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Keep. My usual threshold for applying
WP:SMALLCAT is 5 articles, and this category already has 4 articles. It seems to me quite probable that more of
MOM Brands's extensive list of products will turn out to be notable, so I reckon that this has a reasonable prospect of expansion. Neutral on renaming; the proposed new category does match the head article, but the abbreviation will be obscure to many readers. --
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Missouri fountains
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Category:Media by interest
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Oppose for the reasons discussed at the
previous CfD, in 2009, where the distinction is made clear. The closing admin in 2009 noted that there might scope for a rename proposal of the "by interest" categories to something else a bit more clear. I agree that should be done. --
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Oppose, as well, having made the same mistake in 2009. I now see that there really is a vital distinction between media about a topic (sailing) and by interest (women's, youth-oriented) which can encompass a wide range of topics. Some clean up may be necessary and yes I'm also open to a renaming proposal, 2+years later.
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DeleteCategory:Media by interest - Way, way, way, waaaaay too broad. These companies making these products are in business to have their product "consumed", and to make money (and not necessarily in that order). So (depending on their business plan/model) they are going to want to have as broad appeal as possible within their topic or niche. And besides that, while most of us might suppose that a publication which may cover a certain topic may be of interest to those who may be interested in that topic, that may not necessarily be true, and worse, we just committed
WP:OR : ) - This whole tree should be burnt to the ground. - jc3718:36, 26 February 2012 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was:Rename (And this one probably shouldn't be a cat redirect due to ambiguity.) - jc3701:48, 3 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename - this is the most ambiguous of all the Old Fooians that I've seen over the past couple of weeks. There are six Diocesan schools in NZ alone.
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Oppose. There is no strong reason to move to the American "alumni" form when at present these South African categories consistently use the "Old Fooian" form. The present name of the category is the common collective name for former pupils of the school. As no evidence has been offered to show that "Old Diocesan" is used in any other meaning, I do not see any real ambiguity issue. The task of the category is merely to categorize, and so long as the name is not critical the present one is the most suitable.
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Are you really saying that readers and editors have a snowball-in-hell's chance of knowing which of the many
Diocesan Schools and
Diocesan Colleges uses the "Old Diocesan" label? Seriously?
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Delete There are two big problems. The first is the criteria for inclusion. When is an ingredient Chinese? Is rice a Chinese ingredient? Salt? It's not clear where one should draw the line. The second problem is that these categories will lead to massive category clutter since some ingredients (rice and salt for example) will end up in dozens of national subcategories. Note that some of these categories could be listified.
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Why? That is a real half baked idea and a recipe for disaster. If the ingredients are mixed in with the cuisine categories it would be all mashed up and look like a dogs breakfast. If that is done I can only say bon appétit!!! --
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. This category includes mainly grids which correspond to the definition given in the
Wide area synchronous grid article, which will be the main article of this category. The current name means the same in North America; however, outside of this region it may cause misinterpretations. Therefore I propose to rename this category, but leave its sub
category:Electric grid interconnections in North America with its current name to take account the regional terminology. This idea was originally proposed by the
user:J JMesserly and I think the time is ready to implement it.
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Category:Four Leaf Clover Records albums
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Category:National law enforcement agencies of Ecuador
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Comment I have no idea how these are supposed to be categorized; I just copied hierarchies of similar categories for law enforcement in the region. If this is deleted, it should be upmerged as suggested or the article is lost to that subcategory.
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Delete -- REdundant to "law enforcement agencies of Ecuador", which itslef is hardly needed as a category, sicne there appears only to be one agency.
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. Both categories are meant to consist of articles about the same objects (stations converting HVAC electrical power into HVDC and vice versa allowing power connections between different electrical power systems). It may be discussed what is the best name for this category (maybe
category:Electrical power converter stations?), but by my understanding they should be merged.
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Comment (category creator). I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). AAPR is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who become notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep The AARP is a fairly powerful organization and its top people are certainly notable in part due to their position. The example of Bill Novelli is particularly striking in that respect.
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Keep -- However, I would be happier if the category had a headnote explaining what AARP is (since it is not now an abbreviation that can be expanded) and the article contianed a list of officers, etc, from which we can be sure that these are notables in relation to AARP. It claims to have 40M members, but we should not be categorising people merely on account of their membership.
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Category:Americans Elect
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Delete as premature. The existence of categories is not based on the importance of the topic, but whether its existence is a help or hindrance to navigation: as it contains only the main article and a people subcat, this is clearly a superfluous category. It can always be re-created once the topic merits a half-dozen articles. Also note
Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.-
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Keep Rather than deletign this empty-ish cat, I think it should be populated by deletign the sub-cat because this would better group both the org and people articles for navigation. I seem to be looking at this one upside down from some other editors but I stand by that.
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- However the category needs to be better defined (in a headnote), so that it should contain officers of the organisation (and such like), but not ordinary members.
Peterkingiron (
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Delete No conceptual objection to this cat but it is not that big at 6 articles (escapes smallcat for me at 5) but it effectively empties the parent category which does not strike me as a legitimate container category. No objection to recreating when more non-bio articles are in parent cat.
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Category:Royal National Lifeboat Institution people
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:36, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep seems to be part of an editors crusade against certain categories. I see like other nominations made at the same time that
WP:SMALLCAT has been dismissed by the proposer, while a simple read of the article would clarify what the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution is, and hence the category contains both direct employees and volunteers who have existing articles created for them, mostly volunteer captains. As
Tim! has identified, I created the category along the lines of every other
Category:People by organization. The problem before hand was what to categorise these articles as/where to sit them? Creating the category removed the need for insertion of multiple common categories, and hopping around to find articles realted to the organisation whic were not directly linked in the article itself. Rgds, --
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Category:International Young Democrat Union people
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Weak Upmerge As Pichpich points out, this is a routine category format but I'm not sure the parent cat is large enough to be unwieldy or the people cat to be large enough that this isn't overcategorization. If the cat does fill up with more biography articles, then no objection to recreating.
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Category:Dilys Breese Medallists
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Comment – the relevant guideline is
WP:AWARD, not
WP:SMALLCAT (this seems to be an annual national award, started in 2009, and, given this, has annual potential for growth: see
Dilys Breese Medal). If kept, it should be
Category:Dilys Breese medallists, not Medallists. I would lean towards keeping ... ceremonies at the House of Lords suggest this is a big deal in the ornithological world (of which I know very little).
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Comment – again, the relevant guideline is
WP:AWARD. With 17 members this is hardly small. Another annual national award; we usually keep these. But rename to use 'medallists'.
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Comment isn't an "Opera film" a film based on an opera, or an opera that was filmed? But a film about opera need not have any of that, especially a history documentary on composers of operas.
70.24.251.71 (
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Support the Mike Selinker SolutionKeep both because they are two separate concepts. However, the contents of those categories need fixing, e.g
Charlie Chan at the Opera,
The Great Caruso and several others are mis-categorized as
Category:Opera films. Note also the subcat
Category:Films based on operas. Possibly merge that one with
Category:Opera films. There's a pretty fuzzy line between the two. For example, some filmed operas are basically "as sung in the opera house" with real opera singers also playing the roles, but filmed on location (
La Traviata (1983 film)), some use a combination of dubbed actors and real opera singers (
Aida (1953 film)) but are quite faithful to the score, and others are adapted in various ways, although they usually contain the music and arias from the opera.
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Category:United States Academic Decathlon
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I am the creator of this category, I think. I don't know what "small" is usually defined to be, but this seems like bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. It's perfectly well-defined and a useful niche category for those interested in branching out from the
main article.
NW(
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Why not? The entire movie is about a story that has a famous history in Academic Decathlon history; it is even remarked given a paragraph or two in the main article.
NW(
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Keep My personal definiation of a Smallcat is 5, and this makes the grade. (I think the Cheaters movie is fine as a cultaral representation of the topic.) Unfortunately
WP:SMALLCAT doesn't do the basic courtesy of defining what is a small cat so other editors may have different article counts in mind.
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Keep. My usual threshold for applying
WP:SMALLCAT is 5 articles, and this category already has 4 articles. It seems to me quite probable that more of
MOM Brands's extensive list of products will turn out to be notable, so I reckon that this has a reasonable prospect of expansion. Neutral on renaming; the proposed new category does match the head article, but the abbreviation will be obscure to many readers. --
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Oppose for the reasons discussed at the
previous CfD, in 2009, where the distinction is made clear. The closing admin in 2009 noted that there might scope for a rename proposal of the "by interest" categories to something else a bit more clear. I agree that should be done. --
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Oppose, as well, having made the same mistake in 2009. I now see that there really is a vital distinction between media about a topic (sailing) and by interest (women's, youth-oriented) which can encompass a wide range of topics. Some clean up may be necessary and yes I'm also open to a renaming proposal, 2+years later.
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DeleteCategory:Media by interest - Way, way, way, waaaaay too broad. These companies making these products are in business to have their product "consumed", and to make money (and not necessarily in that order). So (depending on their business plan/model) they are going to want to have as broad appeal as possible within their topic or niche. And besides that, while most of us might suppose that a publication which may cover a certain topic may be of interest to those who may be interested in that topic, that may not necessarily be true, and worse, we just committed
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Category:Old Diocesans
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The result of the discussion was:Rename (And this one probably shouldn't be a cat redirect due to ambiguity.) - jc3701:48, 3 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename - this is the most ambiguous of all the Old Fooians that I've seen over the past couple of weeks. There are six Diocesan schools in NZ alone.
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Oppose. There is no strong reason to move to the American "alumni" form when at present these South African categories consistently use the "Old Fooian" form. The present name of the category is the common collective name for former pupils of the school. As no evidence has been offered to show that "Old Diocesan" is used in any other meaning, I do not see any real ambiguity issue. The task of the category is merely to categorize, and so long as the name is not critical the present one is the most suitable.
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Are you really saying that readers and editors have a snowball-in-hell's chance of knowing which of the many
Diocesan Schools and
Diocesan Colleges uses the "Old Diocesan" label? Seriously?
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Ingredients categories
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Delete There are two big problems. The first is the criteria for inclusion. When is an ingredient Chinese? Is rice a Chinese ingredient? Salt? It's not clear where one should draw the line. The second problem is that these categories will lead to massive category clutter since some ingredients (rice and salt for example) will end up in dozens of national subcategories. Note that some of these categories could be listified.
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Why? That is a real half baked idea and a recipe for disaster. If the ingredients are mixed in with the cuisine categories it would be all mashed up and look like a dogs breakfast. If that is done I can only say bon appétit!!! --
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Category:Electric grid interconnections
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. This category includes mainly grids which correspond to the definition given in the
Wide area synchronous grid article, which will be the main article of this category. The current name means the same in North America; however, outside of this region it may cause misinterpretations. Therefore I propose to rename this category, but leave its sub
category:Electric grid interconnections in North America with its current name to take account the regional terminology. This idea was originally proposed by the
user:J JMesserly and I think the time is ready to implement it.
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Category:Four Leaf Clover Records albums
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Category:National law enforcement agencies of Ecuador
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Comment I have no idea how these are supposed to be categorized; I just copied hierarchies of similar categories for law enforcement in the region. If this is deleted, it should be upmerged as suggested or the article is lost to that subcategory.
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Delete -- REdundant to "law enforcement agencies of Ecuador", which itslef is hardly needed as a category, sicne there appears only to be one agency.
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Category:National law enforcement agencies of Bolivia
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Category:Election commissions
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Category:Forest services (national)
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Category:HVDC back-to-back stations
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. Both categories are meant to consist of articles about the same objects (stations converting HVAC electrical power into HVDC and vice versa allowing power connections between different electrical power systems). It may be discussed what is the best name for this category (maybe
category:Electrical power converter stations?), but by my understanding they should be merged.
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Category:AARP people
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Comment (category creator). I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). AAPR is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who become notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep The AARP is a fairly powerful organization and its top people are certainly notable in part due to their position. The example of Bill Novelli is particularly striking in that respect.
Pichpich (
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Keep -- However, I would be happier if the category had a headnote explaining what AARP is (since it is not now an abbreviation that can be expanded) and the article contianed a list of officers, etc, from which we can be sure that these are notables in relation to AARP. It claims to have 40M members, but we should not be categorising people merely on account of their membership.
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Category:Americans Elect
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Delete as premature. The existence of categories is not based on the importance of the topic, but whether its existence is a help or hindrance to navigation: as it contains only the main article and a people subcat, this is clearly a superfluous category. It can always be re-created once the topic merits a half-dozen articles. Also note
Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.-
choster (
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15:49, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep Rather than deletign this empty-ish cat, I think it should be populated by deletign the sub-cat because this would better group both the org and people articles for navigation. I seem to be looking at this one upside down from some other editors but I stand by that.
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Category:Americans Elect people
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- However the category needs to be better defined (in a headnote), so that it should contain officers of the organisation (and such like), but not ordinary members.
Peterkingiron (
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13:35, 25 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete No conceptual objection to this cat but it is not that big at 6 articles (escapes smallcat for me at 5) but it effectively empties the parent category which does not strike me as a legitimate container category. No objection to recreating when more non-bio articles are in parent cat.
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Category:Royal National Lifeboat Institution people
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:36, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep seems to be part of an editors crusade against certain categories. I see like other nominations made at the same time that
WP:SMALLCAT has been dismissed by the proposer, while a simple read of the article would clarify what the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution is, and hence the category contains both direct employees and volunteers who have existing articles created for them, mostly volunteer captains. As
Tim! has identified, I created the category along the lines of every other
Category:People by organization. The problem before hand was what to categorise these articles as/where to sit them? Creating the category removed the need for insertion of multiple common categories, and hopping around to find articles realted to the organisation whic were not directly linked in the article itself. Rgds, --
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Category:International Young Democrat Union people
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Comment. I'm not sure that
WP:SMALLCAT applies: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." (eg, The Beatles' wives, Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor). This org. is a continuing organization which will presumably in the future have new leaders who be notable. I don't understand why "by definintion" this category is currently limited in size.
Good Ol’factory(talk)08:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Weak Upmerge As Pichpich points out, this is a routine category format but I'm not sure the parent cat is large enough to be unwieldy or the people cat to be large enough that this isn't overcategorization. If the cat does fill up with more biography articles, then no objection to recreating.
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Category:Dilys Breese Medallists
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Comment – the relevant guideline is
WP:AWARD, not
WP:SMALLCAT (this seems to be an annual national award, started in 2009, and, given this, has annual potential for growth: see
Dilys Breese Medal). If kept, it should be
Category:Dilys Breese medallists, not Medallists. I would lean towards keeping ... ceremonies at the House of Lords suggest this is a big deal in the ornithological world (of which I know very little).
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Category:Bernard Tucker Medallists
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Comment – again, the relevant guideline is
WP:AWARD. With 17 members this is hardly small. Another annual national award; we usually keep these. But rename to use 'medallists'.
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Category:Films about opera
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Comment isn't an "Opera film" a film based on an opera, or an opera that was filmed? But a film about opera need not have any of that, especially a history documentary on composers of operas.
70.24.251.71 (
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Support the Mike Selinker SolutionKeep both because they are two separate concepts. However, the contents of those categories need fixing, e.g
Charlie Chan at the Opera,
The Great Caruso and several others are mis-categorized as
Category:Opera films. Note also the subcat
Category:Films based on operas. Possibly merge that one with
Category:Opera films. There's a pretty fuzzy line between the two. For example, some filmed operas are basically "as sung in the opera house" with real opera singers also playing the roles, but filmed on location (
La Traviata (1983 film)), some use a combination of dubbed actors and real opera singers (
Aida (1953 film)) but are quite faithful to the score, and others are adapted in various ways, although they usually contain the music and arias from the opera.
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Category:United States Academic Decathlon
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I am the creator of this category, I think. I don't know what "small" is usually defined to be, but this seems like bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. It's perfectly well-defined and a useful niche category for those interested in branching out from the
main article.
NW(
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Why not? The entire movie is about a story that has a famous history in Academic Decathlon history; it is even remarked given a paragraph or two in the main article.
NW(
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Keep My personal definiation of a Smallcat is 5, and this makes the grade. (I think the Cheaters movie is fine as a cultaral representation of the topic.) Unfortunately
WP:SMALLCAT doesn't do the basic courtesy of defining what is a small cat so other editors may have different article counts in mind.
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