Category talk:African American musicians
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[edit] Hyphenate?
Isn't a hyphen needed here?--Sonjaaa 10:09, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Category inheritance
I wonder at the appropriateness of this category inheriting directly from Category:American musicians. Shouldn't there be a Category:American musicians by ethnicity in between? Otherwise the main effect would seem to be to purge all black people from Category:American musicians. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Subcategorization Proposal
I would like to subcategorize the African American musicians both by genre and by instrument. These new subcategories would be part of the African American musician heirarchy, and the articles for the individual musicians would each appear in one or more subcategories of the genre and instrument categorization, rather than in the African American musician category. The subcategories, (e.g. Category:African American trumpet players), would also appear as a related categorization in the appropriate American instrumentalist category, but would not be a heirarchical subcategory of the American instrumentalist category (it's not practical or of interest to users to categorize every American instrumentalist by ethnicity). Therefore an African American trumpet player, Louis Armstrong, for example, would appear in both Category:American trumpet players and Category:African American trumpet players.
Motivation for this recategorization are:
With so many individual African American musicians in this category, the subcategories that already exist tend to 'get lost'.I believe that the new subcategories would be of interest to users.This will parallel the subcategorization for Category:American musicians.The African American musicians category is currently not always being consistently used; some African American musicians are not listed here, but listed under genre, or instrument by nationality, only.
I intend to begin work on this gradually. If concerns are raised and there seems to be a consensus not to subcategorize in this way, I will be glad to help put things back the way they were before.
Respectfully, LiniShu 03:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- I'd rather see ethnicity and instrument kept separate. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
As of 31 December 2005, after reading the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality, (of which I was not aware, prior to making the entry above), I do not think it would be beneficial to create additional subcategories by ethnicity at this time. Note: Also, as of 01 January 2006, the discussion referred to has been deemed closed and has been summarized on Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. I do have some other questions/suggestions about recategorization that might be done; will write more later; just took a few moments this afternoon to write a brief note. Thanks, LiniShu 21:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
