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Category:Algonquian toponyms

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 19:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Algonquian toponyms (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Toponyms by language of origin is a coincidence of the name, not of the article - not much different than if we had Category:Greek toponyms so that Antioch, California, Athens, Georgia, and Ypsilanti, Michigan can all be together somehow... There is a list of these, so that if anyone wanted to explain the extent of Algonquian settlement and naming and how that occurred or transfered, it finds a nice place for inclusion. Of course, most of these articles do not have sources as to the basis of their names and the talk page demonstrates that there is not a universal agreement as to what origin some names have: is "Miami" an Algonquian toponym, for instance - it doesn't appear to be on the talk page just derived from either Algonquian words (in Ohio) or not (in Florida), seems a slender basis on which to categorize the various places so named, akin to the various Category:Eponymous places types we have consistently deleted. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Currently the structure is:
Category:Algonquian loanwords
In the case of Miami, the one in Ohio is an Algonquian word, specifically named after the Miami tribe, but the one in Florida is not. Just as slippery is Savannah, Georgia, which is also Algonquian but the Savannah (the grassland) is not (though the Georgia one is not marked as such).
The original reason for the three subcategories was that the topomyns alone took up majority, so they were split off into a subcategory and then two other subcategories were then also generated. An unresolved issue with all four categories is what to include and what not to include, as currently both the directly-derived (such as Abitibi River), indirectly-derived Algonquian words (such as Algoma) and Algonquian word containing name (such as La Côte-de-Gaspé Regional County Municipality, Quebec) are all thrown in together. If anyone has suggestions on how to keep the categories but tease out the jumble or delete this and the related categories but able to suggest how to recategorize them, that would be helpful. CJLippert (talk) 23:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Categories named after research institutes

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The result of the discussion was: delete--Aervanath (talk) 11:08, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Categories named after research institutes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary category layer, since categories can contain both articles and other categories. All of the category's members are in the Research institutes category tree via other routes (including "by location" and "by type"); see [1][2][3]. I think that the approach of subcategorization is a more intuitive one than creating a parallel category structure for eponymous categories. Category creator notified using ((cfd-notify)).Black Falcon (Talk) 22:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's categorising 'categories by category name', not 'articles by article name'. WP:OCAT is about articles (so far - perhaps it should be extended however). WP:CAT - "If the articles of one category logically also belong to another category, then the first category is made a subcategory of the second." The articles in Category:Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution do not logically belong in Category:Independent research institutes so it's not a subcat (or at least it seems greatly preferable to me to restrict the latter to actual research institutes, otherwise CatScan produces a lot of nonsense). As another example, I would expect Category:The Beatles members to include 6 people-articles and not a host of other items (such as a park and an airport) via Category:John Lennon etc. (this leads to CatScan listing 14 people from liverpool who were members of The Beatles). Occuli (talk) 19:54, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • (ec)Thanks for clarifying. For my part returning form a wikibreak, I may not have expressed myself to well either nor am I a CfD regular. Now, i actually see the point with the 'page name' in general but would consider eponymous categories an exception in the sense that they bring by default a 'name' into the game but inherit some defining characteristic from the topics that they relate to, i.e. research institutes or organization or companies etc. I don't think that this guideline intends to limit us from grouping eponymous categories by their topics where those topics are clearly discernible, nor should it. I mean we could not even have Category:Eponymous categories itself otherwise. There may, however, a better name for those subcats. They are, of course, more useful if they are not only listed in Category:Eponymous categories but also included in the related category (as they were in this case in Category:Research institutes) or (recommended) listed there as related category. (I've modified that accordingly). Moreover, the institute article always leads to the eponymous cat anyways.
    With respect to your second question: Calling it systematically wrong reflected first of all my intuitive understanding of what I'd expect to find within the subcategories. Additionally i listed the two extremes and find neither appealing: Once populated and followed with consequence we would have every Important Institue categorized twice just because the Eminent director of Important Institute has now also been included in the Category:Important Institute. Nor do i think categorization is about giving prominence but that is a lesser concern and was only a qualifier with respect to the current diffusion of such cats. The basic problem is probably more succinctly reflected in Wikipedia:Categorization#Eponymous_categories: "Such an eponymous category is a topic category, and as such should not be placed in (made a subcategory of) a list category, even if its corresponding article is placed in that list category." Now, that actually means that the current editorial guideline suggest the opposite of what happens naturally in practice: namely some times after Important Institue someone creates Category:Important Institute copying the cats for the article to the topic cat. If those are removed, the eponymous categories should go somewhere else, but I don't think it'll help readers if they are listed in Category:Eponymous categories itself. I am not blind to the possible dilemma here, namely that as alternative to duplicate entries in one tree we end up in extremis with a duplicated categorization tree but I think readers are best served with a clear systematic in the main tree and will not be particular disturbed whatever we do in the eponymous tree. --Tikiwont (talk) 20:17, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Research institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area

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The result of the discussion was: Rename for now; issue of upmerging left open for future considerations. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Research institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area to Category:Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Nominator's rationale: For consistency with the parent category, Category:Research institutes in the United States. –Black Falcon (Talk) 22:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Women philosophers

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The result of the discussion was: Merge to Category:Women philosophers. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Women philosophers to Category:Female philosophers
Nominator's rationale: We should choose one or the other. Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 21:46, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed! But Category:Women by occupation seems about equally split. Unless there turns out to be a policy or whatever, the "Females" here are much bigger & correctly parented. Johnbod (talk) 04:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Student societies in Pakistan

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Student societies in Pakistan to Category:Pakistani student societies
Nominator's rationale: Per what seems to be the convention of Category:Student societies by country. –Black Falcon (Talk) 21:21, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:S-trains in Copenhagen

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus--Aervanath (talk) 17:38, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:S-trains in Copenhagen to Category:S-train
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The article is located at S-train. The 'Copenhagen' bit is redundant since there is only one system called 'S-train'. Plurality incorrect since it is not a collection of trains of the type S, but refers to a system called 'S-train' (in singular). Arsenikk (talk) 21:07, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
One caveat here is that "S-tog" is not really used as the name of the system per se in Danish. It used to be that the system itself was known as "S-banen" (literally something like the S-line or the S-way, in singular), but this word has gone out of use and is known today only by a few enthusiasts and technocrats. People in general speak about using "S-toget" (the S-train) for a particular journey, or use long phrases such as "S-togsnettet" in the rare cases when one needs to specifically need to refer to the entire network, rather than the collection of trains that run on it. –Henning Makholm (talk) 14:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The first of your references actually say "S-trains"; the latter two other say "S-train X", i.e. as the first part of a compound. It is a common feature of English compounds that the first term loses its plural marker even though it is not logically singular -- e.g., a "letter carrier" is someone who carries letters, or a "shoe rack" hardly ever will hold a single shoe. –Henning Makholm (talk) 00:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Universal monsters

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The result of the discussion was: Delete - Seems obvious that the creator tried to rename this to Category:Universal Monsters film series. - jc37 21:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Universal monsters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - unnecessary redirect, created by the same editor ho created the redirect target. Otto4711 (talk) 20:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Athlete-politicians

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus--Aervanath (talk) 17:45, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:American athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Canadian athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Japanese athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Luxembourgian athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Romanian athlete-politicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization on the basis of a trivial intersection: while both characteristics are individually defining, their interesection is not, since being a sportsperson and being a politician are unrelated characteristics. Most people have more than one occupation throughout their life, but creating categories for every intersections is not the best way to categorize that. Maybe these could work as a list, where it is possible to argue why the intersection may be significant for some people, but it's not a suitable basis for categorization. –Black Falcon (Talk) 20:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • And what expertise does throwing a football or shooting a basket impart to being a member of Congress? By this argument, any previous occupation could be said to impart experience and people should be categorized on the basis of every job they've ever held along with every intersection. Category:Burger flipper-janitor-politicians anyone? Category:Sunday school teacher-telephone operator-politicians? Otto4711 (talk) 19:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • No one who works at McDonald's flipping burgers or as a telephone operator ever goes on to become a politician or otherwise famous? That's a pretty arrogant statement. And you've made a really terrific argument for why an article on sportspeople turning politician would pass notability guidelines, by citing reliable sources, but sadly you've yet again conflated notability with definingness. Otto4711 (talk) 01:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Otto, you're treading very thin ice with your incivility, and calling anyone "arrogant" is only pushing the limit well past the point where the pattern of incivility becomes too strong for even the most tolerant admin to refrain from giving you the block you have earned. I did not say that "No one who works at McDonald's flipping burgers or as a telephone operator ever goes on to become a politician or otherwise famous". The "otherwise famous" part even you would deem irrelevant. You were the one who stated that the absence of categories for the "Burger flipper-janitors" or "Sunday school teacher-telephone operators" that you proposed is because there is not enough to justify a category, if any exist. I'd love to hear your examples and I will be more than happy to consider the retention of these categories when you create them. The examples that I have provided demonstrate the defining connection of athletes who have used their high profile athletic careers as a steppingstone into high level politics. "Former Athletes Turned Politicians" in Sports Illustrated has no trouble defining these individuals as athlete-politicians. I would have to say that providing several different sources that describe dozens of different individuals in variations of "athlete-politician" is rather solid proof that the characteristic is strongly defining. I have no idea what proof you could possibly demand that would exceed what I have already provided and satisfy you, but I'm willing to try. Alansohn (talk) 02:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Former Athletes Turned Politicians" in Sports Illustrated has no trouble defining these individuals as athlete-politicians. - no, SI has no difficulty identifying these people as athletes who became politicians. All sorts of characteristics of people and things can be identified as such through reliable sources; "identified as" in RSes is not the same as "defined as" in WP terms, else, every single fact gleaned from a reliable source would serve as the basis of categorization. Otto4711 (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • If its just a matter of I say its defining and you say its not, at least we're even. I've provided multiple reliable and verifiable sources that show the athlete-turned-politician is a strong defining characteristic. If you want to deal with the sources, you will have to explain why not a single one of them fails to meet your standard. Even better, you might share with us what exactly the standard is under which you decide which sources establish a characteristic as defining and which don't. I also look forward to an explanation for why the absence of the non-existent categories you propose for "Burger flipper-janitors" or "Sunday school teacher-telephone operators" has any relevance whatsoever in deleting this category, despite the presence of multiple strong reliable and verifiable sources to support the claim. Without some explanation on your part, "Defined as" appears to mean anything you deem it to be. Alansohn (talk) 23:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I used the phrase "athlete-turned-politician", which turned up even more sources directly relevant to the individuals. In India, there's Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, defined as the "Communist Party of India-Marxist's woman candidate and athlete-turned politician" (here), there's Imran Khan defined in a headline as "Athlete Turned Politician Imran Khan Blames Musharraf For Bhutto's Death; Demands His Resignation". Finland's Lasse Virén is defined in the subtitle of an article in The Independent as "Athlete turned politician is helping his country to stage a major event." (here. The same publication defines the former Olympic runner as "athlete-turned-politician Sebastian Coe" (here). With nearly a dozen different sources describing well more than a dozen athletes as an "athlete-politician" or "athlete-turned-politician", it could hardly be clearer that this is a non-trivial defining characteristic, despite the determined efforts to deny what the sources explicitly say. Alansohn (talk) 00:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Back in the United States, U.S. Senator Jim Bunning is defined by the Los Angeles Times ("political+appeal+of+a+popular+athlete-turned-politician"&btnG=Search&um=1&ned=us&hl=en here) as "Kentucky Republicans held onto a House seat by relying on the political appeal of a popular athlete-turned-politician. Jim Bunning, once a star pitcher..." Representative Tom McMillen is defined in an article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in an article titled "Athlete turned politician says sports out of control". Even Penn State University's college paper had no trouble with former Pittsburgh Steeler receiver Lynn Swann, who is defined as an "athlete-turned-politician", one "preceded by many others, including fellow Hall of Famer Steve Largent, an ex-Seattle Seahawk and ex-Congressman from Oklahoma, and former New York Knick Bill Bradley..." (here). Again, if not a single one of these sources I've provided so far meet your standard, let me know what the standard is, and i will do my best to try to meet it with the thousands of reliable and verifiable sources available. Alansohn (talk) 00:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Southern plantations in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 19:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Southern plantations in the United States to Category:Plantations in the United States (1st choice) or Category:Plantations in the United States by state (2nd choice)
Nominator's rationale: There is no need for a breakdown by region in this case since there are relatively few notable plantations in the United States that are not in the South. Also, even if categories were created for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, this would still amount to only 51 categories, which is hardly enough to require subdivision by region. Adding "by state" to the end of the category is one option, intended to make this a subcategory of Category:Categories by state of the United States, but it may be an unnecessary change.Black Falcon (Talk) 20:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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(State) plantations

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The result of the discussion was: rename (leaving possibility open for a new nomination for DC based upon arguments brought up by Johnbod). Kbdank71 19:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming
Category:Alabama plantations to Category:Plantations in Alabama
Category:District of Columbia plantations to Category:Plantations in Washington, D.C. – to match Category:Washington, D.C.
Category:Florida plantations to Category:Plantations in Florida
Category:Jefferson County, Florida Plantations to Category:Plantations in Jefferson County, Florida
Category:Leon County, Florida Plantations to Category:Plantations in Leon County, Florida
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) plantations to Category:Plantations in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Kentucky plantations to Category:Plantations in Kentucky
Category:Louisiana plantations to Category:Plantations in Louisiana
Category:Maryland plantations to Category:Plantations in Maryland
Category:Mississippi plantations to Category:Plantations in Mississippi
Category:North Carolina plantations to Category:Plantations in North Carolina
Category:South Carolina plantations to Category:Plantations in South Carolina
Category:Tennessee plantations to Category:Plantations in Tennessee
Category:Texas plantations to Category:Plantations in Texas
Category:Virginia plantations to Category:Plantations in Virginia
Category:West Virginia plantations to Category:Plantations in West Virginia
Nominator's rationale: (State) plantations is more suggestive of categorization by type (i.e. it implies that "Alabama plantations", "Florida plantations" and so on are distinct types of plantations) whereas Plantations in (State) is clearly categorization by location, and I believe it is the latter that we want. This change would also bring the subcats in line with the parent, which is titled Southern plantations in the United States and not Southern United States plantations. For what it's worth, the categories on Commons follow the proposed format. –Black Falcon (Talk) 19:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:British and Commonwealth Academy Award Winners for Best Actor

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. (Actually upmerged Category:Best Actor Academy Award winners just to be sure.) (Former contents available upon request for list creation.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:British and Commonwealth Academy Award Winners for Best Actor (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - not every intersection of two defining characteristics itself produces a defining characteristic. Categorizing by the intersection of "British and Commonwealth" and "Best Actor Oscar winner" is not one such intersection. The list article, which is more in line with other similar Oscar winners by country lists (although IMHO too narrow in scope and should be expanded to cover all British winners regardless of category), suffices for those interested. No other nationality has a separate category that I have found. Otto4711 (talk) 19:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Discrimination by person

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 19:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Discrimination by person (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - small category with doubtful growth potential. It seems exceedingly rare that an individual person's discriminatory beliefs or actions are going to rise to the level of necessitating a separate article per WP:SUMMARY. Otto4711 (talk) 18:46, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mighty Men of David

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus--Aervanath (talk) 17:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Mighty Men of David to Category:King David's Warriors
Nominator's rationale: Rename - I'm not thoroughly convinced that this category is necessary so a delete result would be fine with me too. If kept it should be renamed to match its lead article and to make it sound a little less like a Saturday cartoon show. Also not sure that "Warriors" should be capitalized (it is in the lead article name) so a rename to lower-case is fine by me too. Otto4711 (talk) 18:25, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wow, even when you agree with something you just can't stop yourself from taking the dig, can you? Otto4711 (talk) 22:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The name problem is twofold: (1) no need for Impressive Capital Letters, and (2) the article needs to be renamed. Nyttend (talk) 01:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Neoconservative think tanks

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus--Aervanath (talk) 17:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deletion
Category:Neoconservative think tanks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 26#Category:Neoconservatives, Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 7#Category:Neoconservatives I propose deletion. RayTalk 17:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:History of Leon County

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 19:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:History of Leon County to Category:History of Leon County, Florida
Nominator's rationale: Adding state.--Mike Selinker (talk) 17:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Category Stelios Kazantzidis songs

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The result of the discussion was: Deleted, per creator's request. Good Ol’factory (talk) 14:14, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deletion:
  • Category:Category Stelios Kazantzidis songs

I accidentally misnamed the category. Then I created the correct one Category:Stelios Kazantzidis songs. Costas Athan (talk) 11:56, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:BAFTA winners (television series)

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus--Aervanath (talk) 18:01, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
Nominator's rationale: It's generally bad form to use parentheses in a title when we aren't disambiguating something or using a title. Sceptre (talk) 07:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Guyanese musical instruments

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 19:26, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Guyanese musical instruments (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I went on a binge of creating musical instrument categories for specific countries, and this week a bunch of folks followed suit and created country-specific categories. However, I actually populated mine from the get-go (see the brand-new Category:Ugandan musical instruments, but others created a dozen categories with one entry, or a simple "music of" entry that's not instrument specific. Advise this practice be discouraged and unpopulated categories within Category:Musical instruments by nationality be deleted to prevent clutter. MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:41, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:New Zealander musical instruments

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 19:29, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:New Zealander musical instruments to Category:New Zealand musical instruments
Nominator's rationale: Rename. A "New Zealander" is a person from New Zealand. It is not an adjective. The correct adjective is "New Zealand". (This category only has one article in it, and I have my doubts whether the Great Highland Bagpipe is correctly categorized as a "New Zealand musical instrument".) Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:04, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Still useful for navigation/finding with the "by nationality scheme", even if an empty head-cat - people are likely to look for NZ. Johnbod (talk) 14:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jewish murderers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. We have had plenty of Jewish categories kept at CFD due to "Jewish" being considered a religion or ethnicity in each particular case. Since WP doesn't categorize murderers by ethnicity or by religion, just by nationality, the only question is Do we consider "Jewish" to be a nationality? I don't see consensus that Jewish is a nationality (Per Johnbod, we already do, but per Wassermann we do not ("we might as well" = "we don't")), but in reality, any such assertions would likely be considered OR anyway. And looking at the articles, David Berkowitz, Leopold and Loeb, and Jack Ruby, I see that their nationality is American, so they should be categorized in Category:American murderers. Kbdank71 19:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish murderers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Overcategorisation: falls under WP:OCAT#Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference. I don't think there's any significant link between being Jewish and being a murderer, so this category shouldn't exist; similar categories (e.g. LGBT murderers) have been deleted in the past. Robofish (talk) 04:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • We might as well start treating "Jewish" as a nationality here on Wikipedia. On what basis? "Jewish" is not a nationality. There is no such place as "Jewland". Treating something that is categorically not a nationality as a nationality is a horrible way to proceed. Jews are appropriately categorized at the religious and ethnicity level. "Jew" does not equal "Dutch" or "Mexican" or "Canadian" or any other nationality. Treating non-nationalities as nationalities is making stuff up, something we're really not supposed to do in an encyclopedia. Otto4711 (talk) 19:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • And your evidence that religious/ethnic background is a non-trivial intersection with "murderer" is...what exactly? Otto4711 (talk) 19:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People with the name Stamp

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 18:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People with the name Stamp (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:People with the Name Fronius (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Overcategorization of unrelated subjects with shared names. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Polish American Wikipedian Users

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 18:45, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Polish American Wikipedian Users (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete or double upmerge - First of all, this has an improper naming convention of "Wikipedian users" at the end, it should just be "Wikipedians", so this at minimum needs a rename. Second of all, it is a nationality-ethnicity combination category, which have all been either deleted or double upmerged previously (in this case, it would be double upmerged to Category:American Wikipedians and Category:Polish Wikipedians. See here for related precedent. VegaDark (talk) 02:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians equal rights for all

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 18:09, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians equal rights for all (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - First of all, this category name doesn't make sense. I assume it is suppsed to mean Category:Wikipedians who support equal rights for all people, so this at minimum needs a rename to make sense. Secondly, however, this is a support/oppose category, which have historically been deleted from Wikipedia as not fostering collaboration and for being potentially divisive. See here for related precedent. VegaDark (talk) 02:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedian Students of Bergen Community College

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Kbdank71 18:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedian Students of Bergen Community College (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Rename to Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Bergen Community College - Needs to be renamed to follow the standard naming conventions of "alma mater" categories. VegaDark (talk) 02:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who love Kyiv!

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 18:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who love Kyiv! (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Unencyclopedic. Doesn't help Wikipedia to categorize those who love a particular city. If the user wishes to create Category:Wikipedians in Kiev, they are free to do so, but "who love" is an unencyclopedic naming convention, and categorizing this has no benefit. I'll also note our article is located at Kiev, so at extreme minimum this category would need to be renamed to match the article title. VegaDark (talk) 02:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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