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Category:Bristolians who attended Oxbridge

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Bristolians who attended the University of Cambridge ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Bristolians who attended Oxbridge ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Bristolians who attended the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Overcategorization. Unnecessary categorization. The categories can be separated into People from Bristol and Alumni of any Oxbridge University, both of which exist. Hence Delete.-- WriterListener 23:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Mortal Kombat locations

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The result of the debate was upmerged the one article in the one sub-category. Bencherlite Talk 21:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Mortal Kombat locations ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Now has just one subcategory, and no articles of its own, and the two remaining articles in the subcategory probably have a few days left. Judgesurreal777 22:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:S.C.I.F.I. World

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:S.C.I.F.I. World ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - unnecessary eponymous category for a programming block on a TV network. The material is appropriately interlinked. Otto4711 22:32, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Wikipedian 13:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents

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The result of the debate was keep after nomination withdrawn. Bencherlite Talk 21:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents to Category:Canadian newspaper journalists

:Nominator's rationale: Merge, There's no meaningful distinction being made here, as far as I can see. However, the other subcategories here -- Columnists, Editors and Photojournalists -- should certainly stay as is. Thanks, Shawn in Montreal 21:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC):Withdraw and speedily close if possible. As the nominator I'd like to withdraw my merge proposal, if that's possible, so as to move things alone. I see Cgingold (and others') point. Shawn in Montreal 16:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Districts of the Chachapoyas Province

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The result of the debate was rename, assuming that Doczilla meant "rename".... Bencherlite Talk 21:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Districts of the Chachapoyas Province to Category:Districts of Chachapoyas Province
Nominator's rationale: Rename. While use of "the" is the literal translation of the Spanish - most geographic regions have a "the" when refered to - normal English usage doesn't have "the" in this context. Carlossuarez46 19:49, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Wikipedian pilots

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The result of the debate was speedy close, wrong forum. This is a WP:UCFD matter and I'll move it there. Bencherlite Talk 19:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Wikipedian pilots to Category:Wikipedian aviators
Nominator's rationale: As with Category:Pilots, this category could refer to aviators or harbour pilots. I doubt anyone has used it for the latter, particularly given the "airplane pilot" userbox displayed on the category page, so I think it's safe to move the category's members with the assumption that they are aviators. — xDanielx T/ C\ R 19:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Coated Paper

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Paper. Bencherlite Talk 21:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Coated Paper ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete found in the orphanage and not needed for the 3 articles categorized therein. Carlossuarez46 19:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Double reed organizations

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The result of the debate was keep. While the nomination was withdrawn, it seems worthwhile to validate this as a "keep" result.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Double reed organizations ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category only has one article, and seems unlikely to get any larger. Either delete or merge into some larger category, if one exists. Chromaticity 18:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
The nomination is withdrawn. While I still think this is overcategorization, it is plainly obvious that the propensity to create virtually endless categories with the barest of distinctions is well-entrenched in Wikipedia. Forgive my intrusion; while I think this category is unnecessary, neither does it appear to be particularily harmful. As such, I withdraw the deletion request; could someone who understands how these things work do the appropriate paperwork? Chromaticity 03:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - This is part of a wider effort (which did not previously exist) to categorize music organizations not within the main category, but within a new subcategory Category:Music organizations by instrument. Like other music categories, such as Category:Jazz bassoonists, there will necessarily be few articles in a single category. But such logical categorization is useful to our readers and follows the music categorization guidelines strictly. Note to the editor who took the time to put in this "delete vote" not 90 seconds after the subcategory was created: in the future, try to look through the upper-level category and related articles to see how the new category operates before submitting a deletion proposal so "instantly." Best, Badagnani 18:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Disturbed members

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Kbdank71 ( talk) 17:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Disturbed members to Category:Disturbed (band) members
Propose renaming Category:Disturbed albums to Category:Disturbed (band) albums
Propose renaming Category:Disturbed songs to Category:Disturbed (band) songs
Nominator's rationale: Rename all. To reduce ambiguity of the names. Otto4711 17:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Railway stations in Punjab

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The result of the debate was rename.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Railway stations in Punjab ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:Railway stations in Punjab (India), to match Punjab (India) and not Punjab (Pakistan). -- Prove It (talk) 16:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wirral

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The result of the debate was delete, empty. Bencherlite Talk 21:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wirral ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: All articles have been moved to Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside which is the correct Area of Search so this category is now unnecessary. Suicidalhamster 16:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Articles with trivia sections from Decemeber 2007

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The result of the debate was speedy delete. Bencherlite Talk 20:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Articles with trivia sections from Decemeber 2007 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I made a spelling error when I added a {{trivia}} link to an article, and created this by accident. The correctly spelled category title has already been created. GVOLTT How's my editing?\ My contribs 16:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Heterosexual writers

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Heterosexual writers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I've emptied this and I'm tempted to speedy. It's some strange POINTy thing I presume. It had Josephus, Tacitus, William Shakespeare and Ezekiel in it. Do we know Ezekiel's sexuality? Even if we did, the category makes as much sense as "right handed". Docg 13:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Delete Unusually enough, I agree with Doc. Heterosexuality is the (statistically-speaking) normative case. While it's more important a characteristic than handedness, a writer's sexual orientation would generally only be notable when it differs from the norm. -- Ssbohio 15:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Delete This is most likely a point violation. Possibly heterosexual Stonewall Book Award winners, or just nominees, or something could be of interest but otherwise no.-- T. Anthony 17:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

For example there is a category for Category:African American writers and Category:Mexican American writers etc. but there is no category for Category:European American Writers

to sum it up there cases where there are categories that show that having a majority category for example Category:Israeli Jews yet at the same time for the category Category:American writers by ethnicity there is subcats for almost all ethnicities except for European Americans, this is reverse discrimination if you are going to divide American writers by ethnicity it should be done based off of all ethnicities
secondly there should be a category for Heterosexual writers it is reverse discrimination to say we are not going to make a category just because there is too much of a group
-- Java7837 00:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Gay literature actually exists as a distinct genre of literature that's actually studied for its own sake in the real world. There's no comparable social or literary phenomenon of heterosexual literature that's studied specifically because it was written by heterosexuals. This simply does not exist as a distinct literary genre — it's nothing more the sum total of all literature that isn't part of another genre that does actually exist. Bearcat 08:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
You know, there's a difference between discriminating between people for housing & jobs on the basis of attributes irrelevant to their ability to reside (!) or perform work or and discriminating between concepts. As applied to people in housing & jobs, discrimination is a bad thing. Distinguishing the substantive content of topics for an encyclopedia is rather a different kind of discrimination, more like "distinguishing" or "thinking". -- Lquilter 14:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  • The thing is "American Christians" is largely useful as a parent for specific groups of relevance. Although possibly it's no longer useful or being misused. Anyway it's not clear to me what this category can be a parent to that's useful. We have no article on Heterosexual literature or its subgenres. If you can reasonably create such a thing it could work as a category. Second Category:European American Writers would largely only be of use as a parent category. I think it's not a necessary parent for right now. We do have Category:Irish-American writers and Category:Italian-American writers so European descended writers are not ignored outright. I would not object to more categories of European-descended American writers either if you can show relevance. I think there might be such a thing as "Polish American literature" so that might be possible as a next example.-- T. Anthony 02:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Bands with American and British members

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The result of the debate was delete.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Bands with American and British members ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Is the band's notability defined by the fact they have had members from both the UK and the US? I think this is overcategorization too. Lugnuts 13:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:White House weddings

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:White House weddings ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - improper basis for categorization. "Got married at the White House" is a trivial basis for categorizing people who otherwise have nothing in common. Otto4711 13:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
or vice versa. -- Lquilter ( talk) 05:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Drama episodes of TVB

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The result of the debate was merge all three to Category:TVB television programmes. Bencherlite Talk 21:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:Drama episodes of TVB to Category:TVB Episodic Drama
Nominator's rationale: These 2 categories are covering the exact same ground: Dramatic series that run on the TVB network in Hong Kong. I propose that we move all of the items in the Drama episodes cat into the Episodic Drama cat and then rename the Episodic Drama cat cat. Proposing this because the Episodic cat is much bigger than the Drama episodes cat. But then the Episodic Drama cat needs to be renamed since it violates MoS. For a new cat name, I'm leaving it open to you guys. Category:Dramas on TVB perhaps? Woohookitty Woohoo! 12:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:English reality television series

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The result of the debate was merge. Bencherlite Talk 21:45, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:English reality television series to Category:British reality television series
Nominator's rationale: Merge, All of these are made by UK television companies and broadcast throughout the UK so should not be described as English. Tim! 09:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Adult Hits radio stations in the United States

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The result of the debate was speedy rename. Bearcat 09:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Adult Hits radio stations in the United States to Category:Adult hits radio stations in the United States
Nominator's rationale: As is best evidenced by the parent category, ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.›  Category:Adult hits radio stations, naming conventions state that the "h" in "hits" should be lowercase. JPG-GR 04:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia

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The result of the debate was convert to List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Convert into List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia, this is a list article in category space. -- Prove It (talk) 00:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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December 2

Category:Bristolians who attended Oxbridge

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Bristolians who attended the University of Cambridge ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Bristolians who attended Oxbridge ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Bristolians who attended the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Overcategorization. Unnecessary categorization. The categories can be separated into People from Bristol and Alumni of any Oxbridge University, both of which exist. Hence Delete.-- WriterListener 23:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Mortal Kombat locations

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The result of the debate was upmerged the one article in the one sub-category. Bencherlite Talk 21:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Mortal Kombat locations ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Now has just one subcategory, and no articles of its own, and the two remaining articles in the subcategory probably have a few days left. Judgesurreal777 22:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:S.C.I.F.I. World

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:S.C.I.F.I. World ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - unnecessary eponymous category for a programming block on a TV network. The material is appropriately interlinked. Otto4711 22:32, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Wikipedian 13:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents

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The result of the debate was keep after nomination withdrawn. Bencherlite Talk 21:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents to Category:Canadian newspaper journalists

:Nominator's rationale: Merge, There's no meaningful distinction being made here, as far as I can see. However, the other subcategories here -- Columnists, Editors and Photojournalists -- should certainly stay as is. Thanks, Shawn in Montreal 21:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC):Withdraw and speedily close if possible. As the nominator I'd like to withdraw my merge proposal, if that's possible, so as to move things alone. I see Cgingold (and others') point. Shawn in Montreal 16:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Districts of the Chachapoyas Province

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The result of the debate was rename, assuming that Doczilla meant "rename".... Bencherlite Talk 21:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Districts of the Chachapoyas Province to Category:Districts of Chachapoyas Province
Nominator's rationale: Rename. While use of "the" is the literal translation of the Spanish - most geographic regions have a "the" when refered to - normal English usage doesn't have "the" in this context. Carlossuarez46 19:49, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Wikipedian pilots

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The result of the debate was speedy close, wrong forum. This is a WP:UCFD matter and I'll move it there. Bencherlite Talk 19:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Wikipedian pilots to Category:Wikipedian aviators
Nominator's rationale: As with Category:Pilots, this category could refer to aviators or harbour pilots. I doubt anyone has used it for the latter, particularly given the "airplane pilot" userbox displayed on the category page, so I think it's safe to move the category's members with the assumption that they are aviators. — xDanielx T/ C\ R 19:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Coated Paper

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Paper. Bencherlite Talk 21:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Coated Paper ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete found in the orphanage and not needed for the 3 articles categorized therein. Carlossuarez46 19:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Double reed organizations

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The result of the debate was keep. While the nomination was withdrawn, it seems worthwhile to validate this as a "keep" result.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Double reed organizations ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category only has one article, and seems unlikely to get any larger. Either delete or merge into some larger category, if one exists. Chromaticity 18:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
The nomination is withdrawn. While I still think this is overcategorization, it is plainly obvious that the propensity to create virtually endless categories with the barest of distinctions is well-entrenched in Wikipedia. Forgive my intrusion; while I think this category is unnecessary, neither does it appear to be particularily harmful. As such, I withdraw the deletion request; could someone who understands how these things work do the appropriate paperwork? Chromaticity 03:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - This is part of a wider effort (which did not previously exist) to categorize music organizations not within the main category, but within a new subcategory Category:Music organizations by instrument. Like other music categories, such as Category:Jazz bassoonists, there will necessarily be few articles in a single category. But such logical categorization is useful to our readers and follows the music categorization guidelines strictly. Note to the editor who took the time to put in this "delete vote" not 90 seconds after the subcategory was created: in the future, try to look through the upper-level category and related articles to see how the new category operates before submitting a deletion proposal so "instantly." Best, Badagnani 18:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Disturbed members

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Kbdank71 ( talk) 17:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Disturbed members to Category:Disturbed (band) members
Propose renaming Category:Disturbed albums to Category:Disturbed (band) albums
Propose renaming Category:Disturbed songs to Category:Disturbed (band) songs
Nominator's rationale: Rename all. To reduce ambiguity of the names. Otto4711 17:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Railway stations in Punjab

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The result of the debate was rename.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Railway stations in Punjab ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:Railway stations in Punjab (India), to match Punjab (India) and not Punjab (Pakistan). -- Prove It (talk) 16:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wirral

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The result of the debate was delete, empty. Bencherlite Talk 21:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wirral ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: All articles have been moved to Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside which is the correct Area of Search so this category is now unnecessary. Suicidalhamster 16:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Articles with trivia sections from Decemeber 2007

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The result of the debate was speedy delete. Bencherlite Talk 20:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Articles with trivia sections from Decemeber 2007 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I made a spelling error when I added a {{trivia}} link to an article, and created this by accident. The correctly spelled category title has already been created. GVOLTT How's my editing?\ My contribs 16:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Heterosexual writers

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Heterosexual writers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I've emptied this and I'm tempted to speedy. It's some strange POINTy thing I presume. It had Josephus, Tacitus, William Shakespeare and Ezekiel in it. Do we know Ezekiel's sexuality? Even if we did, the category makes as much sense as "right handed". Docg 13:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Delete Unusually enough, I agree with Doc. Heterosexuality is the (statistically-speaking) normative case. While it's more important a characteristic than handedness, a writer's sexual orientation would generally only be notable when it differs from the norm. -- Ssbohio 15:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Delete This is most likely a point violation. Possibly heterosexual Stonewall Book Award winners, or just nominees, or something could be of interest but otherwise no.-- T. Anthony 17:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply

For example there is a category for Category:African American writers and Category:Mexican American writers etc. but there is no category for Category:European American Writers

to sum it up there cases where there are categories that show that having a majority category for example Category:Israeli Jews yet at the same time for the category Category:American writers by ethnicity there is subcats for almost all ethnicities except for European Americans, this is reverse discrimination if you are going to divide American writers by ethnicity it should be done based off of all ethnicities
secondly there should be a category for Heterosexual writers it is reverse discrimination to say we are not going to make a category just because there is too much of a group
-- Java7837 00:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
Gay literature actually exists as a distinct genre of literature that's actually studied for its own sake in the real world. There's no comparable social or literary phenomenon of heterosexual literature that's studied specifically because it was written by heterosexuals. This simply does not exist as a distinct literary genre — it's nothing more the sum total of all literature that isn't part of another genre that does actually exist. Bearcat 08:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
You know, there's a difference between discriminating between people for housing & jobs on the basis of attributes irrelevant to their ability to reside (!) or perform work or and discriminating between concepts. As applied to people in housing & jobs, discrimination is a bad thing. Distinguishing the substantive content of topics for an encyclopedia is rather a different kind of discrimination, more like "distinguishing" or "thinking". -- Lquilter 14:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  • The thing is "American Christians" is largely useful as a parent for specific groups of relevance. Although possibly it's no longer useful or being misused. Anyway it's not clear to me what this category can be a parent to that's useful. We have no article on Heterosexual literature or its subgenres. If you can reasonably create such a thing it could work as a category. Second Category:European American Writers would largely only be of use as a parent category. I think it's not a necessary parent for right now. We do have Category:Irish-American writers and Category:Italian-American writers so European descended writers are not ignored outright. I would not object to more categories of European-descended American writers either if you can show relevance. I think there might be such a thing as "Polish American literature" so that might be possible as a next example.-- T. Anthony 02:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Bands with American and British members

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The result of the debate was delete.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Bands with American and British members ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Is the band's notability defined by the fact they have had members from both the UK and the US? I think this is overcategorization too. Lugnuts 13:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:White House weddings

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The result of the debate was delete. Bencherlite Talk 21:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:White House weddings ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - improper basis for categorization. "Got married at the White House" is a trivial basis for categorizing people who otherwise have nothing in common. Otto4711 13:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
or vice versa. -- Lquilter ( talk) 05:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Drama episodes of TVB

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The result of the debate was merge all three to Category:TVB television programmes. Bencherlite Talk 21:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:Drama episodes of TVB to Category:TVB Episodic Drama
Nominator's rationale: These 2 categories are covering the exact same ground: Dramatic series that run on the TVB network in Hong Kong. I propose that we move all of the items in the Drama episodes cat into the Episodic Drama cat and then rename the Episodic Drama cat cat. Proposing this because the Episodic cat is much bigger than the Drama episodes cat. But then the Episodic Drama cat needs to be renamed since it violates MoS. For a new cat name, I'm leaving it open to you guys. Category:Dramas on TVB perhaps? Woohookitty Woohoo! 12:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:English reality television series

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The result of the debate was merge. Bencherlite Talk 21:45, 11 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Suggest merging Category:English reality television series to Category:British reality television series
Nominator's rationale: Merge, All of these are made by UK television companies and broadcast throughout the UK so should not be described as English. Tim! 09:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Adult Hits radio stations in the United States

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The result of the debate was speedy rename. Bearcat 09:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Propose renaming Category:Adult Hits radio stations in the United States to Category:Adult hits radio stations in the United States
Nominator's rationale: As is best evidenced by the parent category, ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.›  Category:Adult hits radio stations, naming conventions state that the "h" in "hits" should be lowercase. JPG-GR 04:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia

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The result of the debate was convert to List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 16:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Convert into List of communities in Augusta County, Virginia, this is a list article in category space. -- Prove It (talk) 00:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC) reply
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