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Category:José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

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The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 14:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Three articles (two of which are probably content forks) and a picture do not a category make. Presidents of Spain already exists, and as a comparison, George W. Bush has 58 articles and 6 subcats in his category. MSJapan 20:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is very relevant to the question of future growth of the category. Johnbod 16:01, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not necessarily, lots of heads of government have done notable things after they leave office (including returning to office): Winston Churchill (returned to office, authored numerous books, won Nobel Prize for literature), Jimmy Carter (authored books, won Peace Nobel Prize), Pierre Trudeau (returned to office, influential campaigner in matters of Canadian constitutional reform), and others. Carlossuarez46 18:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Generally speaking they do more notable things in office rather than out of it. Johnbod 18:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Generally speaking, true. We can always delete this now and await further developments to see if Zapatero becomes one of the very few people where an eponymous cat makes sense. Carlossuarez46 18:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Middle-earth in space

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 13:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Middle-earth in space (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - small category with no likelihood of expansion. Everything in it except one article is a redirect and the one article, if I'm reading it correctly, is not for a location that's "in space" in any way but metaphorically. Otto4711 15:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Greek Villains

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 13:58, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional Greek Villains (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Fictional Greeks, per many previous hero / villain discussions. Or at least Rename to Category:Fictional Greek villains -- Prove It (talk) 13:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Former airports in Houston

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 13:56, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Former airports in Houston (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Defunct airports in Texas, convention of Category:Defunct airports in the United States. -- Prove It (talk) 13:26, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Object to merge - Okay with rename to Defunct airports in Houston - The reason why I created the category is so someone on the category "Airports in Houston" may see the defunct airports in the city. Why not have "Defunct airports in Houston" - there are multiple defunct airports in the city, as shown by this link: [1] WhisperToMe 15:00, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hilary Duff

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The result of the debate was delete per overcat and precedent --Kbdank71 13:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hilary Duff (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Eponymous overcategorization and as per WP:OC#Eponymous_categories_for_people. Also there is a template on her article interlinking all these pages. Lugnuts 13:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment but they're all interlinked with the template that's set up. Other actors/actresses have templates instead of eponymous categories. Lugnuts 20:48, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not alot of actors have templates. QuasyBoy 16:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
But this one does! Lugnuts 08:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
She is also a singer!!! QuasyBoy 18:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - every article has at least one additional category. The DVDs are in Category:Music videos and DVDs, the perfume is in Category:Fragrances, the tour is in Category:Concert tours and so on. Per WP:OC the category is not warranted. Otto4711 13:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • So you're suggesting that someone would be interested in reading about, say, Hilary's 2007 tour or her clothing line, but have no interest whatsoever in reading about her? That seems highly unlikely, but in the event that it should happen, our hypothetical reader (who is probably going to start his search by typing "Hilary Duff" in the search box as opposed to "Category:Hilary Duff") can, from any article on any aspect of her, navigate to the other aspects via text links or the navtemplate that's in every article, located earlier in the article than the category listing and therefore encountered before the category listing. Otto4711 18:09, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • You miss the point. They might have no interest in reading about her on that particular visit so they should not be forced to visit that main article to navigate to the others. You are too fond of prescribing how people do or should use Wikipedia. The fact is that there are umpteen ways to do so, many of which don't involve any sort of search, and all of them should be welcomed. Trying to cut down on the number of methods of navigation is to attack one of the main reasons for Wikipedia's success. Dominictimms 01:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see having hundreds or thousands of unnecessary categories that waste editors' time and resources maintaining is a reason for Wikipedia's success. And I think that you've missed the point a bit, which is that it's unlikely that people starting off a search for information on Hilary Duff are going to type anything other than "Hilary Duff" in the search box. Otto4711 13:14, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • You may use Wikipedia only and always by means of searching via the search box, but that doesn't apply to me, and I'm sure it doesn't apply to hell of a lot of other people. We should cater for all sorts of minds, not just those that work the way yours does. Dominictimms 19:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not suggesting that the only way to find articles should be the search box. What I am saying is that it is overwhelmingly likely that someone looking for information on Hilary Duff is going to start by searching for "Hilary Duff". What alternate method of starting a search for Duff-iana do you think people are going to use in place of searching for "Hilary Duff"? Someone looking for information on, say, one of her DVDs is probably going to start by typing the name of the DVD in the search box. What alternate method of searching for, say, The Girl Can Rock do you think people are going to employ instead of the search box? Now, our hypothetical reader has read and enjoyed the article on the DVD and decides s/he would like to read about other Hilary Duff DVDs. From Hilary Duff: The Girl Can Rock, Friend Reader could click on the link to Hilary Duff to check the main article, but if Friend Reader is the independent sort who wants to get around without going to the main article, s/he can click on one of the links in the DVD infobox, or could click on a link in the extensive navigational template, or someone could create and populate Category:Hilary Duff DVDs and then Friend Reader could click on it. So many ways to navigate, the eponymous category is unnecessary and even the most free-thinking of readers can manage to limp through to all the Hilduff articles without ever going near the main article. Otto4711 20:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Jennifer Lopez

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The result of the debate was delete per precedent and overcategorization --Kbdank71 13:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jennifer Lopez (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Eponymous overcategorization and as per WP:OC#Eponymous_categories_for_people. Lugnuts 10:48, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The reason for deleting the category is spelled at the link provided in the nomination. This is one of thousands of eponymous categories which clutter Wikipedia, absorbing time and effort for maintainance that could be better spent on meaningful work. Otto4711 14:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The only thing I see that is absorbing time and effort unnecessarily is this campaign to delete useful categories. Dominictimms 19:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a general consensus against eponymous categories, such consensus is linked to in the nomination. Otto4711 03:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:National Football League on the radio

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The result of the debate was upmerge --Kbdank71 13:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:National Football League on the radio (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete overcategorization. Are we supposed to create a separate category for every medium in which every NFL team's games have been broadcast? Shoester 09:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lily Allen

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The result of the debate was delete per precedent --Kbdank71 13:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lily Allen (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - eponymous overcategorization. Otto4711 05:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sikh Beliefs

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The result of the debate was already speedied --Kbdank71 13:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Sikh Beliefs to Category:Sikh beliefs
Nominator's rationale: Merge; Redundant and uses incorrect case. Her Pegship (tis herself) 05:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pop songs by artist

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 13:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Pop songs by artist to Category:Songs by artist
Nominator's rationale: Merge - Category:Songs by artist is designed to serve as a container category without division by genre or style. Otto4711 05:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lily Allen albums

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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 13:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lily Allen albums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: She's only released one album, so it makes more sense to move Alright, Still into Category:Lily Allen. ShadowHalo 04:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:4 home runs in a game

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 13:37, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:4 home runs in a game (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary category. All fifteen players who have accomplished this feat are already listed at MLB hitters with four home runs in one game. Skudrafan1 03:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:3LW

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The result of the debate was delete per precedent --Kbdank71 13:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:3LW (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - per many precedents, category is not needed for this material. Eponymous overcategorization. Otto4711 02:24, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Fungal phyla

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 13:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming
Nominator's rationale: As far as I can see, we have the situation where these categories are at their "old" names (stemming from when they were at the order level), while the main article for each are at the phylum-style names, per the revised taxonomy. Suggest rename to match things up. Alai 02:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My (possibly erroneous) understanding was that these are the English names (albeit perhaps derived from outdated taxonomy): one basidiomycete, two basidiomycetes. --Stemonitis 06:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If so, I don't follow why one would want to apply that to the categories only, and not to the articles. Alai 17:36, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pulp fiction villains

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated --Kbdank71 13:32, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Pulp fiction villains to Category:Characters in pulp fiction
Suggest merging Category:Pulp fiction heroes to Category:Characters in pulp fiction
Suggest merging Category:Pulp heroes and villains to Category:Characters in pulp fiction
Nominator's rationale: Merge - per consensus against "hero" and "villain" categorization and the redundancy of having "heroes," "villains" and "heroes and villains." Otto4711 00:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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