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Establishments in Pennsylvania by city
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However, to your point about NYC, I think there is value in making a distinction between some cities in the U.S. and their state-level buckets. For example, probably useful to have subcategories for SF, LA, and San Diego in California, at least for years with 100+ entries, of which there are several.--
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Possibly, tho 100 is a low threshold; I'd suggest a minimum threshold of 200 (i.e. one page), preferably about 300. Looking at
California since 1980, I see only three years which exceed the 200 mark.
But I'm not sure how
WP:defining the distinction between city and state is for establishments and disestablishments.
Also, it's only worth doing if it's going to be part of a viable long series, so that readers don't don't need to jump up and down between category levels. Note for example that the establishments-by-state and disestablishments-by-state cats are automatically cross-linked; that sort of handiness gets lost if establishments are subcatted deeper than disestablishments. --
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At least for New York City I'm happy to go through and also organize disestablishments at the same depth. However, based on my observations, I don't think there's an extremely well-established pattern of tagging disestablished institutions as disestablished. I'm not ignorant of that class of category existing, but it's certainly not as well used as the "Establishments" category.--
MainlyTwelve (
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19:22, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
But yes, to address your concern ("viable long series")...this isn't a passing effort of mine, I intend to be committed to it for the foreseeable future and if you see value in any portion of it would welcome help/advice.--
MainlyTwelve (
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19:32, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
@
MainlyTwelve, my point is not about your undoubted energies; it's that I am not sure if a long series would be viable. Two reasons:
The further back we go, the thinner such a series gets. It's theoretically possible to say "not before YYYY", but in practice once a series has started, editors expect a "YYYY in Foo" category for every value of YYYY. So the non-existent years become redlinks (
WP:REDNOT) or get created and then come to CFD. Either way that creates a maintenance headache.
Thank you for providing the precedent discussion. I struggled to find one, or any. Given that it was up to debate for a similar city with a similar position in its country's national consciousness (London to the UK/NYC to the U.S.) as early as 2012, I think it's reasonable to continue as is with the NYC subcats as they're no doubt much more populated than the London categories were at that point. At the very least, I'd extend this rationale to apply to years where the number of articles currently indexed is similar the number of articles indexed in the categories I've currently worked through. A brief look at the breakdown by decade for NYC through the 20th century indicates this effort would extend meaningfully backward in time to at least the 1910s, and probably earlier.--
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20:29, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
@
MainlyTwelve, I draw a different conclusion from that 2012 discussion, viz. don't create estab-by-year cats for 2nd-level national subdivisions.
In the case of NYC, I don't see the numbers to justify creating an exception.
This current discussion should give us some measure of where consensus currently lies on estab-by-year cats for cities. If this closes as keep, then I guess NYC will stay; but otherwise, I will nominate the NYC cats for merger. Please can you hold off creating more of them until consensus is clearer? --
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Support, too small cities for this type of categorization and agree with Oculi that it is just not a good idea in general (see also the parallel discussion about New York).
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Delete - I used to put covers categories as subcats of the albums subcat (items related to 'Foo albums') but someone kept reverting ('not albums' which is true).
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Delete. No need for parent for one subcategory of actual content (which is already serving as a more natural parent). StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me18:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
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DeleteNeutralThe two subcats can be connected with hatnotes which takes 1 click for navigation. The category (at least with the current contents) serves no other purpose other than connecting the two subcats with 3 clicks and doesn't overcome
WP:OCEPON. Tried to find more direct articles (house, statue, lawsuit, etc) and found none.
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DeleteNeutral The Songs and Albums subcats are already also under the Works subcategory though so I only see 2 subcats that should be there. (The filmography article also belongs under Works.)
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The 'works' subcategory was created today by the nominator. Musician categories do not generally have a 'works' subcat: see
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Establishments in Pennsylvania by city
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However, to your point about NYC, I think there is value in making a distinction between some cities in the U.S. and their state-level buckets. For example, probably useful to have subcategories for SF, LA, and San Diego in California, at least for years with 100+ entries, of which there are several.--
MainlyTwelve (
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18:52, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Possibly, tho 100 is a low threshold; I'd suggest a minimum threshold of 200 (i.e. one page), preferably about 300. Looking at
California since 1980, I see only three years which exceed the 200 mark.
But I'm not sure how
WP:defining the distinction between city and state is for establishments and disestablishments.
Also, it's only worth doing if it's going to be part of a viable long series, so that readers don't don't need to jump up and down between category levels. Note for example that the establishments-by-state and disestablishments-by-state cats are automatically cross-linked; that sort of handiness gets lost if establishments are subcatted deeper than disestablishments. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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19:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
At least for New York City I'm happy to go through and also organize disestablishments at the same depth. However, based on my observations, I don't think there's an extremely well-established pattern of tagging disestablished institutions as disestablished. I'm not ignorant of that class of category existing, but it's certainly not as well used as the "Establishments" category.--
MainlyTwelve (
talk)
19:22, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
But yes, to address your concern ("viable long series")...this isn't a passing effort of mine, I intend to be committed to it for the foreseeable future and if you see value in any portion of it would welcome help/advice.--
MainlyTwelve (
talk)
19:32, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
@
MainlyTwelve, my point is not about your undoubted energies; it's that I am not sure if a long series would be viable. Two reasons:
The further back we go, the thinner such a series gets. It's theoretically possible to say "not before YYYY", but in practice once a series has started, editors expect a "YYYY in Foo" category for every value of YYYY. So the non-existent years become redlinks (
WP:REDNOT) or get created and then come to CFD. Either way that creates a maintenance headache.
Thank you for providing the precedent discussion. I struggled to find one, or any. Given that it was up to debate for a similar city with a similar position in its country's national consciousness (London to the UK/NYC to the U.S.) as early as 2012, I think it's reasonable to continue as is with the NYC subcats as they're no doubt much more populated than the London categories were at that point. At the very least, I'd extend this rationale to apply to years where the number of articles currently indexed is similar the number of articles indexed in the categories I've currently worked through. A brief look at the breakdown by decade for NYC through the 20th century indicates this effort would extend meaningfully backward in time to at least the 1910s, and probably earlier.--
MainlyTwelve (
talk)
20:29, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
@
MainlyTwelve, I draw a different conclusion from that 2012 discussion, viz. don't create estab-by-year cats for 2nd-level national subdivisions.
In the case of NYC, I don't see the numbers to justify creating an exception.
This current discussion should give us some measure of where consensus currently lies on estab-by-year cats for cities. If this closes as keep, then I guess NYC will stay; but otherwise, I will nominate the NYC cats for merger. Please can you hold off creating more of them until consensus is clearer? --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Support, too small cities for this type of categorization and agree with Oculi that it is just not a good idea in general (see also the parallel discussion about New York).
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18:09, 4 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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Delete - I used to put covers categories as subcats of the albums subcat (items related to 'Foo albums') but someone kept reverting ('not albums' which is true).
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Delete. No need for parent for one subcategory of actual content (which is already serving as a more natural parent). StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me18:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)reply
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DeleteNeutralThe two subcats can be connected with hatnotes which takes 1 click for navigation. The category (at least with the current contents) serves no other purpose other than connecting the two subcats with 3 clicks and doesn't overcome
WP:OCEPON. Tried to find more direct articles (house, statue, lawsuit, etc) and found none.
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DeleteNeutral The Songs and Albums subcats are already also under the Works subcategory though so I only see 2 subcats that should be there. (The filmography article also belongs under Works.)
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The 'works' subcategory was created today by the nominator. Musician categories do not generally have a 'works' subcat: see
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