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Nominator's rationale: I became aware of this category when it was applied to
John Britton (doctor) to replace
Category:American physicians, but I see it's also applied to articles like
Henry L. Brown (the first one I happened to click on) and to a number of others for whom the idea of a separate field of primary care (or
general practice,
family medicine) would be ahistorical. Basically, trying to apply this category consistently would be, at the very least, difficult: it would either involve deciding what constituted "primary care" before this became a specialization, or omitting historic physicians performing what today might be called primary care. Too subjective. –
Roscelese (
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22:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Re "isn't this about moving them", the idea is an upmerge so that they would all be moved back. I think that there's too much potential for subjectivity if the category is kept, because it would inevitably either be full of people who practiced before the specialization existed and/or who practiced after but aren't described as such in sources, but that we put in there via our own judgment (and therefore subjective), OR it would be a smaller category containing people doing pretty much exactly the same thing as people who aren't in the category (and therefore be difficult to use and somewhat arbitrary). –
Roscelese (
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15:52, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Upmerge per nom. "Primary care physician" isn't a type of doctor, but a role within a medical institution or insurance system. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:32, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I think its important to keep a category which distinguishes generalist from specialists. In much of the world this is called General Practice, but this is not used so widely in the USA.
Category:American physicians applies pretty well universally.
Rathfelder (
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19:18, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Rathfelder: I think that the argument for changing that note is stronger than the argument for diffusing. What's apparent is that we simply can't confirm that most of these people are "primary care physicians" or "general practitioners", so the broader category is the only appropriate place. –
Roscelese (
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19:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
That is not an argument about the existence of the category. That's a question of which articles belong in it. There are large number of articles about American doctors which clearly say that they are General Practitioners, Primary care physicians or Family Physicians. These categories are very similar, though the name used varies and they should be merged. But they are clearly differentiated from the generic term "Physician" which simply indicates that they are qualified and practice as what is called a doctor in much of the world. Most of the articles about doctors which elaborate on the subject's practice as a doctor (and many don't) are about specialists, because those are the doctors who do most research. But it would be a big mistake to lose the category for generalists - who, after all, see most of the patients most of the time.
Rathfelder (
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21:49, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
But that is the argument I'm making. Most of the articles in "American physicians" cannot be diffused into "American primary care physicians", and any diffusion we can try to do will be arbitrary or subjective in one way or another. –
Roscelese (
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03:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment, I looked in quite a few articles and on the one hand many of these physicians are/were indeed occupied as "generalist physicians" (a term that I'm making up now), but on the other hand there is no consistent term that would specifically indicate their generalism. If kept, the category name should become more descriptive.
Marcocapelle (
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08:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
In other countries they are called General Practitioners. That term is used in a few of the American articles. I'd be happy with a category American General Practitioners, but I am not sure it would be acceptable.
Rathfelder (
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11:43, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Its quite true that the application of categories to doctors varies with time. Before about 1920 most doctors would try their hand at anything, but now doctors, at least in developed countries and urban areas are restricted to an area of practice. Most of the articles about nineteenth century US doctors don't say very much about what exactly they did. Something along the lines of "he moved to Clarksville and practiced medicine" is very common, especially for people who are actually notable for being a politician or sportsman. I don't think those articles should be categorised as primary care physicians. I've mostly put them in a subcategory of
Category:American physicians by state. But the article about
Henry L. Brown says he "started his own practice in Laurel" - That seems to suggest it was not in a hospital, though it doesn't tell us anything more.
Rathfelder (
talk)
11:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
However, this category is populated mostly with 20th-century physicians and the articles aren't very clear either. By lack of clear terminology you have to read between the lines to understand that these physicians aren't/weren't active in a particular specialization.
Marcocapelle (
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17:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I think that certainly by the middle of the 20th-century physicians were either specialists - where you would expect the biography to say so - or generalists. What generalists actually did clearly varies from place to place, and quite a lot of the people I take to be US general practitioners clearly delivered babies and performed abortions, something that is certainly not normal in the UK now.
Rathfelder (
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15:46, 11 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment: I think that an upmerge to American physicians is not appropriate, because that category should be at least partially diffused. That said, "General Practitioner" was a commonly-used term in the US until fairly recently (not sure when, but 21st century, I think), when it was replaced by "Primary care physician." And yes,
Rathfelder it may be TMI, but my own child was delivered by a General Practitioner (back in the 1980s). Maybe the solution is to create a
Category:American general practitioners for those who were so defined as such at the time, and keep this one just for articles on modern people so defined as primary care physicians now.
Montanabw(talk)21:49, 14 November 2017 (UTC)reply
That would be OK by me, certainly better than the proposed upmerge, though I'm not sure that we can really distinguish between "General Practitioner", "Primary care physician" and "Family physicians", as they seem to share important characteristics: Not hospital based and not specialised, which differentiate them from all the other sorts of physicians. However the demarcation lines clearly vary from place to place and from time to time. In the UK, for example GPs no longer deliver babies because their insurance doesn't cover them.
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Category:CD singles
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Nominator's rationale: The
CD single was the primary format for singles during the 1990s and early 2000s (and many still are today) so the release of singles on CD is not a defining characteristic for such songs any more than singles from the 50s through the early 80s being released on 7" inch vinyl discs or songs of today being distributed via digital outlets through downloads and streaming. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me18:41, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose: The CD single is a rare format today, but in some countries such as Japan, Germany, France and Australia people still have this format for major releases. The CD single also helps a song hit the record charts. I agree with Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars's point that the main format of music distribution today is via digital outlets, but this is the reason why I created this category. The most common format of releasing a single is through the digital download/streaming, but some singles in Germany, for example, get a CD release after they achieve certain success on the charts. So, this would be a means of organizing these singles that get this distinction from others.
Lucas RdS (
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03:56, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support We have managed without vinyl, rps, 7, 10 or 12 inch. I am sure such potentially enormous category will not prove useful or encyclopedic. Or as I often cry here, "What about the songs, doesn't anybody care about the songs?" --
Richhoncho (
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13:21, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Within the period of time from when CD singles supplanted 45s and cassette singles as the standard form of single distribution to the time they themselves got supplanted by iTunes, every single released will have been in the CD-single format as an automatic outgrowth of the fact that they were released as a single at all. So it's not a useful point of categorization — it would be an unbrowsable megacategory that comprised every song released during that time period. It's simply not useful to categorize music by what physical or digital media were or weren't used to sell it on — it doesn't constitute a
WP:DEFINING characteristic of the music, any more than books would be usefully defined by whether they were hardcover or paperback (especially since somewhere between many and most books get published as both at different points in their lifecycles.)
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22:36, 14 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Michael Lisicky
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Nominator's rationale: After removing pages inappropriately categorized here (stores written about by the subject), there is nothing left. —
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Category:Articles tagged for copyright problems
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Braintree, Massachusetts
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Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per
WP:SMALLCAT, enormously complicated category tree for a small-medium town with some 50 biography articles (which allows some diffusion) and a dozen buildings and structures (which presumably should become a single category) and not much else. Some categories, like
Category:Neighborhoods in Braintree, Massachusetts, only contain redirects to the
Braintree, Massachusetts article. Probably we can even merge further, but let's first wait and see how the category looks like after the above mergers. This nomination is follow-up on
this earlier discussion.
Marcocapelle (
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14:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support. This looks like someone noticed the structure of a major city category an decided to mimic it for a small town. Well-meaning, but not our way. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:36, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support all. Every place that exists does not automatically need such a highly developed tree to overcategorize a few articles; these are justified for major metropolitan cities, but not necessarily for places the size of Braintree unless there are a lot more articles involved than this nest is actually mothering.
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Category:People educated at Atlantic College
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Category:People educated at a United World College
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Nominator's rationale: Awkward phrasing. I understand there are more than one United World College but I "educated at" is not used elsewhere to my knowledge.
TM09:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose – per Timrollpickering. If there were to be say a Canadian subcat, that could use the Canadian term, which is probably alumni.
Oculi (
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13:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support per User:UnitedW (though I think that username might be a problem per
WP:ISU, and this user should be careful about editing in relation to this topic at all, per
WP:COI). —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment. I can understand the views of those that say it should be alumni because that's the form used by the organisation itself, although I'm sticking to what I said above (due to the usual WP arguments about the subject's preferences not being the be all and end all and UWC being a British-based organisation). However, if it is moved to an "alumni" category then it should at least be to
Category:Alumni of United World Colleges, since that's the form we use in British (higher and further education) categories (see
Category:Alumni by university or college in England), thus sticking to the British English form already in use for this category. --
Necrothesp (
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16:39, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support nomination. The claim that alumni of is the English convention is just false. It is actually just a fluke of who has participated in Wikipedia category discussions. Putting alumni at the end of the phrase is just as common in Britian as in the US, and should be done universally.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We go for consistency. And all British alumni categories are named this way. Who's to say that this version didn't come first on Wikipedia and it shouldn't be reverse naming to the "Alumni of" form? Which looks much better, in my opinion. --
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13:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fahrenheit 451
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Nominator's rationale: I became aware of this category when it was applied to
John Britton (doctor) to replace
Category:American physicians, but I see it's also applied to articles like
Henry L. Brown (the first one I happened to click on) and to a number of others for whom the idea of a separate field of primary care (or
general practice,
family medicine) would be ahistorical. Basically, trying to apply this category consistently would be, at the very least, difficult: it would either involve deciding what constituted "primary care" before this became a specialization, or omitting historic physicians performing what today might be called primary care. Too subjective. –
Roscelese (
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22:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Re "isn't this about moving them", the idea is an upmerge so that they would all be moved back. I think that there's too much potential for subjectivity if the category is kept, because it would inevitably either be full of people who practiced before the specialization existed and/or who practiced after but aren't described as such in sources, but that we put in there via our own judgment (and therefore subjective), OR it would be a smaller category containing people doing pretty much exactly the same thing as people who aren't in the category (and therefore be difficult to use and somewhat arbitrary). –
Roscelese (
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15:52, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Upmerge per nom. "Primary care physician" isn't a type of doctor, but a role within a medical institution or insurance system. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:32, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I think its important to keep a category which distinguishes generalist from specialists. In much of the world this is called General Practice, but this is not used so widely in the USA.
Category:American physicians applies pretty well universally.
Rathfelder (
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19:18, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Rathfelder: I think that the argument for changing that note is stronger than the argument for diffusing. What's apparent is that we simply can't confirm that most of these people are "primary care physicians" or "general practitioners", so the broader category is the only appropriate place. –
Roscelese (
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19:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
That is not an argument about the existence of the category. That's a question of which articles belong in it. There are large number of articles about American doctors which clearly say that they are General Practitioners, Primary care physicians or Family Physicians. These categories are very similar, though the name used varies and they should be merged. But they are clearly differentiated from the generic term "Physician" which simply indicates that they are qualified and practice as what is called a doctor in much of the world. Most of the articles about doctors which elaborate on the subject's practice as a doctor (and many don't) are about specialists, because those are the doctors who do most research. But it would be a big mistake to lose the category for generalists - who, after all, see most of the patients most of the time.
Rathfelder (
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21:49, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
But that is the argument I'm making. Most of the articles in "American physicians" cannot be diffused into "American primary care physicians", and any diffusion we can try to do will be arbitrary or subjective in one way or another. –
Roscelese (
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contribs)
03:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment, I looked in quite a few articles and on the one hand many of these physicians are/were indeed occupied as "generalist physicians" (a term that I'm making up now), but on the other hand there is no consistent term that would specifically indicate their generalism. If kept, the category name should become more descriptive.
Marcocapelle (
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08:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
In other countries they are called General Practitioners. That term is used in a few of the American articles. I'd be happy with a category American General Practitioners, but I am not sure it would be acceptable.
Rathfelder (
talk)
11:43, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Its quite true that the application of categories to doctors varies with time. Before about 1920 most doctors would try their hand at anything, but now doctors, at least in developed countries and urban areas are restricted to an area of practice. Most of the articles about nineteenth century US doctors don't say very much about what exactly they did. Something along the lines of "he moved to Clarksville and practiced medicine" is very common, especially for people who are actually notable for being a politician or sportsman. I don't think those articles should be categorised as primary care physicians. I've mostly put them in a subcategory of
Category:American physicians by state. But the article about
Henry L. Brown says he "started his own practice in Laurel" - That seems to suggest it was not in a hospital, though it doesn't tell us anything more.
Rathfelder (
talk)
11:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
However, this category is populated mostly with 20th-century physicians and the articles aren't very clear either. By lack of clear terminology you have to read between the lines to understand that these physicians aren't/weren't active in a particular specialization.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
17:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I think that certainly by the middle of the 20th-century physicians were either specialists - where you would expect the biography to say so - or generalists. What generalists actually did clearly varies from place to place, and quite a lot of the people I take to be US general practitioners clearly delivered babies and performed abortions, something that is certainly not normal in the UK now.
Rathfelder (
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15:46, 11 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment: I think that an upmerge to American physicians is not appropriate, because that category should be at least partially diffused. That said, "General Practitioner" was a commonly-used term in the US until fairly recently (not sure when, but 21st century, I think), when it was replaced by "Primary care physician." And yes,
Rathfelder it may be TMI, but my own child was delivered by a General Practitioner (back in the 1980s). Maybe the solution is to create a
Category:American general practitioners for those who were so defined as such at the time, and keep this one just for articles on modern people so defined as primary care physicians now.
Montanabw(talk)21:49, 14 November 2017 (UTC)reply
That would be OK by me, certainly better than the proposed upmerge, though I'm not sure that we can really distinguish between "General Practitioner", "Primary care physician" and "Family physicians", as they seem to share important characteristics: Not hospital based and not specialised, which differentiate them from all the other sorts of physicians. However the demarcation lines clearly vary from place to place and from time to time. In the UK, for example GPs no longer deliver babies because their insurance doesn't cover them.
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22:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:CD singles
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Nominator's rationale: The
CD single was the primary format for singles during the 1990s and early 2000s (and many still are today) so the release of singles on CD is not a defining characteristic for such songs any more than singles from the 50s through the early 80s being released on 7" inch vinyl discs or songs of today being distributed via digital outlets through downloads and streaming. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me18:41, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose: The CD single is a rare format today, but in some countries such as Japan, Germany, France and Australia people still have this format for major releases. The CD single also helps a song hit the record charts. I agree with Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars's point that the main format of music distribution today is via digital outlets, but this is the reason why I created this category. The most common format of releasing a single is through the digital download/streaming, but some singles in Germany, for example, get a CD release after they achieve certain success on the charts. So, this would be a means of organizing these singles that get this distinction from others.
Lucas RdS (
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03:56, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support We have managed without vinyl, rps, 7, 10 or 12 inch. I am sure such potentially enormous category will not prove useful or encyclopedic. Or as I often cry here, "What about the songs, doesn't anybody care about the songs?" --
Richhoncho (
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13:21, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Within the period of time from when CD singles supplanted 45s and cassette singles as the standard form of single distribution to the time they themselves got supplanted by iTunes, every single released will have been in the CD-single format as an automatic outgrowth of the fact that they were released as a single at all. So it's not a useful point of categorization — it would be an unbrowsable megacategory that comprised every song released during that time period. It's simply not useful to categorize music by what physical or digital media were or weren't used to sell it on — it doesn't constitute a
WP:DEFINING characteristic of the music, any more than books would be usefully defined by whether they were hardcover or paperback (especially since somewhere between many and most books get published as both at different points in their lifecycles.)
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22:36, 14 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Michael Lisicky
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Category:Articles tagged for copyright problems
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Category:Trouble Shooting
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Braintree, Massachusetts
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Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per
WP:SMALLCAT, enormously complicated category tree for a small-medium town with some 50 biography articles (which allows some diffusion) and a dozen buildings and structures (which presumably should become a single category) and not much else. Some categories, like
Category:Neighborhoods in Braintree, Massachusetts, only contain redirects to the
Braintree, Massachusetts article. Probably we can even merge further, but let's first wait and see how the category looks like after the above mergers. This nomination is follow-up on
this earlier discussion.
Marcocapelle (
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14:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support. This looks like someone noticed the structure of a major city category an decided to mimic it for a small town. Well-meaning, but not our way. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:36, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support all. Every place that exists does not automatically need such a highly developed tree to overcategorize a few articles; these are justified for major metropolitan cities, but not necessarily for places the size of Braintree unless there are a lot more articles involved than this nest is actually mothering.
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Category:People educated at Atlantic College
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Category:People educated at a United World College
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Nominator's rationale: Awkward phrasing. I understand there are more than one United World College but I "educated at" is not used elsewhere to my knowledge.
TM09:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose – per Timrollpickering. If there were to be say a Canadian subcat, that could use the Canadian term, which is probably alumni.
Oculi (
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13:56, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support per User:UnitedW (though I think that username might be a problem per
WP:ISU, and this user should be careful about editing in relation to this topic at all, per
WP:COI). —
SMcCandlish☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment. I can understand the views of those that say it should be alumni because that's the form used by the organisation itself, although I'm sticking to what I said above (due to the usual WP arguments about the subject's preferences not being the be all and end all and UWC being a British-based organisation). However, if it is moved to an "alumni" category then it should at least be to
Category:Alumni of United World Colleges, since that's the form we use in British (higher and further education) categories (see
Category:Alumni by university or college in England), thus sticking to the British English form already in use for this category. --
Necrothesp (
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16:39, 9 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Support nomination. The claim that alumni of is the English convention is just false. It is actually just a fluke of who has participated in Wikipedia category discussions. Putting alumni at the end of the phrase is just as common in Britian as in the US, and should be done universally.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We go for consistency. And all British alumni categories are named this way. Who's to say that this version didn't come first on Wikipedia and it shouldn't be reverse naming to the "Alumni of" form? Which looks much better, in my opinion. --
Necrothesp (
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13:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fahrenheit 451
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