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:::"Species native to Skaro" seem like the best name to me. Of course, I'm always against these really specific categories. [[User:Azes13|Azes13]] 19:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC) | :::"Species native to Skaro" seem like the best name to me. Of course, I'm always against these really specific categories. [[User:Azes13|Azes13]] 19:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC) | ||
::::The problem with "species native to Skaro" is it's a bit... well, ''long'' is the only way I can think of vocalising (or, more accurately, ''textualising'') it. {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 19:21, 10 April 2007 (UTC) |
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Not to be pedantic...but is 'Skaro Creatures' an accurate description? With 'Skarosian races' as a subcategory shouldn't this category be 'Skarosian Creatures', or 'Creatures of Skaro' or 'Skaro Flora and Fauna' or... --Tangerineduel 07:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, okay, I suppose, perhaps. I was just naming it as Category:Earth creatures is. But is their actually an official adjective form of "Skaro", like of "Mars" it is "Martian"? ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 07:34, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Not aware of an official term - I've used Skarosian myself in fanfic etc. The other alternatives aren't much more elegant - Skaroan, Skaroite, etc.
- I think 'race' is generally used to refer to sentient creatures, which would limit that category to Daleks, Thals, Kaled humanoids, apocryphally Dals, and exclude the Magnedons, Terrorkons, Vaaga plants, etc. I would use 'Species native to Skaro' as the category title. Not that anyone asked... --Gai-jin 12:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- the first Daleks story gave the "official" name, which I forget.
- "Species native to Skaro" seem like the best name to me. Of course, I'm always against these really specific categories. Azes13 19:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)