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October 8

Category:Swedish eccentrics

Nominator's rationale: I don't think "eccentrics" is an appropriate encyclopedic category. Subjective, can easily be seen as derogatary. Iselilja (talk) 16:35, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Subjective and potentially derogatory category. SFB 22:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I don't think it's either subjective or derogatory. The way I see it it's just a descrption for an odd behaviour DrKilleMoff (talk) 22:48, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete – subjective, and there is no Category:Eccentrics (it was deleted at cfd in 2006). Oculi (talk) 22:56, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete subjective and presents BLP issues as (arguably) derogatory. RevelationDirect (talk) 14:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Distant galaxies

Nominator's rationale: No clearly-defined scope for category; "distant" is a very subjective term, so cannot be converted into a useful one either. StringTheory11 (t • c) 14:14, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Upmerge to Category:Galaxies. Deleting would remove them from this tree and that is not acceptable. I'll let others talk about the merits of the scope. Vegaswikian (talk) 16:21, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Upmerge Jim.henderson (talk) 21:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete creator of the category has messages from 2012 dealing with lack of care in dealing with astronomy topics. -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 05:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Laplets

Nominator's rationale:Merge Delete. Per WP:OVERLAPCAT. Laplets are tablet computers with a keyboard. These were anticipated as a separate class of computers but with official iPad keyboards and detachable Surface keyboards these are usually just called tablets now. Whatever the conceptual issues, every single one of the articles in Category:Laplets are also in Category:Microsoft Surface, which I just created before I noticed this category. (Alternatively, we could delete my Microsoft Surface category.) RevelationDirect (talk) 01:32, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified the category creator and this discussion has been included in the Computer Hardware Task Force. – RevelationDirect (talk) 01:42, 8 October 2014 (UTC) [reply]
  • Delete and do not merge The Surface Pros are already categorized there, and laplet should not be categorized there. The articles are already properly categorized. "laplet" would be a touchscreen netbook. (or such as an Asus Transformer) -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 04:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Then you consider a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 a netbook? TranslucentCloud (talk) 10:51, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Laplets was never under Category:Microsoft Surface. Laplets aren't specific to Microsoft's hardware. TranslucentCloud (talk) 16:25, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Leave as is. Laplets aren't just tablets with keyboards. Read the article. Laplets are a cross of tablets and laptops. iPad and most of tablets aren't capable of laptop features.
I will name few laplet devices here, just for you to get the idea what a laplet is and how it is different from iPad with keyboard: Microsoft Surface Pro / Pro 2 / Pro 3, ASUS Transformer Book T100 / T300, Acer Aspire Switch 10 / 11, Lenovo ThinkPad Helix.
Laplet is a distinctive device class, which have and should have its distinctive category. TranslucentCloud (talk) 13:38, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Per the article, "A laplet is distinctive from a traditional Ultrabook by a presence of a touchscreen display and a detachable keyboard." So they're tablets with keyboards and touch screens (or tablet-sized laptops with removable keyboards and touchscreens)? If it's a laptop or a tablet with a touchscreen and a removable keyboard (or one that has those as an option), it would go in the category? RevelationDirect (talk) 18:00, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You missed the Ultrabook part. Ultrabooks are laptops essentially. For the device to be qualified as a laplet it is not only required for it to have a touchscreen and a detachable keyboard, the first criterion to meet is the ability to be used as a laptop. This means that a laplet have a laptop OS, such as Windows 8.1, have USB ports to connect peripheral devices, have a some kind of display port to connect number of external displays. iPad, which can be obviously used with a detachable keyboard, doesn't meet any of these criteria, therefore it is not a cross of a laptop and a tablet — it is not a laplet. TranslucentCloud (talk) 05:29, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]