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February 27

Category:The Westies

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Westies (New York gang). The Bushranger One ping only 05:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:The Westies to Category:Westies (gang)
Nominator's rationale: Contested speedy from Category:the Westies to Category:Westies; as probably ambiguous with other items listed at Westie. Tim! (talk) 20:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I see no evidence there was ever a decision that that was the pirmary usage. It seems to more be how things are by default. It is pretty clear that that is not a primary usage, and I think the page names should be changed. We should not duplicate the unwise decision in article names in categories. This is especially so because ambiguous categories are a worse practice than ambiguous article, in part because category contents are hard to adequately patrol.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If a google search is anything to go by, the principal topic for "Westies", by some considerable distance, is West Highland White Terrier, with 97 of the top 100 page returns for "westies -wikipedia". For "westy -wikipedia" there seems to be no one principal topic, with the dog and Volkswagen Westfalia campervans being the main two uses out of many. "Westy's" seems to be a very common name for restaurants and bars. BTW, "westies -wikipedia" returned no page hits for either the gang or Sydney/Auckland inhabitants; for "westy -wikipedia" the gang again did not turn up, but there were two pages for Sydneysiders and one for Aucklanders in the top 100. With Google news searches, the top 20 "westies" included eight pages on Sydney people, seven on dogs, and five from everything else; "westy", in the top 20 news pages, the majority of hits were for different sportsmen who had "Westy" as a nickname (Ryan Westmoreland, Drew Westervelt, Westy Hopkins, Scott West, Brian Westbrook, and Michael West). Again, the gang was nowhere to be seen. Grutness...wha? 10:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Community organizers or activists

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Community organizers to Category:Community activists.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose either
renaming to use "activists"
or renaming to use "organizers":
Nominator's rationale: I encountered these categories when I found Category:American Jewish community activists‎ unparented, and looked for other similar categories. I found three, all of which I added to Category:Community organizers.
So far as I can see, the two concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are broadly the same. The head article is at Community organizing, and Category:Community organizers is a subcat of Category:Community organizing, which is an argument in favour of using "organizer"; however "activist" fits neatly with Category:ActivistsCategory:Activists by type, of which Category:Community organizers has been a subcat since 2007.
If editors agree that the concepts of "community activist" and "community organizer" are close enough to justify categorising them together then we should at least create ((category redirect))s from the alternative title. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:21, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Fires by year

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.--Mike Selinker (talk) 04:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
30 sub-categories of Category:19th-century fires and 83 sub-categories of Category:20th-century fires
Nominator's rationale: This seems to me like a typical example of over-categorisation: the overwhelming majority of these categories contain between one and three articles, and only in the 1990s do the numbers start to increase. I suppose that categorisation per decade would work well for the 20th-century fires, and I'd agree with such a course of action, but even that would be superfluous in the sparsely populated category for the 19th century. Most of the nominated categories have been created by User:Hugo999, who has been notified; I am in the process of notifying everyone else who has created even just one of them. Waltham, The Duke of 16:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • One crucial difference between AfD and CfD is that maintenance of the category tree often requires deletion. Pichpich (talk) 19:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • But that maintenance issue is generally inserting wrong articles into a category by misclassification. That does not appear to be an issue here. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:05, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional characters by writer

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Literary characters by writer.--Mike Selinker (talk) 02:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Fictional characters by writer to Category:Literary characters by author
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Not all fictional characters are literary, parent category is "Literary characters". Niemti (talk) 16:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I think we should inset fictional in all places. I am not concinved that everyone would see literary as equal to implying fictional.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Thunderbirds (TV series) films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:02, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename, new standard for works based on works, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 17#Works based on Doctor Who for precedent and links to others. – Fayenatic London 14:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Star Trek films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger One ping only 06:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename and restructure as follows:

The proposals follow the new standard for works based on works; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 18#Works based on Star Trek for precedents and links to others. The cat Category:Star Trek (film series) for the official films will match the lead article Star Trek (film series). – Fayenatic London 13:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Robbery

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn by nominator. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Merge. I think the reason for this singular and plural form merger is pretty obvious. Also need to merge Category:Bank robberies‎ and Category:Bank robbery. If singular form is chosen, need to rename Category:Train robberies‎ to singular. If plural is chosen, there are several categories such as Robbery by year that will need to be renamed for consistency as well. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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