Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/12/Category:Days by day
Issue 1: There has to be a better name for this category. The subcats aren't groups of the same kind of things by day; they are for individual dates (year-month-day). Maybe something like "Individual dates"?
Issue 2: Many of the individual date categories here contain only one category, that being for a person who either was born or died on the date. For example, Category:1431-02-20 contains only Category:Martinus V: he died on 20 February 1431. To understand why a person category is there, you have to look in that category to see that the date matches their year of birth or death. Wikipedia and Wikidata have info about people's exact dates of birth and death; I don't think Commons needs to categorize people by those exact dates. Auntof6 (talk) 03:58, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- I definitely support a move. Category:Individual dates doesn't sound great, but I can't think of anything better. It's much better than Category:Days by day anyway. Leave this open for a while and maybe someone will come up with something better.
- As for Category:1431-02-20 you never know, maybe someday this category will be filled with images of people that died on 20 February 1431. ;) Seriously though, it doesn't make much sense to have that category is only populated by Category:Martinus V but going through all these individual date categories would be a lot of work. If you want to do it, go ahead, but I suppose they aren't causing much harm. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:26, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Oppose The today situation is OK for me. I dont see why to change. --Tangopaso (talk) 14:08, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
- It sounds very strange in English, and its meaning isn't obvious. "Jours par jour" sounds equally strange in French, does it not? Category:Individual dates isn't great, but it's much clearer. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:08, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
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Comment: how about "Category:Days by date"? also: if you move forward to the 19th, 20th, & 21st centuries, you will see increasing amounts of stuff for each day. especially photographs; many from the world wars, the donated archive-collections, & from the start of WMC to the present. these categories serve as the framework for the "photographs taken on xxxx-xx-xx(-date)" categories. Lx 121 (talk) 04:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Lx 121: Firstly, "Days by date" is not any better. This is not a category of days (Monday-Sunday) organized by date (xxxx-xx-xx), it's just a category of specific dates. Second, no one disagrees with the principle of using specific dates to categorize material when there is plenty and room for more, such as contemporary dates or dates likely to have a lot of content (such as your example of wartime). The question is whether it's actually valuable to do so when there is very little content and very little chance of more content being added in the future (such as Category:1431-02-20). - Themightyquill (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- What about calling this category just Category:Dates (time)? --Auntof6 (talk) 03:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- I guess that's better than Category:Individual dates as it's obviously not for something like File:Hadrawi-Date.jpg. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:04, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- What about calling this category just Category:Dates (time)? --Auntof6 (talk) 03:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Lx 121: Firstly, "Days by date" is not any better. This is not a category of days (Monday-Sunday) organized by date (xxxx-xx-xx), it's just a category of specific dates. Second, no one disagrees with the principle of using specific dates to categorize material when there is plenty and room for more, such as contemporary dates or dates likely to have a lot of content (such as your example of wartime). The question is whether it's actually valuable to do so when there is very little content and very little chance of more content being added in the future (such as Category:1431-02-20). - Themightyquill (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- Any reasoned opposition to Category:Dates (time) ? - Themightyquill (talk) 00:09, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
- Leave it as it is. Evrik (talk) 20:02, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Oppose Originally, I thought this was for individual days of the year, like January 1 or December 17. I think that would be a better use of this category. Evrik (talk) 15:00, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - We do have categorisation for that, starting @ category:Years. This one is meant for organising the chronology of (& by) actual calendar dates (yyyy-mm-dd). I am open to better suggestions for naming it. Lx 121 (talk) 07:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Comment It seems like there's a consensus not to change this. Although looking over it 99% of these categories contain either a single subcategory or file. So I'm tempted to just go through and delete a lot of them as overly granular and pointless. I think doing that would be in alignment with the outcomes of CfD for similar categories. Does anyone have any objections to that or thoughts on it? --Adamant1 (talk) 02:27, 11 September 2024 (UTC)