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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - similar to P-Funk songs nominated below. Absent the subcats that are properly categorized in
Category:Albums by artist this is an empty category. Its only contents other than the subcats were albums by
Parlet which I have recategorized to
Category:Parlet albums.
Otto4711 23:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep I think the association of "albums recorded by the various P-Funk acts associated with George Clinton" in a single category, even if that category has nothing but sub-categories in it, is valuable. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment When
George Clinton lost the rights to the names Funkadelic and Parliament about 1980 or so, he started releasing albums under his own name, under the name P-Funk All-Stars, and under the name "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars". After he won back the rights, he started using the names Parliament-Funkadelic and "George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic" as well. A few of these albums are listed at
George Clinton (funk musician)#Discography, but technically they don't belong there — they were released under one of the one of the permutations listed above. (See
Template:P-Funk, where I lumped them all together in the discography, and my comments at
Template talk:P-Funk.) A rigid procedure of classifying these albums by artist would make no sense; they belong in
Category:P-Funk albums. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 21:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. These are very closely related, and so the umbrella makes sense.--
Mike Selinker 23:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per the arguments by Malik Shabazz and Mike Selinker.
InnocuousPseudonym 00:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:P-Funk songs
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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - the subcats were all nominated and
kept recently but the parent cat was not. This should be deleted for the simple reason that in the absence of the subcategories, which are all reasonably housed in
Category:Songs by artist, this category is empty. There are no articles on songs recorded by "P-Funk" in it. The analogy was drawn in the previous debate to
Category:Motown songs but the key difference is that Motown is a record label and P-Funk is not. I have my doubts about categorizing songs by record label, as the Motown songs cat does, but that's a debate for another day.
Otto4711 23:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep I think the association of "songs recorded by the various P-Funk acts associated with George Clinton" in a single category, even if that category has nothing but sub-categories in it, is valuable. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. These are very closely related, and so the umbrella makes sense.--
Mike Selinker 23:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per rationales by Malik Shabazz and Mike Selinker.
InnocuousPseudonym 00:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Weak keep: we have articles on
Parliament (band),
Funkadelic,
Parliament-Funkadelic, and
P-Funk All-Stars, all of which could be considered one band or four, depending on your perspective. This is not an easy thing to classify. Note that it's possible that we should have a
Category:P-Funk All-Stars songs, which would be one more sub-category here, but I'm not entirely how much All-Stars-only material exists. I once suggested merging the first two articles I mentioned into the third, but there was pretty strong opposition to the idea. Anyway, this is a borderline case, but I tend to think there's simultaneously enough diversity and enough commonality in these categories to justify the umbrella. But it's very definitely borderline.
Xtifrtälk 07:39, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment When
George Clinton lost the rights to the names Funkadelic and Parliament about 1980 or so, he started releasing albums under his own name, under the name P-Funk All-Stars, and under the name "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars". After he won back the rights, he started using the names Parliament-Funkadelic and "George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic" as well. A few of these albums are listed at
George Clinton (funk musician)#Discography, but technically they don't belong there — they were released under one of the one of the permutations listed above. (See
Template:P-Funk, where I lumped them all together in the discography, and my comments at
Template talk:P-Funk.) A rigid procedure of classifying the songs on these albums by artist would make no sense; they belong in
Category:P-Funk songs. —
Malik Shabazz (
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Category:Notable or notorious antisemites
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The result of the debate was delete.
Kbdank71 15:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: POV title, this will become merely a place for people to argue as to who or what is "notable" or "notorious".
Corvus cornix 22:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keepor RenameCategory:Antisemites.:Creator's rationale: Note the qualification actually placed at top of list:
"Listed here are
individuals who played some
notable role, or a
notorious one,
in
history,
literature, or
publication. Please note that mere incident(s)involving
some apparent antisemitic
conduct or
speech is insufficient to qualify the inclusion of a
person
on this list. Please be very careful in your selections. Remember also that this is not a place to make
your own
personaljudgments. Neither should it be a place or space to
libel or
slander
a living person with whose views you strongly disagree. Nor is it a place to list someone who exercised poor judgment
in the choice of words on a particular occasion.
Please further note, that the primary interest here is in historic events.
Accordingly, the emphasis here is on individuals who are no longer alive.
Only in extraodinary circumstance, for example, where an individual is a self-professed antisemite,
should we list the person under this category."
Yours truly, --
Ludvikus 01:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
--
Ludvikus 18:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
What about the president of Iran? He said that he wants Israel to be destroyed, but also claimed that he wasn't anti-semitic because he was against the country not the religion? -
perfectblue 15:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep current name. At best it's silly to pretend that one cannot tell whose an antisemite: it's one who either (1) subscribes to the view that a Jew is
evil until (s)he converts to
Christianity, or holds that (2) a Jew has
bad blood (is
geneticallyinferior) and must be expelled to another place, or
exterminated. Is that really such a difficult distinction to make/ What's subjective here? --
Ludvikus 15:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I find it shameful that Wikipedians find
antisemitism to be too
subjective. Is
murder too subjective? Why is antisemitism any more subjective than
homicide? Please reconsider. --
Ludvikus 15:37, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Here's whose so categorized so far (without any disagreement):
Furthermore, I did not find such a broad consensus for Unqualified Deletion.
Third point: Listify was repeatedly requested. And here we generate a List.
The emphasis is un Dead Antisemites (no doubt the best kind). And I'm going to add that qualification right away - so as not to offend any living ones! --
Ludvikus 18:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Well, in order to be listed as a murderer you have to be convicted of the crime of murder, yet many antisemites are never convicted in a court of law. For example, in some countries it's not a crime. In the US you can legally stand up and announce that you think that Jews are the lowest of the low etc etc etc, and you can't be convicted unless you incite murder or violence. -
perfectblue 15:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. The proposed qualification process is highly volatile. Who's to decide what "conduct or speech" is already sufficient or yet "insufficient" for the inclusion?
You, the creator? Give me a break. The whole idea seems like an open invitation to finger pointing, defamation and wholesale witch-hunt. Exactly the opposite of what is presumably intended here. --
Poeticbenttalk 03:46, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, do not keep as "Antisemites". Criteria for categorization are too subjective and category will likely be subject to abuse or at least the cause of serious application disputes.
Snocrates 04:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep as the one who nominated the list from which this stems for deletion. As long as there are clear criteria for inclusion and it's limited to people notable for antisemitism instead of people who made a poor choice of words once I don't see this as any less valid than
Category:Homophobia. —
iridescent(talk to me!) 16:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
There were only two (2) views which supported Delete with an Opinion as follows;
"Delete both The existence of these categories expose a major failure in Wikipedia's systems,as Jewish users appear to be the only group well organised enough to preserve biased "anti" categories.User:Osomec 14:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC) "Delete both. Wikipedia needs some kind of firm precedent or policyagainst categorizing people on the basis of opinions.Opinions are changable and often passing.Likewise we need a firm policy against categorizing people with derogatory labels given them by others.This category fails on both counts.User:KleenupKrew 00:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)reply
These two opinions were expressed in August of 2006. As
Jimbo Wales holds, Wikipedia is a phenomena which evolves. The above opinion gives a good example of what will not qualify for inclusion:
... Jewish users appear to be the only group well organised enough to preserve biased "anti" categories.
Although those who know would agree as to what category such a sentence falls, clearly it does not qualify under our classification because the person who expressed it cannot be shown to be notable or notorious. Furthermore, at worst, for us under the above criteria, that's a bad choice of words. Unless, of course, one believes that it's true that "Jews are better organized" than non-Jews. On the other hand, it does sound like the message of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, namely that Jews are into
world domination.
Yours truly, --
Ludvikus 17:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Whatever
Jimbo Wales might hold, the second linked category above was deleted in April of this year with strong consensus and policy bases. Nothing in this CFD has rebutted that strong consensus or the strong policy concerns.
Otto4711 17:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per Iridescent. Rename is also viable option. It should be stressed that this category includes not people having antisemitic views and
Mel Gibson type of cases, but rather is limited to the people that contributed notably to the spreading of antisemitic ideology.
M0RD00R 18:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
No, subcategory Anti-Semites by profession would be a stretch. And Yes, popes, bishops, saints, whatever, notable for the history of antisemitism, can and should be included.
M0RD00R 19:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
And for every person who says that Pope Convertajew XXI was an anti-Semite, there will be someone who says that he didn't try to convert them out of hatred but out of love and a desire to share with them Christ's glory. So whose viewpoint prevails? Or do we have constant edit wars on a hundred or more Pope articles as POV-pushers on both sides struggle to make their points?
Otto4711 19:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
This issue can be resolved by limiting the scope of the category to the modern antisemitism (mid XIX - XX centuries) only.
M0RD00R 19:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
WP:OC is not the case yet because we don't even have one category for notable anti-Semites (in comparison to the dozen fascists categories) , and I bet anti-Semite is easier to define than a fascist. And I do not think that just because there might be some problems defining who is a fascist category:Fascists will ever be deleted. Regarding arbitrary inclusion standard I'd say that modernity is not so arbitrary standard at all. Racist nature is the main difference between modern and classic (religious-Christian) antisemitism, all this can be sourced according to WP:RS and so on. To cut lengthy discussions about definitions even further, there is a shortcut. We can say that the term Anti-Semite should not be applied regarding the person in question retroactively thus we'll limit the scope of the category to modern anti-Semites automatically because the term "Antisemitism" was coined in middle of XIX century
M0RD00R 21:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
You apparently do not understand what "overcategorization" means. It is not related to how many categories exist. And were we to adopt your cut-off on the basis of when the term was coined then our articles on
Antisemitism and the
history of antisemitism are going to require extensive re-writes, because they cite sources identifying examples of antisemitism dating back to the Third Century BCE. As for the comparison to Fascism, while I have not looked at every single article in
Category:Fascists and its sub-categories, I would venture to guess that the members are people who identify themselves as members of one or another Fascist party or movement. Now, if you wanted to make a category for members of various organized antisemitism leagues, feel free, as long as the people included have RSes to back them up.
Otto4711 22:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Back to
Popes. The scholarship is that it was the
Popes who protected the
Jew - against antisemitism - with the exception of only 3 or 4 Popes. So the fear that many Popes will be so classified as antisemites is just unhistorical. --
Ludvikus 22:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Antisemitism is not a Category invented by Wikipedians. It exists in History, Civilization, Culture, ... So we must look to that for our guidance. And the fact is that there is a distinction that is made by Historians of Judaism regarding Modern Antisemitism and the earlier kind. It's not a distinctions which merely Wikipedians make. And the cut-off point is generally taken to be the
French Revolution. Accordingly, the 19th century is a natural demarchation, with the date (more or less) of
1789. --
Ludvikus 22:53, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Modern antisemitism is tied to
Racism - which involves the idea that you cannot be converted out of Judaism and into Christianity because your Jewishness is in your blood; that's why the
Nazis traced your ancestry several generations back, and if you were 1/3 a Jew, you were still a Jew, and off to a Concentration Camp you went. There was nothing subjective about that - except in the minds of some incensitive Wikipedians. --
Ludvikus 23:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Pre-modern antisemitism is also not hard to identify, thanks to Historians, not Wikipedians. Again, the Popes generally protected the Jews, even with
Bulls (disambiguate please). Antisemitism manifested itself in
Blood libels in
Europe. It was that charge that Jews would kill little christian boys in order to collect their Blood which Jews allegedly needed to make their
Matzos for
Passover, which
Christ celebrated as the
Last Supper. --
Ludvikus 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
And Jews, by the way, have an aversion to Blood (no doubt related to their
Kosher laws). And what does Christ (a Jew) do at the Last Supper? He drinks the Wine, and says, "This is my blood ...". The point is, much is known about this kind of Christian hatred of Jews which was and is prohibited by Christianity itself; viz. the
Second ecumenical council and the work of the great late Polish Pope who prayed at the
Wailing Wall. --
Ludvikus 23:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete --Other stuff exists is not a valid argument. This is categorization by opinion, which is nearly always a bad idea, especially for something this emotionally charged. It will be a POV and OR magnet. It has vague inclusion criteria. So many reasons to delete.
LeSnail 21:49, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Many of the people in the current category are neither notable nor notorious, and I wonder why they have Wikipedia articles at all. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment You're mistaken.
Maranos (converted Jews) were accused of secretly practicing Judaism. Also, Jews, being un-Batised, carried the
sin of
Adam. It is a mistake (a-historical) to read modern (biological)Racism into the past of 1492 - even if we find some very similar Racist views. --
Ludvikus 03:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm for a Category such as
Category:Notable and notorious racists in which we would certainly include the officers of the
KKK. As a matter of fact, our Category here would be a Subcategory of it - since N&N Racists always included together "Jews, Negroes, and Dogs" for exclusion from their (filthy) Bathrooms. Do you really find it so "subjective" to identify the "famous" or "great" Racists and Antisemites of the world? --
Ludvikus 04:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, it absolutely is subjective, because the person you call antisemitic, another person thinks is "speaking truth to power" and not antisemitic at all. I'm glad the world is all black and white to you, but most of the rest of us live in a world with shades of gray. We've been through this countless times, and that's why there are no categories for racists, anti-Zionists, or self-hating Jews — they are all POV magnets. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 05:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Absolutely subjective? You've only been around since February 1, 2007! And note the difference: Notable and Notorious. You're clearly ignorant about the people in the list right now. They are all
editors,
compilers,
promoters, etc., of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - the
truth of which apparently you seem to suggest is
relative. You seem unable to make the distinction between a casual remark like yours, "speaking truth to power," and that subscribed to in the
PSM (
acronym for the
Protocols of Zion in
Russian). We also need the Category:
Category:Notable or notorious racists. There we would list those who included yids with niggers and subscribed to a theory of
racialinferiority. Do you think calling
Hitler a notable and notorious racist and antisemite is absolutely subjective, and that he was speaking the truth - that the
Jews had the
power? I wonder what he did to Germany's
negroejazzmusicians who held German citizenship. Oh, that too is absolutely subjective, because it has to do with "
moronmusic". Do you know where that phrase comes from? Or are you not interested in such absolutely subjective questions? --
Ludvikus 12:10, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Actually, I've been around since
April 19,
1963, and I've been an Wikipedia editor since
December 13,
2006. (This, coming from an editor who registered on
August 26,
2006. I'm sure those 109 days have made you a much wiser editor than me. Ha ha.) In any event, my tenure as a Wikipedia editor has no bearing on my ability to discuss antisemitism. Obviously there is no point in discussing this further. I've made my views clear, as have you —
repeatedly. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 21:09, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I haven't been through this even once.. The issue is that (by implication) you think that categorizing
Hitler as an antisemite is subjective. You think that Wikipedians (or humanity at large) will not be able to make the distinction between
hardcore antisemites and racists on the one hand, and the smuck next door who happened to use the word "
nigger" or "
hymie" one drunken night. And you're affraid that we'll have an editor war over that drunken night. And you seem to present yourself as an authority about how many times we've gone through this at Wikipedia. I see this as the First Time that we are considering to excluden the drunken night episodes. Or is it that you think that Jews have the Power to Dominate the World? If that's the case, don't worry. Such remarks, in this context, are neither Notable, nor are they made, as far as we know, by a Notorious individual. So you have nothing to fear - but fear itself. --
Ludvikus 22:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - I am pulled in both directions on the question of having a category for individuals who are/were antisemites. On the one hand, I could easily make all of the arguments that have been articulated against such categories, and would have made a number of them against this particular category. However, all of those arguments fail to address one irreducible fact that I think almost everybody would agree on -- namely that, in principle, there really should be a category for "certifiable antisemites". It seems to me that we have some sort of obligation to our readers to facilitate their efforts to find the articles for such people. So I think we should undertake a truly serious effort to fashion such a category. Failing to make that effort strikes me as simply shirking our responsiblity. And leaving Wikipedia's category structure bereft of such a category runs the risk of being seen as an implicit statement that we just don't give a hoot about this.
Having said all of that, I want to reiterate that I am fully aware of the array of problems that are inherent in categories of this sort. Generically, I'm referring to categorizing by opinion, which is well-understood to be an unsuitable basis for categorization. It seems to me that the proper approach here is to construct a category for what we might broadly term "activists of antisemitism". This is essentially the same approach we've settled on in other highly contentious areas, most notably for abortion (for & against). If we proceed along those lines, we should be on fairly solid ground. Now, we obviously can't call it
Category:Antisemitic activists. (surely that requires no explanation!) If we look at it in terms of what sorts of basic activities these individuals engage(d) in, then we're talking about, for example, "promoters" and "theorists" of antisemitism. That would suggest a possible
Category:Promoters and theorists of antisemitism. I would like to throw that out as a starting point for further discussion, which can, in all likelihood, be improved upon.
Cgingold 13:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think we're not really that far apart here, Malik Shabazz. The point is, it's customary to separate out individuals from a larger category they're associated with when there are enough articles to warrant a sub-category. That's basically what this amounts to. As I've suggested, the real question here is, What exactly shall we call this new sub-category, so as not to be encumbered with the sorts of problems that arise with poorly-named categories? If you can suggest an improvement on
Category:Promoters and theorists of antisemitism, I would be most appreciative if you would favor us with a comment towards that end.
Cgingold 21:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
What constitutes being a "promoter" of anti-semitism and how is that definition any more objective than what would constitute an "anti-semite"? What is an anti-semitism "theorist"? Is it someone who advances anti-semitic theories or someone who theorizes on anti-semitism but is in no way anti-semitic, or both, or something else entirely? And none of this addresses the deletion arguments advanced both here and in the previous deleted categories for anti-semites, racists, homophobes, sexists and all the other "-ists" and -ites" and "-phobes."
Otto4711 22:54, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Just so you know, I'm not ignoring your questions. However, it clearly was not wise to introduce my quasi-proposal in the midst of all this vituperation. So if you don't mind, I would prefer to pursue this issue separately, in a setting that's more conducive to constructive discussion. (Not sure where, perhaps
Category talk:Antisemitism, perhaps somewhere else.)
Cgingold 23:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)reply
It seems we're making progress. Contrary to
User:Malik Shabazz's position, I think we need to put a
humanface on Antisemitism: we need to show Who are the People, or Human beings (since we must call them that) who are behind the Real phenomena of Antisemitism. It turns out that they are quite "banal", as a famous author has stated about
Adolf Eichmann. At the same time, I find it hard to believe that "notable" and "notorious" are not considered sufficient to do the job. Let me put the issue this way, who are the people that Otto and Shabazz are afraid we'll include? It's obvious that "notable" requires something more than a simple antisemitic remark. And "notorious" means some significant action or even. I do not think that Jackson's off the cuff remark, calling Jew(s) "Hymie" qualifies, just as a private remark using the word "negro" would not. At the same time, I ask you guys to look at how the category is already in use: it has not been abused. At the same time, I hold that playing a notable role in getting
The Protocols published or distributed does qualify one for inclusion as a notable antisemite, even if that person is not well known. So I fail to see the legitimacy of Otto's or Shabazz's objections. Shabazz - are you really saying that you cannot tell the difference between a member of the
KKK and the ordinary racist who would not let you live next door simply because your an
African American. Shabbazz, I'm not saying what you are, I'm only asking you to play the role of someone faced with that distinction. The distinction is this: (1) one would simply say, "Sorry, the apartment has aleady been taken." The other (2) would take you out (for talking to a white girl) and
lynch you. Shabbazz - is that really a difficult distinction for you to comprehend? --
Ludvikus 00:08, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think we need to put a
humanface on Antisemitism: we need to show Who are the People, or Human beings (since we must call them that) who are behind the Real phenomena of Antisemitism. - has more than a whiff of POV-pushing about it.
Otto4711 14:44, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Must you turn this into an ad hominem attack? Why can't editors have differing opinions about how to categorize Wikipedia articles without resorting to insults? —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 00:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Dear Brother Wikipedian. I wish I could get you an all-paid trip to
Great Britain's
Parliament. Then I could tell you: "If you can't take the heat then get out of the kichen." Remember, I only know you through cyberspace. So I really have a brotherly affection for you. Nevertheless, think of this argument like a sport. Remember the great
Muhammed Ali! We are boxing here so to speak. I'm not attacking You. It's your position that I'm attacking. So please do not take it personally. And I hope you are man enough (as the saying goes) to admit when you're wrong. Think of us as playing
chess. Unfortunately, the Art of the Debate has been lost in the West. The rules of Wikipedia (concerning debates/arguments) only prohibit the use of direct insulting, infalammatory, words against one another. And even if you're wrong, I think of you as my Wikipedian brother. Now let's get back into the "ring." IK, my Brother? What did Sonny Listen (was that Muhammed Ali's great opponent?) do the first time he lost? --
Ludvikus 00:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
One new editor (that I've noticed) has begun using the Category herein. Accordingly, I've notified him (in a friendly way) that unless he places his vote to Keep here, his work at classification hereunder will become an exercise in futility. Please note that this is in keeping with Wiki Canvassing rules. Thank you, --
Ludvikus 01:24, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Most of the antisemites mentioned are in the article
Antisemitism, so the category is really a subset of the article, which is having things backwards.
rossnixon 02:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Misunderstanding My wish is merely to make this Category a Subcategory of Antisemitism! Since there is no objection to the Category Antisemitism, I anticipate that there should be no objection to a Subcategory within it. There is no dispute (that I can imagine) involving the distinction over person, or human - though it's a shame we have no choice but to call antisemites human. Anyway, I think the discussion should now shift and focus on that - since the Category "Antisemitism" already exists, how do we make the new category merely a Subcategory of it? --
Ludvikus 10:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
We don't make any category that identifies people as antisemites or proponents of antisemitism or what have you a subcategory of any other category because of the fatal problems with such categorization as has been repeatedly expressed.
Otto4711 14:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete: this is a dangerous violation of WP:BLP that is open to abuse by those wishing to label people in a certain way. For starters, who decided who is and isn't antisemitic? Does somebody have to self-profess? or just be accused? And what is the level of WP:V required, it'd have to be very high to pass WP:BLP and it would have to be from a neutral source as per WP:RS. Let's say that my neighbor is a notable person and they said that they didn't think that it was appropriate to show R rated Shindler's list in his kid's middle school. Does make him suitable for this category? What about if another neighbor appeared in the local paper saying that he was pursuing a zoning dispute over a new Jewish Deli because he was anti-semitic but didn't present any evidence other than the fact he was pursuing the dispute, would that be enough, or would he actually have to be convicted by a jury of committing a hate crime against the local Jewish community? No, this category is far too open to WP:BLP violations.-
perfectblue 15:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Please Read:
Listed here are
individuals who played some
notable role, or a
notorious one, in
history,
literature, or
publication. Please note that mere incident(s) involving some apparent antisemitic
conduct or
speech is insufficient to qualify the inclusion of a
person on this list. Please be very careful in your selections. Remember also that this is not a place to make your own
personaljudgments. Neither should it be a place or space to
libel or
slander a living person with whose views you strongly disagree. Nor is it a place to list someone who exercised poor judgment in the choice of words on a particular occasion.
Please further note, that the primary interest here is in historic events. Accordingly, the emphasis here is on individuals who are no longer alive. Only in extrodinary circumstance, for example, where an individual is a self-professed antisemite, should we list the person under this category.
We're clearly not interested in your neighbors. And the Deli operator would be rather foolsh to open his store in Nazi town. I do not comprehend why you ignore the words
notable or
notorious. We are not interested in these insignificant kind of people you describe. All these border-line case - or even concern for children - is not a problem. I'm only interested in
Hitler and
Eichmann type of people. And you know, I hope, that Eichmann lived like the kind of neighbor you described -until he was caught by Israel, tried, and hanged. He was both notable and notorious. We are only interested in classifying the very hard working Antisemites who believe that Hitler didn't finish the job. Even if your neighbor believes that - it would be not sufficient to Categorise him or her here. But please tell me more about your neighbor - maybe I'm wrong. --
Ludvikus 15:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm only interested in Hitler...type people... Then you should check out
Category:Nazis. And this notion of restricting this category to only "the very hard working Antisemites who believe that Hitler didn't finish the job" is new and novel and points yet again to the untenability of the category. What is the objective definition of "very hard working" in terms of this category?
Otto4711 17:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Dear Otto (my late father's name was "Otto"),
You know (I hope) that not all Antisemites were
Nazis or
German. As a matter of fact, the latest research is that the German Nazis around Hitler learned their stuff from the
White Russians. --
Ludvikus 17:34, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Also, Otto, you're confusing what I said here, incompletely, with the complete description I've quoted for your convenience above. Why don't you criticise that, instead of taking my words out of context.
Ludvikus 17:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I have critiqued your position, repeatedly. To respond specifically to the category description, as a general rule of thumb if a paragraph of that length full of restrictions is required then that argues against the efficacy of the categorization scheme.
Otto4711 18:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete subjective hate magnet.
Doczilla 20:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete - As I explained above, I do feel that there ought to be some sort of category for such individuals. But this isn't it. The reasons have already been exhaustively enumerated, so I will simply say that, as a generic proposition, it is basically untenable to use terms like "Notable or notorious" in a Category heading, regardless of the subject. I am sympathetic to Ludvikus's intentions, but what he fails to understand is that, regardless of what may seem to be so obvious that no serious person could possibly take issue, it would be well-nigh impossible to restrict this category to the unarguable cases like Hitler, et al. because there are lots of editors who will want to use it for other individuals who they consider "notorious". And, not incidentally, it really is not helpful to make caustic remarks and insinuations about other editors when debating an intensely contentious issue such as this. All that does is inflame passions and short-circuit thoughtful discussion -- which is why I decided to discontinue the discussion that I opened above.
Cgingold 23:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Proposed compromise: Category:Antisemites In that case, consider this. The Category,
Category:Antisemitism, already exists. So all we really need is a subcategory within it. You realize, of course, that Antisemites have already been Categorized under Antisemitism. Surely you don't think that it's problematic to distnguish, for example,
Hitler (an Antisemite - "person") from his book, Mein Kompf, a thing? --
Ludvikus 00:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Further Comment: Simply put, all I'm really asking for is to be able to collect all the Persons ("human," excluding corporations, and other organizations, and things) within our already existing Antisemitism Category. I cannot imagine why I would be denied the ability to compile such a list within Wikipedia! --
Ludvikus 00:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I would suggest you read the previous CFDs for the already-deleted Antisemites categories linked above and this may enlighten you.
Otto4711 12:26, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Could you be more specific as to your reading assignment? However, whatever was done before it could not possibly have been that we are not allowed to sort out within the existing Antisemitism Category, the individual inhumane beings who made the phenomena of Antisemitism a reality. You make no sense, Otto. If we permit articles about people to be classified under Antisemitism, how can you deny, thereafter, our being able to sort out the
humans within Antisemitism? Your feer of Trolling is unfounded. And therefore you are not protecting the integrity of Wikipedia. Anyone (who reads Wikipedia and) who wants to know Who the Antisemites behind Antisemitism were will not be able to do that.
Nope. It's still overcategorization by opinion, still has impermissible POV concerns and we don't categorize on the basis of living or dead (with the exception of
Category:Living people and the year of birth and death categories).
Otto4711 16:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
OK, Otto, no Dead antisemites Category. But let's get to my prior suggestion, which you seem to ignore. We already have articles classified under the Antisemitism category. Surely you do not object to that or do you?
Assuming that you do not object to
Category:Antisemitism how could you possibly object to my selecting, for Subcategorization the humans, persons, individuals, etc., who are already classified under Antisemitism? I challenge you to find just One individual who is currently so classified because of a POV situation. I say that there's not even One such individual who would be subject to an objection.
I do not think, Otto, you can justify not allowing me to select among the Antisemitism articles those that you would not want me to Classify as Antisemites. I challenge you further to give me just one example of an Antisemitism article which would cause Trolling because I've taken the miniscule step of further classifying it under Antisemite!
Look. I won't support an Antisemites category. I don't believe people should be categorized either under an Antisemites category or under Antisemitism. Any individuals categorized in
Category:Antisemitism should likely be removed. And frankly, you want this category for the wrong reason. You want it so you can have a place to point at a group of people and say "See! See the collection of inhumane creatures I can scarcely bring myself to call human! See how awful they are!" This isn't the place for The Ludvikus Hall of Disgust. Go start your own website and you can call anyone an Anti-Semite that you want and no one will have a word to say about it.
Otto4711 20:54, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Are you trying to say that Antisemites do not exist, or are they imposible to distinguish from ordinary folks? Or maybe antisemitism is some kind of entity hovering around like Holy spirit whos ways are unknown? Antisemtism just like any ideology has its human face - propagandists, ideologists etc. There is
Marxism, and there are
Marxists, there is
Fascism, and there are
Fascists, same goes with Antisemitism.
M0RD00R 21:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename all.
Kbdank71 13:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:33, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom (duplication). Have categories been empty from creation? If so, they may be deleted speedily in a few more days.
Snocrates 04:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete per obvious duplication.
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Category:Educational establishments in York
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 15:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment: I created this category today as part of a drive to reduce the number of articles in
Category:York which weren't in any sub-category, and just chose an appropriate name for it without checking to see what existed elsewhere - mea culpa - and I'll keep this in mind for the future. In my defence, I do think that the name better describes the category's contents (schools, colleges, universities) than does the term "Education in York" (and indeed it is used in the definition of the contents of such categories as
Category:Education in Bromley), but I wouldn't dare to suggest that all the "Education in ..." categories that currently exist should be renamed. Speedy rename seems to be the correct thing to do. --
GuillaumeTell 21:37, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
speedy rename per nom and creator.
Snocrates 07:25, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment: Doesn't it come under #4 of the speedy criteria: Non-conformance with "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)? --
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Category:Aftermath Entertainment
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Agree with nom - category creates redundancy for several of these artists. Delete.
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - Created by a new user for a single article as category redirects. Largely redundant or no potential for expansion; I've removed them from that article,
Marist School - Marikina.
Choess 20:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete I recall having to speedy delete all the school's teachers (masters) a while ago: gotta admire the energy of the user. :-)
Carlossuarez46 19:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:G-Unit feuds
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The result of the debate was merge.
Kbdank71 14:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Merge - small category with little or no likelihood of growth considering that a number of other G-Unit related feud articles have been deleted at AFD. No reason to maintain this category separate from the main artist category.
Otto4711 20:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I agree, all articles in this category, should be put into the G-Unit category instead because many feud articles have been deleted and so there are not many in this cat. --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 20:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per above. Small category with little chance of growth.-
Andrew c[talk] 14:34, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:P-Funk record labels
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The result of the debate was deleted by request of author.
John Vandenberg 07:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - categorizing record labels on the basis of the artists or artist collectives who released albums through them is overcategorization. In the vast majority of cases record labels are not defined by the artists on the label. Labels like
Atlantic Records could end up with dozens or hundreds of artist categories.
Otto4711 19:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. I created the category originally and agree it was overcategorization.
InnocuousPseudonym 23:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. Not the same as the albums and songs category above.--
Mike Selinker 23:51, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 14:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Merge per ProveIt.
LeSnail 20:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per ProveIt's revised nomination. Consistency with the lead article is almost always a Good Thing.
Xtifrtälk 07:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per ProveIt. I think that "War on Terrorism" is more appropriate, but per our current policies the category name should follow the lead article, which was recently renamed: see
Talk:War on Terror#Name_Change_.28again.29. However, I think that this case illustrates a real problem with this naming policy, in that it can lead wikipedia to appear to be
non-neutral by adopting highly partisan terminology. --
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The result of the debate was rename, only one article, appears to only be in the Tracey Takes On... show.
Kbdank71 15:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment. Don't these characters appear in more than one Tracey Ullman program/special/etc.?
Doczilla 22:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:Merge, incorrectly named duplicate cat.
RobertG ♬
talk 15:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC) Update: nominator had second thoughts, see below. I think I need coffee. --
RobertG ♬
talk 15:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - Johnbod has already contributed to this debate, so I won't refactor the nomination now. On reconsidering, articles about the concept of "character in fiction" seems to me totally appropriate for a category, and not to duplicate "fictional characters": but I still think the name may not be clear enough. Suggest rename to
Category:Character in fiction? --
RobertG ♬
talk 15:31, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - it turns out we have
Category:Stock characters so perhaps a merge to that category would be appropriate?
Otto4711 14:17, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
This category is rather broader, so should sit on top. We also have
Category:Characters by function, which does cover much the same ground - perhaps merge that in. I think the whole area needs tidying & rearranging. If we can get concensus around
Category:Fictional character types & perhaps the merge with "by function", I could go in after & rearrange.
Johnbod 15:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename (as the original nominator who has now well and truly rethought) to Category:Fictional character types, and take up Johnbod's offer of rearrangement. --
RobertG ♬
talk 14:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, as Songs by performance, see also previous discussions. -- Prove It(talk) 14:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Include this info in the articles, possibly make a few lists, but per precedent it's not a defining characteristic of the songs. --
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contribs) 16:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom, just to make a clear second for what seems completely obvious. --
lquilter 16:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per above and many precedents.
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The result of the debate was delete per much precedent.
Kbdank71 15:06, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete -
overcategorization by family name. The article
Tolkien family illustrates why articles are superior to categories when most or all of the contents are family members, because an article can illuminate the relationships between the family members while a category can only list them alphabetically.
Otto4711 14:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom, although in fact not all members are (I think) mentioned in
JRR Tolkien which rather undercuts the argument.
Johnbod 15:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't think it undercuts it. They're all mentioned in Tolkien family, though, and that is linked from
JRR Tolkien. That seems completely appropriate to me. JRR may not even have known his great-great-whatevers or distant cousins. --
lquilter 17:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. "X family" articles are by far the better way to handle this sort of genealogical and relational trivia connections. --
lquilter 17:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - this category functions as a subcategory of both
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien and
Category:Tolkien. The basic concept is that readers browsing these two categories (one for the author and his life and times, and one for the wider subject of Tolkien-related topics) will be interested in the articles we have on members of the Tolkien family. It would be possible to just categorise the
Tolkien family article, but this small subcategory does no harm and immediately tells the reader that there is (a) an article on the whole family; and (b) several articles on members of the family. Categories are not meant to act as articles. That's why we have both articles and categories. You could equally well argue that
Category:Presidents of the United States doesn't do as good a job of illuminating the relationships between the presidents because it lists them alphabetically instead of chronologically. But this sort of argument is wrong. A good category makes this clear and tells readers that it is just a listing, and for the full details , see the article here. I'm going to modify the text on this category to say just that. Hopefully that will make things a bit clearer.
Carcharoth 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Leaving aside the POTUS straw man and the
it's not hurting anything non-argument, is there some reason why the article
Tolkien family can't sit in the parents? Is anyone interested in the Tolkien family going to start anywhere other than
JRR Tolkien or
Tolkien family? No.
Otto4711 18:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(1) The POTUS argument is not a strawman. It is a direct refutation by analogy of your incorrect assertion that categories should be deleted because they can only list articles alphabetically. Let me make this crystal-clear. You said "a category can only list them alphabetically" as part of your deletion nomination. You are implying that this is a bad thing, but listing articles alphabetically is one of the main functions of a category. You seem to, in effect, be arguing for replacing all categories with articles because an alphabetical listing doesn't really tell us anything useful. I would have more sympathy with your argument if you had restricted it to saying "an article can illuminate the relationships between the family members [while a category cannot]" (without mentioning anything about alphabetical lists). By referring to the alphabetical function, it is you who are introducing a strawman and distracting from the main point of your own argument.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(2) While the
no harm argument is often abused (and if you read it, you will see that it is not talking about what you or I are talking about - it is talking about unverified material), it is also too often blithely rejected by those who fail to consider the readers of this encyclopedia. I have given a clear example of how this category helps people navigate around articles. This subcategory: "immediately tells the reader that there is (a) an article on the whole family; and (b) several articles on members of the family." The category at
Category:Tolkien family, and the navbox at
Template:Tolkien both do the same thing, but in slightly different ways. (Compare
Category:Presidents of the United States and
Template:US Presidents). Some readers browse the encyclopedia using links from articles (they have
Tolkien family). Some browse using the category links (they have
Category:Tolkien family). Some browse using the navboxes (they have
Template:Tolkien). Have a look at
Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes: "These methods should not be considered to be in competition with each other. Rather, they are synergistic, each one complementing the other." I can't think of any way in which removing this category improves Wikipedia.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(3) The final point: "Is anyone interested in the Tolkien family going to start anywhere other than
JRR Tolkien or
Tolkien family?" - short answer, "yes". Someone reading
Richard E. Blackwelder clicks on
Category:Tolkien studies, and then starts browsing the category structure. They decide to browse up to
Category:Tolkien, have a quick look round at some of the articles and subcategories, and eventually end up in
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien. They then think that
Category:Tolkien family looks interesting, so they click on that. They then find that they have the option to either read the main article, or to choose some of the family members who have their own articles. Depending on their level of knowledge of the subject area, they may chose to go to the article, or they might think "Christopher Tolkien? That sounds familiar..." They click on
Christopher Tolkien, read the article, and then carry on reading and browsing, maybe deciding to read
The History of Middle-earth. Under your scheme, things would be slightly different. Once the reader reached
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, they would have the option of clicking on
Tolkien family, and in the contents list they would see "Christopher Tolkien". They could click on that, click on the "main article" link, and still end up at
Christopher Tolkien. I make that one more click. But really, either system works. My view is that it is really not worth bothering too much over which system to use, but disrupting an existing structure and system (as your nomination did) is essentially pointless and a waste of time.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I suppose, to be consistent, I should stick to my assertion that it doesn't matter either way, and not comment further. I will retain my 'keep', though, and await with interest your response to the points I've raised.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - the whole structure and subcategories of
Category:Tolkien,
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien and
Category:Middle-earth have been carefully designed for ease of navigation and to structure the topic in the most informative way. It has been mostly stable for a few years now. Is there a way to consolidate that and avoid the shifting vagaries of category fashions over the years? Or do we have to continually 'watch out' for category nominations as the 'category specialists' sweep their watchful eyes over the system?
Carcharoth 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Well, as they say,
Consensus can change : ) - Anyway, as I've seen several times in the past, I think that the current consensus (per
WP:OCAT, or even
WP:CLS, for that matter) is that a navbox is a better idea than a cat for most family categories. And one already exists in this case? -
jc37 16:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
You are right.
Template:Tolkien, which used to be a sprawling mess with the family tree. That spawling mess is now in the article, and someone seems to be adding the latest generation of Tolkiens in there (two new additions, born in 2005 and 2006). Not quite what Wikipedia is for, but hey, maybe it is the proud parents adding details of their baby children in there?! That would be a strange trend: welcome your children into the world by adding them to Wikipedia! Anyway, that template, after a TfD, got turned into a navbox. You are right, in that this navbox fulfils the function of the category. My only concern here is that people browsing the category system might expect to find these articles in
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien. So if there is no family category, how do people get from the category system to the articles? And also, those using the navbox to navigate around the set of Tolkien family articles, will be missing out on the category browsing experience.
Carcharoth 16:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Although I have to say I appreciate the description of CFDers as Sauron. --
lquilter 16:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
LOL! Not quite my intention, but I see how the "watchful eye" comment could be interpreted that way.
Carcharoth 16:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep to avoid confusion. There is an interest in his family, and it is good to keep that separate from th interest in his work--some people of course very much belong in both , but by no means all.DGG (
talk) 11:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Um, it is kept separate by using the useful and informative article on the family.
Otto4711 18:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Articles aren't the same as categories. If you think that some of the material in the separate articles should be merged to the family article, then you should propose a merge of the articles, rather than a deletion of the category.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Quite a relevant issue not yet raised here is that (according to current notions) all Tolkien-related articles should be categorised to some subcat of
Category:Tolkien, so that we have a clear and a full cat structure; and this cannot be substituted by categorising a list article where others are linked from. If the present category is deleted, the articles on individual family members can possibly go to either
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, or to
Category:Tolkien; but this would just overcrowd them, while collecting even a few related articles to a cubcat is the most convenient solution.
Súrendil 18:36, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Merge into
Category:Eukaryotes, this was a wanted category of 8 members, probably should be merged but I'd like an expert to check it out. -- Prove It(talk) 14:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
comment it looks like it should not have any members, only subcatgories, as if it were fully populated it would be enormous.
132.205.44.5 22:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete and recategorise: Given that genus names are only unique to the kingdom of life, not the domain of life, this categorisation fails. There are a very few taxa, mainly in the
Ediacaran biota, where the higher relationships are so unknown that it may be useful to put them into a generic holding group similar to this. However, that should have a more specific name, and does not apply to these genera anyway.
Adam Cuerdentalk 04:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Recategorise according to Adam--I think it makes sense biologically. though I can not think of a suitable name. DGG (
talk) 11:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was already redirected per discussion.
Kbdank71 13:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
For what it's worth, four of the five people in this category were already in subcategories of
Category:Bisexual people in addition to this, so after removing this as a duplicate, there was only one article left — which, in turn, was also easily refiled into the appropriate subcategory. I'll redirect it right now, since it's now an empty category.
Bearcat 22:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Making it a redirect sounds like just the thing ... -- Prove It(talk) 00:36, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was relisted on oct 11.
Kbdank71 14:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Novelty items to fix capitalisation. "Novelties" can also refer to intangible things, and it including the word "items" reduces the ambiguity. --
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Category:Pseudoscience writers
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Nominator's rationale: Any such categorization is intrinsically POV. It is extremely difficult to find concensus around this subject, thus it is not appropriate to have a category available for specific writers, many of whom are likely to come under
WP:BLP.
Cgingold 11:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong delete per nom. However, it may not be consistent to delete this one when we still have the parent
Category:Pseudoscience, so it might be better to start higher up the tree. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 16:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, I also have concerns re
Category:Pseudoscience, but I think that will entail a more in-depth discussion. I started with this cat because of the
WP:BLP issues.
Cgingold 05:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Fair enough, I agree. The BLP issues make this category a clear delete regardless of the fate of the parent categories. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 11:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom.
Johnbod 18:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep, else merge to
Category:Pseudoscientists. The distinction between science and pseudoscience is not a subjective one. Or if you prefer, it is certainly no more a subjective call than deciding between any other two genres. Sure, there may be a spectrum along which individual cases may be argued and placed depending upon how egregiously their writing departs from acceptance of and adherence to
scientific methodology. But that should not cause paralysis when making a decision in the majority of cases. If they're notable enough for inclusion, it'd be odds-on their writings have been identified as such by notable sources. I think the BLP concerns are overdone, responsibly employed, 'pseudoscience' is intended as a factual description, not a pejorative one. A writer whose works promote, say, Intelligent Design and evolution denialism, is not one who is writing from any scientific basis, and there is a clear and qualitative difference. However you might describe it, it is not science, but has only the pretence ('pseudo-'), as even recent court cases in the US (eg Dover) have ascertained. It is something else, and we may as well call it by the name most commonly used. I note also that
Category:Pseudoscience and related others have withstood several deletion attempts in the past, and I would think they'd do so again- I for one would strongly oppose. To put it yet another way- under what genre would writers like
Richard Hoagland,
Zechariah Sitchin,
Erich von Dänikenet al. come under? All that said, there is perhaps a degree of redundancy here with
Category:Pseudoscientists, so given this cat is presently underpopulated (it could easily contain many dozens of entries) then a merger would be acceptable. Quite possibly Pseudoscience writers is the better category name, but I don't want to confuse the issue at this stage. --
cjllwʘTALK 03:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
delete The category is too vague. experience with the debates over the use of the word "pseudoscience" over multiple articles shows that the designation is always a source of unproductive contention. For example, I would challenge that all ID proponents are psudoscientists--one or two of them are arguably actual scientists whose work has been appropriated by the pseudoscientists. (my minority view in WP is that it remains an proposition worthy of serious presentation and discussion--which it usually does not get, especially from its proponents, who are usually not even pseudo scientists) - But this example is sufficient to show the extreme amount of contention that will be caused by this category. We have enough problems with ID without adding thiscategory as an additional complication. And similarly with every other topic. We need to argue over the content of articles, not where to put them. At the moment there is only one article here, on a person whose notability can be question & might well be deleted). DGG (
talk) 10:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - To clarify my very brief comment above: Although I do have concerns about the way the term is applied in some instances, I certainly had no intention of suggesting that
Pseudoscience is somehow not a very real and serious issue. I haven't given any thought whatsoever to deleting
Category:Pseudoscience, but I do think it is inherently problematic in terms of proper application. As for
Category:Pseudoscientists, which I've just had a look at, I'm afraid that looks like it also has serious issues, for example, in terms of some of the subcategories that are included in their entirety. It's easy enough to say that people like von Daniken, or
Zechariah Sitchin (who I had the opportunity to "debate" (pick apart, really) on the radio years ago) are "pseudoscientists". But it's simply not fair, accurate or appropriate to insist that all "Ufologists", for example, are by definition, "pseudoscientists". Most of them no doubt are, but some are not. But that's another discussion, perhaps for another place.
Cgingold 14:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Unless this category is strictly controlled to limit it to authors who write about the topic of pseudoscience (and precedent says it won't be), it is likely to become a concern worthy violation of WP:BPL. It is also completely redundant as there is already a pseudoscience category that covers both authors who write about pseudoscience and the topic of pseudoscience itself. -
perfectblue 15:09, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete needn't be POV, but it seems like it will be - because debunkers of pseudoscience can be placed here as well, but they won't be probably. So, gotta go..
Carlossuarez46 19:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Reluctant delete. Inclusion criteria could be clear, but unfortunately are unlikely to become and/or stay clear.
Doczilla 22:01, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:Television-book writers
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Nominator's rationale: Although the explanatory sentence is helpful, the name of the category is ambiguous at best. More importantly, I'm doubtful that there will ever be enough articles about such writers to justify the existence of this category, since only a small fraction of writers have articles on Wikipedia.
Cgingold 11:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. There are unlikely to be enough notable examples of this, perhaps the lowest form of literary life.
Johnbod 18:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I share your sentiments, Johnbod -- but I'm glad you qualified that, because I'm pretty sure the truly lowest form of literary life would have to be the artistes who have produced the dumbed-down book versions of movies that were made from classic literature. Now there's a category that's crying out to be created!
Cgingold 08:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete terribly named category.
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Category:Attribution templates and Category:Citations to Category:Specific source templates
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Nominator's rationale: While I was sleeping or something, someone created a
Category:Citations misnamed category (doesn't even identify itself as a category for templates!) that is a functional duplicate of
Category:Attribution templates, both of them subcats of
Category:Citation templates, which also includes other types of templates relating to source citations. The purpose of both categories is to house templates that aid in the easy repetitious citation to well-known, oft-used sources (versus manual application of {{
Cite whatever|something|something...}} ). Plenty useful, so this is not a deletion nomination. They certainly should be one category (there is no discernable categorical difference between the members of the categories) and the merged result should remain a subcategory of
Category:Citation templates, thus I propose a merger and rename into a new
Category:Citation templates subcategory called
Category:Specific source templates. A longer name at
Category:Specific source citation templates would also work, but seems redundant (I would not object to it, however). The rationale for not simply merging
Category:Citations into
Category:Attribution templates is that the
WP:ATT putsch failed, and that page to the extent anyone even notices it any longer is simply a summary/supplement page, and use of the term "attribution" in this context may be confusing to some editors. I would be okay with a simple merge of
Category:Citations into
Category:Attribution templates, just for the record, but prefer my principal proposal for its simplicity and clarity. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)}}}reply
Rename but don't merge. The look and purpose of the two are different. If you look at the templates in
Category:Attribution templates, they all produce a line of text like: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. {{
cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (
help) which is intended to be included at the bottom of an article that extensively uses public domain sources. The templates in
Category:Citations produce a individual citation to an individual source, like Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Nomi d'Italia, (
ISBN88-511-0983-4), p. 1. which is intended to be included in a References section. I think a rename is a good idea. ----
CharlesGillingham 07:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename to include "template"; don't merge. I also think the contents of the two cats should be kept separate since they don't mix well. One is for reference citations, one for stand-alone sentences or boxes. One possible name: "Specific citation templates". -
R. S. Shaw 06:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
no merger/Rename... to my original suggested name Category:Special uses citation templates (
here (Wikipedia_talk:Citation_templates)), and I'll take some of the blame too! <g> Give the other guy credit for initiative even if he forgot naming conventions. While I can live with
Category:Specific source templates I also think 'that name' unnecessarily narrows what might be added there in such a category. [Note the original idea was to tidy up the cluttered category so the common everyday templates could be easily located—a bad (unsuggestive) category name can be obfusticating as well!] For example, citing a novel, one might have a template which calls {{cite book }} with boilerplate for the book data, and pass parameters to the specific references. [Happens I plan on writing several of those, I just thought it up last night about 2am! <g>]. A specific source. However, lately I've been doing some football article stuff too, and can envision a general purpose template which would take a single parameter, process it using {{switch: {{{param}}} ...}}, and fill in sets of the blanks to {{cite web}} (in this case). That would NOT be a single source, but one of three to five or so. Ditto for media information of a specific topic area (history channel, history channel international, Public television stations or networks, etc. which do documentary programming as a rule. Sports too
[2], on occasion. Hence, I'd prefer a broader category name on that basis. // FrankB 18:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think "attribution" (this article is based on Enc. Brit. 1911) and a plain "cite book" are two different things. The current description of
category:Citations says it is intended for the latter. However, there is also a third category: Templates that contain a #switch-controlled library of citations. A typical example is
template:Ref Jane's. I predict that this kind will grow, because it can be very useful e.g. within a WikiProject, and should probably have its own subcategory under
category:citation templates. I'm not sure what it should be called, though. --
LA2 04:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 13:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:Inklings
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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The society of
Inklings is notable, and many of its members are extremely notable, but it doesn't make sense to categorize people based on their membership in "an informal literary discussion group."
LeSnail 01:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. From my read of Humphries's Tolkien biography, membership was actually quite exclusive, and extremely influential; to the extent that any members were not eminent, they are already dealt with by
WP:N and thus simply do not arise here as a cognizable issue. The internal legalistic "formality" of the organization is of not of WP categorization concern. More to the point, the description of the inklings given above is woefully inaccurate. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If the description is "woefully inaccurate" then the wikipedia article
Inklings needs major revision, since my description is taken from that page. By informal, the page seems to mean that it was never clear who exactly was in the group, and it seems to be the case that a lot of people had unclear membership.
LeSnail 19:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Defining for all or most of this group.
Johnbod 15:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - As noted above, the group, and the members thereof, were quite influential. -
jc37 04:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - a better description is in the quote in the article: "the Inklings was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both. There were no rules, officers, agendas, or formal elections". Having said that, people would expect to find
Inklings in
Category:Literary societies, and they do, so that is probably enough.
Carcharoth 15:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep but Rename to indicate is a members list, or at least a list of PEOPLE... inklings means ideas, notions, etc. not connoting "people list". // FrankB 15:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fictional technical experts
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Extremely vague category. Who is to say whether someone is an expert or not, especially when that person doesn't even exist? It is worth noting
the deletion of
Category:Fictional computer experts on much the same grounds. This category is, if anything, worse.
LeSnail 01:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong delete per outright goofiness (i.e. per common sense), and per cited precedent. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and the computer expert precedent.
Otto4711 22:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Detele--unecessary cat creep, fictional pWooops... Category:Fictional characters by occupation ... Uh, oh!!! Strong Keep -- Unless the nom plans on deleting all the categories in Category:Fictional characters by occupation, this is a clear case of missing a highly populated system that has been in place for at least three years by my samplings. Deleting it would be madness in light of the heavy use by
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels—a very active group— of these categories. And to answer the question: "Who is to say whether someone is an expert or not"... "The Author", that's why the category name starts with fictional. // FrankB 15:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If you were to look at the category, you might notice that none of its members are from novels, and are therefore probably not in heavy use by
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels.
LeSnail 18:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete many fictional people can be claimed to be expert in any number of technical fields and that defines them how?
Carlossuarez46 19:21, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete - "Technical experts" is too vague. There's a reason there's no such thing as real technical experts. Categorize them according to their occupations (e.g., computer hacker, robot assistant, whatever). --
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: According to the list of mixed languages in Pidgins and Creoles (
ISBN1-55619-170-7), there are no "true" mixed languages derived from English. There are some edge cases (mixed pidgins and "symbiotic" mixed languages), but currently this category is not even being used for those. It's being used for things that are not even languages at all, but are just the occasional use of English words in other languages.
Alivemajor 00:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete -- According to
mixed language, there is actually one mixed language derived from English, namely Anglo-Romani, but that isn't enough for a category. True mixed languages are very rare.
LeSnail 01:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
FWIW, Angloromani is one of the ones that Pidgins and Creoles classifies as a "symbiotic" language. --
Alivemajor 03:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete: Above nitpicks aside, a lone marginal case is not enough to support a category. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per above. It's like categorizing things that include water. Excessively broad.
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Category:Geographic imagemaps
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Delete as neither of the pages in the category is an imagemap. If there is no consensus to delete, then merge to
Category:Wikipedia imagemaps, since the phrase 'geographic imagemap' is repetitive (much like 'geographic map'). – Black Falcon(
Talk) 00:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC) P.S. Although the category currently contains only user subpages, I am nominating it here, rather than at UCFD, because it is not intended to be a user category.reply
Comment. They are image maps. One has to move the cursor around to find various links. It looks like a work in progress. I just added
Category:Wikipedia geographic imagemaps to the user pages. So they are now merged with
Category:Wikipedia imagemaps (as a subcategory). I assume that one reason you, Black Falcon, want the category deleted is because it is a regular category containing only user subpages. User categories are supposed to start with "Wikipedia", I believe. So I think the problem is solved, and this category can be deleted. --
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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - similar to P-Funk songs nominated below. Absent the subcats that are properly categorized in
Category:Albums by artist this is an empty category. Its only contents other than the subcats were albums by
Parlet which I have recategorized to
Category:Parlet albums.
Otto4711 23:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep I think the association of "albums recorded by the various P-Funk acts associated with George Clinton" in a single category, even if that category has nothing but sub-categories in it, is valuable. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment When
George Clinton lost the rights to the names Funkadelic and Parliament about 1980 or so, he started releasing albums under his own name, under the name P-Funk All-Stars, and under the name "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars". After he won back the rights, he started using the names Parliament-Funkadelic and "George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic" as well. A few of these albums are listed at
George Clinton (funk musician)#Discography, but technically they don't belong there — they were released under one of the one of the permutations listed above. (See
Template:P-Funk, where I lumped them all together in the discography, and my comments at
Template talk:P-Funk.) A rigid procedure of classifying these albums by artist would make no sense; they belong in
Category:P-Funk albums. —
Malik Shabazz (
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contribs) 21:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. These are very closely related, and so the umbrella makes sense.--
Mike Selinker 23:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per the arguments by Malik Shabazz and Mike Selinker.
InnocuousPseudonym 00:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - the subcats were all nominated and
kept recently but the parent cat was not. This should be deleted for the simple reason that in the absence of the subcategories, which are all reasonably housed in
Category:Songs by artist, this category is empty. There are no articles on songs recorded by "P-Funk" in it. The analogy was drawn in the previous debate to
Category:Motown songs but the key difference is that Motown is a record label and P-Funk is not. I have my doubts about categorizing songs by record label, as the Motown songs cat does, but that's a debate for another day.
Otto4711 23:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep I think the association of "songs recorded by the various P-Funk acts associated with George Clinton" in a single category, even if that category has nothing but sub-categories in it, is valuable. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. These are very closely related, and so the umbrella makes sense.--
Mike Selinker 23:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per rationales by Malik Shabazz and Mike Selinker.
InnocuousPseudonym 00:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Weak keep: we have articles on
Parliament (band),
Funkadelic,
Parliament-Funkadelic, and
P-Funk All-Stars, all of which could be considered one band or four, depending on your perspective. This is not an easy thing to classify. Note that it's possible that we should have a
Category:P-Funk All-Stars songs, which would be one more sub-category here, but I'm not entirely how much All-Stars-only material exists. I once suggested merging the first two articles I mentioned into the third, but there was pretty strong opposition to the idea. Anyway, this is a borderline case, but I tend to think there's simultaneously enough diversity and enough commonality in these categories to justify the umbrella. But it's very definitely borderline.
Xtifrtälk 07:39, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment When
George Clinton lost the rights to the names Funkadelic and Parliament about 1980 or so, he started releasing albums under his own name, under the name P-Funk All-Stars, and under the name "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars". After he won back the rights, he started using the names Parliament-Funkadelic and "George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic" as well. A few of these albums are listed at
George Clinton (funk musician)#Discography, but technically they don't belong there — they were released under one of the one of the permutations listed above. (See
Template:P-Funk, where I lumped them all together in the discography, and my comments at
Template talk:P-Funk.) A rigid procedure of classifying the songs on these albums by artist would make no sense; they belong in
Category:P-Funk songs. —
Malik Shabazz (
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Category:Notable or notorious antisemites
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The result of the debate was delete.
Kbdank71 15:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: POV title, this will become merely a place for people to argue as to who or what is "notable" or "notorious".
Corvus cornix 22:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keepor RenameCategory:Antisemites.:Creator's rationale: Note the qualification actually placed at top of list:
"Listed here are
individuals who played some
notable role, or a
notorious one,
in
history,
literature, or
publication. Please note that mere incident(s)involving
some apparent antisemitic
conduct or
speech is insufficient to qualify the inclusion of a
person
on this list. Please be very careful in your selections. Remember also that this is not a place to make
your own
personaljudgments. Neither should it be a place or space to
libel or
slander
a living person with whose views you strongly disagree. Nor is it a place to list someone who exercised poor judgment
in the choice of words on a particular occasion.
Please further note, that the primary interest here is in historic events.
Accordingly, the emphasis here is on individuals who are no longer alive.
Only in extraodinary circumstance, for example, where an individual is a self-professed antisemite,
should we list the person under this category."
Yours truly, --
Ludvikus 01:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
--
Ludvikus 18:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
What about the president of Iran? He said that he wants Israel to be destroyed, but also claimed that he wasn't anti-semitic because he was against the country not the religion? -
perfectblue 15:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep current name. At best it's silly to pretend that one cannot tell whose an antisemite: it's one who either (1) subscribes to the view that a Jew is
evil until (s)he converts to
Christianity, or holds that (2) a Jew has
bad blood (is
geneticallyinferior) and must be expelled to another place, or
exterminated. Is that really such a difficult distinction to make/ What's subjective here? --
Ludvikus 15:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I find it shameful that Wikipedians find
antisemitism to be too
subjective. Is
murder too subjective? Why is antisemitism any more subjective than
homicide? Please reconsider. --
Ludvikus 15:37, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Here's whose so categorized so far (without any disagreement):
Furthermore, I did not find such a broad consensus for Unqualified Deletion.
Third point: Listify was repeatedly requested. And here we generate a List.
The emphasis is un Dead Antisemites (no doubt the best kind). And I'm going to add that qualification right away - so as not to offend any living ones! --
Ludvikus 18:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Well, in order to be listed as a murderer you have to be convicted of the crime of murder, yet many antisemites are never convicted in a court of law. For example, in some countries it's not a crime. In the US you can legally stand up and announce that you think that Jews are the lowest of the low etc etc etc, and you can't be convicted unless you incite murder or violence. -
perfectblue 15:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. The proposed qualification process is highly volatile. Who's to decide what "conduct or speech" is already sufficient or yet "insufficient" for the inclusion?
You, the creator? Give me a break. The whole idea seems like an open invitation to finger pointing, defamation and wholesale witch-hunt. Exactly the opposite of what is presumably intended here. --
Poeticbenttalk 03:46, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, do not keep as "Antisemites". Criteria for categorization are too subjective and category will likely be subject to abuse or at least the cause of serious application disputes.
Snocrates 04:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep as the one who nominated the list from which this stems for deletion. As long as there are clear criteria for inclusion and it's limited to people notable for antisemitism instead of people who made a poor choice of words once I don't see this as any less valid than
Category:Homophobia. —
iridescent(talk to me!) 16:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
There were only two (2) views which supported Delete with an Opinion as follows;
"Delete both The existence of these categories expose a major failure in Wikipedia's systems,as Jewish users appear to be the only group well organised enough to preserve biased "anti" categories.User:Osomec 14:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC) "Delete both. Wikipedia needs some kind of firm precedent or policyagainst categorizing people on the basis of opinions.Opinions are changable and often passing.Likewise we need a firm policy against categorizing people with derogatory labels given them by others.This category fails on both counts.User:KleenupKrew 00:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)reply
These two opinions were expressed in August of 2006. As
Jimbo Wales holds, Wikipedia is a phenomena which evolves. The above opinion gives a good example of what will not qualify for inclusion:
... Jewish users appear to be the only group well organised enough to preserve biased "anti" categories.
Although those who know would agree as to what category such a sentence falls, clearly it does not qualify under our classification because the person who expressed it cannot be shown to be notable or notorious. Furthermore, at worst, for us under the above criteria, that's a bad choice of words. Unless, of course, one believes that it's true that "Jews are better organized" than non-Jews. On the other hand, it does sound like the message of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, namely that Jews are into
world domination.
Yours truly, --
Ludvikus 17:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Whatever
Jimbo Wales might hold, the second linked category above was deleted in April of this year with strong consensus and policy bases. Nothing in this CFD has rebutted that strong consensus or the strong policy concerns.
Otto4711 17:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep per Iridescent. Rename is also viable option. It should be stressed that this category includes not people having antisemitic views and
Mel Gibson type of cases, but rather is limited to the people that contributed notably to the spreading of antisemitic ideology.
M0RD00R 18:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
No, subcategory Anti-Semites by profession would be a stretch. And Yes, popes, bishops, saints, whatever, notable for the history of antisemitism, can and should be included.
M0RD00R 19:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
And for every person who says that Pope Convertajew XXI was an anti-Semite, there will be someone who says that he didn't try to convert them out of hatred but out of love and a desire to share with them Christ's glory. So whose viewpoint prevails? Or do we have constant edit wars on a hundred or more Pope articles as POV-pushers on both sides struggle to make their points?
Otto4711 19:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
This issue can be resolved by limiting the scope of the category to the modern antisemitism (mid XIX - XX centuries) only.
M0RD00R 19:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
WP:OC is not the case yet because we don't even have one category for notable anti-Semites (in comparison to the dozen fascists categories) , and I bet anti-Semite is easier to define than a fascist. And I do not think that just because there might be some problems defining who is a fascist category:Fascists will ever be deleted. Regarding arbitrary inclusion standard I'd say that modernity is not so arbitrary standard at all. Racist nature is the main difference between modern and classic (religious-Christian) antisemitism, all this can be sourced according to WP:RS and so on. To cut lengthy discussions about definitions even further, there is a shortcut. We can say that the term Anti-Semite should not be applied regarding the person in question retroactively thus we'll limit the scope of the category to modern anti-Semites automatically because the term "Antisemitism" was coined in middle of XIX century
M0RD00R 21:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
You apparently do not understand what "overcategorization" means. It is not related to how many categories exist. And were we to adopt your cut-off on the basis of when the term was coined then our articles on
Antisemitism and the
history of antisemitism are going to require extensive re-writes, because they cite sources identifying examples of antisemitism dating back to the Third Century BCE. As for the comparison to Fascism, while I have not looked at every single article in
Category:Fascists and its sub-categories, I would venture to guess that the members are people who identify themselves as members of one or another Fascist party or movement. Now, if you wanted to make a category for members of various organized antisemitism leagues, feel free, as long as the people included have RSes to back them up.
Otto4711 22:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Back to
Popes. The scholarship is that it was the
Popes who protected the
Jew - against antisemitism - with the exception of only 3 or 4 Popes. So the fear that many Popes will be so classified as antisemites is just unhistorical. --
Ludvikus 22:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Antisemitism is not a Category invented by Wikipedians. It exists in History, Civilization, Culture, ... So we must look to that for our guidance. And the fact is that there is a distinction that is made by Historians of Judaism regarding Modern Antisemitism and the earlier kind. It's not a distinctions which merely Wikipedians make. And the cut-off point is generally taken to be the
French Revolution. Accordingly, the 19th century is a natural demarchation, with the date (more or less) of
1789. --
Ludvikus 22:53, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Modern antisemitism is tied to
Racism - which involves the idea that you cannot be converted out of Judaism and into Christianity because your Jewishness is in your blood; that's why the
Nazis traced your ancestry several generations back, and if you were 1/3 a Jew, you were still a Jew, and off to a Concentration Camp you went. There was nothing subjective about that - except in the minds of some incensitive Wikipedians. --
Ludvikus 23:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Pre-modern antisemitism is also not hard to identify, thanks to Historians, not Wikipedians. Again, the Popes generally protected the Jews, even with
Bulls (disambiguate please). Antisemitism manifested itself in
Blood libels in
Europe. It was that charge that Jews would kill little christian boys in order to collect their Blood which Jews allegedly needed to make their
Matzos for
Passover, which
Christ celebrated as the
Last Supper. --
Ludvikus 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
And Jews, by the way, have an aversion to Blood (no doubt related to their
Kosher laws). And what does Christ (a Jew) do at the Last Supper? He drinks the Wine, and says, "This is my blood ...". The point is, much is known about this kind of Christian hatred of Jews which was and is prohibited by Christianity itself; viz. the
Second ecumenical council and the work of the great late Polish Pope who prayed at the
Wailing Wall. --
Ludvikus 23:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete --Other stuff exists is not a valid argument. This is categorization by opinion, which is nearly always a bad idea, especially for something this emotionally charged. It will be a POV and OR magnet. It has vague inclusion criteria. So many reasons to delete.
LeSnail 21:49, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Many of the people in the current category are neither notable nor notorious, and I wonder why they have Wikipedia articles at all. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment You're mistaken.
Maranos (converted Jews) were accused of secretly practicing Judaism. Also, Jews, being un-Batised, carried the
sin of
Adam. It is a mistake (a-historical) to read modern (biological)Racism into the past of 1492 - even if we find some very similar Racist views. --
Ludvikus 03:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm for a Category such as
Category:Notable and notorious racists in which we would certainly include the officers of the
KKK. As a matter of fact, our Category here would be a Subcategory of it - since N&N Racists always included together "Jews, Negroes, and Dogs" for exclusion from their (filthy) Bathrooms. Do you really find it so "subjective" to identify the "famous" or "great" Racists and Antisemites of the world? --
Ludvikus 04:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, it absolutely is subjective, because the person you call antisemitic, another person thinks is "speaking truth to power" and not antisemitic at all. I'm glad the world is all black and white to you, but most of the rest of us live in a world with shades of gray. We've been through this countless times, and that's why there are no categories for racists, anti-Zionists, or self-hating Jews — they are all POV magnets. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 05:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Absolutely subjective? You've only been around since February 1, 2007! And note the difference: Notable and Notorious. You're clearly ignorant about the people in the list right now. They are all
editors,
compilers,
promoters, etc., of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - the
truth of which apparently you seem to suggest is
relative. You seem unable to make the distinction between a casual remark like yours, "speaking truth to power," and that subscribed to in the
PSM (
acronym for the
Protocols of Zion in
Russian). We also need the Category:
Category:Notable or notorious racists. There we would list those who included yids with niggers and subscribed to a theory of
racialinferiority. Do you think calling
Hitler a notable and notorious racist and antisemite is absolutely subjective, and that he was speaking the truth - that the
Jews had the
power? I wonder what he did to Germany's
negroejazzmusicians who held German citizenship. Oh, that too is absolutely subjective, because it has to do with "
moronmusic". Do you know where that phrase comes from? Or are you not interested in such absolutely subjective questions? --
Ludvikus 12:10, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Actually, I've been around since
April 19,
1963, and I've been an Wikipedia editor since
December 13,
2006. (This, coming from an editor who registered on
August 26,
2006. I'm sure those 109 days have made you a much wiser editor than me. Ha ha.) In any event, my tenure as a Wikipedia editor has no bearing on my ability to discuss antisemitism. Obviously there is no point in discussing this further. I've made my views clear, as have you —
repeatedly. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 21:09, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I haven't been through this even once.. The issue is that (by implication) you think that categorizing
Hitler as an antisemite is subjective. You think that Wikipedians (or humanity at large) will not be able to make the distinction between
hardcore antisemites and racists on the one hand, and the smuck next door who happened to use the word "
nigger" or "
hymie" one drunken night. And you're affraid that we'll have an editor war over that drunken night. And you seem to present yourself as an authority about how many times we've gone through this at Wikipedia. I see this as the First Time that we are considering to excluden the drunken night episodes. Or is it that you think that Jews have the Power to Dominate the World? If that's the case, don't worry. Such remarks, in this context, are neither Notable, nor are they made, as far as we know, by a Notorious individual. So you have nothing to fear - but fear itself. --
Ludvikus 22:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - I am pulled in both directions on the question of having a category for individuals who are/were antisemites. On the one hand, I could easily make all of the arguments that have been articulated against such categories, and would have made a number of them against this particular category. However, all of those arguments fail to address one irreducible fact that I think almost everybody would agree on -- namely that, in principle, there really should be a category for "certifiable antisemites". It seems to me that we have some sort of obligation to our readers to facilitate their efforts to find the articles for such people. So I think we should undertake a truly serious effort to fashion such a category. Failing to make that effort strikes me as simply shirking our responsiblity. And leaving Wikipedia's category structure bereft of such a category runs the risk of being seen as an implicit statement that we just don't give a hoot about this.
Having said all of that, I want to reiterate that I am fully aware of the array of problems that are inherent in categories of this sort. Generically, I'm referring to categorizing by opinion, which is well-understood to be an unsuitable basis for categorization. It seems to me that the proper approach here is to construct a category for what we might broadly term "activists of antisemitism". This is essentially the same approach we've settled on in other highly contentious areas, most notably for abortion (for & against). If we proceed along those lines, we should be on fairly solid ground. Now, we obviously can't call it
Category:Antisemitic activists. (surely that requires no explanation!) If we look at it in terms of what sorts of basic activities these individuals engage(d) in, then we're talking about, for example, "promoters" and "theorists" of antisemitism. That would suggest a possible
Category:Promoters and theorists of antisemitism. I would like to throw that out as a starting point for further discussion, which can, in all likelihood, be improved upon.
Cgingold 13:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think we're not really that far apart here, Malik Shabazz. The point is, it's customary to separate out individuals from a larger category they're associated with when there are enough articles to warrant a sub-category. That's basically what this amounts to. As I've suggested, the real question here is, What exactly shall we call this new sub-category, so as not to be encumbered with the sorts of problems that arise with poorly-named categories? If you can suggest an improvement on
Category:Promoters and theorists of antisemitism, I would be most appreciative if you would favor us with a comment towards that end.
Cgingold 21:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
What constitutes being a "promoter" of anti-semitism and how is that definition any more objective than what would constitute an "anti-semite"? What is an anti-semitism "theorist"? Is it someone who advances anti-semitic theories or someone who theorizes on anti-semitism but is in no way anti-semitic, or both, or something else entirely? And none of this addresses the deletion arguments advanced both here and in the previous deleted categories for anti-semites, racists, homophobes, sexists and all the other "-ists" and -ites" and "-phobes."
Otto4711 22:54, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Just so you know, I'm not ignoring your questions. However, it clearly was not wise to introduce my quasi-proposal in the midst of all this vituperation. So if you don't mind, I would prefer to pursue this issue separately, in a setting that's more conducive to constructive discussion. (Not sure where, perhaps
Category talk:Antisemitism, perhaps somewhere else.)
Cgingold 23:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)reply
It seems we're making progress. Contrary to
User:Malik Shabazz's position, I think we need to put a
humanface on Antisemitism: we need to show Who are the People, or Human beings (since we must call them that) who are behind the Real phenomena of Antisemitism. It turns out that they are quite "banal", as a famous author has stated about
Adolf Eichmann. At the same time, I find it hard to believe that "notable" and "notorious" are not considered sufficient to do the job. Let me put the issue this way, who are the people that Otto and Shabazz are afraid we'll include? It's obvious that "notable" requires something more than a simple antisemitic remark. And "notorious" means some significant action or even. I do not think that Jackson's off the cuff remark, calling Jew(s) "Hymie" qualifies, just as a private remark using the word "negro" would not. At the same time, I ask you guys to look at how the category is already in use: it has not been abused. At the same time, I hold that playing a notable role in getting
The Protocols published or distributed does qualify one for inclusion as a notable antisemite, even if that person is not well known. So I fail to see the legitimacy of Otto's or Shabazz's objections. Shabazz - are you really saying that you cannot tell the difference between a member of the
KKK and the ordinary racist who would not let you live next door simply because your an
African American. Shabbazz, I'm not saying what you are, I'm only asking you to play the role of someone faced with that distinction. The distinction is this: (1) one would simply say, "Sorry, the apartment has aleady been taken." The other (2) would take you out (for talking to a white girl) and
lynch you. Shabbazz - is that really a difficult distinction for you to comprehend? --
Ludvikus 00:08, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think we need to put a
humanface on Antisemitism: we need to show Who are the People, or Human beings (since we must call them that) who are behind the Real phenomena of Antisemitism. - has more than a whiff of POV-pushing about it.
Otto4711 14:44, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Must you turn this into an ad hominem attack? Why can't editors have differing opinions about how to categorize Wikipedia articles without resorting to insults? —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 00:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Dear Brother Wikipedian. I wish I could get you an all-paid trip to
Great Britain's
Parliament. Then I could tell you: "If you can't take the heat then get out of the kichen." Remember, I only know you through cyberspace. So I really have a brotherly affection for you. Nevertheless, think of this argument like a sport. Remember the great
Muhammed Ali! We are boxing here so to speak. I'm not attacking You. It's your position that I'm attacking. So please do not take it personally. And I hope you are man enough (as the saying goes) to admit when you're wrong. Think of us as playing
chess. Unfortunately, the Art of the Debate has been lost in the West. The rules of Wikipedia (concerning debates/arguments) only prohibit the use of direct insulting, infalammatory, words against one another. And even if you're wrong, I think of you as my Wikipedian brother. Now let's get back into the "ring." IK, my Brother? What did Sonny Listen (was that Muhammed Ali's great opponent?) do the first time he lost? --
Ludvikus 00:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
One new editor (that I've noticed) has begun using the Category herein. Accordingly, I've notified him (in a friendly way) that unless he places his vote to Keep here, his work at classification hereunder will become an exercise in futility. Please note that this is in keeping with Wiki Canvassing rules. Thank you, --
Ludvikus 01:24, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Most of the antisemites mentioned are in the article
Antisemitism, so the category is really a subset of the article, which is having things backwards.
rossnixon 02:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Misunderstanding My wish is merely to make this Category a Subcategory of Antisemitism! Since there is no objection to the Category Antisemitism, I anticipate that there should be no objection to a Subcategory within it. There is no dispute (that I can imagine) involving the distinction over person, or human - though it's a shame we have no choice but to call antisemites human. Anyway, I think the discussion should now shift and focus on that - since the Category "Antisemitism" already exists, how do we make the new category merely a Subcategory of it? --
Ludvikus 10:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
We don't make any category that identifies people as antisemites or proponents of antisemitism or what have you a subcategory of any other category because of the fatal problems with such categorization as has been repeatedly expressed.
Otto4711 14:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete: this is a dangerous violation of WP:BLP that is open to abuse by those wishing to label people in a certain way. For starters, who decided who is and isn't antisemitic? Does somebody have to self-profess? or just be accused? And what is the level of WP:V required, it'd have to be very high to pass WP:BLP and it would have to be from a neutral source as per WP:RS. Let's say that my neighbor is a notable person and they said that they didn't think that it was appropriate to show R rated Shindler's list in his kid's middle school. Does make him suitable for this category? What about if another neighbor appeared in the local paper saying that he was pursuing a zoning dispute over a new Jewish Deli because he was anti-semitic but didn't present any evidence other than the fact he was pursuing the dispute, would that be enough, or would he actually have to be convicted by a jury of committing a hate crime against the local Jewish community? No, this category is far too open to WP:BLP violations.-
perfectblue 15:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Please Read:
Listed here are
individuals who played some
notable role, or a
notorious one, in
history,
literature, or
publication. Please note that mere incident(s) involving some apparent antisemitic
conduct or
speech is insufficient to qualify the inclusion of a
person on this list. Please be very careful in your selections. Remember also that this is not a place to make your own
personaljudgments. Neither should it be a place or space to
libel or
slander a living person with whose views you strongly disagree. Nor is it a place to list someone who exercised poor judgment in the choice of words on a particular occasion.
Please further note, that the primary interest here is in historic events. Accordingly, the emphasis here is on individuals who are no longer alive. Only in extrodinary circumstance, for example, where an individual is a self-professed antisemite, should we list the person under this category.
We're clearly not interested in your neighbors. And the Deli operator would be rather foolsh to open his store in Nazi town. I do not comprehend why you ignore the words
notable or
notorious. We are not interested in these insignificant kind of people you describe. All these border-line case - or even concern for children - is not a problem. I'm only interested in
Hitler and
Eichmann type of people. And you know, I hope, that Eichmann lived like the kind of neighbor you described -until he was caught by Israel, tried, and hanged. He was both notable and notorious. We are only interested in classifying the very hard working Antisemites who believe that Hitler didn't finish the job. Even if your neighbor believes that - it would be not sufficient to Categorise him or her here. But please tell me more about your neighbor - maybe I'm wrong. --
Ludvikus 15:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm only interested in Hitler...type people... Then you should check out
Category:Nazis. And this notion of restricting this category to only "the very hard working Antisemites who believe that Hitler didn't finish the job" is new and novel and points yet again to the untenability of the category. What is the objective definition of "very hard working" in terms of this category?
Otto4711 17:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Dear Otto (my late father's name was "Otto"),
You know (I hope) that not all Antisemites were
Nazis or
German. As a matter of fact, the latest research is that the German Nazis around Hitler learned their stuff from the
White Russians. --
Ludvikus 17:34, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Also, Otto, you're confusing what I said here, incompletely, with the complete description I've quoted for your convenience above. Why don't you criticise that, instead of taking my words out of context.
Ludvikus 17:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I have critiqued your position, repeatedly. To respond specifically to the category description, as a general rule of thumb if a paragraph of that length full of restrictions is required then that argues against the efficacy of the categorization scheme.
Otto4711 18:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete subjective hate magnet.
Doczilla 20:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete - As I explained above, I do feel that there ought to be some sort of category for such individuals. But this isn't it. The reasons have already been exhaustively enumerated, so I will simply say that, as a generic proposition, it is basically untenable to use terms like "Notable or notorious" in a Category heading, regardless of the subject. I am sympathetic to Ludvikus's intentions, but what he fails to understand is that, regardless of what may seem to be so obvious that no serious person could possibly take issue, it would be well-nigh impossible to restrict this category to the unarguable cases like Hitler, et al. because there are lots of editors who will want to use it for other individuals who they consider "notorious". And, not incidentally, it really is not helpful to make caustic remarks and insinuations about other editors when debating an intensely contentious issue such as this. All that does is inflame passions and short-circuit thoughtful discussion -- which is why I decided to discontinue the discussion that I opened above.
Cgingold 23:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Proposed compromise: Category:Antisemites In that case, consider this. The Category,
Category:Antisemitism, already exists. So all we really need is a subcategory within it. You realize, of course, that Antisemites have already been Categorized under Antisemitism. Surely you don't think that it's problematic to distnguish, for example,
Hitler (an Antisemite - "person") from his book, Mein Kompf, a thing? --
Ludvikus 00:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Further Comment: Simply put, all I'm really asking for is to be able to collect all the Persons ("human," excluding corporations, and other organizations, and things) within our already existing Antisemitism Category. I cannot imagine why I would be denied the ability to compile such a list within Wikipedia! --
Ludvikus 00:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I would suggest you read the previous CFDs for the already-deleted Antisemites categories linked above and this may enlighten you.
Otto4711 12:26, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Could you be more specific as to your reading assignment? However, whatever was done before it could not possibly have been that we are not allowed to sort out within the existing Antisemitism Category, the individual inhumane beings who made the phenomena of Antisemitism a reality. You make no sense, Otto. If we permit articles about people to be classified under Antisemitism, how can you deny, thereafter, our being able to sort out the
humans within Antisemitism? Your feer of Trolling is unfounded. And therefore you are not protecting the integrity of Wikipedia. Anyone (who reads Wikipedia and) who wants to know Who the Antisemites behind Antisemitism were will not be able to do that.
Nope. It's still overcategorization by opinion, still has impermissible POV concerns and we don't categorize on the basis of living or dead (with the exception of
Category:Living people and the year of birth and death categories).
Otto4711 16:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
OK, Otto, no Dead antisemites Category. But let's get to my prior suggestion, which you seem to ignore. We already have articles classified under the Antisemitism category. Surely you do not object to that or do you?
Assuming that you do not object to
Category:Antisemitism how could you possibly object to my selecting, for Subcategorization the humans, persons, individuals, etc., who are already classified under Antisemitism? I challenge you to find just One individual who is currently so classified because of a POV situation. I say that there's not even One such individual who would be subject to an objection.
I do not think, Otto, you can justify not allowing me to select among the Antisemitism articles those that you would not want me to Classify as Antisemites. I challenge you further to give me just one example of an Antisemitism article which would cause Trolling because I've taken the miniscule step of further classifying it under Antisemite!
Look. I won't support an Antisemites category. I don't believe people should be categorized either under an Antisemites category or under Antisemitism. Any individuals categorized in
Category:Antisemitism should likely be removed. And frankly, you want this category for the wrong reason. You want it so you can have a place to point at a group of people and say "See! See the collection of inhumane creatures I can scarcely bring myself to call human! See how awful they are!" This isn't the place for The Ludvikus Hall of Disgust. Go start your own website and you can call anyone an Anti-Semite that you want and no one will have a word to say about it.
Otto4711 20:54, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Are you trying to say that Antisemites do not exist, or are they imposible to distinguish from ordinary folks? Or maybe antisemitism is some kind of entity hovering around like Holy spirit whos ways are unknown? Antisemtism just like any ideology has its human face - propagandists, ideologists etc. There is
Marxism, and there are
Marxists, there is
Fascism, and there are
Fascists, same goes with Antisemitism.
M0RD00R 21:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename all.
Kbdank71 13:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:33, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom (duplication). Have categories been empty from creation? If so, they may be deleted speedily in a few more days.
Snocrates 04:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete per obvious duplication.
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Category:Educational establishments in York
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 15:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment: I created this category today as part of a drive to reduce the number of articles in
Category:York which weren't in any sub-category, and just chose an appropriate name for it without checking to see what existed elsewhere - mea culpa - and I'll keep this in mind for the future. In my defence, I do think that the name better describes the category's contents (schools, colleges, universities) than does the term "Education in York" (and indeed it is used in the definition of the contents of such categories as
Category:Education in Bromley), but I wouldn't dare to suggest that all the "Education in ..." categories that currently exist should be renamed. Speedy rename seems to be the correct thing to do. --
GuillaumeTell 21:37, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
speedy rename per nom and creator.
Snocrates 07:25, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment: Doesn't it come under #4 of the speedy criteria: Non-conformance with "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)? --
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Category:Aftermath Entertainment
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Agree with nom - category creates redundancy for several of these artists. Delete.
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - Created by a new user for a single article as category redirects. Largely redundant or no potential for expansion; I've removed them from that article,
Marist School - Marikina.
Choess 20:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete I recall having to speedy delete all the school's teachers (masters) a while ago: gotta admire the energy of the user. :-)
Carlossuarez46 19:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:G-Unit feuds
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The result of the debate was merge.
Kbdank71 14:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Merge - small category with little or no likelihood of growth considering that a number of other G-Unit related feud articles have been deleted at AFD. No reason to maintain this category separate from the main artist category.
Otto4711 20:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I agree, all articles in this category, should be put into the G-Unit category instead because many feud articles have been deleted and so there are not many in this cat. --¤ The-G-Unit-฿oss ¤ 20:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per above. Small category with little chance of growth.-
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The result of the debate was deleted by request of author.
John Vandenberg 07:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete - categorizing record labels on the basis of the artists or artist collectives who released albums through them is overcategorization. In the vast majority of cases record labels are not defined by the artists on the label. Labels like
Atlantic Records could end up with dozens or hundreds of artist categories.
Otto4711 19:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. I created the category originally and agree it was overcategorization.
InnocuousPseudonym 23:44, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. Not the same as the albums and songs category above.--
Mike Selinker 23:51, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 14:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Merge per ProveIt.
LeSnail 20:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per ProveIt's revised nomination. Consistency with the lead article is almost always a Good Thing.
Xtifrtälk 07:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Merge per ProveIt. I think that "War on Terrorism" is more appropriate, but per our current policies the category name should follow the lead article, which was recently renamed: see
Talk:War on Terror#Name_Change_.28again.29. However, I think that this case illustrates a real problem with this naming policy, in that it can lead wikipedia to appear to be
non-neutral by adopting highly partisan terminology. --
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The result of the debate was rename, only one article, appears to only be in the Tracey Takes On... show.
Kbdank71 15:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment. Don't these characters appear in more than one Tracey Ullman program/special/etc.?
Doczilla 22:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:Merge, incorrectly named duplicate cat.
RobertG ♬
talk 15:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC) Update: nominator had second thoughts, see below. I think I need coffee. --
RobertG ♬
talk 15:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - Johnbod has already contributed to this debate, so I won't refactor the nomination now. On reconsidering, articles about the concept of "character in fiction" seems to me totally appropriate for a category, and not to duplicate "fictional characters": but I still think the name may not be clear enough. Suggest rename to
Category:Character in fiction? --
RobertG ♬
talk 15:31, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - it turns out we have
Category:Stock characters so perhaps a merge to that category would be appropriate?
Otto4711 14:17, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
This category is rather broader, so should sit on top. We also have
Category:Characters by function, which does cover much the same ground - perhaps merge that in. I think the whole area needs tidying & rearranging. If we can get concensus around
Category:Fictional character types & perhaps the merge with "by function", I could go in after & rearrange.
Johnbod 15:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename (as the original nominator who has now well and truly rethought) to Category:Fictional character types, and take up Johnbod's offer of rearrangement. --
RobertG ♬
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, as Songs by performance, see also previous discussions. -- Prove It(talk) 14:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Include this info in the articles, possibly make a few lists, but per precedent it's not a defining characteristic of the songs. --
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Delete per nom, just to make a clear second for what seems completely obvious. --
lquilter 16:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per above and many precedents.
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The result of the debate was delete per much precedent.
Kbdank71 15:06, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete -
overcategorization by family name. The article
Tolkien family illustrates why articles are superior to categories when most or all of the contents are family members, because an article can illuminate the relationships between the family members while a category can only list them alphabetically.
Otto4711 14:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom, although in fact not all members are (I think) mentioned in
JRR Tolkien which rather undercuts the argument.
Johnbod 15:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't think it undercuts it. They're all mentioned in Tolkien family, though, and that is linked from
JRR Tolkien. That seems completely appropriate to me. JRR may not even have known his great-great-whatevers or distant cousins. --
lquilter 17:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. "X family" articles are by far the better way to handle this sort of genealogical and relational trivia connections. --
lquilter 17:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - this category functions as a subcategory of both
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien and
Category:Tolkien. The basic concept is that readers browsing these two categories (one for the author and his life and times, and one for the wider subject of Tolkien-related topics) will be interested in the articles we have on members of the Tolkien family. It would be possible to just categorise the
Tolkien family article, but this small subcategory does no harm and immediately tells the reader that there is (a) an article on the whole family; and (b) several articles on members of the family. Categories are not meant to act as articles. That's why we have both articles and categories. You could equally well argue that
Category:Presidents of the United States doesn't do as good a job of illuminating the relationships between the presidents because it lists them alphabetically instead of chronologically. But this sort of argument is wrong. A good category makes this clear and tells readers that it is just a listing, and for the full details , see the article here. I'm going to modify the text on this category to say just that. Hopefully that will make things a bit clearer.
Carcharoth 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Leaving aside the POTUS straw man and the
it's not hurting anything non-argument, is there some reason why the article
Tolkien family can't sit in the parents? Is anyone interested in the Tolkien family going to start anywhere other than
JRR Tolkien or
Tolkien family? No.
Otto4711 18:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(1) The POTUS argument is not a strawman. It is a direct refutation by analogy of your incorrect assertion that categories should be deleted because they can only list articles alphabetically. Let me make this crystal-clear. You said "a category can only list them alphabetically" as part of your deletion nomination. You are implying that this is a bad thing, but listing articles alphabetically is one of the main functions of a category. You seem to, in effect, be arguing for replacing all categories with articles because an alphabetical listing doesn't really tell us anything useful. I would have more sympathy with your argument if you had restricted it to saying "an article can illuminate the relationships between the family members [while a category cannot]" (without mentioning anything about alphabetical lists). By referring to the alphabetical function, it is you who are introducing a strawman and distracting from the main point of your own argument.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(2) While the
no harm argument is often abused (and if you read it, you will see that it is not talking about what you or I are talking about - it is talking about unverified material), it is also too often blithely rejected by those who fail to consider the readers of this encyclopedia. I have given a clear example of how this category helps people navigate around articles. This subcategory: "immediately tells the reader that there is (a) an article on the whole family; and (b) several articles on members of the family." The category at
Category:Tolkien family, and the navbox at
Template:Tolkien both do the same thing, but in slightly different ways. (Compare
Category:Presidents of the United States and
Template:US Presidents). Some readers browse the encyclopedia using links from articles (they have
Tolkien family). Some browse using the category links (they have
Category:Tolkien family). Some browse using the navboxes (they have
Template:Tolkien). Have a look at
Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes: "These methods should not be considered to be in competition with each other. Rather, they are synergistic, each one complementing the other." I can't think of any way in which removing this category improves Wikipedia.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
(3) The final point: "Is anyone interested in the Tolkien family going to start anywhere other than
JRR Tolkien or
Tolkien family?" - short answer, "yes". Someone reading
Richard E. Blackwelder clicks on
Category:Tolkien studies, and then starts browsing the category structure. They decide to browse up to
Category:Tolkien, have a quick look round at some of the articles and subcategories, and eventually end up in
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien. They then think that
Category:Tolkien family looks interesting, so they click on that. They then find that they have the option to either read the main article, or to choose some of the family members who have their own articles. Depending on their level of knowledge of the subject area, they may chose to go to the article, or they might think "Christopher Tolkien? That sounds familiar..." They click on
Christopher Tolkien, read the article, and then carry on reading and browsing, maybe deciding to read
The History of Middle-earth. Under your scheme, things would be slightly different. Once the reader reached
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, they would have the option of clicking on
Tolkien family, and in the contents list they would see "Christopher Tolkien". They could click on that, click on the "main article" link, and still end up at
Christopher Tolkien. I make that one more click. But really, either system works. My view is that it is really not worth bothering too much over which system to use, but disrupting an existing structure and system (as your nomination did) is essentially pointless and a waste of time.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I suppose, to be consistent, I should stick to my assertion that it doesn't matter either way, and not comment further. I will retain my 'keep', though, and await with interest your response to the points I've raised.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - the whole structure and subcategories of
Category:Tolkien,
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien and
Category:Middle-earth have been carefully designed for ease of navigation and to structure the topic in the most informative way. It has been mostly stable for a few years now. Is there a way to consolidate that and avoid the shifting vagaries of category fashions over the years? Or do we have to continually 'watch out' for category nominations as the 'category specialists' sweep their watchful eyes over the system?
Carcharoth 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Well, as they say,
Consensus can change : ) - Anyway, as I've seen several times in the past, I think that the current consensus (per
WP:OCAT, or even
WP:CLS, for that matter) is that a navbox is a better idea than a cat for most family categories. And one already exists in this case? -
jc37 16:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
You are right.
Template:Tolkien, which used to be a sprawling mess with the family tree. That spawling mess is now in the article, and someone seems to be adding the latest generation of Tolkiens in there (two new additions, born in 2005 and 2006). Not quite what Wikipedia is for, but hey, maybe it is the proud parents adding details of their baby children in there?! That would be a strange trend: welcome your children into the world by adding them to Wikipedia! Anyway, that template, after a TfD, got turned into a navbox. You are right, in that this navbox fulfils the function of the category. My only concern here is that people browsing the category system might expect to find these articles in
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien. So if there is no family category, how do people get from the category system to the articles? And also, those using the navbox to navigate around the set of Tolkien family articles, will be missing out on the category browsing experience.
Carcharoth 16:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Although I have to say I appreciate the description of CFDers as Sauron. --
lquilter 16:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
LOL! Not quite my intention, but I see how the "watchful eye" comment could be interpreted that way.
Carcharoth 16:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep to avoid confusion. There is an interest in his family, and it is good to keep that separate from th interest in his work--some people of course very much belong in both , but by no means all.DGG (
talk) 11:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Um, it is kept separate by using the useful and informative article on the family.
Otto4711 18:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Articles aren't the same as categories. If you think that some of the material in the separate articles should be merged to the family article, then you should propose a merge of the articles, rather than a deletion of the category.
Carcharoth 22:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Quite a relevant issue not yet raised here is that (according to current notions) all Tolkien-related articles should be categorised to some subcat of
Category:Tolkien, so that we have a clear and a full cat structure; and this cannot be substituted by categorising a list article where others are linked from. If the present category is deleted, the articles on individual family members can possibly go to either
Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, or to
Category:Tolkien; but this would just overcrowd them, while collecting even a few related articles to a cubcat is the most convenient solution.
Súrendil 18:36, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Merge into
Category:Eukaryotes, this was a wanted category of 8 members, probably should be merged but I'd like an expert to check it out. -- Prove It(talk) 14:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
comment it looks like it should not have any members, only subcatgories, as if it were fully populated it would be enormous.
132.205.44.5 22:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete and recategorise: Given that genus names are only unique to the kingdom of life, not the domain of life, this categorisation fails. There are a very few taxa, mainly in the
Ediacaran biota, where the higher relationships are so unknown that it may be useful to put them into a generic holding group similar to this. However, that should have a more specific name, and does not apply to these genera anyway.
Adam Cuerdentalk 04:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Recategorise according to Adam--I think it makes sense biologically. though I can not think of a suitable name. DGG (
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The result of the debate was already redirected per discussion.
Kbdank71 13:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
For what it's worth, four of the five people in this category were already in subcategories of
Category:Bisexual people in addition to this, so after removing this as a duplicate, there was only one article left — which, in turn, was also easily refiled into the appropriate subcategory. I'll redirect it right now, since it's now an empty category.
Bearcat 22:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Making it a redirect sounds like just the thing ... -- Prove It(talk) 00:36, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was relisted on oct 11.
Kbdank71 14:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Novelty items to fix capitalisation. "Novelties" can also refer to intangible things, and it including the word "items" reduces the ambiguity. --
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Nominator's rationale: Any such categorization is intrinsically POV. It is extremely difficult to find concensus around this subject, thus it is not appropriate to have a category available for specific writers, many of whom are likely to come under
WP:BLP.
Cgingold 11:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong delete per nom. However, it may not be consistent to delete this one when we still have the parent
Category:Pseudoscience, so it might be better to start higher up the tree. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Yes, I also have concerns re
Category:Pseudoscience, but I think that will entail a more in-depth discussion. I started with this cat because of the
WP:BLP issues.
Cgingold 05:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Fair enough, I agree. The BLP issues make this category a clear delete regardless of the fate of the parent categories. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Delete per nom.
Johnbod 18:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep, else merge to
Category:Pseudoscientists. The distinction between science and pseudoscience is not a subjective one. Or if you prefer, it is certainly no more a subjective call than deciding between any other two genres. Sure, there may be a spectrum along which individual cases may be argued and placed depending upon how egregiously their writing departs from acceptance of and adherence to
scientific methodology. But that should not cause paralysis when making a decision in the majority of cases. If they're notable enough for inclusion, it'd be odds-on their writings have been identified as such by notable sources. I think the BLP concerns are overdone, responsibly employed, 'pseudoscience' is intended as a factual description, not a pejorative one. A writer whose works promote, say, Intelligent Design and evolution denialism, is not one who is writing from any scientific basis, and there is a clear and qualitative difference. However you might describe it, it is not science, but has only the pretence ('pseudo-'), as even recent court cases in the US (eg Dover) have ascertained. It is something else, and we may as well call it by the name most commonly used. I note also that
Category:Pseudoscience and related others have withstood several deletion attempts in the past, and I would think they'd do so again- I for one would strongly oppose. To put it yet another way- under what genre would writers like
Richard Hoagland,
Zechariah Sitchin,
Erich von Dänikenet al. come under? All that said, there is perhaps a degree of redundancy here with
Category:Pseudoscientists, so given this cat is presently underpopulated (it could easily contain many dozens of entries) then a merger would be acceptable. Quite possibly Pseudoscience writers is the better category name, but I don't want to confuse the issue at this stage. --
cjllwʘTALK 03:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
delete The category is too vague. experience with the debates over the use of the word "pseudoscience" over multiple articles shows that the designation is always a source of unproductive contention. For example, I would challenge that all ID proponents are psudoscientists--one or two of them are arguably actual scientists whose work has been appropriated by the pseudoscientists. (my minority view in WP is that it remains an proposition worthy of serious presentation and discussion--which it usually does not get, especially from its proponents, who are usually not even pseudo scientists) - But this example is sufficient to show the extreme amount of contention that will be caused by this category. We have enough problems with ID without adding thiscategory as an additional complication. And similarly with every other topic. We need to argue over the content of articles, not where to put them. At the moment there is only one article here, on a person whose notability can be question & might well be deleted). DGG (
talk) 10:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - To clarify my very brief comment above: Although I do have concerns about the way the term is applied in some instances, I certainly had no intention of suggesting that
Pseudoscience is somehow not a very real and serious issue. I haven't given any thought whatsoever to deleting
Category:Pseudoscience, but I do think it is inherently problematic in terms of proper application. As for
Category:Pseudoscientists, which I've just had a look at, I'm afraid that looks like it also has serious issues, for example, in terms of some of the subcategories that are included in their entirety. It's easy enough to say that people like von Daniken, or
Zechariah Sitchin (who I had the opportunity to "debate" (pick apart, really) on the radio years ago) are "pseudoscientists". But it's simply not fair, accurate or appropriate to insist that all "Ufologists", for example, are by definition, "pseudoscientists". Most of them no doubt are, but some are not. But that's another discussion, perhaps for another place.
Cgingold 14:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Unless this category is strictly controlled to limit it to authors who write about the topic of pseudoscience (and precedent says it won't be), it is likely to become a concern worthy violation of WP:BPL. It is also completely redundant as there is already a pseudoscience category that covers both authors who write about pseudoscience and the topic of pseudoscience itself. -
perfectblue 15:09, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete needn't be POV, but it seems like it will be - because debunkers of pseudoscience can be placed here as well, but they won't be probably. So, gotta go..
Carlossuarez46 19:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Reluctant delete. Inclusion criteria could be clear, but unfortunately are unlikely to become and/or stay clear.
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Category:Television-book writers
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Nominator's rationale: Although the explanatory sentence is helpful, the name of the category is ambiguous at best. More importantly, I'm doubtful that there will ever be enough articles about such writers to justify the existence of this category, since only a small fraction of writers have articles on Wikipedia.
Cgingold 11:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. There are unlikely to be enough notable examples of this, perhaps the lowest form of literary life.
Johnbod 18:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I share your sentiments, Johnbod -- but I'm glad you qualified that, because I'm pretty sure the truly lowest form of literary life would have to be the artistes who have produced the dumbed-down book versions of movies that were made from classic literature. Now there's a category that's crying out to be created!
Cgingold 08:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete terribly named category.
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Category:Attribution templates and Category:Citations to Category:Specific source templates
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Nominator's rationale: While I was sleeping or something, someone created a
Category:Citations misnamed category (doesn't even identify itself as a category for templates!) that is a functional duplicate of
Category:Attribution templates, both of them subcats of
Category:Citation templates, which also includes other types of templates relating to source citations. The purpose of both categories is to house templates that aid in the easy repetitious citation to well-known, oft-used sources (versus manual application of {{
Cite whatever|something|something...}} ). Plenty useful, so this is not a deletion nomination. They certainly should be one category (there is no discernable categorical difference between the members of the categories) and the merged result should remain a subcategory of
Category:Citation templates, thus I propose a merger and rename into a new
Category:Citation templates subcategory called
Category:Specific source templates. A longer name at
Category:Specific source citation templates would also work, but seems redundant (I would not object to it, however). The rationale for not simply merging
Category:Citations into
Category:Attribution templates is that the
WP:ATT putsch failed, and that page to the extent anyone even notices it any longer is simply a summary/supplement page, and use of the term "attribution" in this context may be confusing to some editors. I would be okay with a simple merge of
Category:Citations into
Category:Attribution templates, just for the record, but prefer my principal proposal for its simplicity and clarity. — SMcCandlish [
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cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)}}}reply
Rename but don't merge. The look and purpose of the two are different. If you look at the templates in
Category:Attribution templates, they all produce a line of text like: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. {{
cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (
help) which is intended to be included at the bottom of an article that extensively uses public domain sources. The templates in
Category:Citations produce a individual citation to an individual source, like Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Nomi d'Italia, (
ISBN88-511-0983-4), p. 1. which is intended to be included in a References section. I think a rename is a good idea. ----
CharlesGillingham 07:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Rename to include "template"; don't merge. I also think the contents of the two cats should be kept separate since they don't mix well. One is for reference citations, one for stand-alone sentences or boxes. One possible name: "Specific citation templates". -
R. S. Shaw 06:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
no merger/Rename... to my original suggested name Category:Special uses citation templates (
here (Wikipedia_talk:Citation_templates)), and I'll take some of the blame too! <g> Give the other guy credit for initiative even if he forgot naming conventions. While I can live with
Category:Specific source templates I also think 'that name' unnecessarily narrows what might be added there in such a category. [Note the original idea was to tidy up the cluttered category so the common everyday templates could be easily located—a bad (unsuggestive) category name can be obfusticating as well!] For example, citing a novel, one might have a template which calls {{cite book }} with boilerplate for the book data, and pass parameters to the specific references. [Happens I plan on writing several of those, I just thought it up last night about 2am! <g>]. A specific source. However, lately I've been doing some football article stuff too, and can envision a general purpose template which would take a single parameter, process it using {{switch: {{{param}}} ...}}, and fill in sets of the blanks to {{cite web}} (in this case). That would NOT be a single source, but one of three to five or so. Ditto for media information of a specific topic area (history channel, history channel international, Public television stations or networks, etc. which do documentary programming as a rule. Sports too
[2], on occasion. Hence, I'd prefer a broader category name on that basis. // FrankB 18:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
I think "attribution" (this article is based on Enc. Brit. 1911) and a plain "cite book" are two different things. The current description of
category:Citations says it is intended for the latter. However, there is also a third category: Templates that contain a #switch-controlled library of citations. A typical example is
template:Ref Jane's. I predict that this kind will grow, because it can be very useful e.g. within a WikiProject, and should probably have its own subcategory under
category:citation templates. I'm not sure what it should be called, though. --
LA2 04:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was rename.
Kbdank71 13:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:Inklings
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The result of the debate was Keep.
Vegaswikian 05:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The society of
Inklings is notable, and many of its members are extremely notable, but it doesn't make sense to categorize people based on their membership in "an informal literary discussion group."
LeSnail 01:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. From my read of Humphries's Tolkien biography, membership was actually quite exclusive, and extremely influential; to the extent that any members were not eminent, they are already dealt with by
WP:N and thus simply do not arise here as a cognizable issue. The internal legalistic "formality" of the organization is of not of WP categorization concern. More to the point, the description of the inklings given above is woefully inaccurate. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If the description is "woefully inaccurate" then the wikipedia article
Inklings needs major revision, since my description is taken from that page. By informal, the page seems to mean that it was never clear who exactly was in the group, and it seems to be the case that a lot of people had unclear membership.
LeSnail 19:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep Defining for all or most of this group.
Johnbod 15:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - As noted above, the group, and the members thereof, were quite influential. -
jc37 04:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment - a better description is in the quote in the article: "the Inklings was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both. There were no rules, officers, agendas, or formal elections". Having said that, people would expect to find
Inklings in
Category:Literary societies, and they do, so that is probably enough.
Carcharoth 15:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep but Rename to indicate is a members list, or at least a list of PEOPLE... inklings means ideas, notions, etc. not connoting "people list". // FrankB 15:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fictional technical experts
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Extremely vague category. Who is to say whether someone is an expert or not, especially when that person doesn't even exist? It is worth noting
the deletion of
Category:Fictional computer experts on much the same grounds. This category is, if anything, worse.
LeSnail 01:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong delete per outright goofiness (i.e. per common sense), and per cited precedent. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and the computer expert precedent.
Otto4711 22:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Detele--unecessary cat creep, fictional pWooops... Category:Fictional characters by occupation ... Uh, oh!!! Strong Keep -- Unless the nom plans on deleting all the categories in Category:Fictional characters by occupation, this is a clear case of missing a highly populated system that has been in place for at least three years by my samplings. Deleting it would be madness in light of the heavy use by
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels—a very active group— of these categories. And to answer the question: "Who is to say whether someone is an expert or not"... "The Author", that's why the category name starts with fictional. // FrankB 15:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If you were to look at the category, you might notice that none of its members are from novels, and are therefore probably not in heavy use by
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels.
LeSnail 18:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete many fictional people can be claimed to be expert in any number of technical fields and that defines them how?
Carlossuarez46 19:21, 7 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete - "Technical experts" is too vague. There's a reason there's no such thing as real technical experts. Categorize them according to their occupations (e.g., computer hacker, robot assistant, whatever). --
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Category:English mixed languages
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The result of the debate was Delete.
Vegaswikian 05:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: According to the list of mixed languages in Pidgins and Creoles (
ISBN1-55619-170-7), there are no "true" mixed languages derived from English. There are some edge cases (mixed pidgins and "symbiotic" mixed languages), but currently this category is not even being used for those. It's being used for things that are not even languages at all, but are just the occasional use of English words in other languages.
Alivemajor 00:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete -- According to
mixed language, there is actually one mixed language derived from English, namely Anglo-Romani, but that isn't enough for a category. True mixed languages are very rare.
LeSnail 01:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
FWIW, Angloromani is one of the ones that Pidgins and Creoles classifies as a "symbiotic" language. --
Alivemajor 03:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete: Above nitpicks aside, a lone marginal case is not enough to support a category. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete per above. It's like categorizing things that include water. Excessively broad.
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Category:Geographic imagemaps
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Delete as neither of the pages in the category is an imagemap. If there is no consensus to delete, then merge to
Category:Wikipedia imagemaps, since the phrase 'geographic imagemap' is repetitive (much like 'geographic map'). – Black Falcon(
Talk) 00:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC) P.S. Although the category currently contains only user subpages, I am nominating it here, rather than at UCFD, because it is not intended to be a user category.reply
Comment. They are image maps. One has to move the cursor around to find various links. It looks like a work in progress. I just added
Category:Wikipedia geographic imagemaps to the user pages. So they are now merged with
Category:Wikipedia imagemaps (as a subcategory). I assume that one reason you, Black Falcon, want the category deleted is because it is a regular category containing only user subpages. User categories are supposed to start with "Wikipedia", I believe. So I think the problem is solved, and this category can be deleted. --
Timeshifter 00:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)reply
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