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Category:Falsettos

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As falsetto is a type of phonation that can be produced by any vocal type, I don't think it is correct to categorize a person as a falsetto, and certainly not simply as a subcategory of countertenor. LadyofShalott 20:50, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Literary forgeries

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Literary forgeries, but it's evident that more work might be appropriate here. In article space, if some distinction is eventually made between a literary forgery and a literary hoax, then perhaps the category structure could follow. There does seem to be a distinction between the two, though there is overlap. Whether it is a distinction worth recognizing via categorization is a separate issue that will need to be addressed if the distinction is drawn in the article space. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:15, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Strange to see that both categories cite as its main article Literary forgery, which begins: "Literary forgeries (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax)..." I cannot see any reason for two categories, or how they meaningfully differ. Can't we just upmerge? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:18, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, literary hoaxes is the main category, while literary forgery is the main article. So yes I probably should have proposed the merge in the direction RevelationDirect prefers. Fine with me. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:22, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Johnbod: If the work was misattributed to a more well-known artist, we could create a sister category to Category:Pseudonymous writers. I think we also need this category (under whatever name) though. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:04, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Both categories seem such a mix-up they need a good sorting through. I'm open to adding some new categories, but the two we have - hoaxes & forgeries - seem pretty distinct to me, and should be kept apart. But I suspect many articles are now in the wrong one. At the very least we should go to Category:Literary forgeries and hoaxes, but I'd rather not do that. Johnbod (talk) 03:54, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Disciplines

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The result of the discussion was: delete, without prejudice to a re-created organization under a different name. (I seem to be continually closing category discussions where users have complaints about User:Stefanomione, with comments like Johnbod's below, which suggest that Stefanomione is repeatedly creating problems. And now he's been participating in CFDs with a sockpuppet. Perhaps it's time that we address some of these category-related issues regarding the user.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:12, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The purported main article "discipline" is actually just a disambiguation page that begins "Discipline is the suppression of base desires..." The subcategories are a grab bag of things that have the word "discipline" in the title... and then just a bunch of fairly random stuff. I do see that Stefanomione has seized on this ill-considered main category to do his thing, and if this Cfd is successful, I suggest we attack those next. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 11:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, I do think that creating all this merely to house Category:Sport disciplines was not the way to go -- but now we'll see what the community has to say, SFB. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:27, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's a recently created parent category grouping that manages to violate both WP:SHAREDNAME and WP:ARBITRARYCAT, from what I can see. Nor does it have a valid main article how the different uses of the word "discipline" come together as a single topic. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:31, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You're rebutting a neutral vote. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:02, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Because at least in the case of say, your Category:Techniques category, "technique" is a common word for how to do something. Fair enough, there are lots of fields that require techniques. In the case of Category:Disciplines, once again, the categorized main article Discipline is "the suppression of base desires...," which has nothing to with Category:Academic disciplines, which is described as "academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level," which in turns has nothing to do with Category:Sport disciplines, which was rightfully deleted as a completely unnecessary way of saying, hey, these are different Category:Sports. And then there's a who lot of other stuff thrown in for good measure. Category:Performing arts‎, Category:Professional studies‎, apparently whatever one wants, arbitrarily, to toss in. The proverbial kitchen sink. And again, no offence to SFB, apparently created to try and preserve a deleted sports category. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:14, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I see that Category:Types was deleted at Cfd, with arguments in favour very like the ones here. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:50, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • As a container for what, exactly? What is the definition of a "discipline" that belongs here? Is it just the two remaining things that have the word "discipline" in the category name -- or are all the other things "disciplines" too -- and just those things? No other occupations, pastimes, or fields? I'm genuinely curious as to the logic. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:57, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Confirmed sockpuppet of Stefanomione. Mike V • Talk 16:36, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep May I ask you a simple question? When you go to a major library and want to choose a book in the Psychology discipline, and a book in the music discipline, is it not the category of discipline crucial to finding a desired book in 5 min than an entire day in the 10,000 book library? Tpetrosi (talk) 23:55, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
In most libraries, psychology (DDC 150) and music (DDC 780) are not grouped together - even if they are both a "category of discipline" (whatever you mean by that). DexDor (talk) 06:03, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I agree - Renaming to Category:Fields of study : Could work. As for renaming the whole tree : e.g. Category:Works about the history of fields of study, Category:Works in the philosophy of fields of study : we could do better. Besides, I'm not the creator of the nominated category Category:Disciplines ... Stefanomione (talk) 16:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Then why the fuck have you proliferated a whole set of categories X by discipline which by your own admission now are misnamed? 17:30, 18 May 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shawn in Montreal (talk • contribs)
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Category:Brijwood

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:20, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brijwood was closed as a non-notable neologism, and the category was populated by socks of the same editor who created the article (and whose user name coincides with the person credited with coining the term), so I believe the category should also be deleted. bonadea contributions talk 08:53, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Economies

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 13:38, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename to 'common name', unclear why these categories currently have a name in plural. All similar categories like Category:Culture by country use singular. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:07, 5 May 2016 (UTC) (signed a couple of hours later)[reply]
  • Can you give examples of similar cases where plural is being used? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • It says topics should be singular. Economy clearly is a topic, just like history, music and football. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is really strange to me. If it were a set category, hypothetically speaking, it would imply that one could count different multiple ecoonomies within one geographical unit. That is actually not the case, you can only have the economy of a geographical unit. As [Cambridge dictionary] puts it, economy is the system (singular) of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country or region is made and used. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:09, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The only way for "Economy" to serve as a topic category would be if we were talking about the 2nd variety, where it's a mass noun referring to frugality ("Sparing or careful use of something"). Needless to say, we're not likely to want a category for that topic (certainly not under that heading, at any rate).
In short, Category:Economy and the proposed sub-cats just don't hit the mark grammatically. The current names should be retained, with the exception of the head category, which should be renamed as I suggested above. Cgingold (talk) 22:28, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't get it (yet?), I don't see what the article has to do with it. The issue is whether economy is countable within one (e.g. geographic) context. Defining economy as "wealth and resources", as Oxford does, doesn't make it any better countable. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I wasn't aware this was a language discussion. In my perspective the question at stake is, is this a set category or a topic category? Marcocapelle (talk) 13:03, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If you accept that all categories must be either topic or set categories (and everyone here seems to, even though there's no reason why it has to be that way), then all the categories under discussion except for Category:Mixed economies and Category:Economy (BTW I agree the second one is problematic but that's another issue) are definitely set categories. Category:Economy by country could only be a topic category if Economy by country were a reasonable name for an article, which I don't think it is.
That being said, it does not follow that we must use "economies" in the plural. Those who think it's that straightforward should look at Category:Economies by country subdivision and ask themselves if they think it makes sense to change "Economy" to "Economies" for all the subcategories there, and whether they're comfortable with something like Category:Economy of California by county also using the plural. (California has 58 counties; does it have 58 economies?) Also, they might ask themselves why Category:History by topic and Category:History by country and topic aren't plural as well, especially since postmodernism would insist that there's no such thing as "history" anyway, just "histories." If you think postmodernist gobbledygook isn't relevant to how we categorize, consider that something like Category:Social history by country is listed under Category:History by topic and country and has 103 subcategories, and that Category:Women's history by country ought to be listed there too. How are these not "histories"?
If you still think economy and history are "similar" topics and therefore both must take the singular, reread the last couple of sentences; it's pretty arbitrary how we've decided that history is uncountable. If you're not convinced, try rationalizing the existence of Category:Art by nationality and Category:Arts by country. (Category:Albanian art and Category:Arts in Albania, really?) And those who assert that only one economy exists per geographic unit should consider that the informal sector or underground market are often considered separately from other economic activities – e.g. GDP, the standard measure of the size of an economy, does not take either into account.
If you successfully negotiated the difference between "art" and "arts" (visual art vs. art genres, presumably), perhaps economy is "like" art/arts after all and therefore we should have both Category:Economy by country and Category:Economies by country? (Let's say you wouldn't put Indian black money in Category:Economy of India, but both would go under Category:Economies of India. Look, I'm trying to be consistent here...)
Some things aren't easy. Analogies, dictionary definitions and your intuitive understanding of English are important but will only get you so far. Everybody means well here, but it's time for us "native speakers of English" to get off our high horse, while the consistency zealots will find their efforts more appreciated if they look for lower-hanging fruit. Cobblet (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Economy of Harwich, Massachusetts
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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Economy of Harwich, Massachusetts, unnecessary containerization for a small town. No merge needed, the child categories are already in Category:Harwich, Massachusetts directly. After this delete the parent categories Category:Economies by town in Massachusetts, Category:Economies by town in the United States and Category:Economies by country and town can also be deleted, as empty. If not deleted, the latter categories remain just part of the rename nomination above. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:07, 5 May 2016 (UTC) (signed a couple of hours later)[reply]
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Category:Major modern-day ghost towns

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The result of the discussion was: selectively merge to Category:Ghost towns or an appropriate subcat of it. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A non-defining category ("major"??? "modern-day"???). Also, creator wrote up a rather complicated "statute" of the category. - üser:Altenmann >t 05:23, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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