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Category:Historic railway stations in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:57, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Historic railway stations in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Historic railway stations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. I was going to make this a container category and then had second thoughts. Historic is really a subjective term so inclusion criteria here is a challenge. Since virtually all of the content is in the clearly defined Category:Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places, maybe deletion to eliminate the extra level of navigation would be the best solution. If kept, needs to be marked as a ((container category)). Vegaswikian (talk) 23:28, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep not as a Container: I looked to see what the 4 articles that were loose in the cat actually were. 1 was a brand new station and 1 was on the NRHP so I moved both of those out. TheGettysburg Railroad Station article is pretty compelling to make a claim that the station is historic. Winslow (Amtrak station) is probably less compelling but it is still a historic structure with period architecture. Although I agree "historic" is vague and could be open to abuse, it looks to me like the cat is being used sparingly to group historic railroads that no one has bothered to nominate for the NRHP. RevelationDirect (talk) 10:51, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Clarification: It occurs to me I should be conservative about moving articles out of cat when it is nominated for deletion, even if I favor keeping the cat. These were good faith changes to articles that never should have been included, not an attempt to bias the discussion by clearing out the cat.RevelationDirect (talk) 23:26, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep: I can think of quite a few non-NRHP-listed stations of the Long Island Rail Road that could use such a category, most notably Forest Hills (LIRR station), Glen Cove (LIRR station), Glen Street (LIRR station), and a few other random ones. I agree that the potential for abuse is available, but as long as the category isn't being applied to any Babylon Branch stations, there won't be a problem. ----DanTD (talk) 18:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that historic is somewhat ambiguous and highly subjective. With no main article, it makes its use in a category name very problematic. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:49, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No argument that "historic" is open to conflicting interpretations. But this is part of the gigantic Category:Historic preservation subject tree which has tens of thousands of articles under it, each one making its own claim for being historical. Are you thinking that only government registries be allowed to identify a building as historic for our purposes? RevelationDirect (talk) 00:46, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No, but we need to do something. In this case, we have a reasonable alternative. As this category exists now, it is becoming a dumping ground for populated places that mention having an old station. So if we have to choose between cleanup and deletion, deletion seems like the better choice. Of course if we could get an objective definition of historic then we could look at this again. I'll also throw another option on the table. We could create Category:Railway stations completed in yyyy under Category:Buildings and structures completed in yyyy. This removes the historic subjectivity and still groups these by period of construction. If by year is too fine, it could be by decade. Precedent exists with Category:Bridges completed in yyyy. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A cat with 2 articles is a "dumping ground"? I don't share your sense of urgency on this one.RevelationDirect (talk) 01:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Against

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. Kbdank71 16:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Against to Category:Against (American band)
Propose renaming Category:Against members to Category:Against (American band) members
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Suggest disambiguating to match main article Against (American band). "Against" is ambiguous, and there is another band of the same name. The eponymous category may or may not be small enough to delete, I'm not sure. Good Ol’factory (talk) 20:53, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per nom. --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 23:52, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sound amplifier manufacturers

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete; category has remained empty. This shouldn't serve as any type of consensus-based "precedent" because the rename was apparently done by the nominator prior to the nomination. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sound amplifier manufacturers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Category was replaced by one with a more accurate name: Category:Audio amplifier manufacturers. The amplifiers made by these companies do not amplify sound, they amplify electrical audio signals which are then converted into sound by loudspeakers. (Sound waves cannot be amplified, though they can be focused with an acoustic horn.) Binksternet (talk) 18:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Round Maple

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:53, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Round Maple (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only one article in the category - all other pages are redirects Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 17:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Alaska elections, 1970

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The result of the discussion was: administrative close: already speedily deleted as an empty category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:54, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Alaska elections, 1970 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete: Category was created to link United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 1970, which is a redirect to United States House of Representatives elections, 1970, an article which at present contains no content pertaining to the Alaska election. I did check this time; this is NOT a convention used for every state in this case. There are no other Alaska election articles in existence which are chronologically even close to this one.RadioKAOS (talk) 07:03, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Contemporary architecture

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The result of the discussion was: delete.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Contemporary architecture (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Not useful, it only means present day architecture, and thus is a loose concept with shifting meaning. No point categorizing articles on such a basis. Elekhh (talk) 06:03, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Anybody interested can use Category:Architecture by date to locate contemporary architecture based on their specific definition (time span) and date of search. --Elekhh (talk) 06:14, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Shopping malls opened in 2010

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:55, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Shopping malls opened in 2010 to Category:Shopping malls established in 2010
Nominator's rationale: Rename. To be consistent with other shopping mall establishment categories. Dough4872 04:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Robbers by modus operandi

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Kbdank71 16:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose upmerging Category:Robbers by modus operandi to Category:Robbers
Nominator's rationale: Another poorly named "by modus operandi" category by User:Stefanomione, at least as far as I'm concerned. Doesn't aid navigation; just upmerge to Robbers. Please, if others agree with at least some of these noms, do take a look at Stefanomione's contribs, I fear I have only scratched the surface with my Cfds of his over the past few days. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Bandits by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 17:03, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bandits by nationality (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: A particularly pointless offering from Stefanomione, as its sole parent Category:Bandits is a redlink, and it has as its only content Category:Mexican bandits, who are already adequately categorized elsewhere. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:44, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People killed in action

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Kbdank71 17:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose upmerging Category:People killed in action to Category:War-related deaths
Nominator's rationale: Here's another one from Stefanomione that I just don't get: can't the category contents all be easily accommodated by the parent, which also has the benefit of being much more clearly named? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Activists by modus operandi

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Activists by type. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Activists by modus operandi to Category:anything else
Nominator's rationale: The prodigious Stefanomione created this, for a reason I cannot fathom. He simultaneously Category:Activists by role, as a redirect to this. If we really need to subcategorize Category:Activists to serve as a container for contents of this category -- and I'm not sure we do -- then Category:Activists by type would seem to be suitable, with the added advantage of using a commonly understood terminology in Wikipedia categorization. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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