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11369	verbose_name_plural not inherited if base class is abstract.	Beetle_B	Ramiro Morales	"Perhaps this is desired behavior. However, I think the docs should mention this explicitly. 

The situation where this arose is that I was creating a CategoryBase class (abstract), which was a bit barebones. I then subclassed this to get a number of derived classes (all abstract as well) - because I have different use cases (some need an HTML description, which will be formatted using Textile or Markdown, etc). Then for one particular app, I needed one of these, so I subclassed (without making it an abstract class). 

I had set verbose_name_plural in the Meta of the original CategoryBase class. This did not get inherited...

In summary:

CategoryBase --> CategoryMarkup --> Category 

where all but Category were abstract classes. 

Anyway, I'm not arguing it should be inherited - will leave that up to you to decide. I just feel that if it isn't, it should be reflected in the docs for abstract base classes. "		closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	1.0		fixed	verbose_name_plural, inheritance, abstract	mueen@… bronger@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0