User talk:Adamant1

Please, stop vandalizing.

Adamant, there is an ongoing discussion, what you are doing is vandalizing. Stop imposing your viewpoint before a decision was agreed. How old are you? If your point is that "music is not an event", there is no problem in changing my, say, "1799 music in Milan" to "Opera performances in Milan", which has as categories "Music in Milan" and "events in Milan. If you agree, I agree too. Deal? User:G.dallorto (talk) 22:47, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@G.dallorto: No, what your doing is vandalism. I told you "music" isn't an event or categorized that way. Your the one who keeps reverting me to restore something that's clearly miscategorization. Also, there's obviously a consensus in the CfD to delete the categories. So they will be deleted either way. It's my prerogative if I want to delete the more problematic ones that don't make sense in the meantime. That's just how this works. But the categories are going to be deleted anyway. So it's totally pointless on your end to keep restoring them regardless. I don't have a problem with you creating "Opera performances in Milan" categories. It shouldn't be done "by year" though since it would just lead to the same exact issue of there not being enough operas for any given year to justify the categories. At the end of the day, this should either done by decade, century, or some other way. Creating hundreds of "operas in Milan by year" categories just recreates the problem though. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@G.dallorto: Seriously, don't waste my time asking for my opinion if your just going to ignore it and create the "operas in by year in Milan" categories anyway. Your seriously missing the point of why this whole thing is an issue. Now I'm going to have to start a CfD for "operas in by year in Milan" and we'll just be right at the same point. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is a CfD? Anyway, the person who did not care about the ongoing discussion and carried on to do as he wanted was you, not me. I am still waiting to know how categorizing operas by year harms WikiCommons in any way. All you said is: "I don't like it". So what? This is an ENCYCLOPEDIA, not Instagram. Any wider discussion broader than your obsession is welcome, of course. User:G.dallorto (talk) 23:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@G.dallorto: "CfD" means "category for discussion." Also, this isn't an encyclopedia. It's a media repository. For the umpteenth time, categories exist to organize images, not be stores of facts that don't matter or help people find files. I left a comment on your talk page about why categorizing operas by year is an issue. The files aren't even for operas to begin with. But it still causes the exact problem of being to granular and causing obtuse, nested categories when done "by year by city" that exists with the other categories anyway. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:34, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adamant, if you stopped deciding that categories should be vandalized BEFORE the discussion reached any conclusion, we wouldn't be at this point. Of course WikiMedia IS an encyclopedia. I can't even understand how you reached a different conclusion. And WikiCommons is not a dump, it is not Instagram, it is not Flickr, it is not Tumblr, it is not your hard drive, and I do not see why you assume you have the right to decide, by yourself or with the friends you called in the discussion via @, a policy that involves the whole of Wikipedia.

"Facts that don't matter or help people find files" is just your opinion: categorization, especially with files that have never been categorized before, is essential to find files.

"The files aren't even for operas to begin with." The files we just discussed a few minutes ago are for opera librettos indeed, it is patent that you did not even bother to click on any of them.

This discussion mist become general, because it is evident that you want to force on others a very peculiar vision of Wikipedia-as-instagram that, who knows, might even become the prevalent one some day, but if so, then let it be said openly, because we "old guard" enrolled in the project of an ENCYCLOPEDIA, not in an Instagram-for-the-poor. User:G.dallorto (talk) 23:49, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]