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The result of the discussion was:Rename all.
NW(
Talk) 20:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename to disambiguate and match parent article,
Junoon (band), as
Junoon is ambiguous. —
ξxplicit 23:30, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
Debresser (
talk) 23:38, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
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rename per nom. First to disambiguate; others follow by standard practice.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Film production companies of Malaysia
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Keep to match naming standard in parent category.
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Tadpole(s) categories
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Nominator's rationale: Rename. Should be renamed to disambiguate and match respective articles,
Tadpole (band) and
Tadpoles (band). —
ξxplicit 22:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
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Support Renames to match title of parent category.
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Nominator's rationale: The category is woefully under populated. It is either be deleted or populated with all the templates using {{WPBannerMeta}}, {{Asbox}}, {{Userbox}}, {{Userbox-2}} and {{Userbox-r}} which would add somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 templates to the category.
WOSlinker (
talk) 22:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete I do not think this category serves any purpose. Especially not at the moment, as the nominator has pointed out correctly.
Debresser (
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Delete - I'm not positive, but I have a vague recollection this category (perhaps under a variant name?) was already at CFD before? -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wikipedia articles needing moustaches
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
NW(
Talk) 20:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: No indication of why this category is necessary, most possibly created out of humor. —
ξxplicit 22:11, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Articles (mainspace) don't need moustaches, or if they do, a
mustache can be readily provided. The category is therefore unlikely to every have proper members. Category appears to be misnamed; it doesn't match it's only member. --
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Category:Tokio albums
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Nominator's rationale: To disambiguate and match parent article,
Tokio (band). "Tokio albums" is misleading and can cause confusion with
Tokio. —
ξxplicit 21:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
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Category:Suicide bombing in the Chechen-Russian conflict
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To match ultimate parent
Category:Chechen wars, which is how this conflict is usually referred to collectively in the category tree.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment - I note that the parent is "Suicide bombings by country". Leaving aside for a moment the messy business of whether Chechnya is a country, we probably still need an "s" on "bombing", especially since this seems to be being used for specific incidents.
Grutness...wha? 00:01, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Good point - I hadn't noticed those two articles.
Grutness...wha? 06:53, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete The articles are not about bombings, nor about bombing itself, and are already adequately classified into "bombers" categories.
Debresser (
talk) 19:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)reply
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Rename per nom. I am not clear how prevalent this kind of bombing was (or is), but it is clearly notable. If there are irrelvant articles in the category, they should be removed.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 15:50, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
talk) 20:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename Possibly exclude those two articles mentioned above and make it "bombings".
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Category:Engineering vehicles
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. Main article was renamed so the category should follow. The dab is needed on the article since heavy equipment is ambiguous. However, we could consider a rename to
Heavy equipment vehicles which I believe is not ambiguous.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:32, 18 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The problem, as pointed out in the article rename discussion, is that
Heavy equipment is ambiguous. Any suggestion on how to deal with that issue? I have no problem with
Category:Heavy equipment (construction) as a parent, but the category also has
Category:Vehicles as a parent so the name should reflect that.
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Keep. Current name satisfactorily and intuitively matches the membership. The suggested renames are more problematic. Aren't all "engineering vehicles" heavy, and normally used for construction, but not vice-versa. "Equipment" is not sufficiently exclusive. --
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Category:Wikipedians who don't live with their parents
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
NW(
Talk) 19:57, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete per
WP:USERCAT, category doesn't support collaboration nor is it a defining characteristic for Wikipedians. —
ξxplicit 18:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep: suggest it is very much a defining characteristic, given that most Wikipedians seem to be under the age of eighteen, and probably do live with their parents.
The Rationalist (
talk) 18:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep unless an actual policy reason is given, then I'll reconsider. Verbalchat 19:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
WP:USERCAT states: the purpose of user categories is to aid in facilitating coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement and development of the encyclopedia. What does categorizing users who live with or without their parents help improve or develop Wikipedia? —
ξxplicit 20:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:USERCAT, this seems more like an attempt at divisive humor than aiding collaboration.
Unomi (
talk) 20:31, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep as defining and uniting. In general I propose to be lenient with voluntary self-organisation of Wikipedians and to nominate here only extreme cases. I think that is consistent with the leniencies we allow on userpages.
Debresser (
talk) 23:31, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete Wikipedia is not a social club, and why should knowing that your conversational partner doesn't have the added complication of a parental unit walking in on their private moments matter if it isn't?
76.66.203.102 (
talk) 06:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:USERCAT. Policy is clear and this Cat. falls foul of it by a considerable margin.
Leaky Caldron 14:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete -- This will apply to a large percentage of adult Wikipedians. The reverse (those who do live with parents) might be defining. but not this.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 15:45, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Obvious delete - Per WP:USERCAT. Additionally, this is a "not" category, in that it categorizes Wikipedians by something they are not, which historically is by itself enough to delete a user category, let alone something as unencyclopedic as this. Even if it were a defining characteristic, that shouldn't be a factor in keeping or deleting this. Why? Because collaborative value is the measure for user categories, not if it is a defining characteristic or not. That's a question for article categories, not user categories.
VegaDark (
talk) 00:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - per the above, and just like to add that "live with" could be vague itself... -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete too ambiguous to be defining.
Orphans,
Foster children and some
Young offenders don't live with their parents, whereas more mature editors may have invited a surviving parent to live in their household (q.v.
Sandwich generation). Anyway, there's probably a cultural bias, e.g. in Germany it is inexpensive for young graduates to live away from home—whereas the burden of
student debt and higher rentals in the UK make living with parents an unavoidable evil for many. Perhaps this is why so many of my German friends have doctorates? -
Pointillist (
talk) 22:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete not terribly conducive to collaboration. --
SarekOfVulcan (
talk) 20:32, 4 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Membership criterion is not related to wikipedia. --
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Category:Hundreds of Yorkshire
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Nominator's rationale: There were never any hundreds in Yorkshire. The articles in this category were wapentakes; these were pretty much identical in function, so it's sensible for this to be a subcategory of
Category:Hundreds of England, but the name of the category should reflect the actual name of the districts.
Warofdreamstalk 13:48, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The situation is the same in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, so I've added them to the nomination. In Cumberland, similar districts were known as wards, so I've also added them. In Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, wapentakes later became hundreds, and the Leicestershire category contains a mix of the two. As these aren't simple, I've not nominated these, although they might merit some discussion.
Warofdreamstalk 13:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Category:Ancient subdivisions of X might be better for all such categories, this would make the addition of liberties, ridings, lathes and divisions etc less of a problem and solve Leicestershire's inconvenient shift from wapentakes to hundreds.
MRSC (
talk) 14:38, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
I'd be happy with that proposal.
Warofdreamstalk 14:42, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Ancient suggests that these are now obsolete - is that true for all? Traditional subdivisions of might be better, but otherwise I agree.
Twiceuponatime (
talk) 15:23, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
I'm going on the basis of ancient = established in antiquity, which is true for all. I don't think traditional is ever used to describe these entities, whereas ancient is.
[1]MRSC (
talk) 16:18, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom.
Category:Hundreds of Leicestershire has been partly tagged. Can some one please complete (or delete) its nomination? There may be a few more this applies to. The position is that the counties of the Danelaw had wapentakes and (most of) the rest of England had hundreds. Perhaps the solution for Leics and Northants may be "Wapentakes and Hundreds". The liberties of Wenlock and Cleobury Morimer in Shropshire operated much like hundreds, so that I see no need not to categories them as hundreds. The distinction was a technical one that a bailiff was appointed locally to carry out the sheriff's functions, something that also happened in the hundreds of Oswaldslow and Pershore in Worcestershire. I would suggest that the parent should remain
Category:Hundreds of England, since that applies to most of the country. However Kent has lathes and Sussex rapes, which are something higher than hundreds. This is a case where history is not neat and tidy, and we have to live with that. We may need a separate category for higher county subdivisions, such as the Ridings of Yorkshire, the Parts of Lincolnshire (one of which had ridings), the Quarters of Gloucestershire, and the rapes and lathes.
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Category:Dives
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To rename ambiguous category to match article
Dives (bird).
Tassedethe (
talk) 08:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
Debresser (
talk) 23:29, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy - indeed, I had images of bad take out : ) -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
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Category:United States naval vessels named after foreign nationals
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The intent of the category, from the statement on the category page and how it is categorized, seems limited to vessels of the United States Navy, and not the more broad "United States naval vessels" (which could include U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, or U.S. Air Force ships). —
Bellhalla (
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Rename per nominator. Correct arguments.
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Category:Dimension films
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Rename per nominator. This is a nice one.
Debresser (
talk) 23:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent article.
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Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Arab World
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The result of the discussion was:merge. —
ξxplicit 03:40, 12 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge per nominator and my opinion at that discussion.
Debresser (
talk) 23:26, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge; I'm not convinced that this is a good way of organising subcategories about economic or industrial topics. By country is standard and makes far more sense in context.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was:Rename all.
NW(
Talk) 20:06, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename to disambiguate and match parent article,
Junoon (band), as
Junoon is ambiguous. —
ξxplicit 23:30, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
Debresser (
talk) 23:38, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
talk) 20:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
rename per nom. First to disambiguate; others follow by standard practice.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Film production companies of Malaysia
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Keep to match naming standard in parent category.
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Tadpole(s) categories
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Nominator's rationale: Rename. Should be renamed to disambiguate and match respective articles,
Tadpole (band) and
Tadpoles (band). —
ξxplicit 22:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
Debresser (
talk) 23:38, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent category.
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Nominator's rationale: The category is woefully under populated. It is either be deleted or populated with all the templates using {{WPBannerMeta}}, {{Asbox}}, {{Userbox}}, {{Userbox-2}} and {{Userbox-r}} which would add somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 templates to the category.
WOSlinker (
talk) 22:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete I do not think this category serves any purpose. Especially not at the moment, as the nominator has pointed out correctly.
Debresser (
talk) 23:37, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - I'm not positive, but I have a vague recollection this category (perhaps under a variant name?) was already at CFD before? -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wikipedia articles needing moustaches
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
NW(
Talk) 20:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: No indication of why this category is necessary, most possibly created out of humor. —
ξxplicit 22:11, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Articles (mainspace) don't need moustaches, or if they do, a
mustache can be readily provided. The category is therefore unlikely to every have proper members. Category appears to be misnamed; it doesn't match it's only member. --
SmokeyJoe (
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Category:Tokio albums
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Nominator's rationale: To disambiguate and match parent article,
Tokio (band). "Tokio albums" is misleading and can cause confusion with
Tokio. —
ξxplicit 21:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
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Category:Suicide bombing in the Chechen-Russian conflict
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To match ultimate parent
Category:Chechen wars, which is how this conflict is usually referred to collectively in the category tree.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment - I note that the parent is "Suicide bombings by country". Leaving aside for a moment the messy business of whether Chechnya is a country, we probably still need an "s" on "bombing", especially since this seems to be being used for specific incidents.
Grutness...wha? 00:01, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Good point - I hadn't noticed those two articles.
Grutness...wha? 06:53, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete The articles are not about bombings, nor about bombing itself, and are already adequately classified into "bombers" categories.
Debresser (
talk) 19:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)reply
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Rename per nom. I am not clear how prevalent this kind of bombing was (or is), but it is clearly notable. If there are irrelvant articles in the category, they should be removed.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 15:50, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
talk) 20:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename Possibly exclude those two articles mentioned above and make it "bombings".
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talk) 21:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Engineering vehicles
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. Main article was renamed so the category should follow. The dab is needed on the article since heavy equipment is ambiguous. However, we could consider a rename to
Heavy equipment vehicles which I believe is not ambiguous.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:32, 18 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The problem, as pointed out in the article rename discussion, is that
Heavy equipment is ambiguous. Any suggestion on how to deal with that issue? I have no problem with
Category:Heavy equipment (construction) as a parent, but the category also has
Category:Vehicles as a parent so the name should reflect that.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 05:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)reply
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Keep. Current name satisfactorily and intuitively matches the membership. The suggested renames are more problematic. Aren't all "engineering vehicles" heavy, and normally used for construction, but not vice-versa. "Equipment" is not sufficiently exclusive. --
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Category:Wikipedians who don't live with their parents
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
NW(
Talk) 19:57, 7 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete per
WP:USERCAT, category doesn't support collaboration nor is it a defining characteristic for Wikipedians. —
ξxplicit 18:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep: suggest it is very much a defining characteristic, given that most Wikipedians seem to be under the age of eighteen, and probably do live with their parents.
The Rationalist (
talk) 18:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep unless an actual policy reason is given, then I'll reconsider. Verbalchat 19:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
WP:USERCAT states: the purpose of user categories is to aid in facilitating coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement and development of the encyclopedia. What does categorizing users who live with or without their parents help improve or develop Wikipedia? —
ξxplicit 20:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:USERCAT, this seems more like an attempt at divisive humor than aiding collaboration.
Unomi (
talk) 20:31, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep as defining and uniting. In general I propose to be lenient with voluntary self-organisation of Wikipedians and to nominate here only extreme cases. I think that is consistent with the leniencies we allow on userpages.
Debresser (
talk) 23:31, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete Wikipedia is not a social club, and why should knowing that your conversational partner doesn't have the added complication of a parental unit walking in on their private moments matter if it isn't?
76.66.203.102 (
talk) 06:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:USERCAT. Policy is clear and this Cat. falls foul of it by a considerable margin.
Leaky Caldron 14:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete -- This will apply to a large percentage of adult Wikipedians. The reverse (those who do live with parents) might be defining. but not this.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 15:45, 1 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Obvious delete - Per WP:USERCAT. Additionally, this is a "not" category, in that it categorizes Wikipedians by something they are not, which historically is by itself enough to delete a user category, let alone something as unencyclopedic as this. Even if it were a defining characteristic, that shouldn't be a factor in keeping or deleting this. Why? Because collaborative value is the measure for user categories, not if it is a defining characteristic or not. That's a question for article categories, not user categories.
VegaDark (
talk) 00:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete - per the above, and just like to add that "live with" could be vague itself... -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete too ambiguous to be defining.
Orphans,
Foster children and some
Young offenders don't live with their parents, whereas more mature editors may have invited a surviving parent to live in their household (q.v.
Sandwich generation). Anyway, there's probably a cultural bias, e.g. in Germany it is inexpensive for young graduates to live away from home—whereas the burden of
student debt and higher rentals in the UK make living with parents an unavoidable evil for many. Perhaps this is why so many of my German friends have doctorates? -
Pointillist (
talk) 22:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete not terribly conducive to collaboration. --
SarekOfVulcan (
talk) 20:32, 4 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete. Membership criterion is not related to wikipedia. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 12:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Hundreds of Yorkshire
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Nominator's rationale: There were never any hundreds in Yorkshire. The articles in this category were wapentakes; these were pretty much identical in function, so it's sensible for this to be a subcategory of
Category:Hundreds of England, but the name of the category should reflect the actual name of the districts.
Warofdreamstalk 13:48, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The situation is the same in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, so I've added them to the nomination. In Cumberland, similar districts were known as wards, so I've also added them. In Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, wapentakes later became hundreds, and the Leicestershire category contains a mix of the two. As these aren't simple, I've not nominated these, although they might merit some discussion.
Warofdreamstalk 13:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Category:Ancient subdivisions of X might be better for all such categories, this would make the addition of liberties, ridings, lathes and divisions etc less of a problem and solve Leicestershire's inconvenient shift from wapentakes to hundreds.
MRSC (
talk) 14:38, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
I'd be happy with that proposal.
Warofdreamstalk 14:42, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Ancient suggests that these are now obsolete - is that true for all? Traditional subdivisions of might be better, but otherwise I agree.
Twiceuponatime (
talk) 15:23, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
I'm going on the basis of ancient = established in antiquity, which is true for all. I don't think traditional is ever used to describe these entities, whereas ancient is.
[1]MRSC (
talk) 16:18, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom.
Category:Hundreds of Leicestershire has been partly tagged. Can some one please complete (or delete) its nomination? There may be a few more this applies to. The position is that the counties of the Danelaw had wapentakes and (most of) the rest of England had hundreds. Perhaps the solution for Leics and Northants may be "Wapentakes and Hundreds". The liberties of Wenlock and Cleobury Morimer in Shropshire operated much like hundreds, so that I see no need not to categories them as hundreds. The distinction was a technical one that a bailiff was appointed locally to carry out the sheriff's functions, something that also happened in the hundreds of Oswaldslow and Pershore in Worcestershire. I would suggest that the parent should remain
Category:Hundreds of England, since that applies to most of the country. However Kent has lathes and Sussex rapes, which are something higher than hundreds. This is a case where history is not neat and tidy, and we have to live with that. We may need a separate category for higher county subdivisions, such as the Ridings of Yorkshire, the Parts of Lincolnshire (one of which had ridings), the Quarters of Gloucestershire, and the rapes and lathes.
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talk) 18:30, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Dives
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. To rename ambiguous category to match article
Dives (bird).
Tassedethe (
talk) 08:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy per nominator and criterion #6.
Debresser (
talk) 23:29, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy - indeed, I had images of bad take out : ) -
jc37 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
talk) 20:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:United States naval vessels named after foreign nationals
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The intent of the category, from the statement on the category page and how it is categorized, seems limited to vessels of the United States Navy, and not the more broad "United States naval vessels" (which could include U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, or U.S. Air Force ships). —
Bellhalla (
talk) 05:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Rename per nominator. Correct arguments.
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Category:Dimension films
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Rename per nominator. This is a nice one.
Debresser (
talk) 23:27, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent article.
Alansohn (
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Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Arab World
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The result of the discussion was:merge. —
ξxplicit 03:40, 12 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge per nominator and my opinion at that discussion.
Debresser (
talk) 23:26, 31 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Upmerge; I'm not convinced that this is a good way of organising subcategories about economic or industrial topics. By country is standard and makes far more sense in context.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)reply
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