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Category:Fictional dandies
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Nominator's rationale: Not a clearly defined category. Few, if any, of these characters have been identified as a dandy in universe, so majority of these characters are put in this category based on editors personal opinion of the character.
JDDJS (
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19:01, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete The term is not used in the works themselves for some of these people, and the term is just not tightly defined enough to be useful for categorization.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:04, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete no opposition to a sourced list (if one could be constructed) in the article; presumably, "dandy" is a label a third party uses in reference to someone (subjectively applied) akin to having categories for
Category:Good-looking people or the like, but if someone can reliably source some list, more power to them.
Carlossuarez46 (
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00:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete Categories need to be based on reliable sources. For most of the contents the articles never even say the subject is a dandy, let alone give reliable sources to demonstrate this.
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Category:Roman Catholic organizations by century of establishment
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The result of the discussion was:rename the top one for now, but I recommend that editors hold off on nominating others for a month, pending the proposed RfC discussion, as the
DRV was inconclusive. The sub-cats that were subject to the speedy nomination therefore lapse for now. –
FayenaticLondon21:01, 28 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment – I thought the
cfd decision in Oct 2016 to drop 'Roman' was rather bizarre, as previous cfds had been almost unanimous in the opposite direction.
User:BrownHairedGirl is considering a drv
on that rename and there is further discusion at
the talk page. (There has been a recent regrettable tendency to overlook ambiguity in category names, although
WP:C2D explicitly states that "This applies only if the related page's current name (and by extension, the proposed name for the category) is unambiguous".)
Oculi (
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20:24, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I see. Maybe a DRV is not needed yet as we can first have a renewed discussion here. The issue is apparently about
Catholic Church (disambiguation) in article space. I'm not sure whether we have any precedents when the category name does not follow the main article name in case a disambiguation page exists that is not the main page. In any case it is not desirable to have some categories at "Catholic" and others at "Roman Catholic", I suppose we all agree on that.
Marcocapelle (
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20:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Speedy rename There certainly are some institutions, biographical articles, etc. that relate exclusively or particularly to the
Latin Rite but *Roman* Catholics are only a subset of the Catholic Church in general. Even though they are 98%, it's still not an identical nomenclature and it's not proper to lump all Catholics together under Roman Catholicism in particular. ―
Justin (koavf)❤
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Oppose - Again, as I said before there's no reason for this rename. Some non-Catholics are prejudiced against 'Roman' Catholic, but there's nothing pejorative about it's use.
Benkenobi18 (
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21:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose After thinking about this for a while, I have become convinced that we should move things back to
Roman Catholic. The term is not synonymous with Western Rite Catholic, but with Catholics in communion with Rome.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:05, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The speedy request was demonstrably flawed because
WP:C2D explicitly applies only when the head article has an unambiguous name, and per
Catholic Church (disambiguation) that is not the case here. I am sure that this was an unintentional oversight, but it is still disappointing to see a category-experienced editor misrepresenting the criterion. The C2C argument is contingent on a multiply flawed CFD in October, on which I have now opened
deletion review. Substantively, renaming these categories creates avoidable ambiguity in an utterly huge set of categories, with consequent risk of miscategorisation which will be very hard to detect -- there is no automated way of monitoring it, and far far too many categories for any human to monitor. There are probably too many of these categories for anyone to even tag them all with a hatnote to warn about the ambiguity ... that would not help much anyway, since most categorisation is done via tools such as HotCat and Cat-a-lot which don't display any hatnote to the editor. For me, the ambiguity is a reason not to rename, but what I don't see anywhere is any substantive argument from those supporting this change about how readers or editors would be helped by introducing intentional into such a huge swathe of categories. All I see is mechanistic arguments of "should match" ... but why blindly apply that on such a huge scale when there is ambiguity? How exactly does that help? --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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08:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I don't agree that it is an entirely mechanical argumentation (although that was originally the case by posting the nomination for speedy). I can only agree with
User:Od Mishehu: if the name is unambiguous enough for the article, it's unambiguous enough for the categories. In fact ambiguity isn't mentioned too often by opposers above, it is either misconception or a fundamental unhappiness with the main article not being at
Roman Catholic Church. But the latter is a discussion we cannot have here.
Marcocapelle (
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18:46, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Marcocapelle, it's not a good idea (and not very AGF) to make unevidenced assertions of the motivations of other editors, so In hope you will withdraw that. For myself, I haven't formed a view on the merits of the name of the head article; my concern is that while that title may work fine for articles, ambiguity is much more problematic in category names. And in Marcocapelle's reply, I still see no answer to my question of how it helps readers or introduce this ambiguity to category titles. So apart from the regrettable ABF, this still looks to me like a purely mechanistic argument.--
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Okay let's take this from a different angle: what potential ambiguity is there in Catholic organizations? Answer: there are also independent Catholic communities who consider themselves to be Catholic while they are not in communion with the Catholic Church. Next question: do we actually have articles about organizations of independent Catholic communities? Answer: I have no idea. Next question: what harm would there be if organizations of independent Catholic communities have been or will be classified in this tree? My answer: I can't think of any. Next question: what harm would there be if we would bring articles about organisations of independent Catholic communities (if they exist) together in a subcategory within this tree? Again my answer: I can't imagine how that could be harmful either. A different question: should we parent the category into the tree of
Category:Catholic Church? Answer: no, not only because we have independent Catholics, but also because there are a lot of non-ecclesiastical Catholic organizations such as Catholic trade unions and Catholic political parties. The Catholic organizations category does belong within the tree of
Category:Catholicism though. So in all honesty I don't see any ambiguity problem with Catholic organizations.
Marcocapelle (
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22:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
In response to Marcocapelle's first question above, there seem to me to be probably at least a few groups which might qualify as Eastern Catholic "organizations" as per
Catholic religious order. That grouping might include at least a few EC monasteries. Also, there are at least a few groups in
Category:Old Catholic denominations. Groups of both types might, presumably, qualify as "Catholic" groups, but maybe not necessarily "Roman Catholic". There may be a few Old Catholic religious orders as well, I dunno. Personally, I would have no objections to a broad "Catholic" category which might contain multiple subcats for independent Catholic, Old Catholic, and Eastern Catholic along with Roman Catholic, although, perhaps, there might be some gain in having text included in the category indicating exactly what material should go where.
John Carter (
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18:06, 8 March 2017 (UTC)reply
"Old Catholic" and other groups that claim to be Catholic while rejecting the authority of the Pope are too small, to be worth considering in light of the fact that common use is "Catholic Church", etc. to refer to those who accept the authority of the Pope. I have read about Old Catholics much more than most, and live in a city with an Old Catholic parish, but I still have yet to come across any common use of the term Catholic Church that would suggest being more specific is useful. In fact I have known people to use the term "Roman Catholic" to mean Italian Catholics as an ethnic group, as opposed to Irish Catholics, specifically in the context of Metro-Boston ethno-religious identities.
John Pack Lambert (
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02:14, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Strong support The attempt to needlessly lengthen these names with "Roman" is a clear violation of the common name rules. The common name is Catholic Church, and this should be reflected in our category structure. I have decided my previous thoughts on the issue underestimated the importance of following common names.
John Pack Lambert (
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02:10, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose If something is Roman Catholic, I see it as completely unhelpful and indeed misleading to the reader not to make that clear in the article title. I think the argument that some super category simply uses the title Catholic is a red herring. The purpose of subcategorisation is to create more specific categories based on various properties. Since Catholism comes in different "flavours", I see no reason why Roman Catholic subcategories should not be called that if they contain only Roman Catholic articles and Roman Catholic sub-sub-cats (and so on recursively). Ditto categories for other kinds of catholicism as per
WP:PRECISION.
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13:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: /Upmerge actual scholars Right now this includes a list article which has entries such as "922: Ahmed ibn Fadlan travelled from Bagdad to near Kazan, saw Vikings, 1682: John Milton A Brief History of Muscovy compiled from other sources, 1687: Foy de la Neuville possibly travelled in Russia" This is a random assemblage. For the persons who are truly academics of Russian culture/history, the parent cat is appropriate. (I am also proposing the list article be deleted.) ―
Justin (koavf)❤
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Comment The category and the list article are both about those who have written about Russia, not necessarily academics. I tend to think either the category or the article could exist; I don't think both should be eliminated. Chris Troutman (
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Category:Sexuality in the former Soviet Union
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Comment, I took the liberty to add a third and fourth category to the nomination. The third category should be renamed or deleted consistently with the other two categories. The fourth category is the only category that has Soviet content and should be renamed, not deleted.
Marcocapelle (
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17:37, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Another comment, I see now there are more similar "in the former Soviet Union" categories that are container categories with contemporary countries that were once Soviet subdivisions while these subcategories mainly have post-Soviet content. Let's leave them for a next nomination.
Marcocapelle (
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17:56, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose unless it's pruned Sexuality in Russia, a child of this cat, includes articles on post-Soviet times, so it's not a proper child category. I haven't looked at the others, but anything post-Soviet cannot role up to a "Soviet Union" as opposed to a "former Soviet Union" header.
Carlossuarez46 (
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00:14, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle: If there's nothing here that actually relates to the Soviet when it existed, then my rename proposal is obviously a bad idea. It seems to me that the question here is whether we want every
Category:Foo in ExSovietCountryName to be categorised under a "former Soviet" umbrella? I'm not seeing the case for that, which makes me tend to deletion, but I suspect that it's a wider question which deserves a CFD of its own. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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07:40, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Rename to Soviet, but purge of articles that do not relate to the Soviet era, and if this means some categories get deleted, than we should do that too.
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02:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fictional Yakuza members
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Category:Battles involving Zaire
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I have no objection. But do we have guidelines about how to handle countries - or geographical entities - which change their names? When the battle, which is the only thing in the category, took place it was called Zaire. Should there, in principle, be two categories?
Rathfelder (
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15:53, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
We might have two categories, in theory, but that's not very meaningful with the little content we currently have. A better alternative is to proceed with renaming the nominated category and add the one article also to
Category:Zaire.
Marcocapelle (
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18:02, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose The change of names was connected to a change of regime in control. It is a different country and we should categorize battles by the actual countries involved, not modern approximations of what the countries were.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
It is substantially the same country even while under different names. It was called Democratic Republic of the Congo before and after it was called Zaire.
Marcocapelle (
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07:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose -- At the time the county was called Zaire. It did not involve DRC, which did not then have that name. It will however be appropriate for it to remain in a DRC tree. That is exactly how we handle year categories, which are the closest precedent I can think of.
Peterkingiron (
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18:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I don't agree that just a name change turns a country into a different country. For categorization, of course we may create categories containing the alternative name (because the alternative name reflects another period of history) insofar sufficient content for these categories is available, but we don't have to make the tree with the alternative name as refined as the main tree.
Marcocapelle (
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19:59, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
While it is almost an apples-and-pears comparison (the change in Zimbabwe was way more impactful than in Congo/Zaire), for categorization I would still argue that Rhodesia is a (notable and defining) period in the history of Zimbabwe, rather than a different country.
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18:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Nepal Pratap Bhaskara
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Category:Fictional dandies
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Nominator's rationale: Not a clearly defined category. Few, if any, of these characters have been identified as a dandy in universe, so majority of these characters are put in this category based on editors personal opinion of the character.
JDDJS (
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19:01, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete The term is not used in the works themselves for some of these people, and the term is just not tightly defined enough to be useful for categorization.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:04, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete no opposition to a sourced list (if one could be constructed) in the article; presumably, "dandy" is a label a third party uses in reference to someone (subjectively applied) akin to having categories for
Category:Good-looking people or the like, but if someone can reliably source some list, more power to them.
Carlossuarez46 (
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00:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete Categories need to be based on reliable sources. For most of the contents the articles never even say the subject is a dandy, let alone give reliable sources to demonstrate this.
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02:09, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Roman Catholic organizations by century of establishment
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The result of the discussion was:rename the top one for now, but I recommend that editors hold off on nominating others for a month, pending the proposed RfC discussion, as the
DRV was inconclusive. The sub-cats that were subject to the speedy nomination therefore lapse for now. –
FayenaticLondon21:01, 28 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment – I thought the
cfd decision in Oct 2016 to drop 'Roman' was rather bizarre, as previous cfds had been almost unanimous in the opposite direction.
User:BrownHairedGirl is considering a drv
on that rename and there is further discusion at
the talk page. (There has been a recent regrettable tendency to overlook ambiguity in category names, although
WP:C2D explicitly states that "This applies only if the related page's current name (and by extension, the proposed name for the category) is unambiguous".)
Oculi (
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20:24, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I see. Maybe a DRV is not needed yet as we can first have a renewed discussion here. The issue is apparently about
Catholic Church (disambiguation) in article space. I'm not sure whether we have any precedents when the category name does not follow the main article name in case a disambiguation page exists that is not the main page. In any case it is not desirable to have some categories at "Catholic" and others at "Roman Catholic", I suppose we all agree on that.
Marcocapelle (
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20:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Speedy rename There certainly are some institutions, biographical articles, etc. that relate exclusively or particularly to the
Latin Rite but *Roman* Catholics are only a subset of the Catholic Church in general. Even though they are 98%, it's still not an identical nomenclature and it's not proper to lump all Catholics together under Roman Catholicism in particular. ―
Justin (koavf)❤
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Oppose - Again, as I said before there's no reason for this rename. Some non-Catholics are prejudiced against 'Roman' Catholic, but there's nothing pejorative about it's use.
Benkenobi18 (
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21:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose After thinking about this for a while, I have become convinced that we should move things back to
Roman Catholic. The term is not synonymous with Western Rite Catholic, but with Catholics in communion with Rome.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:05, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The speedy request was demonstrably flawed because
WP:C2D explicitly applies only when the head article has an unambiguous name, and per
Catholic Church (disambiguation) that is not the case here. I am sure that this was an unintentional oversight, but it is still disappointing to see a category-experienced editor misrepresenting the criterion. The C2C argument is contingent on a multiply flawed CFD in October, on which I have now opened
deletion review. Substantively, renaming these categories creates avoidable ambiguity in an utterly huge set of categories, with consequent risk of miscategorisation which will be very hard to detect -- there is no automated way of monitoring it, and far far too many categories for any human to monitor. There are probably too many of these categories for anyone to even tag them all with a hatnote to warn about the ambiguity ... that would not help much anyway, since most categorisation is done via tools such as HotCat and Cat-a-lot which don't display any hatnote to the editor. For me, the ambiguity is a reason not to rename, but what I don't see anywhere is any substantive argument from those supporting this change about how readers or editors would be helped by introducing intentional into such a huge swathe of categories. All I see is mechanistic arguments of "should match" ... but why blindly apply that on such a huge scale when there is ambiguity? How exactly does that help? --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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08:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I don't agree that it is an entirely mechanical argumentation (although that was originally the case by posting the nomination for speedy). I can only agree with
User:Od Mishehu: if the name is unambiguous enough for the article, it's unambiguous enough for the categories. In fact ambiguity isn't mentioned too often by opposers above, it is either misconception or a fundamental unhappiness with the main article not being at
Roman Catholic Church. But the latter is a discussion we cannot have here.
Marcocapelle (
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18:46, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Marcocapelle, it's not a good idea (and not very AGF) to make unevidenced assertions of the motivations of other editors, so In hope you will withdraw that. For myself, I haven't formed a view on the merits of the name of the head article; my concern is that while that title may work fine for articles, ambiguity is much more problematic in category names. And in Marcocapelle's reply, I still see no answer to my question of how it helps readers or introduce this ambiguity to category titles. So apart from the regrettable ABF, this still looks to me like a purely mechanistic argument.--
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Okay let's take this from a different angle: what potential ambiguity is there in Catholic organizations? Answer: there are also independent Catholic communities who consider themselves to be Catholic while they are not in communion with the Catholic Church. Next question: do we actually have articles about organizations of independent Catholic communities? Answer: I have no idea. Next question: what harm would there be if organizations of independent Catholic communities have been or will be classified in this tree? My answer: I can't think of any. Next question: what harm would there be if we would bring articles about organisations of independent Catholic communities (if they exist) together in a subcategory within this tree? Again my answer: I can't imagine how that could be harmful either. A different question: should we parent the category into the tree of
Category:Catholic Church? Answer: no, not only because we have independent Catholics, but also because there are a lot of non-ecclesiastical Catholic organizations such as Catholic trade unions and Catholic political parties. The Catholic organizations category does belong within the tree of
Category:Catholicism though. So in all honesty I don't see any ambiguity problem with Catholic organizations.
Marcocapelle (
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22:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
In response to Marcocapelle's first question above, there seem to me to be probably at least a few groups which might qualify as Eastern Catholic "organizations" as per
Catholic religious order. That grouping might include at least a few EC monasteries. Also, there are at least a few groups in
Category:Old Catholic denominations. Groups of both types might, presumably, qualify as "Catholic" groups, but maybe not necessarily "Roman Catholic". There may be a few Old Catholic religious orders as well, I dunno. Personally, I would have no objections to a broad "Catholic" category which might contain multiple subcats for independent Catholic, Old Catholic, and Eastern Catholic along with Roman Catholic, although, perhaps, there might be some gain in having text included in the category indicating exactly what material should go where.
John Carter (
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18:06, 8 March 2017 (UTC)reply
"Old Catholic" and other groups that claim to be Catholic while rejecting the authority of the Pope are too small, to be worth considering in light of the fact that common use is "Catholic Church", etc. to refer to those who accept the authority of the Pope. I have read about Old Catholics much more than most, and live in a city with an Old Catholic parish, but I still have yet to come across any common use of the term Catholic Church that would suggest being more specific is useful. In fact I have known people to use the term "Roman Catholic" to mean Italian Catholics as an ethnic group, as opposed to Irish Catholics, specifically in the context of Metro-Boston ethno-religious identities.
John Pack Lambert (
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02:14, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Strong support The attempt to needlessly lengthen these names with "Roman" is a clear violation of the common name rules. The common name is Catholic Church, and this should be reflected in our category structure. I have decided my previous thoughts on the issue underestimated the importance of following common names.
John Pack Lambert (
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02:10, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose If something is Roman Catholic, I see it as completely unhelpful and indeed misleading to the reader not to make that clear in the article title. I think the argument that some super category simply uses the title Catholic is a red herring. The purpose of subcategorisation is to create more specific categories based on various properties. Since Catholism comes in different "flavours", I see no reason why Roman Catholic subcategories should not be called that if they contain only Roman Catholic articles and Roman Catholic sub-sub-cats (and so on recursively). Ditto categories for other kinds of catholicism as per
WP:PRECISION.
Kerry (
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13:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Foreign observers of Russia
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Nominator's rationale: /Upmerge actual scholars Right now this includes a list article which has entries such as "922: Ahmed ibn Fadlan travelled from Bagdad to near Kazan, saw Vikings, 1682: John Milton A Brief History of Muscovy compiled from other sources, 1687: Foy de la Neuville possibly travelled in Russia" This is a random assemblage. For the persons who are truly academics of Russian culture/history, the parent cat is appropriate. (I am also proposing the list article be deleted.) ―
Justin (koavf)❤
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Comment The category and the list article are both about those who have written about Russia, not necessarily academics. I tend to think either the category or the article could exist; I don't think both should be eliminated. Chris Troutman (
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Category:Sexuality in the former Soviet Union
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Comment, I took the liberty to add a third and fourth category to the nomination. The third category should be renamed or deleted consistently with the other two categories. The fourth category is the only category that has Soviet content and should be renamed, not deleted.
Marcocapelle (
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17:37, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Another comment, I see now there are more similar "in the former Soviet Union" categories that are container categories with contemporary countries that were once Soviet subdivisions while these subcategories mainly have post-Soviet content. Let's leave them for a next nomination.
Marcocapelle (
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17:56, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose unless it's pruned Sexuality in Russia, a child of this cat, includes articles on post-Soviet times, so it's not a proper child category. I haven't looked at the others, but anything post-Soviet cannot role up to a "Soviet Union" as opposed to a "former Soviet Union" header.
Carlossuarez46 (
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00:14, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
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Marcocapelle: If there's nothing here that actually relates to the Soviet when it existed, then my rename proposal is obviously a bad idea. It seems to me that the question here is whether we want every
Category:Foo in ExSovietCountryName to be categorised under a "former Soviet" umbrella? I'm not seeing the case for that, which makes me tend to deletion, but I suspect that it's a wider question which deserves a CFD of its own. --
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07:40, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Rename to Soviet, but purge of articles that do not relate to the Soviet era, and if this means some categories get deleted, than we should do that too.
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02:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fictional Yakuza members
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Category:Companies based on São Tomé Island
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Category:Battles involving Zaire
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I have no objection. But do we have guidelines about how to handle countries - or geographical entities - which change their names? When the battle, which is the only thing in the category, took place it was called Zaire. Should there, in principle, be two categories?
Rathfelder (
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15:53, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
We might have two categories, in theory, but that's not very meaningful with the little content we currently have. A better alternative is to proceed with renaming the nominated category and add the one article also to
Category:Zaire.
Marcocapelle (
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18:02, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose The change of names was connected to a change of regime in control. It is a different country and we should categorize battles by the actual countries involved, not modern approximations of what the countries were.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
It is substantially the same country even while under different names. It was called Democratic Republic of the Congo before and after it was called Zaire.
Marcocapelle (
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07:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose -- At the time the county was called Zaire. It did not involve DRC, which did not then have that name. It will however be appropriate for it to remain in a DRC tree. That is exactly how we handle year categories, which are the closest precedent I can think of.
Peterkingiron (
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18:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I don't agree that just a name change turns a country into a different country. For categorization, of course we may create categories containing the alternative name (because the alternative name reflects another period of history) insofar sufficient content for these categories is available, but we don't have to make the tree with the alternative name as refined as the main tree.
Marcocapelle (
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19:59, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
While it is almost an apples-and-pears comparison (the change in Zimbabwe was way more impactful than in Congo/Zaire), for categorization I would still argue that Rhodesia is a (notable and defining) period in the history of Zimbabwe, rather than a different country.
Marcocapelle (
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18:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
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