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*'''Vandalism''' is the behavior attributed originally to the [[Vandalism|Vandals]]. This talk, it is a form of hearing to describe the wrong and right. WHAT SOME OF YOU IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE, it does not means, that you will. I think that the most important be the truth, and if you are in position to kill the intention before you are learning the very end outcome, then let it be. Kill the knowledge, show your power, stupidity. I got the knowledge, so i may say it is your choice to learn it or not. All yours curiosity be satisfied with the von Monzingen article, unless you got the knowledge.[[User:Finkpal|Finkpal]] ([[User talk:Finkpal|talk]]) 15:12, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
*'''Vandalism''' is the behavior attributed originally to the [[Vandalism|Vandals]]. This talk, it is a form of hearing to describe the wrong and right. WHAT SOME OF YOU IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE, it does not means, that you will. I think that the most important be the truth, and if you are in position to kill the intention before you are learning the very end outcome, then let it be. Kill the knowledge, show your power, stupidity. I got the knowledge, so i may say it is your choice to learn it or not. All yours curiosity be satisfied with the von Monzingen article, unless you got the knowledge.[[User:Finkpal|Finkpal]] ([[User talk:Finkpal|talk]]) 15:12, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
*'''Delete'''; [[WP:V|unsourced]]. Perhaps even more simply, no main article, so no category. -- [[User:Gyrofrog|Gyrofrog ]] [[User_talk:Gyrofrog|(talk)]] 15:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
*'''Delete'''; [[WP:V|unsourced]]. Perhaps even more simply, no main article, so no category. -- [[User:Gyrofrog|Gyrofrog ]] [[User_talk:Gyrofrog|(talk)]] 15:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
*'''Vandalism'''Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page. The issue here -- If someone can come up with a credible (sourced) explanation of this grouping - fine --
*'''Vandalism'''Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page. The issue here -- If someone can come up with a credible (sourced) explanation of this grouping - fine --Only the blind person do not see the similarities of all these articles. A simple question, where from the have come? And if all of you, or some of you, are able to bring to the attention of this court of any vandalism then OK with me '''delete'''. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Finkpal|Finkpal]] ([[User talk:Finkpal|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Finkpal|contribs]]) 15:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
Only the blind person do not see the similarities of all these articles. A simple question, where from the have come? And if all of you, or some of you, are able to bring to the attention of this court of any vandalism then OK with me '''deleted'''. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Finkpal|Finkpal]] ([[User talk:Finkpal|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Finkpal|contribs]]) 15:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


==== Category:Beauty columnist ====
==== Category:Beauty columnist ====

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October 22

Murdered American mobsters of Irish descent

Category:Sphinx Family

Nominator's rationale: Delete. This category appears to be a complete spoof i.e. a dubious grouping of articles under an unrelated category title with a fantastic explanation and no parent category. If someone can come up with a credible (sourced) explanation of this grouping - fine. Otherwise it should be deleted. Bermicourt (talk) 19:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, apparent nonsense. Angr (talk) 19:29, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as nonsense.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:33, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, possible hoax. Unsourced. Jokestress (talk) 19:33, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, unverifiable hoax. The same unsourced claims are made in this article by the same user: Von Roggenhausen. dissolvetalk 19:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relax, do not dare!!! Do not try to pursue!!!!! I need more time, and this does not mean, what ever you are claiming. I do not have at present my former work don in this topic. No one does say anywhere, to be push or on harry. And if you are so smart, as you are does claim, please explain to me why, at the same time all of you does provide similar statement on this talk.Finkpal (talk) 11:10, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The above comment demonstrates pretty clearly that this is a hoax category that should be deleted and that the creator is a vandalism-only account that should be blocked. Pichpich (talk) 14:25, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Vandalism is the behavior attributed originally to the Vandals. This talk, it is a form of hearing to describe the wrong and right. WHAT SOME OF YOU IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE, it does not means, that you will. I think that the most important be the truth, and if you are in position to kill the intention before you are learning the very end outcome, then let it be. Kill the knowledge, show your power, stupidity. I got the knowledge, so i may say it is your choice to learn it or not. All yours curiosity be satisfied with the von Monzingen article, unless you got the knowledge.Finkpal (talk) 15:12, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete; unsourced. Perhaps even more simply, no main article, so no category. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • VandalismVandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page. The issue here -- If someone can come up with a credible (sourced) explanation of this grouping - fine --Only the blind person do not see the similarities of all these articles. A simple question, where from the have come? And if all of you, or some of you, are able to bring to the attention of this court of any vandalism then OK with me delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finkpal (talkcontribs) 15:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beauty columnist

Nominator's rationale: another Laura Frey category, no parents or other contents, it doesn't seem that we need to break down Category:British columnists any more at present so merge without prejudice to splitting out beauty columnists if numbers warrant this in the future. If kept, needs to be renamed to add the missing "s". BencherliteTalk 17:49, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People educated at Convent School

Nominator's rationale: We don't do "people educated by type of school" (state/private/public/single sex/mixed), we do "people educated at X school". I can't work out which of the various Ursuline schools Laura Frey might have attended, otherwise I'd add her to to the appropriate school category. BencherliteTalk 17:42, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Presenters who are stepmothers

Nominator's rationale: Category:Stepmothers does not exist, and having either a category system of "Stepmothers by occupation" or "Radio presenters by parental status" seems a bad idea. BencherliteTalk 17:31, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete As being non-defining. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:53, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete This one is so absurd, I'm tempted to see it as vandalism. Pichpich (talk) 17:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete there is a reason that we do not have a cat for stepmothers. Lots and lots of people would fit the description, but it is unclear it is notable for any of them. Beyond this, it would be hard to figure out a definition that is limited enough to collect like people. Even if we limited it those those who became mothers-by-marriage to people under the age of 18, there is a big difference between a lady who becomes a stepmother to a child at age 1 and at age 17, and it remains unclear it is notable for either case.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:38, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Presenters with dogs

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection of career with hobby. Laura Frey was or is in all of them (I removed her from the fish category because there was no mention in her article of her fishing interests; if that was a bad idea, please trout me, ho-ho). BencherliteTalk 17:29, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. Perhaps we should should create a category, "Publicists and Self-Publicists who don't know how to use Wikipedia" and "Self-building fish who dog" or maybe "Self-building dogs who fish," but not these Laura Frey related cats. BigGrin. --Richhoncho (talk) 18:36, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Female Radio Presenters

Nominator's rationale: Created for Laura Frey but Category:Radio presenters has not been divided this way in the past, seems unnecessary. If kept, capitalisation needs to be fixed and the category populated BencherliteTalk 17:28, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African jazz guitarists

Nominator's rationale: Rename this to "Category:African jazz (genre) guitarists", remove it from Category:Jazz guitarists by nationality and instead place it within Category:African jazz (genre) musicians by instrument, i.e. musicians who play African jazz, as opposed to jazz musicians from Africa (or, {African jazz} guitarists vs. African {jazz guitarists}). Currently, it is the only category within Category:Jazz guitarists by nationality that refers to a continent; all other individual nations (including South Africa) are directly placed in that category. Gyrofrog (talk) 17:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, weak delete all of the following:
(Sorry if I've made a mess of the nomination)
See also related discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 September 26#"African Jazz" musicians, in which another editor had suggested deleting the "African jazz" category scheme. Five years later those same concerns remain. There was, and still is, no African jazz main article; it's a disambiguation page. Category:African jazz (genre) musicians by instrument ultimately rolls up to the South African jazz main article, which otherwise corresponds with Category:South African jazz musicians etc. If the African jazz style is supposed to be synonymous with South African jazz, then I'm not sure how well Randy Weston fits in this category, or if it is representative of all his work as a pianist. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People born in Sweden

Nominator's rationale: Delete We don't categorize people by place of birth and use the more meaningful notion of nationality to categorize people. Note that this should not be merged to Category:Swedish people since the latter should be diffused. Note that all articles currently in Category:People born in Sweden are already categorized in an appropriate subcategory of Category:Swedish people by occupation. Pichpich (talk) 14:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Places named Trujillo

Nominator's rationale: Delete loosely associated topics that just happen to share a common name. Pichpich (talk) 14:20, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment in wikipedia is said about encyclopedia: "is a type of reference work – a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge", and its function is to spread the knowledge so it should be consider renaming the category beacuse to delete it would mean we are against the function of the encyclopedia.--Antodeabout (talk) 23:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • DeleteTrujillo is the page wherein the various usages of Trujillo can be listed. Oculi (talk) 23:59, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Niece of Baron

Nominator's rationale: Delete Being the niece of a baron is not a defining characteristic. Pichpich (talk) 13:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and I suggest having a look at the other categories on the same single member article Laura Frey. Perhaps they could be added to a multi-nomination instead of being done individually. --Qetuth (talk) 13:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no this isn't defining in any way. Further Laura Frey categories now nominated above, some grouped as appropriate. BencherliteTalk 17:16, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Plan 9 stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Vastly undersized. Upmerge until 60+ articles found. Dawynn (talk) 12:17, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and I'm going to suggest delete template as well. It was deleted once before and the discussion at the time argued future growth and an active wikiproject. The growth hasn't seemed to happen and the wikiproject appears inactive. Only 40 or so articles exist on the topic, and most that are stubs are already sorted into software by type. --Qetuth (talk) 13:50, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Turkish Paralympic medalist stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Undersized. Upmerge template until 60+ articles found. Dawynn (talk) 12:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mykolaiv Oblast geography stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Undersized. Upmerge template until 60+ articles found. Dawynn (talk) 12:14, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Akan sport stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Severely underpopulated. Upmerge until 60+ articles found. Dawynn (talk) 12:12, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - and delete the templates as well? I'm unclear on what the scope is exactly, because there does not seem to be an article or category defining the scope - relating to sport in Akanland - this is a redirect to an article about an ethnic group which doesn't mention sport. It is very unusual to see a sport stub cat and template for a subnational area at all (England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland being all I could find) because it is usually not relevant. Do Akan people compete separately internationally? --Qetuth (talk) 14:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Polioptilidae stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Upmerging these to the parent (Category:Certhioidea stubs) will result in less than 50 articles combined. Upmerge until 60+ articles found. Dawynn (talk) 12:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Azerbaijani Paralympic medalist stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Tagging every article in the permanent parent category produced only 11 articles. Upmerge template and delete this undersized category. Dawynn (talk) 12:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Malaya stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Perm cat is a redirect. This is a historic country, but now is mostly entirely contained in Malaysia. Propose deleting this empty stub category altogether (category and template). Dawynn (talk) 11:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete both cat and template - Malayan categories appear to be interspersed within the Malaysian tree, not kept seperate, and only exist for period-specific categories. There is no need for this distinction in the Malaysian stub tree, unless it were to split something like Category:Malaysian history stubs which does not exist. --Qetuth (talk) 13:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Algerian sprinter stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Only 2 articles, and parent stub category, with only 73 articles, is nowhere near needing to split. Propose upmerging template until article count justifies new cateogry. Dawynn (talk) 11:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both category and template - I only see one article now, it is also in the parent cat anyway, and this is clearly overcategorization at this point. --Qetuth (talk) 13:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Peter Andre

Nominator's rationale: Too little content, eponymous categories are discouraged. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:13, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nah as there are plenty of things not covered by the music subcats. Like eponymous shows and his discography etc.MaybeMaybeMaybe (talk) 17:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep I think this just squeaks by. While I don't think Katie Price should be in this category, I still see four legitimate articles and two meaningful subcategories (I'm not counting the technical "album covers" category). I think this is sufficient though it's close. I also see some room for growth: the filmography could be spun off at some point and articles on his fragrances or on his book might be created. Pichpich (talk) 10:17, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Defunct casinos in Missouri

Nominator's rationale: UpMerge to both parent categories. Only has one entry at this time. While it may grow in the future, it may be a while before Category:Defunct casinos needs to be divided this way. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Soft redirected stub categories

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Soft-redirected stub categories are unnecessary. Dawynn (talk) 23:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ξxplicit 02:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete category redirects per nom, and Rename templates: {{Biobío-geo-stub}} to {{BíoBío-geo-stub}} and {{Aisén-geo-stub}} to {{Aysén-geo-stub}} with template redirects as needed, to match everything else Bío Bío and Aysén related on en.wp. In the Bío Bío case the main cat doesn't have such a redirect, so why should the stub have one which can't even be used, and in the others it is not accents that differ but other spelling and completeness of name - again the category redirect is basically useless besides a template redirect. --Qetuth (talk) 13:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Edit: Second rename I suggested already exists as a reversed redirect. Not sure if it's worth swapping these around or not --Qetuth (talk) 13:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify

Nominator's rationale: Filing this as deletion, but I don't really want to delete this category. Rather, I'm suggesting moving this to where all other WikiProject categories reside, the talk page. Why this one WikiProject's category should be on the articles themselves is quite beyond me. Courcelles 02:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The problem here is the ambiguity of the term "wikify". As noted above, the category in question is a superset of Category:Articles that need to be wikified; the category in question also includes categories like Category:Articles with too many wikilinks and so on. "Wikify" should only refer to one definition; it should either mean "needs more links" or "needs layout/formatting cleanup". I suggest a new term be designated for either one definition or the other. Or, perhaps, the entirety of the category in question could be merged with Category:All pages needing cleanup? Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:44, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ξxplicit 02:21, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Battalions & Brigades of the British Army in the First World War

Propose renaming

Category:Protest disrobing

Nominator's rationale: These two categories appear to cover the same topic. The head article is at Nudity and protest, so that seems to be the better category to retain. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree - a single category as proposed would appear to (un)cover the subject adequately. ~~