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The result of the discussion was:No consensus. Some of the mythical entries have been removed since comments were made here, but an overall nomination of
Category:Royalty in the British Isles and the relevant subcategories may be better for handling some of the issues raised here.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 13:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support Its poorly populated anyway with at least one semi-mythical name. --
SnowdedTALK 19:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The fact that
British Isles is a geographic term is not relevant. This category is up for deletion simply because some editors object to the term "British Isles" and work to remove it from Wikipedia. If "Britain and Ireland" had been used you can bet it would not be proded.
LemonMonday Talk 20:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't see why breakdown by region is not possible. Though country categories should exist underneath this region category. Or possibly upmerge into a
Category:Queens regnant in Europe as a better larger category to collect countries into.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 21:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep – part of
Category:Royalty in the British Isles. And nominators really ought to think more carefully before saying 'delete' when they mean (I hope) upmerge. And it is not poorly populated either unless one fails to notice 2 substantial subcats.
Occuli (
talk) 21:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support Utter trivial. Breaches
WP:OVERCAT in terms of location and probably just
WP:OVERCAT period as in the case of Liz she already have over 130 categories. It uses a geographic term in a political situation which can confuse the reader and the nail in the coffin for me is that the term British Isles remains
controversial.
Bjmullan (
talk) 23:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Must oppose this proposal as it stands - there needs to be a proper rethink of the category system that includes
Category:Royalty in the British Isles and
Category:Monarchs in the British Isles - as long as we have those (and
Category:Queens regnant), then this forms a natural intersection. The arguments about British Isles being a geographical term and "controversial" carry no weight with me, though if someone can come up with a neater overall arrangement, I'd have no objection. (Perhaps we shouldn't really be categorizing reigning Queens separately from Kings at all - we don't normally split categories up by sex, do we?) --
Kotniski (
talk) 07:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
These categories have long been accepted (see the archives somewhere) - after all they are not separating by gender but by job - there are no male queens or female kings.
Johnbod (
talk) 17:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
But the job is the same - only the name is different, like actor/actress, and we don't have a separate
Category:Actresses. Of course the job (position) of queen consort is different, so certainly we should have a category for those, but I don't see much reason to keep the reigning queens separate from the kings. (Though I suspect this is off topic for this proposal.) --
Kotniski (
talk) 17:15, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Those who keep insisting that the term British Isles is "purely geographical" (which it isn't, anyway - it's also culturual, for example) seem to have forgotten that
geography includes human geography, and this encompasses the study of how humans organise themselves into societies and states. ðarkuncoll 09:02, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support - I see little value in it, particularly with the addition of mythical characters such as Cordelia.
Deb (
talk) 12:49, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per opposers. Nom probably motived by political POV. Historians (increasingly) take the British Isles as a unit all the time.
Johnbod (
talk) 14:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Trust me, I'm not motivated by political PoV. I've no sympathy for those who object to the term British Isles, because they believe it offends the Irish.
GoodDay (
talk) 15:58, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Ok, fair enough, but especially in remoter periods, the British Isles are not just a geographical unit but a cultural one too, & there is nothing wrong with such categories.
Johnbod (
talk) 17:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per rationale of user Kotniski. There are many intersections that justify it remaining. There may well be a case for abolishing categorisation by British Isles altogether. But the case is not made here; that is not the rationale advanced. Until such a cogent, enbracing proposal comes forward, this, and others like it, should remain.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 23:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
On a point of order, there is no such thing as the "British Isles naming dispute". The fact there's an article about it doesn't mean it exists in the real world.
LemonMonday Talk 20:07, 6 March 2011 (UTC)reply
"British Isles" carries historical and political overtones. It implicitly asserts that Ireland and other places are British. Avoidance of the term suggests assertion or acquiescence of the opposite. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 21:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC)reply
If the only objection to the existence of these categories is the fact that they contain the phrase "British Isles", then perhaps it's enough to rename them rather than to restructure them? Or to split them into separate categories for British and Irish (assuming there are some specifically Irish rulers in there somewhere)? I guess the reason they're called British Isles is that many of the British monarchs were also monarchs of Ireland (or of a United Kingdom that included all or part of Ireland), so the name is actually intended to be inclusive of Ireland, not to assert dominance over it.--
Kotniski (
talk) 10:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
The problem with renaming is that it panders to the political POV of those who wish to remove the term from Wikipedia. The fact is that it's the only term that describes the entire group of islands, and is the most common and widely understood term. And nor does it imply political control, either, since it dates back to Ancient Greek times. It is perfectly normal practice to name a group of islands after its largest island - indeed, in this case, the island appears to have taken its name from the group, rather than the other way round (and, much later, the British state took its name from the island). ðarkuncoll 11:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
If there were any alternative with any common usage we would not be here, but
Category:Queens regnant in the Northern Archipelago doesn't work. If the Irish lived in Canada we'd be having these discussions about "North American" categories.
Johnbod (
talk) 11:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
"IONA" doesn't work either, since that's rather shortsighted and parochial, as if the entire North Atlantic were composed of Great Britain and Ireland. (as if Iceland weren't an island, or in the North Atlantic... or Martha's Vineyard, or Bermuda...)
65.93.14.50 (
talk) 04:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Let's not pretend the problem is harder than it is; "Britain and Ireland" is a perfectly good (though some would say less neat) alternative to "British Isles" in this context.--
Kotniski (
talk) 10:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
That term is misleading, because it excludes the Isle of Man and all the other smaller islands. In fact, there is no problem with terminology here. The only problem is that of disruptive, politically motivated editors. ðarkuncoll 12:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Strongly oppose deleting - This is a very valid category and there is no need for it to be removed considering how much shared history within these islands (including the Isle of Man) there is regarding monarchy. I see the crusades are still ongoing to try and rid wikipedia of the British Isles. Im trying to avoid it entirely but i could not help but notice this one. sigh
BritishWatcher (
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Category:KLF articles by quality
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Nominator's rationale: Duplicate categories. The nominated category is populated by subcategories which are empty. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 19:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Redirects by WikiProject
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The result of the discussion was:Merge and clean up subsequently.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Despite the claimed difference in scope, both categories contain subcategories of redirects about various topics, such as anime and manga, comics, geography, Middle-earth and philosophy. In addition, there is no need for a new system of categorizing redirects by WikiProject, since this can be accomplished by specifying the "class=Redirect" in the WikiProject banner (on the talk pages of redirects) and already is utilized by many WikiProjects (see
Category:Redirect-Class articles). -- Black Falcon(
talk) 18:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete WikiProject redirects. That should be done via the WikiProject Banner redirect-class. As WikiProject redirect classifications are not necessarily by topic, they should not be merged together, since the wikiproject classed redirects may be peripherally related, and thus not appropriate for a topical based heirarchy.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 21:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
You are correct that the overlap is not perfect, but that can be cleaned up after the merge. Deleting the category without merging will remove some of the categories from
Category:Wikipedia redirects. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 18:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Shouldn't that be a manual recategorization then, instead of a heirarchy merge?
65.93.14.50 (
talk) 04:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Some manual recategorization and rescoping of subcategories will be needed; in order to start it, however, we would need to discontinue this particular method of categorizing redirects by WikiProject. Merging will result in a category like
Category:Film Project redirects becoming a subcategory of redirects by topic, which is not accurate, but I plan to nominate it soon after
Category:Redirects by WikiProject is gone. In essence, merging is just a way to keep all of the subcategories together so that subsequent clean-up will be easier. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 18:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Mutualism
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Oppose.Mutualism (movement) only became a "main article" contender when the creator of the article removed the
Category:Mutualism tags from
Mutualism (economic theory) and rewrote the category page. There seems to be a single editor [maybe a couple of editors now] intent on creating a historically shaky distinction between the cooperative movement and the forms of mutualism associated with anarchism.
Libertatia (
talk) 21:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
It's unclear to me what problem a split would solve. The
Mutualism (movement) article was created to distinguish a "politically neutral movement" from the "anarchist school of thought" covered in the
Mutualism (economic theory) article. There is undoubtedly a need for an article that treats mutualism more broadly. Unfortunately, the "politically neutral movement," if such a thing really exists, doesn't seem to answer that need any better than the article focused on anarchism. But the current disambiguation at
Mutualism at least ended the edit wars without quite creating a POV-fork. There is no question that some adjustment is needed on the
Category:Mutualism page, since it is currently trying to be both a top-level category page, including
Category:Mutualism (biology) and the various articles relating to mutuals. It would be consistent with the current scheme to spin off subcategories for
Category:Mutualism (movement) and
Category:Mutualism (economic theory), without renaming the page. My concern is that, should we actually be able to move forward with the development of a more comprehensive treatment of mutualism, we're going to end up categorizing identical organizations in different categories, based on whether or not they were started by anarchists, etc.
Libertatia (
talk)
I nominated this category to disambiguate the movement and theory from the term used in biology, and this is what a split/rename would solve.
Mutualism (biology) and
Category:Mutualism (biology) should not be a part of
Category:Mutualism, but
Mutualism (economic theory) should; I only left them as is to avoid skewing the nomination in "my" favor. There is no need for a category containing all of them.
How I think about this is like you mentioned, that:
not all mutualism is anarchistic, and
the anarchist school of thought is a subset of the broader movement.
Given these two premises there are no other options than renaming the category or spliting it since we need to disambiguate the society-related subjects from the biology-relates ones. Currently this is the way that the main articles are organized, and the category/categories should reflect this. Keeping it undisambiguated in not an option in my opinion.
jonkerz♠ 00:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Splitting off the biological term makes perfect sense. I'm open to suggestions about what to call the category for anarchist mutualism and the various mutuals, but for a variety of practical reasons would hate to see anarchist mutualism (which is indeed a subset of the larger mutualism) continue to be separated. (Like you, I've put off restoring the category tag on
Mutualism (economic theory) and a couple of other pages until this is resolved.)
Libertatia (
talk)
Sounds good. I think the easiest way to close this discussion is as a split/rename using the current main article names as category names, and then start a move request on the articles you would like to see moved. (The categories will then be speedily renamed to match the main articles.) I hope that is fair for all editors involved.
jonkerz♠ 22:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Probably split per above on first look. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 13:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment I suggested a rename and not a split because there might be too few articles to populate
Category:Mutualism (economic theory), but both would be fine. Given a split, feel free to ask for help if needed.
jonkerz♠ 22:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Greek architecture
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Nominator's rationale - Greek architecture is a collection of various architectural points that can be done by non-Greeks anywhere or Greeks far from Greece. As a sub-category of architecture by contry this article should emphazie its country connection, and clearly state we are talking about Greece and not Greek in some other sense.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 11:09, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. That's called "Classical architecture," not "Greek architecture." If you want to make it clearer, I suggest adding a header.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:57, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Those of us who realize that both thought and artistic creation occured world wide befroe the European invasion have to reject such a narrow and parochial use of the term classical.
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Category:Nigerian television series
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Nominator's rational Nigerian is unclear whether it referes to
Nigeria or
Niger, so we should chose forms that make it 100% clear which of these countries is being referred to.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 09:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The demonym for Niger is "Nigerien," not "Nigerian."--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:48, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Mike. Niger uses the French-ified "Nigerien", which is typically pronounced quite differently from "Nigerian", even if they differ by only one letter.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 20:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Mike Selinker.
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Category:Chinese Game Shows
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The result of the discussion was:Keep. If the overall category tree is considered in future don't regard this CFD as a binding precedent.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's Rational as a sub-category of
Category:game shows by country this category should clearly indicate 1 country, however it currently could easily also include Game Shows made in Taiwan, and conceivably game shows made in the Chinese language in say Singapore, so it should be re-named for more precision.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 09:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. This entire category tree uses "Chinese" to mean "PRC." If we want to change that, starting with a game shows category does not seem like a good plan.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:57, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support definitely ambiguous with two Chinas, and that these could be Chinese language game shows from outside of either China.
65.95.15.144 (
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Category:Hartt College of Music alumni
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Nominator's rational These are the same institution. The later is the name of the article on this institution.
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Category:Georgian awards
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Category:Liberian foreign ministers
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The result of the discussion was:Rename per nom.
Category:Foreign ministers is highly mixed on capitalising "ministers" and this issue is best dealt with in a wider nomination
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Category:Officer Education System
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The result of the discussion was:Convert to article.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Convert. It looks like article text created in category space, so the extended text should be moved to article space. I'm not sure if the category should be retained as well to hold what it currently holds, but that is an option.
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Limerick
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:36, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support "Limmerick" is not the city. I'm surprised the poetry form is not the primary article, it seems very odd.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 05:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Question Some of the category pages indicate that they relate to the city, not the county or anything else. Is that insufficient in some way? Are the categories being misused?--
A bit iffy (
talk) 19:40, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Category names are suppose to be unambiguous.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 08:36, 4 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Same needs to be done for the Waterford city and Galway city categories.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 23:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was:No consensus. Some of the mythical entries have been removed since comments were made here, but an overall nomination of
Category:Royalty in the British Isles and the relevant subcategories may be better for handling some of the issues raised here.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 13:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support Its poorly populated anyway with at least one semi-mythical name. --
SnowdedTALK 19:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The fact that
British Isles is a geographic term is not relevant. This category is up for deletion simply because some editors object to the term "British Isles" and work to remove it from Wikipedia. If "Britain and Ireland" had been used you can bet it would not be proded.
LemonMonday Talk 20:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't see why breakdown by region is not possible. Though country categories should exist underneath this region category. Or possibly upmerge into a
Category:Queens regnant in Europe as a better larger category to collect countries into.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 21:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep – part of
Category:Royalty in the British Isles. And nominators really ought to think more carefully before saying 'delete' when they mean (I hope) upmerge. And it is not poorly populated either unless one fails to notice 2 substantial subcats.
Occuli (
talk) 21:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support Utter trivial. Breaches
WP:OVERCAT in terms of location and probably just
WP:OVERCAT period as in the case of Liz she already have over 130 categories. It uses a geographic term in a political situation which can confuse the reader and the nail in the coffin for me is that the term British Isles remains
controversial.
Bjmullan (
talk) 23:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Must oppose this proposal as it stands - there needs to be a proper rethink of the category system that includes
Category:Royalty in the British Isles and
Category:Monarchs in the British Isles - as long as we have those (and
Category:Queens regnant), then this forms a natural intersection. The arguments about British Isles being a geographical term and "controversial" carry no weight with me, though if someone can come up with a neater overall arrangement, I'd have no objection. (Perhaps we shouldn't really be categorizing reigning Queens separately from Kings at all - we don't normally split categories up by sex, do we?) --
Kotniski (
talk) 07:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
These categories have long been accepted (see the archives somewhere) - after all they are not separating by gender but by job - there are no male queens or female kings.
Johnbod (
talk) 17:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
But the job is the same - only the name is different, like actor/actress, and we don't have a separate
Category:Actresses. Of course the job (position) of queen consort is different, so certainly we should have a category for those, but I don't see much reason to keep the reigning queens separate from the kings. (Though I suspect this is off topic for this proposal.) --
Kotniski (
talk) 17:15, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Those who keep insisting that the term British Isles is "purely geographical" (which it isn't, anyway - it's also culturual, for example) seem to have forgotten that
geography includes human geography, and this encompasses the study of how humans organise themselves into societies and states. ðarkuncoll 09:02, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support - I see little value in it, particularly with the addition of mythical characters such as Cordelia.
Deb (
talk) 12:49, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per opposers. Nom probably motived by political POV. Historians (increasingly) take the British Isles as a unit all the time.
Johnbod (
talk) 14:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Trust me, I'm not motivated by political PoV. I've no sympathy for those who object to the term British Isles, because they believe it offends the Irish.
GoodDay (
talk) 15:58, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Ok, fair enough, but especially in remoter periods, the British Isles are not just a geographical unit but a cultural one too, & there is nothing wrong with such categories.
Johnbod (
talk) 17:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per rationale of user Kotniski. There are many intersections that justify it remaining. There may well be a case for abolishing categorisation by British Isles altogether. But the case is not made here; that is not the rationale advanced. Until such a cogent, enbracing proposal comes forward, this, and others like it, should remain.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 23:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
On a point of order, there is no such thing as the "British Isles naming dispute". The fact there's an article about it doesn't mean it exists in the real world.
LemonMonday Talk 20:07, 6 March 2011 (UTC)reply
"British Isles" carries historical and political overtones. It implicitly asserts that Ireland and other places are British. Avoidance of the term suggests assertion or acquiescence of the opposite. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 21:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC)reply
If the only objection to the existence of these categories is the fact that they contain the phrase "British Isles", then perhaps it's enough to rename them rather than to restructure them? Or to split them into separate categories for British and Irish (assuming there are some specifically Irish rulers in there somewhere)? I guess the reason they're called British Isles is that many of the British monarchs were also monarchs of Ireland (or of a United Kingdom that included all or part of Ireland), so the name is actually intended to be inclusive of Ireland, not to assert dominance over it.--
Kotniski (
talk) 10:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
The problem with renaming is that it panders to the political POV of those who wish to remove the term from Wikipedia. The fact is that it's the only term that describes the entire group of islands, and is the most common and widely understood term. And nor does it imply political control, either, since it dates back to Ancient Greek times. It is perfectly normal practice to name a group of islands after its largest island - indeed, in this case, the island appears to have taken its name from the group, rather than the other way round (and, much later, the British state took its name from the island). ðarkuncoll 11:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
If there were any alternative with any common usage we would not be here, but
Category:Queens regnant in the Northern Archipelago doesn't work. If the Irish lived in Canada we'd be having these discussions about "North American" categories.
Johnbod (
talk) 11:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
"IONA" doesn't work either, since that's rather shortsighted and parochial, as if the entire North Atlantic were composed of Great Britain and Ireland. (as if Iceland weren't an island, or in the North Atlantic... or Martha's Vineyard, or Bermuda...)
65.93.14.50 (
talk) 04:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Let's not pretend the problem is harder than it is; "Britain and Ireland" is a perfectly good (though some would say less neat) alternative to "British Isles" in this context.--
Kotniski (
talk) 10:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
That term is misleading, because it excludes the Isle of Man and all the other smaller islands. In fact, there is no problem with terminology here. The only problem is that of disruptive, politically motivated editors. ðarkuncoll 12:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Strongly oppose deleting - This is a very valid category and there is no need for it to be removed considering how much shared history within these islands (including the Isle of Man) there is regarding monarchy. I see the crusades are still ongoing to try and rid wikipedia of the British Isles. Im trying to avoid it entirely but i could not help but notice this one. sigh
BritishWatcher (
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Category:KLF articles by quality
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Nominator's rationale: Duplicate categories. The nominated category is populated by subcategories which are empty. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 19:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Redirects by WikiProject
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The result of the discussion was:Merge and clean up subsequently.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Despite the claimed difference in scope, both categories contain subcategories of redirects about various topics, such as anime and manga, comics, geography, Middle-earth and philosophy. In addition, there is no need for a new system of categorizing redirects by WikiProject, since this can be accomplished by specifying the "class=Redirect" in the WikiProject banner (on the talk pages of redirects) and already is utilized by many WikiProjects (see
Category:Redirect-Class articles). -- Black Falcon(
talk) 18:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete WikiProject redirects. That should be done via the WikiProject Banner redirect-class. As WikiProject redirect classifications are not necessarily by topic, they should not be merged together, since the wikiproject classed redirects may be peripherally related, and thus not appropriate for a topical based heirarchy.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 21:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
You are correct that the overlap is not perfect, but that can be cleaned up after the merge. Deleting the category without merging will remove some of the categories from
Category:Wikipedia redirects. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 18:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Shouldn't that be a manual recategorization then, instead of a heirarchy merge?
65.93.14.50 (
talk) 04:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Some manual recategorization and rescoping of subcategories will be needed; in order to start it, however, we would need to discontinue this particular method of categorizing redirects by WikiProject. Merging will result in a category like
Category:Film Project redirects becoming a subcategory of redirects by topic, which is not accurate, but I plan to nominate it soon after
Category:Redirects by WikiProject is gone. In essence, merging is just a way to keep all of the subcategories together so that subsequent clean-up will be easier. -- Black Falcon(
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Category:Mutualism
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Oppose.Mutualism (movement) only became a "main article" contender when the creator of the article removed the
Category:Mutualism tags from
Mutualism (economic theory) and rewrote the category page. There seems to be a single editor [maybe a couple of editors now] intent on creating a historically shaky distinction between the cooperative movement and the forms of mutualism associated with anarchism.
Libertatia (
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It's unclear to me what problem a split would solve. The
Mutualism (movement) article was created to distinguish a "politically neutral movement" from the "anarchist school of thought" covered in the
Mutualism (economic theory) article. There is undoubtedly a need for an article that treats mutualism more broadly. Unfortunately, the "politically neutral movement," if such a thing really exists, doesn't seem to answer that need any better than the article focused on anarchism. But the current disambiguation at
Mutualism at least ended the edit wars without quite creating a POV-fork. There is no question that some adjustment is needed on the
Category:Mutualism page, since it is currently trying to be both a top-level category page, including
Category:Mutualism (biology) and the various articles relating to mutuals. It would be consistent with the current scheme to spin off subcategories for
Category:Mutualism (movement) and
Category:Mutualism (economic theory), without renaming the page. My concern is that, should we actually be able to move forward with the development of a more comprehensive treatment of mutualism, we're going to end up categorizing identical organizations in different categories, based on whether or not they were started by anarchists, etc.
Libertatia (
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I nominated this category to disambiguate the movement and theory from the term used in biology, and this is what a split/rename would solve.
Mutualism (biology) and
Category:Mutualism (biology) should not be a part of
Category:Mutualism, but
Mutualism (economic theory) should; I only left them as is to avoid skewing the nomination in "my" favor. There is no need for a category containing all of them.
How I think about this is like you mentioned, that:
not all mutualism is anarchistic, and
the anarchist school of thought is a subset of the broader movement.
Given these two premises there are no other options than renaming the category or spliting it since we need to disambiguate the society-related subjects from the biology-relates ones. Currently this is the way that the main articles are organized, and the category/categories should reflect this. Keeping it undisambiguated in not an option in my opinion.
jonkerz♠ 00:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Splitting off the biological term makes perfect sense. I'm open to suggestions about what to call the category for anarchist mutualism and the various mutuals, but for a variety of practical reasons would hate to see anarchist mutualism (which is indeed a subset of the larger mutualism) continue to be separated. (Like you, I've put off restoring the category tag on
Mutualism (economic theory) and a couple of other pages until this is resolved.)
Libertatia (
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Sounds good. I think the easiest way to close this discussion is as a split/rename using the current main article names as category names, and then start a move request on the articles you would like to see moved. (The categories will then be speedily renamed to match the main articles.) I hope that is fair for all editors involved.
jonkerz♠ 22:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Probably split per above on first look. --
SmokeyJoe (
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Comment I suggested a rename and not a split because there might be too few articles to populate
Category:Mutualism (economic theory), but both would be fine. Given a split, feel free to ask for help if needed.
jonkerz♠ 22:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Greek architecture
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Nominator's rationale - Greek architecture is a collection of various architectural points that can be done by non-Greeks anywhere or Greeks far from Greece. As a sub-category of architecture by contry this article should emphazie its country connection, and clearly state we are talking about Greece and not Greek in some other sense.
John Pack Lambert (
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Oppose. That's called "Classical architecture," not "Greek architecture." If you want to make it clearer, I suggest adding a header.--
Mike Selinker (
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Those of us who realize that both thought and artistic creation occured world wide befroe the European invasion have to reject such a narrow and parochial use of the term classical.
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Category:Nigerian television series
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Nominator's rational Nigerian is unclear whether it referes to
Nigeria or
Niger, so we should chose forms that make it 100% clear which of these countries is being referred to.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 09:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The demonym for Niger is "Nigerien," not "Nigerian."--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:48, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Mike. Niger uses the French-ified "Nigerien", which is typically pronounced quite differently from "Nigerian", even if they differ by only one letter.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 20:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Mike Selinker.
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Category:Chinese Game Shows
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The result of the discussion was:Keep. If the overall category tree is considered in future don't regard this CFD as a binding precedent.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's Rational as a sub-category of
Category:game shows by country this category should clearly indicate 1 country, however it currently could easily also include Game Shows made in Taiwan, and conceivably game shows made in the Chinese language in say Singapore, so it should be re-named for more precision.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 09:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. This entire category tree uses "Chinese" to mean "PRC." If we want to change that, starting with a game shows category does not seem like a good plan.--
Mike Selinker (
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Support definitely ambiguous with two Chinas, and that these could be Chinese language game shows from outside of either China.
65.95.15.144 (
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Category:Hartt College of Music alumni
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Nominator's rational These are the same institution. The later is the name of the article on this institution.
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Category:Georgian awards
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Category:Liberian foreign ministers
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The result of the discussion was:Rename per nom.
Category:Foreign ministers is highly mixed on capitalising "ministers" and this issue is best dealt with in a wider nomination
Timrollpickering (
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Category:Officer Education System
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The result of the discussion was:Convert to article.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 00:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Convert. It looks like article text created in category space, so the extended text should be moved to article space. I'm not sure if the category should be retained as well to hold what it currently holds, but that is an option.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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Limerick
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 14:36, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support "Limmerick" is not the city. I'm surprised the poetry form is not the primary article, it seems very odd.
65.95.15.144 (
talk) 05:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Question Some of the category pages indicate that they relate to the city, not the county or anything else. Is that insufficient in some way? Are the categories being misused?--
A bit iffy (
talk) 19:40, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Category names are suppose to be unambiguous.
Vegaswikian (
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Support per nom. Same needs to be done for the Waterford city and Galway city categories.
Laurel Lodged (
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