Category talk:Types of communities

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Hello! Beautiful, Maurreen! This is a very much-needed category about the 5 diffrent types of communities there are. I'm wondering now if we shoud not move Community of practice to Communities of Practice to conform with the other names or move all of the other names to singular with the second word uncapitalized, which conforms to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions. Then the list would of course look like:

• Community of action
• Community of circumstance
• Community of interest
• Community of position
• Community of purpose
• Community of practice

That would be more work but would conform with the rest of Wikipedia per guideline. Or we could do

• Communities of Action
• Communities of Circumstance
• Communities of Interest
• Communities of Position
• Communities of Purpose
• Communities of Practice

Which would be the easy way through, and probably would minimize the use of redirects, since one would usually refer to one of these topics in the plural, but with lower case initial letters — for example communities of practice. That would lead to a third scheme:

• Communities of action
• Communities of circumstance
• Communities of interest
• Communities of position
• Communities of purpose
• Communities of practice

I vote for the first scheme, because it conforms best with Wikipedia:Naming_conventions and I will add it to the Todo list at WikiProject Community if I get a sense that there is some consensus toward it. I reluctantly volunteer to do a Lion's share of the work if that's the case. CQ 20:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the first option seems simplest and follows WP style. Maurreen 05:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Alrighty then. I'm on it. CQ 10:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

OK. Done. ...with the first phase anyway. I renamed all the articles to match the first set above and created redirects to them to match the third set above. Eventually, I'll do away with all references to the second set, so we won't need those redirects. I think I'll create a transclusion box for this set of articles, maybe adding other articles to the category like Virtual community and Community of place which will discuss neighborhoods, towns, villages and ecovillages and things like placemaking and the Project for Public Spaces from a Community perspective. See WP:CBTF for more information • CQ 11:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)