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Category:Organisations based in Saint Barthélemy by activity

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Organisations based in Saint Barthélemy. Good Ol’factory (talk) 19:06, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Organisations based in Saint Barthélemy by activity (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This is the top of the tree of three categories for one article. The only other category at this level is for the US which has 12 subcategories. So is this needed at this time? I think not. Maybe in the future if we find a need for larger countries to do this. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:53, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikipedians by date of arrival

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 19:11, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The idea of maintaining a directory of users by year of arrival was attempted once before, in the form of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival, and there was overwhelming support to discontinue the initiative. Such a directory will be, at all times, either woefully incomplete (if it is user-maintained) or too extensive to be usable (if it is bot-generated); in either case, it would be redundant to the user creation log.
Considering this from the perspective of user categorization guidelines, these categories are not needed as they do not group users on the basis of a characteristic that is relevant to encyclopedic collaboration. Thus, the only remaining function of these categories is as a type of user page notice; however, a category grouping is not needed to achieve this, as a text statement or a userbox such as ((User:UBX/Wikipedian)) would do the same. -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:First Settlers of Wikipedia

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The result of the discussion was: delete (target is being deleted; see discussion immediately above). Good Ol’factory (talk) 19:12, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:First Settlers of Wikipedia to Category:Wikipedians that arrived in 2001
Nominator's rationale: The First Settlers "were the group of people that registered an account on Wikipedia or contributed to it anonymously in 2001". Thus, the scope of this category is identical to that of the proposed target category, and so there is no need to have both. The title "First Settlers of Wikipedia" does not indicate that it is a user category in accordance with established naming conventions (generally, the title of a user category should start with "Wiki"—e.g., "Wikipedians", "WikiProject"), and it is less clear than the title of the proposed category as it requires a viewer to guess the definition of the presumably made-up designation of "First Settler". -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:06, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:3rd-century BC establishments in Turkey

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The result of the discussion was: rename, merge and delete as nominated. -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:06, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:3rd-century BC establishments in Turkey to Category:3rd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor
  • Propose renaming Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Turkey to Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor
  • Propose renaming Category:1st-millennium BC establishments in Turkey to Category:1st-millenium BC establishments in Asia Minor
  • Propose merging Category:160s BC establishments in Turkey to Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor
  • Propose merging Category:163 BC establishments in Turkey to Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor
  • Propose deleting Category:163 BC in Turkey as unnecessary
  • Propose deleting Category:160s BC in Turkey as unnecessary

Added to nom 11 August 2013:

  • Propose renaming Category:2nd century BC in Turkey to Category:2nd century BC in Asia Minor
  • Propose renaming Category:3rd century BC in Turkey to Category:3rd century BC in Asia Minor
  • Propose deleting Category:Years of the 2nd century BC in Turkey as unnecessary.
Nominator's rationale: According to recent precedent, categories of this kind should be for the contemporary polity, not the present one. Turkey as a country in its current form was only created after World War I. Before that we use Ottoman Empire and presumably Byzantine Empire. In this case, we are going back so far that there is no single state, so that the regional name, Asia Minor, is appropriate. The decade and annual categories have little room for expansion and are thus not needed: the century is quite adequate; all four lead ultimately to a single article. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I have added these to the nom, also another unnecessary category. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedia books on Internet

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:29, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Wikipedia books on Internet to Category:Wikipedia books on the Internet
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Per usual grammar and per all other categories of the form "Foo of/on/about the Internet", all of which have "the" as part of their titles. Grutness...wha? 10:56, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

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The result of the discussion was: procedural close as only one of 22 categories affected by this nomination was tagged. I will reopen a new discussion for all categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 September 15#Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:22, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand to Category:Singles certified by Recorded Music NZ
Nominator's rationale: The RIANZ has been renamed to Recorded Music NZ. This category, and the categories listed below, should reflect this.
This would also affect the categories:
  • Category:Singles certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand‎
  • Category:Singles certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand‎
  • Category:Singles certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
  • Category:Singles certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand‎
  • Category:Singles certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand‎
  • Category:Albums certified by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
Is it the same body? It's been restructured and merge with http://ppnz.co.nz/ Is this a case of Heraclitus' river? Stuartyeates (talk) 23:19, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, it might perhaps be better described as a "successor body", but the situation before and after is that there is one body in NZ which certifies the music. The fact that there was a merger is an interesting bit of organisational history, but it isn't particularly relevant to the core fact being captured by these categories, which "recorded music certified at particular level by the national certifying body in NZ". There's no point in splitting the category, and when a name changes we use the current name. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Places Associated with Thomas Edison

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:21, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category currently contains articles like Boston (for which Edison is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic) and a few articles like Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace (most of which are already in Category:Thomas Edison). Some articles may need to be upmerged to Category:Thomas Edison. For info: This is the only "Places associated with..." category in WP. DexDor (talk) 04:51, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it, it describes the important places in Edison's life. 67.83.57.182 (talk) 21:13, 19 December 2013 (UTC) August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. If someone wants to create the list, the contents were: Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, Robert Corteen Carswell, Mona Douglas and Brian Stowell. If it can be established that this is one of the exceptions for award categories, the category can be recreated. Recreation would be subject to another discussion here and that outcome would depend on the case made. If that happens, the discussion should be given a fresh start and this discussion should not be used as a precedent. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:20, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Being a recipient of an award like this is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of a person (see WP:OC#AWARD). The nearest I've found to an article on this award is Manx Heritage Foundation. DexDor (talk) 04:42, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
poor WP coverage = non-defining award
I know that per WP:BURDEN, the onus is on the category creator to justify its existence. However, where the topic is as specialist as Manx culture, I think it is wise to to be a little cautious in jumping too conclusions.
So I have notified WikiProject Isle of Man, and hope that someone from that rather low-activity project may be able to help. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:21, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • My main reason for nominating this category is that it's better to categorize by what people are (e.g. in Category:Manx-language activists) than by what awards they have received. The lack of an article about the award itself is not the main reason for deletion (perhaps I should have preceded that bit of the nom by "For info:"), although in at least one previous CFD the view has been expressed that not having such an article implies that the award is nowhere near the importance of things like Nobel Prizes for which the normal WP:OC#AWARD "rule" does not apply. DexDor (talk) 06:04, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry if I jumped too heavily on the no-WP_article point. However, my substantial point remains that we should exercise a lot of caution in judging the definingness of attributes relating to minority cultures, which are routinely under-reported in English-language sources.
    A kindof a parallel exists in Category:Welsh Eisteddfod winners, which is definitely defining for its winners. In the case in hand, a little digging shows that the award is presented by the Speaker of the House of Keys (the Manx parliament), so this is definitely not a trivial award. I don't want to conclude from that one source that it is defining, but I do urge more investigation. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tom French Cup winners

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. I was going to recommend a list but it exists in the main article. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:11, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Being a recipient of an award like this is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of a person (see WP:OC#AWARD). For info: There is a list at Tom French Cup#Winners. DexDor (talk) 04:40, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gellhorn Prize winners

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:08, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Having been awarded a prize like this is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of a person (see WP:OC#AWARD). For info: There is a list at Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism#Previous winers. DexDor (talk) 04:38, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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