User:Dsp13/query forms

Useful queries to pass to the Link & category intersection tool by Dschwen

Categorizing hospitals by country, year of establishment

Hospitals[3]
-Hospitals by country[4]
-Hospital radio stations[3]
-Hospital networks[3]
-Lists of hospitals[3]
-Hospital administrators[3]
-Fictional hospitals[3]
-Hospitals[0]
-Hospital departments[3]

Template:Hospital-stub seems to be applied rather indisriminately, to include healthcare facilities (hospital departments, medical research centres etc.) which aren't themselves hospitals

Categorizing companies by year of establishment

Companies of China[4]
-Categories named after companies
-Companies by year of establishment[4]
-Lists of companies
-Aircraft by manufacturer

Categorizing magazines by country, year of establishment

Magazines by language
-Publications by year of establishment
-Publications with year of establishment missing
-British music media
-Journalists
-Magazine people
-Categories named after magazines

Issues thrown up

Exclusion of eponymous categories

Categories named after magazines create problems, since in those cases Category:Foo is a collection of pages about ontologically diverse things associated with Foo, rather than a collection of some sort of Foos.

• I therefore created a new category, Category:Categories named after magazines, in order to systematically exclude categories like Category:2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Category:Fortune, Category:Penthouse magazine, Category:Playboy, Category:Scientific American, Category:Sports Illustrated and Category:Time magazine. Asking CatScan for Articles under Magazines that contain template Cat main yielded a few more categories named after magazines.
• In collecting articles by drilling through the subcategory tree, I think Category:Eponymous categories is generally useful.

What is the relation between Template:Cat main and Category:Eponymous categories? I think all categories in eponymous categories should use the template cat main, but not the converse.Dsp13 (talk) 14:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Comics

Though at present Category:Comics is not a subcat of Category:Magazines (both are a subcat of Category:Periodicals), some subcats of comics get casually categorized as subcats of magazines (e.g. Category:British comics as a subcat of Category:British magazines). To what extent should the category structure of comics be kept separate from that of magazines? Should it be disentangled, or more systematically related? In particular, should Category:YYYY comic debuts be a subcategory of Category:Publications established in YYYY?

Journals

Since there is no Category:Journals by country, journals edited in or particularly identified with a particular country often end up using the category tree under Category:Magazines by country. Again, should this be disentangled?

Stubs

Category:Magazine stubs seems quite clean, but Category:Comics stubs seems a bit more miscellaneous, containing comic characters & comic strips as well as publications which are comics.