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Anti- categories

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 18:01, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The previous rationale for moving contradicts the guidelines. Chicago Manual of Style, University of Sussex guideline, Dashhyphen.com, APS Online Style Manual, The Economist all specifically recommend using hyphen in the prefix anti-, not dash (with few exceptions like antihero). MOS:NDASH itself uses hyphen in anti-, not dash: anti-intellectual alliance, Post–September 11 anti-war movement. The majority of all other categories starting with anti- use hyphen. For Category:Anti-death penalty organizations - also per organization and Category:Organizations. Brandmeistertalk 21:09, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • These categories are mostly misapplied - Lists would be better, they could be sourced. Many people are "activists" at everything these days. Take a politician - every speech they give pro- or anti- something makes them an activist on that topic, of which there's no end. Moreover, we highly disfavor categories of by opinion, but "activists" is merely a by-opinion category in disguise, because merely speaking your mind makes you and "activist" and without speaking your mind, we have no reliable source you possess the opinion, hence their equivalence. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:29, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, I agree they can be and are overused categories—I'm not questioning that—but your comment didn't really answer my question. Why don't we keep the categories and reserve it for those who are defined by such activism, since articles about such people do exist? In other words, set out a category definition, purge the articles that don't belong, and see where that leaves us. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Folklore

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The result of the discussion was: split, unanimously supported. – Fayenatic London 18:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Split to a new parent Category:Folk culture, which would hold folklore, Category:Folk art including folk music and dance, and Category:Folk religion. There is a main article Folk culture, and a few other articles with that phrase in their title. I noticed that the categories are split along these lines at Commons:Category:Folk culture, and believe this would be an improvement here in English Wikipedia. At present we only have Category:Folklore to hold all folk culture, which is beyond its proper scope. – Fayenatic London 20:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Obsolete video game consoles

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:11, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Vague. Obviously any older game console not in the current generation or last gen will not be sold in most stores. With the larger category, obsolete technology, other technology is not so rigidly made into "generations", so it makes more sense. KonveyorBelt 19:06, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Years in pre-independent Indonesian sport

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge all. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. These 7 categories each contain just one page on a football championship. All seven pages are all categorised in Category:Football in Indonesia Category:Seasons in Indonesian football competitions as well as in "19xx in Asian football". If anyone thinks the categories should not be upmerged as WP:SMALLCAT, then instead of "keep" please choose Rename to "19xx in Dutch East Indies sport", following this recent precedent. – Fayenatic London 13:05, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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