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We're also discussing some new organizations for [[:Category:Musician stubs]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#Musician_stubs_reorganizing on this page]. I think this category organization should match that one, so just look at the proposal and just ignore the "stubs" part.
I recommend the following as guidelines:
Major top level organizational sub-categories of [[:Category:Musicians]]:
*[[:Category:Musicians by nationality]]
**Sub categories are of the form ''Category:Belgian musicians''.
**Within each "nation's" category, if appropriate, regional sub-categories of the form ''Category:Alabama musicians''
**Articles not in a regional sub category can go in the national-level category.
**Articles in regional sub-categories should '''not''' go in the national category.
**No additional breakdown, i.e., none of ''Category:American guitarists'' or ''Category:American musicians by hair colour''
*[[:Category:Musicians by genre]]
** Sub categories of the form ''Category:Rock musicians''.
** Genre cats can be broken down into sub-genres as neccessary, e.g, ''Category:Rock musicians'' might have subcats ''Category:Alternative rock musicians'' and ''Category:Punk rock musicians'' etc.
***Sub genre categories might over lap, e.g., ''Category:Folk punk musicians'' could be a sub cat of both ''Category:Folk musicians'' and ''Category:Punk rock musicians''.
**All genre categories should ahere as strictly as possible to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Music genres]]
*[[:Category:Musicians by instrument]]
** Sub cats of the form ''Category:Guitarists''
*** Instrument categories can be broken down '''to better organize the intrument''', such as ''Category:Electric guitarists'' and ''Category:Acoustic guitarists'' could both be subcats of ''Category:Guitarists''
*[[:Category:Musicians by religion]]
** Sub cats are simply in the form ''Category:Muslim musicians'' etc.
*[[:Category:Musicians by band]]
** Sub cats are like ''Category:Cream artists".
***Each band's musician category should also be a sub-cat of the appropriate Musician by genre sub-cat. For instance, ''Category:Mighty Mighty Bosstones musicians'' would be a subcategory of ''Musicians by band'' and of ''Ska musicians''
Instead of keeping articles in upper level categories when moving them into sub-cats, use a [[Wikipedia:Lists|list]] page with a title that matches the upper level category name, which can list all the articles in alphabetical order, including the ones in sub-cats.
Note that most of this proposal is similar to the way [[:Category:Albums]] is organized: There aren't categories for ''Debut American pop albums]], each of those three things (Debut albums, American albums, and pop albums) has their own category.
<br/>'''[[User talk:Bmearns|<span style='color:green'>B.</span>]][[User:Bmearns|<span style='color:navy'>Mearns</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Bmearns|<sup style="color:red">*</sup>]]''', <tt style='color:pink'>KSC</tt> 20:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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