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Category:UK Common Wealth Party politicians

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Common Wealth Party politicians. --Xdamrtalk 14:29, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:UK Common Wealth Party politicians to Category:Common Wealth Party politicians
Nominator's rationale: Rename, to remove "UK" prefix as with other other subcats of Category:British politicians by party. Note tht unlike the other subcats, no "(UK)" suffix is needed, since there appears not have been "Common Wealth" parties in other countries. Note that although the category is currently small, this was historically significant party and should be more heavily populated with existing articles. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rename - entirely agree with BrownHairedGirl's reasoning. Warofdreams talk 17:08, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:UK Liberal-Labour politicians

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Liberal-Labour politicians (UK). --Xdamrtalk 14:31, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:UK Liberal-Labour politicians to Category:Liberal-Labour politicians (UK)
Nominator's rationale: Rename, for consistency with other subcats of Category:British politicians by party and with main article Liberal-Labour (UK). BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:UK Liberal Democrat politicians

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Liberal Democrat politicians (UK). --Xdamrtalk 14:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:UK Liberal Democrat politicians to Category:Liberal Democrat politicians (UK)
Nominator's rationale: Rename, for consistency with other subcats of Category:British politicians by party and with Category:Liberal Democrat MPs (UK). BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I didn't think it would be a significant danger, but as two people have raised the possibility of confusion, I'd be happy enough with including it. Warofdreams talk 16:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - as I stated above, there are no other parties with the same name. Parties with similar but different names do not need disambiguation in this manner. Warofdreams talk 23:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As above, there is also the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan). ---BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:56, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:UK Liberal Party politicians

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Liberal Party politicians (UK). --Xdamrtalk 14:34, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:UK Liberal Party politicians to Category:Liberal Party politicians (UK)
Nominator's rationale: Rename, for consistency with the main article Liberal Party (UK) and with other similar categories. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I've responded to the second point under the #Category:UK Liberal-Labour politicians header above. Warofdreams talk 16:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kyle XY

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:35, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kyle XY (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: It seems to be regular practice to delete categories for shows, where there is a navigation template which provides all the necessary links, as here. Fayenatic london (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical figures portrayed by Shakespeare

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The result of the debate was Listify & Delete. Most 'Keep' arguments seem to boil down to an argument for special treatment, however, the importance of Shakespeare aside, in the absence of compelling arguments to the contrary general categorisation guidelines should be applied. --Xdamrtalk 01:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Historical figures portrayed by Shakespeare (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete/Listify - Generally, WP:CFD would probably delete categories for real people who have been the subject of fictional works by a specific author. In this case, however, the author is Shakespeare. Nonetheless, I would argue that this category should still be deleted, mainly because the people in this category (especially very famous people such as Julius Caesar) are not famous because they were the subjects of Shakespeare's plays. Moreover, some of these people (Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc) have been the subjects of multiple playwrights and authors; categories for all of the authors who have featured these people would be unweildly. Therefore, I suggest deleting this category. Note that the list is probably of interest to people studying Shakespeare's historical plays, so the category should be listified. (If kept, the category should be renamed without using "historical", as the term is vague.) Dr. Submillimeter 20:28, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think they were just written by historians. Most of them were not overwhelmed with any sort of information. Johnbod 21:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's best. I'd support a rename to that. Johnbod 23:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I just want to reiterate that my suggesting a possible new name should in no way be taken as support for this category. I remain very strongly opposed. Otto4711 23:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - there are always going to be exceptions for particular characters, but do you honestly believe that any king of England is best known today because he appeared in a Shakespeare play? It could just as easily be argued that Julius Caesar is best known because he appeared in a Shaw play or that Hamlet is best known to people of a certain age because a particularly dreary version was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. How does one decide that cultural representation X is important enough to be considered an exception while that cultural depiction Y isn't without resorting to blatant POV? Otto4711 23:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly - Richard III reigned for three years & would be highly obscure without Shakespeare. So probably would Henry V and Richard II - none of them very successful or long on the throne. I think the UK was spared Mystery Science Theater 3000. Johnbod 23:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In response to Otto, when any of the other cultural representations achieve the renown set out with references in the article William Shakespeare, we will have a POV problem. But until then, we can handle one exception. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In response to BHG, Dante - also available in English - placed Brutus and Cassius in the lowest level of The Inferno with Judas Iscariot and Satan himself - it seems that Brutus' and Cassius' infamy long outlived them. Oh, by the way, Dante wrote in the 1300s well before young William was a twinkle in anyone's eye. Carlossuarez46 00:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
But a list only refers in one direction, as explained above. Johnbod 23:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And that's just one of their benefits! :) Anyway, adding "See also: List of foo" is no harder than adding Category:foo, so I find the argument remarkably unpersuasive. Xtifr tälk 00:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, you've lost me completely there? Johnbod 18:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A joke, I hope? Johnbod 06:37, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is not surprising that deleters keep referring to Caesar. There are 129 articles in the category. Perhaps Dr S or Xtifr grew up hearing tales of Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset or John VI, Duke of Brittany on their respective mothers knees, but few others will have done. For the great majority of these characters, being in a Shakespeare play is a defining characteristic for a modern readership, and is also not mentioned in their articles (please don't try and tell me this is anything other than a sign of stubbiness). Johnbod 23:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I still don't understand this at all. All I know if that for a majority of the 129 articles in this category, the category is the only thing that tells a reader they were in a Shakespeare play. Given how stubby and boring most of the articles are, this is in my view likely to be information of interest to the reader, which this nomination intends to deprive him or her of. Johnbod 23:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A link to the play where the person (or some vaguely recognizable caricature of the person) appears will serve just as well (or better, IMO) to inform a reader that the person appeared (sort of) in a play, and is every bit as easy to add. (Easier, IMO, because categories are tricky until you get the hang of them, whereas a link to a separate article is something that even the most novice wiki editors are familiar with.) A person reading about the play with historical figures is much more likely to be interested in other historical persons in the plays than someone reading about a random historical figure for whatever reason (most probably unconnected to the play). Xtifr tälk 01:42, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You can't seriously be suggesting that Category:People depicted by Leonardo da Vinci would have any chance of existing? Apart from religious figures, himself, the Mona Lisa & a couple of young friends, I don't think he did any portraits anyway; nor did Michelangelo. Johnbod 23:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Given the arguments above, I think Category:People depicted by Leonardo da Vinci and Category:People depicted by Michaelangelo are as equally valid as Category:Historical figures portrayed by Shakespeare. The modern world's view of Jesus Christ, the biblical David, Adam, Eve, and others is as influenced by da Vinci's and Michaelangelo's works as views of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony are influenced by Shakespeare. Note, however, that I am still advocating the deletion of Category:Historical figures portrayed by Shakespeare, although I am certain that other people will see the Shakespeare category and this discussion to advocate categories for da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and other people. Dr. Submillimeter 07:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nonsense! Johnbod 10:44, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Um, distorted our views with his highly inaccurate depictions might be closer to the truth. And as others have pointed out, this is not true in several significant cases anyway. Further, why is a link to a list of (mostly) unrelated historical figures more useful than (say) a link to the actual play where the character appears? Wikipedia's so-called "categories" are really more of a linking scheme than a classification scheme, although they are occasionally used for the latter. As I ask above, why should Shakespeare be punished by being forced to use the limited and restrictive category system, while other writers gain the benefits of far-more-flexible lists? Xtifr tälk 19:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The same arguments to keep would work for CNN, Dante, Suetonius, Plutarch, and frevvins' sake even You Are There (Radio/TV series), and because not many would have heard of Oskar Schindler otherwise, we can start a Spielberg category too. Carlossuarez46 20:59, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still completely bemused. Category:People we heard about on CNN is never going to exist, so discussing it here is a reductio-ad-way-too-much-absurdium-to-be-relevant. The argument that this would make a good list is no doubt true: I intend to make it a great list. It will be a featured list. But the argument that that fact makes the proposed list redundant with this category or vice-versa is quite wrong. I set very little store by slippery slope arguments. The category existed for over a year without anyone creating Category:Historical figures from bizarre pop-culture source and if anyone ever does, we can come and discuss it here. FWIW, I think the argument that biographical pages should be looked at from a purely historical perspective is wrong, also: Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia, and its joined-up-ness (I'll think of a better word for that later, perhaps) is one of its strengths. His appearance in Shakespeare is one of the few truly significant facts about Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset and I was quite proud of being able to add that information to his page. AndyJones 06:43, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical gangs of New York City

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Defunct gangs of New York City. --Xdamrtalk 00:44, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Historical gangs of New York City to Category:Defunct gangs of New York City
Nominator's rationale: Rename - The term "defunct" is generally used for organizations that no longer exist. Moreover, the term "historical" has vague interpretations, making it less-than-useful for categorization. "Historical" could be used to refer to existing gangs that have been around for a long time (maybe 50 or 100 years); defunct gangs; or gangs that existed 50 or 100 years ago or more. "Defunct" suffers from no such ambiguity, so the category should be renamed using "defunct". Dr. Submillimeter 20:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical criminals of New York City

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The result of the debate was Merge per nom. --Xdamrtalk 00:50, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical criminals of New York City to Category:Criminals of New York City
Suggest merging Category:Historical gang members of New York City to Category:Gang members of New York City
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization. The distinction is usually not useful anyway, as anyone who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 20:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical cats

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:Famous cats. --Xdamrtalk 00:46, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical cats to Category:Famous cats
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization, although someone has made the distinction for cats. The distinction is usually not useful anyway, as any cat who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 20:07, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical buildings in the British Virgin Islands

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Former buildings and structures of the British Virgin Islands. --Xdamrtalk 01:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Historical buildings in the British Virgin Islands to Category:Forber buildings and structures of the British Virgin Islands Category:Former buildings and structures of the British Virgin Islands
Nominator's rationale: Rename - The term "historical" is vague; it could refer to buildings from 50, 100, or 200 years ago, buildings where important events took place, or buildings that no longer exist. In this case, it appears to refer to buildings that are now in ruins. It should be renamed using "former" to follow the convention of other categories for such buildings. Dr. Submillimeter 20:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. "Historical" is no more vague than History, but we manage to create "History of" pages for each country in the world. Each building appearing in the category is actually abandoned and in ruins. I am not quite sure what "Forber" means - is it meant to be "Former"? --Legis (talk - contribs) 20:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I corrected the nomination to use "former". The rest of the argument presented by Legis detracts from the issue, as it confuses articles about history (which should be in history categories) with articles about things that could be called "historical" (which do not belong in "historical" categories). Someone else could easily interpret the adjective "historical" for buildings in strange ways or in ways that are different from Legis's interpretation. For example, I would consider the Earl's Court tube station to be a historical structure, even though the average Londoner would not. (Someone else did place a currently-operational London railroad station in Category:History of London, which I removed earlier today.) Dr. Submillimeter 20:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Thanks, although I still think there is a distinction between a building that form's part of a nation's history, and something that is just a "former" building. I couldn't agree that any building that was built yesterday is immediately historical. And as much of my life as I have spent sitting in Earl's Court station (which seems long enough to be part of history), I would have difficulty as describing it as a building that played any significant part in English history. The other worry I would have about the "former" tag is it would necessarily include things that have now been completely destroyed, which currently would fall outside a category of historical buildings. --Legis (talk - contribs) 18:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment - But the Earl's Court Underground Station is indeed a historical structure in my mind and quite possibly in the minds of other people. The original station was built in the 1870s during the westward extension of the District Line, and both this station and the railway greatly influenced the growth of locations in Southwest London. This in turn has had long-term consequences in the diffusion of both people and commerce from Inner London to Outer London. Moreover, the Underground itself, including the construction of the District Line and the pivotal role played by Earl's Court on the District Line, was pioneering in terms of the development of urbal mass transit. Furthermore, the architecture of the Earl's Court Underground Station itself dates from the Victorian era, and it remains relatively unchanged (particularly the Earl's Court Road facade and the District Line platforms), so it may be considered exemplary of such rail architecture from the era. (Most of this can be found in C. Wolmar's The Subterranean Railway.) Moreover, may I point out that many parts of the world (including Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, the Western United States and Canada), any building that dates from the nineteenth century would indeed be considered a historic landmark and would probably be registered on government-maintained lists of historic buildings? Indeed, the Earl's Court Underground Station should be considered historic. However, as demonstrated by Legis's comments, my perspective on what is historic is purely subjective, but so is his. Now, does everybody understand what is wrong with using the term "historic" to categorize buildings? Dr. Submillimeter 20:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical astronomical instruments

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The result of the debate was Rename, as nominated. --cjllw ʘ TALK 13:12, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Historical astronomical instruments to Category:Astronomical instruments
Nominator's rationale: Rename - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" and "modern" objects in categorization. Therefore, the category should be renamed. (Category:Astronomical instruments should exist anyway.) Dr. Submillimeter 19:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical Quebec MNAs

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:Quebec MNAs. --Xdamrtalk 00:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical Quebec MNAs to Category:Quebec MNAs
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization. The distnction is usually not useful anyway, as anyone who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 19:53, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical People of Assam

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:People from Assam. --Xdamrtalk 00:48, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical People of Assam to Category:People from Assam
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization. The distnction is usually not useful anyway, as anyone who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 19:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical Ontario MPPs

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:Ontario MPPs. --Xdamrtalk 00:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical Ontario MPPs to Category:Ontario MPPs
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization. The distnction is usually not useful anyway, as anyone who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 19:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Historical New Brunswick MLAs

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:New Brunswick MLAs. --Xdamrtalk 00:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Historical New Brunswick MLAs to Category:New Brunswick MLAs
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Generally, no distinction is made between "historical" people and contemporary people in categorization. The distnction is usually not useful anyway, as anyone who is dead could be considered "historical". These categories should therefore be merged together. Dr. Submillimeter 19:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:10-Year AFL players

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Xdamrtalk 01:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:10-Year AFL players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: *Delete - This category is for players who played in the American Football League during all ten years of its existence. This seems like trivia, which is why I nominated it for deletion. Dr. Submillimeter 19:38, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gwen Stefani albums

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The result of the debate was Keep. --Xdamrtalk 15:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gwen Stefani albums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete. The category is only populated by two albums, and it doesn't appear that she is in the process of coming out with another one any time soon. Even if she was, that would only make three. There is ample linkage between the two albums anyway. Jaredt  18:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Asian LGBT films

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:LGBT-related films. --Xdamrtalk 01:08, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest mergeing Category:Asian LGBT films to Category:LGBT-related films
Nominator's rationale: Merge - categorization at the continent level is inappropriate. The category is also too broad as it encompasses not only films originating in Asia but also non-Asian films that happen to have Asian characters. Otto4711 17:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • And if someone who reads this knows how to muck with the templates, can you go in and correct the spelling of "merging"? There's no "e." Otto4711 17:18, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Think I've fixed it; we'll see what happens next time. Bencherlite 17:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I haven't specifically considered the Asian horror films category but in general my feeling is that categorization on the continent level when it comes to cultural subjects is a poor idea. I am not a subject matter expert but I imagine that films from India are so substantially different from films from China or Japan or North Korea, and that these are so different from each other, that lumping them under "Asian" is potentially misleading. Otto4711 18:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not sure what you mean by "misleading" - they're all Asian regardless of which country they come from, and any two films can be substantially different. I do appreciate your concerns, but I still feel that this category serves a purpose, though it might need some refinement. How do you feel about categorizing these films by country, for example? PC78 18:42, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have no objection whatsoever to categorizing by country, assuming the resulting categories would be substantive. Otto4711 19:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't know then, it depends what you mean by "substantive". At present I don't think any such category would have more than 8 articles in it. I'll leave it for others to decide the fate of this category, but perhaps a "List of LGBT-related films by country" would be of greater benefit? PC78 20:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:African-American television producers

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:American television producers. ---Xdamrtalk 14:44, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest mergeing Category:African-American television producers to Category:American television producers
Nominator's rationale: Merge - the standalone category is overcategorization by race. Otto4711 16:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lists of cover songs

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Xdamrtalk 15:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of cover songs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - strong consensus has emerged over the last few weeks at AFD that lists of cover songs by individual artist are not encyclopedic. Over a dozen have been deleted and the last three, for ABBA, Dream Theater and New Order, are looking to close in the next day or so as delete. The one remaining article is already in the parent list of songs category. Given that basically the entire contents of the category have been deleted and future similar articles are strongly opposed, the category won't be needed. Otto4711 16:38, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Civil Parishes in Kent

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The result of the debate was No Consensus. --Xdamrtalk 01:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Civil Parishes in Kent to Category:Parishes of Kent
Nominator's rationale: Rename, per convention of Category:Parishes of England. Beorhtric 16:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Please forgive this comment on the above message, but the opinions expressed within it give, at best, a misleading point of view, and, as they may influence later views, it is a good idea to correct them. First, "villages" and "civil parishes" are best thought of as referring to things belonging to different conceptual categories. The civil parish is the area covered by an instance of the bottom-most tier of Local Government in England, whereas a village is just a settlement. It is similar to the distinction between, say, Leeds (the city) and City of Leeds (the Metropolitan Borough) which is a Local Goverment second tier case, parallel to the civil parishes one. Indeed, although there are a lot of civil parishes which contain and are named after just one settlement, there are significant number of civil parishes that contain more than one village or settlement, or which are named after no village contained within it. Within Cheshire, to give one such example, Haslington contains two or three villages within it, as does Newhall, Cheshire (see Aston by Wrenbury as the civil parish article is yet to be written), Betchton, Sandbach, Anderton with Marbury, and I have only checked a few. Many more cases exist purely within Cheshire for civil parishes for which articles have yet to be written. The case of the name of the civil parish not effectively being the same as any village contained within it can be seen by the case of Odd Rode (article yet to be written), which contains the villages of Mow Cop, Scholar Green, and Rode Heath, where either Scholar Green or Mow Cop, but definitely not Rode Heath could be counted as the largest and principal settlement within it. Secondly, the assertion that parishes are not important in England today is clearly not true if one looks at any information emanating from District and Central government. For examaple [ http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/YourlocalcouncilandCouncilTax/YourCommunity/DG_4001648 this central government webpage], and this more relevant set of webpages show that civil parishes are still key entities in local government within the UK. A perusal of various wikipedia articles about Local Government within the UK also provide further citations. I must apologise for this lengthy comment, but I felt it important to counter the misleading impression given by the message by use of appropriate citations to back up this rebuttal.  DDStretch  (talk) 05:56, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am very familiar with this area, and do not consider my comments to be misleading. The vast majority of the articles (which are what we are categorising) are about places which are primarily known as villages. English people think in terms of villages, not in terms of civil parishes (on all those television programmes about moving to the country, no-one ever says, "I dream of moving to a rural civil parish"). Civil parishes are not one of the major tiers of local government in England. Parish councils have only the most trivial powers. They are more like neighbourhood communities in other countries, and neighbourhood committees with unusually few powers at that. Perebourne 10:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the following point just made is misleading: "Parish councils have only the most trivial powers." If one considers the official list of powers of a parish council, given here, I think it will be seen that some significant powers are given to them. I will not list them here, but people can go and see for themselves, independently of me telling them with no backing. As for people thinking more about villages than civil parishes, that may be true, but it does not detract from the need to describe parish councils accurately. Indeed, if the point is that wikipedia need not bother too much with parishes or parish councils, then the opinion perhaps ought to have been that the categories should be deleted all together, rather than the naming being tinkered around with. If you are very familiar with this area, it is surprising why you omitted to mention the issues I have raised. I do not think many people could consider them at all "trivial".  DDStretch  (talk) 12:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As a parish councillor, I am aware of the power of a Parish Council. The problem with Cheshire parishes is that they are so numerous that some areas have a parish council covering several of them, I believe - it is not my area. Many parishes take their name from the principal village. It does no harm if the article is about that village. Where a parish has several villages, the case is more diffciult, but it is still useful to have the "parish" category, where necessary, a "parish" article can provide a link to separate articles on constituent villages. Parishes are entities of a defined extent, so that the number is finite. It is debateable what place is a village and what a hamlet, so that definition is liable to be a problem. Peterkingiron 22:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Response: You are correct about Cheshire parish councils. I do think it is important to distinguish between the individual civil parishes and the means by which they are administered, which is why the categories need to be "civil parishes in..." rather than "civil parish councils in ..." We have ways of dealing with the "joint parish council" situation that we will be implementing in Cheshire. I made a slight error in my last post when I should not have mentuoned parish councils, but civil parishes. I agree with the rest of your post, and have worked on some of the complications writing about civil parishes and villages/hamlets bring about. The point is, however, should the original proposed renaming go ahead? I still strongly disagree that it should for all the reasons I have given.  DDStretch  (talk) 22:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Changing from 'Parishes of' to '(Civil) Parishes in' would cause problems where 'in' is gramatically incorrect, i.e. 'Civil Parishes in the Isle of Wight' should be 'Civil Parishes on the Isle of Wight'. Using 'of' avoids this issue. Mauls 03:29, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are indeed correct! I had not considered cases like that. Thanks for pointing that out to me. In which case, I agree, using "of" is to be preferred.  DDStretch  (talk) 08:52, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films about rape

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Xdamrtalk 15:25, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films about rape (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Unsure - we recently deleted categories for films which depict rape, largely on the basis that the categories were created with inclusion criteria which required POV to decide whether a film should be included (films with "graphic" rape scenes and films which depict the "degradation" of "female rape"). Before deciding to nominate this category I removed several films for not being "about" rape (the removed films are Bandit Queen, Cool Devices, Hounddog (2007 film), The Crow (film), Big Bang Love, Juvenile A and Boys Don't Cry (film), all of which contain rape scenes of greater or lesser graphicness and importance to the plot but none of which, based on a reading of the articles, appear to be "about" rape as a central theme in the way that, for instance, The Accused is). Given the previous deletion of similar categories and given the POV that seems to be required in most cases to determine if a film is "about" rape or not, I'm not sure that this is a workable categorization scheme or, if it is, that the category itself is likely to be anything but small with little likelihood of expansion. Otto4711 16:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Chekhov's short stories

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The result of the debate was Rename, per nom & by practice of convention.--cjllw ʘ TALK 13:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chekhov's short stories (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:Short stories by Anton Chekhov, convention of Category:Short stories by author. -- Prove It (talk) 15:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Honorary Knighthoods

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Honorary British knighthoods. --Xdamrtalk 01:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Honorary Knighthoods (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Rename to Category:Honorary British knighthoods, or Delete in favor of list of honorary British Knights. -- Prove It (talk) 14:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People who have airports named after them

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The result of the debate was Delete. --cjllw ʘ TALK 13:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People who have airports named after them (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, not every list should become a category ... the list of eponyms of airports should be good enough. -- Prove It (talk) 14:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:List of fictional characters with blue hair

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Xdamrtalk 15:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:List of fictional characters with blue hair (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, or at least Listify. We don't categorize fictional characters by hair. -- Prove It (talk) 13:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cities and villages in Lebanon

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:Settlements in Lebanon. These articles don't need to be farmed out to subcategories when the parent category contains only two members. --Xdamrtalk 14:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Cities and villages in Lebanon to Category:Cities, towns and villages in Lebanon
Nominator's rationale: Rename, quite a few of the places are described as towns in their articles. Sarsdran 12:46, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How about Category:Settlements in Lebanon? Digwuren 13:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Candidates in Massachusetts elections, 2006

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The result of the debate was Delete. Vassyana 10:24, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidates in Massachusetts elections, 2006 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete This category appears to be the only one of its kind, at least for Massachusetts and it is a bad precedent. The articles about long serving politicians would not be enhanced by the addition of 10 to 20 such categories to each of them. Alex Middleton 11:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Soviet occupation

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The result of the debate was Keep. Vassyana 10:19, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Soviet occupation (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Classic WP:POV pushing, WP:POVFORK of Category:Allied occupation of Europe. (See next entry.) See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allied occupation of Europe -- Petri Krohn 10:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Also, this seems to be a recreation of the deleted Category:Soviet crimes. (See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 May 25#Category:Soviet crimes) -- Petri Krohn 16:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that the creator wants to include in this category all Republics of the Soviet Union. How will this category differ from Category:Soviet Union? -- Petri Krohn 07:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep bad faith nomination after thounsands of diffs of obviously wrong info. Obviously this person is on agenda of changing history of Estonia and Europe. Soviet Occupation denial. Suva 11:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep — this is a well-populated category, based on a well-established, well-known criterion (the two words, Soviet and occupation, practically go hand in hand!). The other category "Allied occupation of Europe", on the other hand, should be deleted — it's not at all a standard concept, and it's poorly populated. The nomination is misguided, and got it all wrong. Turgidson 12:13, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The nomination is nothing but petty POINTy revanchism on part of nominator, whose pet (also WP:POINTy) category was nominated -- rightfully, as pointed out by Turgidson above -- for deletion a few minutes earlier. Digwuren 12:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete All articles should go to the Allied occupation of Europe category (which was really well populated before Digwuren removed more than 80 articles from it)Anonimu 12:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Yeah, it was very well populated indeed, by PK by moving together german and soviet articles into one category. Suva 13:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete. An POV fork forcibly populated by Digwuren by removing articles from Category:Allied occupation of Europe. Fails WP:POV, WP:POINT and possibly other policies too. -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 13:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Topic deserves special category.--Staberinde 15:13, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep and rename Soviet occupation in Europe following World War II and make into a subcategory of Allied occupation in Europe following World War II (see next item). This will ensure this group of articles is in a category that is a NPOV description of the subject. Hmains 15:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not a good idea. Allied occupation describes activities taken in concert with the Four Powers, most importantly, the post-war occupation of Germany. Soviet occupation, for the most part, describes actions of Soviet Union alone, not a part of the Allied Powers. It would be misleading to consider these actions among Allied occupation. Digwuren 16:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep - standard concept in established history. --Latebird 16:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It makes sense to have a category dealing with articles about aftermath of WWII involving Soviet forces outside their country, some of which stayed there until 1990s.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  16:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Feel free to express your concerns on the related talk page. I fully admit that my criteria for inclusion were slightly fuzzy; in tagging countries for inclusion, I mainly checked that the countries in question wouldn't be founding members of USSR, or annexed into Russia before the October Revolution. Thus, it's likely that some of the items I originally included may merit recategorisation. Digwuren 19:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Allied occupation of Europe

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The result of the debate was No consensus. Vassyana 10:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Allied occupation of Europe (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: The category is devoid of content, and can not reasonably contain any articles, as the synthetic concept is fictional. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allied occupation of Europe. Digwuren 10:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep bad faith nomination after removal by nominator of 50+ articles from the category. Some have been moved to the POV category Category:Soviet occupation, see above. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allied occupation of Europe. -- Petri Krohn 10:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep bad faith nomination.Anonimu 12:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete — per nom, which I find in good faith, despite assertions to the contrary. Unlike Category:Soviet occupation, which is perfectly sensible, on a well-established concept, this category makes no sense, it's all made up to prove a point, or something. Turgidson 12:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The category is a part of an attempt to blur the history and hide the Soviet occupation, and crimes. Wikipedia is not place of Original Research, the term Soviet Occupation has been used long time in history books, unlike the new "Allied occupation of Europe", which probably comes from some Leninist history book for second grade, the same book that categorizes Katyn Massacre under Nazi crimes. Suva 13:18, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep. Bad faith nomination after Digwuren removed a lot of articles from it (example). -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 13:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Attempt to artificially equalize Soviet occupation in Eastern-Europe and Allied occupation at west. Its totally ridiculous then articles like Prague Spring are categorized like that.--Staberinde 15:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Now lets look on some articles in that category for a moment. Can anyone here give me reasonable argument how Brezhnev Doctrine is connected to Allies of World War II? For those who don't know, by that time more than 20 years had passed since end of WW II. Or another good one is Southern Group of Forces, can anyone give short overview of Western Allies participaton in supressing Hungarian Revolution of 1956? Category previously included also Prague Spring, anyone knows which British or American units participated there? Trying to arbitarily connect nations(in this case Western-Allies) to generally negatively viewed events in what those nations actualy did not participate in any way is serious POV-pushing. Concept of Allies of World War II applies after end of war only to occupation of Germany and Austria which allies did jointly(although even there cooperation was quite "problematic"), in everythere else they acted independently and trying to make some arbitary connections is breaking WP:OR and WP:NPOV.--Staberinde 10:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Btw, one more problem with category is that it includes both events during WW II and after WW II. Quite ridiculous generalization.--Staberinde 10:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Right — trying to pin the tail on the donkey, by ascribing the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 or the Prague Spring in 1968 to the "Allied occupation of Europe" is downright ridiculous. For all practical purposes, the WWII alliance between the West and the Soviets crumbled with the onset of the Iron Curtain—as clearly recognized by British PM Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946, when he delivered his stirring address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. There followed the Paris Peace Treaties, signed on February 10, 1947, as well as the joint occupation of Germany and Austria, but, as Staberinde says, the cooperation there was quite "problematic", to say the least. At any rate, after a short transition in 1945-46, the Cold War started—I think everyone agrees on that historical fact, yes? Trying to moosh together WWII and the Cold War, the Marshall Plan with the Brezhnev Doctrine, etc, in a single category is, well, problematic. :) Turgidson 03:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep and rename to Allied occupation in Europe following World War II to include subcategories and articles on the occupation by all the World War II allies-- including both the Western countries and Soviet Union. This inclusive category would cover the historical facts without being POV. Hmains 15:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. (Disclosure: I'm the nominator.) Digwuren 16:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete - not an established historical concept. --Latebird 16:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The category was originally a WP:POINT project of Petri Krohn, and populated with random selection of articles on Category:Soviet occupation and Category:Allied occupation of Germany. For the few remaining ones, I later added Category:American_influence_in_post-WWII_Europe. Digwuren 19:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Singapore television series --> Category:Singaporean television programmes

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The result of the debate was Merge both to Category:Singaporean television series. --Xdamrtalk 14:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two different categories for the same thing, which obviously need to be merged. Per parent category convention, the category name should contain the adjective "Singaporean" rather than the noun "Singapore" — but I leave it to CFD to decide whether to merge into the existing Category:Singaporean television programmes, or to merge both into a new Category:Singaporean television series. Bearcat 04:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Transportation of the United States by state

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The result of the debate was Rename. Vassyana 09:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Transportation of the United States by state to Category:Transportation in the United States by state
Nominator's rationale: Rename. To match other cats in Category:Transportation in the United States. Vegaswikian 02:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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