Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/04/Category:Book christenings

Category:Book christenings

merger suggestion - The categories Category:Book christenings, Category:Book launches and Category:Book releases see to all be different names for a formal event where for the first time a book is presented publicly, usually in the presence of the authors and other important people. DGtal (talk) 07:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@DGtal: "Christening" in this sense is a specific ritual which imitates a baptism. --ŠJů (talk) 10:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I know that, but to the best of my knowledge nobody christens books because of water damage, so it's just a figure of speech, and not different from the other two categories which are also the same thing. DGtal (talk) 11:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Merge and redirect Category:Book launches and Category:Book releases, which are the same, as far as I can tell. I can't really decide on the merge direction, the names both seem fine to me. If anything, "book releases" is a bit more neutral. Simply merge and delete Category:Book christenings, as that formulation is not really used, it seems like a mistranslation to me. --rimshot^talk 22:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)