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20th-century fencers

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The result of the discussion was: merge both. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Nominator's rationale: Merge. These are the only by-century category of fencers, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
I can find no other categories of fencer by century: see this search. However, this nomination is not intended to prejudice the creation of categories for fencers from the 19th-century and earlier. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:20th-century motorcycle racers

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:20th-century motorcycle racers to Category:Motorcycle racers
Nominator's rationale: Merge, per the consensus against 20th- and 21st-century categories of sportspeople, as expresssed at a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
Per Motorcycle#History, the first production motorbike was made in 1894, so this is a sport less than 120 years old. It makes no sense to divide 120 years of sport into blocks of 100 years. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Sports journalists by century

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The result of the discussion was: merge all. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Nominator's rationale: Merge all per the consensus against 20th and 21st-century categories of people-by-occupation, because centuries are to broad a grouping for the period which includes the vast majority of biographical articles in Wikipedia. There is currently no Category:19th-century sports journalists or Category:19th-century sportswriters, and this nomination is not intended to prejudice the creation of such categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Equestrians by century

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The result of the discussion was: merge all. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days (see elsewhere on this page and CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
Equestrianism has a long history, and this nomination is made without prejudice to the creation of by-century categories of equestrians for the 19th-century and earlier. The CfD for racehorse owners & breeders did not support the principle of retaining 20th and 21st-century categories even for those involved in much older sports. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:17, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Tribute acts

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The result of the discussion was: Delete/merge all. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 00:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are different factors to consider with some of my proposals below, so if you have a single nomination for all three of them, please include them here. Otherwise, please post individual comments in these subheadings. It seemed like this was less confusing than outright merging. Sorry if this is a headahce; feel free to re-format these if they are more trouble then they are worth. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Led Zeppelin cover bands[edit]
Propose renaming Category:Led Zeppelin cover bands to Category:Led Zeppelin tribute bands
Nominator's rationale: Per main article/category (i.e. this is a subcategory of Category:Tribute bands.) Also worthy of consideration: this includes the album Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin.
A bit off-topic: Category:Tributes to The Beatles includes tribute bands as well as parodies, cover albums, etc. but there is no Category:The Beatles tribute bands. Someone may want to make that and subcategorize it under Category:Tribute bands. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:AC/DC tribute bands[edit]
Category:AC/DC tribute bands (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale:Upmerge to Category:Pink Floyd and Category:Tribute bands. After proposing deletion of a related category, I took a look at the four articles in this one and nominated one (Špejbls Helprs) for deletion. This seems too small. Like the Pink Floyd category, there are certainly a number of tribute acts, but very few will ever merit inclusion in Wikipedia. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Now there are five with the addition of Hell's Belles. --2000 Dad (talk) 01:49, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Pink Floyd tribute bands[edit]
Category:Pink Floyd tribute bands (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to Category:Pink Floyd and Category:Tribute bands (note that one of these two articles is already in the latter.) There are only a handful of subcategories to Category:Tribute bands and those have four, seven, and nine articles (which is to say that there is not an extensive subcategorization of tribute bands.) This has a pretty small potential for growth as most tribute acts are not going to be notable. I'm skeptical of the notability of one of these acts—it only has two citations on its article. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yikes, I created this!? I have no idea why! I don't even think there should be articles on tribute bands, much less categories for them. Delete, upmerge, whatever. Wasted Time R (talk) 03:55, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:World Championship Wresling pay-per-view events

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The result of the discussion was: already done. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:World Championship Wresling pay-per-view events to Category:World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events
Nominator's rationale: Missing a "t" in Wrestling TJ Spyke 21:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Yacht racers by century

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The result of the discussion was: delete all. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting:
Nominator's rationale: Delete all. Per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
The three articles in the categories (Ferris, Cook, Mosbacher) are already categorised under the national sub-cats of Category:Yacht racers, so there is no need to upmerge.
Note that there is more support for by-century categories of 19th-century and earlier sportspeople, and this nomination does not preclude the creation of 19th-century category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:20th-century jockeys

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:20th-century jockeys to Category:Jockeys
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-century category of jockeys, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
There have been jockeys long before the 20th-century, but the consensus of recent discussions has been that even in those cases, 20th and 21st-century categories of sportspeople are inappropriate. This nomination does not preclude the creation of a Category:19th-century jockeys. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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20th-century bodybuilders

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Nominator's rationale: Merge. These are the only by-century category of bodybuilderss, containing 3 articles between them. Per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
This nomination retains the existing Category:Female bodybuilders, but loses the by-gender categorisation of the one article in Category:20th-century male bodybuilders. This could be avoided by an upmerger to Category:Male bodybuilders, but per WP:Cat gender, a female category does not need to be directly balanced with a male one. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:17, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:The Blind Side (film)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:The Blind Side (film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only four articles (curiously excluding the film itself.) It seems like most of these could be easily navigated from one another and only five articles (without any apparent room for growth) is about as small as can be justified for existence. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:ADV Films

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn by nominator. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:ADV Films to Category:ADV Films films
Nominator's rationale: According to the intro, this category is not about the studio itself, but the releases from that studio. Cf. with Category:Films by studio. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As ADV is also not a studio, I have done this, as well as remove the inappropriate stuff added since it was created. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Productions to films

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The result of the discussion was: Rename:
Perhaps these somewhat infelicitous names expose a fundamental aesthetic flaw in the current convention for Category:Films_by_studio Per User:Peterkingiron, it might be worthwhile to revisit it, but either way the current convention is the convention and there is no real reason to make these an exception. --Xdamrtalk 00:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:London Films productions to Category:London Films films
Propose renaming Category:CBS Films productions to Category:CBS Films films
Nominator's rationale: Per 100 or so categories in Category:Films_by_studio. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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MGM

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The result of the discussion was: keep. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:MGM animated shorts to Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated shorts
Propose renaming Category:MGM shorts to Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
Propose renaming Category:MGM films to Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Nominator's rationale: Per main article (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and category (Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Note that Category:Short films applies to the second item as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Navajo tribe

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:Navajo tribe to Category:Navajo Nation. --Xdamrtalk 18:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Navajo tribe to Category:Navajo Nation
Nominator's rationale: Official name was changed decades ago. Main article's title is also Navajo Nation. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 19:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Black and white

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Black and white television programs to Category:Black-and-white television programs
Propose renaming Category:Black and white films to Category:Black-and-white films
Propose renaming Category:Black and white documentaries to Category:Black-and-white documentaries
Nominator's rationale: Grammar and main article/category (Black-and-white, Category:Black-and-white media.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Martial artists by century

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The result of the discussion was: delete and merge as nominated. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting:
Propose merging:
Nominator's rationale: Per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
Martial arts has a long history, and this nomination is made without prejudice to the creation of by-century categories of martial artists for the 19th-century and earlier. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:02, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Priories in Monmouthshire

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The result of the discussion was: delete. As Peterkingiron (talk · contribs) pointed out, the single page in the former category is already in the latter. — ξxplicit 08:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Priories in Monmouthshire to Category:Christian monasteries in Wales
Nominator's rationale: Merge per WP:OC#SMALL: "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" ... and there are no other categories of monasteries-by-county-in-Wales, let alone priories-by-county-in-Wales.
The category contains only one article, Goldcliff Priory, which is already adequately categorised. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Songs written by Zack Turner

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The result of the discussion was: Delete uncontested. Killiondude (talk) 20:13, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Songs written by Zack Turner (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Per precedent (see Songs written by Bob Regan, below), "Songs written by X" categories should not exist unless X has an article. Author of these categories agrees with this precedent. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Songs about travel

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Songs about travel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Nebulous definition. Is "On the Road Again" about travel? "Hit the Road Jack"? Any song that involves getting in a car? (And never before have I seen references in a category.) Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • A good point BrownHairedGirl – as per Shawn in Montreal’s suggestion below, there’s a significant difference between being about travel versus using travel as a significant metaphor, and it’s very debatable whether a song is really “about” anything, as meaning is very subjective.
Shawn’s suggestion that “with travel themes” seems both objective and not over-broad – and I’m agnostic about a List page vs. category (do others have strong feelings on this?); as the references indicate, there’s a pretty small set of popular songs that people identify with travel themes, regardless of what they are actually “about”.
I wouldn’t be opposed to deleting this category and having a more appropriate page or category one (as Shawn suggests), and would be happy to do the cleanup required.
—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 05:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Shawn, this is a good way of putting it, and thanks for suggesting other possibilities – maybe a list is more suitable (I can imagine having categories for all themes yielding rather large category footers on songs, which isn’t an issue shared with lists).
—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 05:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gloriana members

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:Gloriana members to Category:Gloriana (band) members. --Xdamrtalk 00:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Gloriana members (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Musicians-by-band categories do exist, but is there really any point when there's only one member in it and no chance of expansion? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:48, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lancashire County Library and Information Service

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Lancashire County Library and Information Service to Category:Libraries in Lancashire
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Convention of Category:Libraries is to categorise them by place rather than by the local government authority which runs them. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand to Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving New Zealand. --Xdamrtalk 00:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand to Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving New Zealand
Nominator's rationale: Root category is "Battles and operations etc not just Battles so would include more pages (only 3 at present) Hugo999 (talk) 03:19, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Completing incomplete nomination placed by editor on the category page. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Battles and operations of World War II was an existing category, and with the New Zealand subcat being Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand with only 3 pages in it, although a number of WW II battles were in the category Category:Battles involving New Zealand. I could have made it a subcat like larger nations but elected to put the 3 into the main category. Military operations does not seem to me to be a portmanteau or omnibus category, but to cover Military operations only but not battles; Battles and operations is the portmanteau category. Hence there already is Category:World War II operations and battles of Europe etc (somehow battles and operations has got reversed!). I could recreate the subcat Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand for New Zealand, and create similar cats for other nations; eg Brazil which has only 2 pages in Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving Brazil. PS: Battles by country has a subcat Naval battles by country where appropriate. Hugo999 (talk) 23:09, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How about including Sieges with Battles (by country) but Operations and Campaigns in the next level up ie Battles and Operations? Should Offensives be there too or with Battles? Hugo999 (talk) 09:49, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sluggy Freelance

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Sluggy Freelance (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Three members, unlikely ever to grow beyond that. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 14:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Athletes by century

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The result of the discussion was: delete and merge as nominated. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting:
  • Category:Athletes by century
Propose merging:
Nominator's rationale: Although track and field athletics has existed as a competitive sport since at least 776 BC (see track and field athletics#History), most sports biographies on wikipedia relate to 20th and 21st-century people, and a long series of recent CfDs has shown a consistent consensus against by-century categories for 20th- and 21st-century sportspeople (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople). The CfD for racehorse owners & breeders did not support the principle of retaining 20th and 21st-century categories even for those involved in much older sports.
Since track and field athletics is usually segregated by gender, I have proposed that both the male and female aspects of the categories be upmerged rather than deleted, and have created the necessary parent categories to allow this. However WP:CATGRS specifies that a female category does not necessarily need to be balanced against a male one, and if any editors feel that the male athlete categories are inappropriate, please leave a note on my talk page, and I will nominate them for upmerger once this CfD is closed.
Note that Category:Athletes by century includes only 20th- and 21st-century sub-categories; Category:19th-century sportspeople includes no athletics categories. I am aware that some editors who disapprove of 20th- and 21st-century categories for sportspeople approve of 19th-century (and earlier) categories, so this nomination is not intended to prejudice the creation of 19th-century and earlier categories of sportspeople. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I personally don't see what's wrong with the X by century categories, but I presume that people who have given it more thought than I know legitimate reasons against them (?). I will say that athletes most definitely should be put into respective "male" and female" categories where ever possible.
  • On another note, there are still some unresolved issues here – given that "athlete" is ambiguous but "track and field" does not provide an entirely correct disambiguation (some race walkers and marathon runners, for example, may never compete on either a track or field). I'm still racking my brains on this one but Category:Athletes by event seems to reach a good middle ground. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 17:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you want to rename Category:Athletes (track and field), then that will require a separate nomination. It's outside the scope of this one. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support all -- The 20th/21st century disitinction is far to like a former/current distinction, which we do not allow. 19th century categories should be allowed, and possibly 1900-1940 or 1900-1950 catgories. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:21st-century skateboarders

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:21st-century skateboarders to Category:Skateboarders
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-century category of skateboarders, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22).
Skateboarding seems to me to be a particularly inappropriate use of this form of categorisation, because the sport only became popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Dividing 40 years of a sport into 100-year blocks does not make sense. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:21st-century archers

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:21st-century archers to Category:Archers
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-century category of archers, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support all -- The 20th/21st century disitinction is far to like a former/current distinction, which we do not allow. 19th century categories should be allowed, and possibly 1900-1940 or 1900-1950 catgories. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:20th-century squash players

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:20th-century squash players to Category:Squash players
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-century category of squash players, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support all -- The 20th/21st century disitinction is far to like a former/current distinction, which we do not allow. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:20th-century ski jumpers

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξxplicit 22:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:20th-century ski jumpers to Category:Ski jumpers
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-century category of ski-jumpers, and per the consensus of many recent discussions, by-century categories of 20th and 21st-century sportspeople are a form of over-categorisation --- see a dozen or more similar recent CFDs (e.g. cyclists, speed skaters, triathletes, canoeists, cricketers, ice hockey players, rugby players, and a dose of assorted sportspeople) ... as well as a dozen or more current nominations over the last few days at CfD Feb 24, CfD Feb 23 and CfD Feb 22). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support all -- The 20th/21st century disitinction is far to like a former/current distinction, which we do not allow. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Chile articles with comments

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy Delete - WP:CSD#C1 - Empty. --Xdamrtalk 18:07, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest deleting Category:Chile articles with comments
Nominator's rationale: Trivial intersection. All Chile-related articles with talk pages Comments subpages to their talk pages go here, but why bother? Cat is manually automatically populated, created in '07 and unchanged ever since. Ruodyssey (talk) 07:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Even if the nominator would have misunderstood the purpose of this category, which I doubt, I didn't, and I also see no reason to have categories for those articles which belong to projects and have talk pages as opposed to those who don't have talk pages. Debresser (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to be blunt Debresser, but you are also misunderstanding the purpose of these categories: it is not categorisation-by-the-existence-of-talk-pages (which I agree would be trivial and inappropriate). These categories group articles where a comment has been added in relation to the WikiProject assessment. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The name is determined by the template, and all templates related to WikiProjects that allow for similar categories have the same structure, without "WikiProject". I think we should have neither of them and none of them. Debresser (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2010 (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 10:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per BHG. There are 100s of similar categories. The nom has obviously misunderstood the purpose of the category as it only contains a handful of articles (added by the wikiproject Chile template if and only if its comments section is non-empty). The nom has also misunderstood cfd as the category is not tagged. And how does the nom know what the category contained in 2007? (One of the great unsolved problems of Wikipedia is knowing what a category contained before google's cached page.) I would support a rename to include 'WikiProject' somewhere (cf Category:WikiProject Cities articles with comments); I would also support a parent cat Category:WikiProject articles with comments. Occuli (talk) 12:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep until the category is no longer populated. Comments pages have been deprecated and there is an ongoing process to move these comments off of their subpages and onto talk pages. The categories should be deleted upon completion of that process, so this nomination is premature. Deletion of this category prior to the completion of that process will make it more difficult to complete. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 12:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • They are talk pages, not comments pages. Do have a look. There is eg Category:WikiProject Cities Comment Pages, a different beast, to which your remarks would apply. Occuli (talk) 12:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I just did. Each of those talk pages has a /Comments subpage that is transcluded into the Comments section of a WP banner. See Talk:Curicó/Comments and Talk:Degu/Comments as examples. This is not a manual category as was suggested in the nom. As Debresser said above, it is automatically populated by the WikiProject banner due to the existance of the subpages. This functionality is part of WPBannerMeta. Per the discussion I linked above, these comments are supposed to reviewed by the WikiProjects and either moved to the talk page, or deleted outright if they are not useful. Once the useful comments have been preserved, and the subpages deleted, all of these categories should be deleted. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 13:23, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • So you did - indeed it was my own glance that was superficial. One can but apologise and shuffle away in embarrassment. Occuli (talk) 16:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename Category:WikiProject Chile articles with comments or Category:WikiProject Chile Comment Pages or soemthing similar. If empty, it can be deleted them. This is presumably a maintenance category for the project. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments/Question (nom) - Okay, I guess I didn't really understand the Comments subpage issue, nor did I know of the decision to deprecate them -- a good decision IMHO. (This abandoned practice isn't clearly documented on many project banner templates' pages, and the pages themselves appear rarely used or noticed.) I agree the cat may be badly named, but that's the template's fault, I suppose. I also agree that a parent cat, Category:WikiProject articles with comments, is badly needed, since a search yields many such cats. With respect to the nom'ed cat, if I migrate this handful of subpages to the talk pages, can we just delete it? Ruodyssey (talk) 09:26, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I believe the cat is now ripe for deletion. I've moved the comments to the talk pages, the subpages have all be deleted, and the cat is now empty. (And I added the CFD notice, which I had forgotten.) Thanks! Ruodyssey (talk) 13:49, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Toho templates[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge Category:Toho templates to Category:Film templates. --Xdamrtalk 18:09, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Toho templates to Category:Film templates
Nominator's rationale: Only two entries, not likely to be many more. Can be upmerged into its two parents. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:11, 18 February 2010 (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 07:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not entirely against such small categories but the sheer breadth of links in the current Godzilla template means there is little need for further population of this category. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 17:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Winnetka, Illinois[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy keep Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 13:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:People from Winnetka, Illinois (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: One issue with it is that the scope of the category is inappropriate: if it remains a category of "People from Winnetka, Illinois", the scope is too large; one could list every single citizen from the area. If the name of the category were changed to "Notable People from Winnetka, Illinois", the category's scope would be too small, and the notability of every person listed would have to be reevaluated (and, from what it looks like, most of the people listed would fail a notability test [some of them are even written like self-advertisements, but we'll not get into that]). Moreover, many of the pages of the people in the category don't even mention that the person is actually from Winnetka, Illinois. 192.83.228.119 (talk) 03:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep Part of a larger scope of "People from [city]" categories. You can't list a person here unless they have an article; and if they don't deserve an article it can be deleted rather swiftly. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 04:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep - take non-notables to afd, and remove any whose articles do not mention Winnetka (or use one of the many templates asking for a source). Occuli (talk) 10:02, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep. No valid grounds offered for deletion. The category is well-populated, so it doesn't meet the deletion criteria of WP:OC#SMALL. Per Occuli, take non-notables to afd, and remove any whose articles do not mention Winnetka (or use one of the many templates asking for a source). If (big IF) after that is done, the category is small and has no reasonable prospect of expansion, feel free to open a new CFD. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:09, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Songs written by Bob Regan[edit]

Category:Songs written by Bob Regan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Same reasoning as Category:Songs written by Tony Mullins on yesterday's log. Per precedent, "Songs written by X" categories shouldn't exist unless X has an article, and in this case, X does not. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hold on guys, I'll try and put the article together. Bob Regan has been Grammy-nominated, picked up 3 Ascap awards in one year, has 3 top 5 songs in the WP song articles (I know there are more), he petitions Capitol Hill on behalf of songwriters, former president of NSAI (probably not that notable, but worth noting), just because you think he is not publicly notable doesn't make him non-notable, or does it? --Richhoncho (talk) 13:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Rabbis of the Land of Israel[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. --Xdamrtalk 18:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Rabbis of the Land of Israel to Category:Palestinian rabbis
Nominator's rationale: This is the original name for the category, IZAK appears to have moved them simply to push his POV about the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's worth reading his comments at Talk:Jewish_Encyclopedia#Category:Palestinian rabbis to see the extent of his refusal to allow the term "Palestinian" to be connected in any way with Jewish scholars. The term "land of Israel" is very loaded, and exists to push a very specific point of view. By contrast, the original category name is the standard name used in textbooks for century upon century. Basically, IZAK's move was a blatent contravention of WP:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.Newman Luke (talk) 01:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Nominator is mistaken when he says "Land of Israel" is a loaded term. In fact, Palestine is the politically loaded term, and the definition of a Palestinian Jew is unclear at best. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Newman Luke for background about this nominator. -- Avi (talk) 08:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose because quite obviously since 1948 the term "Palestinian" is now regarded as archaic as applying to Jews and has also become associated solely with non-Jewish Arab Palestinians, while the term the Land of Israel refers only to the Jewish notion of the land. Similarly once upon a time the Talmud Yerushalmi was christened as the "Palestinian Talmud" and was called that for centuries, that has changed and no credible Jewish sources refer to it as "the Palestinian Talmud" because that name has been dropped by now so that it is only called the Jerusalem Talmud = Talmud Yesrushalmi. Newman Luke presents almost every topic under the sun relating to Judaism according to only non-Jewish sources and eyes while classical Judaism (that he castigates as "POV") gets less of a chance to present how Jewish subjects and topics are named and categorized. P.S. Newman Luke should have informed me on my talk page about his proposed changes at this CfD. Also, Newman Luke's gratuitous swipe at me is pathetic because this category has been named like this since 2006 [2] and there is no "disruption" whatsoever! IZAK (talk) 09:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • But this category is for people prominent before 1948. Newman Luke (talk) 11:01, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Indeed, but we and the world are now living in the post-1948 era and nomenclature, especially in the English language, changes, while in Judaism and the Torah world of the Rabbis, most things stay the same, and as all classical and Torah scholars know there is the classical ancient divide between the chachmei Eretz Yisrael and the chachmei Bavel' (The "sages of Eretz Israel" and "sages of Babylonia") which is the way that classical Judaism has always referred to these sages. All groups of Jewish scholars from all denominations know this and refer to the sages who lived and are living within the borders of The Land of Israel as the sages or rabbis of Eretz Yisrael ("Land of Israel') there is no other way to say it and it is the most accurate of all. While the English term "Palestinian" was never part of Hebrew and Judaic scholarship but an artificial term used in ancient times by the Romans, Turks and that ended with the end of British rule in Palestine when the label "Palestinian" was used to refer to the Arabs to whom it applied. So it is best to keep the lines clear and not mix up names and categories. IZAK (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. IZAK (talk) 09:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very strong delete. Both Land of Israel and Palestinian are blatantly POV-pushing terms in this hotly-contested context. The adjective Palestinian refers to Palestinian people, which as the head article notes refers primarily to Palestinian Arabs. OTOH, Land of Israel (in Hebrew, Eretz Yisrael), is a heavily-loaded religious-zionist term referring to hotly disputed concepts of the extent of Jewish territory in the region; by some definitions it includes most of contemporary Syria and Lebanon, as well as large chunks of modern Iraq (see the maps at Land of Israel#Historical_kingdoms). I take no view either way on whether the religious zionists are right or wrong in the use of this terminology to describe their beliefs, but I object very strongly to the use of such blatantly partisan terminology within the category system. A further problem is that since the extent of the Land of Israel is hotly disputed even between zionist scholars, it fails WP:OC#SUBJECTIVE.
    The only neutral way of handling this is categorise these biographical articles according to the regimes under which they actually lived. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Completely agree with BrownHairedGirl here. Categories should not be based on ideas which have a ill-defined/debatable meaning. I think I understand what this category is trying to do, but the political and historical issues mean it is ambiguous. Categorise by regime makes things clear cut. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 12:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • You are both missing the point here. Firstly this is about Jewish Torah scholarship, not about any political issues. Secondly, these are classical and ancient ways within classical Judaism and by classical Judaism used until the very present time. Thirdly you are not proposing any solutions. Fourthly this is an important key sub-category belonging to the parent category of Category:Rabbis and it is impossible to delete this vast group of scholars. Fifthly, there is no need to politicize this issue that is an internal one relating to Judaic scholarship that is not involved with modern-day political struggles. Finally, this term and categorization method is used universally by all rabbis and scholars including the most anti-Zionist and Haredi ones, so your frame of reference here is just way off and mistaken. IZAK (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • IZAK, Wikipedia is not just a Jewish project; it needs to be neutral not just within a Judaic context (whether Zionist or Haredi or otherwise), but in a global context. The terminology may be common within Jewish Torah scholarship, but I think you know enough of the politics of religious zionism to know that the concept of "The Land of Israel" is a highly-political one which fuels the contemporary Greater Israel debates. I do not believe that it is impossible to categorise these scholars without using the terminology which has been so politicised by current Jewish scholars, activists Jewish and Jewish politicians ... but the terminology is so heavily politicised and value-laden that I would prefer to delete the category than to retain such partisan terminology. Finally, there is no question of "deleting this vast group of scholars"; the question here is how to categorise the articles, not whether to delete them. If you prefer, I would support an upmerge to Category:Rabbis. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • It would be unscholarly, foolish and retrograde to upmerge the category simply to avoid unconnected political issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the naming of this category that relates to rabbis who lived from 2000 to 1500 years ago! In Talmudic, meaning the classical Rabbinic, times that is how rabbis were divided, between those in the Land of Israel and those in Babylonia and no one is saying that in order to meet modern day political requirements e.g. Category:Rabbis of Babylonia should be renamed as Category:Rabbis of Ancient Iraq it was neither just "Palestine" nor just "Israel" then, it was Judea (but it does not mean we should call them Category:Rabbis of Judea which would be a Neologism). Of course we all know that Wikipedia is "not a Jewish encyclopedia" but it is also not an encyclopedia that discriminates against Jewish knowledge from its classical perspectives. People do not come to read what Wikipedia teaches in violation of WP:ONEDAY but they want to learn what happened in reality for the last 2000 years. Wikipedia does not hide what Judaism teaches and it does not censor the accepted names of Judaic topics according to classical Judaism because of some unrelated outside political concerns. Otherwise you are going to become guilty of WP:NOR and WP:CENSOR and create total WP:NONSENSE instead of a factual and truthful encyclopedia. IZAK (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • IZAK, the unscholarly act here would be simply to import into a neutral encyclopedia the terminology used by scholars approaching this issue from one perspective, whether that's a Judaic one (as you advocate, and define as "according to classical Judaism"), or a Palestinian-nationalist one (as others advocate). Categories appear unreferenced at the foot of an article, without qualification, and as such appear to be making an editorial statement of fact; that's why they should not use partisan terminology.
              Emotive victim-card techniques such as your talk of "discriminates against Jewish knowledge" are irrelevant as well as unnecessary, because per WP:NPOV there is no dispute about using and explaining this language within the text of the article, where it can be attributed and explained ... but naming a category in this way is a different ball-game.
              Yor attempt to dismiss NPOV concerns as "unconnected political issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the naming of this category" is simply untrue: is Jewish scholars and Jewish politicians who have politicised the term ‎Eretz Yisrael by explicitly using it to refer to a desire to expand Israel's boundaries beyond their internationally-recognised limits. I have several shelves full of Israeli literature on the topic, which I could dig out and start citing if you really want to argue the point; but I assume that you are knowledgeable enough on the topic to make citation-throwing unnecessary when dealing with such a well-discussed topic as this. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:31, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The category tracks rabbinic scholars who lived in the existing country on a historic basis, a rather rational basis for a defining category. Alansohn (talk) 17:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose and in addition, if you look at the cat page, there is a sub-cat for Rabbis in Ottoman and British Palestine. Yossiea (talk) 18:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose-- but I would consider a third option, e.g. "Rabbis of the Holy Land," "Rabbis of the Levant," "Rabbis of Canaan," "Rabbis of Land of Israel and Palestine," etc. Carlaude:Talk 04:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Noting Yoissea, and finding any comments about the nom to be unneeded here. Collect (talk) 11:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete per BHG. Orderinchaos 07:59, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Land of Israel is not only a tzioni term, it is the classically correct way to refer to this region per IZAK --Glumboot (talk) 13:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - the current category is conventionally used and widely understood as referring to the rabbis of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods in distinction to their contemporaries who lived in Babylon. The proposed change would be more obscure and possibly misleading. Chefallen (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Malik.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:29, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Talmud rabbis of the Land of Israel[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. --Xdamrtalk 18:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Talmud rabbis of the Land of Israel to Category:Talmud rabbis in Palestine
Nominator's rationale: This is the original name for the category, IZAK appears to have moved them simply to push his POV about the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's worth reading his comments at Talk:Jewish_Encyclopedia#Category:Palestinian rabbis to see the extent of his refusal to allow the term "Palestinian" to be connected in any way with Jewish scholars. The term "land of Israel" is very loaded, and exists to push a very specific point of view. By contrast, the original category name is the standard name used in textbooks for century upon century. Basically, IZAK's move was a blatent contravention of WP:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.Newman Luke (talk) 01:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Oppose See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Newman Luke for background about this nominator. -- Avi (talk) 08:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Comment. Avraham, you only get one 'vote', not two. See also Draft RfC on IZAK and draft RFC on Avraham.Newman Luke (talk) 10:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose because quite obviously since 1948 the term "Palestinian" is now regarded as archaic as applying to Jews and has also become associated solely with non-Jewish Arab Palestinians, while the term the "Land of Israel" refers only to the Jewish notion of the land. There is nothing worrisome about that and it violates nothing. Similarly once upon a time the Talmud Yerushalmi was christened as the "Palestinian Talmud" and was called that for centuries, that has changed and no credible Jewish sources refer to it as "the Palestinian Talmud" because that name has been dropped by now so that it is only called the Jerusalem Talmud = Talmud Yesrushalmi. Newman Luke presents almost every topic under the sun relating to Judaism according to only non-Jewish sources and eyes while classical Judaism (that he castigates as "POV") gets less of a chance to present how Jewish subjects and topics are named and categorized. P.S. Newman Luke should have informed me on my talk page about his proposed changes at this CfD. Also, Newman Luke's gratuitous swipe at me is pathetic because this category has been named like this since 2006 [3] and there is no "disruption" whatsoever! IZAK (talk) 09:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. IZAK (talk) 09:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • But this category is for people prominent before 1948. Newman Luke (talk) 11:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Indeed, but we and the world are now living in the post-1948 era and nomenclature, especially in the English language, changes, while in Judaism and the Torah world of the Rabbis, most things stay the same, and as all classical and Torah and Talmud scholars know there is the classical ancient divide between the chachmei Eretz Yisrael and the chachmei Bavel' (The "sages of Eretz Israel" and "sages of Babylonia") which is the way that classical Judaism has always referred to these sages. All groups of Jewish scholars from all denominations know this and refer to the sages who lived and are living within the borders of The Land of Israel as the sages or rabbis of Eretz Yisrael ("Land of Israel') there is no other way to say it and it is the most accurate of all. While the English term "Palestinian" was never part of Hebrew and Judaic scholarship but an artificial term used in ancient times by the Romans, Turks and that ended with the end of British rule in Palestine when the label "Palestinian" was used to refer to the Arabs to whom it applied. So it is best to keep the lines clear and not mix up names and categories. IZAK (talk) 05:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • IZAK, if you want to "keep the lines clear", then you really ought to stay a million miles away from basing your argument notoriously fuzzy and highly-politicised concepts such as "within the borders of The Land of Israel". Take a look at the maps in Land of Israel, such as File:Davids-kingdom with captions specifiying vassal kingdoms-derivative-work.jpg, which has the caption "Different interpretations of what the Bible says about the extent of king David's empire." Exactly which of those interpretations of the extent of the extent of king David's empire are you using as the basis of your "clear" concept of "within the borders of The Land of Israel"?
          And your description of the term "Palestine" as "artificial" is hilarious: as you note, it was applied by the Romans and other since then, so it's over 2000 years old. If that term is to be deprecated as "artificial", why are you not jumping up and down with fury at the use of such "artificial" terms as "France", let alone the blatant neologism "America" (first recorded use in 1507, so it's not even a quarter of the age of "Palestine"). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very strong delete. Both Land of Israel and Palestinian are blatantly POV-pushing terms in this hotly-contested context. The adjective Palestinian refers to Palestinian people, which as the head article notes refers primarily to Palestinian Arabs. OTOH, Land of Israel (in Hebrew, Eretz Yisrael), is a heavily-loaded religious-zionist term referring to hotly disputed concepts of the extent of Jewish territory in the region; by some definitions it includes most of contemporary Syria and Lebanon, as well as large chunks of modern Iraq (see the maps at Land of Israel#Historical_kingdoms). I take no view either way on whether the religious zionists are right or wrong in the use of this terminology to describe their beliefs, but I object very strongly to the use of such blatantly partisan terminology within the category system. A further problem is that since the extent of the Land of Israel is hotly disputed even between zionist scholars, it fails WP:OC#SUBJECTIVE.
    The only neutral way of handling this is to categorise these biographical articles according to the regimes under which they actually lived. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • You are missing the point here. Firstly this is about Jewish Torah scholarship, not about any political issues. Secondly, these are classical and ancient ways within classical Judaism and by classical Judaism used until the very present time. Thirdly you are not proposing any solutions. Fourthly this is an important key sub-category belonging to the parent categories of Category:Talmud rabbis and the main Category:Rabbis and it is impossible to delete this vast group of scholars. Fifthly, there is no need to politicize this issue that is an internal one relating to Judaic scholarship that is not involved with modern-day political struggles. Finally, this term and categorization method is used universally by all rabbis and scholars including the most anti-Zionist and Haredi ones, so your frame of reference here is just way off and mistaken. IZAK (talk) 18:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • IZAK, my frame of reference is broader than yours, which is where your confusion arises. Wikipedia is not just a Jewish project; it needs to be neutral not just within a Judaic context (whether Zionist or Haredi or otherwise), but in a global context. The terminology may be common within Jewish Torah scholarship, but I think you know enough of the politics of religious zionism to know that the concept of "The Land of Israel" is a highly-political one which fuels the contemporary Greater Israel debates. I do not believe that it is impossible to categorise these scholars without using the terminology which has been so politicised by current Jewish scholars, activists Jewish and Jewish politicians ... but the terminology is so heavily politicised and value-laden that I would prefer to delete the category than to retain such partisan terminology. Finally, there is no question of "deleting this vast group of scholars"; the question here is how to categorise the articles, not whether to delete them. If you prefer, I would support an upmerge to Category:Rabbis. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • Kindly refrain from referring to my or your "frames of reference" because you have no idea about what my total educational credentials are! I will overlook that remark. It would be unscholarly, foolish and retrograde to upmerge the category simply to avoid unconnected political issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the naming of this category that relates to rabbis who lived from 2000 to 1500 years ago! In Talmudic, meaning the classical Rabbinic, times that is how rabbis were divided, between those in the Land of Israel and those in Babylonia and no one is saying that in order to meet modern day political requirements Category:Talmud rabbis of Babylonia should be renamed as Category:Talmud rabbis of Ancient Iraq it was neither just "Palestine" nor just "Israel" then, it was Judea (but it does not mean we should call them Category:Talmud rabbis of Judea which would be a Neologism). Of course we all know that Wikipedia is "not a Jewish encyclopedia" but it is also not an encyclopedia that discriminates against Jewish knowledge from its classical perspectives. People do not come to read what Wikipedia teaches in violation of WP:ONEDAY but they want to learn what happened in reality for the last 2000 years. Wikipedia does not hide what Judaism teaches and it does not censor the accepted names of Judaic topics according to classical Judaism because of some unrelated outside political concerns. Otherwise you are going to become guilty of WP:NOR and WP:CENSOR and create total WP:NONSENSE instead of a factual and truthful encyclopedia. Thank you and a happy Purim. IZAK (talk) 00:47, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • IZAK, I continue to assume as ever that you are a highly-educated person with a wide range of knowledge; my comment above was questioning neither your educational credentials nor he scope of your learning. The point I was making above when referring to a "broader perspective" is that you have repeatedly stressed that you are approaching this issue solely from the perspective of Jewish scholarship. Do you really want to try arguing that in an area of such highly-contested history (where even archaeology is a politicised discipline), that the scholarship of one religious tradition is an NPOV perspective?
              And please, spare us the emotive victim-card techniques such as your talk of "discriminates against Jewish knowledge". That sort of thing is irrelevant as well as being and inflammatory, because per WP:NPOV there is no dispute about using and explaining this language within the text of the article, where it can be attributed and explained ... but naming a category in this way is a different ball-game. Your talk of censorship is also mistaken: using neutral terminology for categories is a wholly different matter to removing content from articles. Per WP:ASF, "Assert facts, including facts about opinions—but do not assert the opinions themselves", and using POV terminology in a category name is asserting that opinion. That's why WP:NPOV#Article_titles says "Sometimes the article title itself may be a source of contention and polarization. This is especially true for descriptive titles that suggest a viewpoint either "for" or "against" any given issue." That applies here: categories should not appear to be be taking a stand either for or against the use of controversial political terminology such as Eretz Israel. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: This entire discussion shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of categories, and a contempt for our readers. The purpose of a category is not to provide information or to make a political statement, but to help readers find information they are looking for. Therefore, the overriding consideration in creating and naming a category is one: what name is the reader most likely to use? For this reason, "Rabbis of the Land of Israel" is better than "Palestinian Rabbis", because no normal reader is going to look for categories of rabbis under "P" for "Palestine". However, "Rabbis of Palestine" would be just as good as "Rabbis of the land of Israel", since the reader, looking for "Rabbis", would find either one. On the other hand, I think many readers would be confused by the name "Rabbis of Palestine".
This entire discussion is the result of an editor-centric culture in Wikipedia. We need to develop a reader-centric approach. --Ravpapa (talk) 14:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Categorizing Talmudic scholars by where they lived is a strong defining characteristic. Any name will attract criticism, but the current name is more accurate than the alternative offered. Alansohn (talk) 17:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Israel is what it is called now. That is what the category should reflect. Yossiea (talk) 18:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Reply. Yossiea, this is not :Category:Talmud rabbis of Israel, it is :Category:Talmud rabbis of the Land of Israel. The concepts of Israel (the modern state) and the Land of Israel are significantly different. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose rename It is a reasonable search term, hence is proper. Collect (talk) 13:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per BHG - POV issue with the name. Orderinchaos 08:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Land of Israel is not only a tzioni term, it is the classically correct way to refer to this region per IZAK--Glumboot (talk) 13:35, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - the current category is conventionally used and widely understood as referring to the rabbis of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods in distinction to their contemporaries who lived in Babylon. The proposed change would be more obscure and possibly misleading. Chefallen (talk) 19:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Malik.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support but rename to Category:Rabbis in Roman and Byzantine Palestine. This will be consistent with Category:Rabbis in Ottoman and British Palestine. This will separate the era (Talmud) and location (Land of Israel) from the category. Each rabbi, e.g. Judah haNasi, will then have the two following categories: Category:Rabbis in Roman and Byzantine Palestine and Category:Mishnah rabbis. Chesdovi (talk) 13:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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