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The result of the discussion was:merge, as these are small duplicate categories serving no navigational purpose, and there are more members in the target categories. Lutheran categories mainly use "clergy", see
Category:Lutheran clergy by nationality; although
Category:Lutheran priests says some parts use "priests", this can be considered separately as the nominator says. –
FayenaticLondon 16:23, 7 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: per actual usage of these categories, these categories are all used for (Faroese resp. Greenlandic) Lutheran priests. If some people feel that we should rename the categories as well (to Lutheran priests instead of Lutheran clergy), then I would suggest let's do that after this merger proposal has been concluded.
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Category:Religious leaders from Cincinnati, Ohio
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The result of the discussion was:do not rename. (I suppose that even if someone is "from" place A, once they move to place B to be a religious leader there, they can be said to be "from" place B as well, so this doesn't have to be a problem or something that requires two separate category trees.)Good Ol’factory(talk) 04:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: To make clear that these categories are about the location of the activities as a religious leader, not about the location of descent of the person (like location of birth). 16:48, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Oppose, to be consistent with other "People from... " categories, which often contain both people born or brought up in the place and people not born there but strongly associated with the place. "People from... " categories are the common way of categorising people by location (there will no douvt be editors here who think religious leaders should be categorised by denomination etc. rather than place). I haven't checked the "from" categories nominated here, but I suspect they also contain people who are no longer "in" the places.
Sionk (
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I checked quite a couple and they were alright in this respect. However - maybe hypothetically - if they would not be active as a religious leader in the place, then they shouldn't be categorized as a religious leader associated with that place either, and the proposed category names make that exact point clear(er).
Marcocapelle (
talk) 17:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose On the basis that this seems to change the intention of the categories. One of the first articles I checked in
Category:Clergy from Portland, Oregon (
Garner Ted Armstrong) is distinctly not about a person being clergy in Portland. I think it a good idea to (a) maintain general religious categories in the "from" tree (e.g. clergy) and (b) attach the "in" tree specifically to geographically designated occupations only (bishops, etc). It's unlikely that lower level clergy will warrant categorisation by assignment as local workers generally won't warrant an article (or will have done something very different to warrant one). I also think the religious leader city categories are needlessly specific at this time and would be better upmerged to state-level, with subcategories by prominent position (e.g.
Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Pittsburgh) as direct children of the state categories.
SFB 18:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Sionk.
...William 15:45, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I created the Louisville category. It really is "from", as being from Louisville -- they aren't all necessarily leaders in the city. Also, it's a subcat of "People from..".
Stevie is the man!Talk •
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Category:BSkyB
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. The company name has changed from BSkyB to Sky and a new category has already been created for it.
Bbb2007 (
talk) 16:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support if it happens The entities are one and the same but it should be noted that Sky plc doesn't technically exist yet. Shareholders will need to approve this change formally
next week.
SFB 18:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The change was approved a few days ago.
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Category:BSkyB television channels
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The company name has changed from BSkyB to Sky.
Bbb2007 (
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Support if it happens The entities are one and the same but it should be noted that Sky plc doesn't technically exist yet. Shareholders will need to approve this change formally
next week.
SFB 18:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The change was approved a few days ago.
[3][4]Bbb2007 (
talk) 20:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose clearly ambiguous. "Sky" has no indication this is for "Sky plc", as there are many other "Sky"s. This category is not for
Sky Television (New Zealand), and the proposed name is therefore ambiguous. Neither is it for categorizing any other Skys found at
Sky_(disambiguation) which are television channels. --
67.70.35.44 (
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Category:American religious leaders of Jamaican descent
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT, only one article, maybe also
WP:NARROWCAT, and it's hardly a defining characteristic of the one article that is in the category.
Marcocapelle (
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Upmerge A very narrow intersection indeed. This is not a topic of study as far as I am aware so it is not warranted.
SFB 18:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:American Vodou priests
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The result of the discussion was:delete. –
FayenaticLondon 16:14, 7 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Upmerge The parent category is very small as it is and the navigational benefit of all the mentioned categories is unclear.
SFB 18:43, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:Airport and Aviation Services
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Nominator's rationale:Rename Merge. This category has been created to contain airports run by (?) a Sri Lankan company. However, there is no Wikipedia article for this company and the purpose for this category is not transparent. Because both airports currently in the category are in Sri Lanka, it would make better sense in my view to rename the category in line with other "Airports in FOO" categories and widening its scope in the process merge.
Sionk (
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Support Company article is non-existent so it's hard to claim it as a defining feature. Conditional support on the basis that
Sionk amends the nomination to merge to
Category:Airports in Sri Lanka, which appears to be the original intention, despite the wording.
SFB 18:47, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support merge per SFB, to
Category:Airports in Sri Lanka; the current name is highly ambiguous, as it could be a title-cased name for a container category for services for aviation and airports. --
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Category:Religious leadership roles
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. –
FayenaticLondon 16:40, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The two categories seem to have the same purpose.
Marcocapelle (
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Comment@
Marcocapelle: I think there's more to this nomination than first appears. I realised the role/occupation problem in the tree a few months ago. Essentially "occupation" is synonymous with "job", in other words a work activity which takes up the majority of their working time and is probably remunerated in some way. "Role" on the other hand is broader and means simply something that a person does or is. The latter concept better matches the content of the roles category (see
Mushi-dokugo for example). I think "role" would actually be a better parent of many parts of the current occupation tree. For example, many people in the sportspeople tree are non-professional and have a different occupation (same goes for any person from the pre-professional sport era). Similarly, many in
Category:Theologians will not have been theologians by occupation.
SFB 19:02, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Definitely agree with your analysis. However, in this particular case the distinction is currently being made based on faith: Christian and Jew "roles" are in
Category:Religious occupations while "roles" in all other religions are in
Category:Religious leadership roles. I doubt if this distinction coincides with the distinction between jobs and roles that you rightfully make. If it doesn't coincide, we should still go on with the merger, while realizing that the category may be split later but by different criteria.
Marcocapelle (
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Then move Abbot into the category for leaders. Monks and nuns, however, are religious workers. IMHO these levels are both fine and useful. The merger that is needed is of clergy categories into the tier for religious leaders, see
Category talk:Religious leaders. –
FayenaticLondon 10:24, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Okay, but I meant it merely as an example. The distinction between the two categories isn't clear based on the current contents. That applies even more to the child categories as the distinction is currently being made based on faith: Christian and Jew occupation and leadership roles are in
Category:Religious occupations while occupations and leadership roles in all other religions are in
Category:Religious leadership roles. And, just generally, I'm starting to doubt if 'leaders' are really so well definable. For example, missionaries and evangelists mostly don't start as a leader but may become a leader in the course of time while they get followers. Military chaplains are also a case of doubt.
Marcocapelle (
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Missionaries as such are not leaders, nor are chaplains. If an individual missionary becomes a leader then s/he will be categorised as both, but the pages in these categories are not biographies, so they should either be categorised as leaders or as workers. I already agreed that the sub-cats need to be moved, but am leaving them there for now in order to respect this discussion. –
FayenaticLondon 14:57, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment the difference explained by Fayenatic London doesn't seem to hold in the actual content of the categories. I would assume that an abbot remains a monk, and therefore becomes both an occupation and a leader. A local Protestant minister is an occupation, but write a few books, become a megachurch guy, get a radio or tv show, call yourself bishop, and now you're a leader. How do we OBJECTIVELY tell one from another?
Carlossuarez46 (
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Support this doubt. I also think that we do not even need to use a leader category at all, in our category names we should rather stick to occupational terms per common language, which leader is clearly not.
Marcocapelle (
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Leaders should be subcat of workers/occupations.
WP:SUBCAT says abbot should not be in both (it's a
diffusing sub-cat). Church leaders have much more in common with each other whether they are called priests, clergy, ministers, pastors or something else, than other workers e.g. monks, artists or religious political party leaders. Therefore a local Protestant minister is a leader, not just a worker/occupation. Religious leader is the neutral term used in categories for all religions. See
Category talk:Religious leaders for a proposed overall category structure. –
FayenaticLondon 23:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)reply
The thing that religious leaders have in common in this definition of religious leaders is that they are all
clergy. Other definitions of leaders could be that they have a more-than-local reach (so exclude most priests and ministers) or that they have followers (so include most evangelists and missionaries). I'll happily agree with defining religious leaders as clergy, but then I would also suggest that we keep 'clergy' as category name instead of 'religious leaders', at least at the highest level of the tree - so if it's irrespective of faith or denomination - and use more specific occupation terms once we get lower in the tree.
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Category:Recorders
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Nominator's rationale: As the base name is ambiguous (main article for this topic is
Recorder (musical instrument)), I think the category should be disambiguated: otherwise it might refer to legal position-holders, sound recording equipment, etc.
PamD 14:04, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support - makes sense to me, per nominator's arguments, to clarify that the category is for articles related to musical instruments rather than the judiciary.
Sionk (
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Oppose, so far As the creator of the Category, I mostly want the category to survive. But... at the non-cat page
Recorder the first entry is the musical instrument. But the proposed category is a bit long. And has the problem of the article being in the singular but the new cat would be in the plural. On the other hand
Category:Recorders (judges) would be shorter. I mean, doesn't first-come first-served apply? A short cat is better than a long one, and
Category:Recorders (musical instruments) is longer than
Category:Recorders (judges) or whatever. I'm happy to continue discussion here, but so far I think
Category:Recorders isn't so bad. --
Evertype·
✆ 21:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
That doesn't make sense at all. I don't understand why you don't like the plural when
you named it as such. And if the article needs disambiguating to
Recorder (musical instrument) then surely the category does too?
Sionk (
talk) 22:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Strong support extremely ambiguous, and not the normal meaning of recorder (something that records, like a data recorder or tape recorder) --
67.70.35.44 (
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I don't know. Nobody has needed categories for legal position-holders, sound-recording equiment, etc. before now, Why not leave this one short and sweet as it is and use parentheticals for the other categories as needed. I doubt people are going to be genuinely led astray by this category. Noqever, the comment above that
Category:Recorder makers is ambiguous doesn't make sense, because "it is not about those who make records" -- well, no, it's about those who make recorders. That isn't likely to be legal position-holders, and for the other we could have
Category:Makers of sound-recording equipment or whatever. --
Evertype·
✆ 14:49, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
It doesn't matter where those are currently categorized, it only matters whether they can be categorized here or not. And this is not the primary topic of "recorder" so should not occupy this category name, as any other recorder has just as much right to it. If you dispute that, move the musical instrument article to
recorder. Otherwise, this will be a maintenance hog, requiring the category to be constantly patrolled for miscategorized recording equipment. HOTCAT doesn't show you the category description, and the musical instruments are clearly not going to be the primary meaning most editors come up with first, so miscateogrization will be a given with this. --
67.70.35.44 (
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Support—When we look at the term objectively, to some, myself included, the musical instrument is the primary meaning, while to others a mechanical instrument for capturing sounds or sights, and to yet others it is a job-title for a person who makes a record of an event. As a result there is no single primary meaning and thus it needs disambiguating when used in a category name.
Beeswaxcandle (
talk) 05:59, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I would not have a problem moving the article
Recorder (musical instrument) to
Recorder, and having the current disambiguation page move to
Recorder (disambiguation). None of the other articles about things called "recorder" seem to attract categories called "recorder". Perhaps that is the simplest. --
Evertype·
✆ 20:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I'm not even convinced that the musical instrument isn't the primary meaning. The word "recorder" by itself is the only way that the instruments are described. Other devices are described usually with an attribute (tape recorder, videocassetter recorder, court recorder (> court reporter most often). --
Evertype·
✆ 14:01, 30 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:Recorder makers
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Nominator's rationale: As the base name "Recorder" is ambiguous, I think the category should be disambiguated: otherwise the category could be Legal position-holders, sound recording equipment, etc.
PamD 14:02, 24 November 2014 (UTC)Sorry, accidentally nominated wrong categoryPamD 14:06, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:International Civil Aviation Chaplains
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT, only one article and I couldn't find any other article that would fit in this category. Note: the one article is already sufficiently parented, no need to upmerge.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 13:42, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Title doesn't match the stated organisation and it lists a place of worship as a chaplain. I've created
Category:Airport chapels which should cover this topic better.
SFB 19:09, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:Monks and nuns
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The result of the discussion was:merge. –
FayenaticLondon 21:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Completely agree on the general problem. The solution, I think, should be to rename
Category:Muslims by occupation into
Category:Muslim religious workers and so on for every faith, and then to purge the categories from anything that is not religious workers. As for monks and nuns in particular, however, I do not quite follow you, as I would regard all members of religious orders to be religious workers (i.e. primarily occupied with religion).
Marcocapelle (
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I would not support that rename, but instead let's split "Muslims by occupation" partly into a new "Muslim religious workers" as most of the sub-cats would belong in it, excluding some e.g. comedians, historians, philosophers. The latter are defining intersections so deserve to be (a) kept and (b) collected together, alongside
Category:Buddhists by occupation,
Category:Christians by occupation etc. –
FayenaticLondon 16:13, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Sounds like a good suggestion but that would be a different nomination. Let's first discuss the current one :-)
Marcocapelle (
talk) 19:50, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose as part of
Category:Monasticism. Not all religious orders are monastic, e.g Jesuits as pointed out above. –
FayenaticLondon 19:02, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
On the other hand, the subcats could be put into that parent. I would support a merger of this category, if the sub-cat
Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide was nominated for splitting to two new separate categories (monks, nuns) at the same time. If you agree, please add it to this nomination. –
FayenaticLondon 19:23, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I wouldn't mind rearranging Jesuits into an immediate child category of
Category:Members of religious orders (instead of as a child cat of monks) if that might help solving the Jesuits problem.
Neither would I mind splitting
Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide and parenting the new categories to
Category:Monks and
Category:Nuns, I just wonder if this has to become part of this nomination or can we simply make it a fresh separation nomination per today or tomorrow? It seems a bit confusing if I would add an extra nomination here three days later.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 22:26, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Merge, given the intention to split the sub-cat for suicides, the only contents to be moved into the target category will be
Category:Lamas,
Category:Monks and
Category:Nuns. Monks and nuns can be grouped together at the start using a sort key. –
FayenaticLondon 22:57, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The latter is a smart addition to the proposal.
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Category:Children of Paradise albums
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Category:Madonna recordings
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The result of the discussion was:withdrawnSnuggums (
talk /
edits) 18:04, 5 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: There isn't really a need for a DAB in the category titles- there are no categories for a collection of recordings by anyone else known as "Madonna". Snuggums (
talk /
edits) 08:56, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep – as Good Ol’factory says.
Oculi (
talk) 09:11, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep Per long-standing precedent. Although I would definitely think of the pop star if I read "Madonna songs" I can easily imagine someone thinking they are compositions about the Madonna. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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M☯ 09:54, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: there was no consensus when this came up for full discussion in 2006.
[5] It was moved to its current name as a speedy nomination in 2009.
[6] –
FayenaticLondon 10:11, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. It such a standard practice to category name to article name that there is a speedy procedure. --
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Category:Nora Aunor films
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Classic overcategorization of films by actor. See
WP:PERFCAT.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:08, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete per many previous CfDs not to cat films by an actor who appears in them. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead 18:25, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete This idea would mean any major film would be subject to a vast array of categories for each actor. Lists and filmographies are a much better approach for grouping this material for readers. @
Good Olfactory: nomination of the parent wouldn't go amiss either.
SFB 19:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete performer by performance, or performance by performer in this cat.
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Category:Metatheory of religion
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Main article has been deleted, most (all?) of the members of this Category are not "theories about theories of religion", just religion-related beliefs
Editor2020,
Talk 03:51, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support nomination. To begin with, the category needs a lot of purging to remove actual beliefs and I think in the end only
Theory of religions would remain as a proper entry in this category.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 09:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment I can see what type of related material is being grouped at the category, even though the naming is incorrect (it covers the theories themselves, not the study of those theories). Can anyone come up with a better title? Perhaps our old friend
Category:Religious theories is a better choice? I would suggest an upmerge to
Category:Philosophy of religion at the least.
SFB 19:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I don't think that a lot of articles and child categories would be suitable for either a 'theories' or a 'philosophy' category. If the category is to be kept as is, then I would suggest a name like
Category:Typology of religious beliefs.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:14, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
But frankly, whatever you would call the category, it wouldn't be a defining characteristic anyway.
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Category:Employees of the Alabama Legislature
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:42, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: per notability and
WP:NON-DEFINING. I'm sure there are many notable politicians that, for a time, worked or interned for the state legislature but this isn't defining or of itself notable. The
only article in the category is notable for being a mayor and being a state representative.
RevelationDirect (
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Keep McDowell Lee served as Secretary of the Alabama Senate for 47 years before retiring and serving for that many years is an example of public service. State legislators also served in their legislatures as clerks, sergeant of arms, etc. and they should received some form of recognition for their service in that way. Categories are used by the reader to find topics of interest and there should be some flexibility in their use. Thank you
RFD (
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Delete Categories are to aid navigation and without other content the category does not fulfil that function. No opposition to including him in the parent category as an alternative, although he seems to be well categorised in other strands of the Alabama tree already.
SFB 19:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:SMALLCAT. With only entry the category doesn't help with navigation at all.
...William 15:53, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete smallcat or non-defining. Also, isn't an employee of the Alabama Legislature legally just a state employee - like the guy who works for the roads department, the head of which reports to the governor, not an "Employee of the Governor of Alabama", but an "Employee of the State of Alabama"?
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The result of the discussion was:merge, as these are small duplicate categories serving no navigational purpose, and there are more members in the target categories. Lutheran categories mainly use "clergy", see
Category:Lutheran clergy by nationality; although
Category:Lutheran priests says some parts use "priests", this can be considered separately as the nominator says. –
FayenaticLondon 16:23, 7 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: per actual usage of these categories, these categories are all used for (Faroese resp. Greenlandic) Lutheran priests. If some people feel that we should rename the categories as well (to Lutheran priests instead of Lutheran clergy), then I would suggest let's do that after this merger proposal has been concluded.
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Category:Religious leaders from Cincinnati, Ohio
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The result of the discussion was:do not rename. (I suppose that even if someone is "from" place A, once they move to place B to be a religious leader there, they can be said to be "from" place B as well, so this doesn't have to be a problem or something that requires two separate category trees.)Good Ol’factory(talk) 04:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: To make clear that these categories are about the location of the activities as a religious leader, not about the location of descent of the person (like location of birth). 16:48, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Oppose, to be consistent with other "People from... " categories, which often contain both people born or brought up in the place and people not born there but strongly associated with the place. "People from... " categories are the common way of categorising people by location (there will no douvt be editors here who think religious leaders should be categorised by denomination etc. rather than place). I haven't checked the "from" categories nominated here, but I suspect they also contain people who are no longer "in" the places.
Sionk (
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I checked quite a couple and they were alright in this respect. However - maybe hypothetically - if they would not be active as a religious leader in the place, then they shouldn't be categorized as a religious leader associated with that place either, and the proposed category names make that exact point clear(er).
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose On the basis that this seems to change the intention of the categories. One of the first articles I checked in
Category:Clergy from Portland, Oregon (
Garner Ted Armstrong) is distinctly not about a person being clergy in Portland. I think it a good idea to (a) maintain general religious categories in the "from" tree (e.g. clergy) and (b) attach the "in" tree specifically to geographically designated occupations only (bishops, etc). It's unlikely that lower level clergy will warrant categorisation by assignment as local workers generally won't warrant an article (or will have done something very different to warrant one). I also think the religious leader city categories are needlessly specific at this time and would be better upmerged to state-level, with subcategories by prominent position (e.g.
Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Pittsburgh) as direct children of the state categories.
SFB 18:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Sionk.
...William 15:45, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I created the Louisville category. It really is "from", as being from Louisville -- they aren't all necessarily leaders in the city. Also, it's a subcat of "People from..".
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Category:BSkyB
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. The company name has changed from BSkyB to Sky and a new category has already been created for it.
Bbb2007 (
talk) 16:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support if it happens The entities are one and the same but it should be noted that Sky plc doesn't technically exist yet. Shareholders will need to approve this change formally
next week.
SFB 18:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The change was approved a few days ago.
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Category:BSkyB television channels
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The company name has changed from BSkyB to Sky.
Bbb2007 (
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Support if it happens The entities are one and the same but it should be noted that Sky plc doesn't technically exist yet. Shareholders will need to approve this change formally
next week.
SFB 18:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The change was approved a few days ago.
[3][4]Bbb2007 (
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Oppose clearly ambiguous. "Sky" has no indication this is for "Sky plc", as there are many other "Sky"s. This category is not for
Sky Television (New Zealand), and the proposed name is therefore ambiguous. Neither is it for categorizing any other Skys found at
Sky_(disambiguation) which are television channels. --
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Category:American religious leaders of Jamaican descent
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT, only one article, maybe also
WP:NARROWCAT, and it's hardly a defining characteristic of the one article that is in the category.
Marcocapelle (
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Upmerge A very narrow intersection indeed. This is not a topic of study as far as I am aware so it is not warranted.
SFB 18:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:American Vodou priests
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The result of the discussion was:delete. –
FayenaticLondon 16:14, 7 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Upmerge The parent category is very small as it is and the navigational benefit of all the mentioned categories is unclear.
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Category:Airport and Aviation Services
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Nominator's rationale:Rename Merge. This category has been created to contain airports run by (?) a Sri Lankan company. However, there is no Wikipedia article for this company and the purpose for this category is not transparent. Because both airports currently in the category are in Sri Lanka, it would make better sense in my view to rename the category in line with other "Airports in FOO" categories and widening its scope in the process merge.
Sionk (
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Support Company article is non-existent so it's hard to claim it as a defining feature. Conditional support on the basis that
Sionk amends the nomination to merge to
Category:Airports in Sri Lanka, which appears to be the original intention, despite the wording.
SFB 18:47, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support merge per SFB, to
Category:Airports in Sri Lanka; the current name is highly ambiguous, as it could be a title-cased name for a container category for services for aviation and airports. --
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Category:Religious leadership roles
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. –
FayenaticLondon 16:40, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The two categories seem to have the same purpose.
Marcocapelle (
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Comment@
Marcocapelle: I think there's more to this nomination than first appears. I realised the role/occupation problem in the tree a few months ago. Essentially "occupation" is synonymous with "job", in other words a work activity which takes up the majority of their working time and is probably remunerated in some way. "Role" on the other hand is broader and means simply something that a person does or is. The latter concept better matches the content of the roles category (see
Mushi-dokugo for example). I think "role" would actually be a better parent of many parts of the current occupation tree. For example, many people in the sportspeople tree are non-professional and have a different occupation (same goes for any person from the pre-professional sport era). Similarly, many in
Category:Theologians will not have been theologians by occupation.
SFB 19:02, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Definitely agree with your analysis. However, in this particular case the distinction is currently being made based on faith: Christian and Jew "roles" are in
Category:Religious occupations while "roles" in all other religions are in
Category:Religious leadership roles. I doubt if this distinction coincides with the distinction between jobs and roles that you rightfully make. If it doesn't coincide, we should still go on with the merger, while realizing that the category may be split later but by different criteria.
Marcocapelle (
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Then move Abbot into the category for leaders. Monks and nuns, however, are religious workers. IMHO these levels are both fine and useful. The merger that is needed is of clergy categories into the tier for religious leaders, see
Category talk:Religious leaders. –
FayenaticLondon 10:24, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Okay, but I meant it merely as an example. The distinction between the two categories isn't clear based on the current contents. That applies even more to the child categories as the distinction is currently being made based on faith: Christian and Jew occupation and leadership roles are in
Category:Religious occupations while occupations and leadership roles in all other religions are in
Category:Religious leadership roles. And, just generally, I'm starting to doubt if 'leaders' are really so well definable. For example, missionaries and evangelists mostly don't start as a leader but may become a leader in the course of time while they get followers. Military chaplains are also a case of doubt.
Marcocapelle (
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Missionaries as such are not leaders, nor are chaplains. If an individual missionary becomes a leader then s/he will be categorised as both, but the pages in these categories are not biographies, so they should either be categorised as leaders or as workers. I already agreed that the sub-cats need to be moved, but am leaving them there for now in order to respect this discussion. –
FayenaticLondon 14:57, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment the difference explained by Fayenatic London doesn't seem to hold in the actual content of the categories. I would assume that an abbot remains a monk, and therefore becomes both an occupation and a leader. A local Protestant minister is an occupation, but write a few books, become a megachurch guy, get a radio or tv show, call yourself bishop, and now you're a leader. How do we OBJECTIVELY tell one from another?
Carlossuarez46 (
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Support this doubt. I also think that we do not even need to use a leader category at all, in our category names we should rather stick to occupational terms per common language, which leader is clearly not.
Marcocapelle (
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Leaders should be subcat of workers/occupations.
WP:SUBCAT says abbot should not be in both (it's a
diffusing sub-cat). Church leaders have much more in common with each other whether they are called priests, clergy, ministers, pastors or something else, than other workers e.g. monks, artists or religious political party leaders. Therefore a local Protestant minister is a leader, not just a worker/occupation. Religious leader is the neutral term used in categories for all religions. See
Category talk:Religious leaders for a proposed overall category structure. –
FayenaticLondon 23:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)reply
The thing that religious leaders have in common in this definition of religious leaders is that they are all
clergy. Other definitions of leaders could be that they have a more-than-local reach (so exclude most priests and ministers) or that they have followers (so include most evangelists and missionaries). I'll happily agree with defining religious leaders as clergy, but then I would also suggest that we keep 'clergy' as category name instead of 'religious leaders', at least at the highest level of the tree - so if it's irrespective of faith or denomination - and use more specific occupation terms once we get lower in the tree.
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Category:Recorders
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Nominator's rationale: As the base name is ambiguous (main article for this topic is
Recorder (musical instrument)), I think the category should be disambiguated: otherwise it might refer to legal position-holders, sound recording equipment, etc.
PamD 14:04, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support - makes sense to me, per nominator's arguments, to clarify that the category is for articles related to musical instruments rather than the judiciary.
Sionk (
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Oppose, so far As the creator of the Category, I mostly want the category to survive. But... at the non-cat page
Recorder the first entry is the musical instrument. But the proposed category is a bit long. And has the problem of the article being in the singular but the new cat would be in the plural. On the other hand
Category:Recorders (judges) would be shorter. I mean, doesn't first-come first-served apply? A short cat is better than a long one, and
Category:Recorders (musical instruments) is longer than
Category:Recorders (judges) or whatever. I'm happy to continue discussion here, but so far I think
Category:Recorders isn't so bad. --
Evertype·
✆ 21:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
That doesn't make sense at all. I don't understand why you don't like the plural when
you named it as such. And if the article needs disambiguating to
Recorder (musical instrument) then surely the category does too?
Sionk (
talk) 22:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Strong support extremely ambiguous, and not the normal meaning of recorder (something that records, like a data recorder or tape recorder) --
67.70.35.44 (
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I don't know. Nobody has needed categories for legal position-holders, sound-recording equiment, etc. before now, Why not leave this one short and sweet as it is and use parentheticals for the other categories as needed. I doubt people are going to be genuinely led astray by this category. Noqever, the comment above that
Category:Recorder makers is ambiguous doesn't make sense, because "it is not about those who make records" -- well, no, it's about those who make recorders. That isn't likely to be legal position-holders, and for the other we could have
Category:Makers of sound-recording equipment or whatever. --
Evertype·
✆ 14:49, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
It doesn't matter where those are currently categorized, it only matters whether they can be categorized here or not. And this is not the primary topic of "recorder" so should not occupy this category name, as any other recorder has just as much right to it. If you dispute that, move the musical instrument article to
recorder. Otherwise, this will be a maintenance hog, requiring the category to be constantly patrolled for miscategorized recording equipment. HOTCAT doesn't show you the category description, and the musical instruments are clearly not going to be the primary meaning most editors come up with first, so miscateogrization will be a given with this. --
67.70.35.44 (
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Support—When we look at the term objectively, to some, myself included, the musical instrument is the primary meaning, while to others a mechanical instrument for capturing sounds or sights, and to yet others it is a job-title for a person who makes a record of an event. As a result there is no single primary meaning and thus it needs disambiguating when used in a category name.
Beeswaxcandle (
talk) 05:59, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I would not have a problem moving the article
Recorder (musical instrument) to
Recorder, and having the current disambiguation page move to
Recorder (disambiguation). None of the other articles about things called "recorder" seem to attract categories called "recorder". Perhaps that is the simplest. --
Evertype·
✆ 20:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I'm not even convinced that the musical instrument isn't the primary meaning. The word "recorder" by itself is the only way that the instruments are described. Other devices are described usually with an attribute (tape recorder, videocassetter recorder, court recorder (> court reporter most often). --
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Category:Recorder makers
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Nominator's rationale: As the base name "Recorder" is ambiguous, I think the category should be disambiguated: otherwise the category could be Legal position-holders, sound recording equipment, etc.
PamD 14:02, 24 November 2014 (UTC)Sorry, accidentally nominated wrong categoryPamD 14:06, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:International Civil Aviation Chaplains
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT, only one article and I couldn't find any other article that would fit in this category. Note: the one article is already sufficiently parented, no need to upmerge.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 13:42, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Title doesn't match the stated organisation and it lists a place of worship as a chaplain. I've created
Category:Airport chapels which should cover this topic better.
SFB 19:09, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:Monks and nuns
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The result of the discussion was:merge. –
FayenaticLondon 21:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Completely agree on the general problem. The solution, I think, should be to rename
Category:Muslims by occupation into
Category:Muslim religious workers and so on for every faith, and then to purge the categories from anything that is not religious workers. As for monks and nuns in particular, however, I do not quite follow you, as I would regard all members of religious orders to be religious workers (i.e. primarily occupied with religion).
Marcocapelle (
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I would not support that rename, but instead let's split "Muslims by occupation" partly into a new "Muslim religious workers" as most of the sub-cats would belong in it, excluding some e.g. comedians, historians, philosophers. The latter are defining intersections so deserve to be (a) kept and (b) collected together, alongside
Category:Buddhists by occupation,
Category:Christians by occupation etc. –
FayenaticLondon 16:13, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Sounds like a good suggestion but that would be a different nomination. Let's first discuss the current one :-)
Marcocapelle (
talk) 19:50, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose as part of
Category:Monasticism. Not all religious orders are monastic, e.g Jesuits as pointed out above. –
FayenaticLondon 19:02, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
On the other hand, the subcats could be put into that parent. I would support a merger of this category, if the sub-cat
Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide was nominated for splitting to two new separate categories (monks, nuns) at the same time. If you agree, please add it to this nomination. –
FayenaticLondon 19:23, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I wouldn't mind rearranging Jesuits into an immediate child category of
Category:Members of religious orders (instead of as a child cat of monks) if that might help solving the Jesuits problem.
Neither would I mind splitting
Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide and parenting the new categories to
Category:Monks and
Category:Nuns, I just wonder if this has to become part of this nomination or can we simply make it a fresh separation nomination per today or tomorrow? It seems a bit confusing if I would add an extra nomination here three days later.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 22:26, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Merge, given the intention to split the sub-cat for suicides, the only contents to be moved into the target category will be
Category:Lamas,
Category:Monks and
Category:Nuns. Monks and nuns can be grouped together at the start using a sort key. –
FayenaticLondon 22:57, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
The latter is a smart addition to the proposal.
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Category:Children of Paradise albums
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Category:Madonna recordings
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The result of the discussion was:withdrawnSnuggums (
talk /
edits) 18:04, 5 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: There isn't really a need for a DAB in the category titles- there are no categories for a collection of recordings by anyone else known as "Madonna". Snuggums (
talk /
edits) 08:56, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep – as Good Ol’factory says.
Oculi (
talk) 09:11, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep Per long-standing precedent. Although I would definitely think of the pop star if I read "Madonna songs" I can easily imagine someone thinking they are compositions about the Madonna. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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M☯ 09:54, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: there was no consensus when this came up for full discussion in 2006.
[5] It was moved to its current name as a speedy nomination in 2009.
[6] –
FayenaticLondon 10:11, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. It such a standard practice to category name to article name that there is a speedy procedure. --
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Category:Nora Aunor films
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Classic overcategorization of films by actor. See
WP:PERFCAT.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:08, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete per many previous CfDs not to cat films by an actor who appears in them. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead 18:25, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete This idea would mean any major film would be subject to a vast array of categories for each actor. Lists and filmographies are a much better approach for grouping this material for readers. @
Good Olfactory: nomination of the parent wouldn't go amiss either.
SFB 19:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete performer by performance, or performance by performer in this cat.
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Category:Metatheory of religion
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Main article has been deleted, most (all?) of the members of this Category are not "theories about theories of religion", just religion-related beliefs
Editor2020,
Talk 03:51, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Support nomination. To begin with, the category needs a lot of purging to remove actual beliefs and I think in the end only
Theory of religions would remain as a proper entry in this category.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 09:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment I can see what type of related material is being grouped at the category, even though the naming is incorrect (it covers the theories themselves, not the study of those theories). Can anyone come up with a better title? Perhaps our old friend
Category:Religious theories is a better choice? I would suggest an upmerge to
Category:Philosophy of religion at the least.
SFB 19:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I don't think that a lot of articles and child categories would be suitable for either a 'theories' or a 'philosophy' category. If the category is to be kept as is, then I would suggest a name like
Category:Typology of religious beliefs.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:14, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
But frankly, whatever you would call the category, it wouldn't be a defining characteristic anyway.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 09:54, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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Category:Employees of the Alabama Legislature
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The result of the discussion was:Delete.
Vegaswikian (
talk) 19:42, 1 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: per notability and
WP:NON-DEFINING. I'm sure there are many notable politicians that, for a time, worked or interned for the state legislature but this isn't defining or of itself notable. The
only article in the category is notable for being a mayor and being a state representative.
RevelationDirect (
talk) 02:58, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep McDowell Lee served as Secretary of the Alabama Senate for 47 years before retiring and serving for that many years is an example of public service. State legislators also served in their legislatures as clerks, sergeant of arms, etc. and they should received some form of recognition for their service in that way. Categories are used by the reader to find topics of interest and there should be some flexibility in their use. Thank you
RFD (
talk) 12:48, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Categories are to aid navigation and without other content the category does not fulfil that function. No opposition to including him in the parent category as an alternative, although he seems to be well categorised in other strands of the Alabama tree already.
SFB 19:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:SMALLCAT. With only entry the category doesn't help with navigation at all.
...William 15:53, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete smallcat or non-defining. Also, isn't an employee of the Alabama Legislature legally just a state employee - like the guy who works for the roads department, the head of which reports to the governor, not an "Employee of the Governor of Alabama", but an "Employee of the State of Alabama"?
Carlossuarez46 (
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