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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Per
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS, "articles directly related to the subject typically are already links in the eponymous article in question". That is the case here. There are only 4 albums and their covers. The albums themselves would already go in a well-established albums by artist category, thus no need for a redundant eponymous category.
Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (
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18:26, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep and recategorize the contents of
Category:Counterfit albums and
Category:Counterfit album covers back into
Category:Counterfit. This is completely useless subcategorization. The entire subject area of this band encompasses only 5 articles; there is no need for further subdivision. The albums cat isn't even used correctly: 2 of the releases in it are EPs, not albums. Are we really going to have subcats (albums & EPs) just to hold 2 articles each (the band broke up years ago & only ever released 2 albums & 2 EPs)? That makes no sense at all. Note that
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS also says "there are sometimes good reasons to have an eponymous category. Most examples are either collections of subarticles (see Wikipedia:Summary style), or collections of articles on a topic about the named person. Category:William Shakespeare and Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, (sub-categories of which were noted as examples above), are two such examples. Another example is Category:Alexander the Great, which includes subarticles as well as topic articles such as Alexander (film), Alexander Mosaic, Alexander Romance, Alexander in the Qur'an, Alexander the Great (1956 film), and Alexander the Great (song)." The overcategorization here lies in the creation of unnecessary subcats that will only ever contain 2 articles. See also the current discussion at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Category:Albums by artist. --
IllaZilla (
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08:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Those are hardly productive examples relative to this instance. Shakespeare has 15 subcats and 78 articles, Tolkien has 8 subcats and 40 articles, and Alexander the Great has 6 subcats and 96 articles. This band has 5 articles if you count its eponymous article. It's useless to have an eponymously named category that does not help identify the articles here (the 2 albums and 2 EPs) in the least. With so few articles, again I will take from
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS: "renaming the category to reflect the topic, rather than the person, is a good alternative to deletion". --
Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (
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09:08, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete – the articles should certainly not be reorganised back to an undefined top category. Any albums should be in an albums category. I shall head forthwith to the albums discussions and make the same point there.
Occuli (
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20:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
The top category is hardly "undefined": It says right at the top what the topic area is (articles relating to the band Counterfit). The albums are in albums categories: albums by year and by genre. However, it hardly makes sense to have a "by artist" album category in this case when the artist in question only released 2 albums and is no longer active. I have seen no logical argument for the utility of a "by artist" album category that would only ever contain 2 articles. Why do you think such a category is necessary? --
IllaZilla (
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21:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
And 'related' means what? This is exactly what I mean by 'undefined'. (Session musicians? Partners? Spin-off bands? Relatives?) It makes perfect sense to categorise an album by foo as an album by foo. We categorise articles by 'defining characteristics', and it is impossible to describe
Managing the Details of an Undertaking without saying it is an album by Counterfit: ergo 'Counterfit album' is defining. (It doesn't bother me at all to consider EPs as albums.) We have had endless debates about 'eponymous musician categories' and no-one has previously raised any objection to albums categories.
WP:SMALLCAT explicitly states "... unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme, such as subdividing songs in
Category:Songs by artist".
Occuli (
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12:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Exercise common sense, please: "Related" means articles about the band and their releases. Again, the whole point is that this was a short-lived act that only put out a small handful of releases, thus there are (and probably only ever will be) a small handful of articles about them & their releases. If there were a large number of articles about musicians, spin-off bands, yadda yadda yadda then this wouldn't be an issue to begin with: the whole point is that this is a tiny topic area that isn't ever going to get any larger. I never said it didn't make sense to categorize albums by foo as an album by foo, I said that it doesn't make sense to create an albums by foo category if will only ever contain 1 or 2 articles. It may not bother you to consider EPs albums, but it bothers the Albums project, hence why we have separate
Category:Albums by artist and
Category:EPs by artist. So if we are going to be pointlessly strict about "overall accepted sub-categorization schemes", we will have
Category:Counterfit albums and
Category:Counterfit EPs each of which will only ever contain 2 articles. What usefulness does that have to a reader? How does it help them to find or navigate between articles of the topic area "Counterfit"? --
IllaZilla (
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17:54, 24 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Category:EPs by artist is under the purview of
WP:ALBUMS, as is
Category:EPs by year. The albums project has recognized in past discussions that EPs are distinct from albums, as are singles. Hence the existence of 3 different categorization branches: albums/EPs/songs. If the Albums project wanted EPs categorized as albums, then they wouldn't be placing articles in
Category:EPs by artist and
Category:EPs by year. That we do have these separate category branches implies that EPs are to be categorized in EP categories, not in album categories. Just as your assertion that because
Category:Albums by artist has a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme", every album article must be placed in a Category:Foo albums to fit that scheme (even if it would be the only article ever to inhabit that category). By the same token,
Category:EPs by artist has a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" and EP articles should follow the same convention, yes? This, of course, meaning even more categories that will only ever contain 1 or 2 articles.
I don't see it as tangential. The root problem here is the instruction at
Category:Albums by artist that "all single-artist album articles should have subcategories here, even if it's the only album the artist has recorded." You've said that we must stick to that instruction, as it represents a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" (per
WP:SMALLCAT). I think it's stupid to require the creation of categories that will only ever contain a few articles. That's the central issue affecting this category, as well as
Category:The Hippos and other eponymous categories I created to group very small topic areas, rather than have them spread out across multiple cats/subcats. --
IllaZilla (
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19:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete. I would say there's not enough in this case to justify an eponymous category. I support having an albums category first. An eponymous category should only follow if there are several subcategories and articles that need grouping.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:WikiProject Inheritance Trilogy
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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject Inheritance Trilogy renamed sometime ago to WikiProject Inheritance Cycle (renaming of the book series). Recently got around to changing the WikiProjects banner to use new categories. This and related categories should be deleted as redundant. Other relevant pages which should also be considered for deletion:
User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Inheritance Trilogy.
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. I am unsure if this is an actually useful category or not, but I am sure that we shouldn't use "former" in a category.
TM11:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Support changing the category's name, but not to the suggested name.I created the category today and agree it should not have former in the title. Why not simply rename it
Category:U.S. congressional aides The suggested category name - Aides to United States Congress members sounds a bit awkward. In fact, I have never heard the term "United States Congress members" in my life.
KeptSouth (
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18:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
As for the nominator's questioning of whether this is a useful category - I of course strongly disagree and would like to say in support that
it is a career people often work several years at;
other Washington careers that can be short term such as lobbyist have their own categories
it is an interesting biographical fact as it often, but not always leads to a politics-related career;
looking at the other names in the category can be interesting because it can provide something of a picture of the career path many aides follow. --
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Don't merge. The "Catholics" tree is not redundant to the "Roman Catholics" tree, and in this case one subcategory plus 3 articles seems sufficient for a category for Catholics.
Good Ol’factory(talk)23:03, 25 April 2011 (UTC)reply
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Archaeology in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Lebanon
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Entries here are based on the date the building was built in. I see no reason to break out this by country. An upmerge would have been suggested, but it is better to add the articles to the appropriate completed by year category which I'm in the process of doing. Note:Completed adding other categories.
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00:17, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
I suspect that everything in those categories is there since they were built in a specific year, those categories will also need to be reviewed and nominated as appropriate based on the outcome of this discussion.
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Per
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS, "articles directly related to the subject typically are already links in the eponymous article in question". That is the case here. There are only 4 albums and their covers. The albums themselves would already go in a well-established albums by artist category, thus no need for a redundant eponymous category.
Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (
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18:26, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep and recategorize the contents of
Category:Counterfit albums and
Category:Counterfit album covers back into
Category:Counterfit. This is completely useless subcategorization. The entire subject area of this band encompasses only 5 articles; there is no need for further subdivision. The albums cat isn't even used correctly: 2 of the releases in it are EPs, not albums. Are we really going to have subcats (albums & EPs) just to hold 2 articles each (the band broke up years ago & only ever released 2 albums & 2 EPs)? That makes no sense at all. Note that
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS also says "there are sometimes good reasons to have an eponymous category. Most examples are either collections of subarticles (see Wikipedia:Summary style), or collections of articles on a topic about the named person. Category:William Shakespeare and Category:J. R. R. Tolkien, (sub-categories of which were noted as examples above), are two such examples. Another example is Category:Alexander the Great, which includes subarticles as well as topic articles such as Alexander (film), Alexander Mosaic, Alexander Romance, Alexander in the Qur'an, Alexander the Great (1956 film), and Alexander the Great (song)." The overcategorization here lies in the creation of unnecessary subcats that will only ever contain 2 articles. See also the current discussion at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Category:Albums by artist. --
IllaZilla (
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08:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Those are hardly productive examples relative to this instance. Shakespeare has 15 subcats and 78 articles, Tolkien has 8 subcats and 40 articles, and Alexander the Great has 6 subcats and 96 articles. This band has 5 articles if you count its eponymous article. It's useless to have an eponymously named category that does not help identify the articles here (the 2 albums and 2 EPs) in the least. With so few articles, again I will take from
WP:OC#EPONYMOUS: "renaming the category to reflect the topic, rather than the person, is a good alternative to deletion". --
Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (
talk)
09:08, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete – the articles should certainly not be reorganised back to an undefined top category. Any albums should be in an albums category. I shall head forthwith to the albums discussions and make the same point there.
Occuli (
talk)
20:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
The top category is hardly "undefined": It says right at the top what the topic area is (articles relating to the band Counterfit). The albums are in albums categories: albums by year and by genre. However, it hardly makes sense to have a "by artist" album category in this case when the artist in question only released 2 albums and is no longer active. I have seen no logical argument for the utility of a "by artist" album category that would only ever contain 2 articles. Why do you think such a category is necessary? --
IllaZilla (
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21:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)reply
And 'related' means what? This is exactly what I mean by 'undefined'. (Session musicians? Partners? Spin-off bands? Relatives?) It makes perfect sense to categorise an album by foo as an album by foo. We categorise articles by 'defining characteristics', and it is impossible to describe
Managing the Details of an Undertaking without saying it is an album by Counterfit: ergo 'Counterfit album' is defining. (It doesn't bother me at all to consider EPs as albums.) We have had endless debates about 'eponymous musician categories' and no-one has previously raised any objection to albums categories.
WP:SMALLCAT explicitly states "... unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme, such as subdividing songs in
Category:Songs by artist".
Occuli (
talk)
12:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Exercise common sense, please: "Related" means articles about the band and their releases. Again, the whole point is that this was a short-lived act that only put out a small handful of releases, thus there are (and probably only ever will be) a small handful of articles about them & their releases. If there were a large number of articles about musicians, spin-off bands, yadda yadda yadda then this wouldn't be an issue to begin with: the whole point is that this is a tiny topic area that isn't ever going to get any larger. I never said it didn't make sense to categorize albums by foo as an album by foo, I said that it doesn't make sense to create an albums by foo category if will only ever contain 1 or 2 articles. It may not bother you to consider EPs albums, but it bothers the Albums project, hence why we have separate
Category:Albums by artist and
Category:EPs by artist. So if we are going to be pointlessly strict about "overall accepted sub-categorization schemes", we will have
Category:Counterfit albums and
Category:Counterfit EPs each of which will only ever contain 2 articles. What usefulness does that have to a reader? How does it help them to find or navigate between articles of the topic area "Counterfit"? --
IllaZilla (
talk)
17:54, 24 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Category:EPs by artist is under the purview of
WP:ALBUMS, as is
Category:EPs by year. The albums project has recognized in past discussions that EPs are distinct from albums, as are singles. Hence the existence of 3 different categorization branches: albums/EPs/songs. If the Albums project wanted EPs categorized as albums, then they wouldn't be placing articles in
Category:EPs by artist and
Category:EPs by year. That we do have these separate category branches implies that EPs are to be categorized in EP categories, not in album categories. Just as your assertion that because
Category:Albums by artist has a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme", every album article must be placed in a Category:Foo albums to fit that scheme (even if it would be the only article ever to inhabit that category). By the same token,
Category:EPs by artist has a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" and EP articles should follow the same convention, yes? This, of course, meaning even more categories that will only ever contain 1 or 2 articles.
I don't see it as tangential. The root problem here is the instruction at
Category:Albums by artist that "all single-artist album articles should have subcategories here, even if it's the only album the artist has recorded." You've said that we must stick to that instruction, as it represents a "large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" (per
WP:SMALLCAT). I think it's stupid to require the creation of categories that will only ever contain a few articles. That's the central issue affecting this category, as well as
Category:The Hippos and other eponymous categories I created to group very small topic areas, rather than have them spread out across multiple cats/subcats. --
IllaZilla (
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19:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete. I would say there's not enough in this case to justify an eponymous category. I support having an albums category first. An eponymous category should only follow if there are several subcategories and articles that need grouping.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:WikiProject Inheritance Trilogy
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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject Inheritance Trilogy renamed sometime ago to WikiProject Inheritance Cycle (renaming of the book series). Recently got around to changing the WikiProjects banner to use new categories. This and related categories should be deleted as redundant. Other relevant pages which should also be considered for deletion:
User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Inheritance Trilogy.
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. I am unsure if this is an actually useful category or not, but I am sure that we shouldn't use "former" in a category.
TM11:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Support changing the category's name, but not to the suggested name.I created the category today and agree it should not have former in the title. Why not simply rename it
Category:U.S. congressional aides The suggested category name - Aides to United States Congress members sounds a bit awkward. In fact, I have never heard the term "United States Congress members" in my life.
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18:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
As for the nominator's questioning of whether this is a useful category - I of course strongly disagree and would like to say in support that
it is a career people often work several years at;
other Washington careers that can be short term such as lobbyist have their own categories
it is an interesting biographical fact as it often, but not always leads to a politics-related career;
looking at the other names in the category can be interesting because it can provide something of a picture of the career path many aides follow. --
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18:52, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
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Don't merge. The "Catholics" tree is not redundant to the "Roman Catholics" tree, and in this case one subcategory plus 3 articles seems sufficient for a category for Catholics.
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Entries here are based on the date the building was built in. I see no reason to break out this by country. An upmerge would have been suggested, but it is better to add the articles to the appropriate completed by year category which I'm in the process of doing. Note:Completed adding other categories.
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00:17, 17 April 2011 (UTC)reply
I suspect that everything in those categories is there since they were built in a specific year, those categories will also need to be reviewed and nominated as appropriate based on the outcome of this discussion.
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