User:Clubmarx/arts category notes

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

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

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:
 * remove Category:Visual arts from Category:Art, so just lives at Category:The arts
 * move Category:Art to Category:Visual arts
 * place a category redirect on Category:Art to go to Category:Visual arts

This will result in:
 * The arts
 * Visual arts
 * etc.

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.
 * 2. Remove Category:Visual art movements

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)

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

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 ____'.

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.
 * Remove Category:Visual art movements

So
 * The arts
 * Visual arts
 * Art exhibitions
 * Art genres
 * Art movements

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.
 * Popular topics

How other people categorize this
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