Category talk:Ceramics

Category structure
I have been sorting out the caramics categories, adding new ones such as Category:French pottery and Category:Ceramics manufacturers of the United States and clearing out the vast number of articles on potters etc lazily dumped in Category:Pottery in particular. User:119.224.22.238 has objected to, and twice reverted, a number of removals from Category:Ceramics, without giving any reasoning - he says (my talk):" Thank you for the message. I do not understand your reasoning for your sudden and unilateral changes to long standing categories, my argument for restoration is based on maintaining the status quo until consensus is reached. I would be happy with slimmed down categories but this needs to be by agreement with the community. Therefore I will revert pending discussion and agreement. Regards. ". I had already referred him to WP:OCAT, and said (his talk): "There is no point in duplicating every article in Category:Pottery in Category:Ceramics. I moved many articles into the ceramics materials & pottery categories, and removed most of the duplication where the articles seemed concerned exclusively with pottery. Some of these might be debatable, but you have reverted many where it clearly is not, so I will revert all or most of your changes. Please produce reasoned arguments for further changes." For example he has restored Bird stump (is a variety of vase popular in 1920's England...) to Category:Ceramics, when I had moved it to Category:English pottery.  I would welcome comments on this, centralized here. Johnbod (talk) 14:58, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I have created three sub-categories of Category:Ceramics - Category:Ceramic materials, Category:Ceramic art and Category:Ceramic engineering and I have redistributed the articles among those three new categories. I think the absence of these sub-categories of Category:Ceramics has been the source of unproductive friction between editors with an interest in ceramic art and those with an interest in ceramic science and technology.  I hope what I've done is helpful. Marshall46 (talk) 00:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)