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Nominator's rationale: The first category doesn't contain a single article on a singular event – the three events are annual. For the second one, correct the weird, non-standard category titles – it shouldn't be a hidden category though. Thirdly, the container category is superfluous. --
PanchoS (
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23:37, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete all. While there may be exceptions, a yearly frequency is a far too common characteristic of holidays and observances to categorize by this aspect separately. I wouldn't have a problem with exception categories (e.g. quarterly or biannually) if there are enough holidays with such frequency.
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Category:Publications by frequency
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Comment I wouldn't call Whitaker's Almanack a periodical although it comes out once a year. There are many yearbooks for which the word "publication" probably applies better than "periodical". Anyway, the whole matter is completely unimportant and so the outcome is of no consequence.
Thincat (
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09:43, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I don't doubt they can be called periodicals (and I saw the reference you point out). However, where I live (UK) I don't think such things are called periodicals though to call them that would not be regarded as incorrect. I don't understand n=1. What units are you using?
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Category:Defunct publications
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Nominator's rationale: Publications include monographies and other non-periodicals that by definition cannot be "defunct". On the other hand, websites could be considered publications, too. Together with defunct TV and radio stations, they are however already covered by the parent category
Category:Defunct media. It therefore makes sense to slightly narrow the scope so it both better describes the actual content and is clearly distinguished from its parent category
Category:Defunct media. While a redirect from
Category:Defunct publications should be kept, additional redirects for the (few) child categories seem superfluous.
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Category:Light-flyweight boxers
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Nominator's rationale: In WP's articles for professional boxing weight classes, the ones with two words do not contain a hyphen. I propose a mass category rename for consistency.
Mac Dreamstate (
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PanchoS (
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22:36, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Oppose in American English when a two-word phrase is used as an adjective it is hyphenated. So with the hyphens is proper English on this side of the Pond, and there is no overriding reason to change
WP:ENGVAR. The reason the articles aren't hyphenated is that they don't contain "boxer" and hence are nouns not an adjectival phrase. (see
this and
this, and even our own article on the matter
Compound_modifier#Hyphenation_of_elements.
Carlossuarez46 (
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05:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
OK, I have no objection to that. What needs to be done subsequently is for every two-word category (including the anomalous Category:Super middleweight boxers) to include the hyphen, and for several thousand articles to point to the hyphenated categories accordingly. Right now it's all over the place, so a bot will be needed for that. Could it be arranged?
Mac Dreamstate (
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15:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
British too. There was an extensive discussion regarding hyphenation of weight classes
here, which resulted in a consensus that U.S. media used no hyphens, whereas the rest of the world does. Therefore the hyphen (in the case of boxing weight classes) definitely isn't an Americanism—quite the opposite.
Mac Dreamstate (
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16:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Procedural note: @
Mac Dreamstate: Please nominate the non-hyphenated ones as part of this nomination and tag them accordingly so the discussion can proceed as deciding whether to go with hyphens or no hyphens (or whether the inconsistency should stand). ~
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Category:Superheroes by animated series
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Nominator's rationale: Categories are redundant, but Animated superhero television series is the more logical name.
JDDJS (
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20:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support. The articles in this category are about series about superheroes, not about superheroes themselves. Some child categories may need to be purged insofar they are about superheroes but not specifically in a series.
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Category:Wonder Woman television series
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Nominator's rationale: There has only been one Wonder Woman TV series. The rest are just TV shows that Wonder Woman was a character in. It is unnecessary.
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Category:Ukrainian-Polish culture in Lwów Voivodeship
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Comment -- The question is really how places that were in Russia until WWI, then in Poland to 1939, then in Ukraine should be categorised to reflect the changes in political boundaries. The one article concerns an amateur club: is it significant enough to need an article?
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Category:Miami Fusion F.C.
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Category:York geography stubs
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Category:Films directed by Silambarasan Rajendar
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Nominator's rationale: The subject (
Silambarasan) has directed only one film and has announced no more. Should this category stay, it should be renamed "Films directed by Silambarasan" to match the subject's article name.
Kailash29792 (
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12:57, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep, but rename per
WP:FILMCAT - "A category for a director's films should be created even if they have only directed one film (irrespective of whether they are likely to direct more in the future), providing that the director already has an article." So this should be kept and renamed to match the main article. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead18:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Noongar stubs
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The result of the discussion was:merge category for now, without prejudice to re-creating it if
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Noongar-stub shows that the stub template is used on sufficient pages. Also, add all talk pages of the member stub pages to WikiProject category
Category:Stub-Class Noongar articles. ( Done) Although the discussion shows a strong divergence of views, some comments wanting to keep the nominated category seemed to think that classification for the WikiProject,
Category:WikiProject Noongar articles by quality, would be affected. This is not the case. The WikiProject categorisation works on talk pages, and is independent of categories on the article pages. I will keep the template, but upmerge the category to both parents, for indigenous people and Western Australia stubs. I will also tag the talk pages with the WP Noongar code (nys=yes) where needed. –
FayenaticLondon22:03, 2 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Strong oppose - the noongar stubs are linked to the Noongarpedia project and should not be touched as the project is in stages of development, and any sense of minimum has nothing to do with a developing project.
JarrahTree14:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Its an outreach project in conjunction with Wikimedia Australia and Noongar community to improve content related to Noongar country, people, culture and language. For articles related to Noongar this is the top level category, the Indigenous people and Western Australia are related but neither is a direct parent category
Gnangarra06:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
My guess is
meta:Noongarpedia. I see nothing that indicates a reason to change my views on the matter. Nothing has been created (and
Category:Draft-Class Noongar articles would be the initial start to me) but nevertheless, if the separate template is kept and there's evidence in the future that the number of template calls indicate that Noongar stubs are significant, then the template can redirected back into a separate category again. Until then, I see no reason for the vehement overreaction to moving the location of a set of stubs, especially when they already exist in another location by the WikiProject. --
Ricky81682 (
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07:20, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
reply - there is no good reason why noongar project stubs should be subsumed into the indigenous project stubs - they are separate projects
JarrahTree10:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
And Algeria is separate from Tanzania but both sets of boxing stubs, as one of hundreds of examples, have separate templates but are stored together at
Category:African boxing biography stubs. I understand perfectly. You're complaining about the WikiProject categorization on the talk page and ignoring that we are talking about the stub sorting organization on the main page. --
Ricky81682 (
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10:20, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support deleting the category but keeping the template which I think is the proposal here. The other stubs are located in
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs so I don't see what's wrong with merging the stub category together since it doesn't seem like there's any interest in deleting the template itself. The project can still tag itself to the individual articles both on its own and by just following the template. I wonder if these should be handled by discussion at
Template talk:Noongar-stub rather than CFD in the future? --
Ricky81682 (
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00:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
The stub articles? Ok but they are about a group that is an indigenous people of Australia, correct? So why would it be wrong for this template to populate
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs since those are also stubs related to indigenous peoples of Australia and also aren't about people as well? --
Ricky81682 (
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07:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
somewhere somehow you seem to be missing the point. The noongar project is separate from the indigenous project - they are not mutually interchangeable despite what you or the proposer seem to assume
JarrahTree10:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
becuase the Noongar isnt solely about people its about a country, places within that country, organisations and culture putting that all in a people category isnt appropriate.
Gnangarra13:52, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I believe you're interpreting the word "people" to mean individuals; the phrase "peoples" is used here to refer to a group of people sharing some ethnicity, geography, and/or culture in common. No one is proposing moving the articles to a biographical category for individuals.
Her Pegship (
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18:47, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Reply and clarify strong oppose - xfd is not a process for project space - I have never seen such idiocy on xfd pages. A specific merge to indigenous australia stubs is absurd. To even consider playing with a wikiproject should have had this proposal thrown out, before it even started. The fact that it continues this far is an insult to a specific project and total misunderstanding of the issues relating to project space. The proposers really should take stock of what they are dealing with here. I know there is a general deliberate studied ignorance of project maintenance on wikipedia, and the importance of the stub system, but this proposal is ridiculous. Any xfd partipant who allows themselves to even consider playing with components of project space really should recuse themselves from xfd processes until they get a better understanding of project mechanics. To look at the components of a specific discrete project and measure it in terms of a minimum, and to upmerge to be part of another project really has such a misunderstanding of what projects are, I would ask for this proposal to be summarily abandoned in
WP:AGF
For any none the wiser look at
[1] - Western Australia, Noongar, and Indigenous are 3 separate specific projects, and not subsumable into each other in any way at all
JarrahTree00:57, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
You appear to be very confused. For example you refer to a wikiproject and project space, but this discusson is about a category containing articles (not talk pages or pages in
Project namespace). DexDor(talk)04:30, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
It sclear to me that Jarrahtree isnt confused but that he recognises that the lack of current content means that full project and namespace category trees arent yet a reasonable out come, the specifically over lap.
Gnangarra06:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I am not in the slightest confused. A limited understanding of projects has encouraged a nominator to propose a move between projects stubs that should not be moved between them. Whatever space - project, stub or whatever
JarrahTree06:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
No, it seems like a proposal to move a separate category created as part of a stub template. The WikiProject has no relationship to the stub categorization. The project should (and does) cover not just stubs. The project already has
Category:Stub-Class Noongar articles which is entirely separate from this template and from category. And I have no zero idea what you are talking about because stub categories are regularly discussed at CFD. "Project" categories are also regularly discussed here as well. --
Ricky81682 (
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07:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
fair enough I can see you are simply not getting it - I repeat - the proposer is offering a proposal to move noongar project stubs into a different project. I object, on the basis of the projects being separate/different - what is hard to understand about that?
JarrahTree10:09, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
That has nothing to do with this category discussion here. If you want to propose a drastic change and to move out a 65-article project out on its own, first quit attacking everyone here as ignorant buffoons for some reason and actually propose that where it belongs. He's proposing that the stubs be moved to a different category since there's only about 20 stubs on that page. And whether or not the WikiProjects are different has no relationship to how the stub are sorted.There's no even a propose to delete the separate stubs, just move them into a single category, something more like what's done for all the various template for African boxing biography stubs (other than South Africa) being consolidated in
Category:African boxing biography stubs and each one of those countries is a different subpart of the same WikiProject. --
Ricky81682 (
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10:18, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
For your info from what I have observed, xfd territory is usually a closed shop where most proposers rarely ever go to places other than the specific item. People who inhabit the territory have tended to be the same over the last decade. Whether they have upped their game it's your choice to champion them, fine. I still say that where the noongar stubs are stay there and are left alone. simple. but you and others may wish to offer contrary opinions, thats your option
JarrahTree10:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
No one is arguing to delete the stubs. We are arguing about whether the category where the stubs are located is needed. The stubs will still remain and the project can separately identify them. The amount of hostility you are expressing is not helpful here given what seems like an complete misunderstanding of what is being discussed here. I still haven't figured out how any of this would affect any Noongarpedia project other than the fact that everyone seems to just ignoring what we are talking about and advocating a method that no one else would possibly think is practical. --
Ricky81682 (
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20:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete category & upmerge template per nom and
Ricky81682. Folks keeping track of these articles on behalf of the Noongarpedia project can use some other way to do so without using stub templates and categories - for example, project talk-page banners. As this is a discussion about Wikipedia and its procedures, any interpretation of the nature and/or content of the category/articles and their use in the Noongar project is not relevant here.
Her Pegship (
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20:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep both template and category. Sure, the category is stilk a little undersized, and I'm not sure about the validity of its recent large expansion; many of the articles there do not yet mention Noongar. However, the nom's proposed merge target of
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs is clearly inappropriate for set which includes so many non-biographical articles. I think that some of
Gnangarra's concerns are misplaced, and the project's goals would be much better served by use the WikiProject banner and its classification options. Hopefully someone will help show them how to get more of that technique. But -- and it's a BIG but -- the technical case for deletion overlooks the real issue here, which is not technical. We have a group of people working on an area where en.wp has a long-standing systemic weakness: indigenous people. They are evidently still getting off the ground, and still find this stub type helpful in their work. This stub type isn't content, it's metadata ... and relaxing the technical criteria on metadata seems to me to be a very modest step to helping the people doing this valuable work rather than leaving them feel that they are being undermined. So please, just give em a break. If you can give them a hand too, that'd be even better ... but at least don't impede them. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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21:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment the stub category is about articles related to one specific subject area Noongar, Noongar covers a large area and it crosses over many subject areas the up merge isnt appropriate because it scatters the content where as this point is the highest focal point for that subject area and because the numbers are low other narrower focal points people, places, language etc arent appropriate. In an ideal world the category should be emptied and deleted but wikipedia is a work in progress. While others have argued about project specific issues and I've answered some of those questions. Some of the articles I tagged have vague references through the use of Aboriginal, or Indigenous rather than specifying Noongar but thats another symptom of the lack of information being included through various issues from ignorance to outright racism.
Gnangarra00:40, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment: I don't know whether deleting and upmerging {{noongar-stub}} is the correct approach, but I don't think that tagging of articles with {{noongar-stub}} is appropriate when the article does not specifically mention Noongar at all. (example:
[2]) In particular such categorization appears contrary to
WP:CAT#Articles:
Categorization of articles must be verifiable. It should be clear from verifiable information in the article why it was placed in each of its categories.
It would probably be helpful if editors adding {{noongar-stub}} to such articles (that don't mention Noongar or Indigenous people at all) would also add at least a short sentence to the article, mentioning the Noongar people and their connection to the article subject.
Mitch Ames (
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14:16, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep -- It is a little small for a stub category, but if there is an active project to address this (as stated), it will be useful to them to have it.
Peterkingiron (
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17:01, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete the category and upmerge the template. No stub categories are designed specifically for one project - they are intended to be used by general editors across Wikipedia. @
Gnangarra: there is no reason why the Noongar project should not do what the vast majority of WikiProjects do and use talk-page templates. These are much more useful to any project that stub categories, as they can classify articles not just as stubs, but grade them in other ways according to their level of !completion and their importance to the project. It would be easy to modify a template such as {{WikiProject Ethnic groups}} for this project.
Grutness...wha?01:18, 29 July 2016 (UTC)reply
talk about racism Noongar editors arent considered general editors
Gnangarra
You're either deliberately or inadvertently misinterpreting something fairly straightforward that has NOTHING to do with "race" or "racism". The distinction is made between editors who curate across the content of the wiki in general, as differentiated from those who are invested in a specific area. It wouldn't matter if it was a project about linguistics, or engineering, or some other area of the world. So the above statement is not only inaccurate, but made in bad faith.
Her Pegship (
talk)
17:49, 4 August 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Gnangarra: "General editors" refers to any editors not involved in a WikiProject, irrespective of that project's subject. I have offered you a way of categorising your projects articles which is far more effective than the use of stub types, and you answer by insulting me and my motives. Please remember that
civility is one of the
five pillars of Wikipedia.
Grutness...wha?01:45, 6 August 2016 (UTC)reply
How is it wrong to reclass articles that have bypassed the stub stage as start-class? You should be happy that your project's articles are receiving enough attention to reach the higher classes. The more important problem for the Noongar WP is that, in the rush to fill the stub category, editors are not adding any appropriate Noongar permanent categories, and no one is adding appropriate Noongar project notices to the talk pages. That's where the Noongar WP needs to focus its activities: add the permanent categories, and the talk page headers for your project. The Stub Sorting project allows for a category to have a minimum of 30 articles, if it is the main category for a WP. But that should be an *honest* 30 stubs -- not including downgraded start-class articles tagged as stubs just to fill the minimum.
Dawynn (
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12:04, 5 August 2016 (UTC)reply
yep at any one day it could be above or below a specific number so it appears rather pointless taking a snap shot of any one day to decide if a category has enough entries. That by having such a specific number in place means that the category must be populated above that the whole time when the aim is to improve content yet we argue about deleting categories that facilitate purpose.
203.59.100.24 (
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02:14, 6 August 2016 (UTC)reply
stub categories tend to rise in size and then drop as the stubs are improved. If the size of this category is dropping, which it appears to be, it is a definite indication that it has outlived whatever purpose it had. This is ehy snapshots over several days, some time apart are very useful. It is also why it is far more useful for individual projects to have their own system of keeping track of all articles, as previously explained.
Grutness...wha?00:32, 7 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment appears rather "pointy" that one of the above users is prone to misunderstanding many salient points of this discussion, not to mention assuming some kind of negative bias on the part of those who support deletion.
Her Pegship (
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17:49, 4 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment is it common for people of a particular ethnicity to be dumped into "ethnicity stub" categories? Or is this being done just to show some critical mass? Others are at "Fooish biography stubs" so at least someone who is interested in biographies or that wikiproject could hope to find them.
Carlossuarez46 (
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18:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Yes, it's done so that people who are interested in small "stub" biographies articles of a particular ethnicity can find them. In the alternative, the WikiProject is going to be broader set of articles (beyond biographies for example) and should not be concerned only about stubs but in start class/C/B/A/GA/FA articles. The amount of anger and personal attacks is unwarranted for such a minor issue here. --
Ricky81682 (
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20:31, 8 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete category per above discussion, and before the template is upmerged the Noongar stub tag should be removed from geographical articles in this category which are clearly not about Noongar (or about indigenous people in general).
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07:36, 26 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Gouvernment ministers of Switzerland
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Category:Al-Wahda S.C.C.
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Nominator's rationale: The official website mainly refers to the club as
Al Wahda FC. Other countries have clubs called
Al-Wahda SC etc, but this seems to be the only one currently called FC, so there is no need to append "(Abu Dhabi)" to disambiguate. This is not eligible for speedy renaming, as I only just moved the page without discussion. –
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Category:17th-century establishments in Iran
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Nominator's rationale: Also including the subcategories here but obviously Iran didn't exist in the 17th century. The region at that time was covered by the
Category:Safavid dynasty which has a preexisting category and could use a history subcategory and structures from there.
Ricky81682 (
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07:15, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support - Iranian categories should have long been renamed and thanks for bringing this up. The only thing is perhaps wording "in dynasty" is an awkward English, perhaps "in Safavid Iran" could be better.
GreyShark (
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20:20, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Do we name them about the current country though? There's numerous other discussions that delete based on the fact that the country didn't exist then.
Safavid dynasty is titled "Safavid Dynasty of Persia" so perhaps 17th-century establishments in Persia or in Safavid Iran as suggested or
Safavid Empire as used here but I see no reason to use "Iran" which unlike France did not actually exist during this time period. --
Ricky81682 (
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23:21, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
There has been yet a final ruling on category policy regarding anachronistic category namings, however in specific discussions we have mostly reached a consensus that modern country names and modern borders should not be applied anachronistically.
GreyShark (
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05:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep Iran has been the term used in Iran for millenia. There is no reason to slavishly follow English conventions of the past when they reflected little to no understanding of the people in power there. Iran is the acceptable name for the Empire at the time, and there is nothing gained from being too precise in naming the categories.
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01:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)reply
By "through to" I meant 1620s, 1630s etc. In fact I've just bumped into them as red links in a database report I was clearing and I've created the missing ones from 1590s to 1680s for "in Iran" and "establishments in Iran" and added them to the list above which I assumed would be uncontroversial, as well as tagging the ones you made with this CFD.
Le Deluge (
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19:11, 16 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment Contrary to some comments this is not a modern vs. historical debate. This is a question of whether we should blingly follow the western naming conventions of the time, or instead reflect the internal names of the place in our categories. The later would suggest the Iranian categories. In the same way, an article on someone born in 1695 should say he was born in Istanbul, not Constantinople, because Istanbul became the name to the inhabitants in the 1450s, even if people in Western Europe did not generally accept the new name until the 1920s.
John Pack Lambert (
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06:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Your first point about "Western naming conventions" starts sounding like Moskva versus Moscow - this is an English encyclopedia so uses English naming conventions. And whilst I can understand a certain purity about what goes into articles, the prime purpose of categories is to make things easily findable rather than to be pure. That's true in spades of Wikipedia categories, which are heavily used by bots and template code, which struggle when names get changed. Fair enough, in some cases you can't avoid name changes because the geography changes significantly (Eastern Europe is a nightmare for that) but where a polity is roughly the same as the modern country, it makes life much easier for bots, templates, and less knowledgeable humans if we use the modern name. That trumps purity every time for me.
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Category:Wikipedia articles with Citizendium counterparts
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Nominator's rationale: Categorizing pages by whether they have a counterpart in another encyclopedia etc could lead to a lot of categories on some pages. Note: This category has no proper parent categories. Note: The only content current in this category is a subcategory that I'm not sure really belongs in this category anyway (it's quite possible that a page in Wikipedia might use information from a Citizendium page of a different name). DexDor(talk)06:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:IEEE-level awards
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Nominator's rationale: It's unclear what distinction there is between a IEEE award and a IEEE-level award. These categories are quite small so there's no need to have separate categories. DexDor(talk)05:56, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: The first category doesn't contain a single article on a singular event – the three events are annual. For the second one, correct the weird, non-standard category titles – it shouldn't be a hidden category though. Thirdly, the container category is superfluous. --
PanchoS (
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23:37, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete all. While there may be exceptions, a yearly frequency is a far too common characteristic of holidays and observances to categorize by this aspect separately. I wouldn't have a problem with exception categories (e.g. quarterly or biannually) if there are enough holidays with such frequency.
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Category:Publications by frequency
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Comment I wouldn't call Whitaker's Almanack a periodical although it comes out once a year. There are many yearbooks for which the word "publication" probably applies better than "periodical". Anyway, the whole matter is completely unimportant and so the outcome is of no consequence.
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09:43, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I don't doubt they can be called periodicals (and I saw the reference you point out). However, where I live (UK) I don't think such things are called periodicals though to call them that would not be regarded as incorrect. I don't understand n=1. What units are you using?
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Category:Defunct publications
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Nominator's rationale: Publications include monographies and other non-periodicals that by definition cannot be "defunct". On the other hand, websites could be considered publications, too. Together with defunct TV and radio stations, they are however already covered by the parent category
Category:Defunct media. It therefore makes sense to slightly narrow the scope so it both better describes the actual content and is clearly distinguished from its parent category
Category:Defunct media. While a redirect from
Category:Defunct publications should be kept, additional redirects for the (few) child categories seem superfluous.
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22:29, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Light-flyweight boxers
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Nominator's rationale: In WP's articles for professional boxing weight classes, the ones with two words do not contain a hyphen. I propose a mass category rename for consistency.
Mac Dreamstate (
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PanchoS (
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22:36, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Oppose in American English when a two-word phrase is used as an adjective it is hyphenated. So with the hyphens is proper English on this side of the Pond, and there is no overriding reason to change
WP:ENGVAR. The reason the articles aren't hyphenated is that they don't contain "boxer" and hence are nouns not an adjectival phrase. (see
this and
this, and even our own article on the matter
Compound_modifier#Hyphenation_of_elements.
Carlossuarez46 (
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05:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
OK, I have no objection to that. What needs to be done subsequently is for every two-word category (including the anomalous Category:Super middleweight boxers) to include the hyphen, and for several thousand articles to point to the hyphenated categories accordingly. Right now it's all over the place, so a bot will be needed for that. Could it be arranged?
Mac Dreamstate (
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15:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
British too. There was an extensive discussion regarding hyphenation of weight classes
here, which resulted in a consensus that U.S. media used no hyphens, whereas the rest of the world does. Therefore the hyphen (in the case of boxing weight classes) definitely isn't an Americanism—quite the opposite.
Mac Dreamstate (
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16:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Procedural note: @
Mac Dreamstate: Please nominate the non-hyphenated ones as part of this nomination and tag them accordingly so the discussion can proceed as deciding whether to go with hyphens or no hyphens (or whether the inconsistency should stand). ~
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Category:Superheroes by animated series
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Nominator's rationale: Categories are redundant, but Animated superhero television series is the more logical name.
JDDJS (
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20:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support. The articles in this category are about series about superheroes, not about superheroes themselves. Some child categories may need to be purged insofar they are about superheroes but not specifically in a series.
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Category:Wonder Woman television series
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Nominator's rationale: There has only been one Wonder Woman TV series. The rest are just TV shows that Wonder Woman was a character in. It is unnecessary.
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19:55, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Ukrainian-Polish culture in Lwów Voivodeship
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Comment -- The question is really how places that were in Russia until WWI, then in Poland to 1939, then in Ukraine should be categorised to reflect the changes in political boundaries. The one article concerns an amateur club: is it significant enough to need an article?
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Category:Miami Fusion F.C.
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Category:York geography stubs
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Category:Films directed by Silambarasan Rajendar
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Nominator's rationale: The subject (
Silambarasan) has directed only one film and has announced no more. Should this category stay, it should be renamed "Films directed by Silambarasan" to match the subject's article name.
Kailash29792 (
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12:57, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep, but rename per
WP:FILMCAT - "A category for a director's films should be created even if they have only directed one film (irrespective of whether they are likely to direct more in the future), providing that the director already has an article." So this should be kept and renamed to match the main article. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead18:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Noongar stubs
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The result of the discussion was:merge category for now, without prejudice to re-creating it if
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Noongar-stub shows that the stub template is used on sufficient pages. Also, add all talk pages of the member stub pages to WikiProject category
Category:Stub-Class Noongar articles. ( Done) Although the discussion shows a strong divergence of views, some comments wanting to keep the nominated category seemed to think that classification for the WikiProject,
Category:WikiProject Noongar articles by quality, would be affected. This is not the case. The WikiProject categorisation works on talk pages, and is independent of categories on the article pages. I will keep the template, but upmerge the category to both parents, for indigenous people and Western Australia stubs. I will also tag the talk pages with the WP Noongar code (nys=yes) where needed. –
FayenaticLondon22:03, 2 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Strong oppose - the noongar stubs are linked to the Noongarpedia project and should not be touched as the project is in stages of development, and any sense of minimum has nothing to do with a developing project.
JarrahTree14:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Its an outreach project in conjunction with Wikimedia Australia and Noongar community to improve content related to Noongar country, people, culture and language. For articles related to Noongar this is the top level category, the Indigenous people and Western Australia are related but neither is a direct parent category
Gnangarra06:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
My guess is
meta:Noongarpedia. I see nothing that indicates a reason to change my views on the matter. Nothing has been created (and
Category:Draft-Class Noongar articles would be the initial start to me) but nevertheless, if the separate template is kept and there's evidence in the future that the number of template calls indicate that Noongar stubs are significant, then the template can redirected back into a separate category again. Until then, I see no reason for the vehement overreaction to moving the location of a set of stubs, especially when they already exist in another location by the WikiProject. --
Ricky81682 (
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07:20, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
reply - there is no good reason why noongar project stubs should be subsumed into the indigenous project stubs - they are separate projects
JarrahTree10:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
And Algeria is separate from Tanzania but both sets of boxing stubs, as one of hundreds of examples, have separate templates but are stored together at
Category:African boxing biography stubs. I understand perfectly. You're complaining about the WikiProject categorization on the talk page and ignoring that we are talking about the stub sorting organization on the main page. --
Ricky81682 (
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10:20, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support deleting the category but keeping the template which I think is the proposal here. The other stubs are located in
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs so I don't see what's wrong with merging the stub category together since it doesn't seem like there's any interest in deleting the template itself. The project can still tag itself to the individual articles both on its own and by just following the template. I wonder if these should be handled by discussion at
Template talk:Noongar-stub rather than CFD in the future? --
Ricky81682 (
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00:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
The stub articles? Ok but they are about a group that is an indigenous people of Australia, correct? So why would it be wrong for this template to populate
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs since those are also stubs related to indigenous peoples of Australia and also aren't about people as well? --
Ricky81682 (
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07:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
somewhere somehow you seem to be missing the point. The noongar project is separate from the indigenous project - they are not mutually interchangeable despite what you or the proposer seem to assume
JarrahTree10:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
becuase the Noongar isnt solely about people its about a country, places within that country, organisations and culture putting that all in a people category isnt appropriate.
Gnangarra13:52, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I believe you're interpreting the word "people" to mean individuals; the phrase "peoples" is used here to refer to a group of people sharing some ethnicity, geography, and/or culture in common. No one is proposing moving the articles to a biographical category for individuals.
Her Pegship (
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18:47, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Reply and clarify strong oppose - xfd is not a process for project space - I have never seen such idiocy on xfd pages. A specific merge to indigenous australia stubs is absurd. To even consider playing with a wikiproject should have had this proposal thrown out, before it even started. The fact that it continues this far is an insult to a specific project and total misunderstanding of the issues relating to project space. The proposers really should take stock of what they are dealing with here. I know there is a general deliberate studied ignorance of project maintenance on wikipedia, and the importance of the stub system, but this proposal is ridiculous. Any xfd partipant who allows themselves to even consider playing with components of project space really should recuse themselves from xfd processes until they get a better understanding of project mechanics. To look at the components of a specific discrete project and measure it in terms of a minimum, and to upmerge to be part of another project really has such a misunderstanding of what projects are, I would ask for this proposal to be summarily abandoned in
WP:AGF
For any none the wiser look at
[1] - Western Australia, Noongar, and Indigenous are 3 separate specific projects, and not subsumable into each other in any way at all
JarrahTree00:57, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
You appear to be very confused. For example you refer to a wikiproject and project space, but this discusson is about a category containing articles (not talk pages or pages in
Project namespace). DexDor(talk)04:30, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
It sclear to me that Jarrahtree isnt confused but that he recognises that the lack of current content means that full project and namespace category trees arent yet a reasonable out come, the specifically over lap.
Gnangarra06:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I am not in the slightest confused. A limited understanding of projects has encouraged a nominator to propose a move between projects stubs that should not be moved between them. Whatever space - project, stub or whatever
JarrahTree06:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
No, it seems like a proposal to move a separate category created as part of a stub template. The WikiProject has no relationship to the stub categorization. The project should (and does) cover not just stubs. The project already has
Category:Stub-Class Noongar articles which is entirely separate from this template and from category. And I have no zero idea what you are talking about because stub categories are regularly discussed at CFD. "Project" categories are also regularly discussed here as well. --
Ricky81682 (
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07:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
fair enough I can see you are simply not getting it - I repeat - the proposer is offering a proposal to move noongar project stubs into a different project. I object, on the basis of the projects being separate/different - what is hard to understand about that?
JarrahTree10:09, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
That has nothing to do with this category discussion here. If you want to propose a drastic change and to move out a 65-article project out on its own, first quit attacking everyone here as ignorant buffoons for some reason and actually propose that where it belongs. He's proposing that the stubs be moved to a different category since there's only about 20 stubs on that page. And whether or not the WikiProjects are different has no relationship to how the stub are sorted.There's no even a propose to delete the separate stubs, just move them into a single category, something more like what's done for all the various template for African boxing biography stubs (other than South Africa) being consolidated in
Category:African boxing biography stubs and each one of those countries is a different subpart of the same WikiProject. --
Ricky81682 (
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10:18, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
For your info from what I have observed, xfd territory is usually a closed shop where most proposers rarely ever go to places other than the specific item. People who inhabit the territory have tended to be the same over the last decade. Whether they have upped their game it's your choice to champion them, fine. I still say that where the noongar stubs are stay there and are left alone. simple. but you and others may wish to offer contrary opinions, thats your option
JarrahTree10:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
No one is arguing to delete the stubs. We are arguing about whether the category where the stubs are located is needed. The stubs will still remain and the project can separately identify them. The amount of hostility you are expressing is not helpful here given what seems like an complete misunderstanding of what is being discussed here. I still haven't figured out how any of this would affect any Noongarpedia project other than the fact that everyone seems to just ignoring what we are talking about and advocating a method that no one else would possibly think is practical. --
Ricky81682 (
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20:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete category & upmerge template per nom and
Ricky81682. Folks keeping track of these articles on behalf of the Noongarpedia project can use some other way to do so without using stub templates and categories - for example, project talk-page banners. As this is a discussion about Wikipedia and its procedures, any interpretation of the nature and/or content of the category/articles and their use in the Noongar project is not relevant here.
Her Pegship (
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20:13, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep both template and category. Sure, the category is stilk a little undersized, and I'm not sure about the validity of its recent large expansion; many of the articles there do not yet mention Noongar. However, the nom's proposed merge target of
Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia stubs is clearly inappropriate for set which includes so many non-biographical articles. I think that some of
Gnangarra's concerns are misplaced, and the project's goals would be much better served by use the WikiProject banner and its classification options. Hopefully someone will help show them how to get more of that technique. But -- and it's a BIG but -- the technical case for deletion overlooks the real issue here, which is not technical. We have a group of people working on an area where en.wp has a long-standing systemic weakness: indigenous people. They are evidently still getting off the ground, and still find this stub type helpful in their work. This stub type isn't content, it's metadata ... and relaxing the technical criteria on metadata seems to me to be a very modest step to helping the people doing this valuable work rather than leaving them feel that they are being undermined. So please, just give em a break. If you can give them a hand too, that'd be even better ... but at least don't impede them. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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21:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment the stub category is about articles related to one specific subject area Noongar, Noongar covers a large area and it crosses over many subject areas the up merge isnt appropriate because it scatters the content where as this point is the highest focal point for that subject area and because the numbers are low other narrower focal points people, places, language etc arent appropriate. In an ideal world the category should be emptied and deleted but wikipedia is a work in progress. While others have argued about project specific issues and I've answered some of those questions. Some of the articles I tagged have vague references through the use of Aboriginal, or Indigenous rather than specifying Noongar but thats another symptom of the lack of information being included through various issues from ignorance to outright racism.
Gnangarra00:40, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment: I don't know whether deleting and upmerging {{noongar-stub}} is the correct approach, but I don't think that tagging of articles with {{noongar-stub}} is appropriate when the article does not specifically mention Noongar at all. (example:
[2]) In particular such categorization appears contrary to
WP:CAT#Articles:
Categorization of articles must be verifiable. It should be clear from verifiable information in the article why it was placed in each of its categories.
It would probably be helpful if editors adding {{noongar-stub}} to such articles (that don't mention Noongar or Indigenous people at all) would also add at least a short sentence to the article, mentioning the Noongar people and their connection to the article subject.
Mitch Ames (
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14:16, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep -- It is a little small for a stub category, but if there is an active project to address this (as stated), it will be useful to them to have it.
Peterkingiron (
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17:01, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete the category and upmerge the template. No stub categories are designed specifically for one project - they are intended to be used by general editors across Wikipedia. @
Gnangarra: there is no reason why the Noongar project should not do what the vast majority of WikiProjects do and use talk-page templates. These are much more useful to any project that stub categories, as they can classify articles not just as stubs, but grade them in other ways according to their level of !completion and their importance to the project. It would be easy to modify a template such as {{WikiProject Ethnic groups}} for this project.
Grutness...wha?01:18, 29 July 2016 (UTC)reply
talk about racism Noongar editors arent considered general editors
Gnangarra
You're either deliberately or inadvertently misinterpreting something fairly straightforward that has NOTHING to do with "race" or "racism". The distinction is made between editors who curate across the content of the wiki in general, as differentiated from those who are invested in a specific area. It wouldn't matter if it was a project about linguistics, or engineering, or some other area of the world. So the above statement is not only inaccurate, but made in bad faith.
Her Pegship (
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17:49, 4 August 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Gnangarra: "General editors" refers to any editors not involved in a WikiProject, irrespective of that project's subject. I have offered you a way of categorising your projects articles which is far more effective than the use of stub types, and you answer by insulting me and my motives. Please remember that
civility is one of the
five pillars of Wikipedia.
Grutness...wha?01:45, 6 August 2016 (UTC)reply
How is it wrong to reclass articles that have bypassed the stub stage as start-class? You should be happy that your project's articles are receiving enough attention to reach the higher classes. The more important problem for the Noongar WP is that, in the rush to fill the stub category, editors are not adding any appropriate Noongar permanent categories, and no one is adding appropriate Noongar project notices to the talk pages. That's where the Noongar WP needs to focus its activities: add the permanent categories, and the talk page headers for your project. The Stub Sorting project allows for a category to have a minimum of 30 articles, if it is the main category for a WP. But that should be an *honest* 30 stubs -- not including downgraded start-class articles tagged as stubs just to fill the minimum.
Dawynn (
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12:04, 5 August 2016 (UTC)reply
yep at any one day it could be above or below a specific number so it appears rather pointless taking a snap shot of any one day to decide if a category has enough entries. That by having such a specific number in place means that the category must be populated above that the whole time when the aim is to improve content yet we argue about deleting categories that facilitate purpose.
203.59.100.24 (
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02:14, 6 August 2016 (UTC)reply
stub categories tend to rise in size and then drop as the stubs are improved. If the size of this category is dropping, which it appears to be, it is a definite indication that it has outlived whatever purpose it had. This is ehy snapshots over several days, some time apart are very useful. It is also why it is far more useful for individual projects to have their own system of keeping track of all articles, as previously explained.
Grutness...wha?00:32, 7 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment appears rather "pointy" that one of the above users is prone to misunderstanding many salient points of this discussion, not to mention assuming some kind of negative bias on the part of those who support deletion.
Her Pegship (
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17:49, 4 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment is it common for people of a particular ethnicity to be dumped into "ethnicity stub" categories? Or is this being done just to show some critical mass? Others are at "Fooish biography stubs" so at least someone who is interested in biographies or that wikiproject could hope to find them.
Carlossuarez46 (
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18:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Yes, it's done so that people who are interested in small "stub" biographies articles of a particular ethnicity can find them. In the alternative, the WikiProject is going to be broader set of articles (beyond biographies for example) and should not be concerned only about stubs but in start class/C/B/A/GA/FA articles. The amount of anger and personal attacks is unwarranted for such a minor issue here. --
Ricky81682 (
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20:31, 8 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete category per above discussion, and before the template is upmerged the Noongar stub tag should be removed from geographical articles in this category which are clearly not about Noongar (or about indigenous people in general).
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07:36, 26 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Al-Wahda S.C.C.
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Nominator's rationale: The official website mainly refers to the club as
Al Wahda FC. Other countries have clubs called
Al-Wahda SC etc, but this seems to be the only one currently called FC, so there is no need to append "(Abu Dhabi)" to disambiguate. This is not eligible for speedy renaming, as I only just moved the page without discussion. –
FayenaticLondon08:22, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Chinese-owned football clubs
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Category:17th-century establishments in Iran
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Nominator's rationale: Also including the subcategories here but obviously Iran didn't exist in the 17th century. The region at that time was covered by the
Category:Safavid dynasty which has a preexisting category and could use a history subcategory and structures from there.
Ricky81682 (
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07:15, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support - Iranian categories should have long been renamed and thanks for bringing this up. The only thing is perhaps wording "in dynasty" is an awkward English, perhaps "in Safavid Iran" could be better.
GreyShark (
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20:20, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Do we name them about the current country though? There's numerous other discussions that delete based on the fact that the country didn't exist then.
Safavid dynasty is titled "Safavid Dynasty of Persia" so perhaps 17th-century establishments in Persia or in Safavid Iran as suggested or
Safavid Empire as used here but I see no reason to use "Iran" which unlike France did not actually exist during this time period. --
Ricky81682 (
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23:21, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
There has been yet a final ruling on category policy regarding anachronistic category namings, however in specific discussions we have mostly reached a consensus that modern country names and modern borders should not be applied anachronistically.
GreyShark (
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05:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep Iran has been the term used in Iran for millenia. There is no reason to slavishly follow English conventions of the past when they reflected little to no understanding of the people in power there. Iran is the acceptable name for the Empire at the time, and there is nothing gained from being too precise in naming the categories.
John Pack Lambert (
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01:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)reply
By "through to" I meant 1620s, 1630s etc. In fact I've just bumped into them as red links in a database report I was clearing and I've created the missing ones from 1590s to 1680s for "in Iran" and "establishments in Iran" and added them to the list above which I assumed would be uncontroversial, as well as tagging the ones you made with this CFD.
Le Deluge (
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19:11, 16 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment Contrary to some comments this is not a modern vs. historical debate. This is a question of whether we should blingly follow the western naming conventions of the time, or instead reflect the internal names of the place in our categories. The later would suggest the Iranian categories. In the same way, an article on someone born in 1695 should say he was born in Istanbul, not Constantinople, because Istanbul became the name to the inhabitants in the 1450s, even if people in Western Europe did not generally accept the new name until the 1920s.
John Pack Lambert (
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06:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Your first point about "Western naming conventions" starts sounding like Moskva versus Moscow - this is an English encyclopedia so uses English naming conventions. And whilst I can understand a certain purity about what goes into articles, the prime purpose of categories is to make things easily findable rather than to be pure. That's true in spades of Wikipedia categories, which are heavily used by bots and template code, which struggle when names get changed. Fair enough, in some cases you can't avoid name changes because the geography changes significantly (Eastern Europe is a nightmare for that) but where a polity is roughly the same as the modern country, it makes life much easier for bots, templates, and less knowledgeable humans if we use the modern name. That trumps purity every time for me.
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03:58, 30 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wikipedia articles with Citizendium counterparts
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Nominator's rationale: Categorizing pages by whether they have a counterpart in another encyclopedia etc could lead to a lot of categories on some pages. Note: This category has no proper parent categories. Note: The only content current in this category is a subcategory that I'm not sure really belongs in this category anyway (it's quite possible that a page in Wikipedia might use information from a Citizendium page of a different name). DexDor(talk)06:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:IEEE-level awards
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Nominator's rationale: It's unclear what distinction there is between a IEEE award and a IEEE-level award. These categories are quite small so there's no need to have separate categories. DexDor(talk)05:56, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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