Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/01/Category:Hua Guofeng era

Category:Hua Guofeng era

2409:8A3C:1C2E:A700:E19C:88A4:C015:B124 (talk · contribs) started a series of "xx era". this is not a good use of commons category tree and all should be deleted, because:

1. such "eras" are not precisely defined.
2. to group "categories of a place in a certain period" together as a certain person's era is simply overemphasising one person.
3. there're tens of thousands of celebrities or historical figures. are we gonna create similarly ill-defined categories for these people's eras? obama era? marilyn monroe era? shinzo abe era? putin era?
4. they simply mess up the cat tree by introducing weird loops from person to period to everything in a country in that period, leading to overly broad cat trees under these persons' categories. RZuo (talk) 10:44, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

all the cats to be deleted:

1. Category:Zhang Zuolin era
2. Category:Feng Guozhang era
3. Category:Xu Shichang era
4. Category:Sun Yat-sen era
5. Category:Li Yuanhong era
6. Category:Yuan Shikai era
7. Category:Chiang Kai-shek era
8. Category:Hua Guofeng era
9. Category:Xi Jinping era
10. Category:Hu Jintao era
11. Category:Deng Xiaoping era
12. Category:Jiang Zemin era
13. Category:Mao Zedong era

RZuo (talk) 10:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

We do have categories that refer to Japanese emperors (Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Heisei, Reiwa) and those are defined by specific dates, but using to to refer to Chinese politicians feels weird. I could see a use case for Chinese emperors and the eras of other monarchs, but not for politicians, be they authoritarian or democratic. Abzeronow (talk) 17:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

an era name is a formal word chosen by royals. it's an entirely different concept. RZuo (talk) 00:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)