Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 April 8: Difference between revisions

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:So categorising by medium is too narrow, but categorising by medium+language/medium+region is fine? Very odd. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 21:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

::Not what I said either. Not "fine", just that they need to be considered as a separate batch from these because it's a completely different set of considerations that needs to be phrased and addressed very differently. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 22:07, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

:::@[[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]], it doesn't look to me like a separate thing at all. You haven't identified any meaningful way in which there is, as you claim, {{tq|a completely different set of considerations}} ... and have offered no rationale for zapping most of the higher level categories while you evaluate the lower ones.

:::And I still don't see any evidence to support your core assertion that {{tq|child actors really don't "specialize" in one medium or the other, but almost always have both film and television roles in their filmographies}}.

:::So I'm going to form up my oppose. This whole proposal has too many flaws. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 09:09, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

*'''Oppose''' I am not convinced that this category tree aids in navigation, but a deletion instead of a merger would leave many articles uncategorized. [[User:Dimadick|Dimadick]] ([[User talk:Dimadick|talk]]) 17:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

::It would leave few to no articles uncategorized, because very close to zero of these articles aren't already in the appropriate "target" categories as it is — and all it takes is a little bit of editor caution to catch those few exceptions, rather than a comprehensive merger that would require a followup round of DUPCAT cleanup. It's only necessary to specifically propose a merger if ''all'' of the categorized articles need to be ''comprehensively'' moved to the other category ''across the board'', and not if 95 per cent of the articles are already categorized appropriately and need no replacement category at all, with only a very few exceptions that can easily be handled on their own. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 18:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)