Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 November 6: Difference between revisions

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:*It seems to me that these kinds of categories are considered not useful in general. I disagree with that because what they are doing is providing an overview on the differnet ways of '''categorizations''' itself: categorization by (1) topic, (2) time or (3) space / ___location. Naturally, the by far largest portion will be about categorizations by topic and here we need to make sure to have at least 2 categories: One that lists all the numerous '''topics''' (politics, history, ..) that are getting categorized and another category which lists several parameters [X] by which categories ('''topic not specified, hence »categories«''') are getting categorized: subcategories names have form (category by X). [[User:CreativeName1|CN1]] ([[User talk:CreativeName1|talk]]) 13:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

:* Categorically rejecting a naming syntax or type of categorization solely based on ... whatever reason you personally might have with it, is no good practise. I ask in which way letting the categories well alone and let people naturally further develop them to their liking would be disruptive to the rest of Wikipedia. Let it sit. Give it time. See for example [[:Category:Categories by geographical categorization]], it's 5 years old and is doing rather well. [[User:CreativeName1|CN1]] ([[User talk:CreativeName1|talk]]) 13:06, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

*'''Suppport''' mergers of [[:Category:Categories by parameter]], [[:Category:Categories by category]] and [[:Category:Categories by parametric categorization]]. '''Neutral''' for the topical, periodical and regional mergers. Currently by parameter by category and by parametric categorization have the same purpose of being the root of the same tree. There is no real distinction between them and they should be merged to avoid confusion and improve navigation. For the others I'm unsure. On the one hand the tree is so large some sort of subcategories are needed on the other it's not intuitive what's in it and what's not making a larger category potentially making it easier to find what you're looking for. I think an overwhelming restructuring of the tree is required and this will probably require a lot of CfDs. Perhaps an upmerge of these three, and maybe some more and then combining related categories together in subsequent discussions could be a good way forward? ‑‑[[User:Trialpears|Trialpears]] ([[User talk:Trialpears|talk]]) 18:53, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

==== Category:Lists of artists by biographer ====