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Category:JYJ albums covers

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The result of the discussion was: speedily deleted by SchuminWeb (talk · contribs). -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:47, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. I created the category but made a spelling mistake. I've already created the category again with correct spelling. Sorry for the trouble. Pancakeysshi (talk) 22:21, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Articles without infoboxes

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request. This deals with the concern that "requesting" makes it sound like the article itself is making a request. And request, suggested/supported by several in some form, had extra "weight" since the name of the populating template is: Template:Infobox requested. - jc37 05:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Articles without infoboxes to Category:Articles needing an infobox
Nominator's rationale: I would like for this to be a discussion about the best naming convention for the many subcategories of this category. Currently, three naming conventions are in use: Foo articles without infoboxes (~35%), Foo articles needing infoboxes (~50%) and Foo articles needing an infobox (~15%).
I prefer the third option, for two reasons. First, the absence of an infobox is not necessarily a maintenance issue. Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#Using infoboxes in articles, "[t]he use of infoboxes is neither required nor prohibited for any article" and hinges on "consensus among the editors at each individual article". In fact, at least one WikiProject (WikiProject Composers) discourages the use of infoboxes in biographical articles. The change from "without" to "needing" emphasizes that this is a maintenance category, and not merely a tracking category. Second, "needing an infobox" is, to my ear, more precise than "needing infoboxes". As a rule, each of the articles in question needs one infobox, not multiple infoboxes.
My core goal is, of course, to promote consistency and reduce duplication within the category tree. To that end, and assuming that this discussion produces a consensus for one of the three options, I intend to nominate the subcategories in a series of follow-up nominations or one mass nomination (depending on how much cleanup is needed along the way). Please note, also, that all (or almost all) of these categories are template-populated, so there will be no widespread disruption to article talk pages or user watchlists. -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:05, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lists of Northern Irish MPs

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Lists of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Northern Ireland constituencies.--Mike Selinker (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Lists of Northern Irish MPs to Category:Lists of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Northern Irish constituencies
Nominator's rationale: Rename, to match the parent category Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Northern Irish constituencies, and to distinguish it from Category:Lists of members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. (The Parliament of Northern Ireland existed from 1921 to 1972, and throughout that time Northern Ireland also returned MPs to the Parliament of the United Kingdom). BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Candy companies

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename per parent Category:Confectionery and Category:Confectionery companies of the United States, which is currently placed as a parent category, when in fact it should be a national subcat of the nominated category, I believe. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Asia and the Pacific 1941–42

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:42, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category aims to be a mish-mash of all content related to the years 1941 and 1942 in Asia and the Pacific Ocean; or, to quote the category description, "[t]his category is for non-war pages, for WWII pages, & for concurrent wars' pages for 2 years in the areas within the Pacific Ocean borders, its marginal seas , and within the regions of Asia, e.g., Category:Southeast Asia (1942)." Fully populated, it would be unmanageable. Even in its current state, populated mostly by articles about WWII battles, it is still arbitrary in its choice to split out two particular years of the Pacific War.
After the category is upmerged, its contents can be recategorized into appropriate subcategories of Category:Pacific theatre of World War II. -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:39, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Professorships by university

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The result of the discussion was: 'Rename all, including the parent to Category:Professorships by university or college. (Concerning the parent, the standard seems to be set by Category:People by university or college and its ultimate parent, Category:Universities and colleges.) - jc37 04:51, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
  • Category:Professorships by Institution to Category:Professorships by university
and sub-categories:
Nominator's rationale: Rename all. The parent Category:Professorships by Institution shoukd follow the format of its parent Category:Academics by university, and the sub-categories should all be renamed to the format "Professorships of Foo", where Foo is the name of the head article on that university. Many of the current titles are ambiguous; there is more than one university in the cities of Glasgow and Dublin. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:22, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Universities has been notified. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Dublin Professorships

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:Dublin Professorships‎ to Category:Professorships‎ at Trinity College, Dublin - jc37 05:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
  • Category:Dublin Professorships‎ to Category:Professorships‎ at the University of Dublin or Category:Professorships‎ at Trinity College, Dublin
Nominator's rationale. I have separated this one out of the group nomination above because the terminology is not straightforward. The University of Dublin is a a form of legal fiction, because it is for most purposes synonymous with Trinity College, Dublin. Technically, the University issues degrees and appoints professors, while the college does the teaching and organises the students, but in practice the two bodies are different labels for a single entity.
So, we can either go for technical correctness and reanme to Category:Professorships‎ at the University of Dublin ... or we can go for common usage and choose Category:Professorships‎ at Trinity College, Dublin. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:43, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject_Ireland has been notified. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Energy resource facilities in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: keep. There is a consensus that some restructuring is needed here, but that an automated merge is not the right option. Editors may want to open a centralised discussion on a new structure for energy categories in the United States, and should not feel obliged to delay returning to CFD if any alternative proposals need CFD attention. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:56, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose upmerging Category:Energy in the United States by state to Category: Energy infrastructure in the United States
Nominator's rationale: All the items in this category are already in the “energy infrastructure” category or one of its subcategories, mostly as subcategories. Some oil platform articles are directly in this category, but they are also in Category:Oil platforms off the United States. The main function of this category seems to be as a parent category for the 51 “energy resource facilities by state” subcategories, and these could eventually be renamed to “energy infrastructure by state”, as that is what they contain. This would avoid having two separate and parallel category trees. Hugo999 (talk) 11:10, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lists of people by university

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The result of the discussion was: 'Rename all. - jc37 04:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming
Nominator's rationale: Rename all. The parent category is Category:People by university or college, which has about 120 national sub-categories using the "university of college" format, grouped in by-continent categories which also follow the same format. This may qualify as a speedy renaming per C2C, per convention of Category:People by university or college. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Can you please explain why you think it makes no difference. Also, what about these categories:
Category:Universities by country
Category:Colleges by country
- do you also want to rename both these category trees? Ottawahitech (talk) 19:05, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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