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Category:Oxford books

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The result of the debate was Delete --William Allen Simpson 06:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poorly defined category. Some of the books also have little to do with Oxford. This seems a silly way to categorise books. I propose that the grouping is listified in user space and the Oxford references added to the Oxford article and the books articles as needed. Carcharoth 00:00, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for responding to my note. I hope you won't mind if I explain why I think this is a bad precedent to set. Such associations are interesting, but would end up cluttering the category bit of book pages if extended to all books. Are books already categorised by where the action takes place? (acceptable) By the nationality of their author? (that should be restricted to the author pages only) By where they were written? (seems like over-categorising). By all means point out such associations another way (eg. by a list), but the category system should be more focused on the primary qualities of (in this case) books, not secondary characteristics. Carcharoth 13:52, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:University and college types to Category:Types of universities and colleges

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The result of the debate was rename. the wub "?!" 22:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the proposed name reads better. Vegaswikian 21:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Left-footed players to Category:Left-footed footballers

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The result of the debate was delete. the wub "?!" 22:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This definitely needs a clearer name, but I'm not sure it is worthwhile. If fully used it will end up containing thousands of footballers, and many of them are in rather a lot of categories already. Chicheley 21:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC).[reply]

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Category:Fictional Vegetarians

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The result of the debate was delete (has been merged already). the wub "?!" 22:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This category is entirely unencyclopedic and does not fit the intentions of Wikipedia. CobaltBlueTony 20:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Currencies of the Eurozone to Category:Eurozone fiscal matters

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The result of the debate was rename. the wub "?!" 22:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The category does not contain articles about currencies; rather articles about various Euro related issues; alternatively it could be renamed back to Category:Euro which it was at previously. Tim! 19:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Preferred option now Eurozone fiscal matters. Tim! 08:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Muslim Britains

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The result of the debate was delete. the wub "?!" 22:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete — This was a category about British people who are Muslims. The word used should therefore be "Britons", for people, not "Britains", an imaginary word which if used would mean multiples of the country, Britain. Unfortunately I found the Category deletion documentation a bit jumbled, and found out about the method for proposing a speedy rename only after I'd created the new category (Muslim Britons) and adjusted the dozen-or-so articles within it. That work is done so I'm proposing a speedy deletion is inoffensive and linguistically correct. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 19:20, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Muslim Britons to category:British Muslims

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The result of the debate was rename. the wub "?!" 22:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rename both to category:British Muslims which is the standard term (524,000 google hits to 641, a ratio of 817:1). Chicheley 21:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Caution over rename — please see the talk page for the category (either one, I've copied the salient point). I've said "caution" because I don't personally oppose the rename, nor indeed know much about the issues involved; but for the sake of this page, I'm going to state the point made by the user who created it. He explains, other categories in this subject area use "Muslim" ahead of "Country name" because to the diaspora in question, their religion may be more significant than their citizenship of a state. I see no reason why Wikipedia should redefine the importance of this relationship, especially since there are apparently other articles of this form. In Chicheley's example, Google is cited: it's been discussed in many other places, but Google is no measure of real-world usage, never mind accuracy. Did you search with or without quotes around the phrase, for example? I continue to suggest a quick delete and then a separate discussion of the renaming. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 21:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Kieran: I can confirm that "British Muslims" is the standard British English usage. Chichely was merely using google to give additional evidence, and in this circumstance the google test is relevant (this disparity is indicative of usage) and seems to have been performed correctly (for instance, in this case, it has to be done with quotes: this really is a good kind of "head to head" where there are only two possible usages, no variations are at issue, none of the phrases has an alternative meaning we aren't interesting in, and the massive disparity underlines general usage). "Muslim Britons" is bizarre, and certainly non-standard. My problem with this category is whether we should be mixing religion and nationality categories in this way. Personally I would rather delete this kind of cross-over categories (although obviously deleting this one but keeping others would be undesirable). TheGrappler 22:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I used quotes and only to back up what I already knew to be the main usage beyond any doubt. Quibbling with google results when they are close is one thing, but dismissing them out of hand in such a clear cut case is silly. The term "Britons" is not used in the category system and looks a little odd to me here. Chicheley 22:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fair point, I totally agree that using "Britons" looks odd, I just wanted to make sure the comments of the category's creator had been mentioned, since I dragged the category into this process. Duty done, I no longer care much either way, although I still shudder at the thought that Google has overtaken the OED as an arbiter of common usage. It's actually arrogant. There are still people out there who don't use the internet ;) – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 23:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Famous members of Red Sox Nation

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Conscious 13:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguous (where do you get your membership card?), pretentious ("Members of Red Sox Nation" instead of "Red Sox Fans"), non-encyclopedic, and stupid. —Chowbok 18:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment That's clearly not true - most biographies in Wikipedia are of extremely unfamous people, but who happen for some reason to be notable. Though I am making a fine distinction :-) The bottom line is that we hardly if ever have categories starting "Famous ..." because somebody's fame is quite a POV thing (when does somebody stop being merely notable and start being genuinely famous?). Far better to say "Notable..." or cut it out at all - the fact that it is being used to store people who have Wikipedia articles ought to make it clear that any members of the category are sufficiently notable to have Wikipedia articles, so there's an argument that it's redundant from that point of view. TheGrappler 23:57, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Australian doctors to Category:Australian physicians

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The result of the debate was no rename. the wub "?!" 22:45, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consistent with all the other physician by nationality categories.--Peta 15:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Natives of Nürnberg to Category:Natives of Nuremberg

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The result of the debate was Rename Category:People from Nuremberg, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence --William Allen Simpson 07:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is always Nuremberg in English, as in the article Nuremberg and category:Nuremberg. Chicheley 14:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Isn't living somewhere as an adult more significant than merely being born there? We need to define what we want the category to enable. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 19:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Columbia Pictures films to Category:Columbia films

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Conscious 13:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other films by studio cats don't have the "Pictures" in their name, and Columbia shouldn't be an exception. CoolKatt number 99999 11:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Soviet military aircraft

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted by User:Pschemp. - EurekaLott 12:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...should be merged into Category:Soviet and Russian military aircraft. Yet more work from the now permanently banned User:Imthehappywanderer, this simply takes the aircraft by decade categories for 1920-1989 and moved them up into a subcategory, adding an extra level of categorisation for no basic purpose. Grutness...wha? 08:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Speedy merge pschemp | talk 12:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC) ...should be merged into Category:Political logos. Yet more work from the now permanently banned User:Imthehappywanderer, this one needs little further explanation. Grutness...wha? 08:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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British "ethnic" categories again

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The result of the debate was delete. Conscious 13:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep British-Bengalis, it is a non-trivial sub-category.
First of all, British people of Bangladeshi origin form a distinctive subcategory of their own. Monica Ali has written a famous novel about them, their food has changed the eating habits of Britain, Zadie Smith discusses them to a large extent in White Teeth. To pretend that this is an artificial grouping is both false and misleading.
Secondly, the category is regularly updated with well-known members as they become prominent. The most two recent entries are Dr Bari (new president of the Muslim Council of Britain) and the magician Aladin or Eenasul Fateh. I'm sure there'll be more in years to come, as the group slowly enters the mainstream. Similarly Pakistani-Brits and Indian-Brits could conceivably form their own substantial subcategories, although that isn't my beat. The fact that Filipino-, Lebanese- or Norwegian- only have one member each should NOT bring prejudice upon British-Bengalis which is appropriately updated and has substantial content.
Finally, if Americans can have their own ethnic categories (passim), so can British people. Everyone here does not come from the same ethnic stock, and I don't see why that fact should be attempted to be denied. --Peripatetic 08:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Additional comment Unlike many other communities, British Bengalis consciously self-identify themselves as such. They have their own organizations to this effect [1] and [2]. They have their own newspapers. The majority of them come from a specific part of Bangladesh, and live in a certain area of London. There are specific demographic reasons for this, but it remains true that British-Bengalis' sense of identification is much stronger than say Italian-British or Austrian-British (I've never heard of these either). I continue to oppose this deletion proposal. --Peripatetic 15:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sounds like you might have a case for "English Bangladeshi", but not for British, unless you can show a strong presence in Scotland and Wales. Moreover, looking at those articles, so far I haven't found one that is notable for Bangladeshi activism, and therefore they don't belong in the category. We don't categorize people based on where they were born, or their non-notable grandparents originated. --William Allen Simpson 03:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    No offence but I'm assuming you are unfamiliar with the usages/nuances of the terms "English", "Scottish", or "British" as used in the UK. English or Scottish specifically refers to the original indigenous Caucasian ethnic groups of these islands.
No African or Caribbean or Asian or Indian immigrant is referred to as "English", no matter how long they or their generations have lived here. English Bangladeshi is a non-existent term, an oxymoron, but British Bangladeshi or British Bengali is quite common usage.
John Cleese is English, Shakespeare is English, Gordon Brown is Scottish. But Linford Christie is referred to as British, and Eenasul Fateh is British as well. British is an all-inclusive term like American denoting nationality or citizenship. English is a narrower term denoting ethnicity.
As for not being notable for activism, that is a deficiency of the Wikipedia articles, not the people themselves. People like Baroness Uddin and Dr Bari have been working in the Bengali community for literally decades, and younger folks like Akram Khan or Konnie Huq very often given their time to community causes as well.
We don't categorize people based on where they were born, or their non-notable grandparents originated. Please see article British Asian. That is precisely how they are categorized in the real world. This is another example of a well-established category in the UK. Also see Category: British Asian - there's dozens of people in there and quite correctly so.
--Peripatetic 06:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • As to use of English, Scottish, etc, Wikipedia and most of the world consider those countries, and the inhabitants get the appellation for that nationality. Your approach would require rewriting virtually all of the occupation and nationality categories.
    As to No African or Caribbean or Asian or Indian immigrant is referred to as "English", no matter how long they or their generations have lived here. That is contrary to that actual verifiable bibliography references. For example, "Shefali Chowdhury is a Welsh actress." Therefore, she is in Category:Welsh film actors. Likewise, Afshan Azad from Manchester is in Category:English child actors (and probably should be in English film actors, too).
    As to verifiability, you don't get to put people into categories unless it's verifiable in the articles. Saying the article is deficient but you still want the category doesn't make the grade.
    All in all, it appears that you have no expertise in demography, and you are advocating racism.
    --William Allen Simpson 07:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • All in all, it appears.. you are advocating racism

All in all, it appears you are starting to talk a load of crap. With that ridiculous and offensive accusation, I withdraw from this moronic CfD. Why don't you be consistent and try deleting a really popular category like British-Asian? We'll soon see how far you get with that. --Peripatetic 09:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Named Users

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The result of the debate was Delete --William Allen Simpson 06:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like
category spam. - EurekaLott 04:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Degenerate forms

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The result of the debate was Delete --William Allen Simpson 06:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. I believe the items here are too diverse to be grouped together in the same category. Also there are plenty of things which can turn degenerate, I see no reason to create a category of such things. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Degeneracy certainly has possibilities for grouping together even distantly related notions of something which is "not generic" for a certain notion of genericity (e.g., generically every square matrix is invertible). But I don't see that happening here. Anyway, I'm not even sure what the "forms" in the name is supposed to mean. So I guess this is a degenerate case of degeneracy... or something. Silly rabbit 02:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. and maybe delete or merge one or two of the articles in this rather degenerate category. I think that if we tried hard enough we could invent lots of similar 'categories' (like a category of mathematical ideas that involve the number 4). I don't believe this particular categor serves a useful purpose. Madmath789 21:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Finnish Diaspora Royalty

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The result of the debate was rename. Conscious 13:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This category has been set up half in jest, and it's an odd case. If it is to be kept, it needs to be renamed to Category:Finnish royalty. Calsicol 00:29, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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