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Category:Innuendo songs

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Innuendo songs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Without a definition, this category is a bit ambiguous and unclear. Since the only article included is "Chocolate Salty Balls", I think it becomes clearer that it's intended for songs that use sexual innuendo of some sort. If so, this is completely POV. How can we determine what is innuendo and what was a genuine use of ambiguous terminology in a song? Given the right mindset, any song can become sexually suggestive. ("Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", if you know what I mean. Ow ow ow!!) Notified creator with ((subst:cfd-notify)) Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:43, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Horror film directors

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Horror film directors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete categorizing film directors by genre is in most if not all instances overcategorization akin to performer by performance. Film directors can and do work in multiple genres over the course of a career and if we established categories for all of them it would lead to tremendous category clutter. Taking one example, if we categorized James Whale by every genre he directed, he'd have categories for war films, drama films, mystery films, crime dramas, films noir, thriller films, musical films, anti-war films, costume dramas, adventure films, historical fiction films, biographical films, and others in addition to the horror film category. Similar category clutter would accumulate on pretty much every other director. Similar to the recently deleted Action film actors among other similar deleted categories. Otto4711 (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Culinary Heritage of Switzerland

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Kbdank71 18:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Culinary Heritage of Switzerland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • The category has the advantage of being accessible through the articles themselves. Also, categories and lists are not mutually exclusive. If a list is created, it should be a standalone list, because the encyclopedia has some 400 entries.  Sandstein  09:42, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, yes if the list reaches 400. At the moment we only seem to have 20 articles, and given the database is online there seems little point in adding hundreds of redlinks. Johnbod (talk) 13:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A list of Swiss food specialities in general might be useful, but its scope would go beyond this database (including e.g. wines) and certainly have many redlinks. But having a list, either in the article or standalone, does not make this category superfluous.  Sandstein  13:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We already have Category:Swiss cuisine. My problem with the category as a category is expressed below. Johnbod (talk) 14:00, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The trouble is that while it may be defining for say Tilsit cheese (not that Tilsit is anywhere near Switzerland), I doubt if it is for meringue etc. Johnbod (talk) 13:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • True, but this is not a cookbook, but an inventory of the "culinary heritage of Switzerland", so it's more something like the equivalent of a register of historic buildings (of which we do have categories) for food. Actually, I've now added it to the parent Category:Heritage registers of Switzerland.  Sandstein  07:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Boxers who have ducked mandatory challengers

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus to delete; rename for now to Category:Boxers who declined to defend their title, but this rename should not preclude a future re-nomination for deletion or renaming. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:31, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Boxers who have ducked mandatory challengers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Overcategorization, surely? Also seems to imply cowardice. Might be suitable for a list if this is a recognized phenomenon involving more than two boxers. — CharlotteWebb 20:10, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, what would you say to Category:Boxers who have ducked flying gloves? :)

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Category:BBC people

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The result of the discussion was: keep current name. (Deletion was mentioned but not discussed; it could be in a further nomination.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:BBC people to Category:British Broadcasting Corporation people
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Technical nomination found doing cleanup. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:44, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

here it is -> Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_November_24#Category:Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation_people) Mayumashu (talk) 10:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:BBC

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The result of the discussion was: keep current name. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:27, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:BBC to Category:British Broadcasting Corporation
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Technical nomination found as a speedy doing cleanup. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The trouble is here, as Vegas's original nom showed, the initials are better understood than the full name. Johnbod (talk) 12:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Waste power stations

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The result of the discussion was: Proposal withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close. Cgingold (talk) 12:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Waste power stations to Category:Incinerators
Nominator's rationale: Same things from the technical point of view. Beagel (talk) 18:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:English people of Cypriot descent

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus; broader nomination would seem to be desired for action to be taken on these. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:English people of Cypriot descent to Category:British people of Cypriot descent
Nominator's rationale: This is overcategorisation, plus for naturalised citizens it's easier to verify that they're British than it is to verify that they consider themselves to be English. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ideally we'd be able to verify whether each person in the category is English or not, but remember that all English people are British, whereas the opposite is not the case so I think a single British category is less problematic. I would also argue that the number of people falling into such a small intersection as English-Cypriot (defined in terms of dual ancestry or competing for and England team) means that it represents overcategorisation. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:16, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:List of media covering a topic

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:27, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:List of media covering a topic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)


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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:26, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Culture-related lists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)


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Category:16th century Spanish people

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 18:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:16th century Spanish people to Category:16th-century Spanish people
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Per discussion on the CfD talk page, these should have the '-'. I'll slowly be adding more, if anyone wants to add more feel free to do so. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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