Commons:Categories for discussion/2011/09/Category:Gymnasiums (schools) in Germany

The category name is a bad combination of the german word "Gymnasium" with the english word "school". In english, a gymnasium is something different than it is in the german language. Please delete this category or remove it and create category like "grammar schools in Germany" - that would be correct since "grammar school" is the adequate translation of the german type of school. Thank you! 80.187.106.58 16:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As you have probably noticed, this is for schools that are of the gymnasium level; the word "school" is for disambiguation. Contrast Category:Gymnasiums (schools) (places for education) with Category:School gymnasiums (places for athletics inside schools). How do we insure that (ignorant but well-meaning) native English speakers know where to put schools with "Gymnasium" in the name, rather than having them pile up (incorrectly) in Category:Gymnasiums for someone to sort out? Also, "grammar school" means secondary education in the UK but elementary (primary) education in the U.S. The description for Category:High schools and secondary schools in Germany says "Umfasst die Schultypen: Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium, Fachschule, berufliches Gymnasium usw." Are all of those "grammar schools" or is it only the Gymnasium type that matches? --Closeapple (talk) 18:54, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

keep until a better alternative arises. Commons just follows the model of en:Gymnasium (school). Don't import British, or Canadian, or Burundian concepts. NVO (talk) 21:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep - The name may not be pretty, but (1) a German Gymnasium is a not the same as a grammar school and (2) we need a way to disambiguate it from gyms. This looks like the best solution for now. --rimshot^talk 23:30, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kept, as per discussion. --rimshot^talk 21:43, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]