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Category:Members of 56 Group Wales

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:28, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Being a member of this group does not appear to be a WP:DEFINING characteristic (e.g. few, if any, of the articles mention it in the lead). We don't generally categorise people by what organisations they are a member of (unless that's what they're notable for). The articles are in categories like Category:21st-century Welsh painters. For info: There is a list at 56 Group Wales (in the infobox). DexDor (talk) 22:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Editor's justificaton: The 56 Group Wales has some similarities to a learned society: membership is by election, and indicates a level of prominence in the field. While this does not have the high profile of Category:Royal Academicians, it is not different in kind. Verbcatcher (talk) 20:34, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Environmental skepticism

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The result of the discussion was: split. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:31, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Apparently, Category:Climate change skeptics redirects here since the category was created by a now-blocked sockpuppet. However, while this account may have been a sock, I still think the idea of a separate category for global warming skeptics (as opposed to dumping them into a much broader category that includes books, movies, and all sorts of other stuff) has merit. It seems I'm not the only one who thinks the current category is too broadly defined either: [1] Jinkinson talk to me 20:51, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Orlady, the book The Skeptical Environmentalist is in the category, and I just added its author (Bjørn Lomborg) to the category as well. The book is about several sorts of environmental skepticism besides global warming (see the book article). So there are at least two inclusions based on other criteria. (The book is also skeptical of certain aspects of global warming, but that is not its focus). Agyle (talk) 18:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well, may main objective is not to engage in excessive categorization. Since it does appear that the current categorization scheme treats "environmental skepticism" as essentially synonymous with "climate change skepticism", a name change could be appropriate. However, when dealing with controversial topics, I believe it is often a good idea to follow the principle "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I'm concerned that renaming this category possibly could create some sort of new controversy that the current scheme has avoided. Any thoughts on that? --Orlady (talk) 23:34, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, in my opinion, it is "broke" and therefore should be fixed. For instance, the diff I linked to above shows that DHeyward argues that, contrary to what you seem to have stated above (and what I agree with), "environmental skepticism" is "Not [the] same as climate sceptic." In other words, it, in effect, means the same thing as "climate change skeptics", but the name is something more broad and confusing. In other words, since the name of this cat clearly doesn't match its purpose, to eliminate misunderstandings we should change the name to match the purpose. Even ignoring that, though, it would be immensely useful to have a category for climate skeptics, since there are so many. Jinkinson talk to me 00:16, 16 March 2014 (UTC)----[reply]
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Category:Dolls in fiction

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The result of the discussion was: delete. For the record, we still have Category:Fictional dolls and dummies. – Fayenatic London 22:04, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: Trivial categorization, most of the articles do not mention dolls. 108.216.20.135 (talk) 20:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Recipients of the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:52, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Recipients of the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Having received this award is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of the recipients (unlike things such as being a BJP politician); I've looked at a sample of articles in this category - none mentioned this award prominently (e.g. in the lead) and several (e.g.) don't mention it at all. For info: There is a list at Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. See WP:OC#AWARD. DexDor (talk) 19:58, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Redirects from EXIF information

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The result of the discussion was: rename; no consensus to expand "Exif". Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Exif is the usual capitalisation, but this was contested at the Speedy page on the grounds that it should be spelled out in full. – Fayenatic London 17:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of discusssion at Speedy page
  • Category:Redirects from EXIF information to Category:Redirects from Exif information – Fixing a capitalization error per C2A. Exif is written as Exif (not EXIF) per the Exchangeable image file format specification. Matthiaspaul (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Oppose as proposed, suggest alternative I think this should be renamed to Category:Redirects from exchangeable image file format information as C2B per Exchangeable image file format. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:54, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment: I am unconvinced about the need for the long name. The category contains a project page, albeit inactive, called Wikipedia:Missing Exif redirects. Exif redirects to the long name and I am not aware of any alternative meanings. There may be a rule about expanding abbreviations but I would invoke WP:IAR over that, and do the rename as suggested by Matthiaspaul. – Fayenatic London 22:01, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment: I'm unconvinced as well. Exif is a proper name, as defined by the Exchangeable image file format specification. While it would not be wrong to use the long form, there is no requirement I am aware of to use the long form. Exif is, by far, more common than Exchangeable image file format, and while Exif specifically means this particular specification, a term like exchangeable image file format could mean alot of other things as well (at least to those, who are not aware of what this is about), therefore, I think, Category:Redirects from exchangeable image file format information would be a weaker category name than Category:Redirects from Exif information. Basically, I asked for a (common) capitalization error to be technically fixed per C2A, nothing more. C2A definitely applies, therefore I'm quite astonished that it was opposed. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 14:40, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:2011 Japanese nuclear incidents and accidents

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:51, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. With the exception of a section in the article about the separate Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant (which only experienced an relatively minor incident) -- and a single paragraph in another article (Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, which barely even qualifies as an "incident") -- this category is entirely about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Oh yeah, and the main article link -- which was formerly listed as "2011 Japanese nuclear incidents and accidents" -- is now merely a redirect to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Notified Category creator using ((cfd-notify))) Cgingold (talk) 16:27, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Misnamed Australia categories

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete as empty (C1). – Fayenatic London 14:06, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Created just over a month ago in error for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Brisbane, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Queensland and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Australia all of which already existed. Redrose64 (talk) 11:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Hungarian airliners

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete G3. – Fayenatic London 17:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Recently-created empty Cat, made empty by Speedy deletion of a hoax article about a purported Hungarian airline (Asert Airways). As far as I know there has never been a Hungarian-built airliner, and as far as I know none is in development. YSSYguy (talk) 06:40, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Projects involved in the Great Backlog Drive 2010

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In the long term this is not a defining characteristic of its contents. DexDor (talk) 06:26, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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user asm

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The result of the discussion was: for now at least, rename to Category:User Assembly Language-1, Category:User Assembly Language-2, Category:User Assembly Language-3, Category:User Assembly Language-4, Category:User Assembly Language-5, and Category:User Assembly Language. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:03, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Category:User asm-1 to Category:User ASM-1 for ((User Assembly Language-1)) + redirected ((User asm-1))
  2. Category:User asm-2 to Category:User ASM-2 for ((User Assembly Language-2)) + redirected ((User asm-2))
  3. Category:User asm-3 to Category:User ASM-3 for ((User Assembly Language-3)) + redirected ((User asm-3))
  4. Category:User asm-4 to Category:User ASM-4 for ((User Assembly Language-4)) + redirected ((User asm-4))
  5. Category:User asm-5 to Category:User ASM-5 for ((User Assembly Language-5)) + redirected ((User asm-5))
  6. Category:User asm    to Category:User ASM    for ((User Assembly Language))     + redirected ((User asm))
  7. Category:User Assembly language should be empty soon (cache issue for CyberXRef/Footer)

Background, ((#babel:…|asm-X|…)) doesn't work as expected, asm is the ISO code for the Assamese language. Somebody started to tackle this mess with User Assembly Language templates and a new Category:User Assembly language (lower case L here), but it wasn't ready. The old templates still existed (now redirected), e.g., ((User asm-4)) and ((User Assembly Language-4)) disagreed about an expert vs. a expert. –Be..anyone (talk) 04:18, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Marvel Comics characters who have mental powers

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The result of the discussion was: keep, without prejudice to a future nomination for renaming. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete Mental powers is far to vague a term, if it covers telekinesis it would cover anything kinesis. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:52, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Ships in Norse sagas

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The result of the discussion was: delete. There's a consensus that the category should be deleted and the one article in it (Ormen Lange (longship)) placed elsewhere. The article is already in Category:Ships in Norwegian history. There was some discussion as to whether Category:Ships in Norse mythology is an appropriate category as well. I won't merge the article to that category right now, but the issue of how to exactly categorize the article can continue to evolve through edits and further discussion on the article talk page, if necessary. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: This category currently contains only one article and that's about a real ship (for which being mentioned in the sagas is hardly a WP:DEFINING characteristic). DexDor (talk) 19:54, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I created the categories Category:Ships in Norse sagas and Category:Ships in Norwegian history but argue against merging them. The former category would be for "legendary" ships, i.e. ships about legendary Vikings, or ships with non-historical legends attached to them. Some of the ships that would wind up in this category would not find comfortable home in "history".
True, only article currently populates the first category, I anticipate several which can eventually be added. For example, the ship Elliði (Ellidi, Ellide, Ellida) of Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar and Frithiof's Saga. And in Sörla tháttr, the protagonist Sorli obtains Halfdan's ship Hálfdanarnautr ("Halfdan's Loom" or "Halfdan's Gift"), which is compared to several legendary ships, the Gnoð, the Elliði and the Ormen Lange. Another This Hálfdanarnautr was obtained Odd, the hero of Örvar-Odds saga. There is also Vísundr (the "Bison"), mentioned in versions of the Olafs saga Helga.
The list could go on from my own notes, and I'm sure others can pitch in. I anticipate that articles on these ships are eventually forthcoming. I could write up stub articles, but prefer to wait to see if others are willing to draft more developed articles and be able to credit themselves as creator.--Kiyoweap (talk) 09:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A real ship shouldn't be in Category:Ships in Norse mythology (and hence in Category:Fictional objects). We try not to categorize real objects by mentions in fiction/mythology. DexDor (talk) 20:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Society by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: Renamed DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:57, 27 March 2014 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Societies don't have nationalities, people do. And all of the subcats are for countries, not "nationalities". So it's puzzling that this category was given the wrong name when it was created. Very odd. The Commons Category, thankfully, got it right. :) (Category creator unknown - renamed in 2005) Cgingold (talk) 02:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Railway stations in Arnhem

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus DavidLeighEllis (talk) 03:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge back into Category:Railway stations in Gelderland. It's a WP:SMALLCAT - there are a total of four railway stations in Arnhem and very little chance of serious expanding of this number. Four involved articles will also need to categorized back into Category:Buildings and structures in Arnhem if the cat's deleted. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 00:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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