Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 December 9

December 9

Category:Telefónica Europe

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: delete, merging either to Telefonica or to O2 United Kingdom. – Fayenatic London 08:27, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Telefónica Europe is now obsolete as a company. The articles within that which are still part of O2 UK can go in the O2 (United Kingdom) sub-category. There are a number of other articles now not part of Telefónica that do not need to be connected with this category. Cloudbound (talk) 20:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- The fact that a company is obsolete is not a reason for deletion. The fact that it was important measn that an artiucle should exist. I would not oppose the category being emptied manually, ensuring that all articles are properly categorised and then deletedm but that should not be attempted until the normal closure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterkingiron (talkcontribs)

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Category:Fauna of Delaware and Maryland

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fauna of the Eastern United States‎. – Fayenatic London 20:27, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Note this is a follow up to the close of this discussion. This one was not listed with the others since it was not in the same parent. Also it covers two states and per the introduction not all fauna exist in both states which would normally be expected for a category covering two states. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Figure skaters from Odessa

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The result of the discussion was: merge as proposed and also to Category:Ukrainian figure skaters, Category:Russian figure skaters, or Category:Chinese figure skaters, as appropriate. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Figure skaters from Odessa to Category:Sportspeople from Odessa

Also propose merging-

Category:Figure skaters from Dnipropetrovsk to Category:Sportspeople from Dnipropetrovsk
Category:Figure skaters from Beijing to Category:Sportspeople from Beijing
Category:Figure skaters from Harbin to Category:Sportspeople from Harbin
Category:Figure skaters from Kharkiv to Category:Sportspeople from Kharkiv
Category:Figure skaters from Kirov, Kirov Oblast‎ to Category:Sportspeople from Kirov, Kirov Oblast‎
Category:Figure skaters from Liaoning‎ to Category:Sportspeople from Liaoning‎
Category:Figure skaters from Perm to Category:Sportspeople from Perm
Category:Figure skaters from Saint Petersburg to Category:Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
Category:Figure skaters from Yekaterinburg‎ to Category:Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg‎
Category:Figure skaters from Qiqihar to Category:People from Qiqihar
Nominator's rationale: Per multiple previous CFD, just two examples here[1] and here[2], we don't subcategorize at the city level per what type of athlete a person is. ...William 14:34, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Trees of the United States by state

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The result of the discussion was: merge as amended by Plantdrew. I have listed those in the Great Lakes region, which is international, for dual upmerging. [3] [4]Fayenatic London 09:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Trees of the United States by state

And upmerging:

each state's category into the region's category
  • Category:Trees of Alabama into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Arizona into Category:Trees of the Southwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Arkansas into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of California into Category:Trees of the Southwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Colorado into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Connecticut into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Delaware‎ into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Florida‎ into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Georgia (U.S. state) into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Idaho into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Illinois‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Indiana‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Iowa into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Kansas into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Kentucky into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Louisiana‎ into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Maine into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Maryland into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Massachusetts into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Michigan‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Minnesota‎‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Mississippi‎ into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Missouri into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Montana into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Nebraska into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Nevada into Category:Trees of the Southwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of New Hampshire‎ into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of New Jersey into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of New Mexico into Category:Trees of the South-Central United States
  • Category:Trees of New York‎ into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States and Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of North Carolina into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Ohio‎‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Oklahoma‎‎ into Category:Trees of the Southern United States
  • Category:Trees of Oregon into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Pennsylvania into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Rhode Island into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of South Carolina into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of South Dakota into Category:Trees of the United States (this category isn't in any of the region categories)
  • Category:Trees of Tennessee into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Texas into Category:Trees of the South-Central United States
  • Category:Trees of Utah into Category:Trees of the Southwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Vermont‎‎ into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Virginia into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Washington (state)‎ into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Category:Trees of Washington, D.C.‎ into Category:Trees of the Southeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of West Virginia‎ into Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States
  • Category:Trees of Wisconsin‎‎ into Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America)
  • Category:Trees of Wyoming into Category:Trees of the Northwestern United States
  • Rationalle: Tree ranges don't recognize the state borders, I see no reason why these are defining for these trees. Note that the usage of these categories is mostly about tree species, not as subcats of Category:Individual trees. Also note that Alaska and Hawaii are intentionally not included here. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I'm not sure whether categorization by growth form (tree) is particularly useful and might support upmerging all the tree categories to the relevant "Flora of" category. However, there is a standardized definition for the multistate regions. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota should perhaps be upmerged to a new Category:Trees of the North-Central United States, which would follow the region as defined in Category:Flora of the North-Central United States. Pennsylvania belongs in Category:Trees of the Northeastern United States (per the definition of the parent Flora category). Category:Trees of the Great Lakes region (North America) (and the parent Flora of the Great Lakes) isn't part of the standardized regions; Great Lakes states are in the North-Central and Northeastern regions. @Rkitko: probably has more to say about this. Plantdrew (talk) 16:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
In deciding here these should be upmerged to, I used the existing parent categories. In 2 cases, where no such regional category was present (Rhode Island and DC) I figured that it would have to belong to one specific group, since the surrounding areas all did. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And as to the usage of the tree categorization, this would require major discussion about Category:Trees. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Highlife albums by Nigerian artists

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at 2015 JAN 15 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:08, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The scheme at Category:Highlife albums by artist nationality was deleted. This is too small and narrow to support. —Justin (koavf)TCM 10:47, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Highlife albums by British artists

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 09:36, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The scheme at Category:Highlife albums by artist nationality was deleted. This is too small and narrow to support. —Justin (koavf)TCM 10:46, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Additional note: I created this subcategory but not the Nigerian one nominated above. —Justin (koavf)TCM 10:47, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wagdug Futuristic Unity albums

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 09:39, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: That's where the artist's article is located: Hiroshi Kyono. —Justin (koavf)TCM 09:55, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:States and territories established in the 21st century

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 09:45, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The term State has very specific definitions and there is no reason to allow the terms state and territory to be confused. Legitimate national governments may reorganise their territories and Geopolitical entities may otherwise sieze control of territories. Within the listings, I do not see a creation of actual states. If anything a new structure of "states established" categories should be generated to cover the few entries that may apply. See: List of states with limited recognition. There are very few relevant candidates. gregkaye 09:23, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Good Ol’factory, Peterkingiron, kennethaw88 what do you think of the general concept though. There is a huge difference between the establishment of a territory and the development of the level of international recognition necessary for a state to be established. GregKaye 22:02, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I think the categories should be broad and apply to the creation of subnational territories as well as states that are well recognized and states that are presumptively created but not well recognized or not recognized at all. Of course there's a big difference between all of these, but they are all actual or presumptive states or territories that share the establishment year in common, which is the central point of this particular category tree. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:41, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
A new sovereign state, recognised by most of the rest is a great rarity. There are a number of unrecognised se facto sovereign states (as Carlossuarez46 below). There are probably a few that are widely, but not universally recognised. I think it is much best not to leave well alone. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per the above arguments, and the additional one impled by the nom's question posed above: the difference between a state and territory is often in the eye of the beholder or not subject to "international recognition" Which is Kosovo, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Western Sahara, Somaliland? Some subjective or arbitrary level of recognition that is required is eliminated by lumping the two together, even though it encompasses "territories" which no one would consider a "state". And then there is the US and other uses of "state" as a strictly subnational entity.... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:07, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Royal Polish people

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:43, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. What is this poorly named category supposed to contain? We already have a category:Polish royalty. I have just moved the Category:People from the Lesser Poland which used it as the single parent category to Category:People by region in Poland, so at this point this should be an uncontroversial deletion of a poorly named cat. PS. Can someone speedy move Category:People from the Lesser Poland to Category:People from Lesser Poland? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:14, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Piotrus, I created the category (Royal Polish people) that stands for people who were born in the Kingdom of Poland as there is a similar category in regards to Russia such as Category:Imperial Russian people. I think that such category could qualify for irredentism, but if one exist, there should be consistency. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 13:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Aleksandr Grigoryev You linked to a disambig page. There never was one entity that could be classified as Kingdom of Poland, we instead use categories for smaller entities, ex Category:People from Congress Poland and Category:People of Congress Poland (which probably should be merged). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:25, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- We have a category for Imperial Russia, because the next category is Soviet people and Imperial Russia was bigger than the present Russia. This is a problem that does not arise with Poland, because we can satsifactorily use it for pre-partition Kingdom of Poland, the Polish Grand Duchy of Warsaw (under Imperial Russia), the post WWI republic, and the post WWII republic, despite the variations in the boundaries between these successive polities. I presume that pre-WWII people from Lvov (or Lwow) now in Belorus can come under a Polish cateogry, since it was then in Poland. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 09:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Grammatically speaking, using the verb "have filed" for Category:Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is OK. So too is Category:Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by year. But once we get to specific years, the word "have" should be omitted to remove an awkward language construction that is unnatural in the context because it gives the phrase an air of temporal indefiniteness that is combined with the definiteness of the specific year. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:SWR Big Band albums

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 09:57, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redlink musical artist. —Justin (koavf)TCM 04:58, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Hiphop Tamizha albums

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The result of the discussion was: keep per the guidelines specific to categories for albums. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:39, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:TOOSOON, as the artist has released only one album so far. Kailash29792 (talk) 03:19, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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