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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. I, too, have come to abhor the poorly constructed Women X naming format but doubt we'll be able to move away from it soon. On the question of deleting or retaining the category, which occupied most of this discussion, I also see no clear consensus.
User:Bearcat's argument was most compelling (and seemed to draw from
WP:CAT/GRS), but whether women "face obstacles" is an immeasurably low standard from a global perspective—by this standard, virtually every occupation would need to be split by sex/gender given the obstacles women face in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Lastly, I wish to stress that, per
WP:CAT/GRS, the existence of a female occupation category does not automatically imply the need for a male occupation category, and vice versa, so a discussion about one does not necessarily need to include the other, thought it's admittedly a good idea in many cases. --
Black Falcon(
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Nominator's rationale: I greatly detest the phrase "women comedians". For one thing, women is a noun and female is an adjective, so it's the wrong word type. It hits the ear wrong. Secondly, why on earth do we need two words when 'comediennes' was invented for this very purpose? Has the word recently acquired a pejorative meaning I'm unaware of? Launchballer21:35, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Oppose, especially considering there is no alternative suggestion. Just take a look in
Category:Women by occupation and you'll see 'Women' is preferred to 'female'. There have been numerous CfD discussions moving categories from 'female' to 'women'.
Sionk (
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23:20, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
I didn't spot the "Choose type of action wanted" menu on the Twinkle popup. What I meant was this:
I'd still oppose this proposal too. I can't find any woman comedians who call themselves comediennes, or an abundance of sources that use the term. The word seems to be a casualty of the 21st century move away from gender-specific words.
Sionk (
talk)
18:36, 15 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete; a comedian follows a profession in which one's sex isn't highly relevant. For this purpose, a comedienne is more similar to an aviatrix than to an actress.
Nyttend (
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22:45, 16 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - I would say that the performance of a woman comedian is likely to be completely different from that of a male. There is
Women in comedy for instance. I can find by google women comedians who object stridently to 'comedienne' ("I am not French", being the objection).
Oculi (
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10:56, 17 July 2018 (UTC)reply
I can't speak for Carlos, but I would vote to delete it. Seeing that people are constantly creating categories for women in sex-unrelated categories without creating parallel categories for men, I didn't realise that there was one.
Nyttend (
talk)
00:15, 19 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. The basis for gendered categories does not vest solely in the question of whether men and women do the job differently (which is almost never true of any job), but in whether
reliable source coverage exists about the relevance of gender to the occupation. In the case of comedians, women in the field do still face gendered obstacles, namely the fact that the obviously absurd "women can't be funny" thing is still around and still gets discussed and analyzed by cultural critics and reliable sources. That's the relevance.
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02:37, 28 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wireless Power Consortium companies
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Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OVERCAT. There is no evidence that membership in this trade association is a "defining characteristic" for any of these companies (or for many of the other member companies that have not yet been categorized here).
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13:37, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Works about economics
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9th-century German people
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Category:Copper mining in Africa
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That would mean quite a lot of work if we are going to include all the categories like Copper Mining in Foo, and do the same for the other continents, and then for the other sorts of mining. We have a well populated
Category:Mining in Africa. Do we need to break it down like this?
Rathfelder (
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16:16, 8 July 2018 (UTC)reply
There are 64 articles in the category, so the deletion/upmerge rationale is flawed. It would only mean 'quite a lot of work' if someone chooses to create similar categories, for Europe, Asia etc.
Sionk (
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14:26, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
keep as is there is no valid reason to make this change, which will not help readers to navigate to articles that may interest them
Hmains (
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16:56, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete; this just adds another layer of navigation unnecessarily. One of the articles is already in
Category:Copper mining, and the others could just get put there. One of the subcategories is already in
Category:Copper mining by country, and the others could easily be put there. An outlying category, like this one, is useful when it represents a large and homogenous group of articles (to segregate them from less-related ones), and geographic subcategories in general are good when they represent a systematic split-up of a worldwide category, but a little outlying category simply makes you click more links before you get to the article(s) you want to read.
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22:57, 17 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. I, too, have come to abhor the poorly constructed Women X naming format but doubt we'll be able to move away from it soon. On the question of deleting or retaining the category, which occupied most of this discussion, I also see no clear consensus.
User:Bearcat's argument was most compelling (and seemed to draw from
WP:CAT/GRS), but whether women "face obstacles" is an immeasurably low standard from a global perspective—by this standard, virtually every occupation would need to be split by sex/gender given the obstacles women face in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Lastly, I wish to stress that, per
WP:CAT/GRS, the existence of a female occupation category does not automatically imply the need for a male occupation category, and vice versa, so a discussion about one does not necessarily need to include the other, thought it's admittedly a good idea in many cases. --
Black Falcon(
talk)15:40, 1 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: I greatly detest the phrase "women comedians". For one thing, women is a noun and female is an adjective, so it's the wrong word type. It hits the ear wrong. Secondly, why on earth do we need two words when 'comediennes' was invented for this very purpose? Has the word recently acquired a pejorative meaning I'm unaware of? Launchballer21:35, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Oppose, especially considering there is no alternative suggestion. Just take a look in
Category:Women by occupation and you'll see 'Women' is preferred to 'female'. There have been numerous CfD discussions moving categories from 'female' to 'women'.
Sionk (
talk)
23:20, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
I didn't spot the "Choose type of action wanted" menu on the Twinkle popup. What I meant was this:
I'd still oppose this proposal too. I can't find any woman comedians who call themselves comediennes, or an abundance of sources that use the term. The word seems to be a casualty of the 21st century move away from gender-specific words.
Sionk (
talk)
18:36, 15 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete; a comedian follows a profession in which one's sex isn't highly relevant. For this purpose, a comedienne is more similar to an aviatrix than to an actress.
Nyttend (
talk)
22:45, 16 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - I would say that the performance of a woman comedian is likely to be completely different from that of a male. There is
Women in comedy for instance. I can find by google women comedians who object stridently to 'comedienne' ("I am not French", being the objection).
Oculi (
talk)
10:56, 17 July 2018 (UTC)reply
I can't speak for Carlos, but I would vote to delete it. Seeing that people are constantly creating categories for women in sex-unrelated categories without creating parallel categories for men, I didn't realise that there was one.
Nyttend (
talk)
00:15, 19 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. The basis for gendered categories does not vest solely in the question of whether men and women do the job differently (which is almost never true of any job), but in whether
reliable source coverage exists about the relevance of gender to the occupation. In the case of comedians, women in the field do still face gendered obstacles, namely the fact that the obviously absurd "women can't be funny" thing is still around and still gets discussed and analyzed by cultural critics and reliable sources. That's the relevance.
Bearcat (
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02:37, 28 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wireless Power Consortium companies
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Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OVERCAT. There is no evidence that membership in this trade association is a "defining characteristic" for any of these companies (or for many of the other member companies that have not yet been categorized here).
UnitedStatesian (
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13:37, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Works about economics
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Category:Copper mining in Africa
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That would mean quite a lot of work if we are going to include all the categories like Copper Mining in Foo, and do the same for the other continents, and then for the other sorts of mining. We have a well populated
Category:Mining in Africa. Do we need to break it down like this?
Rathfelder (
talk)
16:16, 8 July 2018 (UTC)reply
There are 64 articles in the category, so the deletion/upmerge rationale is flawed. It would only mean 'quite a lot of work' if someone chooses to create similar categories, for Europe, Asia etc.
Sionk (
talk)
14:26, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
keep as is there is no valid reason to make this change, which will not help readers to navigate to articles that may interest them
Hmains (
talk)
16:56, 14 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete; this just adds another layer of navigation unnecessarily. One of the articles is already in
Category:Copper mining, and the others could just get put there. One of the subcategories is already in
Category:Copper mining by country, and the others could easily be put there. An outlying category, like this one, is useful when it represents a large and homogenous group of articles (to segregate them from less-related ones), and geographic subcategories in general are good when they represent a systematic split-up of a worldwide category, but a little outlying category simply makes you click more links before you get to the article(s) you want to read.
Nyttend (
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22:57, 17 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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