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Category:Sudanese people by city

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:29, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sudanese people by city (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:People by city in Sudan, convention of Category:People by city, and to include non-citizen residents. -- Prove It (talk) 22:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Namibian people by city

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:29, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Namibian people by city (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:People by city in Namibia, convention of Category:People by city, includes non-citizen residents. -- Prove It (talk) 22:43, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Central Missouri Mules men's basketball coaches

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:29, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Central Missouri Mules men's basketball coaches to Category:Central Missouri Mules basketball coaches
Nominator's rationale: Rename. This category used to be at the proposed rename location, but someone moved all the articles to "men's basketball coaches" without realizing that the school has different nicknames for men's and women's sports. See Central Missouri Mules and Jennies. Dale Arnett 20:48, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Yoga art

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:04, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Yoga art (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Invented term for a single stub on a sculpture of Kate Moss with her feet behind her head. This is adequately categorised elsewhere so the category can just be deleted. Johnbod 19:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC).[reply]
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Category:Alternative media (U.S. political right)

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 16:36, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Alternative media (U.S. political right) and
Category:Alternative media (U.S. political left) to
Category:Alternative journalism or create a new cat Category:Alternative media and merge both to it.
Nominator's rationale: and
Both categories are POV and I have already found them being abused. Contents of both categories should be merged into parent category, or create a new parent more appropriately named as "Alternative media", with no political "lean". Crockspot 18:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have not much problem, as such, with the merge itself. It makes sense, more or less. Sort of.
But how, exactly, do you think that merging the two will stop the abuse?
Mitchberg 21:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative media and Alternative journalism are legitimate categories, but we shouldn't be categorizing them further by left vs. right. That is where the abuses occur. - Crockspot 00:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Drivers who have won both in Champ Cars and the IRL

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Drivers who have won both in Champ Cars and the IRL (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete This is a piece of biographical trivia that would be better dealt with by a list. Æthelwold 17:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Avengers supporting characters

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Avengers supporting characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale:

Delete already have Marvel Comics supporting charactersBrian Boru is awesome 15:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Lexington Public Schools

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The result of the debate was delete; one article is already in Middle schools category --Kbdank71 16:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lexington Public Schools (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, single item category apparently created for Jonas Clarke Middle School, which actually goes in Category:Middle schools in Massachusetts. -- Prove It (talk) 14:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:German veterans of World War I

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The result of the debate was delete, empty --Kbdank71 16:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deletion Category:German veterans of World War I
Nominator's rationale: Delete for standardization as Category:German military personnel of World War I has superceeded. See also previous similar cfr here. Category currently unpopulated Kernel Saunters 14:38, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Axpo Super League

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 16:05, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Axpo Super League to Category:Swiss Super League
Nominator's rationale: Rename, It is better to drop the sponsor name, as Premier League. Because many Super Legaue, it is Swiss Super League. Matthew_hk tc 11:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Marathi mobsters

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Marathi mobsters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: A category of Indian mobsters (see Category:Indian mobsters) from Mumbai, who happen to be Marathi people. This is a clear case of non-notable intersection by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference. Since Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra, many of the mobsters in the city happen to be Marathi-speaking people (Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra). Delete as overcategorization. utcursch | talk 10:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Members of the Lunar Society

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The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 16:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Members of the Lunar Society to Category:Lunar Society
Nominator's rationale: There are not so many members of the LS to necessitate a separate category for them. Having two categories relating to the Lunar Society on a biography page, for example, is redundant. I believe that this duplicate makes it harder, not easier, for editors and readers to use the category (see Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories#Reasons for duplication). I have alerted the creators of both categories. Awadewit | talk 09:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest we be WP:BOLD and apply WP:SNOW. Otherwise, merge Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • FYI: There is very little to put into the category "Lunar Society" except for its members. Awadewit | talk 11:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Historically, this is a very important scientific society. I think that the category itself is important. Awadewit | talk 20:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Even the modern-day Lunar Society distinguishes itself from its "eighteenth-century predecessor" on its website ([1]). Perhaps the category should be renamed "18th century Lunar Society", then? That is the important one. Awadewit | talk 20:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The original should be called and classified as "Lunar Society"; the modern pretender should be "new Lunar Society" or some such. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with this. I was simply trying to be diplomatic. But, Andy Mabbett is correct that only the 18th century Lunar Society really has any significance (as far as I know - open to evidence otherwise). Awadewit | talk 09:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Could you please explain your reasoning for this opinion, please? Thanks. Awadewit | talk 10:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • What else would you put into the "Lunar Society" category? I can think of very little besides its members that wouldn't be a big stretch (like Birmingham). Awadewit | talk 10:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
(I hit the wrong key) ... and the categories should be made distinct by suitable naming. Mr Stephen 19:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly don't think that members of the new society should have a category. Arguably they should not be in either category at all. Johnbod 19:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mr Stephen, please demonstrate the significance of the new society. For example, could it have its own article, such as Lunar Society (which, although dismal at the moment, could be improved - there is much written on this topic). Awadewit | talk 10:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's a slightly different issue. Perhaps I wasn't clear. My aim is to keep the members of the 20th century society separate from the members of the 18th century society. I do not have any particular opinion on whether the 20th century version should have a cat or not. Mr Stephen 09:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I really believe that only the 18th century members should be included, since that is the important society (see my quotes below). The new Lunar Society is really a totally different enterprise - it just has the same name. But I am still not clear as to why you think that we should "Lunar Society" and "Members of the Lunar Society." Are you proposing something like "Lunar Society" and "Members of the Lunar Society" and "Members of the modern Lunar Society"? With such a system, I would ask you what I have asked others here, what would you put into the category "Lunar Society"? I am pretty sure that very little could be included in that category besides the 18th-century members, but I am ready to hear suggestions. Awadewit | talk 09:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, right. OK, this is what I had in mind. One cat for the 18th century lot, and - if needed - one cat for the 20th century lot. Category:Lunar Society to contain members & other things relevant to the 18th century society, and not to contain anything from the 20th century society. Category:Members of the Lunar Society to contain the 20th century crowd, and anthing relating to them (ie nothing). Category:Members of the Lunar Society to be renamed. Mr Stephen 12:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This wasn't that sort of society at all - much more like the Royal Society and others whose categories we have certainly not deleted. Johnbod 19:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please at least read a little bit on the topic before declaring that the category should be deleted. I quote from Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men: "It has been said that the Lunar Society kick-started the industrial revolution. No individual or group can be said to change a society in such a way, and time and again one can see that if they hadn't invented or discovered something, someone else would have done it. Yet this small group of friends really was at the leading edge of almost every movement of its time in science, in industry and in the arts, even in agriculture. They were pioneers of the turnpikes and canals and of the new factory system. They were the group who brought efficient steam power to the nation. They were the white heat of the drive to catalogue and name plants, to study minerals, to detect and work out of the history of the formation of the earth. The philosophers among them were keenly concerned with the nature of human knowledge itself, with the process of learning, and beyond this with enquiring into the origin and evolution of all organic life." (500-1) Or, read this little site which begins, "it has been written that 'The Lunar Society was second only to the Royal Society in its importance as a gathering place for scientists, inventors and natural philosophers during the second half of the eighteenth century'." I would think that such an important group would deserve its own category. (Note also, that the Lunar Society ended in the early nineteenth century and was only restarted later. I think that that helps establish that the 18th century Lunar Society is distinct from the modern-day one.) There were very few professional scientific organizations in the 18th century in Britain, therefore these informal groups were extremely influential. Awadewit | talk 00:13, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Others claim that the masons founded the USA, doesn't make membership defining. Unlike the Royal Society, it appears that there was no formal requirements for admission. If it is so important and defining one would have thought that a WP:RS rather than a blog could be quoted. Our article says that members of the society were influential; well and fine, but was the Society influential? I am sure that people who were masons were influential too, but ultimately membership in the organization is not what makes the people notable here. Is there anyone categorized here that has no other categories? Couldn't the list suffice for navigation? Was membership in the society defining at that time - as the Royal Society is today (like people would crow about it put in on the cv's, etc.)? These remain unanswered. Carlossuarez46 03:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, there were no formal requirements for admission, but please understand that "science" in the 18th century was very different than it is today. The kinds of institutional structures so familiar to us simply didn't exist at that time. These societies were essential to invention and discovery because the members exchanged ideas and stimulated each other intellectually. You cannot make an analogy between the 21st century to the 18th century in that way. Yes, membership in the society was defining at the time, in the sense that it dominated these men's lives (there were no CV's - that is an anachronistic comparison). By the way, I did cite a RS, Uglow's Lunar Men. I simply added the website in case not everyone participating in this discussion had easy access to her book during this discussion. Awadewit | talk 03:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The requirements for entry were exactly the same as the Royal Society at the time (and, effectively, now) - by invitation only. You have been given a whole book (very widely reviewed when it came out) as an RS. This was a small group containing a high concentration of very notable people, whose significance Awadewit has explained well. Johnbod 03:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I'm not clear. You don't think we should merge "Lunar Society" and "Members of Lunar Society"? Why? The category "Lunar Society" would be sufficient to address this topic, in my opinion. What would go in "Lunar Society", if not the members? That was the most important aspect, was it not? I agree that the modern society is not relevant here. Awadewit | talk 09:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What I really meant was that the category Lunar Society should only contain the 18th century members, not those from today. Oosoom Talk to me 10:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with that as well, but do you think that there should be two categories dedicated to this topic ("Lunar Society" and "Members of the Lunar Society")? Sorry, I'm still not clear on this. If so, might you explain why and if not, why not? Thanks. Awadewit | talk 10:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cf Category:Royal Society (not for persons) and its subcat Category:Fellows of the Royal Society (for persons). The article could be renamed Lunar Society (1765-1813) and (1765-1813) appended to names of the 2 cats (for complete clarity). I don't know if the modern Lunar Soc is worth its own article; if so there is a case for a membership cat. -- roundhouse0 11:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The thing is,Category:Royal Society is full of articles. If you remove the duplicate categorising of members, and the likes of Soho Foundry which are related to the Society only via members, there is very little left here. Johnbod 11:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am ambivalent regarding having separate categories for members for such a small group of people. That might be a policy issue which already exists. I am quite sure that the historic Lunar Society should not have 20th century people in it, and that it should continue as a category as it really does group the influential people who met regularly in the time and place of a major era of human development, and with a profound impact on it. I am not really in favour of actual dates being put in the title in case they one day turn out to be slightly wrong. Oosoom Talk to me 14:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Robert Moses

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 13:52, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Robert Moses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - This eponymous category does not meet the standards set at Wikipedia:Overcategorization. Eponymous categories should only be used for multi-part biographies on people. The category only contains an article on a biographer of Robert Moses, an article on the biography itself, and a subcategory on Moses's projects. It should be deleted. Dr. Submillimeter 07:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:108 Stars of Destiny

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated. Valid arguments from SnowFire backed up by "Subtopic categorization" section of WP:CAT-RD. --Kbdank71 13:59, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:108 Stars of Destiny to Category:Suikoden characters
Nominator's rationale: This is a housekeeping nomination, equivalent to db-catempty. This category is filled only with categorized redirects; it should be (speedily?) upmerged to the parent, something easier to do with a bot.
For those curious as to the how this category came about at all, the short version is that "108 Stars of Destiny" was a flavorful category name chosen by some of the early Wikipedians interested in these articles. Others used the more utilitarian "Suikoden characters" later, and the result was an inconsistent mess where two extremely similar categories were used with much overlap. Doesn't matter now, as all these articles have been merged into six lists and two navigational articles. SnowFire 05:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Er... a merging would delete this category, just keep the redirects properly categorized. SnowFire 17:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Yes, yes, and when the entries in the current category are merged upward, the category is certainly free to be used for the original 108 Stars. These are not mutually exclusive options. Although that said, it seems that Category:Water Margin characters seems to fit the bill pretty well as it stands right now, and the boring explanatory name is clearer. SnowFire 17:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they all are redirects to the list articles. The advantage of the category is that it's an additional alphabetic list at no cost - a rather minor benefit I agree, but there's no particular reason to get rid of it either. If there was an issue with the redirects cluttering out the "real" entries in the category, I'd agree with you, but there's only eight "real" articles in the parent category Category:Suikoden characters, and they are all sorted to the top. So there's no cost to having an alphabetical list of notable redirects afterward in the category, and some benefit: History diving, for example, and these are also anchored redirects that go directly to the location that they are discussed at. SnowFire 19:47, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports teams sponsored by consumer electronics brands

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 13:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports teams sponsored by consumer electronics brands (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overcatergorisation into trivial defining characteristics. Sponsors change, does it have to be naming rights/shirt sponsor only or any sponsor, etcThe-Pope 04:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Siege of Zara

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The result of the debate was close, neither category exists --Kbdank71 13:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Siege of Zara to Category:Siege of Zadar
Nominator's rationale: Rename, The name of the city was not Zara! It was Jadera in the age of the siege, so that name should be edited in the topic or present name Zadar. See Talk:Zadar and RFC discussion. Zara was later administrative name Zenanarh 13:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Banned book

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 13:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Banned book (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Convert to a list article, perhaps somewhere under Category:Lists of controversial books ... categories do not work well for this kind of information, please see previous discussions. -- Prove It (talk) 00:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Information about the process, motives, etc., for banning books is one thing, and I can certainly see why we would want that, but when it comes to trying to make a list of, well, frankly, examples, I think it's going to be less-than-useful, given the multitude of books that have been banned at one time or another by various entities. Effectively, it's going to be a list of nearly-all-books-ever-published. Just consider the list of books banned by the Taliban, for example. For that matter, I have banned several authors from my own personal library! :) Xtifr tälk 21:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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