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NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Awarded Wikipedians

Category:Awarded Wikipedians - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: After previous nomination for deletion I disagreed with the nominator's first rationale (Self-agrandizement). However, after hearing better rationale and the later arguments, which make total sense, I request, as author, speedy deletion Heltzen ◩ 07:24, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Propose renaming Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Category:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

Nominator's rationale: Two issues: (1) "The" is superfluous and unneeded, even though it is part of the official name of the organization. (Similar example: category is Category:George Washington University, not Category:The George Washington University, even though the official name of the organization is "The George Washington University".) (2) Because of the existence of Category:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), which has quite a similar base name, some sort of DAB should be added to this category name, as has been added to the Stangite one. -"(LDS Church)" is the DAB used for articles with a DAB specific to this organization. Snocrates 05:24, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Action film characters

Category:Action film characters - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete this recently created category that mostly includes characters best known for other media (e.g., comic book characters, video game characters). Is "action film" a clearly defined category? No. Because the films themselves are not consistently categorized as action films, the characters simply cannot be. If not in an action film, it's not an action film character. Doczilla 04:06, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator's convincing precedence-based logic. Snocrates 05:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Brøndby IF footballers

Per the convention of Category:Footballers in Denmark by club and the other subcategories of Category:Football (soccer) players by club. The use of "footballers" is redundant when the clubs concerned are football clubs. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 03:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AaB footballers

Propose renaming Category:AaB footballers to Category:Aalborg Boldspilklub players

Nominator's rationale: To match the title of the parent category (Category:Aalborg Boldspilklub) and the main article (Aalborg Boldspilklub), as well as per the convention of Category:Footballers in Denmark by club. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 03:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename as nominated. Makes sense. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Historical medical landmarks in Boston

Propose renaming Category:Historical medical landmarks in Boston to Category:Historical medical landmarks in Boston, Massachusetts

Nominator's rationale: To conform to the title of the parent category and per precedent. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:45, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename per nom. The citizens of Boston, KwaZulu-Natal are pissed about this. Snocrates 05:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Museum ships in Falls River, Massachusetts

Category:Museum ships in Falls River, Massachusetts - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Category is small with no possibility for growth. Also it is spelled wrong. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 02:16, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Also entries all link to Battleship Cove and it links to them all. clariosophic 02:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Upmerge entries to Category:Museum ships in the United States --MChew 03:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Upmerge as above. Makes little sense to have a category with only four entries when they're named elsewhere. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:16, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open flat horse races by length

This nomination to rename includes the following:

Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 5 furlongs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 5 furlongs long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 6 furlongs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 6 furlongs long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 7 furlongs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 7 furlongs long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1 mile (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 mile long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1⅛ miles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 1/8 miles long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1¼ miles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 1/4 miles long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1⅜ miles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 3/8 miles long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1½ miles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 1/2 miles long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 1¾ miles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races about 1 3/4 miles long
Category:Open flat horse races ≈ 2 miles + (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Open flat horse races at least 2 miles long

Each of these categories uses at least one non-standard character (either a ≈ character, or that and a combined fraction such as ½), which are difficult to search for and type into articles. These titles get the same point across without the fancy symbols and should be much easier on editors and searchers alike. WP:NAME does not specifically mention fractions or approximate signs, but one could interpret them as "accent characters used only for emphasis". As such, I propose to rename the above categories as shown. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 01:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename per nom. Best to avoid these wonky characters in cat names. Snocrates 06:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:TV series using Total War

Suggest merging Category:TV series using Total War to Category:Total War series

Nominator's rationale: This category has existed for roughly eight and a half months, but only has two member articles. Being somewhat familiar with the subject matter, I doubt that there are more; if there are, they would almost certainly be few in number, such that there still wouldn't be enough members to justify this category, which seems over-specific. Suggest upmerging to parent category (Category:Total War series). — TKD::Talk 00:46, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose leaning toward delete altogether. The proposed target category seems to focus mainly on the games themselves - since the TV shows aren't part of the games, it seems incorrect to place them there. I do agree that a category should ideally have more than two members, however, so perhaps it's best to simply delete the category as underpopulated and unlikely to get more populated. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 02:07, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That's a fair point. I wouldn't mind outright deletion. — TKD::Talk 02:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Hersfold. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:56, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete altogether. It's impractical to categorize any TV series by specific tools they use. Doczilla 04:59, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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