This is a gallery page, which is slightly different than a category, in that it is hand-curated. There are thousands of gallery pages on Commons that share the same scope as a category, so I don't think there's anything wrong with it existing. Per Commons:Galleries: "Categories should contain /all/ files related to the subject while galleries should contain /a sample/ of files related to the subject. Ideally, galleries should contain the best of what we have."

Gallery pages are quite neglected on Commons and most people don't care about them and rarely use them. You guys should feel free to go crazy cleaning them up or adding to them. The Painters gallery for example has only been touched by 2 editors in its entire 5-edit history.

Ryan Kaldari

On 10/7/11 2:39 PM, Risker wrote:

On 7 October 2011 17:22, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com> wrote:

I never knew all painters were male ;-)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Painters

Hmmm. That page shouldn't exist, because there is already the category of painters, with hundreds of entries. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Painters

Perhaps one of the Commons editors might wish to address that.

Risker/Anne

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