User blog:Belle pullman/Images Backstage

We have the "Backstage" images category - which at the moment, seems applicable to about 85% of the images on this wiki! Categories are meant to be used, they are meant to let you find specific types of images. At the moment, the "Backstage" category doesn't seem to have any benefit. It's almost at the stage of having a category for "Cats" - what's the point?

So I have an idea - restrict its use to be a fall-back when no other category besides the production is relevant. For example, a picture of a dressing room table doesn't feature any characters, so it would be used for "Backstage". A rack of costumes. Examples of how the mics work. Actors having wigs fitted would qualify, the technical backstage work to run the productions. Rehearsals would not qualify, there is a separate category for them.

Actors in costume, Selfies do NOT qualify for this category! Cute fun pics taken backstage should be categorised by "Production" and "Character", that they are taken backstage is taken as read. If you want to look for pics of a particular performer, the categories for the production or character will take you there.

This seems to me to be the most productive way of using this category - the alternative would be deleting it altogether. However editing the images which should not have the "Backstage" category is quite a job...