Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 October 5

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October 5

Category:Iranian people of Assyrian descent

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:27, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The two categories seem the same. Taranet (talk) 22:37, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge both to Category:Iranian people of Assyrian ethnicity. "Descent" is inaccurate. This is not an expatriate community, but an indigenous ethnicity, a sort of sub-nationality. These people are Christians and members of the Assyrian Orthodox Church. Alternatively, Category:Assyrian people of Iran or Category:Assyrian people from Iran. In the Middle East, since the conquest by Muslim rulers, the various Christian denominations have become largely endogamous communities, causing them to become almost a separate nationality, though without any national homeland. Accoringly the normal format "Fooian of Booian descent" fails to fit. A few years ago, a lot of effort went into renaming all Booian Fooian categories (except American ones). Precedent would imply Reverse merge if none of my suggestions ois accepted. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:27, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge both to Category:Iranian Assyrians to match the very similar category Category:Iranian Jews. In both cases we are dealing with an ethno-religious identification.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to Category:Iranian Assyrian people, which appears to be the most common format for an ethnonational category (compare to Category:Iranian Armenian people, Category:Iranian Kurdish people, and Category:Iraqi Assyrian people). Assyrian descent, in the absence of Assyrian identity, is trivial and non-defining. Someone who is "of Assyrian descent" but does not consider himself or herself, and is not considered by others, to be an Assyrian should not be in a category for Assyrians. In retrospect, I think that the move to 'Fooian people of Booian descent' was a mistake because it moved us away from identity, which often is personally and socially defining and significant, to the more verifiable but insignificant accident of ancestry known as descent. I suppose, though, that that's a topic for another time... -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I think you forget that Category:Russian French people is ambiguous, where it is not clear if they are French people in Russia, or Russian people in France. When we renamed the old categories to the descent categories, some people ended up in the wrong categories because of this ambiguity.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:13, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    That's not quite the same. Russian and French are nationalities, and so Russian French people could refer to either Russian people of French "ethnicity" or French people of Russian "ethnicity". In the case of Iranian Assyrian people, it can mean only Iranian people of Assyrian "ethnicity", since there are no Assyrian people of Iranian "ethnicity".
    If your comment was meant more generally, then I do see your point, but I still think descent or ancestry are trivial characteristics compared to actual, active identity. -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Android films

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: No consensus. I expect this to return here at some point, maybe as an outright delete nomination. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:23, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename per what appears to be the standard naming convention seen in Category:Films about amnesia, Category:Films about prostitution, Category:Films about suicide, etc. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:04, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename to Category:Androids in film - although they're all over the place the equivalent sub-categories of Category:Fiction by topic seem to me to use Category:FOO in BAR more than Category:FOOS about BAR. I find that a better construction and it relieves editors of the need to subjectively decide that a film is enough "about" an android to categorize rather than the verifiable fact that android there be. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 22:24, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see anything special about androids that would make films "about" them any harder to identify than films about any other topic. If you want to improve the guidelines for categorizing films by topic, that should be a much broader discussion. Also, Category:Fictional androids already exists and Category:Robots in film does not. —Coder Dan (talk) 01:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just to be clear, do you have an actual objection to the idea of renaming the category to "Androids in film"? Do you favor "Films about androids"? because I can't figure that you've expressed an actual opinion on the subject of the nomination. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 05:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • My first comment expresses three objections to the name "Androids in film":
  • Your justification for the name isn't unique to androids, so it shouldn't be done without a larger discussion of film categorization in general.
  • Category:Fictional androids might be a better place if you want to categorize material by references to individual androids, since the same android is sometimes featured in more than one medium.
  • If Category:Androids in film is created, it should be a child of Category:Robots in film, but nobody seems to have considered that important enough to create yet.
My second comment expresses the objection that the combination of topic name and list content is (obviously) inconsistent with Wikipedia practices. I understand the fuzziness of trying to categorize fictional works by what they're "about", but one can say that about almost any issue of any topic in all of Wikipedia. The world is complex and sloppy, but we need to make as much sense of it as we can.
As for "Android films" and "Films about androids", I have no preference between them. I chose "Android films" because it matches "Robot films", which already existed, but those names are somewhat ambiguous: "Android films" could mean films that were produced by androids, or films that androids enjoy watching :D
—Coder Dan (talk) 05:26, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Films that would go into Category:Androids in film would be mis-categorized in Category:Fictional androids because fictional androids are not films. It is permissible to discuss individual categories as they come up without there being a wider discussion. That no one has (yet) created Category:Robots in film has no bearing on this discussion at all. If our goal is to make as much sense of the world as we can then it should be a no-brainer to avoid category names that are ambiguous by their nature. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 15:33, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • To consolidate my previous points: Even if we could somehow make the criterion for including films in an android-film category more "objective", the correct name for such a category would be something like "Films involving androids", "Films that mention androids", or "Films in which androids appear". That list category could be a child of the topic category Category:Androids in film, which would also include things like individual androids that appear in films, technologies that are used to depict androids in films, etc.. —Coder Dan (talk) 16:57, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Edwardstone

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The result of the discussion was: speedily deleted by RHaworth (talk · contribs) for the following reason: "C1: Empty category". -- Black Falcon (talk) 01:33, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category with only one member, and doesn't appear to be anything else that would go in there. Every other village in Suffolk does not have its own Category Sven Manguard Wha? 19:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Italian-American actors

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Actors of Italian descent, and salt to prevent recreation without a formal deletion review. I will also salt Category:Italian American actors and Category:American actors of Italian descent. -- Black Falcon (talk) 01:29, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Deleted twice before via CfD. Still fails WP:CATGRS. Non-notable intersection. Nymf (talk) 17:45, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Superman animated shorts

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The result of the discussion was: Relisted to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 October 13. -- Black Falcon (talk) 01:10, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. There has been a new Superman short recently released called Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam by WB studio. The purpose of the rename is to avoid confusion what the short films from Fleischer Studios and that particular one from the Warner Bros and its future releases.NeoBatfreak (talk) 10:02, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I'm not a big fan of long-string category names like the suggestion. In the absence of any but one Superman animated short not from Fleisher my inclination would be to re-parent the existing category to remove it from the Fleisher tree, add the Fleisher short articles to appropriate Fleisher categories and simply add the new short to this category. Otherwise we have no place to categorize Superman/Shazam as a Superman animated short unless we create a single-item category for it, which I oppose per WP:SMALL. If this category must be renamed then make it Category:Fleisher Studios animated Superman short films to match logical parent Category:Fleischer Studios short films. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 20:32, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Neither do I, it was just what I came up. But if anyone got a better idea, feel free to say and do so. The reason of the rename is to avoid confusion with the animated short films from Fleisher and those from WB. Even though, for now, there are only one short film from WB, sources say that there will be more DC Comics based short films as DC Showcase, to tell stories about Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin, and of course, Superman. See this category Category:DC Showcase as there are already a number of DC Showcase films from WB.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 21:51, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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