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June 14

Category:Homeopathic remedies

Propose merging Category:Homeopathic remedies to Category:Homeopathic preparations
Nominator's rationale: Redundant categories, matching List of homeopathic preparations (whose name was discussed extensively a while back) should be preferred. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:36, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That was April 2009. Do you think that that demonstrates a consensus for merging the other way? Regardless, I think these categories are redundant and should be merged one way or the other. - 2/0 (cont.) 23:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I do agree with you on a merge but I don't have any strong views on which way, sorry. I'm sure others will. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:36, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
IMO, the merge as you suggest would be less-POV, in the sense that it should be more palatable to those who hold that homeopathy doesn't "remedy" anything. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ξxplicit 21:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question. What is the rationale for preferring "preparations" over "remedies"? Is it simply that there is a dispute as to whether homeopathic preparations "remedy" anything? While I'm sympathetic to that view, in the last discussion, I was convinced by the argument that these are most commonly referred to as "homeopathic remedies". Is this not the case? I think we should call them whatever they are usually called in English. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:01, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • They are referred to as medicines (preferred by Homeopaths), remedies (prefered by advertisers) and preparations is also common, and was found to be most neutral presentation on wikipedia - partly for the reason you give. All are common names, but wikipedia would never accept "medicines" so preparations would be the most neutral while still following common. Verbal chat 13:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I rubbed my eyes in disbelief when I saw that this category was at CFD again, because the last time it came up I felt that we had rendered a definitive decision. So for those who can't work up the energy to click on the link to the previous CFD, here is the main paragraph I wrote making the case for retaining Category:Homeopathic remedies:
I would agree that we don't want to use a name that is merely or primarily promotional. However, I don't really think that "Homeopathic remedies" is an unacceptably problematic term in and of itself. To begin with, when I said that it was the "standard term", I meant first and foremost that historically they have always been known and referred to as "Homeopathic remedies". In addition, the term "Homeopathic remedies" is vastly more widely used than "Homeopathic preparations", which is amply confirmed by the huge disparity in G-hits: 22,600 for "Homeopathic preparations" versus 1,160,000 for "Homeopathic remedies". Moreover, the scholarly publications indexed by Google Scholar do not eschew the term in the least -- quite the opposite: 921 hits for "Homeopathic preparations" versus 4,270 hits for "Homeopathic remedies". And the term is used even by those who are strongly opposed to homeopathy, as you can see by the following title (from the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1995): "Why pharmacists should not sell homeopathic remedies". (italics added) In short, that is simply what they are called, and what they are known as by the public, so it seems to me that that is the term we should use as well. Therefore I Oppose Renaming.
I have nothing further to add. Cgingold (talk) 12:05, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sure. Medicine, treatments, remedies, tinctures and preparations are all common. Preparations has the benefit of no impled POV, which we should avoid per our core principles. You are also adding things that clearly are not remedies to teh category. That's just confusing. Verbal chat 13:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Excuse me, but you still haven't responded in any way to the substance of my detailed findings on usage of the terms. As for placing certain articles in Category:Homeopathic remedies, I have done so only after scrutinizing the articles in question and determining that each included text which noted ingredients identifiable as "Homeopathic remedies". Cgingold (talk) 13:41, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • You've shown that all terms are common, and we should use one that doesn't assert a POV. Preparation is used in scientific reviews, as is remedy when they quote the manufactures name. We should avoid POV and stick to a neutral label. The spliting of the category I have proposed would solve the other problem. Homeopathic products also gets a lot of hits, and would be acceptable per policy. Verbal chat 14:59, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Excuse me (again) - but what the G-hits show is that one term (Homeopathic remedies) is far more widely used than the other term (Homeopathic preparations). And clearly that is because "Homeopathic remedies" is, in fact, the standard term. I realize that rubs you the wrong way, but it is undeniably the case. Cgingold (talk) 15:45, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • No need to apologise, it doesn't rub me at all. You've shown they're all common, and in neutral sources (though that's not very important) preparations or products is more used. As they are all common, and the standard homeopaths term of medicines is unacceptable, we should choose a neutral term per our core policies. Verbal chat 16:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reverse merge per Cgingold and per the previous CFD. "Homeopathic remedies" appears to me to be far, far more commonly used. Even in google scholar, "remedies" is used 5 times as often as "preparations". I support using the one that is more commonly used, even though I am sympathetic to the view that one is more POV than the other. I'd rather have some form of merge performed than having this closed as "no consensus" — it's silly to have two categories for the exact same thing. In that regard, I also note that Category:Homeopathic remedies is much older and when Category:Homeopathic preparations was created, there was no resulting consensus in the discussion to rename the category. Thus, the older one should prevail, even if the result here is "no consensus". Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

People from Indonesia

Propose renaming Category:People from Bandung, West Java to Category:People from Bandung
Propose renaming Category:People from Blitar, East Java to Category:People from Blitar
Propose renaming Category:People from Bogor, West Java to Category:People from Bogor
Propose renaming Category:People from Madiun, East Java to Category:People from Madiun
Propose renaming Category:People from Makassar, South Sulawesi to Category:People from Makassar
Propose renaming Category:People from Medan, North Sumatra to Category:People from Medan
Propose renaming Category:People from Palembang, South Sumatra to Category:People from Palembang
Propose renaming Category:People from Pekalongan, Central Java to Category:People from Pekalongan
Propose renaming Category:People from Semarang, Central Java to Category:People from Semarang
Propose renaming Category:People from Surakarta, Central Java to Category:People from Surakarta
Nominator's rationale: No need to disambig these city categories in Indonesia. In all cases, the main articles are without the extra disambig. See also previous CfD. Lugnuts (talk) 17:54, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mountains of Ulster County, New York

Category:National Monuments in New York

Category:People from Tiverton

Propose renaming Category:People from Tiverton to Category:People from Tiverton, Devon
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with Category:Tiverton, Devon and article Tiverton, Devon, and to avoid potential confusion with Category:People from Tiverton, Rhode Island, and the various other Tivertons elsewhere. DuncanHill (talk) 14:34, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Neftchala

Propose renaming Category:People from Neftchala to Category:People from Neftchala Rayon
Nominator's rationale: for disambiguation and wider application. Neftchala city is located within Neftchala Rayon and there is only one bio linked to this page. Moreover the parent category is Category:Neftchala Rayon Mayumashu (talk) 23:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Left For Dead members

Category:Left For Dead members - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Redlink band per Left for dead. —Justin (koavf)TCM19:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dimension Zero albums

Propose renaming Category:Dimension Zero albums to Category:Dimension Zero (Swedish band) albums
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Propose disambiguating category name to match Dimension Zero (Swedish band). Dimension Zero (American band) exists on WP. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Oregon Sports Hall of Fame

Category:Oregon Sports Hall of Fame - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: as per deletion of other category pages for sub-national sport halls of fame Mayumashu (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anti-Israel

Propose merging Category:Anti-Israel to Category:Anti-Zionism
Nominator's rationale: Merge: "Anti-Israel" is synonymous with "Anti-Zionism", so there is no justification for separate categories. GCarty (talk) 12:21, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: This category originally was created when people were trying to rename various articles with this title and was a POV move. CarolMooreDC (talk) 00:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support the difference is too subtle to warrant different categories, and i believe all the articles which can be categorized as anti-israel can be safely categorized as anti-zionism. there are people who are anti-zionist but recognize israel as a nation with a right to exist within international law, but thats not relevant to the articles listed here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:53, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Planned invasions

Propose renaming Category:Planned invasions to Category:Canceled invasionsCategory:Cancelled invasions
Nominator's rationale: Rename. These invasions never happened. We can either do this, or go one step further and upmerge them into the newly applied parent category Category:Canceled military operations.--Mike Selinker (talk) 10:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Future events

Propose renaming Category:Future events to Category:Upcoming events
Propose renaming Category:Future sporting events to Category:Upcoming sporting events
Propose renaming Category:Future spaceflights to Category:Upcoming spaceflights
Propose renaming Category:Future human spaceflights to Category:Upcoming human spaceflights
Propose renaming Category:Future manned Soyuz missions to Category:Upcoming manned Soyuz missions
Propose renaming Category:Future elections to Category:Upcoming elections
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Asia to Category:Upcoming elections in Asia
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Australia to Category:Upcoming elections in Australia
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Canada to Category:Upcoming elections in Canada
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Europe to Category:Upcoming elections in Europe
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in France to Category:Upcoming elections in France
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Germany to Category:Upcoming elections in Germany
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in Spain to Category:Upcoming elections in Spain
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in the United Kingdom to Category:Upcoming elections in the United Kingdom
Propose renaming Category:Future elections in the United States to Category:Upcoming elections in the United States
Propose renaming Category:Future election candidates to Category:Upcoming election candidates
Propose renaming Category:Future products to Category:Upcoming products
Nominator's rationale: Rename. In somewhat the same vein as this and other nominations, I'm suggesting removing the "Future" from the title. Most of the subcategories of Category:Future events use "Upcoming." This is not my favorite choice, since it still makes a WP:CRYSTAL claim of what will happen in the future, but these things do tend to happen. (There will be a next election in Spain, pending a unscheduled supernova.) So while I'd probably prefer "Proposed," this change will do. In the case of the latter category, almost all of its subcategories are also "Upcoming."--Mike Selinker (talk) 10:18, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. For the election ones, can we used scheduled? I know that for places like the UK, scheduled will not mean a specific date until a few months before. However as you said above, we know those will happen even if the date is uncertain right after the previous election. Upcoming also may not impart the fact that these may already be in progress. In the US, the 2012 attack ads have already started. Scheduled would also work for the space categories and should deal better with WP:CRYSTAL for all of this. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:04, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • "Scheduled" would make me very happy, since it doesn't predict the future. Are we okay with "Scheduled" for things like astronomical events, which will happen unless the universe explodes? If so, I'm behind all of the events becoming "Scheduled".--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional kiwi

Propose renaming Category:Fictional kiwi to Category:Fictional Apteryx (or Category:Fictional kiwi (bird), added at 03:52 15 June 2010 UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Rename. In this recent discussion, there was no consensus to rename Category:Apteryx to Category:Kiwi, so I propose renaming the subcategory of this category to match its parent, which is still Category:Apteryx. ("Apteryx" is a genus name so it is capitalized.) I still think it makes more sense to use "kiwi" in category names rather than "Apteryx", but these categories should at least be consistent since they are referring to exactly the same thing—one real, one fictional. Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:11, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Future things

Propose renaming Category:Future military equipment to Category:Proposed military equipment
Propose renaming Category:Future weapons to Category:Proposed weapons
Propose renaming Category:Future American weapons to Category:Proposed American weapons
Propose renaming Category:Future sports venues to Category:Proposed sports venues
Propose renaming Category:Future television channels and networks to Category:Proposed television channels and networks
Propose renaming Category:Future radio stations and programming to Category:Proposed radio stations
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Suggesting de-futurizing this along the lines of this recent series of nominations. In the latter category, these are all radio stations; there appears to be no programming here.--Mike Selinker (talk) 09:52, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and Turkish beyliks

Propose renaming Category:Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and Turkish beyliks to Category:Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate and Turkish Beyliks
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The term "Sultanate of Rum" is as pertinent in our day as the term Indian Territories is for the American Midwest. Furthermore, the name for the category has a faulty logic in ascribing the term "Seljuk" to both the sultanate and the principalities (Beyliks). Each had dynasties from different backgrounds, Beyliks were dependent on or independent from the Sultanate in varying degrees in each case and each evolving in time. What these had in common was that all, Seljuk Sultanate and Turkish Beyliks, were located in "Anatolia". There were other Seljuk sultanates and other Turkish Beyliks elsewhere. Cretanforever (talk) 08:22, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose move on the two grounds: 1) "Sultanate of Rum" is by no means obsolete nomenclature. Turkish nationalists, for whatever reason, are uncomfortable with the term Rûm. Turkish historical pedagogy has followed the nationalists in this regard so that Turkish textbooks almost invariably now refer to the people as Anadolu Selçukları or "Anatolian Seljuks". On the other hand, English and other Western European scholarship refers to them as the Seljuks or Seljuqs of Rum. I have seen recently published bilingual books on the subject where the Turkish text reads Anadolu Selçukları and the English reads Seljuqs of Rum (ref. upon request). According to WP:UE, we need to use the commonly accepted English language name which in this case certainly includes the word Rûm. Added to this is the fact that the Seljuqs themselves were not ashamed to call the land they ruled Rûm.
2) In the name of this category, the adjective "Seljuk" clearly does not modify "Turkish Beyliks". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aramgar (talkcontribs)
Oppose, I see no viable reason for the change. When placed in quotations "Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate" gets 17 hits on google books[1], whereas "Seljuk Sultanate of Rum" gets 737 hits[2]. So the theory of faulty logic is in itself a fallacy. In a side note, I've noticed an increase in removal(and change) of categories by nationalistic editors. Clearly this is an attempt to removed information found unpalatable and in most cases, to reflect the policies and agenda of a nationalistic Turkish POV. --Kansas Bear (talk) 02:21, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Filmed suicides in the September 11 attacks

Category:Filmed suicides in the September 11 attacks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Proposed infrastructure

Planned infrastructure
Propose renaming Category:Planned infrastructure to Category:Proposed infrastructure
Propose merging Category:Planned or proposed bridges to Category:Proposed bridges
Propose merging Category:Planned or proposed Buildings to Category:Proposed buildings and structures
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed canals to Category:Proposed canals
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed energy projects to Category:Proposed energy projects
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed indoor arenas to Category:Proposed indoor arenas
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed stadiums to Category:Proposed stadiums
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed stadiums in the United States to Category:Proposed stadiums in the United States
Propose renaming Category:Planned or proposed tunnels to Category:Proposed tunnels
Propose renaming Category:Planned coal-fired power stations in the United States to Category:Proposed coal-fired power stations in the United States
Propose renaming Category:Planned museums to Category:Proposed museums
Propose renaming Category:Planned museums in Canada to Category:Proposed museums in Canada
Propose renaming Category:Planned museums in the United States to Category:Proposed museums in the United States
Propose renaming Category:Planned skyscrapers in Israel to Category:Proposed skyscrapers in Israel
Propose renaming Category:Nuclear power stations with planned reactors to Category:Nuclear power stations with proposed reactors
Planned airlines
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines to Category:Proposed airlines
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Australia to Category:Proposed airlines of Australia
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Gabon to Category:Proposed airlines of Gabon
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Germany to Category:Proposed airlines of Germany
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Greece to Category:Proposed airlines of Greece
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Guyana to Category:Proposed airlines of Guyana
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Haiti to Category:Proposed airlines of Haiti
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of India to Category:Proposed airlines of India
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Iraq to Category:Proposed airlines of Iraq
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Italy to Category:Proposed airlines of Italy
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Macau to Category:Proposed airlines of Macau
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Russia to Category:Proposed airlines of Russia
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Serbia to Category:Proposed airlines of Serbia
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of South Korea to Category:Proposed airlines of South Korea
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Sri Lanka to Category:Proposed airlines of Sri Lanka
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Syria to Category:Proposed airlines of Syria
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Thailand to Category:Proposed airlines of Thailand
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the Czech Republic to Category:Proposed airlines of the Czech Republic
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Category:Proposed airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the Dominican Republic to Category:Proposed airlines of the Dominican Republic
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the People's Republic of China to Category:Proposed airlines of the People's Republic of China
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the Philippines to Category:Proposed airlines of the Philippines
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the United Arab Emirates to Category:Proposed airlines of the United Arab Emirates
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the United Kingdom to Category:Proposed airlines of the United Kingdom
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of the United States to Category:Proposed airlines of the United States
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Tunisia to Category:Proposed airlines of Tunisia
Propose renaming Category:Planned airlines of Vietnam to Category:Proposed airlines of Vietnam
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Now that we've decided to use "Proposed" for all unfinished infrastructure categories, here are a few that need to be standardized, including the recently renamed parent category. I left out all "Planned cities," "Planned developments," and "Planned communities" variants until I can determine which of them mean "Not yet built" and which mean "New town".--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:51, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]