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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject no longer exists (was made a task force of
WP:VG), and thus is deprecated.
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Hurricane seasons 1890-1949
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Nominator's rationale: These categories contain one summary article per season plus, on average, an article a season on specific storms. A few years also contain a category on a major storm. As with earlier years, it seems to me to make as much sense to group these by decade given that most yearly categories will contain only one or two articles; I made a separate group for these, however, as some people might feel these are populated enough to be broken out. Storm naming started in 1950, and from then on every year has at least five to ten articles; therefore this will be the last consolidation nomination made. See also
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 January 11#Category:1859 Atlantic hurricane season.
Mangoe (
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Support without prejustice to the 1900-1949 ones being re-broken-out again at a later date. Note that the 1940s ones do not appear to have been tagged. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 19:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
All categories should be tagged now.
Mangoe (
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Oppose 1930 and later. This portion of the tree is reasonably well populated at this time with more content to be added. Like
The Bushranger, any deletions here should not prevent the deletion of the 10 year categories and the recreation of the by year categories if and when there is sufficient material to support this.
Vegaswikian (
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The Count: To save some other people some time, 32, 33, 35, 41, 44, 49 each have 3-4 articles. The remainder in 1930-1949 have 1-2.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 01:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
To save anyone else the trouble, the totals by decade:
Mangoe (
talk) 10:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
1890-1899: 19 articles
1900-1909: 18 articles
1910-1919: 16 articles
1920-1929: 18 articles
1930-1939: 22 articles
1940-1949: 23 articles
Support delete with no objection to recreating later.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 01:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Support -- The limit of 1950 was introduced late into the 1859 discussion, which is the predent for this. A category with two dozen articles is not unduly large.
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Category:Old Birkdalians
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
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Nominator's rationale: Per the recent CfDs that renamed "Old Fooian" categories to the more logical,
clearer, and now-preferred "People educated at Foo" format, this one is proposed for renaming to the last mentioned format for the same reasons the others were renamed: clear, concise, understandable by all.
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename –
Birkdale School (in Sheffield) is a relatively recent public school and the term "Old Birkdalian" has not gained any great recognition, even in
Sheffield.
Oculi (
talk) 13:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom to the standard descriptive
Plain English format. The purpose of the category system is to facilitate navigation between articles by wikipedia's non-specialist readership, and category names should be constructed in a form that makes sense to a non-specialist. In this case, the "Old Birkdalians" term appears to have little or no currency outside the circles of those connected to the school, so there is no reason to diverge from the standard "people educated at foo" format. --
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Rename -- "old fooian" is common terminology for "people educated at foo", but with the excpetion of perhaps a dozen of the most famous public schools, the term is only common between fellow old fooians. I will oppose this if the precedent is carried too far, to Eton, Harrow, Marlborough. Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, Westminster and a few more major public schools. — Preceding
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Hurricane seasons 1860-1889
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Support - supported this at the CfD that spurred this, support it now, for the same reasons. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge as nom, according to precedent for 1859.
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Subcategories of Category:1850–1859 Atlantic hurricane seasons
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Support - supported this at the CfD that spurred this, support it now, for the same reasons. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
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Category:CDDL images
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Category:Cold War nuclear bunkers
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The result of the discussion was:merge.--
Mike Selinker (
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. A single entry TfT creation. While we can argue if there are more possible entries, are any of the candidate article about bunkers or facilities that have a bunker?
Vegaswikian (
talk) 03:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete The only member shouldn't be characterized as a bunker to begin with: it's a former Nike missile site of which a few foundations remain (at least judging from the Goggle map view), and the article should probably be deleted anyway given that it is just a long-winded version of data that ought to be in
List of Nike missile locations. The only "bunker" was the underground control room, but it wasn't built primarily for that purpose.
Mangoe (
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Merge as nom. If the sole member is not correctly categorised, it should be recategorised to somewhere appropriate.
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Category:Works about politicians by politician
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
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Delete I agree with the rationale provided by Shawn for the "about writer by writer" discussion. His point is just as valid for this category.
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Category:Animation-related websites
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The result of the discussion was:Rename and purge.
Timrollpickering (
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Nominator's rationale: Per
this discussion, I'm nominating this by itself. Consensus seemed to favor "Websites about animation" rather than "Animation websites," and while the majority of website categories are "(X) websites," the lack of clarity suggests renaming to the clearer form.--
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Category:India national cricket team selectors
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The result of the discussion was:Reverse merge.
Timrollpickering (
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Nominator's rationale:Merge It's clear that the two categories have the same intended scope. Either name would be fine but the main article is
Indian national cricket selectors and for what it's worth Google seems to indicate that "Indian national cricket selectors" is a more common phrase than "India national cricket team selectors".
Pichpich (
talk) 13:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)reply
DeleteCategory:Indian national cricket selectors. The correct title is India national cricket team selectors (and the article ought to be moved here). These are selectors for
India national cricket team and this follows the standard naming structure for all national team selectors. See the other cats at
Category:Cricket selectors, the structure was arrived at after discussion at
WT:CRIC, I can't seem to find the link now, but I'll post there to see if someone else can find it. Also, the newly created cat is wrong on a couple of fronts "Indian" (at least as far as sports team naming for WP purposes) does not define the "team" (everything is "India national", "Australia national", "West Indies.." -- no national here of course) and there's nothing to merge as it's a subset. —
SpacemanSpiff 05:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Agree with above India is the correct term, not Indian. They are India Test cricketers, not Indian. Lugnuts (
talk) 08:02, 25 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If the above discussion is correct, we should certainly reverse merge and the closing admin should also rename article to match per consensus above.
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Category:Cosmic background
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The result of the discussion was:Delete. No prejudice against revisiting this should an article be created as noted in the discussion below. - jc37 16:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete There's no such thing as a "cosmic background" and in fact
cosmic background is a disambiguation page. The articles of the category are only loosely associated through the use of the term "background".
Pichpich (
talk) 02:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- The category may be diffuse, but it is something appropriate to have as a category. The article is a dabpage because no one has produced an overview article on all wavelengths, etc. It would be useful if the present dabpage could be converted into a substantive article providing such an overview, with a short summary on each topic using the listed articles as "main" articles. Sorry, I am not qualified to write it.
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Category:Events
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The result of the discussion was:Keep; split out if necessary.
Timrollpickering (
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Nominator's rationale: Not sure if this is a rename or a delete or what. Clearly it needs a discussion.
Event is a wide ranging dab page leaving the intended purpose of this category totally ambiguous. While the simple answer is to delete this mess and the entire tree, that may not be the best approach. I suspect that splitting this out into unambiguous subcategories would be the best and maybe leaving this category with a hat note in addition to a parent category template. Clearly one subcategory would be
Category:Sporting events should be one of these new categories.
Vegaswikian (
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Keep generally, but I think it needs work. Some categories should be moved into
Category:Events by topic (combat incidents, military nuclear incidents, immigration incidents, social events), some should be removed (current events).
Category:Organized events significantly overlaps
Category:Events by topic. Most of the article contents should be dispersed. –
Pnm (
talk) 03:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
I'm wondering if the direction you are suggesting says that what can be included are only from the first section of items on the dab page? When you get to science and technology, we seem to have items that should be in different category trees.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 22:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
I'm thinking there are two main things it should include: (1) happenings and (2) gatherings. That might be a way to split, and identify other things which fit less well like
Category:Events (computing). –
Pnm (
talk) 20:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment perhaps what's needed is the counter category:
Category:Nonevents, for things that didn't happen (the
1940 Summer Olympics, and various end of the world predictions that didn't pan out could be placed there - and everything that happened goes in this one); tongue only somewhat in cheek.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- This is diffuse category, but I do not think it can usefully be renamed. No objection to splitting some items inot new subcategories.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep as a diffuse master category that should not contain articles, useful in organizing articles into major heirarchies. (is it: a location, an object, a concept, or, an event? -- seems to be the most basic types of articles we have)
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Category:Coastal defense sites
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Unneeded extra navigation level for one category with two articles.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 02:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep and sort? There seems to be a categorization issue with
Category:Coastal artillery in that it mixes types of equipment (gun models, specific design features, etc.) with coastal emplacements (that is, specific sites). I'm not sure that this is the right name for the "site" category but I think it would make sense to separate the equipment from the locations.
Mangoe (
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I think that doing the merge followed by an intelligent split if needed is the best way to go forward.
Vegaswikian (
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Mangoe has a good point about artillery being equipment. How about merging them all into a new
Category:Coastal defence and fortification to match the article that seems to have the most directly relevant name? --
Northernhenge (
talk) 23:22, 30 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Relisting comment: I am relisting instead of closing as 'no consensus' to allow more time to discuss the latest comments and ideas.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
talk) 02:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge --
Mangoe seems to have found the ideal solution. It seems to have been purged before I got here.
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Category:British civil servants to Ceylon
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Corrected capitalization within the name of the target category: 'In' → 'in'. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 19:35, 19 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename --
Category:British civil servants in Ceylon. I am not clear why the Indian category is administrators, rahter than civil servant. It may be so as to include pre-1857 officers of HEIC, who were servants of the company, bit civil servants of the crown; or perhpas so as to include residents who were notionally ambassadors to princely states but often in fact ran them. However the preposition should be "in" not "to". These were people engaged in ruling, not in the nature of ambassadors.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 16:55, 21 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Question Are you sure that it it is technically correct to refer to such colonial officers as "civil servants"? It seems to me to be better to use the broader term. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 20:40, 23 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom. "Civil servant" may be an anachronism here, I'm not sure. Better not to use it if we can avoid it.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:47, 27 January 2012 (UTC)reply
You can look these things up on something called "Wikipedia" you know, where you will find the
Ceylon Civil Service was founded in 1833. See also
Indian Civil Service - certainly correct there, after the Indian Mutiny, sorry War of Indian Independence, anyway. It's a lot clearer.
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Category:Newspaper people by newspaper
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The result of the discussion was:No consensus. Feel free to renom (for example, for the remerge suggestion below). - jc37 17:08, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale. The vast majority of people who are notable for their connections with newspapers are journalists. I am really not convinced we need these two independent trees. I would be fine with merging all the newspaper types into the one category, and moving the TV types elsewhere (especially since I am not sure 60 Minutes is a "publication").
John Pack Lambert (
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Comment I think at some point the thought was that we would have seperate categories for journalists, editors, ad execs (
Thomas S. Monson was primarily that when he wasemployed by the Deseret News), publishers, owners and whatever other types of newspaper people you can think of. The problem is that newspaper editors generally fit some definition of "journalist", many publishers fit at least some definitions of journalist, if owners and publishers do not fit definitions of journalist they will often not be truly notable for their connection to that newspaper, and how many newspaper ad execs are notable enough to have articles period? I have named one, but one person does not make it a worthwhile thing. I think I know what is going on here. One possibility is that we would take all the "Newspaper people by x newspaper", such as
Category:Deseret News people,
Category:New York Times people,
Category:The Times of London people,
Category:Los Angeles Times people,
Category:Detroit News people and whatever else, and make subcategories of each for journalists. I would support this plan.
John Pack Lambert (
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
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Agree with Johnpacklambert.
Category:Whatever Times people would match the people by company tree and keeps things more straightforward. Also works for newspapers, magazines, TV news, whatever.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 03:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose merger. There are many notable people involved with newspapers who are not journalists, notably publishers and owners. Many of them are highly notable, particularly in some of the bigger papers, and in the UK the phone-hacking scandal and ongoing Leveson inquiry are throwing up dozens more notable non-journalist people. Merger will leave those people outside of a category related to their company, so it will be disruptive to navigation if we lose the
Category:Newspaper people by newspaper categories. I support the suggestion of creating and populating journalist subcategories where they do not already exist, but I don't support removing the newspaper people categories. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 21:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose per BHG - Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner are hardly journalists; they're businessmen.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 22:08, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
How about reverse merge -- All the jounralists are newspaper people, but "newspaper people" includes proprrietors, publishers, executives, etc, many of whom are not journalists. The difficulty with this is that some of the sub-cats are for broadcast (rather than print) media. We may therefore need a parallel
Category:Broadcast newsmedia people by broadcaster to deal with these. I limit this to newsmedia because we would not want general broadcasters included.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 18:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose "Newspaper people" includes publishers and other non-journalists, making the current title a more meaningful reflection of its contents.
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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject no longer exists (was made a task force of
WP:VG), and thus is deprecated.
Izno (
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Hurricane seasons 1890-1949
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Nominator's rationale: These categories contain one summary article per season plus, on average, an article a season on specific storms. A few years also contain a category on a major storm. As with earlier years, it seems to me to make as much sense to group these by decade given that most yearly categories will contain only one or two articles; I made a separate group for these, however, as some people might feel these are populated enough to be broken out. Storm naming started in 1950, and from then on every year has at least five to ten articles; therefore this will be the last consolidation nomination made. See also
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 January 11#Category:1859 Atlantic hurricane season.
Mangoe (
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Support without prejustice to the 1900-1949 ones being re-broken-out again at a later date. Note that the 1940s ones do not appear to have been tagged. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 19:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
All categories should be tagged now.
Mangoe (
talk) 20:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose 1930 and later. This portion of the tree is reasonably well populated at this time with more content to be added. Like
The Bushranger, any deletions here should not prevent the deletion of the 10 year categories and the recreation of the by year categories if and when there is sufficient material to support this.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 00:28, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
The Count: To save some other people some time, 32, 33, 35, 41, 44, 49 each have 3-4 articles. The remainder in 1930-1949 have 1-2.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 01:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
To save anyone else the trouble, the totals by decade:
Mangoe (
talk) 10:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
1890-1899: 19 articles
1900-1909: 18 articles
1910-1919: 16 articles
1920-1929: 18 articles
1930-1939: 22 articles
1940-1949: 23 articles
Support delete with no objection to recreating later.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 01:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Support -- The limit of 1950 was introduced late into the 1859 discussion, which is the predent for this. A category with two dozen articles is not unduly large.
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Category:Old Birkdalians
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 20:14, 8 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Per the recent CfDs that renamed "Old Fooian" categories to the more logical,
clearer, and now-preferred "People educated at Foo" format, this one is proposed for renaming to the last mentioned format for the same reasons the others were renamed: clear, concise, understandable by all.
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename –
Birkdale School (in Sheffield) is a relatively recent public school and the term "Old Birkdalian" has not gained any great recognition, even in
Sheffield.
Oculi (
talk) 13:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom to the standard descriptive
Plain English format. The purpose of the category system is to facilitate navigation between articles by wikipedia's non-specialist readership, and category names should be constructed in a form that makes sense to a non-specialist. In this case, the "Old Birkdalians" term appears to have little or no currency outside the circles of those connected to the school, so there is no reason to diverge from the standard "people educated at foo" format. --
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Rename -- "old fooian" is common terminology for "people educated at foo", but with the excpetion of perhaps a dozen of the most famous public schools, the term is only common between fellow old fooians. I will oppose this if the precedent is carried too far, to Eton, Harrow, Marlborough. Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, Westminster and a few more major public schools. — Preceding
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Hurricane seasons 1860-1889
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Support - supported this at the CfD that spurred this, support it now, for the same reasons. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge as nom, according to precedent for 1859.
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Subcategories of Category:1850–1859 Atlantic hurricane seasons
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Support - supported this at the CfD that spurred this, support it now, for the same reasons. -
The BushrangerOne ping only 07:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
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Category:CDDL images
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Category:Cold War nuclear bunkers
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The result of the discussion was:merge.--
Mike Selinker (
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. A single entry TfT creation. While we can argue if there are more possible entries, are any of the candidate article about bunkers or facilities that have a bunker?
Vegaswikian (
talk) 03:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete The only member shouldn't be characterized as a bunker to begin with: it's a former Nike missile site of which a few foundations remain (at least judging from the Goggle map view), and the article should probably be deleted anyway given that it is just a long-winded version of data that ought to be in
List of Nike missile locations. The only "bunker" was the underground control room, but it wasn't built primarily for that purpose.
Mangoe (
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Merge as nom. If the sole member is not correctly categorised, it should be recategorised to somewhere appropriate.
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Category:Works about politicians by politician
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
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Delete I agree with the rationale provided by Shawn for the "about writer by writer" discussion. His point is just as valid for this category.
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Category:Animation-related websites
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The result of the discussion was:Rename and purge.
Timrollpickering (
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Nominator's rationale: Per
this discussion, I'm nominating this by itself. Consensus seemed to favor "Websites about animation" rather than "Animation websites," and while the majority of website categories are "(X) websites," the lack of clarity suggests renaming to the clearer form.--
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Category:India national cricket team selectors
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The result of the discussion was:Reverse merge.
Timrollpickering (
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Nominator's rationale:Merge It's clear that the two categories have the same intended scope. Either name would be fine but the main article is
Indian national cricket selectors and for what it's worth Google seems to indicate that "Indian national cricket selectors" is a more common phrase than "India national cricket team selectors".
Pichpich (
talk) 13:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)reply
DeleteCategory:Indian national cricket selectors. The correct title is India national cricket team selectors (and the article ought to be moved here). These are selectors for
India national cricket team and this follows the standard naming structure for all national team selectors. See the other cats at
Category:Cricket selectors, the structure was arrived at after discussion at
WT:CRIC, I can't seem to find the link now, but I'll post there to see if someone else can find it. Also, the newly created cat is wrong on a couple of fronts "Indian" (at least as far as sports team naming for WP purposes) does not define the "team" (everything is "India national", "Australia national", "West Indies.." -- no national here of course) and there's nothing to merge as it's a subset. —
SpacemanSpiff 05:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Agree with above India is the correct term, not Indian. They are India Test cricketers, not Indian. Lugnuts (
talk) 08:02, 25 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment -- If the above discussion is correct, we should certainly reverse merge and the closing admin should also rename article to match per consensus above.
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Category:Cosmic background
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The result of the discussion was:Delete. No prejudice against revisiting this should an article be created as noted in the discussion below. - jc37 16:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete There's no such thing as a "cosmic background" and in fact
cosmic background is a disambiguation page. The articles of the category are only loosely associated through the use of the term "background".
Pichpich (
talk) 02:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- The category may be diffuse, but it is something appropriate to have as a category. The article is a dabpage because no one has produced an overview article on all wavelengths, etc. It would be useful if the present dabpage could be converted into a substantive article providing such an overview, with a short summary on each topic using the listed articles as "main" articles. Sorry, I am not qualified to write it.
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Category:Events
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The result of the discussion was:Keep; split out if necessary.
Timrollpickering (
talk) 13:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Not sure if this is a rename or a delete or what. Clearly it needs a discussion.
Event is a wide ranging dab page leaving the intended purpose of this category totally ambiguous. While the simple answer is to delete this mess and the entire tree, that may not be the best approach. I suspect that splitting this out into unambiguous subcategories would be the best and maybe leaving this category with a hat note in addition to a parent category template. Clearly one subcategory would be
Category:Sporting events should be one of these new categories.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 02:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep generally, but I think it needs work. Some categories should be moved into
Category:Events by topic (combat incidents, military nuclear incidents, immigration incidents, social events), some should be removed (current events).
Category:Organized events significantly overlaps
Category:Events by topic. Most of the article contents should be dispersed. –
Pnm (
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I'm wondering if the direction you are suggesting says that what can be included are only from the first section of items on the dab page? When you get to science and technology, we seem to have items that should be in different category trees.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 22:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
I'm thinking there are two main things it should include: (1) happenings and (2) gatherings. That might be a way to split, and identify other things which fit less well like
Category:Events (computing). –
Pnm (
talk) 20:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment perhaps what's needed is the counter category:
Category:Nonevents, for things that didn't happen (the
1940 Summer Olympics, and various end of the world predictions that didn't pan out could be placed there - and everything that happened goes in this one); tongue only somewhat in cheek.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- This is diffuse category, but I do not think it can usefully be renamed. No objection to splitting some items inot new subcategories.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep as a diffuse master category that should not contain articles, useful in organizing articles into major heirarchies. (is it: a location, an object, a concept, or, an event? -- seems to be the most basic types of articles we have)
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Category:Coastal defense sites
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Unneeded extra navigation level for one category with two articles.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 02:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep and sort? There seems to be a categorization issue with
Category:Coastal artillery in that it mixes types of equipment (gun models, specific design features, etc.) with coastal emplacements (that is, specific sites). I'm not sure that this is the right name for the "site" category but I think it would make sense to separate the equipment from the locations.
Mangoe (
talk) 15:56, 24 January 2012 (UTC)reply
I think that doing the merge followed by an intelligent split if needed is the best way to go forward.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 01:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Mangoe has a good point about artillery being equipment. How about merging them all into a new
Category:Coastal defence and fortification to match the article that seems to have the most directly relevant name? --
Northernhenge (
talk) 23:22, 30 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Relisting comment: I am relisting instead of closing as 'no consensus' to allow more time to discuss the latest comments and ideas.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
talk) 02:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge --
Mangoe seems to have found the ideal solution. It seems to have been purged before I got here.
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Category:British civil servants to Ceylon
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Corrected capitalization within the name of the target category: 'In' → 'in'. -- Black Falcon(
talk) 19:35, 19 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename --
Category:British civil servants in Ceylon. I am not clear why the Indian category is administrators, rahter than civil servant. It may be so as to include pre-1857 officers of HEIC, who were servants of the company, bit civil servants of the crown; or perhpas so as to include residents who were notionally ambassadors to princely states but often in fact ran them. However the preposition should be "in" not "to". These were people engaged in ruling, not in the nature of ambassadors.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 16:55, 21 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Question Are you sure that it it is technically correct to refer to such colonial officers as "civil servants"? It seems to me to be better to use the broader term. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 20:40, 23 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom. "Civil servant" may be an anachronism here, I'm not sure. Better not to use it if we can avoid it.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:47, 27 January 2012 (UTC)reply
You can look these things up on something called "Wikipedia" you know, where you will find the
Ceylon Civil Service was founded in 1833. See also
Indian Civil Service - certainly correct there, after the Indian Mutiny, sorry War of Indian Independence, anyway. It's a lot clearer.
Johnbod (
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Category:Newspaper people by newspaper
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The result of the discussion was:No consensus. Feel free to renom (for example, for the remerge suggestion below). - jc37 17:08, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale. The vast majority of people who are notable for their connections with newspapers are journalists. I am really not convinced we need these two independent trees. I would be fine with merging all the newspaper types into the one category, and moving the TV types elsewhere (especially since I am not sure 60 Minutes is a "publication").
John Pack Lambert (
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Comment I think at some point the thought was that we would have seperate categories for journalists, editors, ad execs (
Thomas S. Monson was primarily that when he wasemployed by the Deseret News), publishers, owners and whatever other types of newspaper people you can think of. The problem is that newspaper editors generally fit some definition of "journalist", many publishers fit at least some definitions of journalist, if owners and publishers do not fit definitions of journalist they will often not be truly notable for their connection to that newspaper, and how many newspaper ad execs are notable enough to have articles period? I have named one, but one person does not make it a worthwhile thing. I think I know what is going on here. One possibility is that we would take all the "Newspaper people by x newspaper", such as
Category:Deseret News people,
Category:New York Times people,
Category:The Times of London people,
Category:Los Angeles Times people,
Category:Detroit News people and whatever else, and make subcategories of each for journalists. I would support this plan.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 19:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC)reply
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Black Falcon(
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Agree with Johnpacklambert.
Category:Whatever Times people would match the people by company tree and keeps things more straightforward. Also works for newspapers, magazines, TV news, whatever.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 03:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose merger. There are many notable people involved with newspapers who are not journalists, notably publishers and owners. Many of them are highly notable, particularly in some of the bigger papers, and in the UK the phone-hacking scandal and ongoing Leveson inquiry are throwing up dozens more notable non-journalist people. Merger will leave those people outside of a category related to their company, so it will be disruptive to navigation if we lose the
Category:Newspaper people by newspaper categories. I support the suggestion of creating and populating journalist subcategories where they do not already exist, but I don't support removing the newspaper people categories. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 21:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose per BHG - Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner are hardly journalists; they're businessmen.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 22:08, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
How about reverse merge -- All the jounralists are newspaper people, but "newspaper people" includes proprrietors, publishers, executives, etc, many of whom are not journalists. The difficulty with this is that some of the sub-cats are for broadcast (rather than print) media. We may therefore need a parallel
Category:Broadcast newsmedia people by broadcaster to deal with these. I limit this to newsmedia because we would not want general broadcasters included.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 18:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose "Newspaper people" includes publishers and other non-journalists, making the current title a more meaningful reflection of its contents.
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