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Line 15: ==== Category:Music writers ==== <div class="boilerplate cfd vfd xfd-closed" style="background:#bff9fc; margin:0 auto; padding:0 10px 0 10px; border:1px solid #AAAAAA;"> :''The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. <span style="color:red">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's [[Help:Using talk pages\|talk page]] or in a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review\|deletion review]]). No further edits should be made to this section.'' :''The result of the discussion was:'' '''rename all''' to "[Foo] writers about music". --[[User:BrownHairedGirl\|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl\|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl\|contribs]])</small> 23:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)<!-- Template:Cfd top --> ---- :* '''Propose renaming''' [[:Category:Music writers]] to [[:Category:Writers on music]] :* '''Propose renaming''' [[:Category:Music writers by nationality]] to [[:Category:Writers on music by nationality]] Line 33 ⟶ 38: *:English already has three words for people who author music: [[Composer]], [[Lyricist]] and [[Songwriter]]. And Wikipedia has two matching category hierarchies for that: [[:Category:Composers]] and [[:Category:Songwriters]]. Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22music+writer%22&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&searchToken=8eh1zi37y6bnh30ipznd8nptu already uses the term "music writer" pretty widely], and there are plenty of reliable sources that use the term. A routine Google search (your friend, BTW) for "[[Dave Thompson]] music writer" turns up [https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA751CA752&ei=6ixrWsmUGYXdjwTugbCIAg&q=%22Dave+Thompson%22+%22music+writer%22&oq=%22Dave+Thompson%22+%22music+writer%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...10918.11991.0.12125.2.2.0.0.0.0.83.154.2.2.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.82...0i22i30k1.0.LoLeEqqc6JY lots of hits]. "Writer on music" though? [https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA751CA752&ei=-CxrWo6uAen-jwSHo6zwDw&q=%22Dave+Thompson%22+%22writer+on+music%22&oq=%22Dave+Thompson%22+%22writer+on+music%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...65399.66639.0.66711.15.13.0.0.0.0.155.1171.7j5.12.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..9.4.328...0i7i30k1j0i7i10i30k1j0i8i7i10i30k1.0.KOo-idKkZjM Almost nothing in comparison]. <span style="color:#b8c8d4">— <b><span style="font-family:Zapfino,Monotype Corsiva;"> [[User:Warren\|Warren]].</span></b> ‘ <span style="font-size:9pt;">[[User talk:Warren\|talk]]</span> ,</span> 13:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC) :::Yes, we have such words — but that doesn't stop people from sometimes misfiling composers and lyricists and songwriters in here anyway, just as the fact that we have the word [[screenwriter]] for people who write film scripts didn't stop people from misfiling screenwriters in {{cl\|Film writers}} instead of {{cl\|Screenwriters}}. Not every speaker of English necessarily always knows the ''proper'' word for everything. Category names are not necessarily restricted to "what's the most common name for it in the sources" — we have ''lots'' of categories where we've shifted to an alternate wording, if the usual name for it actually leads to a lot of misfiling within the Wikipedia category system. Yes, people ''should'' know better than to file a songwriter or a lyricist or a composer here — but they ''don't'' always, and we ''do'' take patterns of consistent misuse into account when deciding how best to name categories. [[User:Bearcat\|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat\|talk]]) 19:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC) ---- :''The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. <span style="color:red">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's [[Help:Using talk pages\|talk page]] or in a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review\|deletion review]]). No further edits should be made to this section.''</div> ==== Category:Biblical art by medium ====

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