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Nominator's rationale: most subcats of
Category:Language education by language are probably wrong. "English-language education" refers to education carried out in the english language, but not education of the english language. for example, teaching sci and math in english in malaysia is an aspect of "English-language education", but not education of the language.
Keep unless a better alternative can be suggested. Like many categories this one is somewhat diffuse in its scope, but that is no harm. Trying to make categories too precise tends to result in lots of small categories which them have to be merged back. English-medium Education is the gateway to well-paid work in many parts of India.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
16:18, 31 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle and
Peterkingiron: This was relisted (more than twice, contrary to
WP:RELIST instructions). I'd have preferred closing keep, and starting a new broader discussion. But now we are discussing:
Comment -- There are several kinds of institution for which the present name may be a high level parent:
"English-medium education" where the instruction is given in English (or mainly so) where that is not the main language
"English language-schools" whose function is to teach English as a second language.
"schools teaching in English language", for example in French-speaking Quebec; or in Wales where some schools teach in Welsh
Universities teaching their courses in English (for example in Netherlands or Japan), because English is the main language of scientific communication.
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Category:Anti-patterns
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Nominator's rationale: "
Anti-pattern" is too vague to be useful on its own. Most readers are probably looking for examples of a specific type of anti-pattern, but this category groups topics that are only vaguely related together. It's also currently a sub-category of multiple software development categories, despite not all the anti-patterns being related to software development, which only makes things more confusing.
ZerbuTalk08:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I have checked a significant number of articles and they were all about software programming. Can you give a few examples of articles that would belong in
Category:Project management anti-patterns? I also noted that a number of articles were not about anti-patterns but instead more generally about poor programming habits, where would they go?
Marcocapelle (
talk)
09:38, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Instruction creep,
Law of the instrument,
Shturmovshchina are a few random examples. I suggested splitting because I felt it would be better than just removing articles, but if others feel differently, an alternative could be to rename the category and remove the unrelated articles. As for the articles about poor programming habits, if the consensus is to split, then perhaps they could be moved to a third category (maybe
Category:Code smells, since
code smell is a common term for poor programming habits).
ZerbuTalk09:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I would remove these three altogether and others as well. The subjects of the articles should be called anti-patterns, and that is more than often not the case.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
11:42, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
IP user is right, in that concepts are not necessarily using the specific term "anti-pattern", i.e. anti-pattern is not a defining characteristic in many cases. Purge the category and only keep articles for which it actually is defining.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
08:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Purge per Marcocapelle —
WP:NOR I've spent a significant portion of my life in software research and engineering, many of these concepts are common, but the term anti-patterns is new to me. Limit the category to those the literature has specifically identified as anti-patterns. William Allen Simpson (
talk)
06:10, 10 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: These are overcategorizations based on venue per
WP:OCVENUE "There is no encyclopedic value in categorizing locations by the events or event types that have been held there..."
User:Namiba22:05, 28 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I checked Tampa Bay and Toronto and all articles in there are also in an indoor ice hockey venue. Nevertheless, there is nothing against adding those as merge targets too, just in case one article is not in an indoor ice hockey venue yet.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
08:52, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
delete -- I should probably have sampled further than I did, but these appear to be multi-use venues used by the team in question. This fails OCVENUE, probably usually SMALLCAT, as there are less than 5 items.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
16:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete all — if an arena is not yet categorized as an indoor ice hockey venue, somebody else will correct it anyway. Better to be clear and concise that we don't categorize by venue. William Allen Simpson (
talk)
06:47, 10 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: Change to more current syntax that emphasizes that the category is for media where the element is a primary factor, not an incidental one.
DonIago (
talk)
14:59, 27 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Ah, you were the one who used the capital B in your comment from 28 December...I believe I had it as a lowercase b to that point. Would you like me to change it back?
DonIago (
talk)
21:01, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm open to other options. When the original discussion that spawned the paradigm shift from "X films" to "Films about X" was ongoing, I'd suggested, as a bit of a compromise option, "Films featuring X", but the feeling was that we needed to be more explicitly clear that X needed to be a primary feature of the film. To me, "including" would have the same issue. I realize "about" is a bit fuzzy too, but for the purposes of consistency and emphasizing the intention, I'm not sure there's a better option.
DonIago (
talk)
16:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Category:Irish Canadian baseball players
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Nominator's rationale: most subcats of
Category:Language education by language are probably wrong. "English-language education" refers to education carried out in the english language, but not education of the english language. for example, teaching sci and math in english in malaysia is an aspect of "English-language education", but not education of the language.
Keep unless a better alternative can be suggested. Like many categories this one is somewhat diffuse in its scope, but that is no harm. Trying to make categories too precise tends to result in lots of small categories which them have to be merged back. English-medium Education is the gateway to well-paid work in many parts of India.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
16:18, 31 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle and
Peterkingiron: This was relisted (more than twice, contrary to
WP:RELIST instructions). I'd have preferred closing keep, and starting a new broader discussion. But now we are discussing:
Comment -- There are several kinds of institution for which the present name may be a high level parent:
"English-medium education" where the instruction is given in English (or mainly so) where that is not the main language
"English language-schools" whose function is to teach English as a second language.
"schools teaching in English language", for example in French-speaking Quebec; or in Wales where some schools teach in Welsh
Universities teaching their courses in English (for example in Netherlands or Japan), because English is the main language of scientific communication.
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Category:Anti-patterns
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Nominator's rationale: "
Anti-pattern" is too vague to be useful on its own. Most readers are probably looking for examples of a specific type of anti-pattern, but this category groups topics that are only vaguely related together. It's also currently a sub-category of multiple software development categories, despite not all the anti-patterns being related to software development, which only makes things more confusing.
ZerbuTalk08:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I have checked a significant number of articles and they were all about software programming. Can you give a few examples of articles that would belong in
Category:Project management anti-patterns? I also noted that a number of articles were not about anti-patterns but instead more generally about poor programming habits, where would they go?
Marcocapelle (
talk)
09:38, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Instruction creep,
Law of the instrument,
Shturmovshchina are a few random examples. I suggested splitting because I felt it would be better than just removing articles, but if others feel differently, an alternative could be to rename the category and remove the unrelated articles. As for the articles about poor programming habits, if the consensus is to split, then perhaps they could be moved to a third category (maybe
Category:Code smells, since
code smell is a common term for poor programming habits).
ZerbuTalk09:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I would remove these three altogether and others as well. The subjects of the articles should be called anti-patterns, and that is more than often not the case.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
11:42, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
IP user is right, in that concepts are not necessarily using the specific term "anti-pattern", i.e. anti-pattern is not a defining characteristic in many cases. Purge the category and only keep articles for which it actually is defining.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
08:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Purge per Marcocapelle —
WP:NOR I've spent a significant portion of my life in software research and engineering, many of these concepts are common, but the term anti-patterns is new to me. Limit the category to those the literature has specifically identified as anti-patterns. William Allen Simpson (
talk)
06:10, 10 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: These are overcategorizations based on venue per
WP:OCVENUE "There is no encyclopedic value in categorizing locations by the events or event types that have been held there..."
User:Namiba22:05, 28 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I checked Tampa Bay and Toronto and all articles in there are also in an indoor ice hockey venue. Nevertheless, there is nothing against adding those as merge targets too, just in case one article is not in an indoor ice hockey venue yet.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
08:52, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
delete -- I should probably have sampled further than I did, but these appear to be multi-use venues used by the team in question. This fails OCVENUE, probably usually SMALLCAT, as there are less than 5 items.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
16:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete all — if an arena is not yet categorized as an indoor ice hockey venue, somebody else will correct it anyway. Better to be clear and concise that we don't categorize by venue. William Allen Simpson (
talk)
06:47, 10 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: Change to more current syntax that emphasizes that the category is for media where the element is a primary factor, not an incidental one.
DonIago (
talk)
14:59, 27 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Ah, you were the one who used the capital B in your comment from 28 December...I believe I had it as a lowercase b to that point. Would you like me to change it back?
DonIago (
talk)
21:01, 6 January 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm open to other options. When the original discussion that spawned the paradigm shift from "X films" to "Films about X" was ongoing, I'd suggested, as a bit of a compromise option, "Films featuring X", but the feeling was that we needed to be more explicitly clear that X needed to be a primary feature of the film. To me, "including" would have the same issue. I realize "about" is a bit fuzzy too, but for the purposes of consistency and emphasizing the intention, I'm not sure there's a better option.
DonIago (
talk)
16:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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Category:Irish Canadian baseball players
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