User talk:Dogears/Cat-discussion


 * 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 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: < >


 * 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).