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Category:Sugar Bowl venues

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 01:05, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Sugar Bowl venues Category:Sugar Bowl venues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Propose deletion: Per WP:OC#VENUES. - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 23:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:English-language education

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 December 20#Category:English-language education. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:55, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:English-language education to Category:English as a foreign or second language (or vice versa)
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Duplicate categories; main article is at English as a foreign or second language. English-language education redirects there, and personally I think the shorter one is a superior name, so the merge could be reversed if desired. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:19, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Inland Empire (California)

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. — ξxplicit 01:05, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Cities and Towns in the San Bernardino-Riverside Metropolitan Area to Category:Cities and towns in the Inland Empire (California)
Propose renaming Category:People from the Riverside-San Bernardino Area to Category:People from the Inland Empire (California)
Propose renaming Category:Riverside-San Bernardino Area Airports to Category:Airports in the Inland Empire (California)
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The main article is at Inland Empire (California) and the parent category is Category:Inland Empire (California). San Bernardino-Riverside Metropolitan Area, San Bernardino-Riverside Area, and Riverside-San Bernardino Area redirect to Inland Empire (California). Also changing capitalization for the cities and towns category and the name format of the airports category to match standards. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:26, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Uncertainty theory

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:00, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Uncertainty theory (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only one member after the others were deleted at AfD. Fences&Windows 17:51, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional ballerinas

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:02, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Fictional ballerinas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. The category only contains articles about works featuring fictional ballerinas, rather than articles about fictional ballerinas themselves (contrast with Category:Fictional detectives, which contains articles about the fictional detectives themselves). Alternatives to deletion include renaming the category to (something like) Category:Works featuring fictional ballerinas (although I couldn't find any other "Works featuring" categories, or keeping the category and replacing the current contents with articles about actual fictional ballerinas (although I couldn't find any of those either). DH85868993 (talk) 15:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category: Old Adelaide Family

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge to Category:People from Adelaide. Contents of category (either the text commentary or the articles included) available upon request for those who want to work on creating an article. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deletion There is no evidence to indicate the notability of the Category:Old Adelaide Family. The page is a random list of old money families, some of which aren't even from Adelaide. Hazir (talk) 12:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • How does one "indicate the notability of a category"? (I've never seen a category that indicated its notability.) Can you provide an example please? Pdfpdf (talk) 11:35, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The page is a random list of old money families" - On what do you base that opinion? Pdfpdf (talk) 11:35, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Pdfpdf (talk) 11:35, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So you concede then, that the article/category is not notable? Hazir (talk) 15:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Errrrrr. Pardon? Short answer: No. Please reread what I have written. (I am puzzled how you could come to that conclusion.) A brief summary of part of what I DID say is: 1) It is a category, not an article. 2) I have made NO claims about notabality, neither one way nor the other.
So: a) I do NOT "concede" that it is an article/category. b) I have not stated, and therefore do NOT "concede", anything about notability.
I have now asked you a number of questions, some of them twice. Could you please provide some answers?
With thanks, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't intend to spend half of my day on this. Simply put a category does need to be notable or at least meaningful. Otherwise I could just create a category "Cool people according to Hazir" and just start adding people who I think are cool to it. Anyhow, it is my position that a random laundry list of old Adelaide families is of no encyclopedic value. Hazir (talk) 14:29, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you initiate a discussion, it behoves you to explain yourself, and supply supporting evidence.
If you have no intention of doing so, then perhaps you should not initiate the discussion? Pdfpdf (talk) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Simply stating your opinion without any supporting evidence or reasoned argument is inadequate.
"Simply put a category does need to be notable or at least meaningful." - Well, this category is most certainly meaningful.
And I ask you yet again, What is the definition of a "notable category"?
Until I know what the definition and criteria are, I am unable to provide the evidence you are demanding. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Why is it necessary for me to provide supporting evidence when you are providing none? Pdfpdf (talk) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"Anyhow, it is my position that a random laundry list of old Adelaide families is of no encyclopedic value." - That sounds very much like "WP:I just don't like it". To quote "I just don't like it and its converse I just like it are not arguments to use in talk page discussions." Pdfpdf (talk) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And in case it was not clear, (for what it's worth), it is my position that it is NOT "a random laundry list", and that it IS of "encyclopedic value". Pdfpdf (talk) 14:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Yugoslav wars films

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:57, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Yugoslav wars films to Category:Yugoslav Wars films
Nominator's rationale: Per main article and CfR below —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 06:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rename, a war(s) should be capitalitized by just standard English grammar. - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 23:23, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Yugoslav wars

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:45, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Yugoslav wars to Category:Yugoslav Wars
Nominator's rationale: Per main article. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 06:00, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Uncategorised musical groups

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, but hide. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:39, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Uncategorised musical groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: What is the purpose of this category - is it only to remove uncategorized templates? If so, it serves no real purpose. noq (talk) 00:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So someone goes to an article and adds it to Uncategorised musical groups instead of a more specific group? Why not just miss the the middle bit out? noq (talk) 13:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Orange (telecoms)

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:36, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Orange (telecoms) to Category:Orange (telecommunications)
Nominator's rationale: Rename to match main article at Orange (telecommunications). - choster 05:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks, but it's already disambiguated. The proposal is to change the dab name based on the main article name.- choster 15:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Goud people

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:34, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Goud people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Discussions at WP:India resulted in a consensus not to categorize by caste (see discussion). Another similar category CfD closed as delete. This is over-categorization at best; also verification of who belongs and who doesn't is an issue. There exists a list -- Notable Gouds and that should serve the purpose (although sourcing for that is almost non-existent). -SpacemanSpiff 03:40, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Non-article Erie pages

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:32, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Non-article Erie pages to Category:Images of Erie, Pennsylvania
Nominator's rationale: Bit of an odd one. This category was at one time used by ((WikiProject Erie)) but has long been replaced with Category:NA-Class Erie articles, leaving behind this collection of images where the category was mistakingly added manually rather than by placing the project banner on their talk pages. Suggest renaming to something more descriptive and reparenting in Category:Images of Pennsylvania. PC78 (talk) 02:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:LGBT producers

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:31, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:LGBT producers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorisation by non-notable intersection. From that page: 'Dedicated group-subject subcategories, such as Category:LGBT writers or Category:African American musicians, should only be created where that combination is itself recognized as a distinct and unique cultural topic in its own right.' I don't think 'LGBT producers' could be described as such. The same could be said for many of the other subcats of Category:LGBT people by occupation, but this one stood out to me as particularly absurd. Robofish (talk) 01:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK, 'absurd' may have been a bit harsh. But the point is, we shouldn't have categories like this. Yes, some producers are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, but that doesn't mean we should single out a category of 'LGBT producers' if there's nothing to say about such a group other than 'they exist'. Robofish (talk) 01:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Grand Forks-East Grand Forks

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Grand Forks-East Grand Forks to Category:Greater Grand Forks
Nominator's rationale: Rename. To match main article Greater Grand Forks. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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