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Upmerge as it makes no sense to categorize a book etc that has nothing to do with islands apart from being set in an island country (e.g.
The Railway Children) in
Category:Islands in fiction. Alternatively, have a complete categorization scheme - Novels set in landlocked countries, TV shows set in monarchies, Films set in countries that have active volcanoes, ... (only joking). DexDor(talk)07:30, 3 March 2019 (UTC)reply
What has "uninhabited islands" got to do with this CFD? Isn't the distinction between an island and a continent arbitrary anyway? These categories may not add category clutter on articles, but they do add unnecessary complexity to the category structure and in particular are an example of the sort of thing that impedes the use of category intersection as they cause categories such as
Category:Films set in Oxford and
Category:Films set in Rhodesia to be in
Category:Islands. DexDor(talk)20:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I mentioned the "uninhabited islands" part of this hierarchy to make sure nobody proposes nuking the entire structure as non-defining.
I'm inclined to support this, even though it would make this group of categories inconsistent with the parent Islands hierarchy. A category explanation should then state the scope as fiction for which the island location of setting is
WP:Defining. –
FayenaticLondon23:24, 5 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The defining characteristics of an article such as
Tumbledown include that it's a film about the Falklands War; that it's set on an island is incidental (e.g. the article doesn't use the word "island"). It wouldn't be put directly in
Category:Islands in fiction so it shouldn't be put indirectly in that category. Similarly, few, if any, of the films in
Category:Films set in Dublin (city) belong under
Category:Islands. A country may have many characteristics (e.g. being a monarchy, being in the EU, being in the G20), but in most cases that's not directly relevant to novels etc set in it - e.g.
Germany is categorized in
Category:German-speaking countries and territories, but we don't put every film set in Germany in a Films-set-in-German-speaking-countries etc category; we categorize by more relevant characteristics (including the language of the film). DexDor(talk)07:37, 13 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: A single use small cat used in a redirect for a former pilot that flew with the Red Arrows aerobatic team, not a particularly defining category and we dont normally categorise pilots lower than service level and not at unit or team level.
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Nominator's rationale:up/downmerge, these are two categories with the same scope, nicely illustrated by the fact that the target is parent category and subcategory at the same time.
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Upmerge as it makes no sense to categorize a book etc that has nothing to do with islands apart from being set in an island country (e.g.
The Railway Children) in
Category:Islands in fiction. Alternatively, have a complete categorization scheme - Novels set in landlocked countries, TV shows set in monarchies, Films set in countries that have active volcanoes, ... (only joking). DexDor(talk)07:30, 3 March 2019 (UTC)reply
What has "uninhabited islands" got to do with this CFD? Isn't the distinction between an island and a continent arbitrary anyway? These categories may not add category clutter on articles, but they do add unnecessary complexity to the category structure and in particular are an example of the sort of thing that impedes the use of category intersection as they cause categories such as
Category:Films set in Oxford and
Category:Films set in Rhodesia to be in
Category:Islands. DexDor(talk)20:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I mentioned the "uninhabited islands" part of this hierarchy to make sure nobody proposes nuking the entire structure as non-defining.
I'm inclined to support this, even though it would make this group of categories inconsistent with the parent Islands hierarchy. A category explanation should then state the scope as fiction for which the island location of setting is
WP:Defining. –
FayenaticLondon23:24, 5 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The defining characteristics of an article such as
Tumbledown include that it's a film about the Falklands War; that it's set on an island is incidental (e.g. the article doesn't use the word "island"). It wouldn't be put directly in
Category:Islands in fiction so it shouldn't be put indirectly in that category. Similarly, few, if any, of the films in
Category:Films set in Dublin (city) belong under
Category:Islands. A country may have many characteristics (e.g. being a monarchy, being in the EU, being in the G20), but in most cases that's not directly relevant to novels etc set in it - e.g.
Germany is categorized in
Category:German-speaking countries and territories, but we don't put every film set in Germany in a Films-set-in-German-speaking-countries etc category; we categorize by more relevant characteristics (including the language of the film). DexDor(talk)07:37, 13 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: A single use small cat used in a redirect for a former pilot that flew with the Red Arrows aerobatic team, not a particularly defining category and we dont normally categorise pilots lower than service level and not at unit or team level.
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13:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:up/downmerge, these are two categories with the same scope, nicely illustrated by the fact that the target is parent category and subcategory at the same time.
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11:23, 2 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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