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Category:24-hour television news channels

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep for now, but there is a willingness to consider further suggestions for a better name. – Fayenatic London 14:09, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming:
Further 23 renamings of child categories to the scheme "Television news channels in Foo"
Nominator's rationale: A TV channel is a TV channel, not just an individual program/show/series. Apart from that, I can't see why we're limiting this to 24-hour channels. While some channels will have a 24/7 full news program, most others - including listed ones - will repeat old and/or trash material. These days, only few channels will still show a nightly test pattern, but if some do, there is no good reason to exclude them, while including channels airing old/trash material at nights. PanchoS (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 19:54, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:News television series

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: rename to programmes/programs according to spelling in Category:Television programs by country:
– Fayenatic London 08:06, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming:
Further 38 renamings of child categories including 6 outliers
Nominator's rationale: "Television news series" is a quite awkward term (I'd almost say neologism) that seems to be inspired by using the scheme set by Category:Television series by genre as a passepartout for all genres. "Television news series" isn't an acknowledged synonym per News program. I doubt that it is widely understood (at least not correctly) rather resonating with special interests series, Infotainment or even Category:Television news sitcoms.
Now the choice of "Television news shows" isn't obvious. While "Television news programmes‎" has some precedent (see Category:British television news programmes), and while "Television news programs" is most common on Google and the Library of Congress subject heading, we're trying to avoid words with spelling variants per WP:ENGVAR. I'm therefore proposing "Television news shows", which renders quite some Google hits including on Google books and which is broad enough to encompass Category:Current affairs shows and Breakfast television/morning shows.
Note that for now I'm not proposing a switch from using demonyms (like "French television news shows" or "Spanish television news shows") to country names (like "Television news shows of France" or "Television news shows of Spain") as I want to get the more obvious problem fixed first. --PanchoS (talk) 17:29, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Addition: Note that this also avoids the ambiguity of "news television" which tends to refer only to dedicated news channels, while "television news" encompasses both programs on news channels and news programs on general-interest channels. It also brings the categories into line with parent Category:Television news. --PanchoS (talk) 18:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
News television series: Survey and discussion[edit]
  • "in a better and wider forum?" CfD is the best and widest forum we have for discussing categories. --PanchoS (talk) 18:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
* @Marcocapelle: I'm fine with your alternative proposal. Should I add it as a variant, or do you think it'd be better to restart the CfD? --PanchoS (talk) 23:31, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd say just keep it the way it is now. People have the room here to (dis)agree with any of the proposed variants and to come up with other alternatives. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:20, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 19:51, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Albums produced by MSTRKRFT

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Albums produced by Masterkraft (producer). Marcocapelle (talk) 19:36, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The producer is known as Masterkraft and not MSTRKRFT.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 13:49, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Bearcat: I was able to find reliable sources about the producer and will create an article as soon as possible.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 18:28, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Bearcat: I created an article about Masterkraft and it can be accessed at Masterkraft (producer). I'd would appreciate a redirect of this category to its rightful title. Thanks in Advance.  Versace1608  Wanna Talk? 22:05, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Okhrana agents

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Fictional Okhrana agents
Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category
There is only one article in this category, Karla, and it is miscategorized. According to that article, Karla was not a member of Okhrana but his father was. (The Okhrana were a spy agency in Czarist Russia.) No objection to recreating this later if we get up to 5 or so true articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 11:01, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified Dietic as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Russia. – RevelationDirect (talk) 11:01, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Medical and health organizations by medical specialty

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The result of the discussion was: discussion merged to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 April 14#Categories:Medical and health organizations by medical condition/by medical specialty. – Fayenatic London 10:35, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Medical and health organizations by medical specialty to Category:Specialised medical and health organizations
  • Propose merging Category:Medical and health organizations by medical condition to Category:Specialised medical and health organizations
Nominator's rationale: Proposal to merge Category:Medical and health organizations by medical condition and Category:Medical and health organizations by medical specialty into one new category Rathfelder (talk) 18:03, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Female Biography

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The result of the discussion was: move headnote to article and delete category. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:46, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#EPONYMOUS category for a biographical dictionary, serving only to contain that dictionary's compiler and a master list of the women biographied in it -- so with just two entries, it's also a WP:SMALLCAT. Adding all the articles about all the individual women who are named in the list would not be appropriate, as it would not constitute a WP:DEFINING characteristic of those women -- and in practice, this has a tendency to get misused as a catchall for any biographical article about a woman, even if she isn't actually profiled in the eponymous work for which it was intended. Comparable categories for other biographical dictionaries (e.g. Category:Dictionary of Canadian Biography) exist in project space to contain worklists, not in article space to contain biographical articles about the people biographied in them. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 17:35, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Plant articles needing images

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants‎. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:00, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Plant articles needing images to Category:Plant articles requesting images
Nominator's rationale: The word "need" doesn't describe what this category is used for. The articles in this category are requesting pictures; they don't require or need them. Anarchyte (work | talk) 10:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I see that my comment above may not be clear: I oppose Category:Plant articles requesting images but would not oppose Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants. If the change is made, the preferred parameter in ((WikiProject Plants)) should be changed to |image-requested=yes. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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