Category talk:Volcanoes by geochronology

Proposal - rename this category to "Volcanoes by age"
I propose that this category should be renamed to "Volcanoes by age". I think that would be a simpler and more widely understood name for this category. Any comments? --GeoWriter (talk) 21:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

This category was renamed as "Volcanoes by geological period" after the following at :

Category:Volcanoes by geochronology

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 * The result of the discussion was: Rename to "by geological period". Timrollpickering (talk) 21:25, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Volcanoes by geochronology to Category:Volcanoes by age
 * Nominator's rationale: This category contains sub-categories of volcanoes of each geological time period. Geochronology is an unnecessarily opaque and complex term for a category title for volcanoes grouped by age. "Volcanoes by age" is a much simpler and much more obvious category name, which would improve clarity of content and ease of navigation. GeoWriter (talk) 20:55, 17 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Rename to Category:Volcanoes by geological period, and also rename Category:Volcanism by geochronology to Category:Volcanism by geological period. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:08, 22 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion is that my suggestion was rejected without any stated reason, and an alternative was implemented without any stated rationale. That does not seem to me like a discussion. Why was my proposed name for this category rejected?

The new name for this category (Volcanoes by geological period) is problematic because "period" has a specific meaning in geology. Where does that leave sub-categories of volcanoes by geological eons, eras and epochs, which are also included in this category? GeoWriter (talk) 14:22, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * "by age" seems imprecise. Why not simply create a category tree? Category:Volcanoes by geological eon > Category:Volcanoes by geological era > Category:Volcanoes by geological period > Category:Volcanoes by geological epoch? - The Bushranger One ping only 21:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your good suggestion. I think a top-level category of "Volcanoes by age" would still be useful as an entry point into such a category tree e.g. for the link at the Volcanoes Portal. This could then be sub-divided, as you suggest, by eon, era, period and epoch. I can create these new categories. GeoWriter (talk) 12:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I might suggest Category:Volcanoes by geological age for the top-level category, as "by age" might be taken to mean "current volcanoes by how long they've been active" vs. "volcanoes by the geological [term here] they were active in. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:11, 28 March 2012 (UTC)