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The result of the debate was not enough votes to form consensus. —Silly Dan (talk) 02:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I get confused about how to classify things in the Category:Substances. There's Category:Alloys, Category:Metals, Category:Ores, Category:Rocks, Category:Minerals. But what's duracrete or stresscrete? If the only mention of a substance is that a wall is built of it, does that make it a metal? How do we know which metals are alloys and which aren't? The books aren't likely to say. I'd like to propose a bit of a simplifier. Eliminate Alloys, Metals, Minerals, Rocks, and Ores, and simplify it to two basic categories: Category:Ores, minerals and raw materials and Category:Metals, ceramics and refined materials. Anything that comes out of the ground or scooped out of asteroids goes in the first, and anything that comes out of a factory in the second. The second category could also include the various concrete-like building materials and plastics. Enochf 18:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Support
- I'm a geek and I care about these things Enochf 18:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Support the concept, but the simpler names of "raw materials" and "refined materials" would be just as accurate and easier to remember. jSarek 22:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Comments
- Actually, many of the books have defined certain things as ores, minerals, etc. I'm generally opposed to this, as we'd be losing some specificity that we already have. —Xwing328(Talk) 16:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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