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Category:Incumbent Indian Governors

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The result of the debate was merge. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Incumbent Indian Governors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:State governors of India, we prefer timeless information, former / current / future distinctions require frequent updates and are not suitable for mirrors, CD's, or printed editions. -- Prove It (talk) 21:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Girl lovers

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The result of the debate was Deleted, POV category, creator banned here and on de:WP. Guy (Help!)

Category:Girl lovers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Apart from being rather meaningless what it actually means is they are pedophiles and we already have a pedophile category, POV fork as part of an ongoing campaign of promoting pro-pedophile activist POV on the project. Thanks, SqueakBox 20:58, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

`*Endorse deletion - Absurd term which seems a POV term. All articles categorized as such (both of them) are also in the pedophile category, so it seems redundant, as well. Jeffpw 12:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • With incivility like that, ignorance is bliss.--WaltCip 15:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ellis Raimbault, category deletion doesn't imply denial of existence of a concept; simply determination that for one of several possible reasons, the concept doesn't work well within mediawiki's "category" functionality. Your comment suggests some confusion between categories and tagging; WP:CAT and WP:CLS could be helpful in distinguishing those concepts. --lquilter 20:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's great—I want to see more votes of What the hell? in CFDs from now on. Snocrates 21:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:New York State Reference Routes and Parkway Routes

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The result of the debate was rename. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:New York State Reference Routes and Parkway Routes to Category:Reference routes in New York
Nominator's rationale: Rename, per discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York State routes, they are all reference routes. NE2 20:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Health in Manchester

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The result of the debate was delete; all articles already appear in Category:Hospitals in Manchester. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Health in Manchester (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: As rightly pointed out at stub types for deletion, I created this category in good faith but now I can't forsee anything other than hospitals being in the category, which is already served by Category:Hospitals in Manchester. Rudget Contributions 17:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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ANSI C

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The result of the debate was delete all; the single article already appears in Category:C programming language. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:ANSI C standard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:ISO C89 standard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:ISO C99 standard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:ANSI C standards (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: There is one article, ANSI C, with Category:ANSI C standard. There are three more categories: Category:ISO C89 standard, Category:ISO C99 standard, Category:C standards. These 4 categories contain only that one article and and a curious arrangement of subcategories of each other! The article is now correctly categorized as Category:Computer and telecommunication standards; the four listed categories can be deleted. Note: the article may have been merged with C (programming language), this request for category deletions is independent of that merge. tooold 15:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, my attempt to follow your instructions re listing multiple categories for deletion failed; only the one category above has been tagged cfd. Possibly one of the helpful moderators (mentioned on the Categories for discussion page!) can help out. tooold 16:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Needs album infobox

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The result of the debate was rename all as nominated. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Needs album infobox to Category:Album articles needing infoboxes
Propose renaming Category:Needs album infobox conversion to Category:Album articles needing infobox conversion
Propose renaming Category:Non-standard album infoboxes to Category:Album articles with non-standard infoboxes
Nominator's rationale: Rename, Clarity, consistency, and precedent at Category:Album articles without cover art and Category:Album articles needing attention --PEJL 12:50, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Protected designation of origin

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The result of the debate was rename all as nominated. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Protected designation of origin to Category:Products with protected designation of origin
Category:British Protected designation of origin to Category:British products with protected designation of origin
Category:English Protected designation of origin to Category:British products with protected designation of origin
Category:Scottish Protected designation of origin to Category:British products with protected designation of origin
Category:French Protected designation of origin to Category:French products with protected designation of origin
Category:Italian Protected designation of origin to Category:Italian products with protected designation of origin
Category:Swedish Protected designation of origin to Category:Swedish products with protected designation of origin
Nominator's rationale: Rename, Adding "Products with" clarifies the contents of these categories, additionally the English and Scottish categories should be merged as they are not recognised as distinct by the European Union [1] (note even Jersey is considered UK for these purposes) . Tim! 11:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Race and intelligence controversy

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The result of the debate was keep. the wub "?!" 19:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Race and intelligence controversy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category is for articles related to a set of articles on race and intelligence, but AfD recently merged most of them back to the main article. Looking at the articles now included, most are not really a good fit for a category on race and intelligence, including, for example, some of the last bastions of pseudoscientific racism - a concept in its own right but not specifically limited to race and intelligence. One or two are blatant POV forks that should simply be nuked, I'm on that next. I suspect that this would be better handled by other extant categories and perhaps a "key figures" list in the main article. Guy (Help!) 10:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Articles to be expanded since November 2006

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The result of the debate was that the category hath been speedily deleted. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles to be expanded since November 2006 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: No longer in use / project section completed. Guroadrunner 06:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional baseball teams

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The result of the debate was delete. This redirect doesn't even need to go into the sports teams category, as the article it redirects to is about an episode.--Mike Selinker 13:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional baseball teams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: The material (a single redirect) does not justify a distinct category. A search for "fictional baseball team" yields only one other potential candidate (Springfield Isotopes), but it too is a redirect. – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Harry Potter plants

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 13:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Harry Potter plants into Category:Fictional plants
Nominator's rationale: The material does not justify a distinct category. The category's sole member (Plants in Harry Potter) already appears in Category:Harry Potter magical objects, so it's only necessary to also categorise the article into the Category:Fictional category tree. – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Harry Potter magical spells

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 13:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Harry Potter magical spells (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: All of the category members already appear in the parent category, Category:Harry Potter magic, which is not sufficiently populated to necessitate subcategorisation. I think navigation would be enhanced by simply deleting this redundant layer of categorisation. If no consensus to delete, rename to Category:Harry Potter spells (the "magical" seems redundant, given the absence of such a thing as a non-magical spell). – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:00, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Harry Potter vehicles

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 13:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Harry Potter vehicles into Category:Harry Potter magical objects
Nominator's rationale: The material does not justify a distinct category. The sole member (Hogwarts Express) is already categorised in Category:Fictional trains, which is located in the Category:Fictional vehicles category tree. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:53, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pages using header-temp template

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The result of the debate was delete. – Black Falcon (Talk) 05:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pages using header-temp template (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: We don't need categories like these, this serves no useful purpose. VegaDark (talk) 03:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from December 2006

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete. Vegaswikian 04:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from December 2006 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Category is now empty, and will never be used again. Moglex 03:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Preachers

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The result of the debate was delete. As noted by all participants, the inclusion criteria for these categories are subjective. Any attempt to introduce more objectivity would involve either applying the broadest possible definition (i.e. anyone who has ever preached, irrespective of how much they do it and how defining it is to them) or essentially arbitrarily selecting a set of narrow inclusion criteria. The latter would render the category scheme largely redundant to other existing categories and the former would face issues of construct validity. There is also the problem that setting particular inclusion criteria does not guarantee that they will be followed, but that (while still significant) is secondary to the main problem of definition. – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Sikh preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Muslim preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Christian preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Baptist preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Methodist preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Roman Catholic preachers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, as a repost of deleted content. Difficult to come up with an objective inclusion criteria. -- Prove It (talk) 02:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Mshasho Productions

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The result of the debate was delete all; after The Dogg is removed from Category:Music of Namibia, there is no other content to merge. – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC) (closing statement revised at 06:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Category:Mshasho Productions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: There now follows a series of categories created solely for The Dogg, found at Special:Newpages (category section).
Category:Mshasho Productions – delete as overcategorization of a record label which barely deserves its article (Mshasho Productions) let alone a category for itself just to link to its founder - he and it are linked to each in their respective articles anyway. (I didn't want to zap the article using CSD A7 when sorting these categories out, but I wouldn't object if somebody else did the honours.)
Category:Sunny Boy – delete as Eponymous overcategorization. (The Dogg has apparently signed Sunny Boy to his label, but that doesn't merit a category.)
Category:Gazza – delete, eponymous overcategorization again for The Dogg's rival "Gazza". Note that Gazza is a disambig page and Gazza (musician) was speedied a few months ago.
Category:Music of Namibia. Presumably the creator was looking for Category:Namibian music, so suggest merge, but leave a redirect and remove The Dogg from this category before the merger: he is now a member of Category:Namibian hip hop musicians and that's the appropriate place for his article, rather than a higher-level non-biographical category. BencherliteTalk 01:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you mean "delete first three, merge fourth"? My fault for not setting out the nomination more legibly. BencherliteTalk 21:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Albinos

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The result of the debate was rename both as nominated and leave category redirects. – Black Falcon (Talk) 06:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Albinos to Category:People with albinism
Propose renaming Category:Fictional albinos to Category:Fictional people with albinism
Nominator's rationale: Rename for consistency with the other people by medical condition categories, e.g., Category:People with brain injuries, Category:People with schizophrenia, Category:People with muscular dystrophy, etc. Doczilla 01:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I understand your point, but WP:NOTCENSORED does not really come into play when there is an alternate term that means exactly the same thing. We're not censoring anything — it's being phrased differently. If a category redirect is included, there is zero net loss of information to the project. In fact, the proposed rename is probably more accurate, since there can be albino animals, and the proposed name makes it clear that the category is for people. Snocrates 02:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Place of worship disambiguation

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The result of the debate was keep all. Please see the Nov 2 discussion and considering initiating new nominations if you can think of a better naming standard for the subcategories of Category:Disambiguation. It may be useful to raise the issue at Category talk:Disambiguation. – Black Falcon (Talk) 00:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Place of worship disambiguation to Category:Lists of ambiguous places of worship
Propose renaming Category:Educational institution disambiguation to Category:Lists of ambiguous educational institutions
Propose renaming Category:Tropical cyclone disambiguation to Category:Lists of ambiguous tropical cyclones
Nominator's rationale: The current name is ambiguous and does not correctly identify the contents of the category. Templates may need updating if the categories are renamed. Vegaswikian 00:18, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose I don't know if they're always lists. Does telling two items apart really make a list? Lists on Wikipedia are generally longer than 2, and disambiguation pages here are generally only a few.--Patrick Ѻ 02:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Are you saying that all three have this problem? Are you also saying that the current names are better then the proposals and that we don't need some kind of naming convention for these? Vegaswikian 04:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree. Creating dab pages like this is against WP:NOT, especially only one article actually containing the term exists. A full directory would of course contain thousands of entries (nearly all NN), especially if foreign translations are included. The page and the category should be deleted. In fact we no doubt have dozens of other articles on Catholic Churches named after John, but who can be bothered to add them here? Unless it finds a dedicated wikignome, it will always misrepresent the number of articles we actually have, and should be deleted as misleading. changed - maybe it has Johnbod 13:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, both for myself, and the way others seem to be thinking. Now that Category:Place of worship disambiguation suddenly has 52 pages (most much better than the original one, I agree it should stay. Johnbod 00:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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