Interwiki synchronization/Soldier - Military personnel

Soldier - Military personnel

These two categories are interlinked:

• en:Category:Military personnel
• en:Category:Soldiers

In German, they do not seem to make a destintion between them, or they only have:

• de:Kategorie:Militärperson

which is "person in the military" but actually, the category seems not to contain civil personnel, and only persons.

--77.190.85.110 22:36, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I've run an analysis for this case. The graph of meanings clearly shows that en:Category:Military personnel is the central category in this case. There is quite a lot of confusion between that and en:Category:Generals, as well as en:Category:Soldiers. --Bolo1729 10:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Civilian military persons? Hmmm... Actually, de:Kategorie:Militärperson includes the following subcategories containing (at least partly) civilians and/or noncombattants:

• de:Kategorie:Militärattaché
• de:Kategorie:Militärgeistlicher
• de:Kategorie:Militärarzt
• de:Kategorie:Militärschriftsteller
• de:Kategorie:Militärmusiker
• de:Kategorie:Sportsoldat

According to the respective articles, a en:Solder is a combattant with land forces only, while a de:Soldat is is a combattant in any military force. Because of that difference in scope, matching categories are not to be expected on that level. --Latebird 22:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)