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

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:* '''Propose deleting''' {{lc|Indian television child actresses}}<br />

:'''Nominator's rationale:''' It is not useful to subcategorize actors by the ''intersection'' of child actor status with the "film vs. television" medium distinction. Even more so than adult actors, 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 obsessively overcategorizing them this way just creates excessive category bloat as each kid gets catted as "nationality child actors" and "nationality film actors" and "nationality television actors" and "film child actors" and "television child actors". By and large, further, these have been used ''only'' for a partial random selection of Indian and Filipino child actors, with only one male and one female child actor from any other country on earth ever having been added to any of these categories at all. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 17:03, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

*'''Keep <s>for now</s>'''. The rationale and the proposal don't match. [[:Category:Child actors by medium]] is a container category, with a total of 21 subcats in two trees. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] has nominated only 10 of the 21 subcats and has bizarrely proposed deletion rather than upmerger. So alonglong as any of the subcats exist, it makes no sense to delete the container category.

:I am also unpersuaded that child actors don't "specialize" in one medium or the other. The only child actor who I have ever personally known (they are know a middle-aged non-actor) worked exclusively in television. That's obviously only a personal anecdote, but even if the nom did decide to nominate all the subcategories, then I'd want to see some evidence to support their assertion. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 17:18, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

::The subcategories I haven't listed here are of a completely different type — "Child actors in Specific-Indian-Regional cinema" — which would have to be batched and considered completely separately from this, because the reasons for or against those will be completely different from the reasons for or against the ones I've batched here. I haven't knowingly excluded a single category whose questionability hinges on the grounds I've specified ''here'', rather than on completely different grounds that require a separate batch, and even if I did accidentally miss something the stragglers can easily still be added to the batch. And the vast majority of the articles are already in the appropriate other categories anyway, and don't need to be upmerged anywhere at all — so there's no need to actively propose an upmerger, when simple editor attention can easily pick out the one or two oddball exceptions that actually need a replacement category rather than just a straight removal. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 17:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)