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Category:Equivalence

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: delete and replace with Category:Equivalence (mathematics). (Admin note: this was implemented by purging and renaming.) – Fayenatic London 22:54, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category groups together a wide range of topics (e.g. equal pay, Japanese equivalents of adjectives, Mass–energy equivalence,  Musical similarity and Veterinary equivalency) in a way that is unlikely to be of use to anyone.  This category also places these articles (incorrectly) under Category:Arithmetic etc. These articles were already appropriately categorized under law, physics, music etc. DexDor (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose:: 3+4=7, it is hard to teach elementary arithmetic without (implicitly) including notions of equality or similarity. But where does the counting number 3 come from? If we ask a child to count the number of brown haired girls in class, then brown haired girl forms an equivalence class of sorts, and in any case, the child must check each person and decided whether they are equivalent to the requested items to be counted. Where hair is off-brown, it is more a notion of similarity. If the female teacher has brown hair, some students may ask whether she should be included (did girl imply just female or was age also to be accounted for). So the applied arithmetic of counting Xs implicitly requires testing items for equivalence to X. PS. i am not averse to removing equivalence from arithmetic as it was never made explicit. In any case, testing for equivalence or similarity is a fundamental human activity with common issues - should you count the number of terrorists or freedom fighters (there are assumptions behind ever X), and when is one more suitable than another? For those interested in the fundamental notions of equivalence, and how it is applied everywhere, this category is critical. While it does bring together disparate categories, they are all equivalent in sharing the concept of equivalence. PS. This is a new category, and I suspect it will be refined with finer grained sub-categories. Dpleibovitz (talk) 23:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If the category is to be purged and renamed (and the category text which is currently almost an essay replaced) then wouldn't it be much simpler to delete this category and then someone who understands categorization (e.g. that we categorize topics rather than titles) and who understands the topic could (if necessary) create a new one? DexDor (talk) 20:19, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you are serious that you are willing to write a broad concept article, then please say so. If you aren't, we'd better remove the template. And adding a template is obviously useless as an argument in this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:49, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:DiMaggio family

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:02, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category unlikely to grow. TM 17:30, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Quezon City Capitals templates

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting
Nominator's rationale: only content of each is not a template:
--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League roster navigational boxes

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:05, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Contents are all articles, not navigational boxes BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Chinese teas

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The result of the discussion was: keep. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT, nearly all articles are also in the tree of Category:Chinese tea by province. The few articles that aren't should be moved to the parent Category:Chinese tea. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Black Power

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: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:11, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: It makes no sense to have a category for a slogan. In point of fact, the contents of this category are clearly about the movement -- and there is already a main-article at Black Power movement. Anomalous+0 (talk) 10:42, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh dear. Your take on this really turns things inside out, Oculi. First of all, the phrase "Black Power" really is/was, first and foremost, a slogan. As such (like any good slogan), it sums up and conveys in a couple of words a certain outlook -- an outlook that caught on and took shape as a movement known as the Black Power movement. The phrase "Black Power" was, precisely, the slogan of that movement.
The Black Power article -- which starts out talking about the origin of the slogan -- is, in fact, mostly devoted to a discussion of the "Black Power movement" (the term is used repeatedly throughout the article). Which is hardly surprising, because there is only so much that can be said about the phrase "Black Power" and its uses.
If the phrase was "Black PowerISM", I suppose I might agree with you that it could serve as the heading for the category, because that would denote something much larger than a slogan or an idea. The head category for any subject should always have a name that reflects and encompasses the full breadth of its contents.
In point of fact, ALL of the contents of this category are about things that are connected with the Black Power movement, whereas only a few (at most) are about the idea of Black Power. (And note that another editor found it necessary to add a headnote saying, "Pages related to the Black Power movement are also here." Well, duh!)
Lastly, since you brought up the subcat, Category:Womanism, I took a look at the main article, and discovered that it doesn't even mention the phrase "Black Power" anywhere in the article -- which suggests that its inclusion in this category is questionable, in any event.
Anomalous+0 (talk) 02:21, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Political prisoners

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 17:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting
Nominator's rationale: the term "political prisoner" is inherently and irredeemably POV. Nearly everyone agrees that some people are political prisoners, but there is no accepted, neutral way to define whether any individual is a political prisoner.
Similar categories have been deleted at CFD 2008 September 17, CFD 2008 September 11 and CFD 2006 November 22. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:22, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NPOV is v clear that where sources disagree, we do not simply take some sort of majoritarian assessment of sources; instead we should be "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic"
Categories are a binary on/of switch: an article is either in a category or nor in it. Categories do not allow us to say Category:Political prisoner according to US mainstream news except Fox, European news except Ruritanian, no Asian news, 56.7% of political scientists polled by PollsRus in 2007, but only 14.3% of academics of the Ruritanian Studies Association in a 2016 survey .. but per WP:NPOV that would be the only valid way to do it.
In such cases we have a topic category for articles on the concept, but do not have a set category of examples. Parallels include:
  1. Category:Homophobia and the deleted Category:Homophobes
  2. Category:Terrorism and the deleted Category:Terrorists
  3. Category:Islamophobia and the deleted Category:Islamophobes
@Obi2canibe:, please do read the previous CFDs, where this was all discussed in much detail. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
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Category:Prague linguistic circle

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. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:49, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:SMALLCAT, after populating the subcategory in an earlier discussion not much remains left for the category about the circle itself. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:48, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • While WP:SMALLCAT obviously doesn't apply to the subcat, it may still apply to this category, unless it would be part of a large established tree - which it isn't. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • WP:SMALLCAT doesn't apply because the category (which includes all articles in its entire subcat tree) is not small. Otherwise all container categories (0 articles at the top level) would be deleted. Oculi (talk) 16:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not quite, only container categories which are poorly populated (i.e. few subcategories) are nominated for merger. It's not just about the number of articles but more generally about lack of sufficient content. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:51, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The population of a category is the number of articles in its entire (flattened) subtree; the number of subcats is irrelevant. Oculi (talk) 15:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is probably meant as a definition, which I take for granted. The real question is in which cases we can improve easy navigation through the category tree by means of upmerging. That may be either with a too small number of articles or a too small number of subcats of a container category, or a mix of both. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:58, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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