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Category:Arab Israeli politicians

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: Rename. Dana boomer (talk) 15:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Arab Israeli politicians to Category:Arab politicians in Israel
Nominator's rationale: Rename to a more neutral name. Not all politicians in this category identify as Arab Israeli. Some call themselves Palestinian citizens of Israel, 48 Arabs etc. Arab Israeli is a political term. I'd also be open to another neutral name if this is not suitable. The main article is Arab citizens of Israel.TM 23:08, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also note this prior consensus.--TM 23:55, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Oppose - "in Israel" does not mean the same thing as "Israeli citizen". HupHollandHup (talk) 04:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Movement (hip hop crew)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:33, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Movement (hip hop crew) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. As below, this category is based on a music group (or crew... or whatever) with no Wikipedia article. These types of categories are generally deleted. No prejudice against recreation should the article be created at any time in the future. — ξxplicit 22:56, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Buddha Baby

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Sole article is already in Category:South Korean rappers, a subcat of Category:South Korean hip hop groups, so no need to merge. Dana boomer (talk) 15:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Buddha Baby (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Category is based on a music group with no Wikipedia article. These types of categories are generally deleted. No prejudice against recreation should the article be created at any time in the future. — ξxplicit 22:54, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Disasters covered in the TV series, Mayday

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The result of the discussion was: Delete both. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:25, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Disasters covered in the TV series, Mayday (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Aviation accidents covered in the TV series, Mayday (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Having been covered or otherwise mentioned in a TV series is not defining for these disasters and accidents. We can't categorize historical incidents by which TV series discusses them—that would lead to enormous category clutter. Information of which incidents are covered in the series is in List of Mayday episodes, which is the most logical place to find the information. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:52, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:All files proposed for deletion

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Dana boomer (talk) 15:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:All files proposed for deletion (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: PROD can't be used for files anyway, so this category is useless. As for misplaced tags, Category:Proposed deletions needing attention exists already. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 19:26, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Desert Storm artists

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Desert Storm artists to Category:Desert Storm Records artists
Nominator's rationale: To match parent article, Desert Storm Records. — ξxplicit 19:24, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Yiddish-language operas

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Dana boomer (talk) 17:16, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Yiddish-language operas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. All of the entries in Category:Yiddish-language operas were actually operettas, not operas. So I created Category:Yiddish-language operettas, and moved all the entries there. To my knowledge, there do not exist any operas in the Yiddish language, only operettas. Softlavender (talk) 08:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As operetta by definition is a specific form or type of opera, this cat correctly exisists as part of a larger categorization scheme. Yiddish operettas are in fact a type of Yiddish opera, just like English operettas are a type of English opera. To try and say operetta is not opera is an error.4meter4 (talk) 08:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Baalei teshuva

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Dana boomer (talk) 17:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Baalei teshuva to Category:Jewish converts to Orthodox practice
Nominator's rationale: As this is the English language version of Wikipedia, the category should have an English language name. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 03:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Overseas Vietnamese companies in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Dana boomer (talk) 15:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Overseas Vietnamese companies in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. I got here from a US company that was founded by people who where from Vietnam. Is that really defining for the company? Since there is no introduction it is hard to say that it is worth saving. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:52, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as irrelevent intersection. --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 02:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Goods manufactured in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Dana boomer (talk) 15:06, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Goods manufactured in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete unless someone has an idea how to fix this. The category mostly contains companies. For products what determines that it was made in the US? Final assembly? 50% of the components? 75% of the components? 100% of the components. Sounds subjective. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:59, 1 October 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) 22:15, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Musical groups established before 1900

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The result of the discussion was: Delete after merging to appropriate subcats of Category:Musical groups by decade of establishment.. Dana boomer (talk) 15:05, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Musical groups established before 1900 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Not fully understanding the purpose of the category. Is there something special about a musical group being established before 1900? Even if there is, the arbitrary cut off is not suitable for categories. — ξxplicit 21:57, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If you find Category:Musical groups established in the 19th century less arbitrary than Category:Musical groups established in years 1801 to 1900, then I won't object. What about groups established before 1801? How do you prefer to name categories divided by decade? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:15, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is no difference between the ones you mention, but we don't have either of the ones you mention. We have Category:Musical groups established before 1900. I'm not sure why you don't see the difference, and I think you are interpreting the meaning of "arbitrary" far too widely. "Established in the 19th century" defines the period in which the org was established. It has a beginning point (1 Jan 1801) and an end point (31 Dec 1900). "Established before 1900" has an end point (31 Dec 1899) but no starting point. It's the lack of start point combined with the cut-off end point that makes it "arbitrary". If no set starting point is established, you may as well choose 1900 or 1905 or 1987 or 2010 as your end point since you are not setting a nice round 100 years as your temporal time frame, but rather are setting it as minus infinity to the arbitrarily chosen year 1900. However, if you set a starting point and an end point and these set a period of time that coincides with a defined century, then you're moving away from arbitrariness.
To illustrate what's going on in this tree, note that we have Category:Organizations established in the 20th century, not Category:Organizations established before 2001. The immediate parent of this category should be Category:Organizations established in the 19th century, not Category:Organizations established before 1900 or Category:Organizations established before 1901. A subcategory parallel to the one I have proposed would be Category:Political parties established in the 19th century.
To answer your other questions, any organizations established before 1801 would go in Category:Organizations established in the 18th century, either directly in the category or in a subcategory. See the subcategories of Category:Organizations established in the 19th century for the obvious naming pattern of by-decade categories if they are to broken down in this way. (I'm not proposing that musical groups need to be broken down in this way, however.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:26, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am indeed having trouble with the usage here of "arbitrary". I now seem to read that it includes any period that is open ended. I think this is perverse. If a timeline is to be divided, either the number of divisions must be infinite, or there must be one or two open ended divisions. I think that an infinite number of divisions should not be made if an infinity of them would be empty.
In this case, of musical groups by year of establishment, there are many in recent years and very few historically. In this case, I think it makes sense that the divisions begin with an open started division. "Category:Musical groups established in the 19th century or earlier" is sensible and manageable. We seem to have an earliest from 1843. I expect that a few more can be found from preceding centuries. I don't think it is sensible to create empty or single member categories just so that the time periods are closed.
I don't think that the nice round 100 years is sufficient, I think any time points in the definition should be nice and round. Turn-of-the-century years are established interest points and so are not arbitrary. Therefore, minus infinity to 1900 is good, minus infinity to 1905 is bad. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:38, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The only problem is that your opinion is not one generally reflected in the pre-existing category schemes. There are no other categories for organizations established in the 19th century or earlier, nor do I personally think starting such a scheme would be a good idea. What is wrong with sticking with the system we have and is widely used and accepted? No need to reinvent the wheel here ... Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That there is already a system of "xxx established in the Nth century" is a good reason to adopt your suggested rename. That said, the Category:Organizations established in the 17th century branch contains a lot of categories for a few pages, and grouping early years could be useful. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:29, 5 October 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) 22:16, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree. It will take a little time to place every article currently in this category into the ordinary hierarchy. Maybe we have a category banner for that purpose – "This category has been decided to be deleted. Please help emptying it by placing articles in appropriate categories". __meco (talk) 15:06, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. We do of course have general categories for the 21st and 20th centuries, as well as the preceeding centuries. (Category:21st century, Category:20th century, Category:19th century, ...). I see no reason why we should not have Category:Musical groups established in the 21st century, Category:Musical groups established in the 20th century, Category:Musical groups established in the 19th century, ... Greenshed (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That is a rather myopic point of view considering we already have a huge category structure molded on this model. Just take a look at what exists within Category:20th century and specifically Category:20th-century establishments which these categories will be part of. __meco (talk) 21:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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