Talk:Little Neck Bay

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Category: Landforms of Long Island vs. more specific[edit]

Editor Epicgenius indicates that using Category:Landforms of Nassau County, New York together with Category:Landforms of Queens County, New York is more appropriate because it is more specific than Category:Landforms of Long Island. I agree that if the landform were just in Nassau County or just in Queens that specificity would apply. However, Little Neck Bay divides Nassau County from the neighborhoods of Flushing and Little Neck in the Borough of Queens. Therefor it seems more appropriate to me to use the greater geographical delimiter, rather than both Category:Landforms of Queens County, New York and Category:Landforms of Nassau County, New York. If this were a case such as a river running through two countries where there was no reasonably concise overarching category, then two country categories would be appropriate, but here we have the perfectly good category Category:Landforms of Long Island. --Bejnar (talk) 01:42, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Bejnar: Usually, this is the case: the article will have as few categories as possible. However, the category Category:Landforms of Long Island also includes Category:Landforms of Kings County, New York and Category:Landforms of Suffolk County, New York, neither category under which this article falls. Therefore, it can be downgraded to lower-hierarchy categories that describe the article accurately; i.e. Landforms of Queens & Nassau Counties. The only other article directly in the Long Island category is Outer Lands, which is so because the Outer Lands article covers a landmass that is spread over 3 states. Therefore, in addition to the Long Island Landforms category, Outer Lands is also in the Category:Landforms of Dukes County, Massachusetts and Category:Landforms of Nantucket County, Massachusetts categories. However, this article's subject is wholly in Long Island, and Long Island comprises several regions, so it should be categorized more specifically. Epicgenius (talk) 02:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The subcategories of Category:Landforms of Long Island are not exhaustive of the category. For example the article Long Island belongs in that category (not in the four subcategories as it is at present). The South Shore (Long Island) article would also appropriately be placed in the more general category. Landforms like the Ronkonkoma Moraine and the Harbor Hill Moraine which run along a considerable part of Long Island would also belong in this more general category (when and if such articles were to be created). I find no requirement or guideline that requires a landform to be in every place within the geographical boundaries denominated by a category in order to be placed within it. --Bejnar (talk) 02:39, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just saying that it helps if the geographical landform is categorized as accurately as possible. South Shore, North Shore, etc. are general areas; Little Neck Bay is specifically in northern Queens and Nassau. Epicgenius (talk) 02:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Only politically (in terms of polity), and landforms are generally not political, so it might be more accurate to say Long Island. --Bejnar (talk) 03:01, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]