Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations/Categorization
New categorization scheme proposed edit
- This categorization scheme, assembles all organizations through the four main super-categories of Geography, Field, Ideology and Type. All sub-categories and articles will likely have parental categories that belong to more than one 'super-category', and more than one category within them. That being said, the main navigational structure should be location. Each category within field, ideology and type super-categories should have sub categories corresponding to respective location at all levels.
Organizations by Field edit
Academic organizations edit
Educational organizations edit
Scientific organizations edit
Agricultural science organizations edit
Biology organizations edit
Chemistry organizations edit
Engineering organizations edit
Mathematics organizations edit
Physics organizations edit
Business organizations edit
- Note that by filing all these subcategories under "business", what would we do with non-profit advocacy, regulatory, and other bodies on the same subject that are not conducting business? I think that these items should be under "subject" and that "business organizations" should be considered a "purpose"; so that "companies" trees should be subcatted under "business orgs" (as their purpose) and also under a relevant subject (as their subject). Thoughts? --Lquilter (talk) 16:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Industry organizations edit
Communications organizations edit
= Internet organizations = edit
= Postal organizations = edit
= Telegraph organizations = edit
= Telephone organizations = edit
= Television organizations = edit
Defense organizations edit
= Military = edit
= Defense Contractors = edit
Energy organizations edit
= Nuclear organizations = edit
= Wind organizations = edit
= Solar organizations = edit
= Oil & gas organizations = edit
= Coal organizations = edit
Food organizations edit
=Agricultural organizations= edit
=Fisheries organizations= edit
Financial organizations edit
Market organizations edit
Consumer organizations edit
Trade organizations edit
Civic organizations edit
Cultural organizations== edit
Arts organizations edit
Performing arts organizations edit
=Dance organizations= edit
=Film organizations= edit
=Music organizations= edit
=Theatrical organizations= edit
Graphic arts organizations edit
=Painting organizations= edit
=Photography organizations= edit
=Sculpture organizations= edit
Literary arts organizations edit
Ethnic organizations edit
Latino organizations edit
Religious organizations edit
Sexual organizations edit
Youth organizations edit
Men's organizations edit
Women's organizations edit
Environmental organizations edit
Water organizations edit
Government organizations edit
Health organizations edit
Medical organizations edit
Holistic organizations edit
Humanitarian organizations edit
Legal organizations edit
Non government organizations (NGO) edit
Professional organizations edit
Recreational organizations edit
Sports organizations edit
International sport organizations edit
= International sport committees = edit
= International sport federations edit
Racing organizations edit
= Auto racing organizations = edit
Outdoors organizations edit
= Hiking organizations = edit
Martial arts organizations edit
Vehicle organizations edit
Motorcyclists organizations edit
Trade organizations edit
Organizations by Geography edit
Organizations by region edit
Organizations of Africa edit
Organizations of the Americas edit
Organizations of the Americas by region edit
= Organizations of North America = edit
== Organizations of Canada == edit
=== Organizations of Canada by region === edit
==== Organizations based in Alberta ==== edit
===== Organizations based in Edmonton ===== edit
Organizations of Asia Pacific edit
Organizations of Europe edit
Organizations of the Middle East edit
Organizations by country edit
Organizations of Canada edit
Organizations of Canada by region edit
Organizations based in Alberta edit
= Organizations based in Edmonton = edit
Organizations by city edit
Organizations based in Edmonton edit
Organizations by Ideology edit
- Aren't all organizations based on an ideology or shared interest or shared belief or shared commitment of some sort? What is the common theme between political, religious, and philosophical? How could we distinguish it, for instance, from civil rights groups? Or would we want to? (I guess those would be political?) --Lquilter (talk) 16:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Political organizations edit
Political parties edit
Religious organizations edit
Philosophical organizations edit
Organizations by Kind edit
This will be one of the more challenging super-categories to organize. For now I'm going to quickly list all the types of organizations I can find, and with others hopefully a scheme will emerge.
- I think in general this category should be better thought of as legal status and activity. We can evade this public/private distinction; I'm not sure that it's helpful for wikipedia categories. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Private edit
- I wouldn't have this; it's not clear what it means. Many organizations define themselves as "private" with a fairly open membership policy; other organizations are privately owned but have membership open to the public; and so on. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
For-profit organizations edit
- I think this is probably one of four fundamental categories in a Category:Organizations by legal status category: "for-profit organizations", "non-profit organizations", "governmental organizations", and "religious organizations" (which are not necessarily non-profit in all jurisdictions). Other specific legal statuses should also be included, such as "criminal" and "corporate". --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Institutional organizations edit
Public edit
- I wouldn't have this; it's not clear what it means. Many organizations define themselves as "private" with a fairly open membership policy; other organizations are privately owned but have membership open to the public; and so on. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Non-profit organizations edit
- I think this is probably one of four fundamental categories in a Category:Organizations by legal status category: "for-profit organizations", "non-profit organizations", "governmental organizations", and "religious organizations" (which are not necessarily non-profit in all jurisdictions). Other specific legal statuses should also be included, such as "criminal" and "corporate". --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Council organizations edit
- What would this be? I think "council" is a little vague. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Union organizations edit
- Organizations that are part of unions or are comprised of unions? --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Community organizations edit
Conferences edit
- Do we need a tree for Category:Organized events? Maybe as part of Category:Events? --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Protests edit
- Could fit within Category:Organized events. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Societies edit
- Same issue as "associations" below -- seems to imply peer-societies, social societies, interest societies, professional societies, but in practice is often used as a synonym for organization or association. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Corporations edit
- Could fit within Category:Organizations by legal status --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Charitable edit
- This is sometimes considered a purpose (e.g., medical, health, welfare), and sometimes considered a legal status, synonymous with 501c3 in the US. I think with that ambiguity we should avoid this term and stick to "non-profit" as much as possible. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Associations edit
- It seems to me that this term is rather vague: Although I think of it more as peer-associations, as in, associations of union members, professional associations, etc., it is also used in the States as a synonym with organization. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Lobby edit
- This is an activity -- I think it should be part of Category:Organizations by activity. --Lquilter (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Militant edit
Discussion of proposed scheme edit
Proposed basic set of categories for each organization edit
I'm proposing that the categories for each organization cover the following basic topics: its "birth", "death", "location", "legal status/organization", and "purpose". Note that legal status & purpose can be combined in various ways -- for instance, "professional associations" are both within legal structure (non-profit) and activity.
- Purpose - subject (e.g., Category:Science organizations)
- Purpose - activity (e.g., Category:Lobbying organizations)
- Legal structure / status (e.g., Category:Non-profit organizations, Category:Governmental organization, Category:For-profit organizations, etc.)
- Year of establishment, e.g., Category:Organizations established in 1900
- Year of disestablishment if appropriate, e.g., Category:2001 disestablishments (eventually we should have an organizations disestablished in year tree)
- Organizations by location/geography
Within the above proposal, most of the "organizations by field" are "subject" categories and that tree is being filled in -- Category:Organizations by subject. I believe that Category:Organizations by kind is better thought of as Category:Organizations by activity and Category:Organizations by legal status, and hopefully those terms are a bit more descriptive than "kind". Category:Organizations by geography is clearly the location category.
Thoughts?