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The result of the discussion was: alt rename to Category:Category:Governors of provinces of the Philippines and Category:Governors of regions of the Philippines. bibliomaniac15 05:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Provincial governors of the Philippines to Category:Provincial governors in the Philippines
  • Propose renaming Category:Regional governors of the Philippines likewise (added 20 March 2022)

Nominator's rationale: The Philippines per se does not have provincial governors, but its provinces do. Howard the Duck (talk) 19:43, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Alt rename to Category:Governors of provinces of the Philippines, similar to Category:Governors of provinces of Argentina and a more accurate title (governor instead of provincial governor). Marcocapelle (talk) 20:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a category for officials of first-level governments at Category:Governors and heads of sub-national entities by country, and naming is inconsistent. We have Category:State governors of the United States, for example. The term "Provincial governor" per se is not uncommon, and Governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and Governor of Metro Manila, which are regions and not provinces (local government in the Philippines is complicated), once existed. Howard the Duck (talk) 20:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 21:57, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support as per nom. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 02:05, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Alt rename per Marcocapelle. --Just N. (talk) 17:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Adding Regional governors sibling category.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 20:36, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename the second category likewise, as the expanded nomination says, to Category:Governors of regions of the Philippines. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:46, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support -- the alt renames may be more accurate but the original nom is clear and unabiguous. Category names are better for brevity. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:58, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Checking out Category:Governors and heads of sub-national entities by country while conventions are not unified, there are three clear conventions: <Level>ian <position>s of <country> ("Regional Governors of Namibia"), <Position>s of <level> of <country> ("Presidents of Provinces of Italy"), and <Country>ian <level> <position> ("Mexican state governors"). I personally dislike X of Y of Z as poor construction and can be reworded better. I suppose categories avoid using adjectives such as the awful RM of 2019 Sammarinese general election so the original proposal is superior. I'd also prefer the preposition "in" instead of "of" as these are not necessarily national offices, but local ones (so a country does not "own" it but is merely "in" in, but I'd be willing to compromise on that regard, but on that alone. Howard the Duck (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. bibliomaniac15 05:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Songs about celebrities (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: The word celebrity appears to be synonymous with having a WP page. It links together politicians, military people, popes, musicians and just about any other 'notable' person you can think of. I dread to think what the qualifying 'about' is. The subcats are also into more relevant cats and would not be affected by the deletion of this category. Richhoncho (talk) 19:09, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Agree with nom, in principle, but there are a whole lot of subcategories that need to have a parent. Alternative to solve that: containerize and rename to Category:Songs about individual people. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:52, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• A lot of the sub-cats, perhaps all, are within Category:Songs about occupations. (Perhaps that one could be nominated for renaming to "Songs about people by occupation".) Should that hierarchy be sufficient? – Fayenatic London 10:03, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am not convinced with either renaming suggestion yet, can Kings, bands or even Popes be defined as people by occupation? I still need my mind to be changed regarding renaming although the present name should go in any event, but containerisation is a good shout. The whole 'Songs about' are a mess from top to bottom. Marcocapelle did sterling work yesterday removing parent/child cats, I have removed over 100 members so far from Category:Songs about nights further to your closing comment about pruning. --Richhoncho (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Fayenatic london makes a good point, then we can indeed delete this category rather than containerize it, as User:Richhoncho proposed. However I noticed there is a related category around, namely Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons with more subcategories about individual people. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:32, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  User:Fayenatic london & User:Marcocapelle, I have just had a look at all the subcats, every one is in several categories, for instance, Abraham Lincoln is also in Category:Songs about presidents of the United States, and Category:Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln. There will be no loss if this category is just deleted. Does anybody else want to check? --Richhoncho (talk) 22:03, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Of the articles that are directly in the category, only 55 are not currently within Category:Songs about occupations. See https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=21705650 Would someone like to review those and add them where appropriate, perhaps adding further occupational sub-cats? – Fayenatic London 17:22, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Fayenatic london. I defy anybody to explain how Doc Holliday (song) is in this category in the first place. I have just spent 4 days clearing out Category:Songs about nights and I still haven't finished, there must be better ways for editors to spend their time than removing rubbish from trivial categories? Delete per WP:TNT, at least editors might get the message that WP:V, WP:CATDEF, WP:SHAREDNAME, and WP:OR applies to them as well. --Richhoncho (talk) 18:49, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I have meanwhile reduced it from 55 to 36 and I do not expect we can move many more articles under the occupations category. They should simply be removed from the songs by theme tree as being too disperate. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Re Doc Holliday#Legacy, you could have picked a harder one – someone who is celebrated in an annual holiday meets my criteria for a celebrity!
  • I've also added occupation categories on some articles, including new Songs about entertainers and Songs about socialites. If we also exclude pages that are within Category:Songs about royalty, Category:Murder ballads and Category:Vehicle wreck ballads (the latter for 3 Songs about Casey Jones), only 8 songs are now left ( https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=21709947 ): The Chanukah Song, Cannibal! The Musical, Celebrity Skin (song), Rednecks (song), They All Laughed (song), Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll), Fashion Pack, Pocahontas (song).
  • I think there is merit in keeping a container for the sub-cats about named people. Rather than Marcocapelle's alternative" Songs based on individual people", I suggest renaming as Category:Songs based on real people within Category:Works based on real people. In Category:Cultural depictions of people, "individual" is currently only used for stage portrayals, and I might nominate that one. – Fayenatic London 09:41, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• • I'd be okay with that, but then I will nominate Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons to be merged in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:54, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • That one may have a useful function as a sub-cat of Category:Songs inspired by deaths. – Fayenatic London 16:59, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I give up, Doc Holliday (song) could be about a Swedish drug dealer called Doc Holliday for all the text tells us. The text is silent about what the song is about and therefore its inclusion in any 'songs about' is a complete failure of every WP guideline there is. And that's before we discuss whether whether either the wild west gambler or the drug dealer is a celebrity. Why am I repeating the blindingly obvious to such long-standing helpers at CfD? --Richhoncho (talk) 10:39, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • What? The text is not silent; it says "The song is about the outlaw of the same name", and that has not been recently added. – Fayenatic London 16:59, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Barrel scrapings of the exceptional kind. Another article, different to the one we are discussing, reads, "Danish metal band Volbeat performs the song "Doc Holliday" on their album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies." which is unreferenced and still does not confirm any more than the title of the song, not its content. And on those grounds, against all WP Guidance from 5pillars downward you justify the addition of Category:Songs about celebrities and Category:Songs about criminals to the song article? I suppose I should be grateful it's not also in Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons and Category:Songs inspired by deaths which appears to be win double around here. --Richhoncho (talk) 00:35, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • Doc_Holliday#In_song is not in songs categories and so has no relevance here. I did add "Songs about criminals" to the song article,[1] as WP:DEFINING for a song about an outlaw. However, I have neither added "Songs about celebrities" to any article, nor ever argued that it should be kept at that name. On the contrary, I have taken action to rehouse its contents and to check that the residue is adequately categorised already. – Fayenatic London 12:17, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Fayenatic london. Exactly who are you trying to fool here? My question was specifically about Doc Holliday (song), not the Doc Holliday article, you then came back with reference to the DH article which confirms exactly what we already knew, there is a song called Doc Holliday by Volbeat. We still have not verified that the song is about THE Doc Holliday. You are assuming. Also, I note that the main article does not confirm that Holliday was a criminal. So you have made another assumption. Please do not assume, pay attention to WP Guidelines, as we all must. If this was done, there would be less pointless and time wasting discussions regarding ‘songs about’ --Richhoncho (talk) 14:16, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mes tex as creator of the song article said that it is about that Doc Holliday; what I am assuming is good faith – which I would commend also to you. Following your note, I have changed Mes tex's characterisation of Holliday in the song article from "outlaw" to "gunfighter", and changed the occupation category to Songs about police officers, as Holliday was notably a temporary lawman. But none of this is relevant for this nomination. – Fayenatic London 21:52, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I have undone your collapse of this part of the discussion as perfect example of why *some* editors are abusing the category scheme and why the whole shebang should be deleted. Songs about criminals, eh? --Richhoncho (talk) 22:46, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• We might consider deleting the whole tree of Category:Songs by theme because the content of songs is often not discussed in reliable sources (in contrast to e.g. films). I may have said this earlier, but anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• There are mainly 2 editors adding to the ‘Songs about’ categories, one who wrote on a current CfD, 'And whether a song is actually about a subject or simply alludes or refers to it is somewhat subjective, and is not a distinction that I feel needs to be made, especially when the subject is found in the title' and another who added to songs about categories who there was even a discussion about a possible ANI here.

I have seen songs about on not only straight forward redirects, but redirects because of spelling, capitalisation etc added after such templates. IMO, as a minimum, WP:TNT should apply to all ‘Songs about’ categories. It would be quicker and more efficient than checking every song in these cats. As a reader, if I look at an entry in one of these cats I expect to read in the text some explanation and detail about why it is the category, even if only on the target of a redirect. After all, that is the purpose of categories…

FWIW, My objections relate to the ‘songs about’ categories. Not other song theme categories.--Richhoncho (talk) 11:39, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support WP:TNT of all "songs about X" categories. And while we're at it, include all works formats, like "novels about", "films about", etc. Established themes (like Christmas) have been well-written about. And I could see an exception for works about individual/specific people, maybe. But most of these "X about Z" cats are just WP:OR. As they used to say in CfD in the past - burn with fire : ) - jc37 04:30, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The more I think about this, the more I think historical topics should be the only exception to Works about X. Such as individual persons, groups, and events. And those exceptions only because that would be a common split from the main topic (the individual persons, groups, or events). Themes (like Christmas) would be unaffected. Anyone know someone with automated tools who could tag all the rest for a TNT nom? - jc37 04:53, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I would prefer a separate discussion about songs versus novels and films. The lyrics of songs are not often analyzed by reliable sources, while the content of (notable) novels and films is usually discussed in some depth. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:51, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Any good value to this categorize is completely lost by the original creator's overzealousness and inclusion of any song with just a obscure, remote, or indirect connection to celebrity. I agree with the idea to blow it up and start from scratch, if at all worth it (and I'm not sure it is). Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 00:45, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Seems to be redundant of Category:Songs about occupations. ili (talk) 21:10, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Feel free to nominate the subcat (Category:15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England) separately. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:15, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Britain (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: No such state as "Britain" existed in the 15th century. It's sole contents is "in England" which is entirely sufficient. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:18, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - moreover there is no Category:Roman Catholic bishops in Britain. There are only 2 categories with 'bishops in Britain' in their title, the other one being Category:18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Britain, which seems similarly unnecessary. Oculi (talk) 19:22, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete . Rathfelder (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete (also English and Welsh subcats) "Roman Catholic" is redundant because there were no other bishops in England (or Wales or Britain). If a parent was needed, it should be Category:15th-century bishops in the British Isles. The one current subcat also needs to be deleted as an aberrant fork. The one article is already well categorised. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:09, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:50, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fishing in Europe. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 19:45, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Fishing in the European Union to Category:Fishing in Europe

Nominator's rationale: merge, it is not intuitive to have EU countries and non-EU countries at different levels in the category tree and there is not too much content beside the countries' subcats. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:29, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support, this does not add much to the other parent Economy of the European Union. – Fayenatic London 09:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Temples dedicated to avatars of Vishnu. bibliomaniac15 05:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Temples dedicated to incarnation of Vishnu to Category:Temples dedicated to avatar of Vishnu

Nominator's rationale: Change incarnation to avatar in line with wiki article name. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 10:27, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support, kind of WP:C2D nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support but should be plural, Category:Temples dedicated to avatars of Vishnu, cf. parent Category:Avatars of Vishnu. – Fayenatic London 09:57, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Good point. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:42, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Agree Redtigerxyz ^Talk 12:24, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Yale University alumni. While it was pointed out that the main category is very large, making navigation unwieldy, it does have a TOC which aids in this. In addition, the current by decade subcats are minimally populated. This undermines the argument to keep, as the vast majority of alumni are not found in the decade categories. Finally, the categories listed do not make a distinction why a page is in a category; a quick check shows several are in multiple categories based on years of attendance, while others are only listed in the decade of graduation. It was mentioned that categorization by discipline has worked for other alumni categories, and may be preferable here. Kbdank71 16:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging

• Category:Yale University 1730s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1740s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1750s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1760s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1770s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1780s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1790s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1800s(Decade) alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1810s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1820s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1830s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1840s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1850s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1860s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1870s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1880s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1890s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1900s(Decade) alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1910s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1920s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1930s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1940s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1950s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1960s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1970s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1980s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 1990s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 2000s(Decade) alumni to Category:Yale University alumni
• Category:Yale University 2010s alumni to Category:Yale University alumni

Nominator's rationale: procedural nomination, follow-up on speedy discussion.

@MrMeAndMrMe, Oculi, SportsGuy789, and Kinu: pinging contributors to speedy discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:27, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge all per my !vote at the speedy discussion. Unnecessary overcategorization and granularity. --Kinu ^t/_c 20:49, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Even if they shouldn't be organized by decade, there should be some sort of categorization — there are over 5000 pages and it is even more difficult to navigate through that. I do, however, apologize. I thought that one person's consensus would be enough. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 19:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge all per nom. A place to start would be 'by century' but I couldn't find any other alumni category subcatted by time. Eton College has lists by century. Oculi (talk) 00:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep -- This seems to me an appropriate way of splitting a massive category. A category of 5000 is useless as a navigation aid. The speedy discussion relates to the inclusion of "decade", but this is necessary to prevent 1800s being interpreted as 1800-99, rather than 1800-09. Possibly some of the early categories might be merged into an 18th century category. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or split by subject as is done for other institutions. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:33, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Kinu says that this project would result in overcategorization, but having a category with 5,500 people defeats the purpose of the category. The category page is literally marked with ((very large)). Oculi says that categories like these haven't ever been sorted like this, but then there really hasn't been a time when someone has tried to categorize such a large amount of alumni. Harvard alumni, MIT alumni, Campbridge alumni, Eton College Alumni etc., all have overpopulated categories with no other means to fix this. To do something different from what other university categories may be doing is acceptable because Yale University is so large that there is not really other option.

As Peterkindiron said, 1700s and 1800s 2000s(or at least for another 50 years until there are more people who will go to Yale) could be merged as one since there aren't as many people in those alumni, but in decades such as the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s, however, there are already upwards of 40 pages in their category and the project is less than 11th of the way done. Combining all 1900s alumni into one big megacategory will not fix the original problem because there are likely to be 2000+ people in that category.

Perhaps one could split alumni into centuries, then, from there, split them into their respective bachelors degrees(BA, BS and BFA) but even then there would likely to be over 500 for each category. There are also the alumni that didn't get a bachelors degree from Yale, but instead got them from another university but went to Yale to get their doctorates, masters, etc..

This makes keeping them the only forseeable and likely option, unless brough up otherwise. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 17:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Category:Harvard University alumni is a very good example of the way it alumni can be broken down by discipline, 'This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.' This is 100% better that decades. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:31, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not really, because out of all of those 23 subcategories, there are over 5000 unsorted pages. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 14:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Kinu says that this project would result in overcategorization, but having a category with 5,500 people defeats the purpose of the category. --Just N. (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge all as a non-notable category intersection. That a large cat results when many people have something in common is not a problem, and we have many tools (cat tables of contents, db queries, etc.) to assist navigating large cats.
  • Can you give an example for some of the category nav stuff? Thanks
  • Arguably, this defeats the point of marking a category with ((verylarge)). Also, if you're going to have a category that large, why not merge Yale Alumni and Yale Faculty with Yale People? why not merge secret societies, Yale Medical University, Yale College, etc with Yale University alumni as well? MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 03:24, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • ((CatAutoTOC)), which is on the large cat, allows the user to navigate directly to alumni based on the initial letter or two of their last name. Quarry is a tool that allows the user to create output based on logic like: all articles that are in Category:Yale University alumni and Category:1989 births. ((verylarge)) is on this particular category because of the existence of the more specific, non-intersecting subsidiary categories such as Category:Yale College alumni, indicating that the articles should be moved into the appropriate one of those. ((verylarge)) is not an invitation to dream up and create new smaller categories like Category:Yale University alumni with brown hair. UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge all per my !vote at the speedy discussion as well. At the end of the day the point of categorizing is to aid navigation to readers - period. The intersection of graduation years/decades is trivial. There is no greater relationship between Yale alumni in the classes of 1988 & 1989 than there are in the classes of 1989 & 1990. Subcategorization in the way that Harvard's alumni category is done could be a good option, as the subcats are intersected at non-trivial points such as athletes' sports or fields of study. And to the opposition who claim "there are 5,000+ in the broad category tHaT's ToO mAnY", well that's why ((CatAutoTOC)) exists. SportsGuy789 (talk) 01:09, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge following unanimous precedent for Princeton, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_24#Princeton_University_alumni_by_decade. – Fayenatic London 11:07, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JBchrch talk 01:41, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. People above make good points, might as well delete it. I apologize for failing to create a consensus prior to the discussion.

This, discussion, however raises the question as to wonder if cats such as Yale University secret society members should exist. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 11:53, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• (voted before) Further Comment -- Categorisation should be by date of graduation, so that a person who studied 1978-1981 would be in the 1980s category. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:13, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  This unnecessarily complicates things and makes categories difficult to look up. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 20:50, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Categories are supposed to be a navigation aid, not a mere bullet point. A category with 5000 members is a hindrance to navigation. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Remember that CatAutoTOC exists. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 16:51, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Partial merge. Separating by century should be enough. BD2412 T 04:38, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  That's fair MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 18:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge all One university, one alumni category. Since some people get multiple degrees, this could lead to putting people in multiple categories. Having a large category is not the end of the world. This leads to longer names of categories, and we already have too much space taken up by categories. Also, we have accepted that any matriculated student is an alumni regardless of graduation. This overemphasizes graduation year.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:18, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  What is so bad about having "too much space taken up by categories"? You say that as though it is a plague to all Wikipedian-kind. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 23:17, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Courtesy ping: Johnpacklambert MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 15:00, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Categories should be brief. an alumni category for all people who went to a university is more than sifficient. I have seen way too many articles with 8 or more lines of categories, and in excess of 30 categories, to have any view other than that we have allow way too much category clutter.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:14, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Also keep in mind that some people graduated from Yale more than once. Right now the only categories we have were we place biogrpahical articles in a given year are births, deaths and suicides. Those are the only ones. Down this road lies madness it is a very bad plan. Also keep in mind Category:1989 births is much larger than the Yale Category. Splitting by year makes it very unclear how to find a general group of people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:18, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• A large percentage of articles do not both stating when the person received their degree from an institution, so we will always have a large number of people who are not in the category. Also keep in mind esepcially with a Ph.D. a person can take years to complete a dissertation after doing course work, some of whom are working far from the campus, so the year that they completed their disseration may not actually be very connected to when they were actively present at an institution.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  This is a fair point, but alumni by century may work in this aspect. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 15:05, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge all. Who browses alumnis by decade? Or even by century? I'm not sure if even the Yale archivists would do that. These seem to be artifical criteria drawn up to maintain the category in what I understand to be a conventional size. Personally, I don't think that it's an issue to have a category with thousands of articles: that's just the nature of the world. JBchrch talk 14:05, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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