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I'm happy to remove the non-indian folks, and put them into a new category of Activists for Indian independence.
Mason (
talk)
01:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Actually, it looks like Sarla Behn moved to India, and is categorized in several other Indian FOOian categories. Similar case with Annie Besant. In other words, it looks like they were intentially categorized as being in Indian women categories.
Mason (
talk)
01:33, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure why it's necessary to fully fix the entire parent category structure. The British people could be People from British India. Regardless, it was pretty clear that the category contents reflect Indian women, and are inconsistent with other women activists categories.
Mason (
talk) 02:26, 17 July 2024 (UTCC)
Personally, I'd like to eventually make it easier to distinguish between
nationality and
causes. Category:Women human rights activists is much more clearly about Human rights activists who are women, compared to how we often name
Category:Independence activists which could go either way as this conversation has revealed.
Mason (
talk)
20:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)reply
If it were clear, this would not be an ongoing discussion, and there would not be an entire category tree dedicated to Category:Independence activists by nationality.
Mason (
talk)
11:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
There are people who are still defined by their research in race and intelligence, even if they aren't actively involved in such controversy. The current version implies that they are advocating for the hypothesis in favor, the rename does not imply that they are in favor of the hypothesis. If you want to purge the category, fine, but I think that your opposition in misguided, given how potentially controversial the label is.
Mason (
talk)
10:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Researchers of the topic are a completely different sort of people in this context, they should never be mingled with people who are actually involved in these controversies. If enough researchers articles exist they should have their own category.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
19:32, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I agree with Andrybak. Looked at a few at the minor planet category. Any link template should be under a sub-category of
Category:Link templates. "Utility" is so generic that it is unhelpful, as is the previous "function templates". Probably best to check the contents of each category and see if they are all of a same type, find out which parent correctly fit that type and rename to match.
Gonnym (
talk)
07:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"the Canterbury Region", similar to "the West Coast Region" and "the Marlborough Region", which have just been done.
Nurg (
talk)
08:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Question: Should these be at "in the Southland Region" or "in Southland Region"?
Southland Region has one piece of running text, "A map showing population density in the Southland Region at the 2006 census.", which suggests the former, and three pieces of running text which suggest the latter: "Southland Region and the Southland Regional Council were created in 1989", "Southland Region covers 31,218.27 km2" and "Southland Region had a population of 97,467 at the 2018 New Zealand census". This contrasts somewhat with the usage at the article
Canterbury Region (see above), but is the same style (whichever one it is) preferable for both regions?
Ham II (
talk)
10:10, 13 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"the Southland Region", similar to "the West Coast Region" and "the Marlborough Region", which have just been done, and similar to all the other NZ regions, as can be seen by navigating down the tree at
Category:Regions of New Zealand.
Nurg (
talk)
08:47, 15 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Move to full CfD.
Indigenous peoples is the pertinent article (note the plural), and the first endnote there says that most style guides recommend a capital "I" in running text. The category's current scope is conceptually shaky, conflating as it does people indigenous to the Americas with ones from the Basque Country; it should probably be reserved for capital-I Indigenous peoples, which means only the first group. The idea of animal breeds originating from people has a problematic ring; is there a better way of expressing this?
Ham II (
talk)
14:13, 7 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Please look at the siblings for other LGBT fooian male occupations. There's no other example of Fooian men occupations.
Mason (
talk)
12:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Check
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Please note that a speedy request must state which of the narrowly defined criteria strictly applies. Hence, any other non-speedy criteria, even "common sense" or "obvious", may be suitable points, but only at a full discussion at
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Request may take 48 hours to process after listing if there are no objections. This delay allows other users to review the request to ensure that it meets the speedy criteria for speedy renaming or merging, and to raise objections to the proposed change.
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C2E may also be processed instantly (at the discretion of an administrator) as it is a variation on
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To oppose a speedy request you must record your objection within 48 hours of the nomination. Do this by inserting immediately under the nomination:
Oppose, (the reasons for your objection). ~~~~
You will not be able to do this by editing the page WP:Categories for discussion. Instead, you should edit the section
WP:Categories for discussion#Add requests for speedy renaming and merging here or the page
WP:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Add requests for speedy renaming and merging here (
WP:CFDS). Be aware that in the course of any discussion, the nomination and its discussion may get moved further down the page purely for organizational convenience – you may need to search
WP:CFDS to find the new location. Participate in any ongoing discussion, but unless you withdraw your opposition, a knowledgeable person may eventually bring forward the nomination and discussion to become a regular CFD discussion. At that stage you may add further comments, but your initial opposition will still be considered. However, if after seven days there has been no support for the request, and no response from the nominator, the request may be dropped from further consideration as a speedy.
Contested speedy requests become stale, and can be untagged and delisted after 7 days of inactivity. Optionally, if the discussion may be useful for future reference, it may be copied to the category talk page, with a section heading and {{
moved discussion from|[[WP:CFDS]]|2=~~~~}}. If the nominator wants to revive the process, this may be requested at
WP:Categories for discussion (CfD) in accordance with
its instructions.
If you belatedly notice and want to oppose a speedy move that has already been processed, contact one of the admins who
process the Speedy page. If your objection seems valid, they may reverse the move, or start a full CFD discussion.
Correction of spelling errors and
capitalization fixes. Differences between
British and American spelling (e.g. Harbours → Harbors) are not considered errors; however if the convention of the relevant category tree is to use one form over the other then a rename may be appropriate under
C2C. If both spellings exist as otherwise-identical category names, they should be merged.
Appropriate conversion of hyphens into
en dashes or
vice versa (e.g. Category:Canada-Russia relations → Category:Canada–Russia relations).
Correction of obvious grammatical errors, such as a missing
conjunction (e.g. Individual frogs toads → Individual frogs and toads). This includes
pluralizing a noun in the name of a set category, but not when disagreement might reasonably be anticipated as to whether the category is a
topic or set category.
C2B: Consistency with established Wikipedia naming conventions and practices
Bringing a category into line with established naming conventions for that category tree, or into line with the various "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at
Wikipedia:Category names
This should be used only where there is no room for doubt that the category in question is being used for the standard purpose instead of being a potential subcategory.
This criterion should be applied only when there is no ambiguity or doubt over the existence of a category naming convention. Such a convention must be well defined and must be overwhelmingly used within the tree. If this is not the case then the category in question must be brought forward to a full Cfd nomination.
This applies only if the related page's current name (and by extension, the proposed name for the category) is:
unambiguous (so it generally does not apply to proposals to remove a disambiguator from the category name, even when the main article is the
primary topic of its name, i.e. it does not contain a disambiguator); and
uncontroversial, either because of longstanding stability at that particular name, or because the page was just moved (i) after a page move discussion resulted in explicit consensus to rename, or (ii) unilaterally to reflect an official renaming which is verified by one or more citations (provided in the nomination). C2D does not apply if the result would be contrary to guidelines at
WP:CATNAME, or there is any ongoing discussion about the name of the page or category, or there has been a recent discussion concerning any of the pages that resulted in a no consensus result, or it is controversial in some other way.
This criterion may also be used to rename a
set category in the same circumstances, where the set is defined by a renamed topic; e.g. players for a sports team, or places in a district.
Before nominating a category to be renamed per
WP:C2D, consider whether it makes more sense to move the article instead of the category.
This criterion applies only if the author of a category requests or agrees to renaming within six months of creating the category.
The criterion does not apply if other editors have populated or changed the category since it was created. "Other editors" includes bots that populated the category, but excludes an editor working with the author on the renaming.
This criterion applies if the category contains only an eponymous article, list, template or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories, where applicable. Nominations should use {{
subst:cfm-speedy}} (speedy merger) linking to a suitable parent category, or to another appropriate category (e.g. one that is currently on the article).
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When handling the listings:
Make sure that the listing meets one of the above criteria.
With the exception of C2E, make sure that it was both listed and tagged at least 48 hours previously.
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A nomination to merge or rename, brought forward as a full
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No objections have been made within 48 hours of the initial nomination.
If both these conditions are satisfied, the closure will be regarded as having been a result of a speedy nomination. If any objections have been raised then the CfD nomination will remain in place for the usual 7-day discussion period, to be decided in accordance with expressed consensus.
Add requests for speedy renaming and merging here
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I'm happy to remove the non-indian folks, and put them into a new category of Activists for Indian independence.
Mason (
talk)
01:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Actually, it looks like Sarla Behn moved to India, and is categorized in several other Indian FOOian categories. Similar case with Annie Besant. In other words, it looks like they were intentially categorized as being in Indian women categories.
Mason (
talk)
01:33, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure why it's necessary to fully fix the entire parent category structure. The British people could be People from British India. Regardless, it was pretty clear that the category contents reflect Indian women, and are inconsistent with other women activists categories.
Mason (
talk) 02:26, 17 July 2024 (UTCC)
Personally, I'd like to eventually make it easier to distinguish between
nationality and
causes. Category:Women human rights activists is much more clearly about Human rights activists who are women, compared to how we often name
Category:Independence activists which could go either way as this conversation has revealed.
Mason (
talk)
20:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)reply
If it were clear, this would not be an ongoing discussion, and there would not be an entire category tree dedicated to Category:Independence activists by nationality.
Mason (
talk)
11:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
There are people who are still defined by their research in race and intelligence, even if they aren't actively involved in such controversy. The current version implies that they are advocating for the hypothesis in favor, the rename does not imply that they are in favor of the hypothesis. If you want to purge the category, fine, but I think that your opposition in misguided, given how potentially controversial the label is.
Mason (
talk)
10:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Researchers of the topic are a completely different sort of people in this context, they should never be mingled with people who are actually involved in these controversies. If enough researchers articles exist they should have their own category.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
19:32, 19 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I agree with Andrybak. Looked at a few at the minor planet category. Any link template should be under a sub-category of
Category:Link templates. "Utility" is so generic that it is unhelpful, as is the previous "function templates". Probably best to check the contents of each category and see if they are all of a same type, find out which parent correctly fit that type and rename to match.
Gonnym (
talk)
07:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"the Canterbury Region", similar to "the West Coast Region" and "the Marlborough Region", which have just been done.
Nurg (
talk)
08:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Question: Should these be at "in the Southland Region" or "in Southland Region"?
Southland Region has one piece of running text, "A map showing population density in the Southland Region at the 2006 census.", which suggests the former, and three pieces of running text which suggest the latter: "Southland Region and the Southland Regional Council were created in 1989", "Southland Region covers 31,218.27 km2" and "Southland Region had a population of 97,467 at the 2018 New Zealand census". This contrasts somewhat with the usage at the article
Canterbury Region (see above), but is the same style (whichever one it is) preferable for both regions?
Ham II (
talk)
10:10, 13 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"the Southland Region", similar to "the West Coast Region" and "the Marlborough Region", which have just been done, and similar to all the other NZ regions, as can be seen by navigating down the tree at
Category:Regions of New Zealand.
Nurg (
talk)
08:47, 15 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Move to full CfD.
Indigenous peoples is the pertinent article (note the plural), and the first endnote there says that most style guides recommend a capital "I" in running text. The category's current scope is conceptually shaky, conflating as it does people indigenous to the Americas with ones from the Basque Country; it should probably be reserved for capital-I Indigenous peoples, which means only the first group. The idea of animal breeds originating from people has a problematic ring; is there a better way of expressing this?
Ham II (
talk)
14:13, 7 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Please look at the siblings for other LGBT fooian male occupations. There's no other example of Fooian men occupations.
Mason (
talk)
12:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Check
Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for out of process deletions. In some cases, these will need to be nominated for discussion and the editor who emptied the category informed that they should follow the
WP:CFD process.