Trivialist

Comedians as Authors panel at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival

Hi, Trivialist. As is explained at COM:OVERCAT, "The general rule is always place an image in the most specific categories, and not in the levels above those." When I take one or two photos of a person, I put them in that person's category, but when I take large amounts of photos of them, (i.e.: at a specific event), I create an category for that event, and place that category as a subcategory in the person's category, which is the entire reason why categories are subdivided.

Because I and others often take large amounts of photos of people, sometimes at multiple events, all the photos would not fit on the person's main cat page. A good example is Patrick Stewart's page. Had I not placed the 63 photos I took of him at Wizard World 2013, and the 34 pics I took of him and his colleagues at the press junket at Sardis in their own subcats, they'd all be on the main page, and combined with the 49 already on that page, they'd be cluttered. Subcategorizing helps organize files.

Another benefit to this is that I only have to place the new event category as a subcat in other categories once, instead of doing it for each and every photo, which makes it easier for me to upload large amounts of photos. Nightscream (talk) 03:03, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Janice & Brianne Image deletion problem

Trivialist, I need your help to back me up on this 2 situations that I've gotten myself into, & it's this. Janice & Brianne's Photos are going to be deleted from the article, so please give them your statement on keeping these images on the Wikipedia common, here are the links to the reportable debates:

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• [2]

Hope that you can back up on this, cause your voice matters. :( --Norozco1 (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

File:Invictus AS.jpg

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World's Lamest Critic (talk) 18:53, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Kayden_Kross_in_2015

Kayden Kross in 2015 has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

FredWalsh (talk) 21:23, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Uncategorization

I’m not sure what was meant with this edit (and hundreds like this you made recently) but it doesn’t seem like a good idea at all. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 10:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• Agreed Andy Dingley (talk) 10:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
  • After discovering your edit to File:Four-Feathers-1939.jpg, I'm perplexed, too, at the removal of all of the categories grouped under Category:Film scores by composer. These are represented on Wikidata. Has there been discussion? — WFinch (talk) 13:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
    • @Tuvalkin, Andy Dingley, and WFinch: Apologies—it was a combination of my assuming that category guidelines here were the same as Wikipedia, where categorizing performers by their performances is to be avoided, and seeing the contibutions of 2001:8003:4E68:5201:B05F:E923:9F3C:1A82, which seemed to be duplicating Wikipedia categorization for no obvious reason. Trivialist (talk) 23:00, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• I see. Glad that now that you know that Commons and Wikipedia are separate projects with different goals. Care to undo all you uncategorization? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 00:01, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@Tuvalkin: I'll do what I can, though it might be more efficient to get an admin to just roll back all of my edits of yesterday. Trivialist (talk) 00:37, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

• I think you can request that at Commons:ANU. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 00:40, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

• Wasn't sure where to request that, so thanks :) Trivialist (talk) 00:44, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Category:Gerry Gooney

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Andy Dingley (talk) 12:22, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Look, even as someone who entirely agrees with your views on these categories, you have to admit your solution seems like a nuclear option and rigging of all discussions. I hope you can help us here. Ricky81682 (talk) 10:34, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Ways to link films and actors

Hi. It's incorrect to add a film category to an actor/actress category. Either you created cast categories like Category:Tarzan (Disney franchise) cast or you add a category like Category:Films starring Minnie Driver and you categorize film categories in it. TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 22:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

• @TwoWings: I was reversing some edits I made earlier; those edits were not ones I would normally make. Trivialist (talk) 01:25, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
  • Well, apparently you reverted me for the withdrawal of incorrect categorization. But maybe it's just a mistake. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 13:45, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
    • @TwoWings: Apologies; that was an error. Trivialist (talk) 22:25, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
      • No worries. Errare humanum est. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 08:19, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

What's up with the 20th Century logos?

Hi. I was watching Chjocgxidhxodzhi's talk page, because I had asked them whether they're sure about the use of {{Copyrighted free use}} on several logos. (No answer so far.) And today they received a copyvio warning for the 20th Century Studio/Fox logos. I see that you placed and quickly reverted those copyvio tags.

Wikipedia:File:20th Century Studios.svg is tagged with {{PD-US-no notice}} and {{PD-textlogo}}, which implies that it's indeed not a copyvio, but also not quite {{Copyrighted free use}}. So I guess we should remove the warning from Chjocgxidhxodzhi's talk page and change the licenses? What's your opinion? TilmannR (talk) 12:55, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

• @TilmannR: I've removed the warning from their talk page. I'm not sure about the licenses, though, which is part of the reason I reverted my placing those copyvio tags. Trivialist (talk) 22:07, 19 January 2023 (UTC)