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*'''Keep''' – ludicrous is putting it mildly. I take it that WAS has read eg [[Ibn Battuta]]. [[User:Occuli|Occuli]] ([[User talk:Occuli|talk]]) 18:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
*'''Keep''' – ludicrous is putting it mildly. I take it that WAS has read eg [[Ibn Battuta]]. [[User:Occuli|Occuli]] ([[User talk:Occuli|talk]]) 18:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' I am sorry to disagree with so many outspoken fellow editors here and in the previous discussion, but I completely agree with the nominators rationale, and the arguments I have seen here and in the previous discussion have not convinced me otherwise. [[User:Debresser|Debresser]] ([[User talk:Debresser|talk]]) 00:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' I am sorry to disagree with so many outspoken fellow editors here and in the previous discussion, but I completely agree with the nominators rationale, and the arguments I have seen here and in the previous discussion have not convinced me otherwise. [[User:Debresser|Debresser]] ([[User talk:Debresser|talk]]) 00:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' - WASimpson: why do you keep using so called "policies" you (or one of your close Wiki-associates) recently revised or rewrote to justify the continued deletion of dozens of perfectly valid, factual, and encyclopedic categories? Doesn't revising or rewriting certain "policies," and then immediately turning around and using those same changed "policies" you just rewrote or revised to justify the deletion of categories, qualify as a conflict of interest (at best) or outright manipulation of policies to suit your wishes (at worst)? --[[User:Wassermann|Wassermann]] ([[User talk:Wassermann|talk]]) 06:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


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Revision as of 06:33, 11 June 2009

June 10

Category:Repurposed shopping malls in the United States

Suggest merging Category:Repurposed shopping malls in the United States to Category:Defunct shopping malls in the United States
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Very few shopping malls are ever converted to non-retail, in my findings. One of the ones in this category is a true repurpose, and the other appears to have been stalled since 2007 without any progress. I know of one or two stray malls that have been truly converted to non-retail uses, but such occurrences are usually to non-notable malls, and the instances are so few and far between that the "defunct" category suffices. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many ottersOne batOne hammer) 23:44, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete:
Nominator's rationale: Category appears to be of little if any value, and appears to have been created as a negative equity rather than a positive contribution to Wikipedia. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 22:53, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tentative delete Seems an irrelevant intersection. Unless the articles would show how their atheism or agnostism shapes their political views and actions. Debresser (talk) 00:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep - I admit my opinion's a bit muzzy on this, but at least in the US it's damn near impossible to get elected if you don't espouse a belief in a god of some sort or another, and even then it had best be the "right" god. I suspect the same applies in many other countries, especially those in the Middle East and Latin and South America. This may mean that the intersection of "atheist" and "politician" rises to the level of defining characteristic even if other intersections of religion and "politician" don't. Otto4711 (talk) 04:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - very well populated category which is of particular interest to many in the increasingly secular or "post-religious" West. --Wassermann (talk) 06:26, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cinderella

Propose renaming Category:Cinderella to Category:Cinderella (band)
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Per main, dab. —Justin (koavf)TCM23:06, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish economists

Category:Soviet Union canoeist stubs

Propose renaming Category:Soviet Union canoeist stubs to Category:Soviet canoeists stubs
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with other professions from people who lived in the former Soviet Union. Chris (talk) 21:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Quebecois cuisine

Propose renaming Category:Quebecois cuisine to Category:Québécois cuisine Category:Quebec cuisine
Nominator's rationale: Not sure about this one, created by an anon IP back in 2004. Québécois is a French word, with the accents. What we have now is a corrupted anglicized word. However, I generally don't like using non-English accented words in categories because I think it's harder for many users with standard English keyboards. While it looks like a noun, we do in fact at times use "Quebec" as an adjective in English -- i.e. "Quebec politics" -- and I have revised this nom to suggest this as the best route. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:09, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, one thing I realized is that we do use Quebec as an adjective. For example, we say "Quebec politics" whereas we would not say "Canada politics." I'll modify my nom right now to reflect that, thanks. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose It does not have accents in English always. Further, Quebecois is used to indicate ethnic Quebecois cuisine. So should be split in two (Cuisine in Quebec .vs. Quebecois cuisine) 70.29.210.174 (talk) 04:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Islamic travel writers

Category:Islamic travel writers - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. As with Jewish travel writers below, there's no evidence on the record that this religion "is essential to the occupation."
Also, there's no evidence in the existing articles that each "subject's beliefs are relevant to the subject's notable activities or public life, according to reliable published sources."
Previous discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 May 17#Category:Muslim travel writers.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 17:09, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep per the last debate. Nom's comment is ludicrous, frankly! Johnbod (talk) 17:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – ludicrous is putting it mildly. I take it that WAS has read eg Ibn Battuta. Occuli (talk) 18:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I am sorry to disagree with so many outspoken fellow editors here and in the previous discussion, but I completely agree with the nominators rationale, and the arguments I have seen here and in the previous discussion have not convinced me otherwise. Debresser (talk) 00:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - WASimpson: why do you keep using so called "policies" you (or one of your close Wiki-associates) recently revised or rewrote to justify the continued deletion of dozens of perfectly valid, factual, and encyclopedic categories? Doesn't revising or rewriting certain "policies," and then immediately turning around and using those same changed "policies" you just rewrote or revised to justify the deletion of categories, qualify as a conflict of interest (at best) or outright manipulation of policies to suit your wishes (at worst)? --Wassermann (talk) 06:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Film awards for Best Animated Feature

Propose renaming Category:Film awards for Best Animated Feature to Category:Awards for best animated feature film
Nominator's rationale: Once again, renaming per capitalization guidelines in WP:NCCAT and the fact that all awards in this category are not literally for Best Animated Feature. I was originally going to suggest that we rename as "Animated feature film awards," along the lines of Category:Documentary film awards. But my concern is that this could be misconstrued as a category for awards for animated features that are not for best in category, such as the Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production. So I've used the recently renamed Category:Awards for best film as the model. This could then become a sub-cat of that category, too. Also, there's nothing stopping us from creating Category:Animated feature film awards as a top-level category for all long form animation awards -- best film and craft awards -- itself a subcat of Category:Animation awards, if needed, at a later date. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:15, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Musical forms

Propose renaming Category:Musical forms to Category:Arabic musical forms
Nominator's rationale: Category:Musical form holds musical forms. This plural category has been managed to keep only Arabic musical forms. Either major restructure or else rename Musical forms to Arabic musical forms. Ian Cairns (talk) 11:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kbdank71 13:33, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diet food writers

Category:Diet food writers - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Moved its only article to more appropriate category. We already have Category:Food writers and Category:Health and wellness writers which are well-used and linked in. thisisace (talk) 20:18, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please reinstate whatever you removed. See the procedures. How can we consider a category that has been emptied? There may well be a case for a category (with a better name) with both of these as parents. Johnbod (talk) 17:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done. thisisace (talk) 20:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 22:30, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Most food writers just address one dish or meal at a time. I'm open to different phrasing, but diet books are clearly a very different genre from cookery books, and recognised and placed as such in completely different sections (often not even in the food section) on the shelves of bookshops and elsewhere in the book trade. We have many far more minute distinctions than this in writer categories that have been upheld here. Obviously not all diet writing is about weight loss. Johnbod (talk) 18:19, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep / Consider Rename There are people who write about cooking from an aesthetic standpoint and there are those who write about from a dieting standpoint, where the goal is to eat foods to reach some state of improved health. Irma S. Rombauer, author of The Joy of Cooking, was not writing about dieting, and most cookbook authors don't. Category:Health and wellness writers includes writers who address issues other than food as a means towards wellness. I would fully support a rename, but this category appears to capture a defining characteristic that would be eliminated by deletion or renaming. Alansohn (talk) 17:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kbdank71 13:26, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street films

Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street films - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. An unnecessary category. We already have Category:A Nightmare on Elm Street, which contains anything and everything connected to the series. We also have Template:Nightmareseries, which has a link to all of the major articles (including the films). We don't need an overly specific category just for the films when we have the template and a general Nightmare category.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 12:43, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Haroon albums

Category:Polygamy and the Latter Day Saint movement

Propose renaming Category:Polygamy and the Latter Day Saint movement to Category:Mormonism and polygamy
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Renaming to match main article Mormonism and polygamy. As discussed when the article was renamed, the proposed name actually reflects the contents a bit better, since polygamy has a lot to do with Mormonism but not a lot to do with the rest of the Latter Day Saint movement. (The article name has bounced around a bit lately, and I've just been renaming the category to follow it each time. Originally it was Category:Plural marriage, then it went to what it is now, now we're changing it again.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The main article is now called "Mormonism and polygamy", but of all the other articles in this category, none have "Mormonism" in their title. "Latter Day Saint movement" is present in part of titles. On one hand the category name should be close to the main article's name, but we shouldn't forget about the other articles of the category. Especially when, as the nominator has mentioned, the main article is being renamed frequently. Since the present name is more inclusive (Mormonism being a part of the Latter Day Saint movement), I'd prefer to keep the more inclusive name. Debresser (talk) 11:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – but it is (allegedly) a subcat of Category:Mormonism and women. If there are articles about non-Mormon LDS polygamy/polygamists, perhaps there is a case for keeping the present one with a subcat of Category:Mormonism and polygamy. Occuli (talk) 14:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Clarification and comments (nom). The perceived problem with the current name is that outside of "Mormonism" (i.e., the LDS Church and Mormon fundamentalists), there is not really any history of polygamy whatsoever in the Latter Day Saint movement. The non-Mormonism strands of the movement are mainly the Community of Christ, the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), and some other small groups. None of the members of these groups ever practiced polygamy and the churches have never taught the doctrine of plural marriage. Debresser's point should be considered, though. The single article that now links the phrases "LDS movement" and "polygamy" is Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement. For the non-Mormonism groups, this article basically says, "never has taught it and adherents never practiced it and actively opposes it." This may be enough to keep the name broader rather than Mormonism, I'm not sure. In light of this and Occuli's comment, which is also relevant, I'm a bit unsure of what to do. It is a close call; ultimately either will be acceptable to me. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles by class

Category:Articles by class - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. I am unsure whether this should be just deleted (assuming there is another core way of navigating basic subject areas) or if this should be renamed. If renamed I couldn't quite think of an appropriate alternative, just this doesn't quite fit this title. To illustrate when I put a note on the category talk page questioning the category, someone left this on my talk. "'articles by class' refers to whether an article is stub-class, Start-class, B-, A, Good, Featured, etc"; which if it was the nature of the category I would understand. But it isn't it's purpose. So ideas please! :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:15, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish travel writers

Suggest merging Category:Jewish travel writers to Category:Travel writers
Nominator's rationale: Merge overcategorization by religion and/or ethnicity. There is no encyclopedic relationship between "Jewish" and "travel writer". Otto4711 (talk) 01:52, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Here's the link to the previous discussion on Category:Islamic travel writers, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:24, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Islamic category, had the name change not been involved, would have been closed as "no consensus". The closer felt that the arguments for deletion were superior but didn't have consensus. The category was renamed because no one made the case for the intersection of religion (Muslim) and occupation (travel writer) being defining. If the assertion that the perspective of Middle Ages Jews is "very distinct and highly encyclopedic" then an article covering the topic would better serve the project than a bare alphabetical category, which can tell us nothing of this distinct perspective. Otto4711 (talk) 16:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • An article would not replace the category, though it would certainly be a good idea. That is a novel and strange idea - usually the existence of a main article is cited here as strengthening the case for a category, not the reverse. Johnbod (talk) 17:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neither novel nor strange. Not every topic that has an article on Wikipedia warrants a category that covers the topic. If that were the case every WP article would be eligible for its own category. I've made this argument before repeatedly. Where a lead article usually strengthens a CFD case is in selecting a rename for a category. Otto4711 (talk) 21:36, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tamils of Sri Lanka

Suggest merging Category:Tamils of Sri Lanka to Category:Tamil Sri Lankans
or rename Category:Tamil Sri Lankan as umbrella topic category
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Two nearly identically named ethnic subcategories for the same island, populated only by a few different subcategories. The later name matches the form of Category:Tamil Indians, Category:Tamil Singaporeans, Category:Tamil South Africans, etc.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 00:15, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Then didn't it occur to you that merging a general category into a people category was not a good idea? Johnbod (talk) 17:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]