Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/08/Category:Buildings

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Category:Buildings

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Many "buildings in city" (or similar) categories have been used to categorize the photos that should belong to other dedicated categories (Category:Aerial photographs, Category:Skylines, or Category:Cityscapes), probably because they depict multiple buildings. I think cityscapes depicting multiple buildings should not belong to "buildings in city" categories, which should be reserved for individual buildings only. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 14:50, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed that Category:Cityscapes is already placed under Category:Many buildings. I've also placed Category:Skylines under that category, since skylines are generally groups of multiple buildings. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 14:59, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Strong oppose I disagree. Two or three buildings are obviously neither a "Cityscape" nor a "Skyline". Cityscape is defined as the equivalent to landscape which requires that multiple square kilometers of an area are visible. Additionally, there are not only cities as place of buildings but also towns or villages. Cityscape or Skyline doesn't fit well with towns or villages. Fl.schmitt (talk) 17:50, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What is the proposal here? Delete ? Merge ? Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:15, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Laurel Lodged: My proposal is to avoid cluttering the building categories with skylines and other cityscapes, which cover a lot of buildings. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 17:02, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fine. But how? By deleting this category? By merging it? By splitting it? Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:12, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Laurel Lodged: By redefining the scope of this category, so that it is clear that this category is for individual buildings, and not for skylines and other cityscapes. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 08:26, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What is the plan to deal with all those skylines that are currently in the category that should no longer be in it once the scope is redefined? Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this is necessarily a problem. Eventually photos get put into categories for individual buildings if and when they exist. Depending on the place, this is just more or less developed.
I don't see how or why one should exclude images featuring several objects from categories for such objects. There is Category:Buildings by quantity that attempts to count them.
Some categories for individual buildings have a notice that they should only include cityscapes with the building, but not photographs of only the building.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 10:29, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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