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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.
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Cgingold (talk) 23:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- 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)
KeepUpmergeuntil we find another way to get to the people so categorised fromto Category:Children of national leaders. Hiding T 20:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- I should have added, Upmerge to Category:Children of national leaders. Cgingold (talk) 02:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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.
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Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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)
- 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)
- I see where you're going with that, but as the category currently stands, for the majority of the entries it is utterly irrelevant and non-notable that they're "multi-racial" (e.g. A Perfect Circle, Linkin Park and Soundgarden, to name but a few). Oli Filth(talk|contribs) 22:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not entirely excited about the current list either, but it does include groups whose music crosses cultural lines (e.g. Santana) or deals with themes of racism (e.g. the Black Eyed Peas, Sly & the Family Stone). In these cases I don't think the group membership is merely coincidental and we can't create a Category:Notably multi-racial musical groups and maintain NPOV. -MrFizyx (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
- I see where you're going with that, but as the category currently stands, for the majority of the entries it is utterly irrelevant and non-notable that they're "multi-racial" (e.g. A Perfect Circle, Linkin Park and Soundgarden, to name but a few). Oli Filth(talk|contribs) 22:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Was thinking about nominating this myself, yesterday... Metao (talk) 08:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 22:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
- Huh? Gender?? What did I say??? -MrFizyx (talk) 18:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Delete per nom. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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)
- Rename - as nominator. - jc37 03:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Slow down. Fictional storylines? What's the purpose of this category? To categorise real storylines of works of fiction published in the comics form, or fictional storylines such as the Black Freighter? Actually, this conversation is descending too far into meta-textuality. Is the Black Freighter a fictionl storyline? It's a fiction within a fiction, certainly. Would the death of Booby Ewing be a fictional storyline? My head hurts. "Storylines of fiction" should be the top category, so category Category:Comic book storylines should be Category:Storylines of fiction in comics or Category:Storylines of comics fiction. I think I prefer "in comics". Therefore,
Oppose Category:Comic book storylines to Category:Fictional storylines in comicsHiding T 09:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)- Renaming to Category:Storylines of fiction in comics sounds fine too. Though my next question would be: How would we categorise it into the Comics tree? - jc37 09:46, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Good point. Category:Comics publications? Or the dreaded Category:Content in comics (Should that be Category:Content of comics - we could also categorise images here. What about Speech ballon?)? Which could sit in Category:Comics publications. Hiding T 10:32, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not sure, but I'm starting to think you're having a bit of fun at my expense : )
- As for the tree, a storyline (story and plot) would seem to be as much "content" as a character. They're both story elements, I think? That's why I was grouping them with Fictional content. that said, I can see how they're "slightly" different in that while a storyline may be congruent to story and plot, it isn't exactly equal to the story and plot. Which is why I'm also supporting your suggestion as an alternative. - jc37 10:45, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Certainly not having fun. I just remember the thinking behind Category:Fictional comics, which is for comics which are not real. If we have Category:Fictional storylines in comics in the same category as Category:Fictional comics, am I the only person who sees the scope for confusion? Certainly a story is like a character in that they are content, and I certainly understand your thinking. This is one for consensus to decide. Hiding T 11:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- I actually had to think about that when I was categorising Category:Fictional content in comics. It didn't seem to belong in Category:Fictional, because it's actually parallel with that category. But it's also more narrow than that category in that it's for comics-related articles alone. So it didn't seem appropriate for Category:Fiction (the parent of "fictional".) So what I did was placed it in fictional, but not alphabetised with the rest of the fictional cats, but rather at the head, where lists and such usually are placed.
- I think we have a similar situation with storylines. It's concerning meta-content (not the physical comics, but rather what's being presented), but it's also a sort of "grouping" of content, as well.
- So perhaps placing it at the "head" would be appropriate. (Which also means that the different convention might be appropriate as well.)
- Is that making any sense? - jc37 11:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Yes. I think we're exposing a flaw in the category structure, aren't we? Or at least the way our minds work in relation to it. Looking at the bottom of the article, Category:Fictional content in comics and Category:Fictional make sense, but in terms of the category structure, they don;t, it would instead be placing Category:Content in comics in Category:Fictional which would make the distinction. Brain-ache. Placing at the head is a good idea. The name is a complicated one. I'm happy to cut to the chase: Rename per nom. Your ball. :) Hiding T 12:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- (Looks at the ball tossed to me by Hiding. Now what am I supposed to do with this?)
- And yes, Brain-ache indeed. Then trying to combine the idea of the fewest necessary categories with the most useful navigation... Well, it definitely can be a challenge : ) - jc37 12:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- I added your option to the nom. - jc37 12:27, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- Certainly not having fun. I just remember the thinking behind Category:Fictional comics, which is for comics which are not real. If we have Category:Fictional storylines in comics in the same category as Category:Fictional comics, am I the only person who sees the scope for confusion? Certainly a story is like a character in that they are content, and I certainly understand your thinking. This is one for consensus to decide. Hiding T 11:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- (de-dent) - Thinking about this, I think the best way to do this is probably "Storylines in <x>". The parent would be "Storylines in fiction", and have "Storylines in comics" as a sub-cat. - jc37 21:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
- I think that's the best idea, yes. Hiding T 21:37, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
- Renaming to Category:Storylines of fiction in comics sounds fine too. Though my next question would be: How would we categorise it into the Comics tree? - jc37 09:46, 26 August 2008 (UTC)