Forum:Census page and category names

Wikipedia has articles for each decennial census of the United States but no individual categories for them. Commons has articles and categories (worth a look because they include some photocopies that we don't have). We have articles for all and some categories. Those, along with census pages for other countries, deserve to be standardized before we get too big.

See earlier discussions at:
 * Forum:Census pages
 * Familypedia talk:By location category scheme

There is a conflict between principles here. The "By location category scheme" says placenames should be at the end, e.g. Counties of Ohio rather than Ohio counties. But a practical principle is that we use Wikipedia and/or Commons names exactly, to save thousands of hours, unless there is a very good reason to depart from them. User:Phlox was keen on both principles but was unable to resolve the conflict in this case.

Wikipedia and Commons have page names such as "1880 United States Census". So do we, at present. But the Commons category has the same pagename, whereas our category for that example, following the "by location" principle, is Category:Census of the United States, 1880.

Which way should we go?

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 03:14, January 2, 2013 (UTC)