Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/10/Category:People taken with Nikon D5200

Category:People taken with Nikon D5200

I strongly oppose intersecting camera categories with subject matter. On that basis, we could recreate the whole topical category tree for each different camera! Delete this category and upmerge to Category:Taken with Nikon D5200. @Vogler: please do not continue to populate this category while its appropriateness is being discussed. Jmabel ! talk 18:25, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: please do not upmerge anything since Category:Taken with Nikon D5200 is heavily overpopulated with over 14,000 photos. There is a huge need for it to be divided into object depicted categories. Vogler (talk) 20:17, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a topical category where people are likely to look through it for an example image. I would imagine that any uses of by-camera categories would involve category intersections, not going by hand and eye through the entire category contents, so the size of the category shouldn't matter. Splitting it up only makes it more difficult if someone is trying to intersect it with criteria other than the one you split by. - Jmabel ! talk 20:32, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've posted at Commons:Village pump#Should we split by-camera categories by subject matter of photos to draw broader attention to this discussion. I did my best to keep the wording neutral, but @Vogler, if you think it is non-neutral you are welcome to comment there. Other than that, we should keep the discussion here. - Jmabel ! talk 20:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and upmerge: Intersection categories should be used judiciously, and this isn't one we need. In general, intersections between subject categories and file information categories aren't necessary except in rare cases (like SVG maps). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. The "taken by X" categories are to provide a technical grouping, not to build entire subject trees (and I imagine it would become a largely unmaintained mess). It's okay that it's a large category. If in a rare case someone wants to find specific subject photos in a specific camera category, they can use something like PetScan or structured data querying. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 21:17, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and upmerge per above. These aren't mainspace categories but technical ones, people are unlikely to look for content here. These categories aren't visible on files to logged-out users. It's not a problem if these categories are very large. ReneeWrites (talk) 09:30, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and upmerge similar to Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/09/Category:Cars taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark III --XRay 💬 13:38, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and upmerge before this gets carried to its logical conclusion of reproducing the entire Commons category tree. Nosferattus (talk) 17:14, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]