Category talk:Government propaganda

This could be a fun category but we have to make sure people don't slap this onto things they just don't agree with or trust. --Fastfission 15:21, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Move to Category:Government propaganda

See en:Propaganda. Most of the propaganda discussed there is obvious historical stuff from governments.

I believe trying to classify anything other than obvious government propaganda is too subjective. History decides these things.

Here is another reason to avoid anything other than government or historical propaganda: Category talk:Propaganda cartoons. See also: Commons:Deletion requests/Category:Propaganda cartoons. This category was created in the last few days. --Timeshifter (talk) 00:24, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

That would indeed clear up the recent confusion. // Liftarn (talk) 11:59, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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This discussion of one or several categories is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. Category:Propaganda posters See also: Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/06/Category:Propaganda posters in Germany. to be merged with Category:Political posters? Estopedist1 (talk) 06:15, 1 July 2020 (UTC) I don't think all political media are automatically propaganda. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 08:30, 1 July 2020 (UTC) Fine, but no one is suggesting moving everything in Category:Political posters into Category:Propaganda posters. All propaganda (by any modern defintition) is political, so any propaganda posters are political posters. Propaganda might be used objectively in some cases, but is also has a subjective (and negative) connotation that might also be applied. We don't have a category for Category:Propaganda, just Category:Government propaganda and not all propaganda posters are created by the government. I think a merge to Category:Political posters makes good sense. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:12, 23 July 2020 (UTC) Oppose. All categories with propaganda in the name are government propaganda only. This has worked well in preventing the spamming of propaganda categories with every imaginable opinion from all political organizations. Many people think opposing viewpoints are propaganda. So let's keep this category of government propaganda posters. And some government propaganda posters are health related: Category:Health propaganda. Other non-political propaganda categories can be found as some of the sub-categories in here: Category:Government propaganda by topic. --Timeshifter (talk) 12:05, 31 July 2020 (UTC) @Timeshifter: Wouldn't renaming everything "Government propaganda" be more effective than a small note inside the category? There's plenty of content in the sub-folders of Category:Government propaganda that isn't government produced. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:12, 31 July 2020 (UTC) @Themightyquill: I was thinking the same thing. All categories with propaganda in the name should be changed to "government propaganda" in the name. And categories that consist of government propaganda (whether political or not) should have "government propaganda" in the category name, and not just in the small note: {{Propaganda}}. This would help in keeping non-govenment-produced items out of those categories. --Timeshifter (talk) 12:38, 31 July 2020 (UTC) Not merged Elli (talk) 09:17, 21 March 2021 (UTC)