Category talk:People

Note: Content depicting people can be put in categories and/or galleries which describe them, such as Category:Economists from the United States or Category:Albert Einstein.

• All categories named after a person should be included in the category People by name and sorted by their family name: [[Category:People by name|Family name, first or given name]] (or use {{DEFAULTSORT:}}), and remember: do not tag files with this category!
• At Wikipedia or other Wikimedia Foundation wikis, if you see a link to File:Replace this image male.png or a similar "missing image" file, please upload a free-license image and replace the "File:" link on the wiki page.

 See Commons:Category scheme People

Is there any clear guideline on how to categorise in Wikicommons. It's a mess right now. For example, category:Physicists has a place in both category:People and category:scientists, but category:mathematicians has not. In the People category there is also a place for Conductors, Musicians and Composers, should they not be moved to another category, and have that category in the People category. Wikipedia has such guidelines, should we follow those? --Maarten van Vliet 12:18, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Can we have a category of people not looking at the camera or people with a transparent background? I think those categories would be really useful for grasphic designers, architects etc. Sweetie candykim (talk) 12:11, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Both this Category:People and the other one, Category:Homo sapiens use a naked couple as category's main picture. I wonder if you can only think of nude couples for both concepts, people and homo sapiens(?) Why don't you better use a picture of old and young men, women, girls and boys of different race/ethnic origins for the basic illustration (I mean Wikidata Infobox) of Category:People? 186.173.79.158 02:21, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata's decision, not ours. That's a Wikidata Infobox. But I think it's a reasonable decision. - Jmabel ! talk 04:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Agree when it comes to the People cat. However, for the Homo sapiens cat it does seem reasonable, for instance because other animals are all pictured nude even though their morphology usually means that their genitals are not as exposed. To answer your question when it comes to the People cat: because you and nobody else changed it. You could create some collage of clothed people at different times of humanity such as the Stone Age and the present at different ages and then replace the image on Wikidata. Let me know if you did so because it would be great if somebody could do that. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:39, 26 August 2024 (UTC)Reply