Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Categorization

Category:Musicians and all it's many sub-categories are a mess and there does not appear to be any real organized effort at fixing it, untill now. This sub-project of the [[Template:MUSART|Musical Artists]] WikiProject is aimed at organizing the categorization of articles about musicians. For the time being, please use this page to discuss issues you want resolved in the new system as well as proposals for how to hande these issues.

Recognized Issues

• There's a lot of overlap and no consensus for how to handle it. For instance, an American guitarist would likely be in Category:American musicians and Category:Guitarists. Obviously Category:American guitarists is appropriate as well. What if they're from New York State? Should they also go in Category:New York musicians and how about Category:New York guitarists? Then you can introduce genre into the mix, not to mention religion and ethnicity. There needs to be a good set of guidelines for how to categorize all these different overlapping categories.

Proposals

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We're also discussing some new organizations for Category:Musician stubs on this page. I think this category organization should match that one, so just look at the proposal and just ignore the "stubs" part.

Progress

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