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Category:Fictional characters with sand powers

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 11:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional characters with sand powers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete per previous discussions on Cat:Fictional character with ___ ability. Pentasyllabic 20:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: See here for the cfd (and previous cfd/deletion review) in question. --Pentasyllabic 21:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Current Top 40

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 11:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Current Top 40 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete Wikipedia is WP:NOT for keeping up with current events. --TeaDrinker 20:51, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional geniuses

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The result of the debate was speedy delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

Speedy delete as recreation of content deleted on March 15th 2007. Consensus found category ill defined in a significant body of cases. "Genius" is an ill-defined term which required a POV judgment call in being assigned as a label.~ZytheTalk to me! 20:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Pirates of the Caribbean ships

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The result of the debate was merge Category:Pirates of the Caribbean ships to Category:Fictional ships. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pirates of the Caribbean ships (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete; I merged all of the irrelevant and non-notable ships into List_of_minor_characters_in_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean#Ships in an attempt to reduce the amazing amount of piratecruft. With this, only two articles occupy this category. ' 19:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:United States Navy heavy cruisers

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The result of the debate was delete. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States Navy heavy cruisers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
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Category:Sabit İnce

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sabit İnce (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Vanity category that consists of one single dubious article, and could not possibly expand. Ford MF 19:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Rapper/actors

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The result of the debate was delete. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:09, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

Delete, Seems like an overcategorization. WP:OC says to "avoid intersections of two traits that are unrelated". Spellcast 17:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cantabria international footballers

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The result of the debate was delete. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:10, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cantabria international footballers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Poorly sourced cat. And Cantabria national team is not a FIFA member. Matthew_hk tc 17:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Equatoguinean-Spaniard

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The result of the debate was delete. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not useful cat, all person in the cat were by descent, but unsourced. Matthew_hk tc 16:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The case likes Category:Players who have played for FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, but differ from Category:Dual Irish international footballers. Matthew_hk tc 16:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Initially, everyone was categorized as just Equatoguinean, but I realized with your edit to one of my category descriptions that some of these players need to be categorized as Equatoguinean-Spaniards as some of them are Spanish by nationality and/or bloodline. I am committed to expanding this section, as I am of Equatoguinean heritage/identity, and can contribute a lot to the section. There are a slew of people that are not even mentioned. So, I did take the initiative of making more specific categories and I know they will be needed in the immediate future. Furthermore, you're the one, Matthew_hk, that had the gripe about me putting people under the general Category:Equatoguinean people. You need to let people know what's going on in your brain and quit deleting my input without validating why, because as far I'm concerned you are vandalizing my efforts; and I have dedicated many hours both today and yesterday to finally contribute. And if I'm in error, you should give me the courtesy of discussing things before abruptly deleting stuff, especially for unfounded reasons. You directed me to read the Wikipedia Category tutorial, but you didn't point out what I did wrong (as far as I decipher, nothing), and now you've nominated the categories I created for deletion based on claim that the info in these articles is un-sourced? But the info about each of these players was there, created by someone else, before I started making new categories. You're full of it Matthew_hk. Relir 17:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment 1. The sports people actually not represent both countries in the international events. The will be thousand of possible combinations. Such as Bosnian-Serbian footballers, Croatian-Serbian footballers, Bosnian-Croatian footballers, Angolan-Portuguese footballers, Italian-Argentine footballers, Spanish Argentine footballers, Spanish Brazilian footballers, Portuguese Brazilian footballers.
To me, i will support a cat for Players who have played for Argentina and Italy national football team, but not this case.
2. There is not sufficient source to support their ancestry. Matthew_hk tc 17:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A close example is the Category:African Americans and their sub-cat. Matthew_hk tc 18:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Keep all I don't understand Haddiscoe, you claim this category is excessively precise, yet I have another category above up for deletion where the claim is that it is too ambiguous. According to the Wikipedia:Categorization of people guidelines this category was done correctly and is not too precise. Please, according to the guidelines, how is this category too precise? Thanks. Relir 19:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Keep All Punkmorten, playing football as an English national or descendant (in whole or in part) is significantly different than playing as an Equatorial Guinean national or descendant (in whole or in part). You're right, they should not be included under Equatoguinean fooballers if they aren't nationals of EG and/or do not represent the country, but they should be under a category that denotes their tie to the country of which their recent ancestors came - whatever country that is. And in most of these cases the player himself or his parents were born in Equatorial Guinea and are descendants of indigenous Equatoguinean groups. This should be noted especially since many athletes, and people of other professions, share that same distinction. Vicente Engonga did not represent EG, but he is recent EG descent. He is Equatoguinean by blood/ancestry. This is significant, and there should be a category to help make this distinction where all alike can be grouped together. Relir 20:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Supporters of the 2003 Iraq conflict

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The result of the debate was delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 07:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Supporters of the 2003 Iraq conflict (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, Controversial, ambiguous, unnecessary cat. Jinxmchue 16:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, the category includes an organization and a web site, as well as people. I find it hard to believe that Little Green Footballs has posted a message saying "as a web site, we officially support the Iraq war". I'm aware that putting something in a category doesn't necessarily mean they have that belief, but in this case, it seems obvious that that's what's happening.
Second, exactly what it means to support a war is vague. It could mean "supports the idea of removing Saddam Hussein". It could also mean "supports the idea of staying in Iraq now as a continuation of the 2003 war", which is probably what the creator of the category *intended* it to mean. There are a whole range of things it could mean; for instance, "believes that the WMD justification was a valid reason to start the war at the time". I don't think we can tell if someone supports the war unless we can pin down exactly what it means to support the war first, and I don't think that's possible. (I could even argue, though that obviously wasn't intended, that someone who supports the insurgents "supports the conflict".) Ken Arromdee 18:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Turkish people of Azeri descent

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The result of the debate was merge Category:Turkish people of Azeri descent to Category:Azerbaijani Turkish. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Turkish people of Azeri descent (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Azerbaijani Turkish, or the reverse. -- Prove It (talk) 16:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Super Smash Bros. games

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The result of the debate was merge Category:Super Smash Bros. games to Category:Super Smash Bros.. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Super Smash Bros. games to Category:Super Smash Bros.
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Category:Villages in Saddleworth

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The result of the debate was merge Category:Villages in Saddleworth to Category:Villages in Greater Manchester. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Villages in Saddleworth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Villages in Greater Manchester, convention of Category:Villages in England, Saddleworth is just a district. -- Prove It (talk) 16:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Big Brother presenters

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The result of the debate was merge Category:Big Brother presenters to Category:Game show hosts. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:18, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Big Brother presenters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, as Performers by performance. -- Prove It (talk) 15:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Pretender categories

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The result of the debate was keep. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some were moved today and re-categorized under the main heading and some were recategorized to other subcategories (for instance, Jacobitism, English and French claims to each others' thrones). Others are pending categorization to Rival successions, and so on. Edits were not made to any of the categories following nomination. Charles 16:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Charles, but you depopulated the categories before making the nominations, which prevents other editors from assessing the significance of the categories. Valid categories should not just be emptied; please repopulate them. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
BHG, you cannot just "assess" these categories as valid and them elsewhere state that they need to be assessed. It seems like you have already made up your mind. As someone who works almost exclusively on royalty-related articles, I can tell you that they were de-populated as they were discovered and then more were discovered in mass. It has been discussed before, among editors of mostly royalty related articles, that these categories are just too much. If I find the discussion I will most assuredly post a link here. Charles 04:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Charles, I have not made up my mind (in fact I am inclined to think that most of these cats are too small and/or simplistic). However, those categories appear to be "valid" in the technical sense: they were not recreations of deleted material. The articles in them do not appear to have been inaccurately categorised, so the categories should not have been depopulated. There is no problem with adding other categories which you find more appropriate, but per WP:CFD "Unless the change is non-controversial (such as vandalism or a duplicate), please do not remove the category from pages before the community has made a decision". I'm sure that you made a mistake in good faith, but the policy is clear: don't depopulate before a CfD. As already requested, please repopulate the categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Such as is only inclusive of, but not limited to vandalism or duplication. I work on royalty related articles and so do others and over a period of time, but not with the intent then of having the categories deleted, these categories were depopulated. Technically, the idea of them may not be wrong, but as you spoke of your inclination... It was a fair amount of work bringing the pretender articles to the same level of categorization and I will not go back and reapply these pointless categories. Is there a golden rule as to how long one must wait between depopulation and deletion? Because I will wait for it simply because I cannot be brought to put articles back into pointless categories. The majority of them were already empty. Charles 09:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is no such time limit. The rule is simply: don't depopulate a category just because you don't like the existence of the category. It doesn't matter whether you do that over 5 minutes or five years: the rule is don't do it. Please demonstrate your good faith by undoing it. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My suggestion is that you repopulate to where things stood 24 hours before your nomination - easy to do from your history file. I can see good reason for deleting a number of these, and don't tend to think we need a comprehensive scheme for categorizing "Pretenders", but I could easily see the Chinese cases, for example, as best being dealt with in their own category. It's just real hard to assess without seeing them.A Musing 13:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
These categories were all created by one individual and their usefulness has been deemed absolutely minimal. Over a period of time, they were depopulated until it was discovered that there was a very large amount of these categories. It's a text book example of over-categorization for over-catergorization's sake. Charles 04:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Charles, you don't seem to get the problem. You may be right to view the categories as being of minimal usefulness, but in that case the appropriate action is to nominate them at CfD, not to depopulate them. Passive phrases like "has been deemed" obscure the issue: it is for CfD to make such judgments, not for individual editors of ad-hoc groups of editors. Please respect wikipedia's processes. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, because not all pretenders are claimants, while most claimants are pretenders. The article Pretender notes this. Charles 04:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This debate has been improperly pre-empted by the emptying of the cats prior to the start of the debate. I suggest the current nom is withdrawn, the cats repopulated, and then re-open this debate. It will be much easier for editors to contribute meaningfully if they can see what they are debating. DuncanHill 17:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Articles needing Hangul

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The result of the debate was that the category is already deleted. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:21, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles needing Hangul (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category is not needed anymore. Wikipeditor 13:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Population groups of mixed ancestry

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 01:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC) Category:Population groups of mixed ancestry (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)[reply]
Delete - ambiguous category Muntuwandi 02:07, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree there are currently too many articles in the category, but the core is ones like mulatto, pointee , Cape coloured, which are defined by being mixed, as English and Scottish are certainly not. Johnbod 19:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You've never heard of the English being referred to as 'Anglo-Saxon'?--Nydas(Talk) 20:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not just Angles and Saxons: there is also a strong Norman strain in England. --BrownHairedGirl (talk)
Where are the Angles? "Strong Norman strain" is just romanticism, I'm afraid. There are no existing population groups of which the English (as a whole) are a mixture. Johnbod 14:32, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There's a quote about the English being 'the mongrels of Europe' which I've always enjoyed. DuncanHill 09:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(contribs) 00:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Muntuwandi, what do you mean by an inability to define mixed? Each of the articles under the category clearly indicated how each group is mixed and whether the mixture is defined by social or genetic/scientific concept. Yes, mixed people are present globally; however, the category is significant because the groups indicated represent a distinct path of human/racial evolution. The current global admixture didn't just happen, this category of groups reveals how. Collectively they explain this - How and why the world is mixed. For people who use Wikipedia as a tool for learning/research (well, at least as a start), the category makes these groups easier to find.
All the articles under the category have the subject of "Mixed ancestry" in common. And to link this to the Multiracial article will enhance it as it needs a more global perspective than what it currently offers. If the category is deemed worthless based on "the world is mixed, so what?", then the same can be said for each article within the category. The same can be determined concerning the significance/importance of making distinction between one mixed race group from the the next, throughout history.
The people existed, their admixture was noted back then; they were considered mixed back then and are considered mixed now. The groups under this category were/are distinguished as a unique groups. Their ancestry had significant social implications during the time they evolved. Mixed ancestry is a significant aspect of the human history, psychology, sociology, natural history and culture. The Category:Population groups of mixed ancestry is highly significant and should not be deleted.
I agree with Ling.Nut, it's just like trying to bury information, making it hard or impossible for people to find - for people to make the connection. If you're acknowledging that the world is mixed, what's wrong with making that connection? What is wrong with having this category?
Nydas - Your point-of-view is very 'Anglo-Saxon'. What's wrong with adding the Scottish people, or English people, or European American if those articles offer incite on the true ethnic/racial make up of those groups and how they became the way - if they were known by formal names during this evolution. The opposers have indicated that All people are mixed, but it's interesting that in a world where the social concept of race reigns dominant over the scientific concept of race, most people don't readily view the world as mixed. So, the average Wikipedia user scouring for research/educational leads this lesser acknowledged aspect of human heritage is readily noted via this particular category. It will serve as a useful tool, and will not lack population. It should not be deleted. Relir 21:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What you are saying amounts to a desire to have Wikipedia perpetuate ignorance. I don't think that is one of wikipedia's core principals, is it? Craig.Scott 12:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So? It was already said that every population group is mixed. The purpose and the coverage of such category would be the same as for a supposed Category:Population groups living on Planet Earth. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 19:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:The Apprentice

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The result of the debate was delete. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Apprentice (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete - absent the several dozen improperly categorized articles for contestants and personnel, the remaining articles are extensively interlinked and well covered by the navtemplate. There is no need for this category for navigational purposes. Otto4711 13:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Contestants belong in Category:The Apprentice contestants. Otto4711 18:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • All of the contestants in this category are also in one of the Apprentice contestants categories. Some are in two and some are in three. That whole structure needs to be cleaned up. Otto4711 19:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I checked all of the contestant articles in the cat following BHG's comment and confirmed that they are all in at least one of the contestant categories already. Otto4711 21:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Apple employees

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The result of the debate was move/merge per nom, to avoid confusion with Apple Records, of course. — CharlotteWebb 02:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Apple employees (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Apple Inc. employees, to match Apple Inc.. -- Prove It (talk) 13:30, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:The Naked Brothers Band

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The result of the debate was delete --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Naked Brothers Band (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete - following cleanup of inappropriately categorized articles, the remaining material does not require an eponymous category in light of the extensive interlinks through the material and the navtemplate. Otto4711 12:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment not hurting anything is not a particularly compelling argument. Nor does your argument address why the navtemplate and the links between the articles are not sufficient for tying these contents together. Otto4711 13:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's a compelling argument in my opinion, not yours. It isn't hurting anything, why do violence to it if others find it useful; and the potential objections to the argument raised in that private essay you linked do not seem to apply in this case. Blockinblox 13:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The notion that deleting a category in some way equates to "doing violence" is ridiculous. Nor, again, have you addressed why the navtemplate and text links aren't sufficient. Otto4711 14:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Closed regional railway stations in Victoria

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:51, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deletion - Category:Closed regional railway stations in Victoria (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Empty cat, redundant against Category:Closed Victoria railway stations. A previous CFD preserved this category, but it was part of a mass nomination. Orderinchaos 12:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional ninja

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The result of the discussion was: rename. With both plurals being correct, the weight goes to the one most editors support. Also, the rename is less likely to encourage people to create categories like "fictional firefighter."--Mike Selinker 13:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Fictional ninja to Category:Fictional ninjas
Nominator's Rationale: A previous nomination for renaming this article was withdrawn by the nominator, as several responders claimed that ninja was the correct plural and ninjas was "a silly word". This is untrue: the plural ninjas is recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Dictionary.com, and it is clearly the more commonly used plural in English, regardless of how it may have been in the original Japanese. --Ptcamn 10:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note sources at OED are American and British, like Ian Flemming, Business Week. 132.205.44.134 22:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The OED lists both ninja and ninjas as plural forms, and includes quotations where ninjas is used. --Ptcamn 06:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Despite all the talk of correctness, that is still an argument from usage. Wikipedia is best when it is a source of knowledge, not a reflection of what people tend to already think. (Could someone carefully study the origin of the word "ninja" and help us make an informed decision, rather than one based on movie titles?) -- Lilwik 13:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Again, this is circular logic — knowledge is only knowledge if it's true. If it's not true that ninjas is incorrect, then there's nothing wrong with reflecting what people already think (since it's true) and we don't need to enlighten anybody about anything (since they already know). (There probably should be a note in the ninja article that the plural can be either ninja or ninjas, though.)
There's not much to study: ninja comes from Japanese, a language with no grammatical number. It's Sino-Japanese, meaning it (or its parts) came into Japanese from Chinese, another language without grammatical number. However, English is a language with grammatical number, and this particular word has been given an English plural. What else is there to know? --Ptcamn 14:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to know how it first came into the English language. Have people been calling them ninjas from the very beginning, or did "ninjas" just come about because someone didn't know the correct plural and used "ninjas" in a movie title. I admit that they are both correct, but one might be more correct than the other. -- Lilwik 23:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't work that way. Even if ninja is older than ninjas, that doesn't make it "more correct". Fishes is several centuries older than fish as a plural. The plural of ship was originally formed by adding -u! Wikipedia is written in modern English, not the English that might have been used when the word first entered the language.
And again, this is circular logic! You have to assume that ninjas is incorrect to make statements like "did "ninjas" just come about because someone didn't know the correct plural", and then you use that as justification for calling ninjas less correct! --Ptcamn 08:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ninja is more correct if ninjas comes from a mistake. (I don't know if it does. I'm not assuming that it does; I'm just being hypothetical.) I don't know why you call everything I say circular logic; there is nothing circular about it. You are just in danger of confusing people who don't know what circular logic is. "Did 'ninjas' just come about..." wasn't a statement; it was a question, and I didn't need to assume anything to ask it; I would really like to know the answer. (My mistake was not using a question mark, just a typo, not circular logic.) -- Lilwik 20:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The assertion "X is more correct if Y came from a mistake" is simply not true. Correctness and/or degrees of correctness are completely unrelated to origins! Whether circular logic is involved or not, your premise is incorrect, which is a pretty good reason for dismissing your argument. Oh, and no, it didn't come from a mistake. It came from applying standard English rules to a foreign import word, which is done all the time (see "octopuses" and "stadiums"). Xtifr tälk 00:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Are you saying that ninjas has always been correct for as long as English speakers have been using the word ninja? If ninjas is as old as ninja then I withdraw my opposition. -- Lilwik 03:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, how long it's been used is just as irrelevant as whether it "comes from a mistake". Correct usage changes over time! Second of all, when it was initially used, there were no correct uses of it in English, except as a quotation of a foreign word. Should we declare it not-English for all time because of that? That makes just as much sense as your proposal. Anyway, by the time it had achieved enough currency to be considered an English word, I'm sure both pluralizations were in wide usage, so I suspect the answer to your question is yes. Not that it matters. Xtifr tälk 10:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't like the notion of correctness through usage. A word has a history that has real value and tells us how a word should be used and what it means. Your way of looking at this suggests that a word is correctly used if and only if it is used, and that means nothing is incorrectly used. Your attitude makes me worry about your authority as a source on the history of this word, so lacking authoritative evidence I will continue to go the safer way and assume that ninja is the more correct plural. -- Lilwik 19:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
All there is to look at is usage. You can look at present-day usage or you can look at historical usage, it's still usage. ...but this isn't really the place for yet another prescriptivism vs. descriptivism debate, what with this constant indenting. The rename crowd looks to have a clear majority already anyway. --Ptcamn 21:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We are getting way, way, off-topic here, but I just want to clarify: I am not saying that because some random person says something, that makes it correct English. I'm saying that usage is how the people who write dictionaries decide what to include, and when both the OED and Webster's agree, I think there can be little doubt that "ninjas" is perfectly correct. Xtifr tälk 12:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We did investigate. The OED lists both (and Webster's agrees). English is defined by usage! There is no greater authority. Thus "octopi" is a correct pluralization in English, even though it follows the rules of neither English nor Greek, and "ninjas" is a correct pluralization as well. And, no, I don't think we need a note in the article. Language usage is best documented by dictionaries, and WP:WINAD. Xtifr tälk 20:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Aztec nobility

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The result of the debate was don't merge. — CharlotteWebb 02:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aztec nobility to Category:Aztec people
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Wikiproject Georgia (country) articles

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The result of the debate was rename all. — CharlotteWebb 02:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming: Category:Georgian articles by importance to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) articles by importance
Category:Unknown-importance Georgia (country) articles to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) unknown-importance articles
Category:Georgian articles by quality to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) articles by quality
Category:B-Class Georgia (country) articles to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) B-class articles
Category:Start-Class Georgia (country) articles to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) start-class articles
Category:Stub-Class Georgian articles to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) stub-class articles
Category:Unassessed Georgia (country) articles to Category:WikiProject Georgia (country) unassessed articles
Nominator's Rationale: These are maintenance categories used by WikiProject Georgia (country), and should all be renamed for consistency with the name format used by other wikiproject maintenance categories. See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_May_26#Category:Georgian_articles, which discusses the parent category Category:Georgian articles. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom -- note that I have taken the liberty of correcting one instance of 'artcles' above to read 'articles'. Blockinblox 13:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
thanks! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom Johnbod 21:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Athletes to play in the National Basketball Association & Major League Baseball

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The result of the debate was delete. — CharlotteWebb 08:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Athletes to play in the National Basketball Association & Major League Baseball to Category:Athletes who have played in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball
Nominator's Rationale: Rename, the suggested new name is more standard English usage. YechielMan 03:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional sociopaths

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The result of the discussion was: delete as recreation, and per the below. >Radiant< 08:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Fictional sociopaths (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, procedural nomination, see discussion of February 14th. -- Prove It (talk) 00:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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