Category talk:cmn:Variant Pronunciations in simplified script

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These have been in Special:WantedCategories for ages, but I don't think we do want them. The capitalization needs to be changed at the very least, but I don't think that 'Variant pronunciation' is a topical category. I don't know quite what this even means, does it mean each of these terms has at least two pronunciations, or rather than they have a variant, less common pronunciation than another more common term? Can we just remove all the categories please, and delete these two when empty? Mglovesfun (talk) 10:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Um, what? No and no. This kind of information is extremely valuable and cannot be found in any other dictionary. Do not delete. But you're right about the capitalisation - feel free to change "Pronunciations" to lower case - but ONLY IF you can do so without creating a huge mess. ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:08, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

What sort of information is it? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:19, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

In Mandarin, readings for combinations of characters (i.e. words - 詞) are extremely fixed - the vast majority have one pronunciation. But there are a small minority of words which have more than one reading and that's what this category is supposed to cover. I wrote about this on my blog a few years ago, take a look. ---> Tooironic (talk) 22:29, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Right, I think we need a better title, such as one starting with 'Mandarin' not 'cmn'. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:41, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Keep per Tooironic but move to Category:Mandarin variant pronunciations in simplified script. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

• Kept by default, due to no discussion. --ElisaVan (talk) 21:02, 3 November 2013 (UTC)