Category talk:Chocolate bars

Cleanup
I am working on cleaning up this subcategory to align with the distinction set out in the candy bar and chocolate bar articles, keeping bars of solid chocolate here, but moving Snickers-style bars to the parent category.--Trystan (talk) 15:39, 7 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I've been working on cleaning up Candy bar, Chocolate bar,, and , to make sure each has a clearly defined scope while more explicitly recognizing regional language variation. Because it was what the articles were closest to, I went with "Candy bar" as the broad term for the Snickers-type products and "chocolate bar" to refer to solid-chocolate bars (Dairy Milk-style). The articles required only a few tweaks to clarify this as the scope, while the categories were more of a jumble, with many articles in both the parent and subcategory.
 * One of my edits to recategorize a British Snickers-type bar into was reverted with the summary "This is a British product using British English." I think it makes sense to apply WP:ENGVAR within articles, (eg, "...is a chocolate bar..." in the lead, with the link piped to the article with the matching scope). However, I don't think it makes sense to apply ENGVAR to categories, which need to be applied consistently despite variations in language. It doesn't make sense to me for the scope of  to be "Snickers-style bars, if they are from Britain, and Dairy Milk-style bars, if from the US." I would be fine implementing a scope that either included both types of product, or only the latter, but the geographic hodge-podge of "things called chocolate bars depending on where they happen to be from" is not a useful category, and leads to conflicts for products available in multiple countries.--Trystan (talk) 23:43, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * After a more detailed review of the articles in this category, I think it would be easiest to take a different approach, which uses "chocolate bar" as the broader term for candy bars containing chocolate. That would be consistent with the use of "(chocolate bar)" as the disambiguator, and the existence of List of chocolate bar brands.--Trystan (talk) 13:02, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I've written more detail on my approach at Talk:Chocolate bar.--Trystan (talk) 03:15, 10 July 2019 (UTC)