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Category:Cœur de pirate

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 following many precedents for such small categories. There is already a template which is sufficient for navigation. – Fayenatic London 08:22, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. With only two albums and a discography page, this is an unnecessary level of categorization. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:25, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Psy (entertainer)

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Main article was recently moved; category should as well —Ryulong (琉竜) 13:43, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:History of Quetta

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:32, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Contents seem to relate to the entire Pakistani District, not just its main city. Grutness...wha? 13:33, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Politics of Quetta

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The result of the discussion was: nomination withdrawn. Grutness...wha? 23:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Contents seem to relate to the entire Pakistani District, not just its main city. Grutness...wha? 13:33, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Settlements with Regis suffix

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The result of the discussion was: delete. If anyone wants to create a list, the entries can be selected from Regis (place) and List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom. But do consider whether any such list would meet WP:LISTN. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:48, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#SHAREDNAMES (and/or WP:OC#AWARD). Note (this is not the reason for the proposed deletion, but is provided for information): there are articles Regis (place) and List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom. DexDor (talk) 06:20, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • If they are related, make a template; that's what templates are good for: navigating between like things. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 02:21, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Honorary Fellows of The Institute of IT Professionals

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The result of the discussion was: delete. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:55, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Honorary Fellows of The Institute of IT Professionals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#AWARD DexDor (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Subjects taught in medical school

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: (1) Not a WP:DEFINING characteristic, (2) largely, if not completely, redundant to Category:Medical specialties, (3) not part of a wider "Subjects taught in..." category tree, (4) puts articles like Foot under Category:Education which doesn't make sense. DexDor (talk) 05:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Athletes from Ireland

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The result of the discussion was: delete as the two remaining sub-cats are already in appropriate sub-cats of Category:Irish sportspeople. – Fayenatic London 20:07, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Multiple problems here: (1) the category purports to be a subcategory of Category:Athletes by nationality, but the format for subcategories of that tree is "FOOian athletes", and Category:Irish athletes is pre-existing; if this is an attempt to change this particular naming format, this is not the way to go about it; (2) the category contains subcategories for various footballers, bobsledders, hurlers, etc.—but in the category tree, "athletes" usually refers to those who participate in "athletics", meaning track and field. "Sportspeople" is the term used for people who compete in various sports. The applicable category is the pre-existing Category:Irish sportspeople. I suggest deleting the nominated category and re-sorting out the proper categorization of the subcategories. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:51, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Reply I don't think that that suggestion solves the problem as posed. Just to complicate matters further, it appears that we have a cat called Category:Irish sportspeople by county which operates as a container cat for Sportspeople from the Republic of Ireland and for Sportspeople from Northern Ireland. So really it is this entity that ought to be re-named as Category:Sportspeople from Ireland and leave the current nomination alone. Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's created a freaking mess. It should be deleted and we can start over. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Need deletion, you mean. Still more mad categorisation by Laurel Lodged, who doesn't ever learn. Brocach (talk) 23:19, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, Category:Athletes from Northern Ireland should stay, but be tidied up. It is correctly named for a NI category, and like any other categ of NI ppl by occupation, it belongs as a subcat of both Category:Irish athletes and Category:British athletes (alongside Category:English athletes, Category:Scottish athletes, and Category:Welsh athletes). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:37, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Somebody's emptied most of the contents of the category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:24, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Good. Brocach (talk) 23:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not at all good. If there is a consensus to remove the category, the pages can be recategorised according the consensus. What's the point in having consensus-forming discussions if editors act unilaterally without regard to the discussion? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:38, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
When consistently disruptive editors create and populate new categories without any attempt at engagement in "consensus-forming discussions", they must expect to be reverted, and any reverts put an onus on the editor to explain at each page why the change was supposedly an improvement. This rather limits the scope for category obsessives to wreak havoc. Brocach (talk) 00:14, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like it was User:Laurel Lodged, who also created the category: [1]. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:18, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Of course it was. When you see unwanted geo categories being imposed without discussion on Irish topics, that's who it always is. Brocach (talk) 00:32, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I was pointing out that it was User:Laurel Lodged who emptied the category (and that the person who emptied the category was also the person who created the category). See the link provided above. Everyone was aware that LL created the category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Mea culpa. As advertised on my first comment. Good Olfactory's analysis was correct. For them to have remained would have distracted from the main point. The main point is that the category is still correct IMHO. Brocach - chill. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sidebar It should be noted that Brocach has de-populated Category:Athletes from the Republic of Ireland - see diff here. The rationale offered is hilarious. As he knows by now, if he doesn't like a category, he should bring it here, not unilaterally de-populate it. This has been explained to him many times by, among others, BrownHairedGirl. How are editors to see the logic of my argument if all that's left is a hollow shell? Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(If anyone cares) look at the immediately preceding edit: Laurel Lodged deleting the category "Irish athletes" from one of the greatest Irish athletes of all time, who only ever competed for the island of Ireland rather than either state on it, and substituting his own Republic category. Does restoring Sonia O'Sullivan to the category in which she made her name count as "depopulating" the controversial mini-category created only on 21 April by Laurel Lodged? Oooh, take me out and shoot me. Brocach (talk) 22:10, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Shooting is not within the gift of Admins; they're confined to ANI-type censures. But Brocach openly advertises that he is not afraid of ANI - see Robbie Keane. Laurel Lodged (talk) 22:15, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wrong again; I "openly advertised" that the last complaint about me was laughed out of court. This is a sideshow to the main issue here of whether your bizarre "Athletes from Ireland" category should be deleted, so I won't engage further with your attempted distractions. Brocach (talk) 23:45, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Brocach, you have been warned many times not to depopulate categories just because you thi8nk that they are inappropriate. If you do it again, I will take it to ANI. You and Finnegas used to do this as a double-act, and Finnegas's conduct was unanimously disparaged when I raised it ANI. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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