Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 11

= February 11 =

==[[:Category: Classical pianists by nationality ]]==

Duplicates "Classical pianists" and "Pianists by nationality". JonHarder 23:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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==[[:Category: American classical pianists ]]==

Duplicates "Classical pianists" and "Pianists by nationality". JonHarder 23:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

==[[:Category: British classical pianists ]]==

Duplicates "Classical pianists" and "Pianists by nationality". JonHarder 23:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

==[[:Category: English classical pianists ]]==

Duplicates "Classical pianists" and "Pianists by nationality". JonHarder 23:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep all Not all pianists are classical pianists (Elton John for example). Also subdividing the immense classical pianists cat into nationality subcats seems like an emminently sensible move.--Mais oui! 08:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete all. The classical pianists category is not immense (less than 400, I think that with the addition of remaining articles and the deletion of non-notable biographies the number should remain quite the same). I am monitoring the Classical pianists category for more than six months now and I can tell you that the 'pianists by nationality' categories are very small - more than half of them have less than 40 articles for sure. Further categorizing would mean a lot of work and it would result in many small categories. I don't really see the point in doing that. --Missmarple 10:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • 400 is not small. As for the future, whether you think the category should grow or not, it is a very safe assumption that it will. CalJW 22:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Dividing people up by nationality is problematic, confusing, and prone to error. The nationalities are not especially useful. A hundred years ago, the fact that a pianist was born in France made it very likely that this person had learned the French style of performance, but these schools no longer exist. Even the distinction between Classical and non-Classical is arbitrary as there are cross-overs, classically trained musicians who work in other genres. I would keep Classical Pianists and drop the national categories, at least for Classical. Lpgeffen 15:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all Obvious standard people by nationality categories. Osomec 15:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all This comes up from time to time. The category system is an organisational and navigational tool. All people should be categorised by both occupation and nationality as this is the only way to ensure that the articles on related people all filter through to the same place. It also increases the number of routes to the articles and thereby increases the number of people who will read them. Previous claims that this very widely accepted system should not apply to certain fields have been rejected and this one should be too. CalJW 22:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all per CalJW. —Blotwell 02:49, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Excessively detailed categories are distracting and annoying. And as Lpgeffen points out, nationality is not a particularly illuminating classification for pianists. Opus33 04:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all We cross categorise people by occupation and nationality, period. Debate over. I might categorise a few more when the server is working better. Piccadilly 18:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all and populate. It actually combines both for a more specific category. --Vizcarra 23:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Having looked at a few of these I see that "X pianists" has been treated as synomymous with "X classical pianists". That attitude to the relative standing of classical and other forms of music belongs not so much in the last century as in the one before that. The British, French and American pianist categories now also have jazz subcategories.Piccadilly 08:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep all and populate. GCarty 16:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

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