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Category:Women comedians

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: no consensus. I, too, have come to abhor the poorly constructed Women X naming format but doubt we'll be able to move away from it soon. On the question of deleting or retaining the category, which occupied most of this discussion, I also see no clear consensus. User:Bearcat's argument was most compelling (and seemed to draw from WP:CAT/GRS), but whether women "face obstacles" is an immeasurably low standard from a global perspective—by this standard, virtually every occupation would need to be split by sex/gender given the obstacles women face in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Lastly, I wish to stress that, per WP:CAT/GRS, the existence of a female occupation category does not automatically imply the need for a male occupation category, and vice versa, so a discussion about one does not necessarily need to include the other, thought it's admittedly a good idea in many cases. -- Black Falcon (talk) 15:40, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I greatly detest the phrase "women comedians". For one thing, women is a noun and female is an adjective, so it's the wrong word type. It hits the ear wrong. Secondly, why on earth do we need two words when 'comediennes' was invented for this very purpose? Has the word recently acquired a pejorative meaning I'm unaware of? Launchballer 21:35, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't spot the "Choose type of action wanted" menu on the Twinkle popup. What I meant was this:
  • I'd still oppose this proposal too. I can't find any woman comedians who call themselves comediennes, or an abundance of sources that use the term. The word seems to be a casualty of the 21st century move away from gender-specific words. Sionk (talk) 18:36, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • So are you going to propose to delete Category:Male comedians too? The proposal is whether or not to rename the category. Deleting male/female categories is a bigger question entirely. Sionk (talk) 21:31, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I can't speak for Carlos, but I would vote to delete it. Seeing that people are constantly creating categories for women in sex-unrelated categories without creating parallel categories for men, I didn't realise that there was one. Nyttend (talk) 00:15, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wireless Power Consortium companies

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 16:01, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERCAT. There is no evidence that membership in this trade association is a "defining characteristic" for any of these companies (or for many of the other member companies that have not yet been categorized here). UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:37, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Works about economics

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The result of the discussion was: keep. ℯxplicit 00:25, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: economics is a social science, these works are not about the science but about the subject of that science. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:09, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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9th-century German people

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 July 26#9th-century German people. ℯxplicit 00:25, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: split/merge since there aren't any 9th-century people who are known as German people. The current territory of Germany was part of the much bigger Carolingian Empire of which East Francia was a later subdivision (which eventually in 962 became the Holy Roman Empire). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:14, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Copper mining in Africa

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. ℯxplicit 03:59, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Most of the sub cats would be perfectly happy in Category:Copper mining by country‎. Not really enough articles to split by continent. Rathfelder (talk) 19:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 07:08, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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