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* '''Keep.''' Seems like diversifying Wikipedia is an important cause and [[urban culture]] is certainly relevant. I notice that those that complain the most have themselves contributed riduclous amounts of minuatae surrounding and including the inclusion of single frames of animation from their favorite [[Transformers]] epidoses. Remember kids, Wikipedia ain't just for computer enthusiasts and their [[2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly|2600]] fanclubs. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. [[User:Rightofcenter|Rightofcenter]] 18:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
* '''Keep.''' Seems like diversifying Wikipedia is an important cause and [[urban culture]] is certainly relevant. I notice that those that complain the most have themselves contributed riduclous amounts of minuatae surrounding and including the inclusion of single frames of animation from their favorite [[Transformers]] epidoses. Remember kids, Wikipedia ain't just for computer enthusiasts and their [[2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly|2600]] fanclubs. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. [[User:Rightofcenter|Rightofcenter]] 18:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
* '''Keep''' - We must, as a group, remember that variations in [[demographics]], [[dialects]] and other cultures other than one's own can sometimes result in [[racism]] and petty battles among elitists regardless if their exists an Internet or not. Absolutely this is a keep. [[Urban culture]] is as important as [[Rural culture]]. [[User:70.25.28.229|70.25.28.229]] 18:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
* '''Keep''' - We must, as a group, remember that variations in [[demographics]], [[dialects]] and other cultures other than one's own can sometimes result in [[racism]] and petty battles among elitists regardless if their exists an Internet or not. Absolutely this is a keep. [[Urban culture]] is as important as [[Rural culture]]. [[User:70.25.28.229|70.25.28.229]] 18:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
'''Keep and Comment''': Wikipedia was built upon allowing new and exciting information to be added. This is a dynamic category and should stay put. [[User:CelebritySecurity|CelebritySecurity]] 18:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


====Merge [[:Category:Middlesbrough Borough]] into [[:Category:Middlesbrough]]====
====Merge [[:Category:Middlesbrough Borough]] into [[:Category:Middlesbrough]]====

Revision as of 18:39, 8 May 2006


May 6

For consistency with other nationalities. TheGrappler 23:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to match the other subcategories of category:American families. CalJW 23:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Trade unions by country

A previous discussion here [1] was unable to reach a consensus on converting to Category:Trade unions in **** from Category:****ian trade unions. Further discussion has been started at WikiProject Organized Labour. Comments and opinions are welcome. --Bookandcoffee 22:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Law by country

I suggest rename for consistency but would rather convert the other 70 or so categories in Category:Law by country to this format! Law "in" the Philippines definitely needs to be changed though, and suggest that "Russian Federation" would be better as "Russia" so historical laws e.g. from the Imperial period can be included. TheGrappler 21:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Programming language families

Category:Programming language dialects was merged to Category:Programming language families per Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 26#Category:Programming language dialects to Category:Programming language families. This has created some duplicate subcategories within Category:Programming language families as well as an inconsistent naming convention. Recomend that these all be merged / renamed to programming language family as that is more general and dialects is a more specific case. -- JLaTondre 20:50, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

rename all, per nom.--ᎠᏢ462090Contribs 01:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cultures by nationality

Rename all consistent with most of the rest of Category:Culture by nationality. The few that are left as "Culture of Fooland" rather than "Fooian culture" would be cases where there would otherwise by ambiguity e.g. "Congolese" or "Dominican" would be ambiguous. TheGrappler 00:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Categories of settlements usually take the in form. CalJW 18:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC). Rename CalJW 18:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Rename to match the other 81 subcategories of category:Conservatiion by country. CalJW 18:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Two separate CfDs have established that the correct category name is Hill stations of Pakistan, user:Fast track has moved lots of articles around between Pakistani categories that I am trying to unpick. I this instance a bot just needs to move all the article from one category to the other and delete the source category. Thryduulf 12:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from speedy after discussion. Vegaswikian 18:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Empty Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. Furthermore, according to Malaysian Constitution (Sabah is part of Malaysia) the state has no power in foreign relationship. Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. Violates WP:MOS. Anyway, there's always Category:Political_parties_in_Sabah Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. violates WP:MOS Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

empty. Delete.__earth (Talk) 17:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant. There's already Category:Sport in Malaysia to cater that. And since Sabah is a state of Malaysia, the logical step would be Sport in Sabah instead of Recreation & Sports in Sabah. Delete. __earth (Talk) 17:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is an empty category, categorizing Wikipedians, and I frankly suspect it was originally created as an attack category. In my opinion, it is a Bad Idea. Mak (talk) 16:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Self-limited category, if accurate. I concur that it's probably an attack category. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename for pluralization and a little more specificity. Could also go to Category:NASCAR Rookies of the Year but I'm not sure I like that weird "secretaries-general" construction that is somewhat uncommon in English. Recury 15:28, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Change to the latter as that is the most precise and common term. It is also the name of the article on that war in Wikipedia. El Gringo 14:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Relist from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 24: The result of the debate was relist (tag was removed on 1 May, probably why there was only one vote) Tim! 11:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC) Tim! 11:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is an unnecessary complication and perhaps unique to Pakistan (I'm half way through checking the "journalists by country" cateogories and this is the first "Journalism" category I have encountered). Pakistan has a media category, and like other countries has or can have separate categories for each branch of media. Merge. Bhoeble 16:39, 24 April 2006 (UTC).[reply]

As per Category:Kurdish provinces at [2] --Cretanforever 10:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment – Please join the on-going discussions of Kurdish categorization at Category talk:Kurdistan and Talk:Batman, Turkey. --Moby 11:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Historic and majority populations are citable. Open to a rename. --Moby 11:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per nom--Hattusili 12:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and listify. "Kurdishness" is a matter both of degree and contention, and requires clarification. Perhaps it would be okay with a rename e.g. "Cities with a Kurdish majority population" but even that wouldn't be without arguments! I am trying to think of a potentially equivalent situation - I guess I would be happy with e.g. "Category:German-speaking villages in Romania" or "Category:German-speaking majority villages in Romania". TheGrappler 14:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    TheGrappler I apriciate your efforts to find a middle ground so to speak. But I really do not see the point of categorising cities based on ethnicity, race, or language spoken. Cant such ratios be mentioned in the artice assuming its based on a census insted of indulging in lenghty category names? --Cat out 20:37, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    It's not so much the middle ground as attempting to make the category meaningful and verifiable. Once it is meaningful and verifiable we can then figure out whether it is a useful navigational aid. At the moment we have a meaningless and unverifiable category that serves a certain, limited, navigational purpose. Meaningfulness and verifiability trumps navigational ease because otherwise we open ourselves up to endless edit wars. The residual navigational benefit of a more carefully designed category is debatable (probably quite low, though, especially in comparison to listification and inclusion of the list in "see also" sections of relevant articles) but it's a debate we can't have until we find a way to sensibly design the category. At any rate, my position remains delete, but open to discussion if it can be defined better. TheGrappler 21:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Possible, but so far I am not convinced any category linking cities based on ethnicity has any real usage given ethnicity is a contraversial issue. What percentage qualifies as a majority? Which ethnicities deserve a category? If all thats an unreasoable list of ethnicities as there are probably hundereds of ethnicities in any metropolitan US city. --Cat out 21:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I do not see what purpose collecting cities under an ethnicity category serve. --Cat out 20:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Categories are ment to be navigation aids. They are ment to keep articles related close by for people to edit articles of similar nature. If this categories is fine, so is Category:White cities. I doubt there is anything common between Paris, New York and Moscow and all are predominantly white.
    --Cat out 20:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per my nomination. User:Retau is unaccounted for despite being the initiator of all this categorization by the way. He didn't even respond to User:Moby Dick's request for comment [3] A list is OK with me in the sense that, since interminable discussions on ethnicity seem inevitable, I'd rather see them taking place within a specific article containing a list, rather than on the main articles for Turkey's cities (some of them rather high-profile like Diyarbakır and Van), although I understand User: Cool Cat's arguments on the principle. Drawing a list or category of White Cities is no different than the categories we are discussing here, and they would make reference to a certain reality in, say, South Africa. --Cretanforever 02:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cateogries entitled with a propaganda term can never be made neutral. (original proposal by De mortuis...) Añoranza 08:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If we want to keep this, it should be relocated to a less awkward title. Perhaps:

  • Category:People who died in hotel rooms
  • Category:People found dead in hotel rooms
  • Category:Hotel room deaths

Using the present perfect tense implies, for many readers, that the subject is still living, which is confusing in the context of this category. — May. 6, '06 [07:52] <freakofnurxture|talk>

Because I'd like some input as to what the best title would be, and I had three different ideas come to mind. — May. 6, '06 [09:37] <freakofnurxture|talk>
Categories can not be renamed by moving: they must be proposed here at WP:CFD, then deleted and remade. ×Meegs 09:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Are we going to have a subcategory "Category:people who died in hotel rooms while editing wikipedia"? Añoranza 19:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unused. Conscious 07:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Unused. Conscious 07:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

The category contains the images of Disney characters and is populated by {{DisneyCharacter}}. The current name is not descriptive. Conscious 07:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Empty and redundant to Category:Dinosaurs. Marked as category redirect, not sure why. Conscious 04:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

This is a category about "things which are common to both India and China", apparently a misunderstanding of what "Indo China" means. Content is currently limited to one subcat, Category:Indo China Kingdoms. Something will have to be done about that as well. Nat Krause(Talk!) 04:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected punctuation and caps; more accurate description. Her Pegship 03:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

  • That's not more accurate, as it would allow for the works of Judy Blume, say, who wrote about sex but not homosexuality. This category documents the same-sex family children's book phenomenon, and thus shouldn't reach beyond that. So I suggest a rename to category:LGBT children's books to parallel category:LGBT art, category:LGBT newspapers, et al. (And we should remove the word "heterosexual" from the description, as that's not part of the "LBGTQIPPS" uber-acronym.)--Mike Selinker 13:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Like Mike, I oppose greatly broadening what is now a nicely-sized and appropriately-focused category. I have reservations about Mike's suggestion, though, because while LGBT newspapers are written largely with LGBT readers in mind, most of these books are not. Also, I may be wrong, but I'm not certain how much the B and T factor into these books' subject matter. Though I don't like excluding B and T, the best I've been able to come up with is Category:Children's books about homosexuality. Any other options? ×Meegs 15:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think they should be too – I was trying to rationalize excluding bisexual and transgender, speculating that they may well not be addressed in any of these books (most of which are about same-gender parents). In any case, I'd rather have an inclusive cat, so if there's a non-awkward way to say Children's books about LGBT, I'm all for it. ×Meegs 23:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sure: category:LGBT-themed children's books. That makes it clear that it's not for LGBT children, just about those themes.--Mike Selinker 03:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll support that. ×Meegs 10:44, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rename category:LGBT-themed children's books as per suggestion.--Marysunshine 22:32, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a useful category due to a lack of well-defined criteria for inclusion Pak21 00:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and Comment: Wikipedia was built upon allowing new and exciting information to be added. This is a dynamic category and should stay put. CelebritySecurity 18:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no real distinction between these two categories. They are already being mis-used with a number of article having been placed in both categories. -- RHaworth 06:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]