Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/photographers by nationality

The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. This is an archive of the discussion only; please do not edit this page. -Kbdank71 17:15, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Several "photographers by nationality" categories

Here is a list of several subcategories of Category:Photographers which IMHO can be safely deleted without any loss of information. The main reason is that e.g. the criterion for inclusion in Category:French photographers is exactly membership in Category:French people as well as Category:Photographers. In other words, a French photographer is precisely a French national who happens to be a photographer. For purposes of searching WP, some future search facility will hopefully allow boolean combinations of categories, so that French photographers can be found quickly and easily. For now, all of these subcategories are underpopulated; even Category:Photographers itself is fairly small at the moment, especially when compared to the much longer List of photographers. Even if you don't agree with the first argument that "photographers by nationality" is redundant and doesn't add any new information, you might agree that this subdivision is simply unnecessary at the moment and could be added later if and when Category:Photographers becomes too large. --MarkSweep 21:36, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unnecessary at the moment, yes. Suggest deleting all these subcategories and replacing with new article List of photographers by nationality. If the categories become necessary later they can always be replaced, but for now I don't see them as vital. Grutness ^hello?

Agree. People by occupation and people by nationality should be kept separate unless there is a need to combine them. -Willmcw 21:49, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)