Commons:Categories for discussion/Current requests/2008/09/Category:Architectural plans

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[edit] Category:Architectural plans

Category:Architectural plans and Category:Floor plans. Whatever is the better name, we should combine these cats. TomAlt (talk) 11:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

No objection. "Architectural plans" is slightly more general, because it would include landscape architecture where there is no floor, and would also include the "reverse plan" for a ceiling. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Good, we could first create architectural plans. Regards.--Mac (talk) 10:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Stop, stop. Now we have an unclear situaton: Category:Architectural plans and Category:Architectural drawings doubel up as "Topcats". I think that should be clearer and suggest:

*Category:Architectural drawings as Topcat that contains all kind of Drawings as now,

*Category:Floor plans as subcat

* As it doubles IMHO up with Architectural drawings we should delete Category:Architectural plans and move all entries over to Category:Architectural drawings. The term "Architectural drawings" allows to separate "by type" that means if its a section, elevation of floor plan. "Architectural plans" does not really allow this and is simply blurry because of the term "plan".

TomAlt (talk) 22:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

oK, after I cleaned up a bit I am confirmed in my conclusion: Category:Architectural plans should be deleted / redirected, because many people mix the term "plan" (in the sense of a layouted sheet with several drawings) up with "floor plans". As this will happen again all the time I suggest we move all "Sheets" into a new Category:Architectural drawing sheets and redirect there. TomAlt (talk) 22:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

In the English Wikipedia we just merged the w:Architectural plan (just created by me) into the w:Architectural drawing article, because the term "Architectural plan" didn't seem to have one particular meaning.

So I think it is a good idea to remove this category here. I am not so sure about a new category named "Architectural drawing sheets". Ideally categories should relate to real types of architectural drawings: Types that could have a Wikipedia article. Now it seems to me, at first sight, that several of the images categorized in that new category could be categorized in other existing categories just as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

That's true, some could also be sorted in the object cats like "Church drawings" or "Opera drawings" etc. But for the type, an arranged / layouted plan or sheet there has to be a separate cat. I'm open for suggestions for a better name. TomAlt (talk) 13:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Closing stale discussion from 2008. Please open a new thread if needed. -- User:Docu at 06:02, 13 November 2009 (UTC)