User:Clubmarx/arts category notes
Merge Art to Visual arts, Rename category to Visual arts
[edit]This is a proposal to cleanup two Art / Visual arts categories. Please see the discussion at Portal_talk:Arts/Categories.
- 1. Merge Category:Art to Category:Visual arts & Rename the resulting category 'Visual arts'
Category:Art has already been de-populated of performing arts, lit, and so forth, which was a big problem before. The parent category Category:The arts also has a much better structure than it did before.
It's not realistic, or desirable, to rename each 'Art' category to 'Visual Arts'. So, I propose to just rename the main one & leave the rest as 'Art ____'.
The main category would live in Category:The arts
steps:
- remove Category:Visual arts from Category:Art, so just lives at Category:The arts
- move Category:Art to Category:Visual arts
- place a category redirect on Category:Art to go to Category:Visual arts
This will result in:
- The arts
- Visual arts
- etc.
- Visual arts
- 2. Remove Category:Visual art movements
Just like the Art & Visual arts, category, Category:Art movements is sufficient. The main category will be Category:Visual arts, but its subcategories will still be named 'Art ____' i.e. Category:Art exhibitions, Category:Art history, so keeping Category:Art movements is consistent with that.
Any pages that are just categorized under Category:Visual art movements, would get categorized as Category:Art movements.
So
- The arts
- Visual arts
- Art movements
- etc
- Visual arts
Since the merge to Art didn't work, I have another proposal. What do people think? If we come to some agreement here I can put in a block merge/rename categories request. Clubmarx | Talk 01:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- Rename Category:Art to Category:Visual arts & merge
Category:Art has already been de-populated of performing arts, lit, and so forth, which was a big problem before. The parent category Category:The artsalso has a much better structure than it did before.
I don't think it's realistic, or desirable, to rename each 'Art' category to 'Visual Arts'. So, I propose to just rename the main one & leave the rest as 'Art ____'.
Just like Art & Visual arts, I think Category:Art movements is sufficient. If there are any pages that are just categorized under Category:Visual art movements, those would get categorized as Category:Art movements. It seems that User:Sparkit did a lot of work about a year ago on this, but I haven't seen Category:Visual art movements grow a whole lot since then.
So
- The arts
- Visual arts
- Art exhibitions
- Art genres
- Art movements
- Visual arts
- Popular topics
There are several topics (photography, comics) that are technically visual arts but are categorized under Category:The arts. I don't have a problem with making popular topics more prominent. Visual arts can still include these and all the other art/arts that are visual. Conceptual art could be categorized like this, just in The arts. I think this issue is a little separate than the Art/Visual art category and we could come to some conclusion about the above without completely resolving the popular topics issue.
How other people categorize this
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