Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 December 5

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December 5

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of the United States

Propose renaming Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of the United States to Category:Armored fighting vehicles of the United States

Category:World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United States to Category:World War II armored fighting vehicles of the United States

Category:Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United States to Category:Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States

Nominator's rationale: American English, they aren't called "armoured" in the USA. Gene Nygaard (talk) 16:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Professional sports players who died mid-career

Delete, We've been through this before, Dead people by occupation isn't feasible, please see the discussion of June 27th. -- Prove It ^(talk) 15:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the reasons last time round and per the vagueness of defining "mid-career". Bencherlite ^Talk 15:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, why not rename it? Instead of 'mid career', how about 'before retirement'? That's not vague. Don^MEGĂ|60645 16:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:War on Terror
Propose renaming Category:War on Terror to Category:War on Terrorism

Nominator's rationale: Rename.
Most all US formal documents on this subject refer to "War on Terrorism".
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/faq-what.html - FAQ - What is the War on Terrorism?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/100dayreport.html - The Global War on Terrorism - The First 100 Days
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nsct/2006/ - National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/progress/ - Progress Report On the Global War on Terrorism.
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/index.html - CIA & The War on Terrorism
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/terrorism-faqs.html - Terrorism FAQs
To verify this, and find official Whitehouse documents on the War on Terrorism , use the search:
google: site:whitehouse.gov "war on terrorism"
google: site:cia.gov "war on terrorism"
Notice that if you instead search for the informal phrase, you will mostly find press statements, not formal documents:
google: site:whitehouse.gov "war on terror"
google: site:cia.gov "war on terror"
The Wikipedia title and categories should use the formal name, Even if the current president often uses the informal name. GodWasAnAlien (talk) 15:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment see also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_2#Category:War_on_Terror. -- Prove It ^(talk) 15:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_October_3#Category:War_on_Terror ("War on Terrorism" merged to "War on Terror", i.e. the opposite of what's being suggested now). What's being suggested now was put forward in the November discussion, but there was "no consensus" so to do, with various comments about the desirability of matching the main article name and hoping that the article would get and keep a stable name to prevent perpetual ping-pong of renames. Well, the article has been at War on Terrorism since 27 Oct without any moves back to War on Terror (at least, as at the time of writing) and so rename Category:War on Terrorism. Suggest that a polite message be given to editors at the article that, whatever happens here, the category name won't be changed for 6 months at least, because the to-ing and fro-ing is a waste of time! Bencherlite ^Talk 16:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Cultural Properties of Busan
Category:Cultural Properties of Busan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Rename to Category:Busan culture, convention of Category:South Korean culture. -- Prove It ^(talk) 14:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Minor basilicas in Rome
Suggest merging Category:Minor basilicas in Rome to Category:Basilica churches in Rome

Nominator's rationale: Merge. Since all but four basilicas in the world are minor basilicas it makes no sense to have separate categories. We already have Category:Patriarchal basilicas for the four major basilicas, so this category is extraneous. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. --Bwpach (talk) 15:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Minor basilica churches
Suggest merging Category:Minor basilica churches to Category:Basilica churches

Nominator's rationale: Merge. Since all but four basilicas in the world are minor basilicas it makes no sense to have separate categories. We already have Category:Patriarchal basilicas for the four major basilicas, so this category is extraneous. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. --Bwpach (talk) 15:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Abandonware
Category:Abandonware - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: The term Abandonware is disputed (for legal reasons), and should therefore not be applied to actual software. SharkD (talk) 07:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Online Football (soccer) games
Category:Online Football (soccer) games - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Very small category. Not notable. SharkD (talk) 04:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Text-based video games
Category:Text-based video games - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Didn't realize there was already a category like it. SharkD (talk) 04:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Online games
Suggest merging Category:Online games to Category:Multiplayer online games

Nominator's rationale: Merge, I don't see any non-multiplayer games in this category (although, I admit I didn't look too closely, and I'm not that familiar with these games). SharkD (talk) 02:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed that Yahoo! Games has a list of singleplayer online games. Maybe these could be moved to Category:Singleplayer online games or Category:Singleplayer games played online? I'm not sure these games are even that notable. SharkD (talk) 02:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind. I personally went through the category and sorted them based on type. SharkD (talk) 08:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]