- Category:Stage works by P. G. Wodehouse to Category:Plays by P. G. Wodehouse — C2C Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:05, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose. "Plays" implies straight drama; many of Wodehouse's stage works are musicals and revues, not plays, which is why the term "stage works" was adopted. Jimmy Pitt talk 22:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- According to Play (theatre), the word is not so limited—it can be used in a general sense to mean a theatrical production. There is an extensive category tree for Category:Plays, which includes a number of different genres and Category:Plays by author, and there is a category tree for Category:Musicals if that's what you were intending, but there is nothing for Category:Stage works, nor is there even an article called Stage work. Having it in the Category:Plays by author tree helps users find it from an alternate route of category tree browsing. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- While, according to Play (theatre), "the term "play" can be either a general term, or more specifically refer to a non-musical play", the entire article is written from the latter perspective, and that is how I would usually interpret the term. Wodehouse's works for the stage include a small number of "plays" (in the sense of straight drama), several "musicals", and one or two "revues": it was precisely because his works cover several stage genres that I adopted the term "stage works", a term that is, despite what you imply, widely used in wikipedia, as, for example, in Kurt Weill, Johann Strauss II and List of compositions by Thomas Arne. Trying to shoehorn everything into rigid categories doesn't always make sense. Jimmy Pitt talk 23:28, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I was implying that the term is not widely used (or used at all) in the WP category system, which is true. If a play can be a wide range of theatrical works, I see no reason not to use the standard naming for categories of this type. One doesn't need a shoehorn if the shoe slips on pretty well. (It would also be appropriate to add more specific categories like Category:Revues and/or a subcategory of Category:Musicals, where appropriate.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:33, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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