User talk:Herzi Pinki/archive/2009
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Categories with only one image
First, the discussion on Categories with only one image has been helpful to me in deciding what to do with images of Philadelphia buildings. My suggestion to you is that you should decide how you will work with categories and galleries in whatever particular part of this site is fruitful for you.
For myself, I stated my plan for adding photos of Philadelphia buildings in the Village Pump. You can watch me add images as I have time, and later I will consider new sub-categories and galleries to include my images and the images of others. I have taken a few categories mentioning Philadelphia off certain images, where I thought that the mention of Philadelphia is basically irrelevant to anyone seeking the image.
Incidentally, I liked your blue box at the top of the page so well, I put it on my talk page. Davidt8 (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)DavidT8
- Hi David, thanks for your comments. I was asking for some rules and a got some useful links now. It was about galleries and pages somebody else created. I prefer to have a sound set of images grouped together into a category (like you do), I usually do not create galleries at all. If later there will be more images and even more, I still can create appropriate sub-cats.
- I had a look at one of the images, File:Philadelphia-CityHall-2006.jpg, and I would not do that: Have a look at the categories of Category:Philadelphia City Hall, it's all there as parent categories. Imagine all images of buildings of Pennsylvania being also in Category:Buildings in Pennsylvania, nobody will find anything there. Please see also Commons:Categories#Over-categorization.
- Enjoy my box. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 22:58, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
- I think I understand that you are saying that the category for this image should be in just one category, not parent categories. So, would that be Category:Buildings in Philadelphia?
- Yes, that's what I'm thinking. It would be Category:Buildings in Philadelphia or a child category thereof. Philadelphia is a big city, so the category dealing with buildings there will get a lot of entries. After that, it would still be possible to move down (the category-tree) some of these images, let's say to Category:Philadelphia City Hall. But if child categories are already existing, put the image to the appropriate category. As a rule of thumb:
- Always use the deepest category you can find in the tree matching your image (Category:Philadelphia City Hall for town hall pictures and Category:Buildings in Philadelphia for your neighbourhood postoffice).
- Feel free to use as many categories as necessary, but avoid adding parent categories (this is called over categorization). But it is perfect to have an image like File:Philadelphia-CityHall-2006.jpg in Category:Philadelphia City Hall and in Category:Clock towers in the United States or Category:Buildings with blue roof (to give a nonsense example).
- hope that helps: --Herzi Pinki (talk) 22:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
- That information does help. I am trying to improve the assigned categories on Philadelphia building images, and I am also going to add a good many new images. Davidt8 (talk) 00:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)Davidt8
- Yes, that's what I'm thinking. It would be Category:Buildings in Philadelphia or a child category thereof. Philadelphia is a big city, so the category dealing with buildings there will get a lot of entries. After that, it would still be possible to move down (the category-tree) some of these images, let's say to Category:Philadelphia City Hall. But if child categories are already existing, put the image to the appropriate category. As a rule of thumb:
- I think I understand that you are saying that the category for this image should be in just one category, not parent categories. So, would that be Category:Buildings in Philadelphia?
- This section was archived on a request by: Herzi Pinki (talk) 07:47, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
