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Category:Dobroists

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Dobroists to Category:Resonator guitarists. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Dobroists to Category:Resonator guitarists
Nominator's rationale: When I made this category, I forgot that the Dobro is not the only type of resonator guitar. Propose a rename to include musicians who play any make of resonator, not just the Dobro (for instance, Lee Roy Parnell plays a National, not a Dobro). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters(Broken clamshellsOtter chirps) 23:22, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Critics of their own wikipedia article

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The result of the discussion was: delete. BencherliteTalk 07:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Critics of their own wikipedia article (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Self-referential. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Politicians of the Fourth Republic

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Politicians of the Third Republic to Category:Politicians of the French Third Republic et cetera. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Politicians of the Fourth Republic to Category:Politicians of the French Fourth Republic or Category:French Fourth Republic politicians
Category:Politicians of the Fifth Republic to Category:Politicians of the French Fifth Republic or Category:French Fifth Republic politicians
Category:Politicians of the Third Republic to Category:Politicians of the French Third Republic or Category:French Third Republic politicians
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Rename to match parent Category:French Fourth Republic/Category:French Fifth Republic/Category:French Third Republic and main articlea French Fourth Republic/French Fifth Republic/French Third Republic. As Fourth Republic/Fifth Republic/Third Republic indicate, there are more than one republics called the "Fourth Republic"/"Fifth Republic"/"Third Republic", so the potential for confusion exists. Take your pick on which format; the second would match Category:French politicians better, so if no preference is expressed, I would prefer the second. I have no preference. Notified creators with ((subst:cfd-notify)) Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Persons Taking Refuge in Diplomatic Missions

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The result of the discussion was: listify' Category:Persons Taking Refuge in Diplomatic Missions. No consensus to do a specific something with Category:Diplomatic missions. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:18, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Convert to article Category:Persons Taking Refuge in Diplomatic Missions to article List of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission
Nominator's rationale: Convert to article. Since creation this has been developing more to look like an article than a category. Some fine work has been done on it, and I think it's an appropriate article in its current format. I'm unsure whether or not it could be considered defining if a category were desired (I'm kind of leaning towards yes), but if it's a category that's wanted then it should be a category and not a category in article format. I inquired about this on the talk page but received no answer so I'll bring it here for discussion. My suggested name could be tweaked as desired. Notified creator with ((subst:cfd-notify)) Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)))[reply]

I'm the creator and I'm open to correction. Beyond believing it notable and regretting the initial caps in the name :-/ I'll admit that it is either a "listy" article or an "article-y" category. Before I found myself making the nifty table (in part to demonstrate that there were a lot of notable embassy-refuge episodes), I had thought that the category would be enough. But both lists and categories seem to suffer from being under-referenced and under-explained (as even now it would be as an article), so I found myself making the table. KevinCuddeback (talk) 22:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:WikiProject Video games XXX pages

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I think this is a case of "oh for f***'s sake let's just get on with building the encyclopedia". I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, an uninvolved admin. So I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, entitled to close this. Big deal – let's just get back to writing articles :D... Happymelon 11:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming the following categories:
Category:WikiProject Video games non-article pages to Category:NA-Class video game articles
Category:WikiProject Video games categories to Category:Category-Class video game articles
Category:WikiProject Video games disambiguation pages to Category:Disambig-Class video game articles
Category:WikiProject Video games images to Category:Image-Class video game articles
Category:WikiProject Video games portals to Category:Portal-Class video game articles
Category:WikiProject Video games templates to Category:Template-Class video game articles
Nominator's rationale: Common format of category name. MrKIA11 (talk) 20:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose; the full range of project miscellany categories is sufficiently uncommon that I'd argue there is no "common format". In any case, there's no reason to introduce such absurdities as "Image-Class articles"; non-article pages, are not, in fact, articles. Kirill (prof) 01:16, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - While this is the common format for project article classes (Category:FA-Class video game articles), these are not articles, and the naming scheme falls in line with Category:WikiProject Video games articles. These classes are not for rating purposes, but for internal project maintenance. These are not true "ratings" as to the quality or level of content. JohnnyMrNinja 02:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Non article video game articles? --.:Alex:. 08:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - In fairness to the nominator, most of the categories in Category:NA-Class articles do use this format, and the format is the default. It is not, however, a rule, and many projects deviate from this format to more natural or logical naming. Just look through Category:NA-Class articles for examples. JohnnyMrNinja 10:23, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I alway thought this "NA" stood for "not applicable" rather than "non-article" (this might not be very grammatical though). I don't think the meaning of this abbreviation is actually specified anywhere, so I guess one can interpret it either way. Anyway, I don't know what to vote... Some of the proposed new names might be "absurd", but from a practical point of view they're much easier to read because the important word appears directly on the left and is capitalized. This might seem like a trivial detail, but I think it's important since the whole point of these categories is internal project maintenance. Kariteh (talk) 11:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per my unchallenged arguments. Kariteh (talk) 07:29, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was hoping more people might join in; I would really like to see public opinion on this. - The template itself used to say "non-article page" whenever the NA-Class was set, and most of the categories in Category:NA-Class articles use the phrase "Non-article", but it is true I haven't seen this phrasing anywhere official. I do agree with your comments to a certain extent. These are categories that are not intended to used for the general public, as an easy way to find information. My intention was to make project maintenance easier, but also to make project resources easily available in a centralized location for editors. While Category:Image-Class video game articles is clearer from a coding perspective, Category:WikiProject Video games images is clearer, both in intention and expected content, to the majority of readers. Not to mention that images are clearly not articles, and Category:Image-Class video game articles, from a literal perspective, makes no sense. I can't really see the fact that the name doesn't match the template as a huge hurdle, and looking at Category:NA-Class articles, almost no projects match the name of the ((NA-Class)) template. As a sidenote, I would also like to say that I feel Category:List-Class video game articles should stay right where it is, as this is a rating of content and quality (when used properly). JohnnyMrNinja 08:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]



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Category:Categories named after universities and colleges

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The result of the discussion was: Keep - withdrawn by nominator. Cgingold (talk) 23:27, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Categories named after universities and colleges (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete entirely redundant to Category:Universities and colleges and just creates category clutter. BencherliteTalk 17:22, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. As creator of the category, I believe it is a reasonable addition to the Category:Eponymous categories structure. It allows easy access to these similar categories for anyone who wishes to standardize these category pages or otherwise improve them. It's really not easy at all to find all the relevant pages without this category. --Eliyak T·C 17:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Investigative reporting

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The result of the discussion was: merge. BencherliteTalk 07:41, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Investigative reporting (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)


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Category:Songs produced by Polow Da Don

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The result of the discussion was: already speedily renamed. BencherliteTalk 07:35, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Songs produced by Polow Da Don to Category:Songs produced by Polow da Don
Nominator's rationale: Rename because of incorrect capitalization; Da (the) to da. DiverseMentality(Discuss it) 06:54, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Italian Ethiopians

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The result of the discussion was: rename per considerable recent precedent. BencherliteTalk 07:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Italian Ethiopians to Category:Ethiopians of Italian descent
Nominator's rationale: continuation. completes renaming for Category:Ethiopian people by ethnic or national origin Mayumashu (talk) 04:31, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
and Fooian-Booian may or may not go all the way back - it is undefining. and if this assertion is wrong, tell me how far back and what percentage of ethnicity constitutes Fooian(-)Booian? Article pages Fooian(-)Booian commonly descent someone Fooian-Booian as one of Booian descent - the term Fooian Booian is apparently used by some if not many to mean Booian of Fooian descent. the problem with the term is simply that this meaning is not self apparent in meaning whereas the rename is Mayumashu (talk) 14:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Russian-Estonians

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The result of the discussion was: renameCategory:Russian-Estonians to Category:Russians in Estonia. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:31, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Russian-Estonians to Category:Estonians of Russian descent
Nominator's rationale: this completes renaming for Category:Estonian people by ethnic or national origin Mayumashu (talk) 04:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On the grounds that Russians living in Estonia, or at least a significant no., maintain Russian culture in large part - okay, I agree, but with the Darwinek rename. Mayumashu (talk) 21:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Palestinian-Dutch people

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The result of the discussion was: rename per considerable recent precedent. BencherliteTalk 07:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Palestinian-Dutch people to Category:Dutch people of Palestinian descent
Nominator's rationale: continuation. 'completes' renaming for Category:Dutch people by ethnic or national origin Mayumashu (talk) 04:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Armenian Cypriots

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The result of the discussion was: Category:Armenian Cypriots to Category:Cypriots of Armenian descent. The Jewish analogy leaves me unconvinced. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:34, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Armenian Cypriots to Category:Cypriots of Armenian descent
Nominator's rationale: further continuation Mayumashu (talk) 04:08, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
a good point. Most but not necessarily all do belong to a distinct church, apparently. (see Armenians), so they would resemble Jews in this respect, which on wikip are named Category:Russian Jews, etc. and not Category:Jewish Russians. Perhaps then the rename here therefore should be to Category:Cypriot Armenians (?) Mayumashu (talk) 03:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Arab Bruneians

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The result of the discussion was: rename per considerable recent precedent. BencherliteTalk 07:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Arab Bruneians to Category:Bruneians of Arab descent
Nominator's rationale: continuation. completes renaming for subcats of Category:Bruneian people by ethnic or national origin Mayumashu (talk) 03:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fooian-Scots

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The result of the discussion was: rename per considerable recent precedent. BencherliteTalk 07:38, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming
Nominator's rationale: Further continuation of recent nominations Mayumashu (talk) 03:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:English Fooians, a few missed

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The result of the discussion was: rename per considerable recent precedent. BencherliteTalk 07:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming

*Category:Anglo-Scots to Category:English people of Scottish descent

Nominator's rationale: continuation of recent 'precedent setting' nominations. with this, renaming for Category:English people by ethnic or national origin is 'complete' Mayumashu (talk) 02:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That s right - I d forgotten. Now struck from nomination Mayumashu (talk) 20:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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