Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/06/Category:Pantheons
Based on content, the present category would best be called 'Buildings called "Pantheon"' and should not be specifically associated with Ancient Roman architecture. We could have a subcategory for Ancient Roman (and Ancient Greek) pantheons as such. In any case, I've edited Wikidata to break the linkage with, for example en:Pantheon (religion), since that is about an abstraction: "the particular set of all gods of any polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition" and none of hte content of this category relates to that. Jmabel ! talk 21:47, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed, though perhaps Category:Structures called Pantheon. In that case, we can also add Category:Pantheon of the Workers' Movement and perhaps others like it. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- Delete, as creator. i didnt realize that the word Pantheon was used for a plethora of non greek/roman god related buildings. it was intended to collect those. i see no value in a category for buildings called pantheons if they have no other link than the name. that would be like listing all buildings called Temples in one category. sort of meaningless. however, if there is an architetural feature to some pantheons, say related to the famous roman one, i see value there. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- We have a lot of categories like that related to names under Category:Buildings by name, e.g. Category:Buildings called tower. Perfectly suitable, but we basically need two distinct categories, one for the sense you originally intended, and a separate one for the more metaphorical use. I don't think the third sense in en:Pantheon (religion) is useful for Commons, but I wouldn't object is someone thinks it is.- Jmabel ! talk 09:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- All the current content does seems to be related to the buildings, whether the original type or the so-called. I believe a cat for the religious/mythographic sense is useful, although not necessarily under that name: I came here looking for somewhere to put an ‘organizational’ or genealogical chart of an ancient Near Eastern pantheon (list of principal deities). We have a few such diagrams here & there, and categories like Twelve Olympians that could populate it.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:56, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
- We have a lot of categories like that related to names under Category:Buildings by name, e.g. Category:Buildings called tower. Perfectly suitable, but we basically need two distinct categories, one for the sense you originally intended, and a separate one for the more metaphorical use. I don't think the third sense in en:Pantheon (religion) is useful for Commons, but I wouldn't object is someone thinks it is.- Jmabel ! talk 09:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)