Category talk:Alternative forms by language
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All categories here only contain other categories now, no entries. Most of the subcategories don't really fit the Wiktionary definition of an "alternative form", either, though. We treat an alternative form as a form that is more or less interchangeable, and has the same usage frequency and register. But that definitely doesn't apply to rare, dated or archaic forms, or to misspellings or proscribed forms, and so on. So this category and its subcategories should really be renamed. But to what? —CodeCat 16:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
- It looks like all the sub-sub-categories (i.e. the categories which are in "Category:[language] alternative forms") could actually just be moved to various other categories, and then the empty remaining categories could be deleted. - -sche (discuss) 05:01, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
