Category:List of Local Fraternities and Sororities
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To support the distinction between categories and lists, and to make the capitalizations comply with the MOS, and to more closely match the parent category.
Stepheng3 (
talk) 21:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Sounds good to me. Good catch, Choster. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 21:19, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Category:Local fraternities and sororities per choster. The category creator most likely did not know that category titles need not start with "List of"—the only exceptions being categories intended to contain lists only, which should be titled Category:Lists of (Topic) (e.g.
Category:Lists of fictional characters). Kudos to Stepheng3 for engaging the category creator at his/her
talk page. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 22:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Icons
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. Right now mixes religious and computer icons indiscriminately. New name matches article:
Icon (computing). Perhaps there is also a need for a category
Category:Religious icons although the article for the religious ones is just at
icon. --
Kevlar (
talk •
contribs) 20:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename but to
Category:Computer icons (see below) - Way overdue. You gave me a bit of a scare, Kevlar. I thought that ALL of the articles about both sorts of icons were lodged in this category. Thank goodness that turned out not to be the case, as the vast, overwhelming majority of the religious ones (and there are a considerable number) are properly categorized -- under
Category:Iconography and its sub-cats. So we won't be needing
Category:Religious icons. Btw, just to be sure, I checked to see if there was a
Category:Avatars that was also being misused; fortunately there isn't. What joker came up with these terms?? (He/she obviously gave no thought to the havoc they would one day create for online encyclopedias! :) Notified creator with {{
subst:cfd-notify}}Cgingold (
talk) 22:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom Vegas below, moving some to
Category:Eastern Orthodox icons, NOT
Category:Iconography, which is not about
icons, though EOI are a sub-cat of it. Adding a note pointing to the other category would be sensible. Actually I'll move them now. - done; cat can just be renamed.
Johnbod (
talk) 01:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Computer icons. This is what the article lead uses and is the name that has been in use for eons. If this rename goes through, the article should be renamed to match.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 06:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Right you are, VW. (Now why didn't I think of this?) I'm switching my support to this name.
Cgingold (
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Category:X-ray sources
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
Kbdank71 13:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. There are many types of X-ray sources, such as an X-ray machine, etc. This category only deals with astronomical ones.
76.66.193.69 (
talk) 19:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom - Another very obvious rename. (like Icons, above) I'm amazed this one hasn't already accumulated a bunch of wrongly categorized articles. Notified creator with {{
subst:cfd-notify}}Cgingold (
talk) 22:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Cannabis musicians
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Kbdank71 13:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete — Categories are vague to most readers, and there probably will not always be sources to identify each musician as having significant cannabis-related lyrical content.
Ibaranoff24 (
talk) 19:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep. Thanks for the notification, Cgingold. Sourcing is not a problem, Ibaranoff24. Check the references in their wikipedia articles. Nothing vague at all.
Bob Marley,
Snoop Dogg,
Peter Tosh,
Cypress Hill,
Willie Nelson,
Kottonmouth Kings. The music should have significant cannabis-related lyrical content. People and groups should not be put in the categories just because they have used cannabis. We have
Category:Cannabis activists if all they have done is promote cannabis significantly, but not significantly in their lyrics. --
Timeshifter (
talk) 00:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - "cannabis musician" does not appear to be in widespread usage outside of Wikipedia and mirror sites. What these categories amount to are
Category:Musicians who are known to smoke marijuana and
Category:Musicians who sing about marijuana. We do not appear to categorize people on the basis of the recreational substances in which they indulge and I see no reason to start with weed. We also don't categorize performers on the basis of the subject matter of their work (which would lead to unimaginable category clutter) and, again, no reason to start with pot.
Otto4711 (
talk) 00:51, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+musician - See the result that mentions this: "a PhD theses on cannabis and music" - It is not just the subject, but the effect of the substance on the history of music. Check out:
There is a difference between "cannabis and music" and "cannabis musician". YouTube is not a reliable source for anything, and even if it features videos of musicians singing about spliffs that does not lend credence to the notion that "cannabis musician" as a concept is encyclopedic.
Otto4711 (
talk) 21:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Otto. Although we do categorize artists by genre, we do not categorize them "on the basis of the subject matter of their work". I can think of two reasons for this (category clutter and categorization on the basis of non-defining characteristics), but both are related to the fact that artists can and do write/sing/paint about multiple (i.e. tens or hundreds) of subjects. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 22:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Otto. Inclusion criteria is vague- is one ode to reefer sufficient to make you a cannabis musician, or does it have to be x% of songs? What about songs with ambiguous lyrics? Not to mention the fact that nearly every rapper or reggae artist would end up in this category... --
Clay Collier (
talk) 10:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. I can see this is a losing battle. I am changing the categories of the more well-known cannabis activist musicians to
Category:Cannabis culture. This will remove from cannabis categories the vast majority of musicians who have a few songs that mention cannabis, but are not particularly known for this outside their core audience. For example; this will eliminate most of the generic rap and reggae musicians who aren't really notable for this above any of the rest. --
Timeshifter (
talk) 17:27, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per deleters.
Johnbod (
talk) 14:01, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Black Falcon, because its THE argument.--
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Cuisine
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Nominator's rationale:Delete - small categories, unlikely to expand.
Otto4711 (
talk) 19:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Of course they can expand. there are many dishes to add for all regional chinese cuisines. DGG (
talk) 22:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Yangzhou is not a region. It is a city.
Otto4711 (
talk) 22:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Jiangsu cuisine category, as it is one of the eight main traditional regional cuisines of China (see
Chinese cuisine).
Hong Qi Gong (
Talk -
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Category:Cuisine of Boston, Massachusetts
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Nominator's rationale:Delete - items included are in no way specific to Boston and the likelihood that there are sufficient dishes to warrant the category is unlikely.
Otto4711 (
talk) 19:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep And there will be others. DGG (
talk) 22:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
How exactly is a submarine sandwich defined as cuisine of Boston?
Otto4711 (
talk) 22:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep / Rename to
Category:Cuisine of Boston to match parent article for
Boston, where state is not included. There are ample articles in existence to fully populate the category. Any issues regarding inclusion of specific entries should be raised and discussed elsewhere.
Alansohn (
talk) 03:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Um, if nothing that's in the category can be considered defined by a specific association with Boston, and if no other dishes can be identified as being defined by a specific association with Boston, there's no need for the category. So, again, how exactly is a submarine sandwich defined as cuisine of Boston?
Otto4711 (
talk) 06:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Other articles have already been added to the category, rebutting your already weak argument. If you have an issue with a particular entry being in the category, deal with it elsewhere, such as discussing at the article's talk page. The existence of a questionable entry as an excuse for deletion is always a rather poor argument. Repeating it multiple times doesn't make it any stronger. You can do better.
Alansohn (
talk) 17:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
So then, you're unable to answer the question? Got it.
Otto4711 (
talk) 17:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Of course if someone can explain how the two entries meet the definition of
cuisine, 'cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture' I'm open to changing my opinion. And yes, I will be removing one of the two entries since it is a dab page which should not be in this category and gives no hint that any of the uses may be cuisine related.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 22:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
I will not oppose an unmerge as suggested below. Then cleanup the parent as needed.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 02:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
I think this is a good suggestion. To expand on it, drop the city categories with the exception of a very few, New Orleans may be a good example but I'm not sure if that would hold up. Make the parent
Category:Regional cuisines of the United States and then have children categories for appropriate regions.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 00:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for finding that. It has been cleaned up, but there are two categories that need looking at. Clearly one needs a parent and the other is PR, not sure what to do with that one. Many of these city categories include restaurants, but I don't see how all of the restaurants in a city are about cuisine.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 18:58, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge to
Category:New England cuisine per BF, which itself probably needs some thinning. Generally I agree with Vegas above on these city categories.
Johnbod (
talk) 04:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Merge per Black Falcon. Wicked good chowda. --
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Category:Crimes
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The result of the discussion was:keep.
Kbdank71 13:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The text at beginning of "Crimes" is "This category includes articles on types and specific instances of crime". Articles on types of crime is exactly what "Crime by type" contains. These two categories appear have the identical function. While "Crimes" has many more entries, the merge is proposed into "Crime by type" as it has a more specific name.
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 18:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose there are many articles that descibe crimes that don't neatly fit into the crimes by type.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 18:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Crime is typed for us by its definitions - in criminal codes - very difficult for a crime to not have a type. Those articles "that don't neatly fit" belong in other categories. "Perfect crime", for example, is also categorized as Criminology. "Perfect crime" did not meet the definition for "Crimes" - it is not a type of crime and not a specific instance. I think this is typical of the "don't neatly fit". For those articles that meet the defintion, the two categories are identical in function. Thanks
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 20:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
I'm lost here. Both "Crimes" and "Crime by type" are subcats of "Crime". Would appreciate some help to understand your view. Thanks,
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 20:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose There are indeed articles in this category that would not fit into "Crimes by type", such as
Orgnaized crime, or
Felony. DGG (
talk) 22:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Motif of harmful sensation
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Tiptoetytalk 04:39, 5 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete the article will undoubtedly end up deleted or renamed. DGG (
talk) 22:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Number-one singles by country
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Kbdank71 13:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: As these countries don't get official singles chart, there is no official number-one hits. These categories seem to have been created to promote some artists such as Modern Talking and should be deleted.
Europe22 (
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Student groups
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus.
Kbdank71 13:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Not all student organizations are clubs and societies. --
99.140.242.28 (
talk) 20:50, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
I think all student organizations could be defined as such, even if they are not described as such. Or can you provide an alternative term that is well-understood in both US and UK English? -
choster (
talk) 23:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep The separate lists are individually relevant and not synonyms . A division by type of activity is particualrly relevant. DGG (
talk) 22:24, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
From
student society: "A student society or student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students." So either
Category:Student societies and
Category:Student organizations need to be merged because they mean the same thing, or the distinction between the two needs to be clarified and a massive cleanup undertaken. I don't understand at all what you mean by "division by type of activity"; I'm not proposing to flatten the subcategories, simply to make them available in one place.-
choster (
talk) 23:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. If these categories are merged/renamed, then most of their subcats will also have to be renamed. This will impact dozens of categories. At the present time, the subcats are not tagged. --
Stepheng3 (
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Category:Memorial Cup champions
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Nominator's rationale: The category consists only of two players and is made redundant by the far more widely used
Memorial Cup winners category.
Orlandkurtenbach (
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Category:White South Africans
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus.
Kbdank71 13:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment the current title and the new title might seem superficially similar but suggest different things.
Afrikaners are all white-skinned but consider themselves fully African and not in any way "European". Standarization is great and all but individual countries have different conventions (official or popular) on how to classify people. --
Kevlar (
talk •
contribs) 20:46, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
They would certainly agree they are "of European descent" surely?
Johnbod (
talk) 23:06, 5 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. Wasn't "White" one of the 4 official racial designations under Apartheid?—"White", "Black", "Coloured" and "Indian"? I'm not sure that this is what the category is trying to capture or not, but there is
Category:Coloured South Africans.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 21:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Official racial category in the area in the past, and a very significant one historically. DGG (
talk) 22:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
keep This is the correct name for these South African people. Encyclopedias should reflect the 'facts on the ground', not try to make things 'standard'. Standard for who? The WP renaming gods?
Hmains (
talk) 03:50, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep (exceptionally). In view of the recentness of apartheid, the designations of South Africans into 4 ethnicities remains appropriate. Many of the whites are of families settled for hundreds of years; this is thus not the usual case of an expatriate community. Coloured will need subcategories such as Cape Malays. Whites will need to have Africaaners as a subcategory, and Black South Africans may been to be split by tribe - Zulu, Xhosa, etc.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 20:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Roma
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The result of the discussion was:Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close.
Cgingold (
talk) 22:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. Redundant categories, merge into the one with the main article name. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 02:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
The category descriptions of the two categories indicate that
Category:Roma is a general topic category whereas
Category:Romani people is supposed to be a list category for individual biographies. I am not sure whether the intended difference is worth maintaining, but it's probably worth noting. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 05:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Strongly Oppose - On no account should these categories be merged! As Black Falcon has already explained, these categories are intended to encompass very different things. Thank goodness that the distinction has been properly captured, unlike all too many similar categories. This does, however, highlight a pervasive problem with use of the inherently ambiguous term "people" that has resulted in these fundamentally different kinds of categories being conflated as though they were interchangeable. As I have suggested more than a few times previously, this confusion would be virtually eliminated if we used the word "individuals" instead of "people" for the bio categories.
Cgingold (
talk) 06:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
People vs. persons Really, it should be "[Ethnicity] persons" for individuals and "[Ethnicity] people" for the nation. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 21:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose - per the sagacious analysis of Cgingold.
Occuli (
talk) 11:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose - per Cgingold.
Johnbod (
talk) 12:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Withdraw This may have been a bad idea, due to the pervasive misuse of "people" on Wikipedia. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 21:31, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:List of Local Fraternities and Sororities
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To support the distinction between categories and lists, and to make the capitalizations comply with the MOS, and to more closely match the parent category.
Stepheng3 (
talk) 21:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Sounds good to me. Good catch, Choster. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 21:19, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Category:Local fraternities and sororities per choster. The category creator most likely did not know that category titles need not start with "List of"—the only exceptions being categories intended to contain lists only, which should be titled Category:Lists of (Topic) (e.g.
Category:Lists of fictional characters). Kudos to Stepheng3 for engaging the category creator at his/her
talk page. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 22:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Icons
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. Right now mixes religious and computer icons indiscriminately. New name matches article:
Icon (computing). Perhaps there is also a need for a category
Category:Religious icons although the article for the religious ones is just at
icon. --
Kevlar (
talk •
contribs) 20:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename but to
Category:Computer icons (see below) - Way overdue. You gave me a bit of a scare, Kevlar. I thought that ALL of the articles about both sorts of icons were lodged in this category. Thank goodness that turned out not to be the case, as the vast, overwhelming majority of the religious ones (and there are a considerable number) are properly categorized -- under
Category:Iconography and its sub-cats. So we won't be needing
Category:Religious icons. Btw, just to be sure, I checked to see if there was a
Category:Avatars that was also being misused; fortunately there isn't. What joker came up with these terms?? (He/she obviously gave no thought to the havoc they would one day create for online encyclopedias! :) Notified creator with {{
subst:cfd-notify}}Cgingold (
talk) 22:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom Vegas below, moving some to
Category:Eastern Orthodox icons, NOT
Category:Iconography, which is not about
icons, though EOI are a sub-cat of it. Adding a note pointing to the other category would be sensible. Actually I'll move them now. - done; cat can just be renamed.
Johnbod (
talk) 01:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Computer icons. This is what the article lead uses and is the name that has been in use for eons. If this rename goes through, the article should be renamed to match.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 06:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Right you are, VW. (Now why didn't I think of this?) I'm switching my support to this name.
Cgingold (
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Category:X-ray sources
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
Kbdank71 13:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. There are many types of X-ray sources, such as an X-ray machine, etc. This category only deals with astronomical ones.
76.66.193.69 (
talk) 19:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom - Another very obvious rename. (like Icons, above) I'm amazed this one hasn't already accumulated a bunch of wrongly categorized articles. Notified creator with {{
subst:cfd-notify}}Cgingold (
talk) 22:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Cannabis musicians
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Kbdank71 13:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete — Categories are vague to most readers, and there probably will not always be sources to identify each musician as having significant cannabis-related lyrical content.
Ibaranoff24 (
talk) 19:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep. Thanks for the notification, Cgingold. Sourcing is not a problem, Ibaranoff24. Check the references in their wikipedia articles. Nothing vague at all.
Bob Marley,
Snoop Dogg,
Peter Tosh,
Cypress Hill,
Willie Nelson,
Kottonmouth Kings. The music should have significant cannabis-related lyrical content. People and groups should not be put in the categories just because they have used cannabis. We have
Category:Cannabis activists if all they have done is promote cannabis significantly, but not significantly in their lyrics. --
Timeshifter (
talk) 00:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - "cannabis musician" does not appear to be in widespread usage outside of Wikipedia and mirror sites. What these categories amount to are
Category:Musicians who are known to smoke marijuana and
Category:Musicians who sing about marijuana. We do not appear to categorize people on the basis of the recreational substances in which they indulge and I see no reason to start with weed. We also don't categorize performers on the basis of the subject matter of their work (which would lead to unimaginable category clutter) and, again, no reason to start with pot.
Otto4711 (
talk) 00:51, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+musician - See the result that mentions this: "a PhD theses on cannabis and music" - It is not just the subject, but the effect of the substance on the history of music. Check out:
There is a difference between "cannabis and music" and "cannabis musician". YouTube is not a reliable source for anything, and even if it features videos of musicians singing about spliffs that does not lend credence to the notion that "cannabis musician" as a concept is encyclopedic.
Otto4711 (
talk) 21:11, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Otto. Although we do categorize artists by genre, we do not categorize them "on the basis of the subject matter of their work". I can think of two reasons for this (category clutter and categorization on the basis of non-defining characteristics), but both are related to the fact that artists can and do write/sing/paint about multiple (i.e. tens or hundreds) of subjects. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 22:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Otto. Inclusion criteria is vague- is one ode to reefer sufficient to make you a cannabis musician, or does it have to be x% of songs? What about songs with ambiguous lyrics? Not to mention the fact that nearly every rapper or reggae artist would end up in this category... --
Clay Collier (
talk) 10:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. I can see this is a losing battle. I am changing the categories of the more well-known cannabis activist musicians to
Category:Cannabis culture. This will remove from cannabis categories the vast majority of musicians who have a few songs that mention cannabis, but are not particularly known for this outside their core audience. For example; this will eliminate most of the generic rap and reggae musicians who aren't really notable for this above any of the rest. --
Timeshifter (
talk) 17:27, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per deleters.
Johnbod (
talk) 14:01, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per Black Falcon, because its THE argument.--
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Cuisine
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Nominator's rationale:Delete - small categories, unlikely to expand.
Otto4711 (
talk) 19:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Of course they can expand. there are many dishes to add for all regional chinese cuisines. DGG (
talk) 22:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Yangzhou is not a region. It is a city.
Otto4711 (
talk) 22:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Jiangsu cuisine category, as it is one of the eight main traditional regional cuisines of China (see
Chinese cuisine).
Hong Qi Gong (
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Category:Cuisine of Boston, Massachusetts
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Nominator's rationale:Delete - items included are in no way specific to Boston and the likelihood that there are sufficient dishes to warrant the category is unlikely.
Otto4711 (
talk) 19:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep And there will be others. DGG (
talk) 22:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
How exactly is a submarine sandwich defined as cuisine of Boston?
Otto4711 (
talk) 22:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep / Rename to
Category:Cuisine of Boston to match parent article for
Boston, where state is not included. There are ample articles in existence to fully populate the category. Any issues regarding inclusion of specific entries should be raised and discussed elsewhere.
Alansohn (
talk) 03:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Um, if nothing that's in the category can be considered defined by a specific association with Boston, and if no other dishes can be identified as being defined by a specific association with Boston, there's no need for the category. So, again, how exactly is a submarine sandwich defined as cuisine of Boston?
Otto4711 (
talk) 06:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Other articles have already been added to the category, rebutting your already weak argument. If you have an issue with a particular entry being in the category, deal with it elsewhere, such as discussing at the article's talk page. The existence of a questionable entry as an excuse for deletion is always a rather poor argument. Repeating it multiple times doesn't make it any stronger. You can do better.
Alansohn (
talk) 17:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
So then, you're unable to answer the question? Got it.
Otto4711 (
talk) 17:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Of course if someone can explain how the two entries meet the definition of
cuisine, 'cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture' I'm open to changing my opinion. And yes, I will be removing one of the two entries since it is a dab page which should not be in this category and gives no hint that any of the uses may be cuisine related.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 22:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)reply
I will not oppose an unmerge as suggested below. Then cleanup the parent as needed.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 02:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
I think this is a good suggestion. To expand on it, drop the city categories with the exception of a very few, New Orleans may be a good example but I'm not sure if that would hold up. Make the parent
Category:Regional cuisines of the United States and then have children categories for appropriate regions.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 00:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for finding that. It has been cleaned up, but there are two categories that need looking at. Clearly one needs a parent and the other is PR, not sure what to do with that one. Many of these city categories include restaurants, but I don't see how all of the restaurants in a city are about cuisine.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 18:58, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge to
Category:New England cuisine per BF, which itself probably needs some thinning. Generally I agree with Vegas above on these city categories.
Johnbod (
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Merge per Black Falcon. Wicked good chowda. --
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Category:Crimes
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The result of the discussion was:keep.
Kbdank71 13:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The text at beginning of "Crimes" is "This category includes articles on types and specific instances of crime". Articles on types of crime is exactly what "Crime by type" contains. These two categories appear have the identical function. While "Crimes" has many more entries, the merge is proposed into "Crime by type" as it has a more specific name.
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 18:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose there are many articles that descibe crimes that don't neatly fit into the crimes by type.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 18:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Crime is typed for us by its definitions - in criminal codes - very difficult for a crime to not have a type. Those articles "that don't neatly fit" belong in other categories. "Perfect crime", for example, is also categorized as Criminology. "Perfect crime" did not meet the definition for "Crimes" - it is not a type of crime and not a specific instance. I think this is typical of the "don't neatly fit". For those articles that meet the defintion, the two categories are identical in function. Thanks
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 20:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
I'm lost here. Both "Crimes" and "Crime by type" are subcats of "Crime". Would appreciate some help to understand your view. Thanks,
69.106.242.20 (
talk) 20:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose There are indeed articles in this category that would not fit into "Crimes by type", such as
Orgnaized crime, or
Felony. DGG (
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Category:Motif of harmful sensation
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Tiptoetytalk 04:39, 5 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete the article will undoubtedly end up deleted or renamed. DGG (
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Category:Number-one singles by country
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
Kbdank71 13:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: As these countries don't get official singles chart, there is no official number-one hits. These categories seem to have been created to promote some artists such as Modern Talking and should be deleted.
Europe22 (
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Student groups
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus.
Kbdank71 13:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Not all student organizations are clubs and societies. --
99.140.242.28 (
talk) 20:50, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
I think all student organizations could be defined as such, even if they are not described as such. Or can you provide an alternative term that is well-understood in both US and UK English? -
choster (
talk) 23:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep The separate lists are individually relevant and not synonyms . A division by type of activity is particualrly relevant. DGG (
talk) 22:24, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
From
student society: "A student society or student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students." So either
Category:Student societies and
Category:Student organizations need to be merged because they mean the same thing, or the distinction between the two needs to be clarified and a massive cleanup undertaken. I don't understand at all what you mean by "division by type of activity"; I'm not proposing to flatten the subcategories, simply to make them available in one place.-
choster (
talk) 23:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. If these categories are merged/renamed, then most of their subcats will also have to be renamed. This will impact dozens of categories. At the present time, the subcats are not tagged. --
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Category:Memorial Cup champions
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Nominator's rationale: The category consists only of two players and is made redundant by the far more widely used
Memorial Cup winners category.
Orlandkurtenbach (
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Category:White South Africans
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus.
Kbdank71 13:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment the current title and the new title might seem superficially similar but suggest different things.
Afrikaners are all white-skinned but consider themselves fully African and not in any way "European". Standarization is great and all but individual countries have different conventions (official or popular) on how to classify people. --
Kevlar (
talk •
contribs) 20:46, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
They would certainly agree they are "of European descent" surely?
Johnbod (
talk) 23:06, 5 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment. Wasn't "White" one of the 4 official racial designations under Apartheid?—"White", "Black", "Coloured" and "Indian"? I'm not sure that this is what the category is trying to capture or not, but there is
Category:Coloured South Africans.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 21:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep Official racial category in the area in the past, and a very significant one historically. DGG (
talk) 22:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
keep This is the correct name for these South African people. Encyclopedias should reflect the 'facts on the ground', not try to make things 'standard'. Standard for who? The WP renaming gods?
Hmains (
talk) 03:50, 2 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep (exceptionally). In view of the recentness of apartheid, the designations of South Africans into 4 ethnicities remains appropriate. Many of the whites are of families settled for hundreds of years; this is thus not the usual case of an expatriate community. Coloured will need subcategories such as Cape Malays. Whites will need to have Africaaners as a subcategory, and Black South Africans may been to be split by tribe - Zulu, Xhosa, etc.
Peterkingiron (
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Category:Roma
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The result of the discussion was:Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close.
Cgingold (
talk) 22:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. Redundant categories, merge into the one with the main article name. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 02:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
The category descriptions of the two categories indicate that
Category:Roma is a general topic category whereas
Category:Romani people is supposed to be a list category for individual biographies. I am not sure whether the intended difference is worth maintaining, but it's probably worth noting. –Black Falcon(
Talk) 05:18, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Strongly Oppose - On no account should these categories be merged! As Black Falcon has already explained, these categories are intended to encompass very different things. Thank goodness that the distinction has been properly captured, unlike all too many similar categories. This does, however, highlight a pervasive problem with use of the inherently ambiguous term "people" that has resulted in these fundamentally different kinds of categories being conflated as though they were interchangeable. As I have suggested more than a few times previously, this confusion would be virtually eliminated if we used the word "individuals" instead of "people" for the bio categories.
Cgingold (
talk) 06:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
People vs. persons Really, it should be "[Ethnicity] persons" for individuals and "[Ethnicity] people" for the nation. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 21:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose - per the sagacious analysis of Cgingold.
Occuli (
talk) 11:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Oppose - per Cgingold.
Johnbod (
talk) 12:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Withdraw This may have been a bad idea, due to the pervasive misuse of "people" on Wikipedia. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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C☺
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