User talk:Doomhope

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 02:07, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Redundant categories

Since File:Bordens1.jpg is already in Category:Borden's Ice Cream, Lafayette, Louisiana, it is inappropriate to also add Category:Ice cream shops in Louisiana since it is already in a subcategory for that specific ice cream shop in Louisiana. Much like it would be inappropriate to also add categories "United States", "North America", and "Earth" - it is redundant. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 20:28, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Frank Scholten

Dear Doomhope, You made several subdivisions in the Category:Photographs by Frank Scholten. It would have been nice if you would have started a discussion about this subdivision on the talkpage first. I can't see any added value in categories like "Photographs of animals by Frank Scholten‎". Vysotsky (talk) 08:26, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

My apologies! I didn't intend to step on any toes. I saw that there were 28,000 files in the category and assumed that no one else was going to categorize them - but I didn't look at the page history to see that they were all uploaded earlier this year, which would have been a good cue that I should start a discussion first.

I will start a discussion on the talkpage now. I still think it would be good to create some subdivisions so that it's easier to navigate, but I'm absolutely willing to discuss different ways to achieve this, and anything that I did today I can undo later depending on the results of the discussion. Doomhope (talk) 10:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Ye_Olde_Curiosity_Shop&curid=2513405&diff=796787849&oldid=382297435 seems an odd choice. Yes, the shop is in Seattle, but by far the bulk of the Native American artifacts it used to handle in its heyday were Alaskan and, secondarily, Canadian. Really never a lot of Washington Native material, presumably because the local natives could just sell their own work more directly to collectors. - Jmabel ! talk 02:43, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Good to know that they used to carry more items from other areas as well! However, the shop has photos and other items related to Chief Seattle, and many of the totem poles in this collection of images were carved by Native American carver Sam Williams (and some of his descendants still carve there today). Stadley was one of the collector types that people in the area sold to. To me, this all makes the shop relevant to Native American history in the Washington area, and I think anyone looking at this category would be interested to know about this shop and how it relates to that local history. Doomhope (talk) 03:52, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

True, they do now have strong connections with the Williams family. I guess the category is reasonable, though we might want to add an analogous one for Alaska: Standley was a lot more known for dealing in Alaskan artifacts than anything more local. - Jmabel ! talk 03:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

FWIW, though, aren't the Williamses Nuu-chah-nulth (as against originally connected to any Seattle area tribe)? - Jmabel ! talk 03:56, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

MetaCat vs. CatCat

Hi, Doomhope. I noticed that you changed the {{CatCat}} template to {{Metacat}} on several "by name" categories. Not all by-name categories are metacats, so please be careful when doing this. I've changed several of the ones you changed back to using {{CatCat}}.

The way to tell whether a category is a metacat is this:

• If each subcategory is for one single thing/person/place/whatever, then the category is not a metacat. An example of this is Category:Who Framed Roger Rabbit guest characters by name, because each subcategory is for a single character.
• If each subcategory is for any of the given type of item that has the indicated name, then the category is a metacat. An examples of this is Category:Hotels by name, because each subcategory is for any and all hotels that has the indicated name.

Because of this, you often have to look at what's in the category before you can tell if it's a metacat. For example, Category:Hotels by name could have been set up so that each subcategory was for one individual hotel, but it wasn't.

In case you're interested, the reason that the by-name categories are difficult to determine is that the word by is used in two different ways. With metacat names, "by name" a short way of saying "grouped by name". With the non-metacats, it's used in the way you might say, "I call my friends by name."

There are other similar categories, including categories by serial number or registration number. Those are not usually metacats, because one serial number or registration number usually corresponds to one thing. So not every category named "by <something>" is a metacat.

Thanks for your attention. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:22, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

My apologies, thanks for letting me know! I'll be sure to keep this in mind going forward. Doomhope (talk) 05:39, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Bandera de Argentina a media asta.jpg

Hi, I have undone these edits since the photograph is from Argentina, not Brazil. Banfield - Amenazas aquí 20:19, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! My mistake, I'm not sure where my head was at when I made those edits. 😅 I re-added the tag as "Blue sky in Argentina." Doomhope (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

CfD notification

Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/12/Category:Cobblers; you edited the related Category:Shoemaker's shops. - Jmabel ! talk 05:03, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

thanks for all the categories!

Just came across this image. Thank you for adding all of the categories. I've moved them over to a new category for the band itself. And I found this image. SDudley (talk) 21:46, 9 March 2024 (UTC)