Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:Films by producer

Category:Films by producer
At best, this category is redundant with Films by studio. At worst, like Literary works by publisher, it has nothing to do with the quotes. This sort of classification is appropriate at Wikipedia, and we should cross-link with the Wikipedia articles, but it serves no useful purpose here. — Ningauble 18:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 19:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 18:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 18:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Our categorization scheme should be humble in its ambition, directed towards guiding readers to quotes based on their topic and authorship (including characteristics of the author), but not something tertiary like this. BD2412 T 17:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Sensible. -Sketchmoose 18:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The result of this discussion is clearly deletion of the category. Are we deleting the subcategories also, or just recategorizing them under Category:Films by studio? BD2412 T 22:30, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it is time to move the question of deleting Category:Films by studio that was raised a couple times last year. I would provisionally support merging them as a way to consolidate for a vote on whether to keep the resulting aggregate. ~ Ningauble 17:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * In retrospect, that won't work. The producers are not studios (companies which distribute the films) but merely financial backers. BD2412 T 19:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not sure about conflating distribution with the making of films, a parlance that seems to me just a hangover from the vertical integration characteristic of the golden age of the studio system. Distribution really has nothing to do with creating a film, except insofar an nobody will finance it until a distribution channel has been lined up. I see no value in mechanically categorizing films by imprint. Distributors place their imprint on works they handle just as book publishers do, but we don't categorize Hamlet in Category:Simon & Schuster books, Category:Cambridge University Press books, &c., or even Category:Books distributed by Amazon Kindle. ~ Ningauble 17:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't mean to suggest that the studio categories should be kept, just that the producer categories shouldn't be recategorized under them. BD2412 T 20:49, 16 July 2010 (UTC)