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October 31[edit]

Category:Wikipedians who play

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The result of the debate was delete (already empty).--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This used to be added when ((User card games)) was used with a card game as a parameter that wasn't listed. I've changed so now it adds Category:Wikipedians who play card games, so this category is empty. TimBentley (talk) 18:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 30[edit]

Category:Wikipedians who are just plain weird

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 06:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Useless category. Also, the category page says, "If you're paranormal, go make your own category." This may encourage Wikipedians to make more useless categories. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 00:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 29[edit]

Urdu

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 06:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

One of the few language categories that ignores the Babel scheme.--Mike Selinker 18:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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vbnet

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 06:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

And two sets for Visual Basic .NET.--Mike Selinker 18:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Python

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 06:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

And there are two sets of Python programming language categories. Time to condense.--Mike Selinker 18:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Norwegians

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The result of the debate was rename nb, but nn withdrawn.--Mike Selinker 06:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For some reason there are three sets of identical Norwegian language categories. Let’s have one.--Mike Selinker 17:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Well, I went with the one on top of that infobox. Not sure if that makes it correct. --Mike Selinker 18:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Agreed, and support : ) - jc37 23:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:User no-tlh

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 05:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
These users don't like Klingon (the made-up language). See below.--Mike Selinker 15:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Comment Although your points are not without merit, the error with having "NOT" categories is that the infinite number of people who may be suited for this category are reduced to a finite number who A. See the category, and B. Care about the category. For information about the faults with such thinking, see the link below, or go to the not categories..--WaltCip 00:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I don't quite get your point: isn't your reduction from an infinite amount of people (though some 6.5 billion people on Earth is hardly infinite) to a finite amount of people who, first, know about it and, second, care about it something quite universal, and so that it is an empty argument?
    Moreover, I wasn't talking about a mere 'not' category, but rather about the second part of the sentence on the tlh-0 template (or for that matter quite a few ...-0 templates), namely: "or do not want to speak Klingon". I don't know about you, but I rather detest things that conflate two quite different things into one thing without knowing which one is meant (rather like the not categories about all kinds of shitty things, like those discussed in your link).
    Speaking of faults in thinking: I could think of quite a few userboxes (including several even on your userpage:P) of which it is possible to make a near infinite amount of variations (and are even more useless than the no-tlh template (or whatever is best to call it)), and then should, for the same reasons as not categories, be deleted. --JorisvS 22:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • It's not an empty argument. Rather, it's been a past argument for previous nominations for deletion of categories like these. The userboxes on my user page are just that, userboxes, NOT categories - these are two entirely different worlds. A category organizes a Wikipedian into a specified space, while a userbox is merely an image. Read the "Wikipedians who don't like IE" discussion in the archives.--WaltCip 16:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:User no-eo

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 05:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
These users don't like Esperanto. We don't like categories that don't like things. See Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/September_2006#The "not" categories.--Mike Selinker 15:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User AID

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 05:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

See the AID/M category from the 22nd. Let's start figuring out a template we all like for all these WikiProjects and see where it gets us.--Mike Selinker 14:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 28[edit]

Category:Wikipedians interested in computer and video games to Category:Wikipedians who play computer and video games

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The result of the debate was no consensus.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Similar to the passive LiveJournal category below, this category contains only a few members and mostly duplicates a much bigger category.--Mike Selinker 04:30, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • You want to reverse merge every category of "Wikipedians who play...", jc? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.--Mike Selinker 13:28, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • What other categories are you speaking of? I entered that into the search box and got: Category:Wikipedians who play : ) - jc37 11:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • All the subcategories of category:Wikipedians who play computer and video games, for example. I think the "interested in" template should be reserved for the main categories of category:Wikipedians by interest, and all the subcategories should be more specific whenever possible. (Or to put it another way, I don't want to move thousands of users to accommodate three people in the nominated category.)--Mike Selinker 18:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I can accept that. How about if we use Category:Wikipedians interested in computer and video games as the umbrealla cat, with "play" as a subcat? There are several subcats of "play" that clearly belong in "interested", while restricting "play" to just that: those who "play" cvg games. This would mean less work, and would clarify the whole thing. - jc37 23:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment Perhaps simply delete the category, then?--WaltCip 22:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I would oppose that, for the same reasons recently said about instant messager users. - jc37 23:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians who eat at Culver's Frozen Custard

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who eat at Pizza Hut

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Users who are addicted to Postcrossing to Category:Wikipedian postcrossers

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The result of the debate was rename per amended nomination.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
To match category:Wikipedians who do Bookcrossing.--Mike Selinker 21:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User skype to Category:Wikipedians who use Skype

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Recreation of deleted category, post-merger.--Mike Selinker 18:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:IBook G4 users to Category:Wikipedians who use iBook G4 computers

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
To match other subcategories of category:Wikipedians who use Macintosh computers.--Mike Selinker 18:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 27[edit]

Drivers

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The result of the debate was rename/delete as nominated.--Mike Selinker 14:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Rename:

and delete:

Another bad idea for a Babel categorization scheme. I might (hypothetically) care if someone drives, but I can't imagine caring how well.--Mike Selinker 23:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Nice Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 14:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The userbox that adds Wikipedians to this category is for condemning personal attacks, not being all-around nice. Besides, the current name is easily confusable with Category:Friendly Wikipedians. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 20:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User BrE

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 14:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm shocked to see improper Babel categories like this. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 10:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 26[edit]

Category:New Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was keep.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians in Hamilton

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted by (aeropagitica) as empty. TimBentley (talk) 03:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 24[edit]

category:Wikipedia Sock Puppet Master to category:Wikipedians with approved alternate accounts

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The result of the debate was rename per amended nomination.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Moved from speedy and amended.--Mike Selinker 14:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD to Category:Wikipedians in the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD

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The result of the debate was rename per amended nomination.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm not even going to suggest spelling that out.--Mike Selinker 14:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • It's actually 4R, including the nominator, with you, that makes 5 to 2. : ) - jc37 11:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Kindness Campaign members to Category:Wikipedians in the Kindness Campaign

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See the Welcoming Committee below.--Mike Selinker 14:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User Wikipedia/Association of Members' Advocates to Category:Wikipedians in the Association of Members' Advocates

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Per the "in" template of category:Wikipedians by organization.--Mike Selinker 14:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User Wikipedia/Welcoming Committee to category:Wikipedians in the Welcoming Committee

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Per the "in" template of category:Wikipedians by organization.--Mike Selinker 14:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User manga-? to Category:Wikipedians who like manga

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This category should have been included in the Manga categories debate below. Shiroi Hane 14:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Patrollers

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The result of the debate was rename per amended nomination.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The latter one is for a subset of patrollers who look for people climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spiderman, which is my favorite saying on Wikipedia, but nonetheless I don't think we should divide people by the reasons for the tasks they perform.--Mike Selinker 14:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Signature Award

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
An award created by one of the two users in the category who have received it. I don't think we need categories by awards, personally, or everyone with a barnstar is going to suddenly get lots of categories.--Mike Selinker 14:15, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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"Loved" Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I feel like a grinch for nominating these, but there's no way to know how the user community feels about someone. I don't mind pretty much anything a user claims themselves to be, but claiming others' opinions seems problematic.--Mike Selinker 14:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

*knock knock* creator here. I created the userboxes that place a user in these categories to give to Wikipedians who have the ((user hated)) userbox on their page. I'm actively sending people messages on their talk pages with spoof Afd (in this case "Ufd", userbox for deletion") messages indicating that thier user hated userboxes should be substitued, to show that people care. My project is in the early stages, which is why hardly anyone is in these categories -- yet! — Editor at Large(speak) 17:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Userboxes aside, why the need for categories? --Kbdank71 18:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians interested in LiveJournal

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC) This category hasn't grown beyond its one member, and sems easily confused with category:Wikipedians who use LiveJournal.--Mike Selinker 14:05, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:User cvg-6 to category:Wikipedians who play computer and video games

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The result of the debate was merge per rest of cvg categories.--Mike Selinker 19:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Missed this one in the "Gamer categories" discussion.--Mike Selinker 13:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Beginner Wikipedians to category:New Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
These seem to mean the same thing, and the latter category is much larger than the former.--Mike Selinker 13:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 23[edit]

Category:N00b Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was merge to category:New Wikipedians.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
There's already Category:Beginner Wikipedians, merge there. If that's not what's intended by n00b Wikipedians, delete. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 19:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who would shoot Greedo first

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The result of the debate was merge to Star Wars category.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Particularly useless category. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 19:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An alternative to deletion would be to merge to Category:Wikipedians who like Star Wars. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 19:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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October 22[edit]

Category:User AID/M

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 01:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This category currently goes against the proper naming style. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 22:33, 22 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 16[edit]

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The result of the debate was rename to "Wikipedian Wiki(Magical Beings)" (consensus was to rename, and the most popular rename was selected).--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiFairy/Gnome Categories[edit]

These renames are to follow the proper style. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 18:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Search google for "Category:Wikipedians that are" and "Category:Wikipedians who are"; "who are" seems to be the norm. —ptk✰fgs 08:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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October 15[edit]

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The result of the debate was delete and merge as nominated.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Manga categories[edit]

Rename

Delete

Per previous nomination on anime and pilot. Does not warrant its own Babel categorization.--WaltCip 02:08, 16 October 2006 (UTC)]Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

More adoptions[edit]

Per the previous adoption nomination.--Mike Selinker 01:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:user cocaine[edit]

Not a big fan of categories where a user admits to a crime.--Mike Selinker 00:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was rename per revised nomination.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Instruments[edit]

These are the top level categories for musical instrument players. I went with the simplest possible approach for each name, wherever possible matching category:Musicians by instrument. I’d like to leave the Babel discussion for later, and just focus on making these categories have English names rather than jargon.--Mike Selinker 00:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Celloists to Category:Wikipedian cellists[edit]

Misspelled category, also confusion with Category:Cellists. - Mike Rosoft 21:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 14[edit]

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians who are Sphenisciologists to category:Wikipedians interested in penguins[edit]

Eschewing obfuscation.--Mike Selinker 20:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete and merge as nominated.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Anime categories[edit]

rename:

and delete:

This is a partial relist from this discussion, trying to see if people support collapsing these categories into their base category. It's good to have the connection between people who might write about anime, but I think the babel system fails us here.--Mike Selinker 19:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete, merge and rename per revised nomination by jc.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pilot categories[edit]

rename:

and delete:

Similar to the one above. This is a profession, and no other profession (except musical instruments) has this kind of babel scheme.--Mike Selinker 19:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • See: Pilot licensing and certification. An instrument certified pilot can fly a plane without use of windows/vision. It's also a different certification. Commercial airline pilots are quite different than general pilots. However, I don't think we need to differentiate between the regular commercial pilots and private pilots. If ever we have military, or space pilots listed, I would suggest that they too have a separate category. - jc37 20:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete and merge as nominated.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Gamer categories[edit]

rename:

and delete:

Similar to the two above. It's a hobby, and thus the babel scheme is unnecessary. It's good to have the connection to other people who like (and thus might write about) games, but not this gradation.--Mike Selinker 19:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was already speedily deleted.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who do not support the use of Internet Explorer[edit]

Also added due to creation of this category during the following discussion. Please comment in the "hate" nomination below.--Mike Selinker 00:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who do not use Internet Explorer[edit]

Added due to creation of this category during the following discussion. Please comment in the following nomination.--Mike Selinker 04:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who hate Internet Explorer[edit]

Per deletion of previous anti-IE categories. Looks like we're going to have to salt some of these.--Mike Selinker 19:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 11[edit]

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The result of the debate was merge.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Safari users[edit]

Category:Safari users into Category:Wikipedians who use Safari

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 11:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:DC Wikipedians[edit]

Rename to Category:Wikipedians who listen to Destiny's Child, convention of Category:Wikipedians by musician. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Speedy rename/merge--WaltCip 02:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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October 7[edit]

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 20:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians with current projects[edit]

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The result of the debate was no consensus (3D, 3R) (Update:Is now empty, so I've db'ed it.).--Mike Selinker 20:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Users supporting TRNC to category:Wikipedians who support Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus recognition[edit]

To match other categories of category:wikipedians by politics.--Mike Selinker 16:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 20:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedian "adoptions"[edit]

These have to change. I don't doubt the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user program is useful, but it can't be confused with real adoption. Also, no categories about individual adoptors, please.--Mike Selinker 16:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 20:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Users who do not exist[edit]

Amusingly recursive, but automatically false.--Mike Selinker 16:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was struck out by Kingboyk. --Coredesat (talk) 00:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Users who have never gotten to first base[edit]

TMI.--Mike Selinker 16:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was no consensus (5D, 4R).--Mike Selinker 20:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:User +25000 edits to Category:Wikipedians with over 25,000 edits[edit]

To match rest of category:Wikipedians by number of edits.--Mike Selinker 15:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • How did you come to that conclusion? - jc37 23:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Simply because it basically divides users by number of edits, hence, "divisive." I've always hated editcountitis, and this just serves to further it. --Mr. Lefty (talk) 19:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Ah. You don't see this as divisive, you see "editcountitis" as divisive, and see this as a way of promoting/furthering editcountitis. I understand the perspective. And while I don't necessarily disagree with your main view, I don't think that this userbox itself promotes division. Thank you for clarifying. - jc37 20:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete and already emptied.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Chinese Mandarin user categories[edit]

categories moved in accordance with the code used by RFC 3066 and ISO 639-3 --Hello World! 09:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 6[edit]

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The result of the debate was delete both.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who oppose Montenegrin independence[edit]

Added because of the following nomination. Please make comments about both in the next nomination.--Mike Selinker 17:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who oppose Chechen independence[edit]

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The result of the debate was rename/delete per amended nomination.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedians by degree[edit]

Rename:

and delete:

I combined some that were clearly the same degree. The majority of these have no periods in their abbreviations, so I suggest none of them should. I'm happy to add the periods if people want, though. As for value, I think these are extremely useful for finding a helpful someone in a field that covers an article you wish to write, and I don't think they're divisive.--Mike Selinker 08:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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October 4[edit]

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The result of the debate was delete "Massively," but no consensus on "massively".--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians who play Massively multiplayer online games to category:Wikipedians who play massively multiplayer online games[edit]

Moved from speedy due to discussions.--Mike Selinker 08:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • I think in this case, the abbreviation should be used, since it could be considered the more common usage (and is the name of the associated article). See MMORPG. Thus: category:Wikipedians who play MMORPG - jc37 21:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Only one problem with that: there's no indication these are RPGs. There are lots of other types of MMOGs than RPGs, and the MMOG abbreviation is not as well known.--Mike Selinker 22:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Except that every entry under Category:Wikipedians who play massively multiplayer online games is an MMORPG. I also (finally) found the source of the first category: ((User Planetside)) see Planetside, which is Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (which says that that is a sub-group of MMORPG). I gave it its own sub-category under category:Wikipedians who play massively multiplayer online games, which emptied the proposed rename category. You can probably propose Speedy Delete. And I suggest Speedy rename - category:Wikipedians who play massively multiplayer online games to category:Wikipedians who play MMORPG.
  • Yeah, I've seen Planetside, and it's no RPG. If you took out the MMO part, would you think "First-person shooter" is a subcategory of "Roleplaying game"? I don't. (Plus, the abbreviation is really clunky. It should at least be "MMORPGs.")--Mike Selinker 00:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
According to the article. MMOFPSs are MMORPGs. Which makes sense, you're pretending that you are the shooter. No opinion on whether it should have a "s" at the end in the cat name. - jc37 01:07, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK, tag the main category and we'll have a discussion about it.--Mike Selinker 13:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
My preference would be to delete the entire Category:Wikipedians who play computer and video games tree. There's a gaming WikiProject already, and they probably have a participants list or category/categories. This is redundant to that and has no additional enyclopedic or community benefit. --kingboyk 11:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yikes, no. This is way too broad a group of users to expect to see in a WikiProject group. These preference categories are fine by me when they pertain to things lots of folks actually write about, like games.--Mike Selinker 11:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Agree with Mike. We may as well delete Category:Wikipedians interested in games if we do that. Probably not a very popular idea, even if most of us are scholarly anti-technology literaturists.--WaltCip 03:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • While I disagree with saying "MMOFPRPSGs" are not "MMORPGs"; "Maybe we can create subcategories for each subgenre of MMOGs" sounds tolerable to me. - jc37 17:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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The result of the debate was already speedily deleted.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians whose user pages have been vandalized[edit]

Recreation of deleted content.--Mike Selinker 20:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians who are fans of Red vs Blue to category:Wikipedians who like Red vs. Blue[edit]

To match current category.--Mike Selinker 20:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was deleted and salted by User:Kbdank71.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedian authors[edit]

We recently decided these were a bad idea. These seem to have been created since, so they should be deleted.--Mike Selinker 20:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians not using IE[edit]

Per deletion of other anti-Internet Explorer category on September 24.--Mike Selinker 20:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was already deleted by Kingboyk. --Coredesat (talk) 20:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

category:Wikipedians who love Swedish Fish[edit]

Per deletion of other Swedish fish category on September 10.--Mike Selinker 20:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The result of the debate was rename.--Mike Selinker 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedians who use MSN Messenger[edit]

Not sure what's going on with this category (the template gained some new categories, which I removed in probable ignorance), but the new versions should clearly be renamed.--Mike Selinker 07:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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