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Category:Foreign banks in Canada

I do not agree with deleting this category, but it is more or less the same problem as category:Foreign banks in Hong Kong listed below. The two categories should be dealt with in the same manner. — Instantnood 10:47, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there! I'm a bit surprised to find this category on the chopping block. I took a bit of a break last month, I guess. I wish someone had thought to message me. Anyways...
I created this category, along with Category:Defunct banks of Canada to help organize what was at the time a very big mess of past, present, domestic, and foreign banks that operated in Canada. Before that, they were all dumped in Category:Banks of Canada, and many also in Category:Companies of Canada. I spent one night doing a lot of this repetitive cleanup work.
Foreign banks in Canada stick out like a sore thumb to any decent internet researcher because Canadian law requires foreign-controlled banks to file separate paperwork than Canadian-owned banks. There's really nothing vague to the category's parameters at all.
As it turns out, most of the foreign banks are only present in Canada as commercial lenders. This very much distinguishes institutions like AMEX Bank of Canada and Sears Canada Bank from a retail bank like Scotiabank or CIBC.
When I created this category as a sub-category of Category:Banks of Canada, I realized there would be some potential for overlap. To address this, I created a rule to follow to minimize that overlap. My methodology for allowing articles to be in both Category:Banks of Canada and Category:Foreign banks in Canada was this:
Does the bank offer full personal banking services at a permanent location in Canada?
Essentially, that the bank have an actual bank an actual person can walk into and open an account. Bank of China Canada Limited, CTC Bank of Canada, and HSBC (Canada) meet these requirements.
ING Direct Canada and Citibank Canada offer telephone/online banking, but I felt these should be excluded as it is not a true physical presence. I would also prefer to keep the categories as separate as possible.
This category does no go out and seek to include the main articles of multinational banks with any kind of office in Canada; the point is to cover separate articles about the Canadian operations themselves. I can see the problem that some folks are getting at, and I assure you there will be no over-application of the Foreign banks in Canada category if I have anything to do with it.
As for the other category still in question... Well, I'm not terribly interested in Hong Kong banking, but the philosophy of the category (as it's standing now) seems to be about the same as I thought of for this one (though "foreign" is a bit more vague from the perspective of the relationships between Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan). It seems that my category was dragged into here for precedent. I'd like to think it's a pretty decent one.
I would appreciate it if we were to keep this category and close this unresolved debate. --Alexwcovington (talk) 08:40, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Foreign banks in Hong Kong

This category appears to be created to display all foreign banks with operations in Hong Kong. Not exactly an issue with that, but imagine what happens when other cities, territories, and countries follow suit. Are we going to have our pages on banks filled up with a gigantic list of categories listing all the geographic entities they operate in, considering many of our banks worth to be mentioned here are usually major TNCs? Rather unneccesary, in my opinion, considering that detailed listings on areas of operation can be in the text, and listings detailing the banks which operate in territories such as in List of banks in Hong Kong can be created too.--Huaiwei 05:07, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Political_parties_in_Palestine

No good. This needs to be moved either back to the original title, or to Category:Political_parties_in_the Palestinian National Authority. "Palestine" (unlike other entries on this list) is not a country. -- uriber 21:07, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The Palestinian National Authority is not a country either, it's a government. There are several non-country categories in the by-country categories; I certainly wouldn't recommend re-classifying all "Palestine" categories under "Israel". We've decided on the "Foo of Bar" form in general for this type of category, so this should either be "Political parties of the Paestinian people" or "Political parties of (some term referring to the geographic area in question)", or whatever is appropriate for what the category is for. The general issue of what to call the land in question was left unresolved the last time we attempted to answer it. Settling this question is part of that. Prior discussion is archived at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Palestine. -- Beland 06:10, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The accepted convention for by-country articles is to go by the name of the main country or territory article to which the category refers, and/or coordinate with the list of sovereign states or the list of dependent territories. "Palestinian National Authority" is neither a country nor a territory - again, it's a government. It doesn't seem appropriate any more than "Political parties of the government of the United States" would be.
Though neither Åland nor Palestine are listed in either of those articles, but West Bank and Gaza Strip are in the list of disputed or occupied territories and Åland is in Special member state territories and their relations with the EU. As you can see at Palestine, the term is ambiguous and can be used to refer to the territory of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. -- Beland 07:04, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure if I understand what you're suggesting. I'm fine with any solution, EXCEPT a category which implies that there is a country named Palestine. In other words, as I said above, I am voting delete. OK? Rhobite 02:00, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
Yes, but what should the replacement category be called? You said "whatever fits the accepted convention", but by rights that should be "Political parties in the West Bank and Gaza Strip". Would that be acceptable? -- Beland 03:46, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As I said above, I am fine with Category:Palestinian_political_parties, Category:Political_parties_in the Palestinian Authority or Category:Political_parties_in_the Palestinian National Authority. I know that the PNA is a government, not a country. It's an exceptional situation and it requires special treatment in our category scheme. Rhobite 04:16, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
Del. Agree with Uriber. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:44, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please also see [1] for a previous discussion on the same topic, which was removed without taking any action, in spite of consensus being reached on most issues. -- uriber 12:23, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'll rephrase: Category:Political_parties_in_Palestine is no good not because Palestine is not a country, but because Palestine is something else, namely, a historical geographical region, currently containing the state of Israel, as well as the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (and perhaps parts of neighboring countries). So Category:Political parties in Palestine should, in principal, include political parties in Israel, such as the Likud. However, categorizing modern-day political parties by historical geographical regions is silly. It makes much more sense to categorize them by the political frameworks in which they operate. The relevant modern political framework in this case is the Palestinian National Authority.
If one assumes that "Palestinian" refers to a country, then one is wrong. "Palestinian" does not refer to a (hypothetical) country named "Palestine" any more than "Jew" refers to a country named "Judea". Category:Jewish political parties makes sense (there were such parties in some countries at some point in history), but it is certainly not the same as Category:Political parties in Judea. -- uriber 20:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Elections_in_Palestine

This is the exact same problem, and already has a CfD notice on it. -- uriber 22:04, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Sailboat Names

The name of this category is incorrect, since the articles contained within are about the sailboats in general rather than specifically focused on their names. IMO the articles in this category should go to Category:Sailboats and the category should be deleted (admission: I already moved the subcategories from here to Sailboats, hope that isn't a major transgression of the process :) Bryan 05:27, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wouldn't Category:Sailing boats be better? I for one have never heard the term "sailboat", jguk 07:28, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
You ought to get out more. Gene Nygaard 19:00, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
'Sailboat', which is certainly in common usage, seems to be an American usage. Certainly much less common in British English -- I've never heard it from a British speaker. 'Sailship' appears to be in usage too, although rather less common that 'sailboat'. Despite it being a damn silly word. :) --Ngb 09:41, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Sub Pop

Only one article seems to belong here (grunge speak), and even that's iffy. The rest are musicians added just for having been on Sub Pop, despite many of them also having been on other labels. The subcategory is fine, but doesn't need the parent category. -- LGagnon 07:14, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sub Pop is fine as an article, and can be linked to. The "no other obvious relationship" comment says it shouldn't be a category. --A D Monroe III 15:45, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

For the record, this vote currently stands at 3 votes delete (LGagnon, A.D. Monroe, Postdlf), 3 votes keep (Blankfaze, Mark, Alkivar). BLANKFAZE | (что??) 07:16, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)


Category:Unique scripts

Discussion: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Unique scripts

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Terrorism[edit]

Please note that this list is not complete and many other "Terrorist ..." Categories should be listed here as well. helohe (talk) 15:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-wikipedia classification systems[edit]

See Wikipedia talk:Category schemes.


Wikipedia talk:Category schemes has been de-thinkthanked and de-RfC'd today, because no further talk on the topic evolved there. So probably you'd be better off following the links to individual category talk pages listed above, if interested in the topic --Francis Schonken 22:24, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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