Category talk:Postcards

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[edit] Category:Old postcards

The Old postcards category is marked as being moved to Category:Postcards. It appears that other Category:Old postcards xxxx items are being depreciated as well.

In particular, Category:Old postcards of the United States items are being recategorized as Category:Postcards of <state> and Category:<State> in the <decade>. e.g. Category:Postcards of New York and Category:New York in the 1900s.

I just wanted to make this direction explicit. Comments? Parkerdr 00:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I lean towards phasing out the "Old postcards" categories, for two reasons: 1)The vast majority of postcards on Commons will be old, as recent ones are usually copyrighted. 2)"Old" is a rather vague distinction which I don't recall seeing defined for use in categorizing postcards here.

The other points I think are part of general efforts to put media in more specific categories by place and by era, not specifically postcard related.

Postcards at present seem mainly to be categorized by country plus a few subject categories. Does anyone think it would be useful to start subcategorizing postcards in other ways (type of printing, era, etc), and if so what would suggested sub-categories be? -- Infrogmation 00:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I think of these postcards as a snapshot of the past and the subjects are more interesting than the fact that it's a postcard. I'm in favor of the Category:Postcards of <state> and Category:<State> in the <decade> tagging, for the cards showin landscapes, buildings, etc. Parkerdr 14:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)