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Category:Gray eminences

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 09:47, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining category for a subjective criterion. The definition of an éminence grise is "powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates behind the scenes, or in a non-public or unofficial capacity", and it's undeniable that there have been a few people in history who became notable that way -- but the problem is that the term gets used incredibly subjectively, to encompass a lot more than just the traditional meaning. The people in this category, for example, include Dick Cheney, Deng Xiaoping, Joaquín Balaguer, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Diego Portales and José López Rega, all of whom actually held official public positions in their respective countries' governments, as well as a president's communications advisor and (I'm not even kidding about this) a court jester -- and if we define the term that broadly, then this would become a massively unbrowsable megacategory for every politician who ever acted as an advisor or mentor to one of their successors, a good portion of the entire staff of the national leader's office under every government administration everywhere, every high-ranking civil servant in every government department, and even some lobbyists. Accordingly, we should not be categorizing people this way: those who were notable as politicians should be categorized as politicians, and those who were notable as political consultants or advisors should be categorized as advisors or consultants, rather than using a highly subjective and inconsistently-defined term like this. Bearcat (talk) 20:09, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Per Bearcat. Not all descriptors make good categorization schemes, and this one is far too subjective to be useful as a category. --Jayron32 20:12, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Forgotten Realms deities

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_14#Category:Forgotten_Realms_deities (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 10:01, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category structure is now at a point where the arbitrary splits are unnecessary for organization. There is nothing distinctive enough about the campaign settings in relation to the dieties to need to categorize the characters in such a way. TTN (talk) 18:21, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn by Rathfelder. (non-admin closure) ミラP 03:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The two categories are identical. They separate the Members of the Parliament of England from the rest of the eighteenth century Members of the Parliament of Great Britain Rathfelder (talk) 17:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The by-century categories were created later, and I have now made all the by-centuries categories to be sub-cats of Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament, which solves the problem.
It's a pity that the nominator didn't take a minute or two study the category tree before coming to CFD. Would @Rathfelder like to withdraw this misconceived nomination? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:32, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The category is useful for containing the subcategories by century. It is not identical to just the 18th century, as England had parliaments going back half a millenium before that. --Jayron32 17:34, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm quite happy with BHG's solution. I just didnt like 2 categories with identical contents. Rathfelder (talk) 17:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So will you withdraw the nomination, Rathfelder? That would save anyone else wasting time on it. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:42, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly. Rathfelder (talk) 17:42, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Members of the Parliament of England (1485–1603)

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:English MPs of the Tudor period (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 12:20, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary intermediate category created to capture Tudor MPs. They are all included in Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) so that doesn't need merging. Rathfelder (talk) 17:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Huntingdonshire

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. My mistake for not noticing Huntingdon. (non-admin closure) ミラP 19:58, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Until 1885, Huntingdonshire was the only constituency that had its borders within any part of the county of the same name, so this name is anachronistic. ミラP 15:57, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  1. I have not mentioned any "text book"
  2. The problem is not about one book. That book is mentioned to illustrate a wider problem with the terminology.
  3. The existence of the categories for English MPs by parliament is irrelevant is irrelevant, for the very simple reason that if an editor goes to add a "Category:Members of the Parliament of England for Foo" to a post-1707 MP, that article will not be in any of the "English MPs YYYY-YYYY" categories.
This is all getting ridiculous. I will post a message on your talk. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I am increasingly alarmed that Rathfelder and Miraclepine are engaged in prolific categorisation of MPs despite repeatedly demonstrating a lack of knowledge of even the most immediate pertinent facts, let alone the wider topic. I strongly urge Rathfelder and Miraclepine to desist from further categorisation of MPs. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 15:21, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a C2D situation - matching the category name to the franchise article. Why is this good? It gives an accurate reflection of what the category is for. This helps both readers and editors find and use the correct category. Sadly, I need to explain this very basic principle.
When a category uses the name of an entry of the franchise, instead of the franchise name, it's unclear if the the category is for A Nightmare on Elm Street, the first film in the franchise, or for the entire franchise. This gets worse when dealing with sub-categories. Is Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street characters‎ for characters from the first film, or for the entire franchise, including comics? Are users who are in Category:Wikipedians interested in Nightmare on Elm Street interested in the first film, or in the entire franchise?
The naming issue does not end there. Not having a correct name, makes sub-category naming inconsistent. These sub-categories Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise media‎, Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) comics‎, and Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street series music‎ are using different naming styles to say that they are for the entire franchise. One uses "franchise", another "(franchise)" in disambiguation and a third "series". This makes it extremely difficult for readers to find the category they want, as they need to guess what the name is.
The use of "(franchise)" is also C2C as it is WP:CONSISTENT with how many other franchise category names work. See Category:Horror film franchises for example for the similar categories Category:Friday the 13th (franchise), Category:Halloween (franchise)‎ and Category:Scream (franchise)‎. Speedy renaming was also used recently without any problem for Category:The Thing (franchise)‎, Category:Child's Play (franchise)‎, and Category:Gremlins (franchise). Gonnym (talk) 15:54, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Veritas (political party) members of the London Assembly

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. The only consensus that is possible to determine is that the DAB component should be kept. However, in terms of where the categorized articles belong, the discussion has evolved alongside and become inextricably intertwined with several other discussions that happened after this discussion was initiated. It seems that the best course forward may be to close this particular discussion as no consensus and start it afresh, should it be deemed necessary. bibliomaniac15 04:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: consistency with other categories in Category:Members of the London Assembly, none of which have (or need) the parenthetical disambiguation used in the titles of the parties' main articles. Opera hat (talk) 01:25, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Are you really saying that it should be necessary to clarify that a Member of the London Assembly will be from a UK political party? Would you be in favour of renaming the subcategories of Category:Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom by party as well? Opera hat (talk) 01:34, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Such renames would be speedies; but I have better things to do. Oculi (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The MEP category, though it will only ever have one article, is part of "a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" within Category:Members of the European Parliament by country and party so should be kept, according to WP:SMALLCAT. Opera hat (talk) 01:43, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting along with related categories, see below
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 14:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Veritas politicians

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The result of the discussion was: Option A Timrollpickering (Talk) 15:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Either Option A:

Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 26#Category:Veritas (political party) politicians has left us with inconsistently named categories. Speedy renaming of the sub-category was opposed on the grounds of ambiguity. Note: this CFD should be closed consistently with the relisted London Assembly category above, unless that is closed as "merge". – Fayenatic London 14:37, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
*specifically, that part of WP:PRECISION that says titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that. Opera hat (talk) 20:13, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The WP:PRECISION policy which @Opera hat cites is part of the policy WP:Article titles. This is a category, not an article and there is long-standing practice with categories, upheld at squazillions of CFDs over 15 years, that category names place a much higher priority on consistency, so follow the article name including dismabiguators (tho a dab may be added to categories if needed). That retention of disambiguators avoids guessing whether the title of the article is ambiguous in category space, which is why for example we have categories of the form "Sean Citizen (musician) albums", even tho Sean Citizen (musician) is the only musician of that name. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:41, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I quoted from WP:Article titles. But WP:Category names#General conventions says Standard article naming conventions apply to categories too. WP:Naming conventions is WP:Article titles, and it is WP:POLICY as well. If applying a Wikipedia policy leads to a conflict with something like WP:C2D, which is merely a helpful description of common practice, the policy should take priority. Opera hat (talk) 21:24, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Opera hat, please go read WP:NAMINGCRITERIA. You are prioritising conciseness, but that is only one of five criteria which can be applied. The policy explicitly says "It may be necessary to favor one or more of these goals over the others" ... and the convention with categories has for over a decade been that the highest priority is placed on consistency and precision.
The path you want to drag us down would have us evaluating the disambiguators on every eponymous category ... which would be a massive time sink, and make categorisation harder and less accurate. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:50, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the point you are making, but to me treating the speedy category move criteria as if they were themselves naming conventions sounds like saying "For the sake of convenience, it is better to stick with a bad title than to spend any time deciding on a better one." WP:NAMINGCRITERIA also says The choice of article titles should put the interests of readers before those of editors, so whether it is a "massive time sink" should not be a factor. Opera hat (talk) 15:45, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Compositions by writers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 22:26, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Compositions by Marsha Norman
  • Propose deleting Category:Compositions by Brian Yorkey
  • Propose deleting Category:Compositions by James Lapine
Nominator's rationale: They are not composers but writers. Tijd-jp (talk) 13:29, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Viacom Media Networks

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks. bibliomaniac15 04:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Viacom Media Networks to Category:ViacomCBS television networks
Nominator's rationale: As of December 4, 2019, Viacom Media Networks has renamed to ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks. Ridwan97 (talk) 04:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Junior Network shows

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 17:32, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not sure what was the reasoning behind the creation of this category. The 4 pages in it never mention "Junior Network" even once in the article and the infobox actually list different networks. Gonnym (talk) 14:54, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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