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August 26

Category:Non-article New Jersey pages

Category:Children of Presidents of Romania

Category:Children of Presidents of Romania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete - I don't see a good rationale for this particular category, since all of these people are children of the same president of Romania (one guess which president), and there's no real likelihood of others achieving notability in the immediate future. Notified creator with {{subst:cfd-notify}} Cgingold (talk) 23:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the daughter of our current president, Elena Băsescu, is quite notable (she's currently the General Secretary of the Youth Organization of the Democrat-Liberal Party), but no one wrote an article about her. bogdan (talk) 09:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Neoconservatives

Category:Neoconservatives - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. I thought about speedily deleting this as re-created material previously deleted as a result of CfD consensus, but since it's been a year and a half since the last discussion (2007 Feb 7), I thought it better to bring the proposal here. To summarise the previous consensus, it was thought that "neoconservative" was a controversial and relatively vague term that is often used as a pejorative, or at the very least in a POV way. Notified creator with {{subst:cfd-notify}} Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep -- Neoconservatism is now a well defined political/social movement with very many well-known, self-described adherents. Many books, scholarly articles, and magazine articles have been written by Neoconservatives who self-identify as such. Additionally, more than a few books have also been written by or about Neoconservatives and Neoconservatism, e.g., Neo-conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (ISBN 1566632285), The Neocon Reader (ISBN 0802141935), They Knew They Were Right (ISBN 0385511817), The Neoconservative Revolution (ISBN 0521545013), Neocon Middle East Policy (ISBN 0976443732), along with many others. --Wassermann (talk) 04:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Questions How do we address the issue of inclusion criteria, then? To be included, do they need to be a self-described neoconservative? Are those involved with the Project for the New American Century automatically neoconservatives? What about those like Michael Lind or Francis Fukuyama, who have distanced themselves as of late from the movement? What about neoconservative "forerunners" who were active before the term was invented, like Scoop Jackson? Because of the roots of the movement, can this be a subcategory of Category:Trotskyists? What about previous uses of the term, like it being applied to Nazi thinkers Carl Schmitt and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck? Is this limited to American neoconservatives? If so, why? What about the problem of using "neoconservative" as an epithet, sometimes an anti-Semitic one? I think these issues need to be settled before we agree that the former consensus to delete has changed or should be overridden. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:01, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The term is used too widely and wildly to be useful. What it is is not even fully agreed to by everyone.--T. Anthony (talk) 19:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per DLand's comment at the original CfD and per Good Olfactory here. (too nebulous a term) --Philosopher Let us reason together. 00:01, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Multi-racial musical groups

Category:Multi-racial musical groups - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Over-categorisation, per WP:OCAT#Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference. Oli Filth(talk|contribs) 21:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I think this could be an encyclopedic topic given the history of Jazz in the U.S. and the Music of South Africa. Granted the current list is more about Hootie & the Blowfish than the Benny Goodman Orchestra, but there is potential here. -MrFizyx (talk) 22:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Was thinking about nominating this myself, yesterday... Metao (talk) 08:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - So a group qualifies because they have members of different races? I don't know that I'd even support listification of this. - jc37 10:41, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thats all it took to keep your band from touring the southern US under Jim Crow (which incidentally was so named for a song). On the other hand I wouldn't now propose a category for multi-racial baseball teams. -MrFizyx (talk) 18:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete If categorizing by mixed gender is trivial, then so is categorizing by gender. There doesn't seem to be a clear criterion, as MrFizyx pointed out. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshellsOtter chirpsHELP) 22:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep (not surpising since I created it I guess). When I noticed again that the American Breed was bi-racial, I realized that this is a part of rock and roll history that is not particularly well known. It was rare enough when Hootie & the Blowfish came along, but I doubt that 1 of 100 American fans of "Bend Me, Shape Me" have any idea that this 1960s band was multi-racial. I remember checking in a couple of months later and being astounded at how quickly the category filled up compared to a couple of others that I have started. I guess it is hard for me to imagine that it is "notable" that the American Breed is from Chicago, or that it was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969; and that it is "notable" that Hootie are University of South Carolina alumni and that they are a quartet; but it is somehow "non-notable" that they are bi-racial groups. Can someone please explain that to me? Shocking Blue (talk) 11:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I guess one way of looking at the difference is that facts like year of formation and town/state/country of origin are things that one might put in the lead of the article, for instance. However, I notice that in the case in point (American Breed), it currently states "interracial" in the lead, which strikes me as odd. Not from some political-correctness point of view, but more from the fact that we don't put "all black" anywhere in e.g. the Destiny's Child article, nor for that matter "all white" in the Oasis (band) article. Nor do we say that "Samuel L Jackson is black" (or similar) in the Samuel L Jackson article. Oli Filth(talk|contribs) 18:50, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • My point was not that year or city of formation is not notable (even though it was actually Cicero rather than Chicago itself in the case of the American Breed); they certainly are. But why keep track of the "quartets" among musical groups, and why is year of disbanding notable, particularly these days, when it is hard to come up with even an obscure 1960s band that has not reformed at least once. I agree with your point about interracial; "multi-racial" is what I came up with rather than "bi-racial" because there are some "tri-racial" bands like Deee-lite (and I just left "multi-ethnic" alone as being ultimately meaningless). And I would concede that perhaps it is of more historical significance as someone else pointed out below. Also, the category would have no meaning for some types of musical groups; it would be more notable for a full symphony orchestra to be singly racial than multi-racial for instance. Regardless, there are close to 100 bands listed already in the category, which shows that there is some interest out there in this distinction. Shocking Blue (talk 20:49, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete However I think this issue is of enough historic importance to merit an article. Maybe something like Racial integration in popular music in the way we have Baseball color line. For example The Del-Vikings and Booker T. & the M.G.'s being multi-racial was likely significant then as segregation was still an issue. However to have this as a category may not make much more sense than to have "multi-racial golf courses" as a category even if that was also an issue once.--T. Anthony (talk) 19:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Siblings of Presidents of the United States

Category:Lebanese blogs

Category:List New Jersey pages

Category:Tom T. Hall songs

Category:Black Kids singles

Category:Black Kids

Category:Comic book publishing companies

Category:Comic book stores

Category:Comic book terminology

Category:Songs by Bob Gaudio

Category:Songs by Bob Crewe

Category:Comic book storylines

Rename Category:Comic book storylines to Category:Fictional storylines in comics (or Category:Storylines in comics)
To match the example of: Category:Fictional storylines. - jc37 03:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional content in comics subcats

Category:Associations of students

Category:Scientologists by Nationality