Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/02/Category:Books about World War I
Subdividing by language is okay; but the second major subdivision of the WW1 topic should be by book topic; I think subcategories of the topic "by publication year" should be abolished.
It makes a lot of sense to connect publication dates and publication location (as in Category:1920 books from London), but I see no benefit in combining the publication year and the topic in a category name.
After we subdivided all these books by year (and some also by language), we can no longer comfortably subdivide the entire pool again, this time by topic as well. When browsing, I noticed:
- 1919 book=1920 book=1926 book (books about the history of specific regiments in WW1 would belong into the same category)
- 1928 book=1919 book=1917 book (personal war testimonials/memoirs would belong into the same category)
- 1919 book=1920 book=1923 book (books about naval warfare in WW1 would belong into the same category).
- ... other subtopics as well, such as field medicine; books about East Front; books about West Front; as well as overview works and picture books. Some books combine several topics.
By contrast, the by-year subcategories about WW1 books seem fully arbitrary, depending how quickly an author was able to research, write and publish their own book after the war broke out. Enyavar (talk) 12:28, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Auntof6 and AnRo0002: - Since you're currently active in moving <year-book-by-topic>, I'm curious to learn about what benefits you see in those groupings. --Enyavar (talk) 12:28, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- I think that a time related category might be interesting but not necessarily one by year but rather by decade. My reason for this is that reception and assessment/evaluation of the events are likely influenced by contemporary events and attitudes. As a simple example, a WW1 book that was written in the early 1940s in Germany (during the time of National Socialism reign) will likely look at WW1 differently and draw different conclusions from the events than a WW1 book that was written in the 2020s in Germany. Nakonana (talk) 20:23, 16 August 2025 (UTC)