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Category:List of episodes of The Cinema Snob

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:23, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These aren't actual episodes, but a list of the films that were reviewed by The Cinema Snob. This isn't worthy of a category. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 21:29, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:HC 05 Banská Bystrica players

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The result of the discussion was: rename, but I will use the ASCII character ' rather than ’ and move the page likewise – external sites do not use the curly quote character. The new name is therefore Category:HC '05 Banská Bystrica players. – Fayenatic London 13:22, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: the article name is HC ’05 Banská Bystrica Joeykai (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films by black directors

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Films by African-American directors; I had a quick look through the contents and all the directors seem to be African-Americans, so I will not list this for manual review as needing purging. – Fayenatic London 13:35, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This seems like a bad intersection of race and role of filmmaker. Note that it is also miscategorized under Category:Films by director since there is no Category:Directors by race scheme. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:23, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I went ahead and added several directors to this category and cleaned it up under the impression it was just a poorly kept category. Feel free to roll those edits back (*in the event that the category is deleted). Sock (tock talk) 17:39, 2 May 2018 (UTC) [*edited 17:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)][reply]
Operating in an African-American cultural context links Black American directors with each other in a defining way, absolutely. But simply having the same skin colour does not link an African-American director with a Ugandan or Kenyan or South African director, whose cultural context is not African-American, in a defining way. Whatever you think you were arguing against, it's not what I said, and I'm not responsible for taking ownership of your strawman arguments. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your argument. Your argument is that "films by black directors" doesn't make sense to you personally as a valid category. Any number of scholars seem to disagree with you, though, and I imagine we ought to give their views more weight than yours. As you would have seen had you bothered to investigate the matter, not all of them are talking about Americans, either. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 17:49, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I did investigate the sources, and all of them are addressing a specifically African-American context, while none of them are about a grouping that contextlessly lumps Ava Duvernay and Tyler Perry and Barry Jenkins and Spike Lee in with British or African or other non-USian directors on the basis of skin colour alone. I'll thank you not to speak to me as though I were an idiot again — even back in your logged-in user days, you had a habit of going out of your way to criticize me on the grounds that you were purportedly smarter than me about how Wikipedia works, but you rarely if ever had a credible claim to actually being right. Bearcat (talk) 22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Like Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of black independent film in Britain for instance? Did you investigate that one? And what, pray tell, is your non-idiot theory about my logged-in username? 192.160.216.52 (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A source which fails to group Black British directors with Black American directors across national boundaries is not solid proof of your point. What it reaffirms is that the defining characteristic is at the point of intersection between skin colour and nationality, not at skin colour alone without regard to what country or continent the person actually lives and works in — which means it's proof of my point. Bearcat (talk) 17:07, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Playboy Playmate twins

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Just from a practical point of view, only a merge to Category:Twin models is needed, because all content was already deeper in the tree of Category:Playboy Playmates. (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:29, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining characteristic. TM 14:59, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Twin sportspeople from England

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The result of the discussion was: double merge. – Fayenatic London 13:37, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Twin sportspeople from England to Category:Twin sportspeople and Category:Twin people from England
Nominator's rationale: Non-notable intersection of genetics, occupation and nationality. TM 14:55, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Words and phrases introduced prior to 1965

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The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated except for 1900 -> C19. Further work may be needed as we still have Category:Words and phrases by date of introduction as well as Category:Neologisms by century, so this nomination creates what appear to be duplicate categories for C19 and C20. Category:Neologisms also contains "Words coined" by decade from 1900s onwards. – Fayenatic London 14:16, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
List of nominations
  • 1890s (4)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1895 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 19th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1896 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 19th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1898 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 19th century
  • 1900s (3)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1900 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1903 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
  • 1910s (3)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1911 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1915 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
  • 1920s (2)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1922 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1927 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
  • 1930s (2)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1933 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
  • 1940s (2)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1944 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1946 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 20th century
  • 1950s (6)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1952 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1950s
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1955 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1950s
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1957 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1950s
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1958 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1950s
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1959 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1950s
  • Early 1960s (3)
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1961 (2) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1960s
    • Propose merging Category:Words and phrases introduced in 1963 (1) to Category:Words and phrases introduced in the 1960s
Nominator's rationale: Lots of WP:SMALLCATs with no more than 2 articles each. The rest (1965-present) should be placed into decade categories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:48, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good question. But probably to be left for another nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:20, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:The Demonata characters

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Too few articles. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:04, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Views on homosexuality

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The result of the discussion was: delete. As it currently contains two articles and a redirect all named "[X]'s views on homosexuality", I will merge them into Category:Same-sex sexuality; whether they should stay there can be discussed elsewhere. – Fayenatic London 22:50, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is very small, and seems unlikely to grow. The number of valid articles on the views of particular individuals on Homosexuality will surely never be large. However, this category is an attractive nuisance, tempting editors to categorize the biographical articles of anyone who has expressed a view on this controversial topic. That is not, i think, how we should categorize people. See a recent thread at the help desk on this category, where an editor wants to do exactly that. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:37, 2 May 2018 (UTC) DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:37, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. We do not delete categories simply because they can be misused, otherwise Category:Homophobia would be long gone. I don't see the small size of the category as a reason for deletion either. WP:SMALLCAT states, "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." This isn't a category that by definition will never have more than a few members. Obviously it would be possible to start more articles about the views about homosexuality expressed by particular individuals. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:06, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A view on homosexuality was a defining characteristic of Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. Not the sole defining characteristic, but a notable defining characteristic. It was pretty much all he and his church were known for, yet he is not eligible for this obvious category unless someone writes an article "Fred Phelps' views on homosexuality". However, if someone did, I anticipate there would rapidly be calls for it to be merged to a Section within the main article on him. The articles currently there don't remotely represent the range of views on homosexuality. Rick Santorum isn't an acknowledged authority on homosexuality, merely someone with an opinion about it, yet he represents a third of the makeup of the articles in the category. Chrisdevelop (talk) 02:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That is not a coherent rationale for deleting the category. You write that, "The articles currently there don't remotely represent the range of views on homosexuality." No, of course they don't. That is not a reason for deleting the category, however, as representing "the range of views on homosexuality" is in no sense its purpose. Rather its purpose is to group together similar articles (those about the views on homosexuality expressed by particular people) and it does that perfectly well. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The Category:Views on homosexuality criterion is “This category is for articles dealing with the views on homosexuality expressed by particular individuals.”, but notable views of the likes of Fred Phelps, John Shelby Spong, Anita Bryant and Harvey Milk could be included only if someone writes a separate article copying all the existing opinion already present in their articles. I would anticipate calls for satellite articles like that to be merged. There's nothing special about Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality compared to those of the other notables I mentioned. Someone looking for articles like this would surely be incredulous that only three notables on Wikipedia expressed notable views on homosexuality. Chrisdevelop (talk) 02:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As before, that is an incoherent rationale that suggests that you are confused about the purpose of categories on Wikipedia. The purpose of categories is to group together related articles and to serve as a navigational aid. The rationale for the category "Views on homosexuality" is to link together articles about people's views on homosexuality. It is inappropriate to advocate the deletion of a category such as this because you think the articles it contains should not exist. If your problem is actually with the articles themselves, then you are free to nominate them for deletion (though I am confident they would be kept). A deletion discussion for a category is a waste of time if your real objection to it is that you think the articles it contains should go. Deleting the category wouldn't result in the deletion of those articles. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:56, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't propose that the articles should be deleted. My objection to the current behaviour of this Category is that notable people who have expressed notable views on homosexuality cannot be added to it, unless their views are snipped out of their existing articles and pasted into a special article with the words '...views on homosexuality' appended to their name. If the aim is to avoid ad hominem, then that surely isn't achieved by highlighting this in an article that refers solely to their views on homosexuality, rather than linking it to a Section within a bio article that actually has a better chance of representing the whole person. At the very least, the Category criterion “This category is for articles dealing with the views on homosexuality expressed by particular individuals,” isn't clear enough to prevent editors adding such articles. If it is to remain and to be restricted to articles that, in my view potentially stigmatise individuals by making the entire article only about their view on homosexuality, then the criterion should reflect that. Chrisdevelop (talk) 03:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If your complaint is that the category description does not allow individual people to be added to it, then that's a foolish complaint. So what if it doesn't? Why shouldn't a category have particular criteria that allow some articles, but not others, to be added to it? That is, of course, the only way that a category can function. A category that was simply for anyone who has ever expressed a view about homosexuality would be pointless and unworkable, as there are too many such people. If articles about views of homosexuality expressed by particular individuals are going to exist, then there is no reason not to have a category linking them together. It is more specific and more helpful than a category for any person who happens to have expressed an opinion about homosexuality. I have no idea what you are talking about when you suggest that the purpose of the category is to "avoid ad hominem". FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:20, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@FreeKnowledgeCreator: A lot of straw man going on here. Can you please stick to things I actually do say? I never proposed that any articles be deleted, nor did I propose that "anyone who has ever expressed a view about homosexuality" should be included. I likewise never said that "the purpose of the category is to avoid ad hominem". My reference to ad hominem is in the context of complaints that the category can be misused to make ad hominem characteristations, and that this isn't achieved when you make an entire article about that very subject. Please read my posts carefully and note that I am talking about notable people who have expressed notable views on homosexuality being excluded from a category whose reason for existence is declared to be for (notable) views on homosexuality by (notable) individuals. Chrisdevelop (talk) 03:22, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry if I misunderstood you, but your comments were (and are) so strange that it really is difficult to see what point you are trying to make. The articles you added the category to were Salawa Abeni and Olajumoke Orisaguna. It is quite preposterous to suggest that the specific views about homosexuality expressed by those two individuals are "notable", which in Wikipedia terms means that they would deserve a dedicated article, so I am afraid that I can only regard your comment as an attempt to confuse the issue. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree totally. There are numerous people - in particular politicians - whose views about homosexuality become the subject of extensive discussion. In the case of Mitt Romney, for example, there is more than enough material available to write an article specifically about his views on homosexuality, and more material than could easily fit into his dedicated biography. FYI, a whole book - Mitt Romney's Deception - was written attacking his views on gay rights issues. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:18, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps there is enough content to write such an article, but no one has done it, nor I think is likely to, and if anyone did, i would be inclined to call for merging it back into the biography article. Indeed I am strongly considering requesting this for the Rick Santorum article now in this category. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 03:28, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think the problem IS with the definition. It wastes an awful lot of time when you add a category in good faith, only to have it reverted even though it fits the category descriptor. Chrisdevelop (talk) 03:28, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ah. Here I think we see the real problem. You added the category to a couple of articles (Salawa Abeni and Olajumoke Orisaguna), someone quite rightly reverted you, and that made you angry. You are simply wrong in thinking that the articles you added the category to fit "the category descriptor." The category was always intended for articles specifically about views expressed by individuals, not articles about individuals themselves, and was carefully written to make that clear. Categories do not get deleted just because an editor gets reverted when he adds them to articles or is confused about their purpose. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:41, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please can we stick to civil discourse, and not make assumptions about my emotional state, or put words into my mouth, or make snide assertions about my motivations. This discussion arose out of those reversions, yes, and there were several as I was trying to find the right category and it wasted quite some time, and reversions don't look good against anyone's name. But this has now nothing to do with those articles, because once I had started thinking about this category, I realised that the Category's criterion actually permitted the addition of many notable individuals who had expressed views on homosexuality. Not any individual with a random viewpoint, as you intimated I was suggesting earlier, but notable individuals whose views on homosexuality were likewise notable. Note also that I am not the principal nominator for deletion here. Chrisdevelop (talk) 03:44, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No, the category's description does not permit "the addition of many notable individuals who had expressed views on homosexuality." As written, it is specifically a category for articles about views, not for articles about individuals who have expressed those views, and your assertion to the contrary does not change that. You are of course wrong to imply that Salawa Abeni and Olajumoke Orisaguna's views about homosexuality are notable, meaning that they would merit dedicated articles. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:54, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Look I am leaving this discussion because I won't be spoken to like this. I never said that there should be dedicated articles about anyone's views on anything, nor most of the other statements you attribute to me, and then proceed to argue as though I actually said them. Classic Straw Man. You are putting words into my mouth. This is supposed to be an environment of cordial discourse to reach consensus. Almost everything you write is contemptuous, and condescending, and misrepresenting my motivations. Do whatever you like, but I am not participating. Goodbye. Wikipedia:Five pillars: “Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility” WP:CIVIL. Chrisdevelop (talk) 03:58, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am not trying to be deliberately rude, and I apologize if my comments come across that way. Please understand that your comments have been confusing and that it is therefore difficult to understand exactly what you are trying to say. I did not attribute to you the view that dedicated articles about Salawa Abeni and Olajumoke Orisaguna's views about homosexuality should be created. I simply noted that it is incorrect to describe their views about homosexuality as notable, which in Wikipedia terminology means that they would merit the creation of such articles. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 04:04, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That is a poor rationale for deleting the category. The state of the article Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality has no relevance to this discussion. And no, categories are not deleted just because they can be misused, as witness Category:Homophobia, which gets misused constantly, but nevertheless still exists. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's currently in Category:LGBT via Category:Conversion therapy. DexDor (talk) 05:43, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No, the criterion is not vague. It is perfectly clear. The category is for articles specifically about a person's view of homosexuality, and it helps anyone looking specifically for articles of the kind it includes, which is the purpose of a category. It is irrelevant that this could include either positive or negative views of homosexuality. That it potentially includes articles about both positive and negative views of homosexuality certainly means that the category has a rather general scope, but that is not the same thing as vagueness, which means lack of clarity as to meaning (check a dictionary). A category can potentially cover articles dealing with a wide range of different views without being in any way vague. Neither of the two articles the category contains would fit within Category:LGBT and religion or Category:LGBT politics. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It still would be WP:OPINIONCAT: "Avoid categorizing people by their personal opinions, even if a reliable source can be found for the opinions. This includes supporters or critics of an issue, personal preferences (such as liking or disliking green beans), and opinions or allegations about the person by other people (e.g. "alleged criminals")." and WP:NONDEF, not worth noting in the lead paragraph unless it's that's the only notable reason they have a Wikipedia page, like "X is an outspoken critic of ..." Also, if the critic is stating their opinion because of political or religious reasons then how does that work? Note that activists on either side of the issue are already covered by the other existing categories. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:34, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You have missed the point of what WP:OPINIONCAT states ("Avoid categorizing people by their personal opinions, even if a reliable source can be found for the opinions"). Category:Views about homosexuality is explicitly for articles for views held by individual people, not for articles about individual people themselves. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 00:13, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Currently Orson Scott Card's views on homosexuality is not a separate article but a section on Card's main page. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 15:25, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Views on" doesn't imply individual though. I would expect to see articles that focus on a set of standard views on the topic as with Category:Political spectrum AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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