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July 15

Category:Springs of Holy Land

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus on delete/keep, rename to Category:Springs of Israel to match convention per CharlotteWebb's argument. Kbdank71 16:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from speedy. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sustainable practices by country

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The result of the discussion was: rename; appears to be sufficiently populated now. Kbdank71 16:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from speedy. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Towns and villages in the West Bank

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 16:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from speedy. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Towns and villages in the Gaza Strip

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 16:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from speedy. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:07, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Black days

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 16:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Black days (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - overcategorization by naming coincidence. The various included days, everything from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to a day when South Korean people gather informally to eat noodles with black bean sauce, are unrelated except for (in most but not all cases) having been tagged as "Black something-or-other." The inclusion standard is also arbitrary. How "infamous" does a day need to be for inclusion? Does it have to be "a day that will live in infamy" or is losing American Idol sufficient? Otto4711 (talk) 21:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Real Madrid C.F. people

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. Kbdank71 16:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
Nominator's rationale: Rename. As Real Madrid is a multisport club, "Real Madrid managers" could refer to the managers of any one of their sports teams. As this category contains only the managers of the Real Madrid football team, Real Madrid C.F., the category name should be reflective of this. – PeeJay 18:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Demonic supervillians

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 16:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Demonic supervillians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Intersection with fairly subjective inclusion, apparently created with deleted article Demonic supervillians. / edg ☺ ☭ 14:48, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People by Afghan province

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. Kbdank71 16:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:People by Afghan province to Category:People by province in Afghanistan

Also nominating

  • Category:People by Belgian province to Category:People by province in Belgium
  • Category:People by Canadian province or territory to Category:People by province or territory in Canada
  • Category:People by Czech region to Category:People by region in the Czech Republic
  • Category:People by Finnish region to Category:People by region in Finland
  • Category:People by French region to Category:People by region in France
  • Category:People by Italian region to Category:People by region in Italy
  • Category:People by Nigerian state to Category:People by state in Nigeria
  • Category:People by Polish voivodeship to Category:People by voivodeship in Poland
  • Category:People by South African province to Category:People by province in South Africa
  • Category:People by Spanish province to Category:People by province in Spain
  • Category:People by Uruguayan department to Category:People by department in Uruguay
    • Second-level
  • Category:People by Finnish province to Category:People by province in Finland
  • Category:People by Italian province to Category:People by province in Italy
  • Category:People by Swedish county to Category:People by county in Sweden
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Per recently closed discussion, the consensus is "People by (division) in Country". The ones which were explicitly named in the older discussion were renamed, but, these were not. Neier (talk) 14:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Ships by navy

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. Kbdank71 16:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming of:

Category:Royal New Zealand Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
Category:Imperial Russian Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy
Category:Royal Thai Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Thai Navy
Category:Australian Colonial navy ships → Category:Ships of Australian Colonial navies
Category:Continental Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Continental Navy
Category:Imperial Beiyang Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Imperial Beiyang Navy
Category:Royal Danish Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Danish Navy
Category:Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy
Category:Royal Netherlands Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Category:Royal Norwegian Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Norwegian Navy
Category:Royal Swedish Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Royal Swedish Navy
Category:Russian Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Russian Navy
Category:South African Navy ships → Category:Ships of the South African Navy
Category:Spanish Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Spanish Navy
Category:Turkish Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Turkish Navy
Category:Union Navy ships → Category:Ships of the Union Navy

Nominator's rationale: Rename. This is for standardization of sub-categories of Category:Ships by navy. A previous discussion from April 2008, with similar renames for 25 other categories, may be of interest. (Note: The first three categories proposed were originally listed in separate entries on 12 July and closed by me for consolidation here. The relevant discussions to the time of closing may be found here, here, and here.) — Bellhalla (talk) 12:43, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional-language films

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Kbdank71 16:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Fictional-language films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete, over-categorization by a non-defining detail. This topic is already dealt with in the context of the article List of constructed languages. Eliyak T·C 10:10, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Well-populated category that looks like it's potentially useful, independent of the list in the article. Provides good interconnection with Category:Films by language. --Orlady (talk) 15:08, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think there's anything wrong with this category in principle, but I wonder if there is a problem with inclusion criteria. Klingon is a fully developed fictional language, so any film using it would certainly apply. But there are many sci-fi or fantasy films in which a few nonsense words may have been included as exotic character dialogue, but it would be an overstatement to call it a "language." We might then decide that any film may qualify in which a character speaks what is identified as a language within the film's fictional universe, even if a fictional language was not actually created beyond a few words, but this may result in just about every sci-fi or fantasy film ever created being included. Thoughts? Postdlf (talk) 15:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People by nationality and its subcategories using the term 'nationality'

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The result of the discussion was: relisted on 2008 JUL 29. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:17, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming

(there are by my count 197 other category pages that would need to be listed (in a separate, second nomination), should discussion here establish a need to do so, work that I am entirely willing to do)

Nominator's rationale: The term 'nationality' is for two reasons problematic. First of all, yet of lesser importance to this rename nomination, is that the term does not necessarily denote mere citizenship, which is the apparent intended meaning here. Secondly and more importantly is that a number of people listed on the subcategory pages of these pages are not citizens of the country they are described as 'belonging' to. 'Booian people' is fine as it does not necessarily denote 'citizens of Booia' (although, for most people likely, it is suggestive of this - a note clarifying what is to be meant by 'Booian people' should be added to each cat page). The reason this is important is that we commonly on wikipedia categorize expatriates resident to a place as as being 'from' (perhaps 'of' would be the slightly better preposition) that place - the same is true of categorizing by state, county, province, department, etc, not to mention city. For instance 'Booian artists' and 'Booian academics' often include people active in a work in country Booia but who are not of Booian citizen (they often and correctly are double listed under 'Booia 1 artists' and 'Booia 2 artists', one for their citizenship and another for the country they work in, when it differs from the country of citizenship) The alternative would be to have two separate lists Category:People from Booia and Category:People in Booia (some Scottish places already do with separate 'People from' and 'People associated with' cat pages). I do not consider myself this distinction to be one worth maintaining. Mayumashu (talk) 03:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm wary of changing "Fooian people" to have "Foo" include residence and/or place of work in addition to citizenship because too many people have international careers these days. Citizenship has always seemed to me to be the natural implication of "nationality" in this context, and will for most subjects of articles be the most significant way to identify them. Expatriate categories (Category:American expatriates in France) can capture those other relationships without multiplying every occupation category by their country of residence or workplace that would seem to follow from your proposal. Postdlf (talk) 20:46, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
But as it stands, Fooian people already does, as pointed out by Occuli here below
I disagree that it s an error - I see 'French people' as meaning people of France and not necessarily simply citizens of France Mayumashu (talk) 23:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As noted above it is (at present) a nationality category, and so correctly contains immigrants but not expatriates. Someone like say Ronaldinho is not in any sense Spanish. He is a Brazilian playing football in Spain. He is not Spanish. David Beckham is not American; neither did he become Spanish when playing in Spain. I was an expatriate in Nigeria; no-one ever told me I had become Nigerian (I was 'in Nigeria'; I was not 'of Nigeria'; I was not 'from Nigeria'). The usage you are suggesting seems to me to be very idiosyncratic. Occuli (talk) 12:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree that an expat is in no sense of the country they reside(d) in. He or she is of course, in a primarily sense (the sense of citizenship or nationality) not, but in a lesser sense is (how less dependent on what one does, for how long, relative). I still think the natural link of, say Category:Expatriates in Spain is still Category:Spanish people and not simply Category:Spain. Not all immigrants become citizens, so why maintain this link and not (other) expats? (User:Hmains, here below, set me straight on that point a while back.) Mayumashu (talk) 02:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep Neither nominator nor others provide a solution on what to do about the many subcats that do not involve a country, but truly involve a nationality--either within an existing country or nationalities without a [current] country. Instead of a rename, maybe we need both of each nominated category so everything will have a proper place to go. Hmains (talk) 03:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A 'nationality' without its 'own' sovereign nation is (still) an ethnicity - such a subcat should be linked with Category:People by race or ethnicity. And the presently listed links for Category:People by nationality are of groups in current, sovereign countries - the heart of this discussion is how expats should be linked to the country they reside in. Mayumashu (talk) 02:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
if so, first fix the offending links so we can consider renaming these categories based on what should be, and then is, in them. Hmains (talk) 03:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
and there are several dozen links to Category:People by nationality that are not for current countries as you claim. They are for ancient countries or nations that never had a country. These are what I am talking about. Hmains (talk) 20:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Mayumashu has done sterling work in sorting out ambiguous booian-fooian categories. We tend to categorise people by place: People from Guildford will be a subcategory of people from Surrey, in turn a subcategory of people from England and then from United Kingdom. In a country that has experienced as much immigration as UK, some of those people will not be British nationals, though from Britain. If non-EU nationals, there is a motive to obtain British nationality, mainly for immigration reasons. Nevertheless, categorisation primarily by place is more satisfactory than by nationality. However, I would not want to rule out categorisation by ethnicity where appropriate. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Psychedelic video games

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 16:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Psychedelic video games (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Very poorly defined category, and from the prior inclusion of Baseball (Nintendo), Tetris and Pac-Man I'm assuming vandalism on the part of the user myself Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 03:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:College baseball records

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. Kbdank71 16:26, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:College baseball records to Category:multiple targets
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Single-item category, no need to separate it from the two parents. Upmerge to both parents. Otto4711 (talk) 00:03, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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