Category Talk: Compositions by composer

For your editing pleasure. Her Pegship 15:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• http://www.classical.net/music/composer/
• http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/oeuvres.html
• http://www.karadar.com/Cataloghi/
• http://www.classicalarchives.com/
• http://www.classical-composers.org

This category is rather messy. I think a much better standard (well, there isn't a standard present...) would be for example Category:Compositions by Frédéric Chopin. It should have the most common name of the composer. In other words, the name of that composer's article. Also, "Compositions by [name]" is more precise than "[Name] compositions". Thoughts? — Pladask 12:13, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

:When you say "messy", are you referring to the category, or just the naming convention? If it is in regards to naming, I agree, but it may be more trouble than it's worth. --bleh fu talk fu 13:49, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

::Yes, I'm talking about the naming convention. This seems to be a job for a bot. :-) — Pladask 14:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

:Either way is fine with me. There's already :Category:Compositions by Claude Debussy but I actually wrote it that way on accident. :) Just make sure if you add it to articles to sort them in a uniform way (ie Chopin, Frédéric). The downside is that editors will have to add those lengthy category/sort tag on all the composition articles. I'm guessing that's why the current "[last name] compositions" convention was used.--Sketchee 14:10, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

::Hmm, you're right about that. I don't assume there will be any big protests, though, as editors are already used to that from biographical articles. — Pladask 14:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) Hey, on second thought, you're not right about that. ;-) It only applies to the composer categories themselves. (That is, Chopin, Frédéric in :Category:Compositions by Frédéric Chopin). This should be acceptable for everyone. :-) — Pladask 16:42, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

:::Oh yeah, that's true. It'll only have to be done once on the category then. :) Go for it. -You may also want to discuss this adding these composition categories to Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music-Sketchee 21:37, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

::::FWIW, I completely concur with changing the category names here for consistency... yikes, what a mess! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I posted an entrance at Bot requests a few weeks ago, but haven't gotten an answer yet. I suppose this has to be done manually. — Pladask 18:24, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

:Oy, I just stumbled on this. A mess indeed! Not sure I can start fixing them right now ... Antandrus 03:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

:::I tried to clean up the lower half a bit by moving all the different pages to "List of compositions by Firstname Lastname", but I can't seem to get the titles to change on this page; and Berio is still placed under the L... David Sneek 12:07, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

I created the new categories and moved all the articles. The old categories have been nominated at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion for deletion. Gdr 23:02, 2005 May 17 (UTC)

::Will there still be sub-categories to compositions by composer? In particular "Operas by Firstname Lastname", as in :Category:Operas by Richard Wagner. This sub-category works well, fitting into both :Category:Compositions by Richard Wagner and :Category:Operas by composer. --DrG 04:23, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

The number of these in this category is very high. Since these articles are usually also listed under each composer's category, they would seem to be redundant here and could easily be deleted. For instance: List of compositions by Johannes Brahms appears in the subcategory :Category:Compositions by Johannes Brahms. It does not need to be listed both places. We could simplify this category enormously by removing them.--Robert.Allen (talk) 09:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

There are 334 subcategories and 218 pages in this category now. I suggest creating a subcategory Category:Lists of compositions by composer like fr, ja and nl and removing List of compositions by pages to it. --Tijd-jp (talk) 09:22, 13 January 2011 (UTC)