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February 27

Category:The Westies

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Westies (New York gang). The Bushranger One ping only 05:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Contested speedy from Category:The Westies to Category:Westies; as probably ambiguous with other items listed at Westie. Tim! ( talk) 20:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
Actually, I see no evidence there was ever a decision that that was the pirmary usage. It seems to more be how things are by default. It is pretty clear that that is not a primary usage, and I think the page names should be changed. We should not duplicate the unwise decision in article names in categories. This is especially so because ambiguous categories are a worse practice than ambiguous article, in part because category contents are hard to adequately patrol. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 23:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC) reply
If a google search is anything to go by, the principal topic for "Westies", by some considerable distance, is West Highland White Terrier, with 97 of the top 100 page returns for "westies -wikipedia". For "westy -wikipedia" there seems to be no one principal topic, with the dog and Volkswagen Westfalia campervans being the main two uses out of many. "Westy's" seems to be a very common name for restaurants and bars. BTW, "westies -wikipedia" returned no page hits for either the gang or Sydney/Auckland inhabitants; for "westy -wikipedia" the gang again did not turn up, but there were two pages for Sydneysiders and one for Aucklanders in the top 100. With Google news searches, the top 20 "westies" included eight pages on Sydney people, seven on dogs, and five from everything else; "westy", in the top 20 news pages, the majority of hits were for different sportsmen who had "Westy" as a nickname ( Ryan Westmoreland, Drew Westervelt, Westy Hopkins, Scott West, Brian Westbrook, and Michael West). Again, the gang was nowhere to be seen. Grutness... wha? 10:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC) reply

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Community organizers or activists

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Community organizers to Category:Community activists.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 14:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Propose either
renaming to use "activists"
or renaming to use "organizers":
Nominator's rationale: I encountered these categories when I found Category:American Jewish community activists‎ unparented, and looked for other similar categories. I found three, all of which I added to Category:Community organizers.
So far as I can see, the two concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are broadly the same. The head article is at Community organizing, and Category:Community organizers is a subcat of Category:Community organizing, which is an argument in favour of using "organizer"; however "activist" fits neatly with Category:ActivistsCategory:Activists by type, of which Category:Community organizers has been a subcat since 2007.
If editors agree that the concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are close enough to justify categorising them together then we should at least create {{ category redirect}}s from the alternative title. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:21, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Fires by year

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 04:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC) reply
30 sub-categories of Category:19th-century fires and 83 sub-categories of Category:20th-century fires
Nominator's rationale: This seems to me like a typical example of over-categorisation: the overwhelming majority of these categories contain between one and three articles, and only in the 1990s do the numbers start to increase. I suppose that categorisation per decade would work well for the 20th-century fires, and I'd agree with such a course of action, but even that would be superfluous in the sparsely populated category for the 19th century. Most of the nominated categories have been created by User:Hugo999, who has been notified; I am in the process of notifying everyone else who has created even just one of them. Waltham, The Duke of 16:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: these are also part of "19xx disasters", so if they are WP:OCAT then double-upmerging would be a better outcome. Perhaps that should be done selectively, to avoid categorising localised fires as "disasters". – Fayenatic L ondon 16:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Although I created a few of these categories while cleaning up the missing categories backlogs, I have to agree that the year-by-year breakdown results in tiny categories that are not particularly helpful for browsing. For me, the most important thing is that categories like Category:1981 fires are upmerged to the Category:1981 disasters so that we keep a path to the article for readers who start browsing from Category:1981. Merging all 19th-century fires to a single category makes sense and the proposal of merging to decades for 20th century fires is probably sensible also although we should keep an open mind about eventually splitting the 1990s or 1980s. Pichpich ( talk) 19:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Upmerge to both the fires by century and the disasters by year cats. None of these cats are large enough to justfiy creating such a specific schema. If we got to a point where we had over 1000 in each by century cat, a division might be justified, but I am not sure by year is the best idea. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:37, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
    • There is no minimum size for a stand alone category. However past consensus shows that around 5 is generally sufficient. Your comment here is suggesting that we use 10 for members of a series category. Yet for series categories, we accept some missing ones and some very small ones. Also, we generally accept that categories that exceed one page (200 entries) should be considered for splitting. So I really question your suggestion to use 1,000 here. Vegaswikian ( talk) 21:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose. The argument presented is that the categories are mostly underpopulated. While true, that does not address the underlying fact that there are notable fires that are not categorized. So the reason for the underpopulation is not that we have not written up the fires, but rather we have failed to categorize them. I looked for the most famous fire in 1906 and it was missing. Then I said lets see what is available for 1901. Without much work, I found that we have at least 5 fires in 1901 that are notable at which point I stopped looking. These are all parts of other articles which is acceptable in lieu of a stub. But the appropriate redirects can and should be created and placed in the correct categories. So I don't think that case has been made that this is over categorization by year. The case has been made that fires are not being categorized. Vegaswikian ( talk) 03:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Upmerge per JPL, with no prejudice to recreation for years that are demonstrated to have numerous fires. We don't need piles of very small categories, and that's the situation in question. However, I'd suggest first that the centuries be split by decade: put each fire into "[year] disasters" and into "[decade] fires", and split out a year from the decade category once there are several fires in the same year. Nyttend ( talk) 22:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose Pet the reasons listed by Vegaswikian. This is a maintenance problem, not a reason for deletion. Dimadick ( talk) 10:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose for 20th century; perhaps for 19th century double merge all (not some) to the “by century” for fires and “by year” for disasters. And no “by decade” categories as no other disasters subcategories (explosions and health, industrial natural, transport disasters) or the main category use “by decade”, so using it for fires would be no advantage. There are certainly enough fire articles now for “by year” breakdown in the 20th century. Hugo999 ( talk) 22:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Merge all into categories by decade. I regard these annual categoriues as a hindrance to navigation not an aid. Categorisation by year can be preserved ensuring that it appears in a 1899 in Ohio or 1899 in USA category, which may require a separate upmerge. Peterkingiron ( talk) 12:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose use of categories by decade as hindering not helping finding articles, and is not used elsewhere for disaster subcategories. Decades are useful for works eg films, as films are categorised by year with some subcategories by year eg Category:2001 horror films, but other subcategories eg Category:2000s action films are by decade only. But the decade category is not useful for events by country or U.S. state. For Ohio (see Category:Decades in Ohio) most of the decades categories contain only the years in that decade and are infrequently used for articles. And re Category:Years in Ohio most of the subcategories contain only 1 to 3 articles, plus subcategories for elections by year. Probably true of most states apart from large states like New York or California. Hugo999 ( talk) 04:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Merge to by-decade categories, but not by-century. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional characters by writer

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Literary characters by writer.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 02:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Not all fictional characters are literary, parent category is "Literary characters". Niemti ( talk) 16:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
I think we should inset fictional in all places. I am not concinved that everyone would see literary as equal to implying fictional. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Thunderbirds (TV series) films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:02, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename, new standard for works based on works, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 17#Works based on Doctor Who for precedent and links to others. – Fayenatic L ondon 14:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Star Trek films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename and restructure as follows:

The proposals follow the new standard for works based on works; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 18#Works based on Star Trek for precedents and links to others. The cat Category:Star Trek (film series) for the official films will match the lead article Star Trek (film series). – Fayenatic L ondon 13:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply


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Category:Robbery

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn by nominator. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Nominator's rationale: Merge. I think the reason for this singular and plural form merger is pretty obvious. Also need to merge Category:Bank robberies‎ and Category:Bank robbery. If singular form is chosen, need to rename Category:Train robberies‎ to singular. If plural is chosen, there are several categories such as Robbery by year that will need to be renamed for consistency as well. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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February 27

Category:The Westies

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Westies (New York gang). The Bushranger One ping only 05:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Contested speedy from Category:The Westies to Category:Westies; as probably ambiguous with other items listed at Westie. Tim! ( talk) 20:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
Actually, I see no evidence there was ever a decision that that was the pirmary usage. It seems to more be how things are by default. It is pretty clear that that is not a primary usage, and I think the page names should be changed. We should not duplicate the unwise decision in article names in categories. This is especially so because ambiguous categories are a worse practice than ambiguous article, in part because category contents are hard to adequately patrol. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 23:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC) reply
If a google search is anything to go by, the principal topic for "Westies", by some considerable distance, is West Highland White Terrier, with 97 of the top 100 page returns for "westies -wikipedia". For "westy -wikipedia" there seems to be no one principal topic, with the dog and Volkswagen Westfalia campervans being the main two uses out of many. "Westy's" seems to be a very common name for restaurants and bars. BTW, "westies -wikipedia" returned no page hits for either the gang or Sydney/Auckland inhabitants; for "westy -wikipedia" the gang again did not turn up, but there were two pages for Sydneysiders and one for Aucklanders in the top 100. With Google news searches, the top 20 "westies" included eight pages on Sydney people, seven on dogs, and five from everything else; "westy", in the top 20 news pages, the majority of hits were for different sportsmen who had "Westy" as a nickname ( Ryan Westmoreland, Drew Westervelt, Westy Hopkins, Scott West, Brian Westbrook, and Michael West). Again, the gang was nowhere to be seen. Grutness... wha? 10:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC) reply

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Community organizers or activists

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Community organizers to Category:Community activists.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 14:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Propose either
renaming to use "activists"
or renaming to use "organizers":
Nominator's rationale: I encountered these categories when I found Category:American Jewish community activists‎ unparented, and looked for other similar categories. I found three, all of which I added to Category:Community organizers.
So far as I can see, the two concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are broadly the same. The head article is at Community organizing, and Category:Community organizers is a subcat of Category:Community organizing, which is an argument in favour of using "organizer"; however "activist" fits neatly with Category:ActivistsCategory:Activists by type, of which Category:Community organizers has been a subcat since 2007.
If editors agree that the concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are close enough to justify categorising them together then we should at least create {{ category redirect}}s from the alternative title. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:21, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Fires by year

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 04:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC) reply
30 sub-categories of Category:19th-century fires and 83 sub-categories of Category:20th-century fires
Nominator's rationale: This seems to me like a typical example of over-categorisation: the overwhelming majority of these categories contain between one and three articles, and only in the 1990s do the numbers start to increase. I suppose that categorisation per decade would work well for the 20th-century fires, and I'd agree with such a course of action, but even that would be superfluous in the sparsely populated category for the 19th century. Most of the nominated categories have been created by User:Hugo999, who has been notified; I am in the process of notifying everyone else who has created even just one of them. Waltham, The Duke of 16:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: these are also part of "19xx disasters", so if they are WP:OCAT then double-upmerging would be a better outcome. Perhaps that should be done selectively, to avoid categorising localised fires as "disasters". – Fayenatic L ondon 16:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Although I created a few of these categories while cleaning up the missing categories backlogs, I have to agree that the year-by-year breakdown results in tiny categories that are not particularly helpful for browsing. For me, the most important thing is that categories like Category:1981 fires are upmerged to the Category:1981 disasters so that we keep a path to the article for readers who start browsing from Category:1981. Merging all 19th-century fires to a single category makes sense and the proposal of merging to decades for 20th century fires is probably sensible also although we should keep an open mind about eventually splitting the 1990s or 1980s. Pichpich ( talk) 19:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Upmerge to both the fires by century and the disasters by year cats. None of these cats are large enough to justfiy creating such a specific schema. If we got to a point where we had over 1000 in each by century cat, a division might be justified, but I am not sure by year is the best idea. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:37, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
    • There is no minimum size for a stand alone category. However past consensus shows that around 5 is generally sufficient. Your comment here is suggesting that we use 10 for members of a series category. Yet for series categories, we accept some missing ones and some very small ones. Also, we generally accept that categories that exceed one page (200 entries) should be considered for splitting. So I really question your suggestion to use 1,000 here. Vegaswikian ( talk) 21:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose. The argument presented is that the categories are mostly underpopulated. While true, that does not address the underlying fact that there are notable fires that are not categorized. So the reason for the underpopulation is not that we have not written up the fires, but rather we have failed to categorize them. I looked for the most famous fire in 1906 and it was missing. Then I said lets see what is available for 1901. Without much work, I found that we have at least 5 fires in 1901 that are notable at which point I stopped looking. These are all parts of other articles which is acceptable in lieu of a stub. But the appropriate redirects can and should be created and placed in the correct categories. So I don't think that case has been made that this is over categorization by year. The case has been made that fires are not being categorized. Vegaswikian ( talk) 03:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Upmerge per JPL, with no prejudice to recreation for years that are demonstrated to have numerous fires. We don't need piles of very small categories, and that's the situation in question. However, I'd suggest first that the centuries be split by decade: put each fire into "[year] disasters" and into "[decade] fires", and split out a year from the decade category once there are several fires in the same year. Nyttend ( talk) 22:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose Pet the reasons listed by Vegaswikian. This is a maintenance problem, not a reason for deletion. Dimadick ( talk) 10:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose for 20th century; perhaps for 19th century double merge all (not some) to the “by century” for fires and “by year” for disasters. And no “by decade” categories as no other disasters subcategories (explosions and health, industrial natural, transport disasters) or the main category use “by decade”, so using it for fires would be no advantage. There are certainly enough fire articles now for “by year” breakdown in the 20th century. Hugo999 ( talk) 22:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Merge all into categories by decade. I regard these annual categoriues as a hindrance to navigation not an aid. Categorisation by year can be preserved ensuring that it appears in a 1899 in Ohio or 1899 in USA category, which may require a separate upmerge. Peterkingiron ( talk) 12:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose use of categories by decade as hindering not helping finding articles, and is not used elsewhere for disaster subcategories. Decades are useful for works eg films, as films are categorised by year with some subcategories by year eg Category:2001 horror films, but other subcategories eg Category:2000s action films are by decade only. But the decade category is not useful for events by country or U.S. state. For Ohio (see Category:Decades in Ohio) most of the decades categories contain only the years in that decade and are infrequently used for articles. And re Category:Years in Ohio most of the subcategories contain only 1 to 3 articles, plus subcategories for elections by year. Probably true of most states apart from large states like New York or California. Hugo999 ( talk) 04:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Merge to by-decade categories, but not by-century. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional characters by writer

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Literary characters by writer.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 02:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Not all fictional characters are literary, parent category is "Literary characters". Niemti ( talk) 16:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply
I think we should inset fictional in all places. I am not concinved that everyone would see literary as equal to implying fictional. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 22:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Thunderbirds (TV series) films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:02, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename, new standard for works based on works, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 17#Works based on Doctor Who for precedent and links to others. – Fayenatic L ondon 14:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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Category:Star Trek films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename and restructure as follows:

The proposals follow the new standard for works based on works; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 18#Works based on Star Trek for precedents and links to others. The cat Category:Star Trek (film series) for the official films will match the lead article Star Trek (film series). – Fayenatic L ondon 13:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply


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Category:Robbery

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn by nominator. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Nominator's rationale: Merge. I think the reason for this singular and plural form merger is pretty obvious. Also need to merge Category:Bank robberies‎ and Category:Bank robbery. If singular form is chosen, need to rename Category:Train robberies‎ to singular. If plural is chosen, there are several categories such as Robbery by year that will need to be renamed for consistency as well. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC) reply

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