Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 September 4

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September 4

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Equatorial Guinean musicians

Note: Category:Equatorial Guinean musicians was moved to Category:Equatoguinean musicians out of process

Nominator's rationale: Administrative nomination: Discussion of out-of-process rename. The nominated category was manually emptied and the contents were transferred to the newly-created Category:Equatoguinean musicians. Both are acceptable usages, as far as I know. Please vote to either endorse or reverse this move. Note that there was no consensus for such a change in 2008. If no consensus exists here, we should default to reverse. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians interested in Apocalyptica

Nominator's rationale: Delete - "Wikipedians by band" category, which have a unanimous history of deletion here as not supporting collaboration. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Simferopol Wikipedians

Nominator's rationale: Delete - Per past consensus, "Wikipedians by ancestry" or "Wikipedians by descent" categories do not support collaboration (i.e. don't benefit the encyclopedia), as you can't choose your ancestry/descent so categorizing such users together is as meaningless as categorizing users by eye color. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Crimean Wikipedians

Nominator's rationale: Delete - Per past consensus, "Wikipedians by ancestry" or "Wikipedians by descent" categories do not support collaboration (i.e. don't benefit the encyclopedia), as you can't choose your ancestry/descent so categorizing such users together is as meaningless as categorizing users by eye color. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Patriots of Latvia

Nominator's rationale: Delete or at minimum rename, as this needs some sort of indication that it is a user category. Categorizing "patriots" by country is a very bad idea, however (subjective, criteria?, does not support collaboration), so I would strongly advocate deletion instead of renaming. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Users who can't stand rap music

Nominator's rationale: Delete - Improperly named with "users" instead of "Wikipedians", additionally is a "not" category, extremely unencyclopedic and doesn't support collaboration. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Clubmarx (talk) 01:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia bus watchers

Nominator's rationale: Delete - No article on bus watching or bus watchers to indicate any sort of reason to categorize such users. Doesn't support collaboration to categorize those who enjoy watching busses. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Clubmarx (talk) 01:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who likes Millennium

Nominator's rationale: Delete or Rename - Improper grammar so this at minimum needs a rename to Category:Wikipedians who like Millennium. However, the most recent nomination regarding a "Wikipedians by TV series" category ended up renaming to a (better IMO) "Wikipedians who watch" naming convention (although this convention is not the norm). Finally, I personally don't find either naming convention to indicate much of a collaborative use, so my first choice would be deletion (or perhaps rename to Category:Wikipedians interested in Millennium, which would also be acceptable to me. My only concern with this would be introducing miscategorization, as those who "like" this show aren't necessarily interested in collaborating on this show). VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Users who likes The X-Files

Nominator's rationale: Merge/speedy merge to Category:Wikipedians who like The X-Files - per standard naming conventions of "Wikipedians" instead of "Users", and to correct the improper grammar. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia users with Gaia online accounts

Nominator's rationale: Delete - Does not foster collaboration. Similar to previous "Wikipedian by non-wiki website" categories that have been deleted for the same reason. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User Music Macro Language-0

Nominator's rationale: Delete - 0-level category. Extensive, unanimous precedent to delete all 0-level cats. Should be a speedy criteria by now. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User Music Macro Language-N

Nominator's rationale: Delete - N-level programming category. Extensive, unanimous precedent to delete all N-level programming language cats since it isn't possible/ is a joke category. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Files by User:Bthomeldh

Nominator's rationale: Delete - "Files by individual user" category. Extensive, unanimous precedent to delete. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians from Nelson

Nominator's rationale: Delete - "Wikipedians by small location" category. Extensive precedent to delete all "by location" categories with populations of less than 50,000. This city has a population of only 29,000. See here for precedent. At extreme minimum needs a rename to match the article name. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians who use AlltheWeb

Nominator's rationale: Delete - "Wikipedians by search engine" category. Unanimous precedent to delete. See here for precedent. VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1632 series images pages

Suggest merging Category:1632 series images pages to Category:1632 series

Nominator's rationale: I don't know how appropriate this is, but having the cover art images appear at the bottom of the main series category might be nice. There used to be many, many more images in this category, justifying its existence, but many were deleted, leaving only six, which is hardly a robust category. Axem Titanium (talk) 01:13, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose standard image category. I don't see why images should _ever_ be categorized with articles. 76.66.200.21 (talk) 03:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1632 series books

Suggest merging Category:1632 series books to Category:1632 series

Nominator's rationale: There are 13 pages here and the parent series category only has 8. I think it would make the parent category more robust by combining them. The only articles in said parent category that AREN'T books are 1) the series articles, marked with *, 2) lists of characters, which are exactly what it says on the tin, so they won't be confused, and 3) the setting article, which is clearly marked by parenthetical disambiguation. Axem Titanium (talk) 01:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:White Muslims

Category:White Muslims - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Ah, the joys of racial/religious classification. Category:Black Muslims was recently deleted. Now we've got this. White Muslim isn't a topic that you could write a meaningful article about. This is a trivial intersection of religion and skin colour. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 01:02, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]