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The result of the discussion was:do not rename as nominated; a separate follow-up nomination to consider Occuli's slight modification suggestion could be made.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 03:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. Naturally, several players within "Category:Rugby league players in France by club" are no longer in France, rendering its name totally inappropriate. For "Rugby league players in [Country] by club" to work, articles would have to be constantly monitored for the player's whereabouts and categories changed to reflect their movements. That was never the idea. The point of these categories is to break up what would be a hugely overpopulated "Category:Rugby league players by club" into subcategories of clubs (not players) in different countries. Players change country. Clubs do not. Simple. This nomination extends to any similarly named subcategories of "Category:Rugby league players by club" and possibly even those of other sports, as my attempt to fix the situation was
reverted apparently because Association football uses this poorly thought out format (or maybe it works for them because editors do constantly monitor player movements and change their categories, I don't know).
Jeff79 (
talk) 05:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment: I'd suggest the nomination should also cover the following categories;
I'm not sure if you want to formally include Association football categories or not but if so they'd need adding too.
Mattlore (
talk) 07:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep all [see below] – the nominator's inference ("Naturally, several players within "Category:Rugby league players in France by club" are no longer in France, rendering its name totally inappropriate") is erroneous. The vast majority of categories in wikipedia make no claims about current status - someone who was once in the The Beatles goes in
Category:The Beatles members, someone who once played rugby league in France goes in
Category:Rugby league players in France by club. There is nothing wrong with
Category:Footballers in France by club and there is no more need to monitor anything than there is with
Category:Manchester United F.C. players.
Occuli (
talk) 09:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment - So you're saying what it comes down to is a grammatical/aesthetic choice between players 'in France by club' (preposition + Noun + preposition + noun), which has the added bonus of implying the meaning I thought it had, or 'by French club' (preposition + adjective + noun) which is shorter and less ambiguous.--
Jeff79 (
talk) 10:21, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
No, it does not imply what you think, which is why I said that your inference was erroneous. Further, we have been systematically replacing 'French foos' with 'Foos in France' except when 'French' means 'nationality', and football clubs have no nationality. You could go for "Rugby league players by club in New Zealand". (Personally I think it's far too much trouble to bother about.)
Occuli (
talk) 11:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Rename but to
Category:Rugby league players by club in France etc. I am not persuaded by the rationale in the nom but the recent
cfd on schools eventually changed target due to Choster's remark "Wouldn't 'People educated by school in Foo' be more correct? The governing angle of the categorization is the institution, not the country". And it should be 'in France', not 'French' per
WP:NCCAT#Sport.
Occuli (
talk) 16:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure why you're citing
WP:NCCAT#Sport, as we're categorising people here, not sports. I've still heard no sound argument against using adjectives 'French' or 'Australian' to describe a club. Anyway, good to know you now agree with me without actually agreeing with me.--
Jeff79 (
talk) 19:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Note that the adjectives are used almost always in the first sentence of articles about individual clubs. This strengthen Jeff's case, imo.
Pichpich (
talk) 20:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment. You seem to be defending the status quo simply because it is the status quo. Would you care to address the points made above? I submit that all the categories you mention need to be changed too. Or do you mean that this needs to be a wider nomination encompassing those categories before you'll discuss it?--
Jeff79 (
talk) 00:51, 23 October 2011 (UTC)reply
I'm defending the status quo because I like the status quo. It neatly categorizes the sport players by their location and places the variable (club) at the end where it generally should be. That doesn't mean I dislike the suggested approach, and I think that if it gains traction it should be applied to the other such categories.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 15:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Yes, the status quo "neatly categorizes the sport players by their location" and this is precisely what is wrong with it. We are not categorising the players by their location, but by their club (see above). Avoiding this confusion is the reason why 'Category:[moveable things] in [place]' appears never to be used in Wikipedia. 'Category:Rugby league players by French club' also "places the variable (club) at the end where it generally should be".--
Jeff79 (
talk) 03:15, 27 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:NBC television network
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The result of the discussion was:rename to
Category:National Broadcasting Company. All commenters agree that more dismbiguation is needed, and Oknazevad provides the easiest and most consistent way to do that.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 00:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Per main article. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 02:11, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
(wow, I created this category seven years ago) We've often agreed that the best reason to not apply the catname = article name rule in every instance is because the category system needs greater clarity and disambiguation than article names do. So that's the only question here, if
Category:NBC would be sufficiently clear, given
all the potential meanings. If the decision is to rename,
Category:CBS television network should also follow. postdlf (talk) 03:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep – "because the category system needs greater clarity and disambiguation than article names do".
Occuli (
talk) 11:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Alternate suggestion - Being that
Category:NBC would likely be ambiguous (though the current placement of the article does indicate a strong primary topic), why not spell out the initialism with
Category:National Broadcasting Company?
It has the advantage of being a) correct, as that remains the full name of the company (unlike CBS which is an
orphan initialism), b) unambiguous (no other article has that tile, which is a redirect to NBC) and c) more accurate than the current name (the category also includes daughter cats on the company's former radio operations, which are not television, of course).
Just strikes me as a logical solution to the problem.
oknazevad (
talk) 03:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Light gun games with Quota
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Nominator's rationale:Delete I don't think it's reasonable to categorize video games according to the ways in which players can lose lives. It's not a defining characteristic.
Pichpich (
talk) 00:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete Excessive and excessively narrow intersection
Curb Chain (
talk) 11:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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The result of the discussion was:do not rename as nominated; a separate follow-up nomination to consider Occuli's slight modification suggestion could be made.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 03:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. Naturally, several players within "Category:Rugby league players in France by club" are no longer in France, rendering its name totally inappropriate. For "Rugby league players in [Country] by club" to work, articles would have to be constantly monitored for the player's whereabouts and categories changed to reflect their movements. That was never the idea. The point of these categories is to break up what would be a hugely overpopulated "Category:Rugby league players by club" into subcategories of clubs (not players) in different countries. Players change country. Clubs do not. Simple. This nomination extends to any similarly named subcategories of "Category:Rugby league players by club" and possibly even those of other sports, as my attempt to fix the situation was
reverted apparently because Association football uses this poorly thought out format (or maybe it works for them because editors do constantly monitor player movements and change their categories, I don't know).
Jeff79 (
talk) 05:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment: I'd suggest the nomination should also cover the following categories;
I'm not sure if you want to formally include Association football categories or not but if so they'd need adding too.
Mattlore (
talk) 07:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep all [see below] – the nominator's inference ("Naturally, several players within "Category:Rugby league players in France by club" are no longer in France, rendering its name totally inappropriate") is erroneous. The vast majority of categories in wikipedia make no claims about current status - someone who was once in the The Beatles goes in
Category:The Beatles members, someone who once played rugby league in France goes in
Category:Rugby league players in France by club. There is nothing wrong with
Category:Footballers in France by club and there is no more need to monitor anything than there is with
Category:Manchester United F.C. players.
Occuli (
talk) 09:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment - So you're saying what it comes down to is a grammatical/aesthetic choice between players 'in France by club' (preposition + Noun + preposition + noun), which has the added bonus of implying the meaning I thought it had, or 'by French club' (preposition + adjective + noun) which is shorter and less ambiguous.--
Jeff79 (
talk) 10:21, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
No, it does not imply what you think, which is why I said that your inference was erroneous. Further, we have been systematically replacing 'French foos' with 'Foos in France' except when 'French' means 'nationality', and football clubs have no nationality. You could go for "Rugby league players by club in New Zealand". (Personally I think it's far too much trouble to bother about.)
Occuli (
talk) 11:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Rename but to
Category:Rugby league players by club in France etc. I am not persuaded by the rationale in the nom but the recent
cfd on schools eventually changed target due to Choster's remark "Wouldn't 'People educated by school in Foo' be more correct? The governing angle of the categorization is the institution, not the country". And it should be 'in France', not 'French' per
WP:NCCAT#Sport.
Occuli (
talk) 16:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure why you're citing
WP:NCCAT#Sport, as we're categorising people here, not sports. I've still heard no sound argument against using adjectives 'French' or 'Australian' to describe a club. Anyway, good to know you now agree with me without actually agreeing with me.--
Jeff79 (
talk) 19:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Note that the adjectives are used almost always in the first sentence of articles about individual clubs. This strengthen Jeff's case, imo.
Pichpich (
talk) 20:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment. You seem to be defending the status quo simply because it is the status quo. Would you care to address the points made above? I submit that all the categories you mention need to be changed too. Or do you mean that this needs to be a wider nomination encompassing those categories before you'll discuss it?--
Jeff79 (
talk) 00:51, 23 October 2011 (UTC)reply
I'm defending the status quo because I like the status quo. It neatly categorizes the sport players by their location and places the variable (club) at the end where it generally should be. That doesn't mean I dislike the suggested approach, and I think that if it gains traction it should be applied to the other such categories.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 15:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Yes, the status quo "neatly categorizes the sport players by their location" and this is precisely what is wrong with it. We are not categorising the players by their location, but by their club (see above). Avoiding this confusion is the reason why 'Category:[moveable things] in [place]' appears never to be used in Wikipedia. 'Category:Rugby league players by French club' also "places the variable (club) at the end where it generally should be".--
Jeff79 (
talk) 03:15, 27 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:NBC television network
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deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was:rename to
Category:National Broadcasting Company. All commenters agree that more dismbiguation is needed, and Oknazevad provides the easiest and most consistent way to do that.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 00:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Per main article. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯ 02:11, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
(wow, I created this category seven years ago) We've often agreed that the best reason to not apply the catname = article name rule in every instance is because the category system needs greater clarity and disambiguation than article names do. So that's the only question here, if
Category:NBC would be sufficiently clear, given
all the potential meanings. If the decision is to rename,
Category:CBS television network should also follow. postdlf (talk) 03:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Keep – "because the category system needs greater clarity and disambiguation than article names do".
Occuli (
talk) 11:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Alternate suggestion - Being that
Category:NBC would likely be ambiguous (though the current placement of the article does indicate a strong primary topic), why not spell out the initialism with
Category:National Broadcasting Company?
It has the advantage of being a) correct, as that remains the full name of the company (unlike CBS which is an
orphan initialism), b) unambiguous (no other article has that tile, which is a redirect to NBC) and c) more accurate than the current name (the category also includes daughter cats on the company's former radio operations, which are not television, of course).
Just strikes me as a logical solution to the problem.
oknazevad (
talk) 03:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Light gun games with Quota
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Nominator's rationale:Delete I don't think it's reasonable to categorize video games according to the ways in which players can lose lives. It's not a defining characteristic.
Pichpich (
talk) 00:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete Excessive and excessively narrow intersection
Curb Chain (
talk) 11:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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