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The result of the discussion was:rename. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Caps, to match main article. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
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Category:Medical fiction
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Nominator's rationale: I've just created and populated
Category:Medicine and health in fiction, and I've just found this almost empty and abandoned category, which really falls into the same area.
Fences&Windows 19:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep I would say fiction about health is distinct from medical thrillers, etc. Medical experimentation, medical lawsuits, angels of mercy, etc have little to do with health (other than dying); while immortality, TB, AIDS fiction have less to do with medical than health.
70.29.210.155 (
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It's practically empty, and is subsumed into the new category. What's the point of keeping it? Your distinction between medical fiction and health fiction is not as good as distinction as you suggest.
Fences&Windows 20:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
I think it is rather distinct, and as for not being populated, that's because it needs populating.
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Category:Health and fitness
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Nominator's rationale: Seems redundant to other categories like
Category:Health,
Category:Exercise, etc. Seems to only exist for the purposes of a portal, but it's not being used and isn't necessary - probably as it's so vague what the category is meant for.
Fences&Windows 18:25, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Doesn't stop the category being vague and worthy of deletion, does it?
Fences&Windows 20:04, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Critically endangered species risks
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 17:42, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Similar to some of the creator's other categories on this CfD page, this category makes an
WP:OC#ARBITRARY argument that Gulf of Mexico oil spills are risks for "critically endangered species." My reply: once a species has reached the stage where it is groupable under
Category:Critically endangered species, there are no end of risks to the species' continued survival, oil spills just being one of a myriad. Let me just add that if my CfDs of
User:Nopetro's categories seem like piling on,
User:Cgingold has already raised these issues
here, to no avail. So CfDs would seem to be the next logical step.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 16:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete. Totally arbitary. Might as well add
Human and
Asteroid to the category.
Fences&Windows 18:27, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
On that note, his
Category:Deepwater Horizon oil spill has only one valid article, on the spill itself. The other three category contents are: an article on the Deepwater Horizon platform, one on the oil field on which it sits, and a kind of turtle. If no one nominates this one, I will. This editor seems to feel that categories can be used to create associations between things. Hopefully the comments at these CfDs and Cgingold's advice to him will act as a guide for future category creation.
Shawn in Montreal (
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On second thought, I for one will leave
Category:Deepwater Horizon oil spill to see how this growing disaster will play out. I think there's a likelihood we'll have more articles related to the spill before it's over -- if it ever is.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 11:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Really, is a social and politic disruption. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24moratorium.html?hp . Of course, some people than before of the disaster was not worried (about externality in all the senses), now is very worried about the public opinion and because must/have to work in other energy field. --
Nopetro (
talk) 10:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete for the reasons that Shawn in Montreal has ably explained. Nopetro appears to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose & function of categories.
Cgingold (
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Category:Celebrity offspring
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Just created, no apparent usefulness. No well-defined inclusion criteria; neither "celebrity" nor "famous people" is much better than a subjective term. Fundamentally indiscriminate, not falling under any of the recognized standards for appropriate categories.
Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (
talk) 16:13, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support - category is way too vague and not very useful. --
Logical Fuzz (
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Delete - This is a specious category based on vague criteria that singles out inclusion in an arbitrary grouping. Adds no substantive value to the articles upon which it is placed. That these individuals are celebrity offspring is well covered in each article already.
Wildhartlivie (
talk) 03:19, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete per all of the above comments. Royalbroil 03:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Can we consider renaming? It's poorly named but the idea is clear enough.
Mangoe (
talk) 16:25, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete as
WP:OCAT; not, in and of itself, a defining characteristic that links the categorized (afflicted?) individuals in any genuinely meaningful way.
Bearcat (
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Delete -- notability is not inherited. The children of celebrities are NN, unless notable in theri own right, so should not have a category. The concept seems to be that the notable subject is the child of notable person, a sportsman, actor, etc. The headnote excludes politicians (but why?). "Celebrity" is too broad to provide a meaningful category, but it might be possible to draw together (separately) members of acting dynasties, sporting dynasties, etc.
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Category:Syndicalist women
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Nominator's rationale:Upmerge to
Category:Syndicalists per
WP:OC#ARBITRARY. While I'm generally in favour of occupations by women categories where relevant, being a syndicalist is not an "occupation." Furthermore, an inspection of sibling categories in the parent
Category:People by political orientation reveals that in much larger category trees for Communists, Fascists, Socialists, etc., no women categories exist. I can't see a reason to make an exception for this tiny category.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 16:05, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment I'd expected when looking at the category to find the likes of
Milly Witkop or perhaps
Federica Montseny, but the sole article in the category,
Nicole Notat, doesn't appear to be a syndicalist in the sense of
Category:Syndicalists and the
Syndicalism article - just another trade union leader now a CEO? So moving her out the category seems reasonable, and can leave it null and void.
AllyD (
talk) 22:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Perhaps, one can change the personalities. Notat is not only a CEO, is an institucional politician. And a similar category exists in the French Wikipedia. In any case, it is important know there are also females in this fields. So, I am going to outcategorinzing Notat and include the proposed by you. In which category include the trade union female leaders?. Regards --
Nopetro (
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Category:Fishing bans
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 17:44, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. The articles and categories herein are not about fishing bans. It simply groups some oil spills which have necessitated halts to fishing operations, and an article on the NOAA itself. Fishing is more likely to be "banned" in areas due to declining stocks, but I am not aware of any articles on such bans. Unless bona fide articles on fishing bans exist, this category only serves to further muddy the waters.
Shawn in Montreal (
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Delete – it is ridiculous to categorise
Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a 'Fishing ban'. It would have to be something like 'Incidents leading to fishing bans'. Might as well categorise a volcano as a 'Flight ban'. (I see the same creator is ahead of me - see
Category:Volcanic ash clouds for various non-clouds.)
Occuli (
talk) 01:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete for the reasons that Shawn in Montreal has ably explained. Nopetro appears to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose & function of categories.
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Category:Fiction by topic
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The result of the discussion was:keep. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: These seem to cover the same area, simply under different name. The dividing line between "in popular culture" and "in fiction" is blurry to say the least. A merge would consolidate this area, avoid duplication, and aid navigation.
Fences&Windows 15:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
You might think, but lots of the popular culture items include fiction, and in reality these categories and their contents differ in name only (depending on whether the article/category creator chose "in fiction" or "in popular culture"), which is not a useful distinguishing feature.
Fences&Windows 20:11, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Popular culture includes movies, TV shows, and so. Fiction only includes books that are fictional. It's a useful category.
Truthkeeper88 (
talk) 21:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Quite right, fiction does not exclude fiction not written in dead-tree novels. Films, TV and comics are all 'fiction'. You'll notice that there are few topics and categories for which there is both an "in popular culture" and "in fiction" entry, showing how they are redundant to each other.
Fences&Windows 15:30, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Fiction is clear as above - what on earth is popular culture. That is the one that is not clear. Should we have measures of what create popularity! ::
Kevinalewis :
(Talk Page)/
(Desk) 15:14, 25 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose --Fiction is precise. Popular culture is imprecise. When I first edited in WP, many articles had a "popular culture" section, in which editors collected trivial literary, film, political and other allusions to the subject. These were essentially dumping grounds for trivial (non-encylopaedic) trash, and were long ago (and rightly) deleted wholesale. We should not give occasion for any such additions to be made in furture.
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Category:Science fiction concepts
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Nominator's rationale: This category seems redundant to the larger category,
Category:Science fiction themes, so only serves to clutter up category space. It could be merged in, included all its non-redundant content and categories. If necessary, the target could be renamed to
Category:Science fiction themes and concepts, but I doubt that's needed.
Fences&Windows 15:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose concepts like faster-than-light travel clearly is not a theme, while dystopian worlds controlled by robots is more theme.
70.29.210.155 (
talk) 04:37, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
The categories can be merged to aid navigation and avoid duplication. Why do you actually want them separate?
Fences&Windows 20:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support especially since the main article on "themes" is in the "concepts" category.
Mangoe (
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Baseball players by state
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The result of the discussion was:rename all. As an administrative note, I will release these to the bot slowly over the next few days.
Bradjamesbrown (
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Rename per nom. This change will allow these categories pick up the non-MLB players (
Negro league baseball players and
minor league players who never appeared in the major leagues). These non-MLB groups are too small to justify separate categorization by state.
BRMo (
talk) 13:29, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Question -- why not create Category:Baseball players from state with Category:Major League Baseball players from state as a subcategory and leave the non-MLB players in the parent category? With this schema there is a loss of information.
older ≠
wiser 14:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Playing in Major League Baseball and being from a particular state is a non-notable intersection of unrelated facts. Does being from state X have anything to do with the fact that they played in one particular professional baseball league? By simply sorting them by state and not by state and professional league, we end the possibility of dramatic over-sorting, I.E.
Category:American Association players from Texas or
Category:National Football League players from Texas.--
TM 15:46, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support per nom and BRMo. This does create a possibility to add these categories to non-MLB players. The idea to have this be a parent category for MLB players is also a good idea. Right now, the only parent category is "Sportspeople." --
Brian Halvorsen (
talk) 05:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support as well. The standard format for alike cats is not to differentiate by league
Mayumashu (
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Support standard is to not differentiate based on league. -
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Category:Wikipedia topic guidelines
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The result of the discussion was:delete. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Did you move the entries into the other category? It's good to alert people to recent changes so they can make an informed decision. That said, I'm fine with this.
Fences&Windows 18:30, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Yes, any page that had {{Subcat guideline}} with the parameter "Topic guideline" had that template removed by Gnevin and replaced with the above-mentioned category. Going by the edit history, the following pages had their categories changed:
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Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific Theater
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Nominator's rationale:UpMerge. Up merge to the sole parent's parent since the parent is already nominated for up merging. By creating these subcategories it creates the impression that the other subcategories in the parent are not in the Pacific theater. Another option would be to create
Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater but I'm not convinced about the utility of that particular category. I do hope this is the end of nominations in this area for a while, but the deeper you dig, the more problems.
Vegaswikian (
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The result of the discussion was:rename. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Caps, to match main article. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 23:05, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Medical fiction
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Nominator's rationale: I've just created and populated
Category:Medicine and health in fiction, and I've just found this almost empty and abandoned category, which really falls into the same area.
Fences&Windows 19:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep I would say fiction about health is distinct from medical thrillers, etc. Medical experimentation, medical lawsuits, angels of mercy, etc have little to do with health (other than dying); while immortality, TB, AIDS fiction have less to do with medical than health.
70.29.210.155 (
talk) 04:35, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
It's practically empty, and is subsumed into the new category. What's the point of keeping it? Your distinction between medical fiction and health fiction is not as good as distinction as you suggest.
Fences&Windows 20:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
I think it is rather distinct, and as for not being populated, that's because it needs populating.
70.29.210.155 (
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Category:Health and fitness
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Nominator's rationale: Seems redundant to other categories like
Category:Health,
Category:Exercise, etc. Seems to only exist for the purposes of a portal, but it's not being used and isn't necessary - probably as it's so vague what the category is meant for.
Fences&Windows 18:25, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Doesn't stop the category being vague and worthy of deletion, does it?
Fences&Windows 20:04, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Critically endangered species risks
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 17:42, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Similar to some of the creator's other categories on this CfD page, this category makes an
WP:OC#ARBITRARY argument that Gulf of Mexico oil spills are risks for "critically endangered species." My reply: once a species has reached the stage where it is groupable under
Category:Critically endangered species, there are no end of risks to the species' continued survival, oil spills just being one of a myriad. Let me just add that if my CfDs of
User:Nopetro's categories seem like piling on,
User:Cgingold has already raised these issues
here, to no avail. So CfDs would seem to be the next logical step.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 16:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete. Totally arbitary. Might as well add
Human and
Asteroid to the category.
Fences&Windows 18:27, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
On that note, his
Category:Deepwater Horizon oil spill has only one valid article, on the spill itself. The other three category contents are: an article on the Deepwater Horizon platform, one on the oil field on which it sits, and a kind of turtle. If no one nominates this one, I will. This editor seems to feel that categories can be used to create associations between things. Hopefully the comments at these CfDs and Cgingold's advice to him will act as a guide for future category creation.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 01:22, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
On second thought, I for one will leave
Category:Deepwater Horizon oil spill to see how this growing disaster will play out. I think there's a likelihood we'll have more articles related to the spill before it's over -- if it ever is.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 11:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Really, is a social and politic disruption. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24moratorium.html?hp . Of course, some people than before of the disaster was not worried (about externality in all the senses), now is very worried about the public opinion and because must/have to work in other energy field. --
Nopetro (
talk) 10:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete for the reasons that Shawn in Montreal has ably explained. Nopetro appears to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose & function of categories.
Cgingold (
talk) 00:18, 26 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Category:Celebrity offspring
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 17:43, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Just created, no apparent usefulness. No well-defined inclusion criteria; neither "celebrity" nor "famous people" is much better than a subjective term. Fundamentally indiscriminate, not falling under any of the recognized standards for appropriate categories.
Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (
talk) 16:13, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support - category is way too vague and not very useful. --
Logical Fuzz (
talk) 16:23, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete - This is a specious category based on vague criteria that singles out inclusion in an arbitrary grouping. Adds no substantive value to the articles upon which it is placed. That these individuals are celebrity offspring is well covered in each article already.
Wildhartlivie (
talk) 03:19, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete per all of the above comments. Royalbroil 03:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Can we consider renaming? It's poorly named but the idea is clear enough.
Mangoe (
talk) 16:25, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete as
WP:OCAT; not, in and of itself, a defining characteristic that links the categorized (afflicted?) individuals in any genuinely meaningful way.
Bearcat (
talk) 04:36, 25 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete -- notability is not inherited. The children of celebrities are NN, unless notable in theri own right, so should not have a category. The concept seems to be that the notable subject is the child of notable person, a sportsman, actor, etc. The headnote excludes politicians (but why?). "Celebrity" is too broad to provide a meaningful category, but it might be possible to draw together (separately) members of acting dynasties, sporting dynasties, etc.
Peterkingiron (
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Category:Syndicalist women
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Nominator's rationale:Upmerge to
Category:Syndicalists per
WP:OC#ARBITRARY. While I'm generally in favour of occupations by women categories where relevant, being a syndicalist is not an "occupation." Furthermore, an inspection of sibling categories in the parent
Category:People by political orientation reveals that in much larger category trees for Communists, Fascists, Socialists, etc., no women categories exist. I can't see a reason to make an exception for this tiny category.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 16:05, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment I'd expected when looking at the category to find the likes of
Milly Witkop or perhaps
Federica Montseny, but the sole article in the category,
Nicole Notat, doesn't appear to be a syndicalist in the sense of
Category:Syndicalists and the
Syndicalism article - just another trade union leader now a CEO? So moving her out the category seems reasonable, and can leave it null and void.
AllyD (
talk) 22:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Perhaps, one can change the personalities. Notat is not only a CEO, is an institucional politician. And a similar category exists in the French Wikipedia. In any case, it is important know there are also females in this fields. So, I am going to outcategorinzing Notat and include the proposed by you. In which category include the trade union female leaders?. Regards --
Nopetro (
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Category:Fishing bans
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 17:44, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. The articles and categories herein are not about fishing bans. It simply groups some oil spills which have necessitated halts to fishing operations, and an article on the NOAA itself. Fishing is more likely to be "banned" in areas due to declining stocks, but I am not aware of any articles on such bans. Unless bona fide articles on fishing bans exist, this category only serves to further muddy the waters.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 15:58, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete – it is ridiculous to categorise
Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a 'Fishing ban'. It would have to be something like 'Incidents leading to fishing bans'. Might as well categorise a volcano as a 'Flight ban'. (I see the same creator is ahead of me - see
Category:Volcanic ash clouds for various non-clouds.)
Occuli (
talk) 01:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete for the reasons that Shawn in Montreal has ably explained. Nopetro appears to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose & function of categories.
Cgingold (
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Category:Fiction by topic
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The result of the discussion was:keep. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: These seem to cover the same area, simply under different name. The dividing line between "in popular culture" and "in fiction" is blurry to say the least. A merge would consolidate this area, avoid duplication, and aid navigation.
Fences&Windows 15:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
You might think, but lots of the popular culture items include fiction, and in reality these categories and their contents differ in name only (depending on whether the article/category creator chose "in fiction" or "in popular culture"), which is not a useful distinguishing feature.
Fences&Windows 20:11, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Popular culture includes movies, TV shows, and so. Fiction only includes books that are fictional. It's a useful category.
Truthkeeper88 (
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Quite right, fiction does not exclude fiction not written in dead-tree novels. Films, TV and comics are all 'fiction'. You'll notice that there are few topics and categories for which there is both an "in popular culture" and "in fiction" entry, showing how they are redundant to each other.
Fences&Windows 15:30, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Fiction is clear as above - what on earth is popular culture. That is the one that is not clear. Should we have measures of what create popularity! ::
Kevinalewis :
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Oppose --Fiction is precise. Popular culture is imprecise. When I first edited in WP, many articles had a "popular culture" section, in which editors collected trivial literary, film, political and other allusions to the subject. These were essentially dumping grounds for trivial (non-encylopaedic) trash, and were long ago (and rightly) deleted wholesale. We should not give occasion for any such additions to be made in furture.
Peterkingiron (
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Category:Science fiction concepts
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Nominator's rationale: This category seems redundant to the larger category,
Category:Science fiction themes, so only serves to clutter up category space. It could be merged in, included all its non-redundant content and categories. If necessary, the target could be renamed to
Category:Science fiction themes and concepts, but I doubt that's needed.
Fences&Windows 15:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose concepts like faster-than-light travel clearly is not a theme, while dystopian worlds controlled by robots is more theme.
70.29.210.155 (
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The categories can be merged to aid navigation and avoid duplication. Why do you actually want them separate?
Fences&Windows 20:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support especially since the main article on "themes" is in the "concepts" category.
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Baseball players by state
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The result of the discussion was:rename all. As an administrative note, I will release these to the bot slowly over the next few days.
Bradjamesbrown (
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Rename per nom. This change will allow these categories pick up the non-MLB players (
Negro league baseball players and
minor league players who never appeared in the major leagues). These non-MLB groups are too small to justify separate categorization by state.
BRMo (
talk) 13:29, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Question -- why not create Category:Baseball players from state with Category:Major League Baseball players from state as a subcategory and leave the non-MLB players in the parent category? With this schema there is a loss of information.
older ≠
wiser 14:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Playing in Major League Baseball and being from a particular state is a non-notable intersection of unrelated facts. Does being from state X have anything to do with the fact that they played in one particular professional baseball league? By simply sorting them by state and not by state and professional league, we end the possibility of dramatic over-sorting, I.E.
Category:American Association players from Texas or
Category:National Football League players from Texas.--
TM 15:46, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Support per nom and BRMo. This does create a possibility to add these categories to non-MLB players. The idea to have this be a parent category for MLB players is also a good idea. Right now, the only parent category is "Sportspeople." --
Brian Halvorsen (
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Support as well. The standard format for alike cats is not to differentiate by league
Mayumashu (
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Support standard is to not differentiate based on league. -
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Category:Wikipedia topic guidelines
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The result of the discussion was:delete. —
ξxplicit 20:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Did you move the entries into the other category? It's good to alert people to recent changes so they can make an informed decision. That said, I'm fine with this.
Fences&Windows 18:30, 22 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Yes, any page that had {{Subcat guideline}} with the parameter "Topic guideline" had that template removed by Gnevin and replaced with the above-mentioned category. Going by the edit history, the following pages had their categories changed:
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Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific Theater
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Nominator's rationale:UpMerge. Up merge to the sole parent's parent since the parent is already nominated for up merging. By creating these subcategories it creates the impression that the other subcategories in the parent are not in the Pacific theater. Another option would be to create
Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater but I'm not convinced about the utility of that particular category. I do hope this is the end of nominations in this area for a while, but the deeper you dig, the more problems.
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