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Category:Victims of dognapping

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The result of the debate was delete. Mairi 05:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Victims of dognapping ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Created by Lilyfan87 ( talk · contribs) to include one article ( Maggie May (dog), currently at AFD). At " dognapping", there are no other separate articles which could later be categorized here. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 23:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Arsenal F.C songs

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Football songs and chants. Mairi 20:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Arsenal F.C songs ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Merge with Category:Football songs and chants. There are only two songs in this category. Both songs would fit quite nicely in Category:Football songs and chants. Having a seperate category for these two songs is Arsenal F.C. centric.

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Category:Father of the Nation

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Father of the Nation ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

As someone else already pointed out on the Category talk:Father of the Nation page, this category recreates in a less useful form the existing list on Father of the Nation, but without the possibility for references or explanations. Propose delete as redundant of superior classification. lquilter 21:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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U.S. Progressive Party presidential candidates

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The result of the debate was delete. Mairi 05:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Delete, Empty category. -- Xdamr talk 19:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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'Political nominee' categories

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The result of the debate was keep presidential and vice-presidential nominee categories. The consensus was to delete Category:Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court and Category:Withdrawn nominees to the United States Supreme Court. The nominees are listed at Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States and no further {{ listify}}ing is needed. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Given that these are arguably more significant, I am raising these separately from the debate below. I have now listed all the 'nominee' categories that I have been able to find.

Xdamr talk 19:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Comment - Unlike award nominees, some of these political nominees are primarily known for being nominees for these positions. Michael Dukakis, Robert Dole, and John Kerry will all be remembered partly as nominees for the presidency possibly more so than for their other political activities. However, having many of the elected presidents listed in both the nominees and presidents categories (such as George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton) is distracting, although it should be noted that some presidents were never nominees of their parties. I also do not know how important it is to classify vice-presidential nominees in categories, as being a losing vice-presidential candidate does not seem very memorable to me. (Will people remember Jack Kemp, Joe Lieberman, or John Edwards as vice-presidential candidates? Maybe, but maybe not.) Dr. Submillimeter 21:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep all nominee categories. As was noted the last time one of these was nominated (and almost immediately withdrawn), these nominees are actually the winners of a protracted political contest. Thus they are different from the other "nominee" categories we've been deleting.
    Delete and listify the Supreme Court categories. Otto4711 21:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep all the presidential nominee categorys. Delete the supreme court nominee categorys. The Presidential nominee categorys are not award nominees. And unlike the people in the award nominee categorys (like the ones that are up for deletion below), this is a significant time in the career of the individual who is in the category of presidential nominees. The supreme court cats shouldn't be categorized as by unsuccessful or withdrawn nominees. Thats like categorizing football teams by who have lost the super bowl. — mikedk9109 SIGN 23:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I was perhaps a little bloody-minded in bringing forward the [vice] presidential nominee categories. I hastily judged them by their title rather than their content, taking them to be concerned with the internal processes parties go through to select their electoral candidates. Would it perhaps be worthwhile to rename them in the form "XXX party (United States) presidential candidate" or does this overturn accepted terminology?
Xdamr talk 00:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep the Presidential and vice presidential nominees. Particularly significant for political and party histories, defining for people included. The categorie should always include the who went on to become President or VP because the relevant categories do not disambiguate by Party. User:Dimadick
  • Delete judicial nominees, Keep others. I've just realised that I failed to contribute my views, so there they are. As to the vice presidential/presidential nominees, put that down to a misunderstanding between US and UK nomenclature. I would have thought that one would be nominated to be the party's candidate in the election, but it seems that things are the other way around.
Xdamr talk 02:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:Controversial Literature

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:03, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Controversial Literature ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete. This category essentially recreates Category:Banned books with even less criteria for inclusion. lquilter 18:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

I don't know if you have noticed but their is 0 listed under banned books compared to 125 under Controversial Literature. Thought I sould point that out to you. - BigFrank100
  • Delete. The inclusion criterion is impossible to define. Coemgenus 18:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_September_24#Category:Banned_books, since the intended scope appears to be the same. Pomte 18:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • comment - I also saw a reference to a Category:Controversial books CFD ? But couldn't find it. -- lquilter 19:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • comment - Oh! plus the capitalization problem. -- lquilter 19:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete I could pick up a book start reading it, and call it controversial. This category is incredibly POV. — mikedk9109 SIGN 20:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Strong Delete Tony360X recently added Talmud to this category, which to me seemed incorrect. So of course I go to the category page to see what the definition of a "Controversial Literature" (The talmud has very few critics many of them anti-semitis - does that make it Controversial; the talmud is almost interchangeable with the Judaism so is are Judaism a "Controversial religion"? should we have a category for that?) Of course there was no definition and I doubt one could be made. Is every book that has any criticism at all Controversial? If that is the case then the category "Literature" in general covers the same group. Jon513 21:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The definition of this category is too far too inclusive to be useful. Virtually any work containing any sort political content or overtone, and even factual works containing information deleterious to an country's interest would be banned in totalitarian countries. pbryan 22:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Provides useful information about books which may be consitered controversial.-- Sefringle 22:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep I have worked hard to provide a list of literature works that have caused controversy which lead to them being removed from libraries to banned in schools or countries. Even religous text from the Bible to the Quran has caused an uproar. To delete this categorie is like censorship cause most of the people who want to delete the list don't like what has been listed or don't have a clear viwe of it. I'm trying to write a clear definition of Controversial Literature but that will not be possible if it gets deleted. So I ask all of you to please support Controversial Literature Category so we can look at works and see the diffrence between a work that has caused an uproar yet mad a change compared to a simple book. Tony360X
Comment The key point is your trying to write a clear definition of whats controversial. Most of the people don't choose to delete because they don't like it, they choose to delete because this cat is too broad, or can't have criteria for inclusion, or because it is POV. — mikedk9109 SIGN 23:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • How about I make an Artical on Controversial Literature since I fell the banned book artical is unorganized and not very clear. This artical will cover both challenged and banned books and the reason for it. It will be more organized. Tony360X
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Various 'nominee' categories

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:05, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Per the general distaste for nominee categories, here are a few which I have turned up which I nominate for deletion.

Xdamr talk 17:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Two more which I've just come across:
Xdamr talk 19:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Sports families

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The result of the discussion was: merge first three, delete 4th, rename 5th and 6th, delete 7th (possibly temporarily).-- Mike Selinker 02:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  1. merge Category:American football coaching families to Category:American football families
  2. merge Category:Basketball coaching families to Category:Basketball families
  3. merge Category:National Hockey League families to Category:Hockey families
  4. delete Category:Three generation sports families
  5. rename Category:Major League Baseball families to Category:Baseball families
  6. rename Category:Three generation baseball families to Category:Baseball families
  7. rename Category:Multiple sport athletic families to Category:Multiple-sports families

There’s just too much going on here for my tastes. It’s an unadvisable three-way intersection between, say, being in basketball, being related, and being a coach. I like the general concept, though, so some streamlining is all that’s needed.-- Mike Selinker 16:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply


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Category:Edmonton Oilers players (WHA)

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The result of the debate was rename. -- RobertGtalk 10:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Edmonton Oilers players (WHA) to Category:Edmonton Oilers (WHA) players

Rename to fit the format of other subcategories of Category:Ice hockey players by league. Skudrafan1 15:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges

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The result of the debate was no consensus. the wub "?!" 17:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges Delete: this is a sub category of Category:Unaccredited institutions of higher learning and Category:Christian universities and colleges. It is an unnecessary category and it is hardly used. Better to have a category for being unaccredited and a category for being Christian. As most (but not all) unaccredited colleges are Christian, if we were to move all colleges from "Unaccredited institution of higher learning" to "Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges", the former would only have 2 or 3 entries in it. Because of the number of colleges in these categories the 2 super-categories are sufficient. Mgroop 15:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Keep as Category:Christian universities and colleges is huge and has many other subcategories it makes sense to provide suitable subcategories for all members. Also note that outside the U.S. there may be thousands of unaccredited colleges and universities which are not Christian for all I (and probably you) know. Eg if there are many unaccredited colleges and universites in India it is unlikley that most fo them are Christian. Cloachland 18:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - If anything, the category is underpopulated. I believe there are many more unaccredited Christian colleges than are currently in this category. Since seeing this "CFD" item, I have added 14 more schools to the category; the articles clearly identified the schools as unaccredited and Christian, but they had not been added to this category. This category makes it possible to separate unaccredited Christian schools (which people presumably are willing to attend for reasons of faith) from the other types of unaccredited schools.-- orlady 18:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per nom. The two main categories are sufficient. FGT2 21:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Speedy delete. As author of the page I request this to speedy. I agree with Mgroop that the page serves as a detractor. The supercategories better serve wikipedians in this case. Arbustoo 04:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:U.S. political parties which have received one or more electoral votes

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Political parties in the United States. the wub "?!" 17:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:U.S. political parties which have received one or more electoral votes ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete, Political parties don't get electoral votes, candidates do. We can't just move it because we'd have to replace all the articles in the category, too (remove parties, insert candidates,) which would be more time-consuming than just creating a new category. Coemgenus 15:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Ancient Roman military units

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The result of the debate was rename. Category:Alae units of ancient Rome is already a subcat of Roman cavalry units. -- RobertGtalk 10:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Rename all per the naming conventions for military unit and formation categories. Kirill Lokshin 03:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Ancient military unit types

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The result of the debate was merge. the wub "?!" 17:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Ancient military unit types into Category:Military units and formations of the Ancient era
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Racehorses birth and death year all subcategories

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The result of the debate was keep. -- RobertGtalk 13:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

all delete or merge into Category:XXXX births and Category:XXXX deaths category. -- Lodn 02:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Characters introduced in XXXX categories

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The result of the debate was merge. the wub "?!" 17:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

all merge into Category:XXXX introductions category. overcategorization.-- Lodn 02:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Merge Since the XXXX intrioductions cats already exist, these seem redundant. — J Greb 19:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep (I think) Generally speaking, articles normally include a category for the year of creation. For example, people have a "year of birth" category, and works like books, films and architecture have a "works by year" category. Seems to me that since that scheme has been adopted for people and works, it also can be applied to fictional characters by including the "year of first appearance" or "year of creation" for the character. So I'd be in favor of keeping these categories, or something similar, to allow for a "year of creation" category for fictional characters. Dugwiki 20:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
    • Comment The Comics Project has been routinely using the XXXX introductions for characters. At this point it seems to have been working extremely well. There is no reason for it not to work with other fictional characters. If a cat for a particular year gets overly large, it may be reasonable to split off the characters to XXXX fictional character introductions. — J Greb 21:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
      • Changing to Merge to XXXX introductions Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I thought the complaint was the inclusion of the year of creation. I didn't realize these were already under XXXX introduction categories. Merge with those, and maybe recreate for characters if the number of articles warrants subdividing. Dugwiki 17:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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The result of the debate was already deleted. David Kernow (talk) 05:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Building Society ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This category is a duplicate of Category:Building Societies. Delete. ( Extra3 02:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)) reply

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The result of the debate was withdrawn. the wub "?!" 18:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Merge into Category:Elementary schools in Ontario, convention of Category:Elementary schools in Canada. -- Prove It (talk) 01:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
*laugh* Fair enough; I wouldn't have known about it, or seen that it needed populating, if it hadn't been nominated here, so it's all good. Bearcat 10:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:People associated with Aberdeen

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The result of the debate was keep. the wub "?!" 18:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:People associated with Aberdeen ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete vague category. Category:People from Aberdeen already exists consistent with the "People from" naming conventions, but do not merge because neither of the two people categorized as being associated with Aberdeen were born there. Each does, however, belong to other categories related to the connection anyway. Doczilla 01:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

How come? Please explain what on earth you mean. It is a highly logical and useful method of grouping together a multitude of biographical categories and articles that are related to a city, and would be absolutely wonderful if applied throughout Wikipedia. I strongly recommend that editors take a very close look indeed at the Scottish categories, and follow our example. -- Mais oui! 11:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep & Oppose. per above. Nevertheless a general discussion about Natives and People from might be useful because inconsistency is rife at the moment. - Kittybrewster 17:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Very strong keep. When I started looking at this category, I thought it would be a clear delete, but Mais Oui is right: this is very useful way of grouping people who have (as the category says) a "significant" association with a place. Like Mais Oui, I would like to see this system used thoughout wikipedia; but unlike Mais Oui, I think it is neatly partnered by the "people from" category. The two crucial things about the usefulness of this category are that word "significant" and its sub-categs. Deleting this category would be, IMRHO, daft. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep I had a look at this useful category and would like to see it generally introduced in conjunction with the more specific 'People from'. roundhouse 18:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Ultra strong delete Anyone is associated with any place they ever stayed, and prominent people tend to have stayed in a lot of places. This is only useful for people who want to promote their not all that prominent city, which is perhaps why this category exists for Aberdeen rather than London, New York or Paris Wimstead 18:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Mmmm... yes, that's right: slagging off Aberdeen is really going to advance your case. No Wikipedia category should ever be used for trivial associations. Notability is required, and is assumed, in all categorisation: eg. we do not have a cat called "Category:Notable French people", it is called "Category:French people", because the word "notable" is implied. The same for "Category:Villages in foo" not "Category:Notable villages in foo" etc, etc, etc. It is only people notably associated with a place that should be categorised as such. -- Mais oui! 10:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC) reply
      • Comment: I wonder whether Wimstead actually looked at the category and its sub-cats befoe making that recommendation to delete?
        The category is specifically for "biographical articles about people with a strong association with Aberdeen", which obviously excludes those who just visted the place, and that's exactly how it is being used. Apart from the very specific sub-categories, there are three articles directly in the category:
        * John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, whose first job was as director of a nutrition institute in Aberdeen, which he started from scratch;
        * Karl König, who set up the first Camphill Community for Children in Need of Special Care at Camphill on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
        * Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, a notable family of nobility based in Aberdeen (the first Marquess, for example), was Governor-General of Canada.
        I see abolutely no sign of this category being used for tangential connections. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. Useful 'structural' category. The strictly-defined subcategories prevent the "associated with" becoming meaningless, and editors will be able to stop non-notable 'associations' creeping in. Robin Johnson (talk) 10:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep, Very useful to clear up the current inconsistancy of the People From cats which have a habbit of listing every place a person have been involved with. -- Djsasso 18:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk

Delete, as similar is subjective. Categorizing games as being like other games won't work very well. -- Prove It (talk) 01:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete impossible to determine what articles would belong in the list, as it is too ambiguous in its definition. As well, it is a useless list. The reader will not use this category. Jerry lavoie 02:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete unnecessary subjective category. Doczilla 01:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete Whats the point in categorizing like this. The only sport I can think of that is similar to baseball is cricket. This way obviously won't work. — mikedk9109 SIGN 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Maybe "templatify" and add to end of each sport's article...?   David Kernow (talk) 05:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
    • Templatifying won't work in "similarity" cases. Do we really want, say, soccer to have half a dozen different templates all based on its similarity to other sports - "similar to hockey", "similar to American football"\, "Similar to rugby", "Similar to handball', "Similar to water polo"...? Also, the problems of the arbitrary judgement of the term "similar" still apply. Grutness... wha? 23:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Speedy delete - This is content that was deleted after a 2006 December 23 discussion. Dr. Submillimeter 09:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (or possibly rename) - Delete, but if it's appropriate to the category & cat tree, something like this could be useful with some sort of families-of-sporting-games category? I note that chess & its relatives have a game-family category. So wickets/bats-balls -- there must be some kind of family name (that is not baseball-centric). -- lquilter 19:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete-- Releeshan 21:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete I agree, the general idea of categorizing games that are "similar" to other games seems too subjective. How similar does it have to be? Is American Football similar to Soccer (aka Football)? They both have the same name and involve teams of guys on either side of a long field fighting over a ball. Is hockey similar to basketball? They're both five on five sports with somewhat similar overall team tactics (passing, setting picks, etc). Would you consider a homerun derby similar to baseball? This type of category scheme just sounds like it's a little too vague. Dugwiki 21:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete This is a joke, right?-- Sefringle 00:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose deletion The articles themselves tend to indicate that the sports (softball, punchball, kickball, etc.) are similar to baseball. It appears to be far from "impossible to determine," as asserted. It would also appear to help people such as the above commenter who thought that cricket was the only game similar to baseball.-- Epeefleche 01:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
You could just as easily have named them "Games similar to kickball". The name itself invokes POV in its choice of sport. Doczilla 05:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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February 5

Category:Victims of dognapping

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The result of the debate was delete. Mairi 05:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Victims of dognapping ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Created by Lilyfan87 ( talk · contribs) to include one article ( Maggie May (dog), currently at AFD). At " dognapping", there are no other separate articles which could later be categorized here. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 23:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Arsenal F.C songs

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Football songs and chants. Mairi 20:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Arsenal F.C songs ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Merge with Category:Football songs and chants. There are only two songs in this category. Both songs would fit quite nicely in Category:Football songs and chants. Having a seperate category for these two songs is Arsenal F.C. centric.

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Category:Father of the Nation

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Father of the Nation ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

As someone else already pointed out on the Category talk:Father of the Nation page, this category recreates in a less useful form the existing list on Father of the Nation, but without the possibility for references or explanations. Propose delete as redundant of superior classification. lquilter 21:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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U.S. Progressive Party presidential candidates

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The result of the debate was delete. Mairi 05:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Delete, Empty category. -- Xdamr talk 19:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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'Political nominee' categories

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The result of the debate was keep presidential and vice-presidential nominee categories. The consensus was to delete Category:Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court and Category:Withdrawn nominees to the United States Supreme Court. The nominees are listed at Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States and no further {{ listify}}ing is needed. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Given that these are arguably more significant, I am raising these separately from the debate below. I have now listed all the 'nominee' categories that I have been able to find.

Xdamr talk 19:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Comment - Unlike award nominees, some of these political nominees are primarily known for being nominees for these positions. Michael Dukakis, Robert Dole, and John Kerry will all be remembered partly as nominees for the presidency possibly more so than for their other political activities. However, having many of the elected presidents listed in both the nominees and presidents categories (such as George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton) is distracting, although it should be noted that some presidents were never nominees of their parties. I also do not know how important it is to classify vice-presidential nominees in categories, as being a losing vice-presidential candidate does not seem very memorable to me. (Will people remember Jack Kemp, Joe Lieberman, or John Edwards as vice-presidential candidates? Maybe, but maybe not.) Dr. Submillimeter 21:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep all nominee categories. As was noted the last time one of these was nominated (and almost immediately withdrawn), these nominees are actually the winners of a protracted political contest. Thus they are different from the other "nominee" categories we've been deleting.
    Delete and listify the Supreme Court categories. Otto4711 21:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep all the presidential nominee categorys. Delete the supreme court nominee categorys. The Presidential nominee categorys are not award nominees. And unlike the people in the award nominee categorys (like the ones that are up for deletion below), this is a significant time in the career of the individual who is in the category of presidential nominees. The supreme court cats shouldn't be categorized as by unsuccessful or withdrawn nominees. Thats like categorizing football teams by who have lost the super bowl. — mikedk9109 SIGN 23:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I was perhaps a little bloody-minded in bringing forward the [vice] presidential nominee categories. I hastily judged them by their title rather than their content, taking them to be concerned with the internal processes parties go through to select their electoral candidates. Would it perhaps be worthwhile to rename them in the form "XXX party (United States) presidential candidate" or does this overturn accepted terminology?
Xdamr talk 00:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep the Presidential and vice presidential nominees. Particularly significant for political and party histories, defining for people included. The categorie should always include the who went on to become President or VP because the relevant categories do not disambiguate by Party. User:Dimadick
  • Delete judicial nominees, Keep others. I've just realised that I failed to contribute my views, so there they are. As to the vice presidential/presidential nominees, put that down to a misunderstanding between US and UK nomenclature. I would have thought that one would be nominated to be the party's candidate in the election, but it seems that things are the other way around.
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Category:Controversial Literature

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:03, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Controversial Literature ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete. This category essentially recreates Category:Banned books with even less criteria for inclusion. lquilter 18:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

I don't know if you have noticed but their is 0 listed under banned books compared to 125 under Controversial Literature. Thought I sould point that out to you. - BigFrank100
  • Delete. The inclusion criterion is impossible to define. Coemgenus 18:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_September_24#Category:Banned_books, since the intended scope appears to be the same. Pomte 18:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • comment - I also saw a reference to a Category:Controversial books CFD ? But couldn't find it. -- lquilter 19:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • comment - Oh! plus the capitalization problem. -- lquilter 19:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete I could pick up a book start reading it, and call it controversial. This category is incredibly POV. — mikedk9109 SIGN 20:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Strong Delete Tony360X recently added Talmud to this category, which to me seemed incorrect. So of course I go to the category page to see what the definition of a "Controversial Literature" (The talmud has very few critics many of them anti-semitis - does that make it Controversial; the talmud is almost interchangeable with the Judaism so is are Judaism a "Controversial religion"? should we have a category for that?) Of course there was no definition and I doubt one could be made. Is every book that has any criticism at all Controversial? If that is the case then the category "Literature" in general covers the same group. Jon513 21:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The definition of this category is too far too inclusive to be useful. Virtually any work containing any sort political content or overtone, and even factual works containing information deleterious to an country's interest would be banned in totalitarian countries. pbryan 22:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Provides useful information about books which may be consitered controversial.-- Sefringle 22:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep I have worked hard to provide a list of literature works that have caused controversy which lead to them being removed from libraries to banned in schools or countries. Even religous text from the Bible to the Quran has caused an uproar. To delete this categorie is like censorship cause most of the people who want to delete the list don't like what has been listed or don't have a clear viwe of it. I'm trying to write a clear definition of Controversial Literature but that will not be possible if it gets deleted. So I ask all of you to please support Controversial Literature Category so we can look at works and see the diffrence between a work that has caused an uproar yet mad a change compared to a simple book. Tony360X
Comment The key point is your trying to write a clear definition of whats controversial. Most of the people don't choose to delete because they don't like it, they choose to delete because this cat is too broad, or can't have criteria for inclusion, or because it is POV. — mikedk9109 SIGN 23:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • How about I make an Artical on Controversial Literature since I fell the banned book artical is unorganized and not very clear. This artical will cover both challenged and banned books and the reason for it. It will be more organized. Tony360X
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Various 'nominee' categories

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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk 10:05, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Per the general distaste for nominee categories, here are a few which I have turned up which I nominate for deletion.

Xdamr talk 17:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Two more which I've just come across:
Xdamr talk 19:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Sports families

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The result of the discussion was: merge first three, delete 4th, rename 5th and 6th, delete 7th (possibly temporarily).-- Mike Selinker 02:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  1. merge Category:American football coaching families to Category:American football families
  2. merge Category:Basketball coaching families to Category:Basketball families
  3. merge Category:National Hockey League families to Category:Hockey families
  4. delete Category:Three generation sports families
  5. rename Category:Major League Baseball families to Category:Baseball families
  6. rename Category:Three generation baseball families to Category:Baseball families
  7. rename Category:Multiple sport athletic families to Category:Multiple-sports families

There’s just too much going on here for my tastes. It’s an unadvisable three-way intersection between, say, being in basketball, being related, and being a coach. I like the general concept, though, so some streamlining is all that’s needed.-- Mike Selinker 16:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply


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Category:Edmonton Oilers players (WHA)

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The result of the debate was rename. -- RobertGtalk 10:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Edmonton Oilers players (WHA) to Category:Edmonton Oilers (WHA) players

Rename to fit the format of other subcategories of Category:Ice hockey players by league. Skudrafan1 15:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges

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The result of the debate was no consensus. the wub "?!" 17:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges Delete: this is a sub category of Category:Unaccredited institutions of higher learning and Category:Christian universities and colleges. It is an unnecessary category and it is hardly used. Better to have a category for being unaccredited and a category for being Christian. As most (but not all) unaccredited colleges are Christian, if we were to move all colleges from "Unaccredited institution of higher learning" to "Unaccredited Christian universities and colleges", the former would only have 2 or 3 entries in it. Because of the number of colleges in these categories the 2 super-categories are sufficient. Mgroop 15:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Keep as Category:Christian universities and colleges is huge and has many other subcategories it makes sense to provide suitable subcategories for all members. Also note that outside the U.S. there may be thousands of unaccredited colleges and universities which are not Christian for all I (and probably you) know. Eg if there are many unaccredited colleges and universites in India it is unlikley that most fo them are Christian. Cloachland 18:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - If anything, the category is underpopulated. I believe there are many more unaccredited Christian colleges than are currently in this category. Since seeing this "CFD" item, I have added 14 more schools to the category; the articles clearly identified the schools as unaccredited and Christian, but they had not been added to this category. This category makes it possible to separate unaccredited Christian schools (which people presumably are willing to attend for reasons of faith) from the other types of unaccredited schools.-- orlady 18:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per nom. The two main categories are sufficient. FGT2 21:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Speedy delete. As author of the page I request this to speedy. I agree with Mgroop that the page serves as a detractor. The supercategories better serve wikipedians in this case. Arbustoo 04:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:U.S. political parties which have received one or more electoral votes

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Political parties in the United States. the wub "?!" 17:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:U.S. political parties which have received one or more electoral votes ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete, Political parties don't get electoral votes, candidates do. We can't just move it because we'd have to replace all the articles in the category, too (remove parties, insert candidates,) which would be more time-consuming than just creating a new category. Coemgenus 15:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Ancient Roman military units

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The result of the debate was rename. Category:Alae units of ancient Rome is already a subcat of Roman cavalry units. -- RobertGtalk 10:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Rename all per the naming conventions for military unit and formation categories. Kirill Lokshin 03:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Category:Ancient military unit types

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The result of the debate was merge. the wub "?!" 17:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Ancient military unit types into Category:Military units and formations of the Ancient era
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Racehorses birth and death year all subcategories

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The result of the debate was keep. -- RobertGtalk 13:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply

all delete or merge into Category:XXXX births and Category:XXXX deaths category. -- Lodn 02:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

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Characters introduced in XXXX categories

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The result of the debate was merge. the wub "?!" 17:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

all merge into Category:XXXX introductions category. overcategorization.-- Lodn 02:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

  • Merge Since the XXXX intrioductions cats already exist, these seem redundant. — J Greb 19:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep (I think) Generally speaking, articles normally include a category for the year of creation. For example, people have a "year of birth" category, and works like books, films and architecture have a "works by year" category. Seems to me that since that scheme has been adopted for people and works, it also can be applied to fictional characters by including the "year of first appearance" or "year of creation" for the character. So I'd be in favor of keeping these categories, or something similar, to allow for a "year of creation" category for fictional characters. Dugwiki 20:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
    • Comment The Comics Project has been routinely using the XXXX introductions for characters. At this point it seems to have been working extremely well. There is no reason for it not to work with other fictional characters. If a cat for a particular year gets overly large, it may be reasonable to split off the characters to XXXX fictional character introductions. — J Greb 21:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
      • Changing to Merge to XXXX introductions Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I thought the complaint was the inclusion of the year of creation. I didn't realize these were already under XXXX introduction categories. Merge with those, and maybe recreate for characters if the number of articles warrants subdividing. Dugwiki 17:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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The result of the debate was already deleted. David Kernow (talk) 05:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:Building Society ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This category is a duplicate of Category:Building Societies. Delete. ( Extra3 02:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)) reply

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The result of the debate was withdrawn. the wub "?!" 18:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Merge into Category:Elementary schools in Ontario, convention of Category:Elementary schools in Canada. -- Prove It (talk) 01:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
*laugh* Fair enough; I wouldn't have known about it, or seen that it needed populating, if it hadn't been nominated here, so it's all good. Bearcat 10:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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Category:People associated with Aberdeen

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The result of the debate was keep. the wub "?!" 18:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Category:People associated with Aberdeen ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete vague category. Category:People from Aberdeen already exists consistent with the "People from" naming conventions, but do not merge because neither of the two people categorized as being associated with Aberdeen were born there. Each does, however, belong to other categories related to the connection anyway. Doczilla 01:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

How come? Please explain what on earth you mean. It is a highly logical and useful method of grouping together a multitude of biographical categories and articles that are related to a city, and would be absolutely wonderful if applied throughout Wikipedia. I strongly recommend that editors take a very close look indeed at the Scottish categories, and follow our example. -- Mais oui! 11:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep & Oppose. per above. Nevertheless a general discussion about Natives and People from might be useful because inconsistency is rife at the moment. - Kittybrewster 17:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Very strong keep. When I started looking at this category, I thought it would be a clear delete, but Mais Oui is right: this is very useful way of grouping people who have (as the category says) a "significant" association with a place. Like Mais Oui, I would like to see this system used thoughout wikipedia; but unlike Mais Oui, I think it is neatly partnered by the "people from" category. The two crucial things about the usefulness of this category are that word "significant" and its sub-categs. Deleting this category would be, IMRHO, daft. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep I had a look at this useful category and would like to see it generally introduced in conjunction with the more specific 'People from'. roundhouse 18:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Ultra strong delete Anyone is associated with any place they ever stayed, and prominent people tend to have stayed in a lot of places. This is only useful for people who want to promote their not all that prominent city, which is perhaps why this category exists for Aberdeen rather than London, New York or Paris Wimstead 18:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Mmmm... yes, that's right: slagging off Aberdeen is really going to advance your case. No Wikipedia category should ever be used for trivial associations. Notability is required, and is assumed, in all categorisation: eg. we do not have a cat called "Category:Notable French people", it is called "Category:French people", because the word "notable" is implied. The same for "Category:Villages in foo" not "Category:Notable villages in foo" etc, etc, etc. It is only people notably associated with a place that should be categorised as such. -- Mais oui! 10:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC) reply
      • Comment: I wonder whether Wimstead actually looked at the category and its sub-cats befoe making that recommendation to delete?
        The category is specifically for "biographical articles about people with a strong association with Aberdeen", which obviously excludes those who just visted the place, and that's exactly how it is being used. Apart from the very specific sub-categories, there are three articles directly in the category:
        * John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, whose first job was as director of a nutrition institute in Aberdeen, which he started from scratch;
        * Karl König, who set up the first Camphill Community for Children in Need of Special Care at Camphill on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
        * Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, a notable family of nobility based in Aberdeen (the first Marquess, for example), was Governor-General of Canada.
        I see abolutely no sign of this category being used for tangential connections. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. Useful 'structural' category. The strictly-defined subcategories prevent the "associated with" becoming meaningless, and editors will be able to stop non-notable 'associations' creeping in. Robin Johnson (talk) 10:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Keep, Very useful to clear up the current inconsistancy of the People From cats which have a habbit of listing every place a person have been involved with. -- Djsasso 18:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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The result of the debate was delete. -- RobertGtalk

Delete, as similar is subjective. Categorizing games as being like other games won't work very well. -- Prove It (talk) 01:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete impossible to determine what articles would belong in the list, as it is too ambiguous in its definition. As well, it is a useless list. The reader will not use this category. Jerry lavoie 02:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete unnecessary subjective category. Doczilla 01:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete Whats the point in categorizing like this. The only sport I can think of that is similar to baseball is cricket. This way obviously won't work. — mikedk9109 SIGN 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Maybe "templatify" and add to end of each sport's article...?   David Kernow (talk) 05:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
    • Templatifying won't work in "similarity" cases. Do we really want, say, soccer to have half a dozen different templates all based on its similarity to other sports - "similar to hockey", "similar to American football"\, "Similar to rugby", "Similar to handball', "Similar to water polo"...? Also, the problems of the arbitrary judgement of the term "similar" still apply. Grutness... wha? 23:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Speedy delete - This is content that was deleted after a 2006 December 23 discussion. Dr. Submillimeter 09:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (or possibly rename) - Delete, but if it's appropriate to the category & cat tree, something like this could be useful with some sort of families-of-sporting-games category? I note that chess & its relatives have a game-family category. So wickets/bats-balls -- there must be some kind of family name (that is not baseball-centric). -- lquilter 19:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete-- Releeshan 21:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete I agree, the general idea of categorizing games that are "similar" to other games seems too subjective. How similar does it have to be? Is American Football similar to Soccer (aka Football)? They both have the same name and involve teams of guys on either side of a long field fighting over a ball. Is hockey similar to basketball? They're both five on five sports with somewhat similar overall team tactics (passing, setting picks, etc). Would you consider a homerun derby similar to baseball? This type of category scheme just sounds like it's a little too vague. Dugwiki 21:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Delete This is a joke, right?-- Sefringle 00:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose deletion The articles themselves tend to indicate that the sports (softball, punchball, kickball, etc.) are similar to baseball. It appears to be far from "impossible to determine," as asserted. It would also appear to help people such as the above commenter who thought that cricket was the only game similar to baseball.-- Epeefleche 01:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
You could just as easily have named them "Games similar to kickball". The name itself invokes POV in its choice of sport. Doczilla 05:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply
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