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*'''Delete''' ''Listify and then Delete''. I am trying to get a discussion going on the ''Flora of <region>''/''Fauna of <region>''/''Biora of <region>'' categories. Please see [[Category talk:Biota by country]] [[User:GameKeeper|GameKeeper]] 13:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' ''Listify and then Delete''. I am trying to get a discussion going on the ''Flora of <region>''/''Fauna of <region>''/''Biora of <region>'' categories. Please see [[Category talk:Biota by country]] [[User:GameKeeper|GameKeeper]] 13:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
*'''postpone''' i.e. '''keep for now''' wait until discussion on distribution categories at [[Category talk:Biota by country]] has reached consensus. Deletion of these categories now will loose data which may need to be used at a later stage. --[[User:Salix alba|Salix alba]] ([[User talk:Salix alba|talk]]) 14:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
*'''postpone''' i.e. '''keep for now''' wait until discussion on distribution categories at [[Category talk:Biota by country]] has reached consensus. Deletion of these categories now will loose data which may need to be used at a later stage. --[[User:Salix alba|Salix alba]] ([[User talk:Salix alba|talk]]) 14:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
*'''Keep''', as they are useful for narrow endemic species, but encourage editors to be sensible: don't add a Cat:Fauna of Country/State if the species occurs in more than 4 or 5 countries/states; in those cases use larger regional cats (so a widespread species like [[Red Fox]] would be in Cat:Fauna of Asia, Cat:Fauna of Europe, Cat:Fauna of North America, but not in any country or state cats). - [[User:MPF|MPF]] 20:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


==== Category:Famous American Military Defeats ====
==== Category:Famous American Military Defeats ====

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Category:Fauna of the United States by state and its subcategories

Category:Fauna of the United States by state (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Fauna of the United States really is enough. Up to 50 categories in a single article is beyond useful. See Puma for an example, and there are just 14 of them in there! And, if we have the fauna by US states category, why not start a similar categories for the fauna by Bundesländer? This just isn't useful. --Conti| 19:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • While it may not be workable, as a person with an interest in biogeography I must take issue with the assertion that the categories aren't useful - they're definitely useful. Anyway, you can't delete a category without nominating it for deletion - so until all 50 categories are separately tagged & listed, I must register a Strong Oppose. Guettarda 19:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • What would be the point of seperately listing the 44 categories for deletion? The reasoning is exactly the same, and I can't imagine that there's a reason to keep one of those while deleting the other. So, either, all of them should go, or none of them. --Conti| 19:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • The point would be that it would allow interested editors (ie, those who have the categories on their watchlists) to weigh in. It's a basic courtesy. Guettarda 21:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think they have all been tagged now, could you please change your reason or vote? Thanks. --liquidGhoul 09:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • oppose any such change, whether each article is tagged (as they are required to be by the delete rules) or not. Each state has its fauna and that needs a category to group them together. The supercategory is then needed to group them together. These categories are obviously useful for many purposes.

The number of them (by necessity) does not make them or anything else 'not useful'. Also, wasn't the same or similar deletion proposal on flora or fauna of the US states just defeated a couple of weeks ago? Hmains 20:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • If so, there's no mention on Category:Fauna of the United States by state or its talk page about it. Just out of curiousity, would you support similar category creations for faunas of other states in this world? I see the basic idea behind these categories, but I don't see what the reader is gaining when he looks at a huge bunch of categories in these articles. --Conti| 20:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Conti's idea. We should most definitely not tag each animal or plant by every country or state it exists in. Grass would have hundreds of cats added. That is simply not useful. Listify and delete. >Radiant< 20:42, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Grass isn't a species. A reasonable person would just leave an overly common species out of these categories. In addition, categories like these tend to list only native species. Guettarda 21:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Actually, I've listed the categories here after I've seen this, so not all Wikipedians are reasonable persons, apparently. If these categories should exclude common species that are in all (or almost all) states, we should explicitly state this. --Conti| 21:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. Dahn 22:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is absurd to categorize fauna by political entity. There was recent CfD on such categories Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_September_22#Category:Fauna_by_country_and_subcats reaching no result and leaving us with pearls like Category:Fauna of Andorra. Pavel Vozenilek 00:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • So what better solution do you have? It may be absurd, but it's one of the better systems that we have for biogeography - because that's the way people keep records. Guettarda 04:32, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the recurring problem is people who think only from the side of the category (i.e. whether it would be useful to find all <animals> which live in <country>). However, categorization should also be useful from the side of the article, to find useful metadata; the more cats an article is in, the less useful any of them become. >Radiant< 09:59, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • The following is copied from nomination procedure on this page and is a well established policy, whether you agree with it or not:

"Edit the category. Add one of the following tags at the top of the category text of every category to be deleted or renamed." Hmains 16:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete all "flora/fauna by nationality" categories. These should be categorized by geography; Hawaii should be the only U.S. state to get its own state-specific wildlife categories. -Sean Curtin 00:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Although it is more complicated when it comes to countries, I think the US states are very straight forward. If this passes, and they are deleted, we should figure out how to split up North America, and use it as an example to split up the rest of the world. Political boundaries are silly. Thanks --liquidGhoul 06:10, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • They may be silly, but they are (a) the way that the data is available, and (b) units that are commonly used in the science of biogeography. For us to "decide on a better way" would be a noble endeavour, but such original research would be totally inappropriate for Wikipedia. Guettarda 04:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see how it is original research. I am sure there are many sources, as there is with Australia, which seperate North America into biogeographical regions. I don't have the sources, as I am not as interested in North American fauna/flora etc., but I am sure there is someone who is. I also can't see how state borders would be used in the science of biogeography, except in the case of explaining the borders of biogeographic regions (e.g. 200km west of Virginia border). There would be absolutely no difference between one side of a state border than the other, unless there is a physical reason for the border (such as a river). I can see the use of these types of categories for people who, say, want to find a frog in New York. But, I don't think the alternative, such as eastern United States or whatever we end up using, would be any more confusing. Together with the fact that most non-Americans probably don't know all 50 states, and their locations, and it is very hard for me to find an animal I know is in a particular region of northern America. --liquidGhoul 07:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all "flora/fauna by nationality" categories. These should be categorized by physical geographical location, rather than political division. While island groups, such as Indonesia or Hawaii, may be nations/states, they are also considered physical geographical locations. - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • What makes a country or subdivision of a country less of a useful geographic unit than an island. I don't understand what sort of geographic units you are suggesting we replace these with. Would you please explain? Guettarda 04:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I (hopefully) clarified my statement above. Flora/fauna of the western U.S., or of the Sahara, or of the arctic tundra, are all by geographic region/location/feature, rather than by Luxembourg, or Rhode Island, nations/states. Does that clarify? (See also: Template:Regions of the world.) - jc37 11:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Listify and then Delete. I am trying to get a discussion going on the Flora of <region>/Fauna of <region>/Biora of <region> categories. Please see Category talk:Biota by country GameKeeper 13:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • postpone i.e. keep for now wait until discussion on distribution categories at Category talk:Biota by country has reached consensus. Deletion of these categories now will loose data which may need to be used at a later stage. --Salix alba (talk) 14:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, as they are useful for narrow endemic species, but encourage editors to be sensible: don't add a Cat:Fauna of Country/State if the species occurs in more than 4 or 5 countries/states; in those cases use larger regional cats (so a widespread species like Red Fox would be in Cat:Fauna of Asia, Cat:Fauna of Europe, Cat:Fauna of North America, but not in any country or state cats). - MPF 20:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Famous American Military Defeats

Category:Criminal suspects

Category:Escorts

Category:Escorts (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete Category created to tag a single person, and unlikely to be expanded. No main article. Generally not (yet, nor likely to ever become) encyclopedic. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Changed vote to Merge. See below.[reply]
  • Delete and possibly merge article into Category:Courtesans and prostitutes The only article in the category appears at a glance to also possibly fit under Category:Courtesans and prostitutes. Now if more articles about people whose profession is "escort" are added, then I'll change my vote to Keep (since categorizing people by their stated profession is standard). Dugwiki 18:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge as per Dugwiki. Guettarda 19:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge and rename to Category:Courtesans, escorts and prostitutes. There have been WP:BLP concerns raised about identifying escorts (which supposedly does not necessarily involve sex, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) as prostitutes, an illegal activity in many places. Gamaliel 20:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Say no more! >Radiant< 20:42, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per Gamaliel. Ramsquire 21:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or Delete but No Merge/Rename The rename failed last week on he concern that associating criminal activity with non-criminal activity as BLP issue. Not sure why a merge should succeed now. --Tbeatty 21:25, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and merge into Category:Courtesans and prostitutes. The fact that the word 'prostitution' is stigmatized is not reason to switch to allegories. Pavel Vozenilek 00:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- by its very nature a trap for Wikipedia to get itself into trouble through violations of WP:BLP Morton devonshire 00:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete for multiple violations, for lack of operational definition, and for plain ole tackiness. Doczilla 02:22, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep/Oppose "Prostitution" is an illegal activity and describing someone as a prostitute is saying they are a criminal, a very serious characterization. The article for which the category was created, Jeff Gannon / talk, references the fact that Gannon admitted he had advertised himself as an escort but never said he was a prostitute. Since an escort can, in fact, be many other things besides a prostitute, there is a difference, and the categories should not be merged. It is also not unlikely that an encyclopedic article could be written about the history of the usage of the word and its various meanings depending upon historical timeframe, participants, activities, etc.Chidom talk  04:29, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Prostitution is not illegal everywhere. Vegaswikian 04:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • True, but not many places use the term without having some derogatory connotation associated with it. And per Florida law, where WP is based, it is illegal. --Tbeatty 05:00, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't see how Florida law affects this in any way. It does not decide what is legal or illegal in other states and countries. While the term may have a derogatory connotation, that does not mean it is illegal or should not be applied to certain individuals. Maybe it's time to start listing members of the US Congress here! This is an encylopedia and it needs to present with a NPOV. We simply need to classify articles correctly. Vegaswikian 22:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This category has been removed from the parent category:Sex workers to its parent, Category:Personal care and service occupations. It no longer automatically assumes that an escort is a sex worker. -Will Beback 05:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep - This category was created as a compromise to avoid the liability of categorizing Jeff Gannon as a prostitute, a crime which he has never been charged with or convicted of. It is only several weeks old, so it should not be assumed that other subjects will not be added to this category. It is a legitimate category that does not imply criminality, as "prostitutes and courtesans" does, and should be used more, where people have not been adjudicated as criminals. If this category is deleted, it will only reignite a long-running edit war on the Jeff Gannon article, which could eventually lead to a liability problem for the Wikimedia Foundation. - Crockspot 13:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or merge per Gamaliel with courtesans & prostitutes. Derex 17:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge seems appropriate (and Tbeatty's comment about last month's rename attempt is irrelevant; the "result" of the rename was no consensus with only 4 comments — there's no reason not to revisit it, but it's out of process unless that category is tagged again.) Courtesans are not necessarily illegal even where prostitutes are, so the arguments against merging suggest that Category:Courtesans and prostitutes should be summarily killed under WP:BLP for any which are L. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:22, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I'm not happy with the circumstances under which this cat was created, it has only two entries, is unlikely to be expanded, and is a libel suit for Wikipedia just waiting to happen. Besides, how many people notable enough for Wikipedia are known mainly as "escorts"? This cat is only going to be used for quick-and-dirty hit jobs on living people, and/or by the type of editor who's so overzealous that he'd create Category:Blue-eyed Britons just so he could put Stephen Hawking in it. --Aaron 22:12, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Useless category. In general, anyone notable enough to be listed here would also be in other categories that are probably better suited to whatever profession they are in. Vegaswikian 22:37, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge with Category:Prostitutes and courtesans. -Sean Curtin 00:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Useful categorization that avoids the accusations of criminality and WP:BLP issues that would be caused by merging. There are plenty of sex industry people who will admit to working as or being categorized as former escorts. I was able to add several entries to the category easily with a Google search of the Wikipedia, and there are dozens more. AnonEMouse (squeak) 17:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, you did add some. However I think you proved my point that they are better listed under their other categories. Two of those articles mention this in passing, nothing to say it is notable. For the third, it is not at all clear that he worked as an escort. Yes he was a prostitute, but that as far as the article goes in that area. Vegaswikian 21:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per the various faction discussions above. This deserves citations. - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - If merged, rename the target cat to include "escorts" in its title, to quell those concerns. (Didn't we just have a CfD along these lines? - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Additional comment Because it is a new category, it has not been used on every article where appropriate. For example, many gay porn stars have also worked as escorts; while that information may be in their article, the article is not in this category in that it didn't exist at the time the articles were created. That could be remedied, which would add articles to the category.Chidom talk  18:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis and Clark

Category:Lewis and Clark to Category:Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Rename The main article of the category is 'Lewis and Clark expedition'. While this category includes bio articles on Lewis and Clark, the focus of the category is on the 'expedition', not just the two leaders of it. This rename should improve clarity. Hmains 16:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename per nom, and I think Lewis and Clark Expedition should be renamed to reflect this capitalization as well. -choster 17:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • revision I accept that my rename proposal should be changed to:

Category:Lewis and Clark to Category:Lewis and Clark Expedition to match the article and to match capitalization rules Hmains 20:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:National parks of the United States

Category:Robbi McMillen

Divide into Category:Robbi McMillen songs and Category:Robbi McMillen albums. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've moved all the contents into those categories (and un-disambiguated them all), as I don't expect anyone has an objection to that. No opinion on whether the category stays, though I certainly don't mind its existence.--Mike Selinker 14:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Category:Categories named after musicians would apparently be it's parent cat. (I'm restraining myself... really... all these musician/singer cats are a mess.. really...) - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete now that it has been divided. I don't think eponymous categories should be created just to house the main article and the album and single subcats. --musicpvm 23:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Low Saxon

Category:Low Saxon into Category:Low German

  • Merge, Category:Low Saxon should be merged into Category:Low German. Both refer to exactly the same concept, but the name Low German is more common in English sources, see Talk:Low German (linguistic sources have been adduced especially in the following two contributions: [1], [2]). ― j. 'mach' wust | 14:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge, per nomination. Dahn 11:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Low Saxon. The term is ambiguous. - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge the only ambiguities are between a set and two of its subsets; and those subsets do not have and do not need subcategories in Category:Low German. For categorization purposes, those are irrelevant distinctions that only make information harder to find. Deal with the sets and subsets in articles. Gene Nygaard 18:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:E-RPG System

Category:E-RPG System (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete Category created to house adverts for the game system's component sourcebooks - now empty except for the E-RPG System article. Percy Snoodle 12:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Famous redheads

Category:Famous redheads (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, Redundant to List of redheads, which, though in need of cleanup, can be much better defined and therefore avoid POV. Also, only one person was added to it. Shannernanner 12:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Speedy, recreation. We don't cat by hair color, and we don't use 'famous' in cat names. >Radiant< 14:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Hoylake 17:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per Radiant above. Dugwiki 18:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Pavel Vozenilek 00:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per above. We do not categorize by hair color. Hair color changes, you know. These hair color categories just keep getting deleted. Doczilla 02:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and leave {{deletedcategory}} per above. David Kernow (talk) 04:36, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, people should not be categorized by appearance. --musicpvm 17:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to List of redheads - Due to "famous", and because the list is much better. - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Estudios Churubusco films

Category:Estudios Churubusco films

  • This is a category for films shot at the Mexican studio. This seems a bad precedent, we could end up with a category for every major (or minor) film studio. There is already a list at Films shot at Estudios Churubusco so a category isn't really necessary. JW 12:06, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Why not for Mexican studio? or Russian? We can have cats like Films by Country by studio -> American films by studio, Mexican films by studio and so forth Kmorozov 12:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    The category is for non-Mexican films shot at the Churubusco studios, so it wouldn't come under Mexican films by studio. "Studio" in this context means "a place where a film is shot", not "a company that produces films", which I think is what you mean. JW 13:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: this is going to be yet another useless category platered over all movie articles. I think the ability to have visually distinguished primary and secondary categories is long overdue. Pavel Vozenilek 00:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per precedent: We have 35 other studio subcats in Films by studio, and 32 entries in this one. (And I believe the parent cat is indeed for films produced by a particular company.) Her Pegship 16:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
That is my point. The parent category is for films produced or distributed by a particular company, but this sub-cat is not. This category is for films shot at Estudios Churubusco. It includes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Hunt for Red October and Free Willy. These aren't Mexican films made by Estudios Churubusco, they are films partly shot there. This category is completely different from the others in Films by studio, and there's no precedent for this. It isn't the same as United Artists films or Twentieth Century Fox films. JW 09:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - So the point seems to be that "Films by studio" is meant to be "Films produced by studio" and not to be "Films produced at studio"? If so, then I suggest be tagged for a rename. - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have the feeling this and the nomination below might best be closed as with no consensus, pending clarification of the "Films by" categories...  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 01:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films by Studio sub-cats

A rename to bring these in line with the other categories in Category:Films by studio, Category:Paramount films, Category:United Artists films, Category:New Line Cinema films etc. "Films by..." isn't appropriate in these cases as the categories include many films distributed, but not produced by these companies. London Films is a slight exception, because "London Films films" wouldn't make sense. JW 12:06, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Have amended Lions Gate proposal. Keep third category proposed (Films by London Films) as "productions" not a synonym for "films"...  David Kernow (talk) 04:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename per nom. Her Pegship 16:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - I am seriously confused by this nom, especially in light of the one directly above. Can someone further clarify? - jc37 00:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This is just a rename to match the other sub-cats. They are all called "X films" not "Films by X". "Studio" is being used here, incorrectly really, to mean production company or distributor. JW 08:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Norm

Category:Songs heard at Kansas City Chiefs home games

Category:RPG Series

Category:College football defunct bowls

National Parks

Category:Actresses who portraying Sandy Olsen to Category:Actresses who portrayed Sandy Olsen

Category: United States Courts of Appeals judges

Category:WikiProject Reference pages