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Category:Words of Afrikaans origin

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus to delete; rename to Category:Afrikaans loanwords. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Words of Afrikaans origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Similar to the Turkish one above, there has been a strong consensus not to group articles by the characteristics of their titles (whether they be eponymous cities, names with diacritics, or the like), because that is trivial overgategorization. Consequently, this is trivial overcategorization. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Words of Turkish origin

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus to delete; merge with Category:Turkish loanwords. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:30, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Words of Turkish origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This was nominated 3+ years ago resulting in no consensus. Since then, there has been a strong consensus not to group articles by the characteristics of their titles (whether they be eponymous cities, names with diacritics, or the like), because that is trivial overgategorization. Consequently, this is trivial overcategorization. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:25, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Central Comets players

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy rename C2D. Timrollpickering (talk) 17:27, 20 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Central Comets players to Category:Central Queensland Capras players
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Club has changed its name. Main article was changed too long ago for this to qualify for a speedy but should be uncontroversial. Mattlore (talk) 23:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Speedy C2D - no limit on main article change time (I mis-read that in the past as well, but it's more than two days ago, not less). - The Bushranger One ping only 23:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Latin loanwords

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:52, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Latin loanwords (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This presents the same issues as for Category: Greek loanwords below, only more intensely. After one eliminates the various surname pages (which from what I can tell are all for names in other European languages, not Latin), essentially all that's left are a bunch of ecclesiastical terms. But by and large we do not use the Latin words themselves. Indeed, when you are talking about the evolution of Middle and Modern English in a culture where most educated people understand Latin, what's a loan word? Since all theological terminology of the period comes from Latin (because it was in that language it was discussed), it is not notable that these words have a Latin derivation. Mangoe (talk) 22:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Greek loanwords

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus to delete. Any renaming is best handled in a new nomination. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Greek loanwords (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category, judging from the membership, is either poorly defined or understood, judging from the many, many entries which are not Greek words. For example, architecture is listed as a member even though it is in fact taken from a Latin word. Modern English terminology constructed from Greek components is also included, even though these words were constructed to be used in English by English speakers. But beyond that, English's heritage makes the whole loanword issue rather vague when one talks about the French words incorporated into Middle English or the copious use of Greco-Latinate terminology by scholars. Is mere etymology notable? I would question that; and probably the vast majority of the hundreds of pages in this category were included on that basis and not because the word passed into English from Greek speakers. Mangoe (talk) 22:08, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Notes[edit]
  1. ^ [Wiktionary's etymology of school, is "From Middle English schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (Dutch school, “multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Saxon scola, skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”) [1]" Nary a mention of Greek origins.
According to Oxford dictionaries it comes from Greek. Macedonian (talk) 21:30, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Persian religions

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The result of the discussion was: Rename without prejudice to a future split. The target is currently a redirect. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:56, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Persian religions to Category:Iranian religions
Nominator's rationale: Per main article. Alternate proposal: Close this and rename the article. —Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 19:40, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Vnukovo Airlines accidents and incidents

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Vnukovo Airlines accidents and incidents (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Sub category of another category up for deletion. Both only contain one page. Overly specific category with little room for growth, as it details accidents and incidents of an airline that no longer exists Jeancey (talk) 19:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If you research further, you will find that there is a "Category:Airliner accidents and incidents by airline" that, in order to work, requires a subcategory for each airline's accidents and incidents. The navigation convention is for each such airline-specific accidents and incidents category to fall within two categories, one being "Category:Airliner accidents and incidents by airline" and the other being a category under the airline's name. This convention allows seamless category navigation between airlines and their accidents an incidents whether one navigates frm the airline's name or a specific accident. If you start deleting airline-accidents-and-incidents categories, you make the accident-and-incident navigation more difficult without gaining anything in return. In this case, "Category:Vnukovo Airlines" was nominated for deletion within perhaps a minut eof being created, and while I was creating the "Category:Vnukovo Airlines accidents and incidents." (Talk about jumping the gun!) Recommend retracting this nomination for deletion so that we can keep on with developing a consistent, logical, and seamless navigatiion scheme for airline and airline-accidents-and-incidents categories. Meanwhile, as with the recommended deletion (of "Category:Vnukovo Airlines") I shall puzzle over what it hurts to have a "Category:Vnukovo Airlines accidents and incidents" and what we gain by deleting it. Mdnavman (talk) 19:22, 16 January 2012 (UTC)mdnavmanReply[reply]

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Category:Vnukovo Airlines

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Vnukovo Airlines (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Unremarkable defunct airline doesn't really need it's own category. Only remarkable thing is that it was part of a crash. The Airline's own page is a stub. Jeancey (talk) 19:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If you research further, you will find that there is a "Category:Airliner accidents and incidents by airline" that, in order to work, requires a subcategory for each airline's accidents and incidents. The navigation convention is for each such airline-specific accidents and incidents category to fall within two categories, one being "Category:Airliner accidents and incidents by airline" and the other being a category under the airline's name. This convention allows seamless category navigation between airlines and their accidents an incidents whether one navigates frm the airline's name or a specific accident. If you start deleting airline categories, you make the accident-and-incident navigation more difficult without gaining anything in return. In this case, "Category:Vnukovo Airlines" was nominated for deletion within perhaps a minute of being created, and while I was creating the "Category:Vnukovo Airlines accidents and incidents." (Talk about jumping the gun!) Recommend retracting this nomination for deletion so that we can keep on with developing a consistent, logical, and seamless navigatiion scheme for airline and airline-accidents-and-incidents categories. Meanwhile, I shall puzzle over what it hurts to have a "Category:Vnukovo Airlines" and what we gain by deleting it.Mdnavman (talk) 19:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)mdnavmanReply[reply]
Moreover, killing a category as soon as it is created ensures that nothing more can be added to it in the months and years to come. Over time, more may be added to the category, so why kill it upon creation? And why reduce ease of navigation by deleting categories that allow higher-level nevigation to be easier? Does it make sense to be able to find American Airlines (or its accidents) more easily than Vnukovo Airlines (or its accidents)? Frankly, I find it odd that anyone would care how many items are in a category as long as there is at least one and the category fits into a broader pattern of categorization that improves user navigation opportunities. Mdnavman (talk) 22:46, 16 January 2012 (UTC)mdnavmanReply[reply]

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Category:Newspaper people by newspaper

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The result of the discussion was: Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 February 1. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Harvard University people

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:People associated with Derby Museums

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy rename C2C/D. Timrollpickering (talk) 17:29, 20 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Heirs of Julius Caesar

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:01, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Heirs of Julius Caesar (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. The category intro states "Those mentioned in Caesar's will." As people can be the heirs of multiple other people this is overcategorisation. Tim! (talk) 07:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:German World War II Fallschirmjäger

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:02, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose renaming Category:German World War II Fallschirmjäger to Category:Fallschirmjäger of World War II
Nominator's rationale: As "Fallschirmjäger" is a uniquely German term, I don't believe the additional "German" is necessary. Note that the parent is Category:Luftwaffe personnel of World War II, not Category:German Luftwaffe personnel of World War II. The Bushranger One ping only 07:10, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Place names of French origin in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: Listify. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Proposed merger Category:Place names of French origin in the United States to Category:French American history
Proposed merger Category:Place names of Spanish origin in the United States to Category:Hispanic and Latino American history
Nominators rationale In the previous discussion about these categories it became obvious that the main defense of them (especially the second one) was that in some cases the chosing of the name was linked to settlement of the area by Spanish spreakers or founding of the place by Spanish speakers. This is a true unifying characteristic. So we would move these articles into these categories, and in the process remove those articles on places that were named by people drawing names out of hats (this actually did happen) or other process where there is no actual Spanish influence on the chosing of the name.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:1774 establishments in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:1774 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:1774 establishments in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. A category that can never be anything but empty: in 1774, there was no United States for establishments to occur in. — Paul A (talk) 02:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Free software related events and awards

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The result of the discussion was: Split. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:33, 24 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose splitting Category:Free software related events and awards to Category:Free-software awards and Category:Free-software events
Nominator's rationale: Split. Events and awards are different kinds of things. There are just a small handful of awards, but they'll be easier to find in their own category. Pnm (talk) 02:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Wikipedia fauna categories

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:06, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Nominator's rationale: First choice: Delete all; Second choice: Rename all - In my view, none of these "fauna" categories support collaboration. The Wikipedia pages on each of these are tagged as humor, in turn making these essentially joke categories. There's extensive precedent against joke categories, and the requirement that user categories foster collaboration per WP:USERCAT. Another concern I have about these categories is that essentially anybody can make up a new "Wikicreature" if they so desire- are we to have a user category for every one? The WikiPlatypi category only has one user in it, so I assume that's just what happened in that case. See here, here, and here for discussions on similar categories. Even if these are to be kept, they at minimum need a rename to conform to the proper naming convention of "Wikipedian WikiGryphons" and the like. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Known Talk Page Stalkers

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:28, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Known Talk Page Stalkers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Joke category, improper capitalization, no indication it is a user category. At minimum needs a rename, but considering our extensive precident against joke categories and the WP:USERCAT guideline requiring user categories foster collaboration, my first choice would be deletion. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedian WikiZombies

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Wikipedian WikiZombies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. "A consensus zombie (or "tea drinker") is a person who doesn't actually work towards building consensus, but stands in the way of building consensus by invoking policy and past consensus, as an appeal to tradition, and supports an irrational false compromise in content disputes rather than working towards a rational consensus." - Wikipedia:Zombies is tagged as humor, essentially making this a joke category, so there is no potential for collaboration via this category. See here, here, and here for discussions on similar categories. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedian WikiHunters

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:11, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Wikipedian WikiHunters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. "A WikiHunter is a Wikipedian who devotes his/her time to tracking, hunting and killing articles." - Wikipedia:WikiHunter is tagged as humor, essentially making this a joke category, so there is no potential for collaboration via this category. See here, here, and here for discussions on similar categories. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Users with Online Ambassador mentors

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:09, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Users with Online Ambassador mentors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Rename or delete. This uses the improper naming convention of "Users" instead of "Wikipedians, so this at minimum needs to be renamed to Category:Wikipedians with Online Ambassador mentors. However, I'm not convinced of the usefulness of categorizing such users together. I was unfamiliar with this program and I looked it over a bit, and from what I saw I don't really see why users would specifically be looking through a grouping of these users for purposes of collaboration, so I would support deletion as a first choice unless someone can come up with a legitimate collaborative use. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User yue-hk-0

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:User yue-hk-0 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. 0-level category, which has unanimous history of deletion as not helping the encyclopedia. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User ocaml-N

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:52, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:User ocaml-N (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. "Native" speaker programming language category, which has unanimous history of deletion as a joke category/impossibility of being true. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User blksp (and all subcategories)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:28, 24 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete - "These users speak Black Speech" - Black Speech is a fictional language created by J. R. R. Tolkien. According to our own article, there are no actual users of the language, and only a few words of the language are actually known. There will never be a Wikipedia in Black Speech or the need for translators in Black Speech. In essence, these are joke categories, and keeping them makes a mockery out of the babel system. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who want all regular editors to be logged in

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:12, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete both - These are "Wikipedians by support/opposition to a Wikipedia issue" category, which have a near-unanimous precedent for deletion here. We've already deleted the counterpart, Category:Wikipedians for anonymous editing, here. At very minimum these two categories need to be merged, there is absolutely no reason to have one for "all editors" and another for "all regular" editors. VegaDark (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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