Category talk:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué
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Category:Louis Tocqué
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Moved from User Talk:Urbandweller I have added a few works to Category:Louis Tocqué. Please do not revert or remove this category. Thanks you in advance. Coldcreation (talk) 17:30, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- There is no need to over-categorize Tocqué's portrait paintings - Category:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué should be enough. --Urbandweller (talk) 18:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- Placing the works in a category such as portrait paintings is too specific and inaccurate. Many works in that category are not paintings at all, and many are not solely portraits, they a full figured persons painted within a particular setting or surrounding, beyond mere portraiture. In fact, several of the works are not even by the artist Louis Tocqué. They are engravings made by others, or they are paintings "after" Louis Tocqué. What we should do is merge all the works that both correctly and incorrectly form part of Category:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué into the more general Category:Louis Tocqué, where they will all fit nicely.Coldcreation (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- I could not disagree more, and I find a strange, to say the least, that you insist on wasting my time by disputing the relevance of specific categories. Specificity is the raison d'être of categories. --Urbandweller (talk) 22:16, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- Summary of the issue: As it stand now, several works in Category:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué are not paintings, and several works are not by Louis Tocqué. Category:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué should have in it only portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué. While specificity is a sought after attribute, I agree, erroneous appellations are not. Coldcreation (talk) 22:34, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- I could not disagree more, and I find a strange, to say the least, that you insist on wasting my time by disputing the relevance of specific categories. Specificity is the raison d'être of categories. --Urbandweller (talk) 22:16, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
- Placing the works in a category such as portrait paintings is too specific and inaccurate. Many works in that category are not paintings at all, and many are not solely portraits, they a full figured persons painted within a particular setting or surrounding, beyond mere portraiture. In fact, several of the works are not even by the artist Louis Tocqué. They are engravings made by others, or they are paintings "after" Louis Tocqué. What we should do is merge all the works that both correctly and incorrectly form part of Category:Portrait paintings by Louis Tocqué into the more general Category:Louis Tocqué, where they will all fit nicely.Coldcreation (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)