< September 9 September 11 >

September 10

Category:Fictional shapeshifters

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 15:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional shapeshifters into Category:Shapeshifting in fiction

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:WWE Alumni

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 15:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:WWE Alumni to Category:World Wrestling Entertainment alumni

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:AWA alumni

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 15:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AWA alumni to Category:American Wrestling Association alumni

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:ECW alumni

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 15:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:ECW alumni to Category:Extreme Championship Wrestling alumni

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Miss Virginia Teen USA

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 15:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Miss Virginia Teen USA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Miss Virginia USA

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 15:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Miss Virginia USA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Cruisers of Austria-Hungary and Category:Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cruisers of Austria-Hungary (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Single ship in two identical categories. One of these categories should be removed. Pavel Vozenilek 20:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A-H had a single navy and A-H Navy was always operated by single country, the A-H. The differences between Austrian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire were of political character and had not influenced basic structure of military. The messy super-categories should be fixed, instead of spreading chaosu futher. Pavel Vozenilek 01:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Fictional ruins

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 14:43, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional ruins (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry to Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Londonderry

To provide sources the GAAs name is "Derry GAA", check Derry GAA and http://derry.gaa.ie/ Pauric 18:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"GAA in Londonderry" - 0 hits
"GAA in Derry" - 250 plus hits
GAA and County Londonderry produces much the same. --Damac 19:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Damac, please assume good faith. I'm not making a "cheap political point". I accept the Derry GAA call themselves Derry, but this category is referring to a geographical area. Also, "GAA in Derry" only produces about a dozen unique google hits. Stu ’Bout ye! 08:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Again, I have to stress that leaving the category as it is will completely go against what has been previously agreed on Talk:Derry and WP:IMOS. This comprimise has (generally) worked well, and to ignore it would have serious consequences. I would ask the closing admin to note this. Stu ’Bout ye! 19:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just for the record, it's my intention to add a lot more articles to the category in the very near future Djegan. (Derry Boi 21:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC))[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Reggae by nationality

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

delete because there are only 2 entries, and likely this will not change.Spylab 17:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Spylab[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Jewish sportspeople

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_25#Category:Sportspeople_by_religion. -- ProveIt (talk) 14:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I'd forgotten that we apparently do categorize athletes by ethnicity here. Examples include Category:Jewish American sportspeople, Category:Asian American sportspeople, Category:Mexican American sportspeople, Category:Indigenous Australian sports people, Category:Basque sportspeople, etc.--T. Anthony 19:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Confederations Cup

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename. Andrew c 20:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC) Category:Confederations Cup to Category:FIFA Confederations Cup[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Hindu mathematicians

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hindu mathematicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Comment. One of the issues that has been raised is the usefulness of categories such as Hindu mathemeticians. Opponents of this category have argued that such categories have no valid use, and are perhaps only useful for nefarious political aims. Encyclopedia articles should be useful, in particular, they should help to dispell ignorance. There are many types of ignorance. I can be ignorant of the dates of lunar eclipses, and an encyclopedia article may help me with that information. There is another type of ignorance. That is the ignorance that might believe that people of a particular group are, well to put it bluntly, stupid. That is, someone may believe that people who wear dhotis or who perform puja etc. are ignorant, incapable of logical or scientific thinking etc. An encyclopedia may help to dispel such ignorance, by pointing to individuals within that group who have excelled in various fields. Further, a list of individuals from that group who have excelled may be very useful for someone who wishes to show the ignorant that the group in question is not so stupid after all. It is true that organizing lists by, say religion, can also work the other way. For example, a list might be used to malign a group of people. For example a list of Italian murderers might be used to malign Italians. However, I fail to see such being the case with Hindu mathematicians. --BostonMA 17:51, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Keep: I have downgraded this to conditional keep only if it is guranteed that this includes the mathematicians who explicitly call themselves Hindus or verifiable sources mention that the person was Hindu explicitly.But in doing so, I believe the entries will be significantly reduced - making the categorisation irrelevant.Best way is to create a list TerryJ-Ho 18:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC).Also to be noted that many occidental scholars in previous centuries who referred to India as "Hindoostan" may have implied "Indian" when they wrote about the Indian Mathematicians.By the way I even have some French and North African friends who by reflex call Indians as "Hindous" due to linguistic reasons ("H" is almost silent in French language).TerryJ-Ho 18:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)If one can read the very first lines in this French document - it asks reader not to confuse Indians with Hindus TerryJ-Ho 18:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It's fine for you to feel this way, but it doesn't reflect historical reality. The historical reality is that many people did link their math to religion. Read the article on Imiaslavie and Mathematics. Historical reality is that, for example, Islamic prohibitions on icons is believed to have encouraged an interest in geometry. Historical reality on Christians and math is dealt with at McTutor.[2].--T. Anthony 06:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You havent made your case. Personal faith can have an impact on, for instance, philosophical thought, but not on mathematical thought. If it is the case that an interest in geometry is stimulated by the prohibition of idolatry, then that is relevant at the level of society and not the individual. Note that the same editor above gives another reason above. Hornplease 15:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The individual exists in a society, whether they are a mathematician or a street sweeper. The math is not created or proved by a religion, but the reason to look at certain areas of math in the first place can be motivated by religious preference or interest. That matters here as this is a category of mathematicians, not mathematics. Mathematicians are humans and therefore their areas of study can be influenced by non-mathematical aspects. Otherwise there would be no need for Category:Mathematicians by nationality or Category:Women mathematicians. A Category:Women math or Category:French math would be absurd, but Category:French mathematicians is not. Nationality grouping is so accepted there's even a Category:Basque mathematicians, which is over a year old, and it only has one person in it.--T. Anthony 17:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
By the by my reason did not change. I said above that Hindus were important to the history of mathematics. The statements here are simply an extension of that. It's more about the why these people being Hindu is also an important part of the history and their role in mathematics.--T. Anthony 16:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I am no expert on Hinduism or mathematics but religion does seem to have had an influence on mathematics (various google hits - this for example). Plus there must be a good reason for the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to be named so? Mind you, its different from Indian numerals. -- Lost(talk) 15:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There is little logic in the above argument. Hornplease has voted delete on every cat with the word "Hindu" in it. Bakaman Bakatalk 00:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I also feel that there is an agenda at work here.Hkelkar 01:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment:I am a physicist with a strong background in maths. Many mathematicians have been influenced by religion.Ramanujan a devout Hindu. Ramanujan has clearly indicated that his faith helped his insight into the lemmas. The same is true for any number of mathematicians and physicists (Hausdorff by Judaism, Abdus Salaam by Islam). Read Weinberg's interviews and you will learn about Salaam. Weinberg himself is a fairly observant Jew and a supporter of Zionism and he says that his beliefs about God have affected how he looks at elementary particle-interaction processes.Hkelkar 01:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete as well as all others like this. ...And Beyond! 03:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE TO CLOSING ADMIN: I have blocked User:...And Beyond! as a sockpuppet. Please ignore his contributions.-Runcorn 17:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is no cat for jain or Buddhist mathematicians because articles have not been made to fill those cats. Its Hindu mathematicians not tics. SAryabhata and Brahmagupta were definitely Hindus.Bakaman Bakatalk 00:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, by the way, there are n reasons why specific people should not be included in the category. If the category exists at all, their non-inclusion is taken by some as a statement of exclusion, which we may not have the right to make either. Oh, and, by the way, the only reason why I haven't proposed Category:French mathematicians for deletion is that there is something very vaguely defined but slightly real that could go under the name of French mathematics - it is made real simply by propinquity and institutions. Bellbird 14:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whereas there is no such thing as religious institutions for teaching or organizing mathematicians or scientists. (Christians in Science, Pontifical Academy of Sciences,The International Society for Science and Religion, Society of Ordained Scientists, etc.--T. Anthony 16:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As I have said several times, if religion can plausibly influence what they are notable for, then WP policy says a religion based cat is permissible. Hindu mathematics was not 'different' in that it was influenced by Hinduism. That point is not made. The development of Indian logic was not based on hindu philosophy - though lazy categorisation sometimes places it as a subset thereof, erroneously. Given that, WP policy says this, and Muslim mathematicians, and Jewish mathematicians, are all cats that must be deleted. If you dont like that, go and start a fight on the policy page. Hornplease 06:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
All scholarly disciplines ultimately derive from religion, if you go back a few thousand years, so that's not much of an argument. As for "their math was different and it must have been because they were Hindu" -- so, everything distinctive about the Indian subcontinent can be reduced to religion? Why not diet? Perhaps we should classify them as curry-eating mathematicians, or fenugreek-eating mathematicians. Maybe it was clothing. Dhoti-wearing mathematicians? Or language? Sanskrit-speaking mathematicians? BTW, my history of mathematics textbook describes the medieval mathematicians as Indian, not Hindu. Indian is problematic too (I prefer South Asian, as including the areas now Pakistan and Bangladesh) but it isn't a religious term. Zora 00:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"dhoti-wearing" "South asian" "perpetrating massacre". Use of racist terms has somehow clouded any actual substance there was in the above comment. Diet? Hindus dont eat cows. Clothing? ever heard of purdah? South Asian is meaningless, citing your hatred of Indian merely brings to light a very possible bias.Bakaman Bakatalk 00:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What's racist about mentioning dhotis? Did I say anything about cows or massacres? IMHO, South Asian is a better term than Indian, because pre-Partition South Asian civilization extended across areas now split into three countries, only one of which is called India. But, that's another argument. It's sufficient to say here that claiming a whole culture area, in which there were many religious and philosophical currents and sects, as "Hindu" is a very dubious proposition. Zora 00:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe you would like to refer to baburnama and other ancient texts. They defined anyone living in Ancient India to be a Hindu.nids(♂) 01:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Babur was a Central Asian Muslim who wrote in Chaghatai -- why should he be considered an authority on the sociology of South Asia/the Indian sub-continent? Englishmen of the Colonel Blimp variety were also known to say things like "It's all wogs past Calais." Does that mean that we should accept a partition of the world into Englishmen and wogs? Zora 01:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would like you to quote an scholar of before 19th century who has a different view than babur.nids(♂) 01:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just look at the Religion in India article here: pre-Babur, the sub-continent contained Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians, and Muslims. Zora 01:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I am interested in any scholar who defined Buddhists,Jains and Hindus as separate religions, before 19th century. Thanks.nids(♂) 02:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Every Non-Abrahmic person living in India was called a Hindu under almost all definitions. I would be thankful to you if you can cite a source which differentiated these as different religions. Only condition is that he should be someone from before 19th century.nids(♂) 02:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just what does pre-19th century "scholarship" have to do with it? And by whom? You want to talk about Tower of Babel theories? Surely modern scholarship would be more informative here. In any case, I'm a Buddhist, I've read a fair bit of the history of Buddhism, and I assure you, we don't consider ourselves Hindus. Zora 02:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I dont get what you mean by this reply. There are many eminent historians who say that Shaivism is different from Hinduism. You will also find many people who would say just like you
Will you then say that all the Shaivites are not Hindus. nids(♂) 08:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, really?? And who appointed you as the spokesperson of all Buddhism?? It would be more accurate for you to say that you are a Western convert to Buddhism, and specifically Zen Buddhism (which is Japanese). Unless you are a scholar of Buddhism, you cannot proclaim yourself to be an authority as you are doing here. And Nids is absolutely correct - prior to the era of British colonialism there was no separation between Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, etc. There were no "sects." All these groups were considered "Hindu". One of the reasons people in India still have animosity towards the British is because it was they who made these distinctions and created all this religious chaos in India. Dharmic power 05:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
IT was called "India" not "South Asia" (by your own comment above). Just making sure you gave up that failed point.Bakaman Bakatalk 01:51, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why should the Western authors who write in English be cited as authorities? Babar at least knew where India was, instead of getting lost in "south Asia".Bakaman Bakatalk 01:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It was called India pre-partition, its called South Asia only now by some fringe leftists. Find any historical source {Ibn Battuta, Abul Fazl, Chanakya, etc) that calls it South Asia (none, because its India). This is not a debate on Hinduism, its on Hindu mathematicians and if you dont believe mathematcians can be Hindu, you may want to look at the links below and on the act talk page. You accused my "communal thinking" of leading to "bombing and massacre" [4]. You were mocking the Hindu cat by calling them "dhoti-wearing mathematicians". The article totally passes WP:V and that is the real matter.Bakaman Bakatalk 00:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Notes - What say the deletionists to the verification by reputable sources? [5][6][7]

[8][9][10][11]Bakaman Bakatalk 00:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POinting us to pages that talk abt mathematics in India doesnt answer the point that none of these mathematicians did work that was specifically Hindu, which is the only way in which this cat can be kept as per policy. Nobody in this debate has answered that point. Unless someone does, this cat must be deleted. Hornplease 06:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If you are saying that all categories (including muslim and jewish) should be deleted, i support you. But if you say that Only hindu ones be deleted, i simply oppose you.nids(♂) 09:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I don't think ANY mathematicians should be classified by religion (well, maybe Pythagoreans, because they were a quasi-religious society, but that was a small group for a limited time). Jettison any Jewish/Muslim/Christian categories. There's a good article on Indian mathematics, and I'll accept that regional classification as useful. There WAS a real regional tradition of astronomical/mathematical scholarship. According to my history of math textbook (Katz), the unifying factor was language -- before the Mughals, all the sub-continental mathematicians communicated and recorded their teachings in Sanskrit. Zora 09:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You are still not clear, just trying to confuse the issues. Do you support categorisation of Mathematicians by religion??? Say yes or no. You will have plenty of Hindu mathematicians who were deeply religious, say, Yajnavalkya.nids(♂) 10:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not trying to confuse the issue, I just have an academic horror of making sweeping generalizations. OK, I'll say NO, no religious classification of mathematicians. Regional traditions yes, religion no. Zora 10:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You will be interested here. Please dont come back till that category and all subcatagories are deleted. Thanks.nids(♂) 10:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You are right that there was no such term as Hinduism before. When it was introduced, it was meant to include all non-abrahmics of the sub-continent. This is as basic as it can get.nids(♂) 09:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, used by a foreign conqueror, equivalent to "wog" or "kaffir." Not a useful category, IMHO. Zora 09:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why not. I am proud to say that i am a Non-Muslim, i.e. Kaffir. Its true that he introduced this term to malign or even insult non-muslims, its just that now people are proud to call themselves Hindu.nids(♂)
A Category can survive and be renamed. I'd be fine with renaming the Category:Christian mathematicians to something like Category:Christians in the history of math. I just don't like to get wordy unless I have to.--T. Anthony 16:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Could you point us in that direction, perhaps? As I said above, it should be the case that religion has influenced what these people are notable for; in other words, if a mathematician in this cat came out and said (1) I am Hindu and (2) Without Hinduism, I would have been non-notable, then we can keep this cat. Otherwise, per policy, we cant. Hornplease 19:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if the following will suffice, but here's some sites that mention Hinduism in mathematics history.[12][13][14] There's also a book History of Hindu mathematics by B Datta and AN Singh. Also this standard "without 'blank' I would have been non-notable" is stricter than what the guidelines actually states. The guideline states "the subject's beliefs or sexual preferences are relevant to the subject's notable activities or public life." That's relevant, not "totally the cause of." If Oscar Wilde had been heterosexual he'd still have been notable as a writer and playwright as his renown mostly came from before the incident. Alan Turing also would be notable regardless of orientation. On religion Herbert Hoover or John F. Kennedy would have been notable for being US Presidents regardless of their faiths. All these men have categories denoting their religion or orientation. Kennedy is even in Category:Roman Catholic politicians and Turing is in Category:LGBT history of the United Kingdom --T. Anthony 21:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As extensively discussed below, precedent is an insufficient argument. We need to delete those too. Hornplease 19:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You mean there was a time when being anti-religion was uncool at Wikipedia? The founder of Wikipedia is philosophically influenced by Ayn Rand and she had a very negative view of religion. (I heard her once described as "Nietzsche for dummies" or possibly "Nietzsche for Sci-Fi geeks")--T. Anthony 02:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Hindu athletes

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hindu athletes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Yes, I think they are. So are the Muslim lists. They're boast lists, of no particular encyclopedic use. Zora 00:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Zora, have you proposed Lists of Jews and Category:Jewish sportspeople for deletion? And the other occupations by religion? --BostonMA 10:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't always work. I created List of Protestant authors, but even though I'm Christian I feel more sympatico to Taoism than to Protestantism. I created the list for research purposes and those who wanted to know more about Protestant literature. (All the names I put expressed their faith in their writing to some degree)--T. Anthony 02:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Protestant writers is of writers who write of Protestanism, no? Not just writers who happen to be Protestant. ...And Beyond! 03:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE TO CLOSING ADMIN: I have blocked User:...And Beyond! as a sockpuppet. Please ignore his contributions.-Runcorn 17:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds fine. Remember though lists are generally held to a higher standard as they're deletion targets. You'll need to source the names and show that they meet the rules of Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists). The coverage of India/Hinduism topics is rather meagre at WP considering how important/numerous they are in the world, so you're heart might be in the right place here.--T. Anthony 14:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Didn't Carlos Mencia do that already? :-) OscarTheCat 23:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete per nom. ...And Beyond! 03:52, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE TO CLOSING ADMIN: I have blocked User:...And Beyond! as a sockpuppet. Please ignore his contributions.-Runcorn 17:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Hellenic languages and dialects

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 14:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hellenic languages and dialects to Category:Varieties of Greek

Comment: actually, as I understand it, it is in fact intended to cover modern as well as historical varieties, and articles for the historical stages of the language too. We don't have many articles on modern dialects yet (except Misthiotica, Griko, Tsakonian and a few others), but those and any yet to be written should go here. I don't think it'll ever get crowded enough that we'd have to subcategorize for ancient and modern varieties. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. I am not sure whether it is good to bring modern and ancient Greek (or other languages) so much close. Pavel Vozenilek 21:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it's really necessary, but if anybody wants to do that, I'd have no objections to creating two subcategories: Category:Varieties of Ancient Greek and Category:Varieties of Modern Greek. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Having both these categories is more straightforward--Michkalas 10:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Update: After discussion with Michkalas and Dbachmann, I've created the two subcategories and moved most articles from the main category into either of the two. The renaming of the main category should still go ahead and will be even less work this way. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Muslim actors

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Muslim actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hindu actors is also up for CfD. I am sure that equivalent cats for other religions (Scientologist actors?) will be up in due course. Note that a vote claiming precedent is not a vote on the merits of the case. Hornplease 14:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete is a better term TerryJ-Ho 00:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please see my response to Proveit below, in the next, and similar cat up for deletion. Hornplease

*Delete Nothing special to note. ...And Beyond! 03:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE TO CLOSING ADMIN: I have blocked User:...And Beyond! as a sockpuppet. Please ignore his contributions.-Runcorn 17:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The problem I have with this is that this is already not like a real encyclopedia and it's unlikely to become like one, partly by design. Print encyclopedias don't categorize people at all. It's a different system that's usually just alphabetical. Wikipedia however already categorizes actors or entertainers by sexuality(Category:LGBT actors), gender(Category:Female comedians), race(Category:Black British actors and Category:African-American actors), age plus nationality (Category:English child actors), and their other line of work(Category:Actor-politicians).--T. Anthony 17:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
T. Anthony: Nevertheless what we are dealing with here is raw data and information coming in, and in trying to process and deal with, or categorize, that data and information, we as editors are faced with the challenge of sifting and sorting all of it. Above all else we should not succumb to the pitfall of Garbage In, Garbage Out and this is precisely why there is this mechanism called WP:VfD and WP:CfD etc. So let's keep perspective and rest assured that with time the garbage will be eliminated and that which is truly encyclopedic will remain. IZAK 17:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well I don't agree it is garbage, it just needs definition. If the subject identifies as Muslim and that identification is important to their public life a category seems valid. I might agree it should be named a bit differently, but that's a matter of renaming not deletion. If categorizing actors on personal aspects is just disquieting, for whatever reason, then we could go "truly encyclopedic" and only categorize by alphabetical arrangement. Like Category:Actors Aa-Ab, etc.--T. Anthony 18:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Hindu actors

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 13:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hindu actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This speaks to application rather than whether it should exist or not. If the category is added inappropriately you remove. Category:Christian actors survives. My effort to rename Category:Mormon actors to Category:Actors associated with LDS cinema even failed, see Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 22. Anyway that Hindus are not as well represented here should not cause an uneven standard.--T. Anthony 15:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I can understand tagging someone with a Hindu category if that person has put him or herself forward as a proponent or teacher of Hinduism. Tagging anyone who might possibly describe him or herself as Hindu on a census form with the category is just pointless. Setting up sub-categories for Hindu mathematicians or actors, when the religion has NOTHING to do with their occupation and when they haven't made any sort of public fuss about their religion, is singularly pointless. Just how well do you guys think it would work to busily categorize all Hollywood actors by religion? Or anyone notable enough to rate a Wikipedia article?
As for the political issues involved here -- just about all of the Indian editors' names I see here as clamoring to keep the categories are of editors who have been involved in disputes over Hindutva, an Indian communalist ideology that believes that India should be Hindu, and sees Muslims and Christians as representing dangerous outside forces. These editors certainly haven't been working on the Indian cinema articles. In fact, Bakasuprman, the editor who invented these categories, is on record as dismissing Bollywood as popular tripe unworthy of his attention (and me as showing low tastes by watching it). Trying to divide up Bollywood on a communal basis is particularly pernicious because cinema is one of the most integrated sectors of Indian society. Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs (or people who might be deemed such, by virtue of descent, even if they show no interest in religion) work together and intermarry. "Hindu" actors play Muslims in films and vice-versa. While there are certainly Hindu religious films ("mythologicals"), they are not currently the mainstream of Indian cinema, and they are not necessarily made by Hindu evangelists. They're a commercial proposition.
Bakasuprman seems to be concerned to sort out the sheep from the goats, the Hindus from the Muslims. I'm reminded of a story about a Northern Irish man who was asked if he were Catholic or Protestant. "Neither," he said, "I'm an atheist." Momentary silence and then the question, "But are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?" In Northern Ireland, you can (or could) be killed for being the wrong religion in the wrong place. That is unfortunately still true in India. See 2002 Gujarat violence. Or watch Mr. and Mrs. Iyer.
Frankly, all the tagging and listing of people on Wikipedia seems to me to be utterly pernicious. It's done by editors for self-serving reasons and it's not particularly useful for the encyclopedia users. It seems either to be boasting (I'm Arab and these cool people are Arabs and therefore I'm cool) or stigmatizing (watch out for those actors, they're Muslims, they're probably subsidizing terrorism). Hence the many utterly STUPID fights over what nationality gets to claim a famous historical personage for boasting rights. I know that this is a primate preoccupation (in the troupe or out? friend or enemy) and a natural human tendency, but dang it, I'd like WP to rise above that, not wallow in it. Zora 00:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, a guideline, from the biographies of living persons policy:
"Category tags regarding religious beliefs and sexual preference should not be used unless two criteria are met:
  • The subject publicly self-identifies with the belief or preference in question
  • The subject's beliefs or sexual preferences are relevant to the subject's notable activities or public life
I don't think that any of the people who were tagged with the categories deserved to be so tagged. Furthermore, I don't see any use for the categories "Muslim actor" or "Hindu actor" at all; a simple "Muslim" "Hindu" "Jain" "Parsee" tag ought to be enough for those people who are in fact notable for their religious views.
I suspect that the guidelines, if followed, would also remove most of the names from the lists of Jews and Muslims that already exist. Zora 01:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Again this speaks to application. If you want to know the truth I'd prefer Category:Christian actors be Category:Actors in Christian films, etc. However I put the Mormon version of that to a vote and it didn't fly. You seem to see tagging as pernicious, but I think that's just your perspective. I see the blatant ignoring of the religion of historical figures at Wikipedia, even when it was vital to them, as the negative. In any case what you said just indicates that actors only be here if they identify as Hindu and being Hindu is important to their public lives. I couldn't agree more with that. If actors are placed here who fail to fit those two standards remove them. Also most of us are not in Gujarat. I've worked very little or not at all on articles concerning Hindutva. In fact I think adding a few of those people to Category:Critics of Islam is about all I've done relating to that in the last 6 months. There's no need to "scare" us into trying to pretend peoples religions don't exist because you've been in some bad discussions.--T. Anthony 03:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I added a disclaimer. Also I added Aishwarya Rai as her article states "she has described herself as having 'immense faith in its gods'[15] and when at home she attends the Siddhivinayak Mandir, devoted to Lord Ganesh.[16][17][18]." Is this closer to acceptable?--T. Anthony 04:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No, because whatever she may do in her private life, Hinduism has nothing to do with her movie career. She's famous for her beauty, not her piety. Zora 04:39, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ah well. As this is going to end up as no concensus, or just keep, I was hoping a compromise with you was possible. Instead you're just going to get a Category with no holds barred. At least I tried to put disclaimers and limitations. I was considering removing most existing names at some point and replacing them with actors who worked on Hindu religious epics, but there's probably no point in that now.--T. Anthony 06:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Zora has made a good argument concisely and well. The Jewish categories are quite controversial, and should not be taken as a model. Rather, it would be a good thing if people involved in this discussion also got involved in the other discussion; see the topics now in the Village pump (policy section) and in the talk page of the Jewish Mathematicians category. Several categories will becoming up for deletion soon. If we do not have a general discussion, each page will be defended effectively by the two or three agenda-pushers that created it. Bellbird 13:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A factual response to Zora's hate attack on Bakasuprman[19]. Wow what a sick mind. Its called fairness, and the reason I created Muslim actors along with Hindu actors was in the spirit of fairness, so that all religions would be brought down if one was brought down. Of course using Hindutva and Northern Ireland are merely tools used by to instigate some sort of emotional Blackmail.Bakaman Bakatalk 00:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dont use words like "hate attack" without remarks supporting its applicability. I note that the word 'factual' is up there as well, but without many facts disagreeing with Zora. Hornplease
I will use whatever words I please. Zora tried to say I was "perpetrating massacre"[20] and suggesting that I was turning WikiPedia into WikiGodhra or WikiNorthernIreland. Since you voted delete on anything with the word Hindu in it, I feel obliged to confront the discrimination and misrepresentation of my actions. I know myself better than Zora knows me, so me writing my actions is the fact in factual.Bakaman Bakatalk 01:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have to say I think "hate attack" is a bit intemperate. If you have a personal history with Zora this might not be the best place to deal with it. I voted keep here, but I'd rather statements by "our side" not get overheated as it might hurt credibility.--T. Anthony 17:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Right, I am determined to keep my temper here. She specifically said - in a discussion elsewhere - that dividing people into communal categories is the sort of thing that leads to massacres. That is a fairly objective - indeed, undeniable - statement. The crucial point, and I make this again since previous interaction with this user suggests he needs points to be made to him repeatedly, is that Zora's post above is not hate speech, which has a certain definition. And your interpretation of your actions is not the same as factual. I just urge you, for the 1134th time, to choose your words more carefully, and to be less confrontational. Hornplease 16:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to point out that either you are convinced by the arguments or are not. If you are convinced, then you should vote to delete this cat, and bring the others to CfD, or wait for someone else to do it and vote to delete them as well. We arent a legalistic community here, precedent is merely a source of argument and not binding. Please reconsider your vote in this light, or I suggest that the closing admin disregards them. Hornplease 16:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Believe the second phrase better expresses my pov in this regardTerryJ-Ho
If you check Category:Christian actors and compare it to List of Christians in entertainment and media you'll find these categories have traditionally been "treaded cautiously." At the moment this is maybe not occurring, but I think with proper monitoring it can be limited to actors whose self-acknowledged Hindu status is important to their public life.--T. Anthony 04:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, precedents are never a sufficient argument. Secondly, I am certain that based on the arguments here, someone will bring those cats to CfD as well. Hornplease 15:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I stick by my keep vote, but Jewish people are an ethnicity as well as a religion. Therefore it's not the same. Category:Chinese American actors will likely be similarly safe as there's less discomfort here on ethnicity being relevant to projects or work an actor does.--T. Anthony 15:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think Listify is the best way, without exaggerating their religious aspects for all these categories, all Muslim and other categories should go tooTerryJ-Ho 17:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Who told you that hinduism is just a religion and not an ethnicity. Moreover, all i am saying is that delete all these categories, or keep all of them. Why are you singling out Hinduism.nids(♂) 19:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That is something debatable Nids [23]TerryJ-Ho 11:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You cant point to one off incidence and claim it to be debatable. What, in your view, is ethnic jew.nids(♂) 12:18, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please see my note above. What you are saying is that this and all other similar cats should be deleted. The closing admin should note that. Hornplease 17:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CommentBhadani said keep! Do you mean that all cats should go. If thats what you meant then it would have been clearer if you specifically said all relgion cats should go. GizzaChat © 01:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would be more honest if you voted delete on all the categories, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Christian, that you believed violated guidelines and are up on CfD right now, instead of saying that Hinduism articles have been singled out, which is manifestly not the case.
AS I said above in response to Nirav, does this keep vote therefore mean you are voting to delete all dubious religion-based cats? Hornplease 14:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at other online encyclopedias I'm feeling some doubt as they do have "topics", which is a bit similar to categories, but not topics like this. However Wikipedia is very different than other online encyclopedias. I don't think any of them would "topic/categorize" actors by sexual orientation, US state, or ethnicity either and yet Wikipedia does. (Category:Bisexual actors, Category:Nebraska actors, Category:Irish-American actors) I'm not sure Wikipedia's ability to be more specific is necessarily bad, but I'll concede now that it is odd. I still don't see the problem with this if the names meet the specification, namely that they're Hindu and that being so is significant to their public life.--T. Anthony 14:36, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Military operations of Israel

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Andrew c 20:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC) Category:Military operations of Israel contains only one subtopic and nothing links there. -- Kendrick7 05:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That might not be a Military but Secret Service operation TerryJ-Ho 00:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Its under cat Category:Military operations of Israel. Bakaman Bakatalk 00:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, special forces operations are still military. Kirill Lokshin 01:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:NCAA DI Men's Lacrosse Championship Venues

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename. Andrew c 20:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC) Category:NCAA DI Men's Lacrosse Championship Venues to Category:NCAA Men's Division I Lacrosse Championship venues[reply]

Rename. First, "DI" is not transparent to most people in the US who don't follow college sports, much less non-Americans. Second, the unofficial standard for most college championships, when split by sex and division, is "NCAA Sex Division Sport Championship" (this is followed by the basketball tournament articles). Finally, "Venues" should be in lower case. — Dale Arnett 03:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Nabisco brands

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 13:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nabisco brands into Category:Kraft brands

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Israel Defense Forces

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was withrawn --Kbdank71 13:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Israel Defense Forces to Category:Military of Israel (nominated by User:Kirill Lokshin)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Political scandals subcategories

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep (on a side note, the people who said "support", or "rename per nom", you do know this was a multiple choice test, right? Just checking) --Kbdank71 14:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Political scandals

Following this individual renaming, a consensus over renaming all the "[country] political scandals" categories would be good:

( A ) {Country demonym} political scandals → Political scandals of {Country}
( B ) {Country demonym} political scandals → Political scandals in {Country}
( C ) {Country demonym} political scandals to be retained (added by Brammen 12:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)).[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Codename: Kids Next Door

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Andrew c 22:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Codename: Kids Next Door (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Category:Music; museums

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was merge. Andrew c 22:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Category:Music museums. -- ProveIt (talk) 00:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Spanish basketball leagues

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename. Andrew c 21:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The standard for Wikipedia is to spell out all initialisms in category names. However, I believe that these should remain as exceptions because these are Spanish abbreviations which would be less understandable for most English speakers if they were spelled out. That having been said, I believe that all of these categories should have "League" appended to them, if for no other reason to make it a little more clear that the categories deal with sports leagues. I wouldn't object if the consensus determines that "ACB basketball league" is a better destination. — Dale Arnett 00:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC) Update: Changed nomination per EurekaLott's comments. — Dale Arnett 12:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.
More