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Category:Coal-fired power stations in Massachusetts

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The result of the discussion was: keep the nominated category; delete the target (the target has remained empty). Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Power plants is the the more common term used in the US. Noticed the target flagged for deletion as empty which probably means that someone merged this. This nomination is more for a discussion on what to do with this series of categories. Whichever way this discussion goes. There probably needs to be a follow on nomination to cleanup all of this type of category to one convention. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Washignton Metro succession templates

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy Delete, G7 by User:Vegaswikian. Lenticel (talk) 00:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Category was created as a result of a typographical error. The correct category is Category:Washington Metro succession templates, rendering this category unnecessary. -----User:DanTD (talk) 22:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:American scientists of Ukrainian descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American scientists and Category:American people of Ukrainian descent. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:54, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-notable intersection. Merge up to parent Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I added a merge to the other parent. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American journalists of Chinese descent

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Those opposed seem most troubled by the merge target rather than the threat of the categories being deleted. In a new discussion, perhaps if the proposal were to simply merge them all to Category:American journalists and the appropriate Category:American people of FOOian descent, there might be more support for deletion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:55, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Why is this a notable intersection? I'm not convinced. merge up. Can a head article really be written about any of these intersections of national descent + journalist job? Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:37, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The problem I see is that there is very different notability for those groups. plays, poets, novelists etc are often studied/anthologiezed/etc by ethnicity (Particularly African American, but some other Ethnicities as well). Journalists are not. I don't think that policy requires parallel sub-categories just because one sub-group is notable for breaking out. (See the recent discussion on Female authors etc as a separate category, but not Male authors) Gaijin42 (talk) 21:06, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Would you support just eliminating this categorization entirely? is there anything notable about this intersection, of either asian, sub-regional-asian, or asian-country + journalist? --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This is a tricky issue - as our guidelines state that ethnic+job intersections should not be created unless the intersection itself is notable. Do you think Pakistani-American + journalist is a notable intersection? If you want we could delete the whole tree for example. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:34, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm uncommitted on whether Pakistani-American + journalist is a notable(?!) intersection. I oppose using "Asian" as it is a too-broad grouping. It is not an ethnic grouping. Lumping Turkey with Indonesia with Japan is not good. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No, they are clearly Category:American people of Indian descent and such. I am pretty sure African-American and Native American are the only holdouts against the descent form, but those are special cases.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)----[reply]
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Category:Ontology learning: Open source

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:53, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge per WP:SMALLCAT. Only one article which is already in the other parent (and grandparent). If not merged, it should probably be renamed to Category: Open-source ontology learning software. – Fayenatic London 18:52, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Irish Texans

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Irish descent. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:52, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Why Texas? We have a huge category of Category:Irish Americans, not divided by state, but for some reason Texas needs its own category. I think not. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:30, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Free, open-source video games

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The result of the discussion was: merge and rename as nominated. Most of the commenters believe, as I do, that this is WP:JARGON. The distinction in the real world between open source and FOSS is so niche that things are frequently referred to one when the other is meant.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category has been moved from its current location to the target (both in unhyphenated forms) once before, and the same arguments apply now as then for this recreated version: That a video game is free seems unworthy of categorization; we don't categorize that things are not free, or by how not-free they are....rename this to be more inclusive of open source games that are not free, and not worry about free games that are not open source. [1] The Bushranger One ping only 10:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
procedural comment there are many other instances of the usage of 'free, open source X' in this tree - I suggest we do a complete nom of all of the game cats. In this case, 'free' refers to 'free software' as defined by the Free Software Movement, not 'free' as in zero cost. (eg. free as in speech, not free as in beer). Open source software is regularly called FOSS (Free and open source software). So it's really just a sort of ideological divide and word war from the open source world that is now reproducing itself in wikipedia, and the result is a bit of chaos in the category names - some are 'open source' while some are Category:Free software. I'm not proposing to sort this all now - but at least make the games sub-tree consistent.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 14:10, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Free does not refer to price - see Free software.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisting comment: adding siblings in Category:Open-source video games
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 18:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The use of the word "free" here means licensed under a license approved as "free" by the Free Software Foundation - this has nothing to do with whether the software is given away for zero license fee or not (free as in speech, not free as in beer). However, there is a huge overlap between software licenses approved as "free" by FSF and software licenses approved as "open source" by the Open source institute. Thus in general these cats in the tree have been merged, as we don't need to distinguish between these fine shades that are really only important to lawyers and people like Richard Stallman (no disrespect intended)--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 21:06, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"The use of the word "free" here means licensed under a license approved as "free" by the Free Software Foundation" What did you think I meant by "free software"? —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:37, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ugh. No. I would oppose vigorously such a parallel cat. What is DEFINING about the software it that it is FOSS - free and/or open source. We don't need to divide our whole software tree by FREE or Open source, especially since many things will be in both. Better to go with an ugly name - FOSS, Free and open source, or just Open source (with the understanding that "free" software as defined by FSF is also classified underneath.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 01:53, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That's why I said I, personally, have no prejudice against a parallel category tree if other people deem it necessary. If not, no sweat off my back. Axem Titanium (talk) 20:04, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Prakasam

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:51, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no town city by the name. It is name of district only. Shyamsunder (talk) 17:52, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from West Godavari

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The correct name. Shyamsunder (talk) 17:39, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Krishna

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Duplication. There is no town by name of Krishna . Shyamsunder (talk) 17:36, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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TV programming by language

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:42, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationaile: Per the discussion and closing statement at this CfD, nominating the rest of the contents of Category:Television programming by language for renaming from "series"/"shows" to "programming". As mentioned there, this is a neutral term that avoids ambiguity and confusion both on content grounds and on WP:ENGVAR, provides uniformity throughout the tree, and also matches the scheme of the category tree, Category:Television programming>Category:Television programming by language. (Note that regardless of the result of this discussion, following its close I will likely propose some sort of splitting for the truly massive English-language category.) - The Bushranger One ping only 22:10, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You are ignoring the shows/series issues. Everyone who has TV has TV programming, that is what occurs on TV. There is no Engvar issue with that term, in fact the person who came up with it is not America, so to claim it is American will not work.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:21, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

* Rename to Shows as 'program' definition is "a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play)" like an agenda or calendar. Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/program -Thaejas (talk) 22:47, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Programming" is properly used in this context, and "shows" has problems that are part of why we're trying to get away from that term. - The Bushranger One ping only 16:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:TCK

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:40, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category TCK has been created for "people or school's who's students are defined as TCKs". Who defines who is a "Third Culture Kid"? There is no authoritative and reliable source for defining TCKs, and the majority or all of the current entries for this category are not self-identified as Third Culture Kids, so the inclusion in the category seems to be decided on the whim of the editor who created this category. This is an unencyclopedic category and should be deleted. BabelStone (talk) 08:02, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Barack Obama is TCK? International School Teacher?? Que? Bishonen | talk 12:38, 13 May 2013 (UTC).[reply]
Categories that are based on family migration/roles are pretty tricky. Even though the status is arguably defining to some individuals, it's not something that would be considered universally defining to all members of that group. It's also going to be difficult to define the parameters of this category -- for instance, what is "a significant part" of someone's "developmental years"? What are "parents' culture"? That's without getting into the political fights that are certain to come, e.g., transnational adoptions; parents from "different" or "the same" cultures. --Lquilter (talk) 18:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Csmagor, you already said "keep" above; please don't keep prefacing your comments with bold "keep", since it makes it look on a cursory read as if there are more people weighing in than actually are. I hope that you could read WP:Categorization and WP:Overcategorization to understand better the functionality of Wikipedia's "category" system. It's pretty limited. People often confuse it with other similar systems, like tags or keywords, and try to use it that way, but it's not. For that reason we who spend a lot of time on categories recommend that it be applied in a very limited way, to concepts that are clear, widely recognized, obviously defining for all the members, and so forth. "Year of birth". "Profession." "Nationality." These are all things that are routinely included in articles and are cited, which is demanded by categories. .... There are lots of very useful facts about people that aren't good fits for the category functionality -- awards, organizational memberships, associations with other people/places/things, quirky notable habits. For things like that where we want the information out there in a useful form, it is better to use an article, or a list or template. I think here an article with an accompanying list of notable typical people would do a much better job. Otherwise, in order to support the inclusion of this category, you will have to have citeable information on each article; because it is apparently a modern concept, you will have to work to avoid its application to ahistorical biographies; you will also have to do a lot to make sure that it's not inappropriately added to living figures. And there's no good way to do all that work with a category, because you can't watchlist it. --Lquilter (talk) 14:04, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Host cities

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Host cities of the Commonwealth Games (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Host cities of the World Championships in Athletics
  • Propose deleting Category:Host cities of the All-Africa Games
Nominator's rationale: Having hosted a sporting event is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of a city. This is an event category (which fails WP:OC#VENUES) and/or an award recipients category (which fails WP:OC#AWARD). We don't categorize cities by things like whether a city has an underground (metro) system which (IMO) is a much longer-lasting and significant characteristic (although also not strictly a WP:DEFINING characteristic), nor by things like whether a city has been beseiged (again of more long-term significance, but not a defining characteristic). These categories are not part of a wider "Host cities" category tree. It doesn't make sense to put an article like London under Category:Sports (it's not under similar categories for religion, science, art, warfare ...). For information: "Category:Youth Olympic Games host cities" has been deleted. DexDor (talk) 05:04, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Amphibious vehicles by country

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Since the single article that populated these categories was already in two subcategories of Category:Amphibious vehicles there was really nothing to merge. Since the merge results in deletion, consensus was to delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:37, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Amphibious vehicles by country (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Amphibious vehicles of the United Kingdom
Nominator's rationale: There's nothing intrinsically wrong with these 2 categories, but they currently only contain a single article (which is in plenty of other categories). It appears that editors (myself included) have been choosing to categorize amphibious vehicles by other (more defining) characteristics (in particular whether they are tracked/wheeled/hovercraft). There isn't such a huge number of amphibious vehicles that a breakdown of those by-type categories by country is needed. IMO these 2 categories are an unnecessary complication in the category structure. DexDor (talk) 04:49, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree it's just as valid, but it's not the best way to categorise because (1) there are a lot less amphibious vehicles than cars so most by-country cats would only have a few articles and (2) Category:Amphibious vehicles groups classes of vehicles (mostly wheeled/tracked armoured vehicles and hovercraft) that are really quite different so by-country categories wouldn't be particularly useful. If more categorization ever becomes necessary it might be better to separate floating vehicles from wading vehicles. DexDor (talk) 19:18, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Danville micropolitan area

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The result of the discussion was: rename - clear uncontroversial C2B (disambiguation) speedy case. The Bushranger One ping only 14:10, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Now that the Danville, Virginia category has been renamed to its correct classification as a micropolitan area, this category should be disambiguated to refer to the Danville micropolitan area in Kentucky. ANDROS1337TALK 03:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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