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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted. Category:Lightnings The Wikipedia version of this category (w:Category:Lightning) was moved to Category:Lightning. In my opinion, "lightnings" is a misspelling and therefore Category:Lightning should be the real category instead of the redirect. -- Emperorbma 02:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC) I agree. Samulili 08:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC) I disagree. “Lightings” is the correct plural form of “lighting”, and is not misspelled. Like Category:Languages and Category:Language, the two forms are used with two different meanings. --Juiced lemon 09:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC) Well, my dictionary gives lightning as non-countable mass noun. That means that there is no plural. This coincides with my personal feeling that "lightnings" is not a proper English word. If you insist on a plural form, try "lightning flashes". Where did you get the information that lightnings is a proper form? --rimshottalk 09:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC) The American Heritage® Dictionary gives a plural form with s ending. However, I agree that “lightnings”, “lightning flashes” and “flashes of lightning” match the same subject. I have no preference between these three names. So, choose the most used one. --Juiced lemon 10:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC) Is lightnings an American thing, then? Lightning is often given as an example of an uncountable noun.[1][2] Wiktionary gives "lightnings" as archaic plural, so maybe that's what it is. Finally, the word "lightnings" on the page you linked is a verb form, not a noun. --rimshottalk 12:42, 25 July 2007 (UTC) If I'm not mistaken, the American Heritage® Dictionary gives "lightnings" as an inflected verb form and doesn't seem to show which nouns are uncountable, see for example understanding. Samulili 19:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC) For reference, there was also discussion regarding this on Wikipedia and they agreed on using Category:Lightning. -- Emperorbma 05:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC) There is no doubt that Category:Lightning matches the atmospheric phenomena. The residual issue concerns the visible part of the phenomena: in Wikimedia Commons, we have a lot of pictures of lightning strikes, and we have to sort them (it's not the case in the English Wikipedia, so their classification is irrelevant). See Storm highway weather library and Lighnings on meteoros.de. --Juiced lemon 08:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC) Move requested here. --rimshottalk 13:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)  Done --rimshottalk 13:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)