Category talk:Twin

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What are twins called that don't look alike? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.30.80 (talk • contribs) 06:32, 26 February 2009
 * Dizygotic twins, fraternal twins, non-identical twins, biovular twins or two-egg twins. Jay (talk) 11:21, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Twin or Twins
The category name Twins was chosen in 2005, see Categories for deletion/Log/2005 October 7. However, it was moved via the Speedy procedure WP:C2D in 2014 to match the main article Twin.

Use of the singular does help to distinguish the WP:Topic category from the sub-cat set category Category:Twin people.

It also conforms to the parent Category:Sibling which was preferred over "Siblinghood" at Categories for discussion/Log/2016 February 25. In contrast, Category:Cousinship was chosen at Categories for discussion/Log/2021 March 24.

French Wikipedia is able to use fr:Catégorie:Gémellité for the topic and Jumeaux for the set category. However, we do not have such a word; although Google Translate translates Gémellité as Twinship/Twinness, such forms are not widely used in English.

I am leaving this as a record of my thoughts, after considering a CFD to return the topic category to "Twins" and deciding against it. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:14, 6 October 2022 (UTC)