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November 13

Category:Sex offenders in Florida

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The result of the discussion was: delete. While there is no clear consensus on having or not having a Florida-specific sex crimes topic category, there is consensus that this category should not exist. I will recategorize the contents based on the comments here (see list of edits) but ultimately leave it up to editorial judgment on categorizing individual articles. -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:41, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Follow-up note: Most of the articles were already in one or more other Florida-specific crime/law categories, so I mostly just removed the category and shifted some of the contents to Category:Sexuality in Florida. Again, feel free to recategorize individual articles if more appropriate categories exist. -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:01, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no basis to have state designated categories for sex offenders and no others exist. Each article listed in this category already has a sex-offense related category assigned, this one, focused on a state, is redundant and gives the impression that Florida has a unique problem with sex offenses. Liz Read! Talk! 15:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
So that’s my case why Florida uniquely deserves this category. deisenbe (talk) 14:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
While I see your point, I think if we are going to categorize sex offenders/sex crimes based in Florida to a category like this, then we should create similar categories for every state when it is appropriate. That's my point of view on this. Liz Read! Talk! 01:56, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I quite agree. deisenbe (talk) 20:26, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The problem with renaming it sex crimes is that the items in the category are not sex crimes, they are sex criminals. I don’t see where “topic articles” are in it. deisenbe (talk) 01:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Only 2 out of 10 articles in this category are about a criminal. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:28, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:38, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Many of them should (but not, for example, Florida Legislative Investigation Committee). I've amended my comment above. DexDor (talk) 07:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If the category is not renamed, this could be an alternative. Something needs to happen anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:56, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:17th-century Dukes of Normandy

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The result of the discussion was: merge contents to Category:Dukes of Normandy and delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category will only ever contain one person and that person is neither a Frenchman nor a ruler of Normandy. Consequently, it can be upmerged to Category:Dukes of Normandy. Celia Homeford (talk) 10:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Equivalence classes

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 23:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category doesn't have a coherent topic. For example, it groups Types of social scientists (a redirect) (but not, for example, Different types of toilets or List of types of fur) with articles such as Automata theory and Closed-form expression.  It also has subcategories such as Category:Style and Category:Taxa and hence (incorrectly) puts thousands of articles in Category:Equivalence (mathematics). DexDor (talk) 20:08, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Bunsen Is a Beast

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The result of the discussion was: WP:SOFTDELETE as there is currently insufficient content. – Fayenatic London 12:21, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary eponymous category as only its main article as an entry with no other possible candidates. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 18:58, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Organisations

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The result of the discussion was: rename, although there was insufficient participation to establish a binding precedent for future cases. – Fayenatic London 12:27, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
These categories with global remit were all created by the prolific @Rathfelder: using UK English; see ((UKian)). A switch to Oxford English - see ((British English Oxford spelling)) - would harmonise these with American usage and improve consistency in the category tree above the ‘country’ level. (These are the last global ones with 's' by Rathfelder, unless I have missed some.) Oculi (talk) 15:47, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've signed this post for Rathfelder, who forgot to sign. SineBot must be on strike. Nyttend (talk) 20:40, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Regulations of the Communist Party of China

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The result of the discussion was: merge, also to other parent Category:Regulations by political parties as no rationale was given for excluding that one. – Fayenatic London 12:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Regulations of the Communist Party of China to Category:Organization of the Communist Party of China
Nominator's rationale: Only one article. Not likely to be any more Rathfelder (talk) 15:52, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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NRHP occupations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:08, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose to convert to WikiProject tracking categories on talk pages or delete
  • Category:NRHP architects
  • Category:NRHP builders
  • Category:NRHP engineers
  • Category:NRHP artists
Nominator's rationale. These are all hidden categories, but they don't meet either WP:DEFINING or WP:HIDDENCAT. So they should be converted to WikiProject tracking categories on the talk page, or deleted. (I prefer conversion).
Per WP:HIDDENCAT, hidden categories are a way of shielding readers from administrative categories. However, these categories serve no administrative purpose, and I have seen nothing in any guideline to suggest that hiding is some sort of means of making an inappropriate category acceptable.
Some background will help to clarify the options. All 4 were created by @Doncram, with ((Wikipedia category|hidden=yes)) to hide them. The first three were created in 2011, and on 6 July 2012 Doncram unhid all three: [1], [2], [3]. A few hours later, @Orlady nominated all three at WP:CFD 2012 July 6 for renaming to a more verbose form: "Fooers of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places".
That discussion considered the merits of the proposed new names, but 5 of the 10 editors who made a !vote favoured deletion. After some suggestions to re-hide as a solution, Doncram re-hid all three categories, and the discussion was closed by admin @Mike Selinker: as problem addressed by hiding categories. This can be reopened if anyone thinks the problem hasn't been addressed this way".
The 4th category nominated is Category:NRHP artists, which was created by Doncram in December 2017‎, clearly in the spirit of the other CFD decision on the first 3.
I don't think the problem has been resolved, which is why I am re-opening this issue.
My bottom line here is that WP:HIDDENCAT should be used only for administrative purposes, i.e. attributes of the en.wp page rather than attibutes of the topic. (Those attributes of the page which will be mostly for tracking pages in need of attention or monitoring types of content.) If we start allowing HIDDENCAT to be used as a way of retaining categories about the attributes of a topic which would otherwise be unacceptable (rather than attributes of the en.wp page), then we open the door to a parallel categorisation system in which some dubious cats retain a zombie existence, visible only to registered users who are logged in and have "view hidden categories" enabled in their preferences. That seems to me to be a very bad idea, and potentially a recipe for something akin to a dark web inside en.wp. ("hey, leave off Category:Has-beens / Category:DILFs / Category:Scumbag politicians — it's a WP:HIDDENCAT! ")
So the simplest solution here would be to unhide all 4 categories, and possibly rename them. That's better than hiding, but I agree with those in the 2012 CFD who objected to the principle of categorising people by which heritage register recognised some of their work, maybe hundreds of years later. Apart from being cluttersome, it would in many cases be WP:NONDEFINING, because many buildings end up on a heritage register because of their mere fact of survival or because they were used for some purpose of historical significance. For example, 20 Forthlin Road and Arabella Station are not listed because of their architectural merit.
I believe that the best solution would be to convert these to WikiProject tracking categories — because that is what they are actually being used for. At least one editor who is very active on NRHP topics (Doncram) finds these groupings helpful, and that is the only way I see of preserving them without breaching some other important principle. As @Black Falcon noted in the 2012 CFD, this could achieved by tweaking ((WikiProject NRHP)) to allow ((WikiProject NRHP|class=|importance=|architect=yes)). That proposal was supported by Doncram. As BF noted then It would need to be a three-stage transition: editing the project banner to accommodate the new parameter(s); adding the parameter to all affected talk pages (510, currently) so as to populate the categories with talk pages; and removing the articles. It's neither a big nor a complex task, and I would be happy to help to implement this.
However, if there is no consensus to convert to WikiProject tracking categories, these categories should simply be deleted as a breach of WP:DEFINING and WP:HIDDENCAT. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:13, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nomination amended Per discussion below with Nyttend, I have removed my support for converting these to project categories. That it is a decision for the WikiProject to make on its own, and I was wrong to suggest that a CFD should usurp that.
So instead I propose to delete the categories. I have listed their current contents on subpages of this CFD, so if WP:NRHP does wants to use them, it has that option.
The lists are:
--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:12, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Contents shifted to Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 November 13. -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:14, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging the closer of the July 2012 CFD (@Mike Selinker) and the ten participants: @Black Falcon, Doncram, Johnpacklambert, Kbdank71, Nyttend, Orlady, Robofish, Sphilbrick, The Bushranger, and Vegaswikian. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:14, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Nyttend: Single-user categories are a truly terrible idea. If we allowed that, then any editor could create flurries of hidden categories outside of the usual categorisation guidelines, which would be a recipe for massive clutter as well as POV-pushing.
If these categories are neither not wanted nor used by the project, then of course CFD should not impose them on the project. I had not foreseen that the project would disown them, but obviously it has every right to do so.
So I suggest that this discussion should simply delete the categories after listifying them in project space, and leave the project to make its own decisions about whether to re-create them using its project banner. How does that sound to you? I am happy to amend the nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:10, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to produce a list, better to create a page in Doncram's userspace and put the list there. I strongly doubt that anyone else would be interested in restoring them by means of the project banner, but it couldn't hurt to do your idea, and if I'm wrong about the project interest, your idea would help. Meanwhile, I was saying I don't see why it would be a problem to have unobtrusive categories for one person because these are innocuous: none of our readers would object on neutrality or attack-page grounds, while of course a hidden "Category:Eeeeevil politicians!" could be deleted on such a basis. I'm not massively concerned about the clutter issue, but I don't have any specific arguments against that. Nyttend (talk) 17:18, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Nyttend: see above. I created the lists as subpages of this CFD page. So they will be permalinked from this discussion, available to whoever wants to use them for whatever.
I take your point about these cats not being attack categories. However, each category requires code in the relevant articles, and the hidden category will be displayed to all those who editors who have choose to view hidden categories. So they aren't really one person's categories; they are in a public space. And if we start allowing this sort of WP:NONDEF category, where and how do we draw lines? I do a lot of work on Irish+UK political topics, and it would be simple to define a vast set of similarly non-defining categories for politicians. For or against Brexit? Pro- or anti- the 8th Amendment in Ireland? Topped the poll under STV? Elected for a five-seat constituency? Imposed onto the ticket by party HQ? Voted for or against the ABC amendment to the X Bill? Backed or opposed the 2010 Fine Gael leadership heave? Those are all neutral, and probably all more objectively testable than the 4 cats nominated here. I don't want to find any such cats appearing as hidden and a WP:DoncramPrecedent being cited in their defence. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:37, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Putting lists in the CFD subpage — thank you, that works fine. Attack categories etc — I was meaning applied to the talk page, since that's less obtrusive, and any category like this is quite harmless if taken in isolation. I don't now remember my thinking from earlier, but it looks like I was attempting to argue that such a category can be okay (and there's already internal-category clutter on some talk pages, e.g. Talk:New York City), and one could always request deletion for one that's offensive/non-NPOV/otherwise problematic by themselves. But if you're concerned that that's still too public, or that talk pages simply shouldn't be categorised in such a way, I'll respect that; I don't really have an opinion as far as "should" or "should not", so I don't think I should argue either way. Nyttend (talk) 01:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
PS, in other words, I don't have an opinion on your concerns re precedent, so I'll leave your words unchallenged and unsupported, rather than fabricating an opinion that might be a bit ill-thought-through. Nyttend (talk) 01:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Algerian Championnat National seasons

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering 23:55, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As far as I can discern, "Championnat National" and "Championnat National 2" are merely the former names of the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, respectively. (Pinging category creator: User:Djln) -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:12, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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