TheBigGnome wrote:
If we're trying to be a database, why would we want to remove valid information?
Unless someone wants to take the time to go to every staff page and make a proper list of credits, removal of these categories will be equivalent to a loss of information. I'm not willing to do that at this time, but it could be a project for the future.
I oppose the removal of information because "it looks cluttered."
Almost all of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts already list certain credits in their infoboxes. If they don't already, then they should be listed.
However, in the case of outsourced episodes (Tiny Toon Adventures and the like), it would be a lot of work to create categories for every single animator who worked on those; it'd be better to just list the studio.
Orange Mo wrote:
Directed, produced, written keep, but because almost every cartoon is music by milt franklyn and Carl Stalling there's really no need to add these.
I feel that the change in music composers/directors is significant enough to note. If every cartoon were composed by Carl Stalling then I could understand why there would be no need to add the category. You could argue that since "almost every cartoon is produced by Leon Schlesinger/Eddie Selzer/John Burton" there's no need to keep the producer categories.
I largely agree with TheBigGnome that the categories convey useful information, but I have several other concerns:
- Some of the categories (and thus credits) could be based on misinformation (i.e., taking credits from the unreliable IMDb)
- How do we handle categories where someone played more than one role? (i.e., Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson being animators and directors)
- Some credits only appear on one cartoon, creating a lot of categories with only one page in them. This is something I'd ideally like to avoid. Maybe we could make a rule that says if a credit appears on only one short, then a category should not be created for it.
Okay, now here's some categories that I think should be kept:
- Directors. There's a lot of them, and they arguably make up the backbone of every short.
- Writers. Also arguably make up the backbone of each cartoon.