User talk:ASchedulingError

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Hi, friend! JesseW (talk) 00:50, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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Not sure what is going on with one particular edit

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:University_of_Washington_and_Washington_Agricultural_College_and_School_of_Science_football_game,_showing_a_a_play_in_progress_(PEISER_114)_(border_cropped).jpeg&diff=364247018&oldid=342901263: I can't work out the rationale on either of these changes on this photo I had already categorized, neither the removal of one of my categories nor the addition of a category that says it needs checking. Can you explain? - Jmabel ! talk 00:34, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Sure. I was trying to clean up Category:Black and white photographs of Seattle (the original category you added them to), which currently contains over 2,000 unsorted files. Category:Images from the Theodore E. Peiser Photographs Collection‎ is a subcategory of this and seemed like a reasonable place for the images to go. Without having reviewed each one individually, I thought it was safest to put them in the category of images that need checking. ASchedulingError (talk) 00:45, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• Ah, I see. The Theodore E. Peiser Photographs Collection‎ is certainly mostly, but I would guess not all, shot in Seattle. I wouldn't presume it should be a subcat of Category:Black and white photographs of Seattle. Are you sure it is all within the city? - Jmabel ! talk 00:55, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Thank you for pointing that out! I moved the photos to it because it was already listed as a subcategory, but on second glance, it looks like it actually isn't only photos of Seattle. (Glancing at it quickly, there are a few from Port Ludlow.) It certainly looks like it shouldn't be a subcat. ASchedulingError (talk) 01:04, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Category:Seattle

I have a request, and I realize it is a little out of standard process, but please bear with me.

For both Category:Seattle and Category:Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, please when don't remove images from these categories until they really are decently categorized. Although these are not formally "to be checked" categories, we really have been effectively using them that way, and have ended up getting several thousand images very well categorized over the last couple of years. When you move File:Indian summer laborers' camp on the Seattle waterfront, near the foot of Broad St (CURTIS 331).jpeg from Category:Seattle to Category:Black and white photographs of Seattle, while that is technically correct, it is very likely to languish in that much-less-looked-at category and never get any analysis of exactly where the photo was taken, etc.

Again, I realize this is a little out of standard process, but the handful of us normally diffusing these two categories have ended up with something ad hoc and very productive: we've actually been able to give several hundred corrections to the University of Washington Libraries, who did not do a very good job of curating their older Seattle photos, and they know it.

If something ends up in just Category:Black and white photographs of Seattle without other germane categories, there is a serious chance almost no one ever sees it again: including someone trying to use categories to find pretty much exactly what that image depicts! - Jmabel ! talk 00:53, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thank you very much for explaining -- that all makes a lot of sense to me. I can easily move them back to Category:Seattle if that would be helpful. ASchedulingError (talk) 00:58, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• • Just to be clear: what you are adding is good, but please don't take them out of either those two categories unless you can provide a solid, knowledgable cat check. Similarly, (previous thread) I'm a little dubious about a collection by a photographer or such being presumed so specifically to be from one location that the location cat can be more or less removed by adding the collection cat. In my experience, stuff like that is liable to be added as a parent category because it is the principle place someone worked, but for example there might be some shots taken in nearby towns (not sure for Peiser, but I doubt the person who made that a parent category was really sure, either).
  • In general on this, I'd risk overcategorizing more than risk losing information. Also, coming from a particular collection is usually considered a "hidden" category (shows up in small print under the other categories) and shouldn't diffuse normal categories. - Jmabel ! talk 01:09, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
    • Great, thank you for clarifying. I'll do that going forward. Category: Seattle does currently have an infobox stating that the category requires frequent diffusion and that as many photos as possible should be moved into subcategories. It might be helpful to either remove that or edit the text. ASchedulingError (talk) 01:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
    • By the way, one other thing (and this one is more general): typically, leave {{Check categories}} in place unless you really have done a thorough job of categorizing. The fact that nothing is actively;; wrong does not mean that categorizers have no need to look at the file. - Jmabel ! talk 01:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
    • It just belatedly struck me: if you did this with 5 images that were on my watchlist, you probably did this with a lot I wasn't watching so I didn't think to restore Category:Seattle. Any of these you could restore, it would be appreciated. - Jmabel ! talk 02:40, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
      • Just went through and restored them. ASchedulingError (talk) 03:17, 3 September 2019 (UTC)