Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/03/Category:Conductor

Category:Conductor

This should be a disam page that would include musicians and Category:Conductors (transportation). E4024 (talk) 14:09, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking Category:Conductors should be the disambig page and what's currently at Category:Conductors should be moved to Category:Musical conductors or something equivalent. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:44, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Themightyquill. The parent category Category:Conducting may need a similar rename. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:07, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This page is currently a redirect to Category:Conductors and there is a hatnote mentioning other similar categories. Even if this page becomes a disambiguation page, the hatnote at Category:Conductors is still required, so I don't see any advantage in doing that, but there's no downside either, and I don't object.

I do object to wider reaching actions related to Category:Conductors and Category:Conducting. Such actions are unnecessary and have not been originally proposed. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:19, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Conductor has been deleted but the abiguity of Category:Conductors remains. Whether this action was originally proposed or not, Category:Conductors has been tagged for discussion since 28 March 2018. If we move to Category:Music conductors, Category:Musical conductors or Category:Conductors (music), there will no longer be a need for a hatnote. Category:Conductors will be a disambiguation page, matching en:Conductor. Subcategories will need to be changes as well, including quite a few in Category:Conductors by country. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:32, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with themightyquill and I'd suggested that Category:Conductors (music) is the preferred category because we don't call them "musical conductors" - they're just conductors. – BMacZero (🗩) 03:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@E4024, Themightyquill, Auntof6, Michael Bednarek, and BMacZero: i intend to close this. personally i prefer "music conductors" as i find this most concise and natural, but i'm happy with any phrase agreed upon. so, what are your choices? RZuo (talk) 10:53, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to renaming Category:Conductors to "Category:Music conductors". "Musical conductors" is ambiguous – it might be understood to relate to the genre of musical. Note: there are currently 73 subcategories in Category:Conductors by country, and two gendered categories which probably all need to be renamed. I'm not sure whether Category:Signatures of conductors needs to be renamed, but IMO the other subcategories in Category:Conductors don't. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:15, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I still believe that Category:Conductors (music) would be better. It doesn't matter whether it sounds better or more natural, to use Category:Music conductors is to adopt a very infrequently used wording over the common name (just google "music conductor" with no quotes). If we need to disambiguate a word from its other definitions, we should just use our well-established disambiguation syntax (parenthesis). – BMacZero (🗩) 19:09, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@BMacZero, I agree with you that Category:Conductors (music) would be best. I was categorizing a file of a conductor within an artwork. The artistic image of the "conductor" lead me to search for that word- music was secondary. -- Ooligan (talk) 18:08, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]