Category talk:Aerial views of Chicago

Rename to Aerial photographs of Chicago

Given that the corresponding category for every other city in Category:Aerial photographs of the United States by city as well every state in Category:Aerial photographs of the United States by state has the name, Aerial photographs of PLACE, I propose that this category be renamed to Aerial photographs of Chicago. While this isn't completely accurate due to some items being other than photographs and others not actually showing an aerial view, it does provide consistency with other corresponding city categories. A discussion as to whether Aerial photographs of ... categories should generally either be renamed to or become subcategories of "Aerial views of ..." ones should probably be held at a much higher level, as photographs not views is used in the parent category hierarchy. This CfD regarding Category:Aerial views of New York City led to its aerial view category becoming a subcat of its aerial photographs one, though this is a unique case and seems inverted. Another option would be to simply create a redirect with my suggested name. Waz8 (talk) 02:27, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Just finished sorting many photographs/ files (and one video) from/ to this category and noticed the photographs category too. There are also remote views of (subject) or views of (subject) from (building) or (place). I like “views” better than “photographs” because now with computers, photographs are scanned or digital. Many of the photos (files) I moved from this category were from buildings which are in parent category, “cityscapes”. I was thinking of adding a note to this category: “views from buildings are in category:cityscapes” but have never seen notes like that in categories. Finding views from buildings in cityscapes is not intuitive. I also created a new category here, “aerial views of Chicago from commercial aircraft” there were more that 100 of those and not all of them were very good quality. Raquel Baranow (talk) 03:52, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I had completely forgotten about this! Views is definitely more accurate, and images might be a more appropriate catch-all description. However, with photographs already being so widely used, it would be difficult to rename all of the photographs (and some parent) categories to instead use views or images. Also, since there is now a separate category with my proposed name, a redirect is no longer an option, unless that category were to be renamed or merged. Therefore, categorizing them separately -- as either diffusing or non-diffusing cases, depending on each parent category -- seems to be the best option without causing too much category chaos. This appears to have been done by others, since I made the initial proposal.

As for adding a note, you could use {{Cat see also|Cityscapes of Chicago|for=views from buildings in Chicago}}. Thanks for your efforts in sorting these files! Waz8 (talk) 02:29, 22 May 2022 (UTC)