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Merge Art to Visual arts, Rename category to Visual arts

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This is a proposal to cleanup two Art / Visual arts categories. Please see the discussion at Portal_talk:Arts/Categories.

1. Merge Category:Art to Category:Visual arts & Rename the resulting category 'Visual arts'

Category:Art has already been de-populated of performing arts, lit, and so forth, which was a big problem before. The parent category Category:The arts also has a much better structure than it did before.

It's not realistic, or desirable, to rename each 'Art' category to 'Visual Arts'. So, I propose to just rename the main one & leave the rest as 'Art ____'.

The main category would live in Category:The arts

steps:

This will result in:

The arts
Visual arts
etc.


2. Remove Category:Visual art movements

Just like the Art & Visual arts, category, Category:Art movements is sufficient. The main category will be Category:Visual arts, but its subcategories will still be named 'Art ____' i.e. Category:Art exhibitions, Category:Art history, so keeping Category:Art movements is consistent with that.

Any pages that are just categorized under Category:Visual art movements, would get categorized as Category:Art movements.

So

The arts
Visual arts
Art movements
etc

Since the merge to Art didn't work, I have another proposal. What do people think? If we come to some agreement here I can put in a block merge/rename categories request. Clubmarx | Talk 01:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

  1. Rename Category:Art to Category:Visual arts & merge

Category:Art has already been de-populated of performing arts, lit, and so forth, which was a big problem before. The parent category Category:The artsalso has a much better structure than it did before.

I don't think it's realistic, or desirable, to rename each 'Art' category to 'Visual Arts'. So, I propose to just rename the main one & leave the rest as 'Art ____'.


Remove Category:Visual art movements

Just like Art & Visual arts, I think Category:Art movements is sufficient. If there are any pages that are just categorized under Category:Visual art movements, those would get categorized as Category:Art movements. It seems that User:Sparkit did a lot of work about a year ago on this, but I haven't seen Category:Visual art movements grow a whole lot since then.

So

The arts
Visual arts
Art exhibitions
Art genres
Art movements


Popular topics

There are several topics (photography, comics) that are technically visual arts but are categorized under Category:The arts. I don't have a problem with making popular topics more prominent. Visual arts can still include these and all the other art/arts that are visual. Conceptual art could be categorized like this, just in The arts. I think this issue is a little separate than the Art/Visual art category and we could come to some conclusion about the above without completely resolving the popular topics issue.



How other people categorize this

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