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Category:Place names of Welsh origin in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: listify then delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:55, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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White African footballers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Since the delete proponents were mainly concerned that ethnicity is not a good way to categorize people, I don't see any problem with looking through the cat and putting any South Africans in Category:South African soccer players. I'll put this at WP:CFDWM so anyone who wants to help out with this should feel free to go ahead. delldot ∇. 04:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Arbitrary precision algorithms

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 16:12, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Most (if not all) pages in this category refer to algorithms for computer arithmetics, but, in most cases, the algorithms are not specific for arbitrary precision; they work also for fixed precision and multiple precision. On the other hand, the algorithms for computer arithmetic share, independently of any specification of the precision, a specific technicality that deserve to regroup them in a category. D.Lazard (talk) 16:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scientist templates

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These are navigational boxes. 86.40.106.57 (talk) 05:58, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People by ethnicity templates

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Ethnic group templates, except where the contents are already in a suitable sub-category of that target (because of the rule in WP:SUBCAT). – Fayenatic London 18:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Is there any difference? 86.40.106.57 (talk) 04:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don' know, is there? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:29, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People navigational boxes

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The result of the discussion was: speedy merge.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There appears to be little or no difference between the two. The "people" category is a subcategory of the "people and person" category. When do people lose their persons? All the subcategories of "people" fit into "people and person" and "pope" is actually in both already. 86.40.106.57 (talk) 04:14, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:British Underclass

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:09, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: What the heck is the "British Underclass". Is there even a remotely formal definition of this? I'm not hot on sociology but there is some history regarding the creator of this cat & so I am concerned. Sitush (talk) 02:55, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your comment concerning current usage of underclass in popular British terminology seems spot-on to me. As for the POV aspect, well, "there is some history ...", as I said. - Sitush (talk) 14:27, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The underclass phenomenon certainly seems controversial , as are issues of social stratification in all societies with a wide spectrum of opinion . However there are voices of recognition for the phenomenon from the British establishment itself -goverment and the responsible press : See for example The Guardian of 5th September 2011 by Kenneth Clarke and a minister in the British Goverment. . As a representative of the British Government (establishment) and discussing the riots . Yes the term underclass could be considered a pejorative , but that is also the position by Charles Murray in his seminal article . What after all would be the implication of the deletion of this category from Wikipedia (1) that there is no underclass in Britain ? See Social structure of the United Kingdom . (2) That because there is no mother article on British underclass (but there is one on the Underclass) , so the various articles discussing this issue should not deserve a category . (3) Majority of opinions during this discussion did not believe that the British Underclass exists , so there should not be a category for British Underclass . I believe that considering the enormous discourse in Britain itself on this issue , should make this a category worthy for Wikipedia .Intothefire (talk) 12:33, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been notified to Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:49, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
What people are saying here is that it is not definable in any meaningful way. I don't think anyone is saying that it might be considered pejorative & thus it should not exist because, of course, we are not censored. These are not quite the same as your "Majority of opinions during this discussion did not believe that the British Underclass exists , so there should not be a category for British Underclass" remark. The logical category structure here would have Category:Underclass at the top, with subcategories for Category:Underclass in the United Kingdom, Category:Underclass in the United States, Category:Underclass in India, etc. You've created only one of those (malformed in name and capitalisation) and you have still failed to define what an "underclass" actually may be in the sense of how we would categorise. It is very subjective, just as are terms such as "working class" and "middle class". Blimey, most Brits can't get their head round their own class system, mainly because it is not a system. I think that I know exactly why you created this category and it has little to do with improving the encyclopedia but, FWIW, I can probably describe myself as one of the "underclass" in Britain; others might disagree with my self-identification. That's how meaningless it is. - Sitush (talk) 13:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Authors by nation templates

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename all.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Authors by nation templates to Category:Writer by nation navigational boxes
Nominator's rationale: The subcategories refer specifically to writers. The contents of the subcategories appear to be all, or mostly, navigational boxes. If this is not the case in any example perhaps it can be moved back to a template category. 86.40.106.57 (talk) 02:51, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Category:Author templates > Category:Writer navigational boxes (currently containing two "template" categories on which a rename is being discussed, so by the time this concludes should contain only navigational boxes).
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Category:Ancient Greek writers templates > Category:Ancient Greek writer navigational boxes
Category:Ancient Roman writers templates > Category:Ancient Roman writer navigational boxes
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Category:American writers templates > Category:American writer navigational boxes
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Category:Swiss writers templates > Category:Swiss writer navigational boxes
Category:Turkish writers templates > Category:Turkish writer navigational boxes
Category:Uruguayan writers templates > Category:Uruguayan writer navigational boxes

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