User talk:Rubyng2004

Please review the existence of Category:Percussion 12+ Works

____ Dear Ruby: Where I am from, the category exists for people to look for percussion ensemble works for 12 or more players... This is a necessary distinction to allow people to see all the works that include 12 or more players. It doesn't hurt anyone to have multiple ways to sort items. I am fine with keeping sub categories beyond 12 as you have been doing, but we can still have a sub category of all works and composers who have written works for 12 or more players. Thank you for understanding and leaving this category in place. Cheers!

There are 217 works under Percussion 12; 149 works under Percussion 13; 120 works under Percussion 14; 54 works under Percussion 15; 49 works under Percussion 16; 34 works under Percussion 17; 23 works under Percussion 18; 19 works under Percussion 19 and 47 works under Percussion 20+, it seems that is becoming more inconvenient for searching while putting them into same category.

I can see the benefits of having individual categories beyond 12 for all the reasons you suggest. For me, I like to see large lists of items to choose from when doing a random search, so the broad categories have as much use as more narrowed searches....ie: Composers - in general that is a way to see the broad picture while you can also narrow it down as you see fit by number of players, or many other ways. I will think about it a bit more, but I don't see a problem by having more ways to sort the data rather than fewer. And it fits a definite search criteria for the state festivals that I am catering to by having this particular sorting point.

In terms of composer category, there are many categories of different nationality, but you won't put a german composer into a european composer category. If so, I will agree to put a piece with 13 or more players under the category of 12+