Category talk:Concertos by Arthur Sullivan

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Purpose of category

@Ssilvers: This category is not needed as a plain container (very wrong, with only a single member) - but to place the concerto in Category:Concertos by composer, as a navigational aid both to and from the Sullivan work. Narky Blert (talk) 11:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am certain that there is a better way to do it than to create a category that can only ever be populated by one member. As I understand it, that is absolutely the wrong way to do it. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ssilvers: With respect, I don't think that one reversion with an explanatory comment on the talk page amounts to an edit war.

You could very well be right, but I don't know what that better way is. If there is an established way to solve this sort of navigation problem, I'll cheerfully go along with it. (I think I once found something in the MoS saying that my idea was acceptable. Can I find it again? Like many other things for which I recall having once seen a WP: reference - no.) Is there a MoS entry saying that my idea is wrong? I'm by no means trying to be cute or to war - I just want to know how to solve a problem. The Sullivan concerto isn't an isolated case: see e.g. the Sibelius violin concerto and string quartet, and the Debussy and Ravel quartets.

Could this be a case for a Teahouse question or something? This is surely not the first time an issue like this has come up somewhere on Wiki. I want to get it right, not to force my own opinion.

I linked Category:Piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff into Category:Concertos by composer exactly as it stood. There seemed no reason whatsoever to put the former into a sub-category. Narky Blert (talk) 02:03, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not every composer needs a concertos category. This cure is far worse than the disease. Unless you have a more elegant solution that does not require the creation of a category with only one member, then leave it alone. No one is *ever* going to look for Sullivan's concerto by going through the concertos by composer cat. -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:23, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]