Duplicate categories

Question

Hi, I've found the following duplicate categories. Should it be merged?

* Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Province de Québec, 1763-1791

* Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Province of Québec 1763-1791

Merci!

Answer 1

Shouldn't the 2nd one be an alias for the 1st one?

Comments

I suppose that you can add a "Parallel category hierarchies in other languages Example: Coaticook 

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I'm not 100% certain about this, so it might be worthwhile to add Quebec and Categorization as tags on this post. I think that you need to hear from Danielle Liard on this.

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I like the Coaticook example of "Parallel category hierarchies in other languages".
There is a Spanish example: Entre Ríos, Argentina. The accent of the "i" in Rios is subtle but makes a lot of difference if you search in Spanish records.

It makes sense to me that the categories are recognised as completely different languages.

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I look forward to Danielle Liard's opinion. 
Each regional project will decide on their own guidelines. I will not comment on Canada.

In the Argentina sub-project I support the English/Spanish parallel categories for the high level categories such as provinces (or states). For the location categories below that I prefer all the category names in Spanish. Example: Federación, Entre Ríos

Answer 2

Thank you Vicky, have set them to merge, we only want a single landing level category for this part of the world.

Comments

Thank you Danielle, "we only want a single landing level category" seems like a good approach.

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Rename (not merge) is preferred, merge requires more manual input and is not checked as often as Rename and Delete.

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right, have to remember that Margaret, thanks, have changed it.