Category talk:People from the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen

Subcats

This is the first listing of needed subcats for the RD people cats that I'll make but it's needed across the board; I can't conscionably put historical figures who died before the RD was created in an RD cat (RDs only date to 1967 or so). So in the case of each RD there'll be a "People from the XXX Country/Valley" subcat which more comfortably suits such individuals and can alsobe a subcat of the respective "country"/region cat. In some cases it'll be the other way around - sometimes more than one RD is in a "country"/region so that could get kind of complicated for the people cats.....my essential argument is that people are not from RDs or see themselves that way; they are from towns/localities in the RDs, but no one idetnfieids themselves as "Hi, I'm from the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District!". Unless you work for them, that is....Skookum1 (talk) 17:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Subcats: Category:People from the Similkameen, Category:People from the South Okanagan (pending a Category:South Okanagan, that is). Anarchist Mountain I suppose has to be in Category:People from the Boundary Country as it's certainly not part of the South Okanagan, albeit close to it.Skookum1 (talk) 17:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I know that you and I have had our disagreements before regarding RD categories, so you will probably be glad to hear that I have no plans on even touching the "People from" categories, but leave those up to you and others to decide. I will restrict my categorization to strictly geographical features; however, regarding your above statement, would you put people that lived before 1871 in British Columbia, or before 1867 in Canada categories? Backspace (talk) 21:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

There are "Pre-Confederation" categories for that, such as Category:Pre-Confederation people from British Columbia (or some such, as that's for now a redlink) but I'll try caps on Confederation now).. Still a bit awkward as the name BC was only coined in 1858 but the implication is "the area that now is British Columbia". But once again, people do think in terms of provincial boundaries; they don't think in terms of regional district boundaries and nb Category:People from New Caledonia, the possible pre-1858 version, currently if it exists goes to the country in Oceania; and pre-1805 no name is possible other than a coined one or Pacific Northwest (how ' bout that; it's a redlink; but the reality is the modern association is to Oceania, not what became BC). I've realized in a less digging-in-my-heels moment that the "country" cats can co-exist across the board, and sometimes as with the "people" subcats they interface, though depending on the situation whether that's a parent or child relationship will vary. Mountains and such can still have other hierarchies, and this goes for ecological zones and other different definitions that classify the province according to different paradigms; the MoE regions have their own place, Forestry and Mining theirs etc.....it's just going to mean a lot of categories.....and btw the country cats are more precise in boundaries than you'd know; shared items in those that are in two are because they're on the boundary (Cache Creek e.g.) or are the boundary (a mountain range, e.g.)....Skookum1 (talk) 22:08, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Move-rename

I don't like RD-people cats to start with, but if this is going to exist it should be Category:People from the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District. Otherwise it sets bad precedents for things like Category:People from Central Kootenay, Category:People from Mount Waddington etc etc.Skookum1 (talk) 17:23, 2 August 2008 (UTC)