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Category:Association football trophies and awards

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep. Consensus doesn't always follow logic. Now if you wanted to bring up for renaming ALL of the "trophies and awards" cats, you might get more traction. Kbdank71 16:21, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Association football trophies and awards to Category:Association football awards and trophies
Nominator's rationale: Rename. It makes more sense for the elements of the category name to be put in alphabetical order. – PeeJay 19:04, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:To My Surprise

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus on category, but put album article into Category:To My Surprise albums.--Mike Selinker (talk) 17:16, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:To My Surprise (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only contains three articles, all of which are navigable easily from one another. The album should be recategorized in Category:To My Surprise albums, as there is a long precedent of categories for artists that only have one album. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 18:31, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Bishops by city

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:41, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Bishops by city to Category:Bishops by diocese
Nominator's rationale: This category reflects the ancient convention of naming a diocese after its principal city and episcopal seat. In practice not all dioceses are so named: most ECUSA dioceses are named after states or parts thereof, and there are some Church of England and Roman Catholic examples encompassing more than one place in their names (e.g. Diocese of Bath and Wells). Even if dioceses from two churches happen to associate to the same city there is a very good chance that they cover substantially different areas. It makes far more sense to identify these bishops as of dioceses rather than of cities. Mangoe (talk) 17:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Speedway former venues

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The result of the discussion was: rename.--Mike Selinker (talk) 17:14, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Speedway former venues to Category:Defunct speedway venues
Nominator's rationale: Rename. While there is still some debate about whether "Former" or "Defunct" should be used (and either will do here, though the overwhelming majority of similar cats use "defunct", by a factor of 70 to 4), whichever adjective is used needs to go before the sport name! Grutness...wha? 01:18, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Shouldn't this be Category:Defunct speedways (and the parent Category:Speedways)? "Speedway venues" sounds distinctly redundant. - The Bushranger Return fireFlank speed 04:22, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Only in the same sense that talking about "railway tracks" is redundant. Speedway is the usual name for the sport - it also refers to one type of racing venue; speedway (the sport) may be raced on specific oval speedway tracks (sometimes, but not that commonly, known as speedways) or on street or road circuits. Category:Speedway venues includes both dedicated ovals and to temporary or permanent street or road circuits, so the current naming scheme is more all-encompassing. It is a little confusing, but much less so that simply referring to speedway (the sport) and speedways (the venues). Grutness...wha? 11:59, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dana boomer (talk) 17:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I'd never known there was a sport called "Speedway" - I'd only known the term in the context of the name for a motorsports venue, i.e., Daytona International Speedway. Defunct speedway venues seems slightly ambigious though - is it defunct venues for Speedway or defunct Speedways (motorsports venues)? - The Bushranger Return fireFlank speed 17:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Prophets in Mandaeism

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 16:08, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Prophets in Mandaeism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_October_28#Category:Manifestations_of_God_in_the_Bah.C3.A1.27.C3.AD_Faith. This grouping is far more obscure. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 16:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Queensbury

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 16:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:People from Queensbury to Category:People from Queensbury, West Yorkshire
Nominator's rationale: To match head article Queensbury, West Yorkshire and to disambiguate from Category:People from Queensbury, New York BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Olympic Youth Games medal tables

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The result of the discussion was: rename, no objection noted. Kbdank71 16:07, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Olympic Youth Games medal tables to Category:Youth Olympic Games medal tables
Nominator's rationale: "Olympic Youth Games" is a misnomer; the correct name is "Youth Olympic Games". Strange Passerby (talkcontribs) 10:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants and chefs

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge the three restaurant categories into Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants; rename Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants and chefs to Category:Michelin Guide starred chefs and purge all restaurants from it, putting them into Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants as needed. The category system cannot handle an ephemeral rating system. It can only say, "This happened at some time." So all restaurants and chefs that have been given stars at any point can go into these two new categories, without concern about what number of stars these honorees gain.--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:08, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants and chefs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Michelin Guide one starred restaurants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Michelin Guide two starred restaurants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Michelin Guide three starred restaurants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. These categories seem to me to be overcategorization for a few reasons found in the guidelines. First, these are essentially awards, and the normal thing to do with award recipients is not to categorize by the award, but rather to create lists. Second, this is similar to the categorization by pre-existing published lists, similar to categorizing because a restaurant made a magazine's "top 50 restaurants" list. I know getting a star from Michelin is a significant honour—it's definitely worth being mentioned in the article about the chef or restaurant, I just don't think it's the type of thing WP should be categorizing by. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:High test peroxide

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn, but renaming to Category:High-test peroxide to match High-test peroxide. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:45, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:High test peroxide (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

:Nominator's rationale: Delete. Seems to be a bit of a "catchall" category, combining HTP-powered rocket engines, aircraft using them, and accidents caused by HTP. Doesn't seem to be an appreciably useful category. - The Bushranger Return fireFlank speed 00:38, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP will no doubt advocate some unworkable compromise of "HTP-powered rocket, aircraft and undersea vehicles" instead, that will manage to be inaccurate, exclude some like T-Stoff that ought to be included, and unwieldy, all in one. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:55, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The worst case example of that would be Commons:Category:British Rail Class 950, where we now have seven categories to describe one train.
In this case, we'd need about five categories:
  • Category:HTP-powered rocket engines
  • Category:HTP-powered rockets
  • Category:HTP-powered aircraft
  • Category:HTP-powered undersea vehicles (not even submarines, because some are submarines, one's a torpedo accident)
  • Category:HTP fuels
And we'd presumably still need Category:High test peroxide to tie the lot together, maybe as one of those arbitrary meta-categories with nothing in it, just to make browse navigation more long-winded.
There are currently 10 articles in here, all of which have a strong relationship with HTP, but don't have a comparably strong relationship at a more detailed level. It isn't broke. There aren't any obvious better fixes either. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:10, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. I do see your point. I'm willing to withdraw the nom, considering that. - The Bushranger Return fireFlank speed 17:38, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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