Forum:Category naming preferences - singular or plural?

When creating new categories, do you think it's better to name them with plural or singular nouns? For instance, if you had a wiki about interior design and planning to have a bunch of articles on different kinds of chairs, should the categories be "chair" or "chairs"? In this hypothetical scenario, each article will be about only one kind of chair except for maybe one or two articles that summarize or compare features for the different types of chairs.

This Central Wikia uses both. Examples:
 * Category:Computer Games (Games categories are rather consistently plural.)
 * Category:Community
 * Category:Culture
 * Category:Language and Category:Languages
 * Category:Logo and Category:Logos
 * Category:Religion

Plurals seem to be a bit more common. Opinions? -- CocoaZen 23:57, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I prefer plural nouns.--Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 02:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Category language is for Wikia about language, languages is for a category with all Wikia languages. I recommend plural, unless the word is uncountable. – Smiddle / talk 11:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! More opinions and reasons would be good too.  -- CocoaZen 23:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I've always used plurals. Like, for a boss in a video game, I would make. It's just weird seeing on a boss page; plural is better. Also, there are many pages in a category, which is another reason why its good to make them plural. I find categorizing stuff always requires plurals — pencils, papers, etc.--Richard 02:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Depending on what you are categorizing and how you are categorizing for example i would not use Category:Boss but i would use Category:Boss monsters so that way when i use a template in type i just put "Boss" and the template fills the rest that way i have my plural category with my singular article display. And like i said before its more related on how you want to order it as a singular category can be put inside a plural one, but normally that singular is more specific. --Cizagna (Talk) 22:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Now with more experience, it seems that plurals are generally better as category names and singular forms for the articles. This way it's easier to create appropriate links to articles.  It's easier to make a singular article plural, like cats, than a plural singular cat.   But for categories there is more than one in the category, so plurals tend to work.  The added advantage is that by using the different page names depending on whether it's a category or article, it's easier to keep track of them.  -- CocoaZen 01:01, September 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Three cheers for category plurals! I also think category-plural and article-singular is almost always the best solution. 13:20, September 14, 2009 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia has a good rule for it:
 * Names of topic categories should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of a Wikipedia article. Examples: "Law", "Civilization", "George W. Bush".
 * Names of list categories should be plural. Examples: "Writers", "Villages in Poland".
 * (copied from Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories))
 * --Justme2 13:00, October 5, 2009 (UTC)