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Category:Ford 300
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. We've
renamed all the NASCAR race categories to categories based on their racetracks, but this one's a bit different. All the ones we renamed were part of the
Sprint Cup Series, the main NASCAR circuit. This is part of the
Nationwide Series, which is (kind of) a minor league circuit. None of the other Nationwide races have categories, so this one doesn't need one either. (It's already in
Category:NASCAR Nationwide Series races, so we don't need a rename.)--
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Category:Majority Leaders of the United States House of Representatives
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The result of the discussion was:Keep. Useful suggestions for reorganising categorisation in this area have been made, however at this stage their implementation is beyond the scope of Cfd. --Xdamrtalk16:57, 13 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Merge. Right now, there's a category for Majority leaders (which has 21 articles) and a category for Minority leaders (which has 2 articles). I suggest merging the two into one category which could also allow whips to be included. Thus we'd have a more inclusive category. Many Reps go from Whip, to leader, to majority, back to minority, and it makes better sense to capture that in one category. Let's leave Speakers separate, though. —
Markles11:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Merges The distinction between majority and minority leader is an important one. While there will be some minority leaders who become majority leader after a change in control, the distinction is still worth making.
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talk)
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I like that idea, because it reduces category clutter on biographies. The only problem is familiarity: aren't these new terms much less known han Majority Leader and Minority Leader? --
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Category:Educationists by nationality
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. This is a redirect to
Category:Educationists that is supposed to remain empty. However, the template {{Fooian fooers}} contains an "#ifexist" clause that automatically populates this category if it exists, and as a result
Category:Irish educationists has been placed in this category incorrectly, even though it is also in the redirect target category. Deleting this category will eliminate the duplicate categorization and allow the template to function as intended.
R'n'B (
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10:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep. I guess this is my fault, because I spent a few hours yesterday adding {{Fooian fooers}} (or its cousins in
Category:Wikipedia classification templates) to all sub-acts of
Category:Irish people by occupation, and it was me who added the "#ifexist" clause to {{Fooian fooers}}. I still think that the "#ifexist" clause was an improvement, because it removed a pointless redlink from many categories, but I hadn't considered this side-effect. However, I don't think that the existence of one link to a redirect is a good enough reason to remove that useful redirect. A permalink to a redirect is ugly, but I think that not having the redirect is likely to impede navigation. --
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Category:Vs. (series)
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Nominator's rationale: Not quite too sure what to name this category, but its current name is very ambiguous. Perhaps rename to
Category:Capcom series or something similar, but keeping as is would be very obscure. —
ξxplicit06:52, 21 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Vs. (video game series) and Vs. (Capcom franchise) are the best I can come up with. Whatever it'll be called, you may want to keep the games
SNK created in mind, regardless the series belongs to Capcom.
« ₣M₣ » 16:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
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Rename all per nom and per BrownHairedGirl. Anything to get rid of that annoying "This category is being considered for renaming" template from the pages. But seriously, for the sake of consistency, for the fact that all the candidates for speedy deletion will have uniform prefixes in the categorization.
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Keep per Debresser. Redirects are cheap, and there is no claim that this one causes any problems. Mild
WP:TROUTing to the nominator for not a) not merging two very similar nominations, and b) not withdrawing this when there was no support for deleting any of the other redirects. It seems an unfortunate use of admin time for these two harmless redirects to be relisted. --
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Keep per Debresser. Redirects are cheap, and there is no claim that this one causes any problems. Mild
WP:TROUTing to the nominator for not a) not merging two very similar nominations, and b) not withdrawing this when there was no support for deleting any of the other redirects. It seems an unfortunate use of admin time for these two harmless redirects to be relisted. --
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Category:Districts of the Constitutional Province of Callao
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Nominator's rationale:Category:Districts of Peru is subcategorized by
region first and by
province second. Since the Constitutional Province of Callao is the only province in Callao Region (see
Callao and
Provinces of Peru), I think that the category should be at the level of the region. Also, as "Callao Region" is a
proper noun and should not, therefore, be preceded by a
definite article, I have dropped the "the" in the proposed name. If there is no objection to this second change, then I will nominate the approximately 200 similarly-titled Peru-related categories in the next day or two. (Category creator notified using
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Category:Provinces of the Callao Region
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At this time, I am neutral, and merely want to bring the issue here for discussion. By the way, any thoughts as to whether articles about provinces of Peru should be categorized into the regional subcategories only or into both
Category:Provinces of Peru and the regional subcategories? Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
talk)04:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:WikiProject Antarctica Highways
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Nominator's rationale:WikiProject Antarctica Highways is a joke project, yet it wields the category structure of a full project; in effect, we have 21 categories to categorize just one page: a userspace template. I have no objection to the project page itself, but I think that the categories perhaps take things a bit too far. They are placed in other, legitimate assessment categories and are indistinguishable from valid WikiProject categories. -- Black Falcon(
talk)01:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: This is a userbox-populated user category for a joke WikiProject and, as such, does not facilitate
encyclopedic collaboration between users. Displaying the userbox is quite fine, but the category serves as nothing more than a "bottom-of-the-page" notice and is merely a byproduct of the userbox. The category should be deleted as overcategorization on the basis of a characteristic that is primarily
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defunct or non-existent project. -- Black Falcon(
talk)01:49, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Ford 300
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. We've
renamed all the NASCAR race categories to categories based on their racetracks, but this one's a bit different. All the ones we renamed were part of the
Sprint Cup Series, the main NASCAR circuit. This is part of the
Nationwide Series, which is (kind of) a minor league circuit. None of the other Nationwide races have categories, so this one doesn't need one either. (It's already in
Category:NASCAR Nationwide Series races, so we don't need a rename.)--
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talk)
13:23, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Majority Leaders of the United States House of Representatives
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The result of the discussion was:Keep. Useful suggestions for reorganising categorisation in this area have been made, however at this stage their implementation is beyond the scope of Cfd. --Xdamrtalk16:57, 13 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Merge. Right now, there's a category for Majority leaders (which has 21 articles) and a category for Minority leaders (which has 2 articles). I suggest merging the two into one category which could also allow whips to be included. Thus we'd have a more inclusive category. Many Reps go from Whip, to leader, to majority, back to minority, and it makes better sense to capture that in one category. Let's leave Speakers separate, though. —
Markles11:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Merges The distinction between majority and minority leader is an important one. While there will be some minority leaders who become majority leader after a change in control, the distinction is still worth making.
Alansohn (
talk)
21:30, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
I like that idea, because it reduces category clutter on biographies. The only problem is familiarity: aren't these new terms much less known han Majority Leader and Minority Leader? --
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02:52, 5 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:ShipsByWikipedian7878
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Category:Educationists by nationality
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. This is a redirect to
Category:Educationists that is supposed to remain empty. However, the template {{Fooian fooers}} contains an "#ifexist" clause that automatically populates this category if it exists, and as a result
Category:Irish educationists has been placed in this category incorrectly, even though it is also in the redirect target category. Deleting this category will eliminate the duplicate categorization and allow the template to function as intended.
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
10:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep. I guess this is my fault, because I spent a few hours yesterday adding {{Fooian fooers}} (or its cousins in
Category:Wikipedia classification templates) to all sub-acts of
Category:Irish people by occupation, and it was me who added the "#ifexist" clause to {{Fooian fooers}}. I still think that the "#ifexist" clause was an improvement, because it removed a pointless redlink from many categories, but I hadn't considered this side-effect. However, I don't think that the existence of one link to a redirect is a good enough reason to remove that useful redirect. A permalink to a redirect is ugly, but I think that not having the redirect is likely to impede navigation. --
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11:21, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Vs. (series)
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Nominator's rationale: Not quite too sure what to name this category, but its current name is very ambiguous. Perhaps rename to
Category:Capcom series or something similar, but keeping as is would be very obscure. —
ξxplicit06:52, 21 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Vs. (video game series) and Vs. (Capcom franchise) are the best I can come up with. Whatever it'll be called, you may want to keep the games
SNK created in mind, regardless the series belongs to Capcom.
« ₣M₣ » 16:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
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Rename all per nom and per BrownHairedGirl. Anything to get rid of that annoying "This category is being considered for renaming" template from the pages. But seriously, for the sake of consistency, for the fact that all the candidates for speedy deletion will have uniform prefixes in the categorization.
Valley2
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Category:FOX network shows
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Keep per Debresser. Redirects are cheap, and there is no claim that this one causes any problems. Mild
WP:TROUTing to the nominator for not a) not merging two very similar nominations, and b) not withdrawing this when there was no support for deleting any of the other redirects. It seems an unfortunate use of admin time for these two harmless redirects to be relisted. --
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Keep per Debresser. Redirects are cheap, and there is no claim that this one causes any problems. Mild
WP:TROUTing to the nominator for not a) not merging two very similar nominations, and b) not withdrawing this when there was no support for deleting any of the other redirects. It seems an unfortunate use of admin time for these two harmless redirects to be relisted. --
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Category:Districts of the Constitutional Province of Callao
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Nominator's rationale:Category:Districts of Peru is subcategorized by
region first and by
province second. Since the Constitutional Province of Callao is the only province in Callao Region (see
Callao and
Provinces of Peru), I think that the category should be at the level of the region. Also, as "Callao Region" is a
proper noun and should not, therefore, be preceded by a
definite article, I have dropped the "the" in the proposed name. If there is no objection to this second change, then I will nominate the approximately 200 similarly-titled Peru-related categories in the next day or two. (Category creator notified using
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talk)04:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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At this time, I am neutral, and merely want to bring the issue here for discussion. By the way, any thoughts as to whether articles about provinces of Peru should be categorized into the regional subcategories only or into both
Category:Provinces of Peru and the regional subcategories? Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
talk)04:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:WikiProject Antarctica Highways
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Nominator's rationale:WikiProject Antarctica Highways is a joke project, yet it wields the category structure of a full project; in effect, we have 21 categories to categorize just one page: a userspace template. I have no objection to the project page itself, but I think that the categories perhaps take things a bit too far. They are placed in other, legitimate assessment categories and are indistinguishable from valid WikiProject categories. -- Black Falcon(
talk)01:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: This is a userbox-populated user category for a joke WikiProject and, as such, does not facilitate
encyclopedic collaboration between users. Displaying the userbox is quite fine, but the category serves as nothing more than a "bottom-of-the-page" notice and is merely a byproduct of the userbox. The category should be deleted as overcategorization on the basis of a characteristic that is primarily
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