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Post-punk

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The result of the discussion was: keep all (i.e. do not rename). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:17, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Having "music" after the genre would be appropriate for a genre like "rock", given that "rock groups" could refer to types of rock, but not this. Most of these genre categories I've seen just say "[Nationality] [genre] groups" and not "[Nationality] [genre] music groups". Lachlan Foley 22:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Communist regime

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:36, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is entirely encompassed by the Communist States category. Ducknish (talk) 21:36, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional American people of Scotch-Irish descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:04, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Fictional American people of Scotch-Irish descent to Category:Fictional American people of Scottish descent‎
Nominator's rationale: Also merge with Category:Fictional American people of Irish descent‎. This is a trivial detail and it contains less than 5 articles. JDDJS (talk) 20:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional American people of Portuguese descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:02, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There are only three articles in this category. This is a very trivial detail JDDJS (talk) 20:57, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional American people of Danish descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There are only three articles in this category. This is a very trivial detail JDDJS (talk) 20:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People with missing ears

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 09:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't believe this is WP:DEFINING to most individuals in the category, with the obvious exception. If the characteristic would not be appropriate to mention in the lead portion of an article, it is probably not defining. Most of the articles don't mention this in the lead. Why restrict this just to missing ears? What about missing limbs, etc? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 20:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What about missing limbs, etc? Category:Amputees. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Haha, I actually spent some time last night looking for that category, and I couldn't think of the word "amputee". D'oh! Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:40, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American women writers by city

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The result of the discussion was: double upmerge of subcats and delete top cat. – Fayenatic London 22:06, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:American women writers by city
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from Chicago, Illinois to Category:Writers from Chicago, Illinois
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from Boston, Massachusetts to Category:Writers from Boston, Massachusetts
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from Los Angeles, California to Category:Writers from Los Angeles, California
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from New York City to Category:Writers from New York City
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from Portland, Oregon to Category:Writers from Portland, Oregon
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from Seattle, Washington to Category:Writers from Seattle, Washington
  • Propose merging Category:Women writers from the San Francisco Bay Area to Category:Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
Nominator's rationale: Delete the parent category and merge subcategories to all appropriate targets. This triple intersection of gender, occupation and city of origin is not helpful and only isolates women in a subcategory. We don't split Category:People from Chicago, Illinois by gender so we certainly shouldn't split Category:Writers from Chicago, Illinois. In fact, we don't even split Category:People from Illinois according to gender. If there is something distinct in the literary production of women's writers from Chicago (which I doubt), then a list would be a better solution. Pichpich (talk) 15:57, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I don't really see the point of splitting the by-US-state writer categories according to gender. But first things first. Pichpich (talk) 18:46, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't buy that argument. The fact that the parent category is split by gender doesn't mean that we should split all children by gender. Category:Writers is also split by ethnicity and by century, yet I don't think anyone would suggest the triple intersection Category:19th-century writers from New York City or Category:Ethnic Armenian writers from New York City. Pichpich (talk) 13:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Occupation by city" intersections are, in the vast majority of cases, a deeply undesirable bag of crap that should actually be getting cut back rather than expanded further. Excepting some mayors and city councillors, frankly, we almost never actually need occupations to be subdivided any more narrowly than the state level. Bearcat (talk) 22:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
As Bearcat noted, this is not splitting a category jam packed with names, it's ghettoizing women in a subcategory. And we've never split these city-specific categories according to ethnicity or century (to name just a couple of options) which would probably be more meaningful than the gender split. Why? Because these categories don't need splitting. The Chicago and SF categories have less than 300 writers, Boston, LA and Seattle less that 100, Portland about a 100. That is clearly not jam packed. Even the NYC category has a very manageable 600 entries. I also want to stress that I agree with two of your statements. Men and women do have somewhat distinct approaches to writing and separate top-level categories for men and women writers makes sense. It's also true that some cities can have somewhat distinct literary scenes and this can justify (in some instances) a city-specific category. But existing categories don't need to be intersected systematically. Pichpich (talk) 21:46, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I should add that since most of YOUR argument is valid (or at least completely rational) as well, i dont see upmerging as a huge loss, or completely contraindicated by other categorization policies. so i would change mine to Weak Oppose.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Firefly (TV series) fan films

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The result of the discussion was: merge to all parents, without prejudice to re-creation if and when there are enough articles to make a viable category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:38, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Firefly (TV series) fan films to Category:All parents
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge per WP:OCAT, only contains one page. – Fayenatic London 15:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Fan films

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The result of the discussion was: rename both. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename, following precedent at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 27#Category:Star Trek films. – Fayenatic London 13:51, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Songs produced by Linda McCartney

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 09:31, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This category contains all the songs from one album, and each member of this category is a redirect. The album is also a member of Category:Albums produced by Linda McCartney which doubly makes this category redundant. Plus, a category full of redirects to the same page is an impediment to navigation; it wastes readers' time.. Richhoncho (talk) 13:40, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:2020s in Ghana

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The result of the discussion was: speedy deleted per WP:CSD#C1. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:39, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:CRYSTAL. An editor has made yearly articles which are all up for deletion[2]. If those are deleted, this category should be also. ...William 12:17, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:History of China in operas

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The result of the discussion was: delete Category:History of China in operas, and merge subcats to Category:Operas set in China. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:45, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This category and its subcategories which I am also nominating below seem to be a clear case of over categorization. The parent category, Category:Operas set in China, had only 14 articles in it, and is likely to grow very, very slowly, if at all. This new category and its multiple subcats, contain in total 4 articles and add several extra obstacles to the reader simply looking for operas set in China. Note also that the parent category of Category:Operas set in China is Category:Operas by country of setting and these subcats introduce an intersection of setting + specific historical period. If nothing else this category does not belong as a subcat of Category:Operas set in China. Voceditenore (talk) 09:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Also nominated for deletion
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Category:People from Kensington and Chelsea (London borough)

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:52, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category was recently renamed from (district) disambiguation to (London borough) dabbing, along with the other People-from-London-borough categories. However, while cleaning up after the move, I came across this discussion from a few years back, in which it was mooted that if it passed (it did), the dab could be removed from this category. And there are no other "Kensington and Chelsea"s for people to be from. So, is it more important that this retain the (London borough) disambiguator like all other subcats of Category:People from London by borough, or should it have the unneeded disambiguator removed like the other subcategories of Category:Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea? The Bushranger One ping only 08:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Organizations in cryptography

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 20:34, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: More standard naming convention. Tim! (talk) 07:25, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:French rugby union championship

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The main article of the category is Top 14. However if this is deemed too ambiguous, then the category should be renamed to Category:Top 14 (rugby union). Armbrust The Homunculus 06:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Television series by Buena Vista Television

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Editors may wish to create a new category for films distributed under the new brand name. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:57, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Television series by Buena Vista Television to Category:Television series by Disney-ABC Television
Nominator's rationale: Disney no longer uses the "Buena Vista" brand name for its television unit, instead the Disney or ABC brands (or both) are used. It's been like this for half a decade. Freshh (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Relisting comment: Relisted as the article was not previously tagged for renaming
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 06:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks

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The result of the discussion was: keep.--Mike Selinker (talk) 04:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The current title is a bit odd, grammatically, since it leaves open the possibility of administrators who are willing to consider placing self-requested blocks but unwilling to actually place them. The proposed title is shorter, clearer, and more closely matches the convention within Category:Wikipedia administrators by inclination. -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:59, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 05:36, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Military equipment of the Chaco War

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The result of the discussion was: delete. The consensus is that only 2 articles really belong in this category (Humaitá-class gunboat and ARP Tacuary), so there is nothing to listify ... and that 2 articles is too small to justify a weapons-by-conflict category. However, Category:Ships by conflict seems to be a less contentious category tree, so feel free to create a new Category:Ships of the Chaco War for the 2 ship articles. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As determined in several recent CfDs, "military equipment by conflict" is not a sufficiently defining concept to require categorisation, particularly in the case of a minor conflict such as this. Furthermore, two of the four articles in this category are not even about military equipment of the war, but operations in the war, already properly categorised in Category:Chaco War; the other two are ships, and are properly categorised elsewhere as well. The Bushranger One ping only 05:04, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The two non-ship articles are already in Category:Chaco War, which is why I suggested above the alternative renaming to Category:Ships of the Chaco War. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:09, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Early American naval commanders

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The result of the discussion was: split into Category:19th-century American naval officers, Category:20th-century American naval officers, etc. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:02, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete I don't think it's wise to split US Navy officers by period and unless I missed something, there's no "by period" categorization of officers of any country. In this case, there's another important problem: "early" is not a well-defined era of American history so it's impossible to determine the exact criteria for inclusion in the category. Pichpich (talk) 15:49, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you are correct. 'Early' is not defined. Can we split and rename the category? How about 18th Century American naval commanders and 19th Century American naval commanders and 20th Century American naval commanders? It would seem lumping all American naval commanders under one umbrella isn't the best way to go either. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 18:29, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply to comments: 'Officers' are not always 'commanders' of ships. And using 'armed conflict' to define a Cat' doesn't quite get it because many commanders were involved in several wars. e.g.Stephen Decatur fought in the Quasi War with France, the War of 1812 and the First and Second Barbary Wars, all of which occurred in the 19th century, as did John Rodgers and others. Defining the Cat' by century seems the best way to go as this would encompass several wars/conflicts at the same time. There might be cases where a commander fought in wars that took place in different centuries but this is (very) rare. Can't even think of one off hand. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 00:34, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly in the RN it was common in the Napoleonic era, and for Japan/Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Maybe this is less true of the USN but equally it might be best to think of a format that can be replicated by other navies if required.Le Deluge (talk) 14:25, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For what it is worth the quasi-war was not in the 19th, but the 18th century. It ends in 1800, the 19th-century does not began until 1801.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Insert: Opps.. You're correct. Decatur in this case would fit into two such categories. 18th Century and 19th Century American naval officers. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 03:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, there are many individuals in history that fit into two or more categories. Are we ready to move, yet? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 03:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There are currently 1,781 entries listed under this category, all lumped together. That is plenty of reason. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 06:20, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But Category:American film actors has over 10,000 articles and we have not seen fit to divide it by time period, so size alone is not persuasive. We might also argue that wars would be a better way to divide. However I think especially in the early 19th-century enough of these people were involved in multiple conflicts that wars would be a split too far, but century is a good way to devide them.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:20, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Numerous entries, size, is one of the most persuasive reasons for creating sub categories. The reason we have cat's is to sort large numbers of entries -- and on that note I would highly recommend finding sub cat's for 'American film actors'. Sub dividing by 'War' in the case of 'American navel captains' could get tacky because as I mentioned above, many officers have fought in two or more wars. Stephen Decatur and John Rodgers for example fought in four different wars -- all in the 19th century. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 00:23, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. While we have the sub Cat's mentioned by Benea, we still don't have any specific to e.g.the War of 1812 (one for People, not naval officers) , the American Civil War, the Barbary Wars, etc, so my thinking was that since all of these wars occurred during the 19th century, and since many officers fought in several, as discussed above, we also need a Cat' specific to this general era. Or should we make cat's specific to all the individual wars -- which would result in just as many if not more Cat's. If anything we should simply rename the Cat proposed for deletion to Category:Early American naval officers (1775 - 1815) This would cover Naval Officers of the Revolution, Quasi-War, both Barbary wars and the War of 1812. Again, there is always an area of overlap among Cat's and many officers accordingly fit into two or more. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 18:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - There is an existing analogous structure for British naval personnel Category:Royal Navy personnel by war, which includes all the conflicts naval officers might have fought in. There's a complementary structure for army personnel, etc. An article like John Bligh (Royal Navy officer) shows this in action, it has Category:British naval personnel of the American Revolutionary War, Category:British naval personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, Category:British naval personnel of the Napoleonic Wars. Earlier naval officer James Alms is also in Category:British naval personnel of the American Revolutionary War, but also Category:Royal Navy personnel of the Seven Years' War and Category:Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession, and not the later ones since he did not live that long. The beginnings of this structure already exist for US Navy personnel, and creating ones for the missing wars would fit them into a existing structure, and would precisely define which wars they were active in. Since the era, however you define it, is general, it is less useful to make a category specific to it. I'm all in favour of removing this cat and creating new ones for the Quasi-War, both Barbary wars and the War of 1812, and others that are relevant. There would still be fewer needed than exist for RN personnel given the service's longer history. It's not the number of cats that I'm concerned about, it is whether they categorise the articles in an optimal way. Benea (talk) 21:33, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply : I don't think we don't need to create a Cat for each Barbary War, while making cat's for all the individual (often lesser) wars will become redundant, some officers fitting into several wars. Overlap is to be expected, but I think only to a point. As I mentioned several officers, that I know of, I'm sure there's more, would fit into four or more Cat's if they were defined by individual wars. While trying to replicate a Cat' structure of another country may sound 'consistent' on the surface it appears not to be the practical way to go for the American navy. It would be nice to have one Cat' for naval officers (there are many) who served in this one defining and unique era of America history. (1775-1815) That would spare us a lot of additional Cat's. If you still would like to create the Cat's you mentioned above they could be sub Cat's to this more encompassing Cat' of 1778-1815. In any case this is really getting to be a discretionary call. For now I still think we should go the simpler route and simply rename the Cat up for deletion. A cat for naval officers of this general period (Early American) would serve well. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 16:23, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • What's the problem with having four or more cats on an article? Why not have a category for each Barbary War? Why is it not practical, and finally, what is this defining and apparently unique period of history, that lumps together five wars, with different opponents, over a thirty year period, with intervening periods of peace? This is all getting very subjective. We've tried to define it as 'early', by century, and finally by this arbitrary period by dates. Categories by conflict do not overlap, they are discrete periods of conflict, therefore there will be no redundancy for lesser wars because some personnel fit into several categories. The present suggested system would collect officers who served only in the Revolutionary War with those who served only in the Second Barbary War 35 years later, only for the sake of those officers whose career spanned the entire 35 year period. Organising it along the lines of the British one allows those persons who served in one conflict to be categorised immediately with those who fought beside them in the same conflict, rather than in a vague 35 year block based on someone's definition of defining and unique. Benea (talk) 17:07, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, your arguments are apparently sound. Okay, we need to make a few added cat's for wars, and if a given officer fits into two or more of them (Decatur and Rodgers would fit into at least four) then, on retrospect, this is all well and good. Thanks for your thoughts. A couple of last questions: Should we be making separate Cat's for a given war for Admirals and Officers -- and will we be separating Army officers from Naval officers? I hope so. If we lump too many military types, ranks along with 'personnel' into one Cat it seems it will defeat the purpose of categorization i.e.the effort of sorting and organizing large groups of names. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:28, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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I agree with separating Army from Navy (and other services). Category:British military personnel by war is the parent cat, which divides into Category:Royal Navy personnel by war, Category:Royal Air Force personnel by war and Category:British Army personnel by war. The by war categories are also integrated with the existing Category:Military personnel by war and nation, so you have Category:Military personnel of the War of 1812, and can break down the existing Category:American military personnel of the War of 1812 into army and navy. There's already Category:American militiamen in the War of 1812. As for breaking down by officers and admirals, I'm less keen though. Benea (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay Benea, but as you pointed out on 22 Feb, we already have Category:United States Navy officers and Category:United States Navy admirals. How do we integrate War-Cat's with them? We can't place an individual War-Cat under Admirals and Officers -- and we can't place Admirals and Officers under each War-Cat, so it seems War-Cat's and Cat's for Admirals and Officers must be stand alone cats and independent of each other in terms of sub Cat's. Looking at Cat's for both Admirals and Officers there seems to be other items we should be mindful of. For example 'Continental Navy officers' (Revolutionary period, war specific) is under the Cat' for Naval officers, but there is no corresponding Cat' for 'Continental Navy Admirals', for openers. IMO, it seems a condensation of and reordering of Cat's is needed. We have cats for 'personnel', 'Officers, Admirals and Commodores' with war-specific cats mixed into the works. Correction : There were no Admirals until David Farragut (of the Civil War) came along. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 17:37, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A bit later I will begin removing the names from the Category:Early American naval commanders if there are no objections or other suggestions. After navigating through the maze of categories it seems there are enough of them, perhaps too many, that seem to cover any individual that may have otherwise fit into the 'Early American' category. Perhaps I was too quick to create that category. My apologies for any inconvenience or trouble I may have caused. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 17:52, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The cats work by categorising people as either officers or admirals. So articles would be tagged with either one of these as appropriate, and then with the relevant war cats. So Stephen Decatur for example would have the category Category:United States Navy officers and then Category:American naval personnel of the Quasi-War, Category:American naval personnel of the War of 1812 and Category:American naval personnel of the Barbary Wars, replacing the existing more general cats Category:American military personnel of the War of 1812, Category:United States people of the Barbary Wars and Category:People of the Quasi-War. Benea (talk) 08:50, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Military operations post-1945

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The result of the discussion was: keep, at least temporarily. There are many subcategories of Category:Warfare post-1945 which use the "post-1945" format. That format should be nominated globally if a change is desired.--Mike Selinker (talk) 06:50, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is unnecessary. It contains two types of sub-categories - by-date categories and by-country(/organisation) categories (for 3 post-1945 organisations). The by-date categories should be upmerged to Category:Military operations by period. The country/organisation categories can be removed from this category - they're still categorized in the more relevant Category:Military operations by country. This is a step towards fixing the partial overlap between "post-1945" categories and "20th-century" categories (an operation in 1977 would be eligable for both these cats, but neither of these cats can be a subcat of the other). Note: This is an alternative to merging the "post-1945 period" category - if that category is merged then this category should be kept. DexDor (talk) 06:21, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No, see [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_7#Category:Military_operations_of_the_post-1945_period. DexDor (talk) 06:13, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The "post-1945" cat (currently) contains only subcats - I've added a "container category" tag to it. DexDor (talk) 06:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Where did the articles go that used to be in Category:Military operations post-1945? Hmains (talk) 18:37, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Into subcats - Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period and Category:Military operations of the 21st-century. DexDor (talk) 19:34, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I see. I also see someone nominated Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period for deletion/renaming almost as soon as you created it. Hmains (talk) 17:14, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Military operations post-1945.--Mike Selinker (talk) 06:51, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period to Category:UNKNOWN
OR
  • Propose merging Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period to Category:Military operations post-1945
Nominator's rationale: Rename or merge. This category is a subcategory of Category:Military operations post-1945. It is defined as being for military operations from the end of the Second World War to the year 2000. So in other words, it's acting as "20th-century military operations post-1945". The current name is not clear at all. I'm not sure if we should simply upmerge this to Category:Military operations post-1945 or if we should try to come up with a name that works. There is no broader scheme for military topics in the 20th century that are post-1945. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:30, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, but it'll need to have text explaining that it's only for operations after WWII. DexDor (talk) 20:01, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There's several problems with that idea (which I had considered myself) - "M.o. of the Cold War period" includes the word period which I think is what the nom is trying to avoid (and would be a slightly strange way to categorize articles about any ops by countries not involved in the Cold War), "M.o. of the Cold War" would be OK as a category but doesn't solve this problem because it can't contain any ops that weren't part of the Cold War, and (most significantly) "M.o. of the post-Cold War period" has exactly the same problem as "M.o. post-1945" (it doesn't fit within the 20th-century category) - in fact it's even worse as editors/readers are more likely to consider 2001 etc part of the post-Cold War period than part of the post-1945 period. DexDor (talk) 06:08, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
PS: No "from" just "1945–2000" (and not "from 1945 to 2000") Hugo999 (talk) 10:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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We discorage a 20th/21st century split when those are the only two categories. We have lots of places where we split between the two as part of a much larger sequence. It would make sense to do so here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:45, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Indian actors by language

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Categories by language of IndiaCategory:Actors by language of India. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Correction. I had intended to close this as rename to Category:Actors by language of India, but screwed up. I will now fix the bot's work. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed in these edits. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:29, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually lots and lots and lots of people have been in Tamil and Hindi films. The overlaps between these various categories is very high. Beyond that, the Hindi category could not possibly be a state category, since it is not limited to one state. The various films categories are clearly being used as categories to group together people who appeared in those films. These, as I mentioned above, contain lots of actors who are not Indian nationals. This is especially true of Category:Hindi film actors which has both a large number of Pakistani nationals, and is also probably the one with the most people who are from other countries as well, including one article on a British man who spent 6 months leatrning Hindi so he could act in a Hindi film. The claim these languages are spoken only in India is false. Most obviously Bengali is spoken outside India. Hindi is also spoken in Fiji and many other places outside the subcontinent. Also, Peter Kingiron has entirely ignored the fact that the current name is saying the people are Indian, when as I have shown many of the people involved in the film actors cats are not Indian at all, but are foriegn nationals who came to India only to perform in films there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:03, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Another example of the complexities of these categories can be seen by looking at the article on Kirron Kher. Currently she is only in a Hindi realted category. The vast majority of the films she was in were Hindi, but she was also in English, Bengali and Punjabi language films and a few more. I half wonder if with such heavy cross-over between languages these categories are heading towards being performer by performance overcategorization.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:22, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Museums of Ancient Rome

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. There were objections to the name but I have not managed to extract an improved version from this discussion; Category:Egyptological collections works, but there's no corresponding name for these cases; and the existing names correspond to parent categories (e.g. Category:Ancient Greece). I will add category explanations requiring that the museums be centred on the era or possess significant collections from it. If anyone is then willing to check and prune the contents, that would be welcome. – Fayenatic London 17:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Inclusion criteria is simply too subjective. What percentage of a museum's collection needs to fall into this area to merit categorization? If you look at the categories for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it is not close to 50%! Vegaswikian (talk) 00:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean "this is not a standard type of museum" - not in America no doubt. Category:Museums by type is in fact large and well-established. Johnbod (talk) 03:39, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the Met should certainly be in Category:Asian art museums in New York because it has by far the best Asian collection in NY & it would be plain stupid & a disservice to users to have such a category and not include it. Johnbod (talk) 03:44, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Which just leeds to a very large number of categories on some museums. We would be a lot better served by lists than categories here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:49, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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County Football Championships by year

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:2008 senior Gaelic football county championships, Category:2009 senior Gaelic football county championships, Category:2010 senior Gaelic football county championships, and Category:2011 senior Gaelic football county championships. I'm going off the board here, because there's no agreement in the debate but a clear need for disambiguation in the category names. There is a category that serves as a guide, though: Category:Senior Gaelic football county championships. It seems obvious to me that simply appending a year in front of those creates the by-year division these categories are striving for, and allows them to be placed in the hierarchy better. If someone has a strenuous objection to this plan, nominate the new categories for renaming and we'll sort it out. (Also, I'm not sure about the capitalization of "senior." If that needs to change, nominate it on Speedy.)--Mike Selinker (talk) 06:40, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In addition, since no one has commented yet, there exist four categories on their own with the format Year County Senior Football Championships, e.g. Category:2008 County Senior Football Championships. Now this seems overly specific altogether. Perhaps those categories should just be divided by year (the Sligo Intermediate Football Championship is in that category anyway). This would also rename these particular subcategories for consistency with the same parent category which is currently at Category:GAA County Championships and would allow the inclusion of hurling and intermediate football.
There aren't so many County Championships per year that they need be divided much further (as they currently are)
About 32 X 3 (senior, intermediate, junior) X2 (football and hurling) still equals less than 200.
Could the above be addressed by:

? Same as the naming format of Category:Gaelic Athletic Association All Star Awards (football) with football at the end. Hurling could be done likewise if there was a need for it.

As for the notability of junior and intermediate levels - it depends. Based on what it says in their Wikipedia entries, to give two examples, Paul Galvin has won Kerry Junior Football Championships and Michael Murphy has won a Donegal Intermediate Football Championship. If, to take a soccer parallel, every competition in the English football league system has a Wikipedia entry (when the likes of Sergio Agüero and Wayne Rooney would likely never play in the North West Counties Football League or the Manchester Football League) why shouldn't the intermediate and junior championships in Gaelic football (which often feature the sport's major stars) be covered by Wikipedia if reliable sources can be unearthed? --86.40.105.141 (talk) 15:43, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If the reliable sources are found, then of course there can be articles on junior and intermediate levels. My point was imply that it less likely that reliable sources will be found for competitions at the lower levels. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:29, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per BHG. Brocach (talk) 20:36, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Muslim saints

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The result of the discussion was: merge some to Category:Sufi saints, then delete.--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:46, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. There are no saints in Islam - we have no article Muslim saints (just as we have no Jewish saints or Scientology saints or Pagan saints). Why? Islam - unlike certain Christian denominations - does not have a centralized authority to determine "sainthood" much less one that would be applicable to all branches of Islam. Why? Because its not a theological concept as no orthodox Muslim would ever, EVER, EVER, pray to some "saint" for his or her intervention on the beseecher's behalf - it's blasphemy. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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