Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 June 3

June 3

Category:Awesome Wikipedians

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Nominator's rationale: All Wikipedians are awesome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Even those who are cunts? Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 06:49, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

• Delete WP:NOTSOCIAL Wikipedia is not a social club. We should not be adding non-collaboratory user social status to wikipedia. -- 70.51.46.11 (talk) 07:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Quill Award categories

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A very minor award, created by a company and run for only three years. See Quill Award. As that lists all the winners and works neither sub category needs to exist, which makes the parent category redundant.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 19:21, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

• Keep (as creator) - categories are there to help readers and no evidence has been adduced that these categories have ceased to be helpful. It is not correct the the award was created 'by a company'. It was created by the Quill Foundation, set up for this purpose, and backed by many leading organisations in the literary field. Neither that this may be a 'minor' award nor that it lasted just 3 years is any reason for deletion. Deletion removes a helpful tool for interested readers and should only happen if it is in some way harmful and, IMHO, it is not. As a footnote, I should like to thank the nominator, JohnBlackburne, for the courtesy of notifying me of this discussion. Just Chilling (talk) 00:21, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Many of the article refs are dead but here's one that's not: [1] "Just a few days after putting its magazine division on the block, Reed has now pulled the plug on its Quills Awards program". But it doesn't matter: it's not a major, defining award: even it had lasted longer it would very likely not be. So per WP:OCAWARD it should have a category or categories for winners.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 01:52, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

• Delete per nom, per WP:OC#AWARD, per my essay and because having this award is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of, for example, To Kill a Mockingbird. DexDor ^(talk) 04:27, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Association of Independent Technological Universities

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Nominator's rationale: That a university/college is a member of this organization is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of the university/college. E.g. many of the articles make no mention of the organization in the article text (e.g. CMU, MIT). For info: there is a list at Association_of_Independent_Technological_Universities#Member_institutions. For info: This is one of a series of CFDs for similar categories (e.g. see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_17#Category:North_Central_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools). DexDor ^(talk) 06:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)