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Category:English trip hop musicians

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 12:52, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no benefit from skipping the main higher level nationality categories and this will make the category more locatable with the structure. SFB 20:27, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:RAF Cadets

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The result of the discussion was: listify. MER-C 12:48, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Convert Category:RAF Cadets to article List of RAF Cadets
Nominator's rationale: None of the people in the category gained notability through their being RAF Cadets. In almost all circumstances, this was an activity they did as children that was unconnected to the subsequent adult lives. This would be much better off as a list, if it is to be preserved at all. SFB 20:21, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Convert to List of notable RAF cadets to help compliance with WP:LSC. Lose a WP:NONDEFINING cat, gain a legitimate list: win-win. A2soup (talk) 20:37, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete/listify. Classic WP:DNWAUC. Other categories (e.g. Category:Royal Marines cadets) are similar. DexDor (talk) 21:09, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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A few more award categories

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:04, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
more awards
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCAWARD, per WP:NONDEF, per previous discussion and many discussions before. Many categories contain mainly heads of state, nobility, politicians and high-ranked military to whom the granting of the order is merely a gesture. In the knights categories there are more 'normal' civilians, but still the awards are not defining at all, people in these categories are notable for something more defining. In addition, this proposal concerns the upmerge of the eponymous articles to their country parents. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:13, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
See User:DexDor/Categorization_of_award_recipients#Deficiencies_with_categorizing_by_awards_received. DexDor (talk) 05:38, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
What would you consider a "proper overview" to be? DexDor (talk) 05:38, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The preceding part of that sentence ("the awards are not defining at all") is more relevant. Re "19XX births" - WP:OSE. DexDor (talk) 05:38, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scientists whose names are used in physical constants

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 11:45, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Scientists whose names are used in physical constants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Scientists whose names are used as non SI units
  • Propose deleting Category:Scientists whose names are used as SI units
  • Propose deleting Category:Scientists whose names are used in chemical element names
Nominator's rationale: Categories are intended to group together articles about similar subjects (e.g. people who are notable in a particular field). Categories such as Category:Quantum physicists do that; these categories don't. Previous discussion about a similar category: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_September_1#Category:List_of_scientists_whose_names_are_used_as_non_SI_units.DexDor (talk) 19:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Places used in the names of chemical elements

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 11:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of Americas, France, Rhine etc. Most/all of the articles don't even mention the chemical element. For info: there is List of places used in the names of chemical elements and List of chemical element name etymologies. DexDor (talk) 19:42, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Triathletes from Leeds

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The result of the discussion was: merge to both parents. MER-C 12:50, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is far to narrow a category for a relatively small sport. The parent Category:English triathletes has only 23 entries and clearly doesn't benefit from diffusion by city. SFB 19:24, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Astronomical objects used in the names of chemical elements

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 11:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Astronomical objects used in the names of chemical elements (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Given the limited number of chemical elements, this category has only one proper member, Mercury (planet) three five proper members, Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Cerium, and Palladium. As such, it has no potential for growth and currently contains several erroneous articles. A2soup (talk) 17:14, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good point (I will change the nom), but in most of these cases (including Mercury actually), the element was not named after the planet, but rather both names share a common mythological origin. Cerium and Palladium are named after the Roman gods that the asteroids are also named after-- the elements were not named for the asteroids. Helium was named with reference to the sun (where it was first discovered); but as the sun is not called Helios, the element is directly named after Helios, the Greek god of the sun. Same goes for Tellurium, Tellus being an alternate name for the earth goddess Terra. So the only proper members of this cat are Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium. With three possible members, I think it is still WP:SMALLCAT (and WP:NONDEFINING besides). A2soup (talk) 20:01, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Noted and fixed, but Mercury, Helium, and Tellurium still do not belong. My initial reason of WP:SMALLCAT was perhaps not the best, but this still easily fails WP:NONDEFINING and, more directly, WP:SHAREDNAME. A2soup (talk) 04:47, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
WP:OSE. DexDor (talk) 18:26, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Independentist parties

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Everyone seems to agree that the current name should be changed, so I'm defaulting to the original proposal since it was the most popular of the options discussed. This is without prejudice to further proposals for renaming. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:58, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The term "independentist" is rarely used in English in this sense. If at all, it is mostly used to refer to the church system of Independents. This category however is designed to include political parties that advocate the independence of a certain region or territory. The current name of the article may be influenced by the Spanish or Catalan terms "independentismo"/"independentisme", as the user who started the category identifies as Catalan. But this terms do not have an exact equivalent in English. "Pro-independence" would in my opinion be the most appropriate term in English (as "autonomist" or "separatist" have slightly different meanings and connotations). RJFF (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Compare the linguee.com translations for "independentista" (or independentistas, independentismo) which is rarely translated as "independentist" but usually as "pro-independence" or just "independence". --RJFF (talk) 15:39, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, might be a Canadianism; but should still be avoided as the category is not restricted to Canadian (Quebec) "independentist" parties. I could not find the word "independentist" in any mainstream English dictionary (Merriam-Webster, Collins, Oxford, Cambridge, New Oxford). --RJFF (talk) 12:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object to this alternative, 'movements' is much broader than 'parties'. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:10, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American dentists of English descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 11:50, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection of Category:American dentists and Category:American people of English descent. A rather frivolous and meaningless category to boot: ancestry has no bearing on a person's practice. The sole article categorized here can simply be placed in the two categories above. --Animalparty-- (talk) 08:45, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Min Nan

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 07:30, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per main article: Southern Min, not Min Nan. If this passes, the subcategories can be speedily renamed. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Internet tablets

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Tablet computers. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:00, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not defining. The only meaningful subcategorization would be to create C:Non-Internet tablets since nearly all post-iPad tablets include Internet. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 05:37, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Special Collections

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Special collections libraries. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:02, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: It is unclear whether this category is intended for articles specifically about special collections themselves or articles about any library that has a SC (e.g. Ellis Library). In the UK, for example, many/most larger libraries (e.g. in county towns) have some particularly valuable/delicate/rare books (particularly those relating to the local area) kept in a locked room/cupboard - would all these libraries be eligible for this category? Existing categories include Category:University and college academic libraries in the United States, Category:Literary archives, Category:Rare book libraries so this new category is probably unnecessary. If kept this should be renamed - e.g. to "Special collections", "Libraries containing a special collection" (and given at least one parent category). This may be suitable for a list (although I'm not sure that any such list should be generated from the category contents). DexDor (talk) 05:09, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We also discussed at length an existing list called Closed stack libraries which we felt was arbitrary and not helpful to users; indeed, the person who ran the edit-a-thon recommended its deletion in the talk page. Closed stacks can exist for various reasons--rarity is only one. The paging (fetching) structure of an institution doesn't unite it in mission with a community of other institutions. An article about what closed stacks are might be useful, but the list is not.
I think it would be fine if Special Collections became a sub-category, but I don't know what the parent category would be, since I don't think it would be valuable to limit the category by nation. (I also don't know how to make something a sub-category I wanted to do that with the category Rare book librarians, which I also created yesterday, but didn't know how.)
As you note, many libraries have rare materials in their collections. The folks in the edit-a-thon agreed that we only wanted to add to the page institutions that had been deemed by wikipedians significant enough to have their own page. These are institutions whose identity stands apart from that of their parent institutions (if they have one). They have a role in the culture that is separate from that of other kinds of libraries. For this reason we didn't include references to articles about larger libraries that mention special collections within the article. Unless wikipedians feel that there is enough distinction to a special collections that sets it apart as a cultural entity in its community or in the scholarly community, we thought it shouldn't be on the list. This might well apply to a small locked cage within a community library, if it has been deemed significant enough to have its own page.
The Special Collections community, like other library communities, has been slower to warm to Wikipedia than many other communities. This means that the rich history of the institutional care of rare books, manuscripts, and archives is not well documented in Wikipedia. One of the intentions of our edi-a-thon and this page creation is to encourage our fellow institutions to see Wikipedia as a place to document and provide information about cultural heritage institutions of this kind.
To address your first comment: I think perhaps part of the problem with the scope of the category is that I wasn't exactly sure how to describe the category at the top of the category page. Since there is an article for Special collections I didn't want to be redundant or reinvent the wheel in explaining what a special collections is or what items belong on this page. Perhaps I could say something like "this category is to be used for institutions that are deemed significant enough to have their own Wikipedia page"? I'd love to hear your suggestions. Leofstan (talk) 14:04, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We defined special collections as library and archival materials in any format (e.g., rarebooks, manuscripts, photographs, institutional archives) that are generally characterized by their artifactual or monetary value, physical format, uniqueness or rarity, and/or an institutional commitment to long-term preservation and access. They generally are housed in a separate unit with specialized security and user services. Circulation of materials usually is restricted. [from http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2010/2010-11.pdf ]

Merrilee (talk) 19:01, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • I do think that CHS falls into the category of a special collections library (as well as into other categories) but I'm confused as to why if CHS fell outside this category you would be in favor of renaming it? Merrilee (talk) 17:16, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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