Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 29

March 29

Category:Neighborhoods in Tehran

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy delete under G7 one author who requested deletion. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Neighborhoods in Tehran to Category:Neighbourhoods in Tehran
Propose merging Category:Neighborhoods in Iran to Category:Neighbourhoods in Iran
Nominator's rationale: Empty categories, different spelling, sorry I didn't check well before creating them, my bad. Erebedhel - Talk 23:02, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Brazillian jazz singers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Brazillian jazz singers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary redirect; there are no other "Brazillian" category redirects. —Justin (koavf)TCM22:01, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Indian women philosophers

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Women philosophers, without prejudice against recreating if the number of articles about female Indian philosophers increases significantly. The sole entry is already in Category:Indian philosophers. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:32, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Indian women philosophers to Category:Women philosophers
Nominator's rationale: Only one entry and no other corresponding nationality/women/philosophers trisection categories other than Category:Ancient Greek women philosophers (which is reasonably populated.) —Justin (koavf)TCM20:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Articles for Deletion

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Jafeluv (talk) 16:16, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles for Deletion (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
'Nominator's rationale: Delete'. Redirect Judging by the edit here, a new user was trying to set up some kind of alternative AfD. Unless somebody else can find a use for the category, appears to be surplus to requirements . Richhoncho (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Australian rugby league teams

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 6#Category:Australian rugby league teams. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:43, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging of Category:Australian rugby league clubs and Category: Australian rugby league teams
Nominator's rationale: These two overlapping categories should be merged into one category. I was amazed to find that both existed. Possible new name could be Category: Rugby league teams in Australia although I am open to other suggestions. Djln--Djln (talk) 17:51, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into Category:Australian rugby league clubs or rename to Category:Rugby league clubs in Australia as 'club' the preferred term within the sport Mayumashu (talk) 17:04, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I would be careful with a merge here. A team does not always equal a club. Indeed, some teams are most definitely not clubs. The sub-cat Category:Rugby league representative teams in Australia includes rugby league teams that are not clubs, but rather, representative selections. Perhaps better category naming can fix the issue? The whole category tree is a bit of a mess and this could be an opportunity to clean it up. -- Mattinbgn\talk 22:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Similar categories for other countries use team rather then club. See Category: Rugby league teams. Regards to above cats, there does not see to be any criteria to distinguish between either. In fact I have seen some articles in both. Djln--Djln (talk) 23:14, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment There is a clear criteria to separate the two concepts, it just hasn'r been used properly in these categories. A club is just that, a club: such as South Sydney Rabbitohs etc. It is a organisation dedicated to putting sporting teams on the park, contracts its own players etc. A team on the other hand does not necessarily have to be a club. New South Wales rugby league team is not a club, it is a representative selection of players from various clubs. To use a football example, Manchester United FC is a club that has a range of teams, including obviously their main team; the England national football team is not a club, but is simply a team. Perhaps football could be used as an example to help tidy the RL cats. -- Mattinbgn\talk 23:40, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't need an explanation on difference between clubs and teams but whoever filled these cats might. If you check the teams and clubs listed you will see that they have just been randomly added without follwing any kind of criteria. There is no need for both cats. One should go and I suggest it should be the clubs as the teams one can be more inclusive and this is inline with other rugby league cats for other countries. Djln--Djln (talk) 22:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Staveley

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:People from Staveley to Category:People from Staveley, Derbyshire
Propose renaming Category:People from Eckington to Category:People from Eckington, Derbyshire
Nominator's rationale: (1) Article is Staveley, Derbyshire; Staveley is a disamb page. (2) Article is Eckington, Derbyshire; Eckington is a disamb page. Occuli (talk) 15:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Romanian towns

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Cities in Romania to Category:Towns in Romania, and Category:Municipalities of Romania to Category:Cities in Romania.
Nominator's rationale: What are currently called "municipalities" are not that, they are large towns (reasonably referred to as cities). What are currently called "cities" are just towns. See municipiu and List of towns in Romania. Kotniski (talk) 09:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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More singers by gender

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:Singers by gender to Category:Singers, and merge all Fooian singers by gender to Fooian singers. gidonb is correct that merging the categories in this manner will lengthen the path from Category:People by gender to individual Fooian female/male singers categories; however, consensus is that the benefits of merging (i.e., removing these intermediate container categories) outweigh the disadvantages.
I considered this discussion and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 27#Singers by gender and nationality together since the issues being considered and the arguments are the same in both discussions. -- Black Falcon (talk) 08:26, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Propose merging
List of 29 categories
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This category can only ever contain two sub-categories, and can easily be upmerged without creating category clutter. (See also similar group nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 27#Singers_by_gender_and_nationality, from which this category was omitted since it was not properly parented). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This nomination was initially for only Category:Cuban singers by gender, but I have added another 29 categories which Occuli found. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge - I'm afraid I've found quite a few more, now in Category:Singers by gender. And Category:Singers by gender itself (which will be left with 2 subcats) should be upmerged to Category:Singers. Occuli (talk) 09:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Good work. I will add the rest to this nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I meant merge, but it is a shame that they can't all be diffused to Category:Singers by voice type, now that would be encyclopedic. --Richhoncho (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support upmerge as nom. This is an unnecessary level of categorisation. Male and female are different, but there is no reason why Fooian singers should not have direct subcategories Male Fooian singers and Female Fooian singers. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:41, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - how many genders are there?!? Um... I mean Merge per nom's eloquent explanation --Jubileeclipman 14:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge Obviously, as I nominated the other categories. —Justin (koavf)TCM17:14, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all. This comes across as having a well-occupied 20 floor building where the 13th floor is empty and coming over with a crane and a steal ball to knock out the empty floor out, while explaining that you have already resolved the problem of the water supply. Singer by gender categories are important, and cross-sectioning it with nationality is nontrivial. Everyone in this somewhat scattered discussion seems to agree on that much. (If anyone here is unaware of the real differences between female and (mature) male voices, I'd be happy to explain.) Singer by gender categories, however, are not only subcategories of singers, but also of Category:People by gender. People by gender enables one to find all Wikipedia categories that are split by gender and is an important navigation tool for readers and Wikipedians alike. The suggested deletions would disconnect important categories from each other and significantly decrease the navigability of Wikipedia. gidonb (talk) 03:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    I wonder whether Gidonb has misunderstood what is being proposed. These upmergers will not lead to a single article being removed from an existing category, nor for the removal or renaming of any Category:Fooian male singers or Category:Fooian female singers.
    Anyone looking for female singers can still find them in Category:Female singers, and any one looking for male singers can still find them in Category:Male singers. Category:People by gender can still be used to find categories that are split by gender, by looking in the sub-categories Category:Men by occupation and Category:Women by occupation ... and most occupations which have a gendered sub-category have only one gendered sub-category, because per WP:CATGRS a "female x" category does not need to be balanced by a "male x" category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
    I wonder whether BrownHairedGirl has misunderstood the implications of the proposal. The process of removing the Singer by gender categories will remove this category from People by gender and create a disconnect in the categorization system. Singers by gender are notable both for male and female voices and therefor the reference to WP:CATGRS is irrelevant in this case. gidonb (talk) 12:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    As above, it will not create a disconnect. Category:People by genderCategory:MenCategory:Men by occupationCategory:Male singers ... and same for female singers. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:15, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Again, when both genders are included in Wikipedia, an X by gender category should by accessible from People by gender. It makes our encyclopedia easily navigable for visitors and clarifies for Wikipedians which articles should be categorized by genderS. gidonb (talk) 13:27, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Why is categorisation by gender necessary? At all, I mean. Could just as well cat by colour, sexuality or religious belief --Jubileeclipman 14:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Answering self: just spotted WP:CATGRS in above, which explains --Jubileeclipman 14:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Category:People by gender contains the categories Category:Religious leaders by gender and Category:Fictional characters by gender which appear be exactly analogous to Category:Singers by gender. Should these also be dealt with in like manner at some point? Do Category:Female authors who wrote under male or gender-neutral pseudonyms and Category:Male authors who wrote under female or gender-neutral pseudonyms also need to be reassessed? Just trying to get to grips with the full implications of this and not suggesting that these should be added to the present nom. Cheers --Jubileeclipman 15:12, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Imho, the latter categories should be listified as such or split into two, if kept as categories. I agree that this is sidetracking. It is important that we allow navigation throughout the category system by different features and if there happen to be only two genders (versus more religions, ethnicities etc.), so be it. The feature itself must be notable (no argument above) and if it is, it should be kept or made navigable. gidonb (talk) 16:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This looks like a halfbaked proposal, that has not been been evaluated in the light of all factors, until late in the discussion. With all respect to the keenness to eliminate categories, please bare in mind that some of them are absolutely necessary to keep the articles navigable, consistent, and organized and that the category system is one of the most precious Wikipedian tools for naviagbility, organization and consistency. Also in the future: Please take a good look at the uses of a category, before going per nom! gidonb (talk) 13:18, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Upmerge. I'm not convinced that eliminating these mid-level containers will cause any sort of problem to the overall navigational purpose of the categories. I'm not sure we even need to divide singers by gender, but that's another story. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:46, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Models

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. There was consensus that the current title is ambiguous and needs to be changed but no clear preference for a single option.
Of the ten options that were presented, Category:Models (occupation) was the only one which resolves the ambiguity in the current title, was supported by more than one participant, and to which no one directly objected, but even it was the first preference (in terms of ranked preferences, not chronologically) of only one editor (taking the most recent expression of a single preference as the first preference).
In the table below, I have listed the ten options and tried to summarize the arguments offered for and against them, as well as added some technical notes and (in one instance) my personal opinion:
An alternate suggestion (see comments by choster, Brunnian, and Jubileeclipman) was to split the category tree by type of modeling. There was no consensus to implement this idea, but it was not clearly rejected either.
I encourage a follow-up discussion that builds on this one to explore in more depth the suggestions made here, since it is clear that the current title is undesirable. (P.S. In response to Carlaude's comment of 19:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC), made in reply to Brunnian, regarding non-professional artists' models: I think Julie Bell is an example.) -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Models to Category:Models (occupation), Category:Professional models, or Category:Fashion models
Nominator's rationale: The category scheme encompassing models, conceptual models, scientific models etcetera would benefit greatly by being able to reside under this name. Please support this effort to organize some otherwise difficult to classify articles. Greg Bard 03:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:Professional models, (what nonprofessional model would be notible for modeling?)
  • Category:Individual models,
  • Category:Human models,
  • Category:Individual human models,
  • Category:Models (person),
  • Category:Models (people), or
  • Keep.
For example, Artists' models and Fetish models are not really "Fashion models". Carlaude:Talk 19:42, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Chennai Technical fest

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Chennai Technical fest (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Category for an apparently non-notable college event (no hits on Google News or Google Scholar) which does not even have a head article, let alone other articles with which to populate the category. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Louis-François Baron Lejeune

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Louis-François Baron Lejeune (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OC#EPONYMOUS. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Black Library authors

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:38, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Black Library authors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This a writers-by-publisher category, and I have found no equivalent other than for newspapers. A list already exists at List of Black Library novels. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:20, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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