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Category:Ayurvedic Companies of India

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Ayurvedic companies.--Mike Selinker (talk) 01:36, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Ayurvedic Companies of India (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overly narrow categorization. If kept rename to Category:Ayurvedic companies of India. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 23:50, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Geographic taxonomies

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The result of the discussion was: looks like a withdrawal. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:16, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Geographic taxonomies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: A rather strange one from Hike796, imo. A taxonomy "is the practice and science of classification." The category description states, rather obliquely, that "This category is for grouping wikiarticles associated with similar geographic taxonomies (e.g., 3 taxonomies for United States ecoregions)." Well, Category:Geography-related lists abound with all manner of things classified and grouped according to shared characteristics. A look what the creator envisions as category contents is also puzzling: the redirect Great Basin Province? His newly created Borders of the oceans? What doesn't belong in this category, I wonder? Delete as a redundant and confusing addition to the geography tree, one that has to the potential to absorb vast numbers of articles and categories into an unnecessary branch simply because they contain a "geographic taxonomy" of one kind or another. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Upcoming mixed martial arts events

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The result of the discussion was: rename.--Mike Selinker (talk) 01:33, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Upcoming mixed martial arts events to Category:Scheduled mixed martial arts events
Nominator's rationale: To match parent category Category:Scheduled sports events. Armbrust Talk Contribs 21:20, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Current Wikipedia birthdays

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:31, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Current Wikipedia birthdays (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category simply doesn't work. It's listing users with userboxes that say November 11, while it is now January 1. Logan Talk Contributions 20:32, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Surely this is a problem with template code of ((User Wikipedian for)) that would add a user to this category when today's date coincides with the user's birth date. I suggest that is where this should be addressed properly. __meco (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is this: Help:Category#Adding a category by using a template. If people's userpages don't get updated or the cache doesn't get cleared, it takes a long time for them to leave the template. As for whether the category should be used in general, see the outcome of the previous deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_April_5#Category:Current_Wikipedia_birthdays. rʨanaɢ (talk) 23:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Prehistoric animals

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The result of the discussion was: keep for now, without prejudice to a broader nomination that discusses a broader group of categories that use "prehistoric". (Category was also untagged, so we probably didn't get the level of participation that we might otherwise if notification were properly made on the category page.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:27, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Prehistoric animals Nominator's rationale: Too broad – basically includes all animals, alive or fossil. Poorly defined and not practical. Suggest use of Category:Cambrian life and similar categories. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 20:04, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Opposition against islam in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Opposition against Islam in Europe. There's no consensus on anything greater than capitalization here.--Mike Selinker (talk) 01:31, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Relevant discussion atWikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 10#Category:Opposition against Islam in North America
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 2#Category:Anti-Muslim organizations
Category:Opposition against islam in Europe (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Duplicates other categories such as Anti-Muslem Organisations Snowded TALK 18:28, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I see no duplication. The category is a run-of-the-mill diffusion of Category:Opposition against Islam, which along with the nominated category also was created today. Category:Anti-Muslim organizations (created two weeks ago) is a subset of that category albeit along a different vector (organizations) than the nominated category (by region). I would also admonish nominator not to depopulate the category while the CfD is on.[1][2]. __meco (talk) 20:36, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well it might make sense to combine the two then Meco, otherwise admonish all you want the BNP and EDL pages see lots of efforts to try and make out that those organisations are not far right and in the former case fascist organisations. Creating categories is one tactic that has been used. --Snowded TALK 11:41, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
rename. I agree, it should capitalized. Regarding to the 'Anti-islam sentiment' remark, I'd like to refer to my reply to Chrono1084's comment. Pereant antiburchius (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rename. Of course, that's my bad. Pereant antiburchius (talk) 13:41, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for commenting. Could you please point out where this category violates BLP policy? And if it does, why doesn't a category like 'anti-islam sentiment' violate this very same policy? Pereant antiburchius (talk) 21:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Although those categories can have an overlap with 'Opposition against Islam', they are not the same. The argument 'are already enough' does not apply if categories simply aren't the same. Yes, they can be closely related, but consider the following. Someone can be critical of Islam, but can still be a Muslim. When we talk about opposition of Islam, there's a considerable shift in the pro-/con- spectrum. Anti-Islam is the extremist/radical (negative) far end category for extremism against Islam, containing articles about besmearing or arson of mosques, violence against Muslims and ritual Qur'an burning. You can't just pile them all together in one category 'criticism of..' or 'anti-islam'. Pereant antiburchius (talk) 20:55, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could you point to sources that make that distinction? I've never heard "anti-Islam" only used to mean violence, and I doubt most of the other editors here have. Occasionally you get these forks that people think are distinct phenomena (other discussions I've been in: "anti-abortion" and "pro-life" are apparently two separate movements because "anti-abortion" is secular and "pro-life" is religious, "matriarchy" apparently only ever means rule by mothers so a separate article has to exist on rule by women) that just...aren't distinct phenomena. Roscelese (talkcontribs) 06:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Also, we have Category:Criticism of Islam for the stuff you mentioned above viz. opposition to the subjection of women and whatnot. I think the categories are conflated a lot, but that's a separate problem. Roscelese (talkcontribs) 06:52, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
@Pereant antiburchius, I'm still not convinced by your arguments--Chrono1084 (talk) 17:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Preserved railway stations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:24, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Preserved railway stations to Category:Heritage railway stations
Nominator's rationale: Looking at the other contents of parent Category:Rail transport preservation, I see that the adjective "Preserved" seems to be reserved for rolling stock. Suggested rename also brings category into line with its sole contents to date, the subcategory Category:Heritage railway stations in England.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:43, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: What a mess. This category consists of the following:

In other words it's the same thing as the Historic and Heritage Railroad Station cats before it. I don't see a workable subcat that brings these three groups together. RevelationDirect (talk) 19:59, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:ATP Challenger Series

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:ATP Challenger Series to Category:ATP Challenger Tour
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization, because ATP Challenger Series is the former name of the ATP Challenger Tour. Don't see why there should be two categories, for essentially the same thing. Armbrust Talk Contribs 16:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Eastern Uusimaa

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:22, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:People from Eastern Uusimaa to Category:People from Uusimaa
Nominator's rationale: Merge. The region of Eastern Uusimaa was consolidated with Uusimaa today. Eastern Uusimaa existed as a separate region only from 1997 until 2010, and many of the categorized people did not actually live in the region during this period, so I don't see a reason to keep the category as historical reference. --Silvonen (talk) 08:43, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease

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The result of the discussion was:
keep Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease
rename Category:Motor neuron disease to Category:Motor neurone disease
rename Category:People with motor neuron disease to Category:People with motor neurone disease
with redirects on categories with alternate spellings. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease to Category:Deaths from motor neuron disease
Nominator's rationale: I has started to speedy this before realizing it's a judgment call rather than a clear x of y (or spelling mistake, as I had first assumed). The top-level Category:Motor neuron disease spells it without the "e" as does the intermediate Category:People with motor neuron disease. The parent article uses the "e" per Motor neurone disease, while displaying Motor neuron as an alternate spelling in the lead. Nowhere on its Talk page is this addressed as problematic. Suggest simply renaming this category so that the entire branch is consistent. Alansohn and others may wish to use use the title article as the model and rename the rest of category branch to neurone: I'd have no objection to that, either. But note that the article name and the term used in the lead are inconsistent in yet another way, as article begins in the plural with "The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases)..." Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:35, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rename Category:Motor neuron disease to Category:Motor neurone disease
Rename Category:People with motor neuron disease to Category:People with motor neurone disease adding "e" to match main article. I hope I have tagged the additional subjects correctly. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:00, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Railway-related National Historic Landmarks

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:11, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Railway-related National Historic Landmarks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. DB OC small. While expansion is possible, these articles are already in ample historic railway categories so it is not clear that this specific category is needed. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:31, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:San Juan Basin

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:San Juan Basin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Another small single entry category with limited short term growth potential. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:24, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Laguna Madre Watershed

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:12, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Laguna Madre Watershed (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Single entry category that already rolls up into Category:Drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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