User talk:Dogears/Cat-discussion

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  • Images in category pages : disdvantages
    • May be distracting and categorizing images has potential NPoV issues
    • Images are handled in Commons namespace by default
    • Following link to image file link is confusing (not an article, minimal info)
    • May not show up on front page of big categories
  • Images in category pages : advantages
    • Quickly find "all the images in Wikispace" on a topic
    • Quickly group "all the images in Wikispace" on a topic (without authoring new or redundant text)
    • Image thumbnails are on the same page as text links to detailed articles
    • The Bosch category is a much shorter page than the Bosch article
    • Categories are used more for navigation and browsing
    • Thumbnails can be enough to identify paintings
  • Images in a summary article : disadvantages
    • Shares other dis / advantages with Wikipedia:Lists
    • Articles are longer pages than category pages
    • Repeats information found in (intro) of detailed artilces
    • Manually coding and formatting image into article
    • Lead sentence of such an article should be a "critical review" of all his work, as a whole (a challenging topic).
  • Images in a summary article : advantages
    • Articles are longer (more descriptive) than category pages
    • Wiki namespace (vs. category namespace)
    • A good place to merge stubs about his paintings (with or without images)
    • Detailed articles can be linked with template for see: Main Article: <<painting>>
  • Organize images into Commons categories : topics
    • Commons template pulls users out of wikispace, whch can be confusing
    • More difficult to inter-link in Commons cat pages back to Wiki namespace articles (inappropriate?)
    • May be in a different hierarchy than the Wikispace category
    • All photos in Wiki would need to be tagged with NowCommonsThis (which is a good thing).