Category talk:Kentucky colonels
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This category was nominated for deletion, renaming, or merging with another category on 2006 August 23. The result of the discussion was no consensus. |
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This category was nominated for deletion, renaming, or merging with another category on 2009 January 2. The result of the discussion was no consensus. |
[edit] Post-CFD cleanout
I've been through the contents of this category and removed any article that does not mention that the person has received this award. All in all, less than ½ of the articles mentioned it, which seems to further strengthen my opinion that it's non-defining. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:40, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
- Please be careful where it is mentioned in a biography sub-page though. For example Winston Churchill has a sub-article called Honours of Winston Churchill where it is included and sourced. Road Wizard (talk) 02:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
- Typically editors are not going to trawl though a subpage to search for an award. If it's not notable enough to be in the main article, it will likely be deleted often. Another reason this is probably not defining, it it's not even important enough to be in the main article. Not to re-argue the case that ended in no consensus, but this is a perfect example of why a list would be preferable and easier to use and source. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
- Personally I have no interest in the CfD issue. Either the category exists or it doesn't exist, I don't care. However as long as it is here it should be appropriately populated. Removing correctly categorised articles is not particularly productive as "it will likely be" restored each time you delete it.
- If you want to get rid of this category then discuss it with interested editors and take it back to CfD when you feel that you are likely to gain a consensus. Road Wizard (talk) 03:07, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
- It's not going to be me that will be repeatedly removing it—I'm suggesting it will be a common occurrence since the article mentions nothing about it, and that's a common standard to adopt when applying or removing categories. Whether it's a good approach or not is another issue, but we can't all change the world. I'm just letting you know that it's a relatively hopeless hope to ask people to trawl through subpages when deciding if a category will be deleted from an article, because they won't. It's probably going to happen again, I would bet. If you're fine with that, that's great. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:30, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
