not a civil engineer. JopkeB (talk) 15:57, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @JopkeB: Although I'm an engineering student, I don't study civil engineering. There are two Wikidata items on construction (construction (Q385378) and construction (Q3875186)). The first one is the "economic activity that consists of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure", and the second one is the "process of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure". Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 16:30, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Then I guess there are at least two meanings of the word "Construction" (without the s):
- The economic sector that is building structures. I think Category:Construction industry covers this, but that has another Wikidata item (construction industry (Q13405640)). Wikidata item bouw (Q385378) has only two Wikipedia pages; see also the section "said to be the same as" in this item (equal to three other concepts, including bouw (Q3875186)) and construction industry (Q13405640)). So I think we can ignore this Wikidata item in Commons and use Category:Construction industry instead.
- The proces of building structures, Category:Construction.
- JopkeB (talk) 04:10, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Then I guess there are at least two meanings of the word "Construction" (without the s):
- @JopkeB: Although I'm an engineering student, I don't study civil engineering. There are two Wikidata items on construction (construction (Q385378) and construction (Q3875186)). The first one is the "economic activity that consists of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure", and the second one is the "process of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure". Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 16:30, 16 August 2024 (UTC)