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Category:English-translated eroge

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Eroge translated into English. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:English-translated eroge
Move to Category:Eroge translated into English
Nominator's rationale: To remove the hyphenated word.Jinnai 23:39, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Ancient Egyptian scribal works

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Ancient Egyptian texts. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:07, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Ancient Egyptian scribal works (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant to Category:Egyptian inscriptions and Category:Ancient Egyptian literature (not a parent of this). There might just be a case for a rename to Category:Ancient Egyptian texts, but I doubt it. The AE project has been notified. Johnbod (talk) 21:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No, and at least 2 of the 4 supposed inscriptions are papyri anyway. Johnbod (talk) 03:04, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Structures made of solid gold

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 17:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Structures made of solid gold (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: The single member is in fact only covered with gold leaf. I suppose it could be made a category for structures where this is partly the case, of which there are enough, but is it defining? Best just to delete I think. Johnbod (talk) 21:25, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Structures are not made of gold leaf, it is a decorative finish. Like paint. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:38, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Lists of paintings

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Jafeluv (talk) 17:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Lists of paintings to Category:Lists of works of art
Nominator's rationale: Many lists here contain drawings, sculptures, prints etc - some only contain non-paintings. I think it is enough if a category page note explains only lists of works of visual art belong here, but a more precise name could be used. Johnbod (talk) 21:12, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It is bad art-historical practice to segregate paintings in this way (as so many of our categories in fact do), and some of the lists with painting in the title may also contain drawings (many used to, but have been renamed). A note could be added at the paintings category. Since the vast majority of works in "works/artworks" lists are in fact paintings, the rump of a paintings category would be rendered misleading and rather useless, containing only a small minority of the listified paintings we in fact have. Johnbod (talk) 05:10, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I know sod all about art-history, but if you know your stuff, then I'm happy to take your word on that, so I won't oppose renaming. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)

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Category:Presidents of the congress of Colombia

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 17:53, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Presidents of the congress of Colombia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: According to President of the Congress of Colombia, this individual is always the President of the Senate of Colombia (indeed, note that the latter link leads to the former), so the category is redundant to Category:Presidents of the senate of Colombia. If kept, "congress" should be capitalised, as should "senate" in the other category. - Biruitorul Talk 20:33, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scribal works

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at CfD 2010-01-25. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Scribal works (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Anything written before the invention(s) of printing could be called a scribal work, I suppose. If the term has a real meaning, it is not reflected in the random category contents, which are properly covered by dozens if not hundreds of other categories. If the intention was to capture works not included in a more narrow definition of "literary works", hardly any of the current contents reflect this. Johnbod (talk) 18:51, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have added to the nom. Are there any reasons at all for keeping it? Johnbod (talk) 21:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Catalogue raisonné

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 18:49, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Catalogue raisonné (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only one member apart from the main article, which is not a catalogue raisonné. Wikipedia should not be pretending it is in the business of producing catalogues raisonnés. Johnbod (talk) 18:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Relics attributed to Jesus

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Jafeluv (talk) 18:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Relics attributed to Jesus to Category:Relics associated with Jesus
Nominator's rationale: "Attributed to" is wrong from various points of view. Johnbod (talk) 18:41, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't seen that! Main article now moved to Relics associated with Jesus. Did none of those 2005 dudes have access to a dictionary? "Attributed to" manages to suggest both or either of: a) Jesus made them, b) Some plausible recent scholar has backed, as a matter of fact, that Jesus either made them or used or was at least associated with them in some way. None of these are remotely the case for the great majority of them. Johnbod (talk) 05:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Jewish artists

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Jafeluv (talk) 18:46, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Jewish visual artists to Category:Jewish artists
Nominator's rationale: Complete duplication. There is a well-established convention that plain "artist" means "visual artist" in category names, see note at the head Category:Artists. Before anyone asks, Category:Artists by culture and Category:Artists by ethnic group are both well established and among the parents here. Johnbod (talk) 18:35, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:UK MPs 2005-

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus. Jafeluv (talk) 09:39, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:UK MPs 2005- to Category:UK MPs 2005-2010
Nominator's rationale: The next election must take place on or before 3 June 2010, at which point a new group of MPs will enter Parliament. --Philip Stevens (talk) 15:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Actors involved with the Disney Theme Parks

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 09:35, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Actors involved with the Disney Theme Parks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Overcategorization of preformers by type of performance. We don't have categories that list the actors that participated in the project—not for films, not for TV shows, not for advertisements or endorsements, and not for participation in Disney parks and resorts. The reason we don't do this is that if we did it would lead to incredible "category clutter" on many actors' articles. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:52, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Ancient Roman farmers

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 17:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ancient Roman farmers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Do we really have enough articles on ancient Roman farmers to need a category for them? The only article in this category is Cato the Elder, who was notable for his military and political career rather than for his agricultural talents, and should probably be removed from the category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:24, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
He was also notable for making a big fuss about retiring to his estate to live the simple life of a country gentleman etc etc, a very common trope among Roman politicians supporting the "old Roman virtues" - probably too common to be defining, though Cato was the main exemplar. The majority of notable Ancient Romans probably had a country estate, so Category:Ancient Roman landowners is hardly defining. Johnbod (talk) 18:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We have dozens of "Ancient Roman" categories. Don't start on that tack. Johnbod (talk) 21:19, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We are discussing a particular civilization, not a time period; different chronologies are used for different civilizations. Ancient Rome is traditionally defined as Roman civilization from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD. - choster (talk) 23:37, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, all mentioned so far had loads of slaves to do the actual labour, except possibly Cincinnatus after he lost nearly all his money. Johnbod (talk) 14:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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