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June 13

Category:License migration

Propose renaming Category:License migration to Category:Wikipedia license migration
Nominator's rationale: In line with the usual naming pattern, Wikipedia categories should be appended with Wikipedia. Same goes to all other ViperSnake151  Talk  23:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support rename -- a license category could conceivably be about main namespace articles (such as, license). The false assertion by Debresser is not supported by evidence on the record. At most recent count, there are currently 208 categories with prefix "Wikipedia:" (colon) and 5,601 categories with prefix "Wikipedia " (space).
    --William Allen Simpson (talk) 14:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gun fu films

Category:Gun fu films - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: This empty category has been awaiting a decision on speedy deletion for 2 days. magnius (talk) 15:14, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • CommentGoogle cache has 63 films in this category. Can we have a rationale for its deletion and an explanation for its emptying? (The creator of the category placed a few films in it and these edits were reverted as 'vandalism' - how is it vandalism to create and populate a category?) Occuli (talk) 15:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply I have no idea who deleted those films, they must have been deleted on a film by film basis by editors who may have disagreed with the tagging of the films as "Gun Fu". I have no problem with it as such, it just needs to be populated or deleted, not stand there empty. magnius (talk) 15:36, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Then maybe it shouldn't be in the category, like so many articles in so many categories, however well defined. I note from the article that "Stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski, a student of Jeet Kune Do under Dan Inosanto, created a customised fighting style for Summer Glau to use in the film's fight scenes. It was a hybrid of Kung Fu, kickboxing and elements of ballet, all combined to create a "balletic" martial art." - but that doesn't seem to really meet the gun fu definition - no guns for a start. Johnbod (talk) 21:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have no view yet on the validity of the category itself, however LGSpears IP socks have been repeatedly adding films and other categories to this category which are clearly NOT "Gun Fu" films, seemingly randomly choosing based on his own view of what they should be. Due to the continuing issues here, all of those IPs edits are reverted as vandalism on sight. If valid editors want to populate the category with actual "gun fu" films based on reliable sources, not just LGSpears rather off-beat ideas, I see no issue there. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 00:42, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and (re-)populate. Xsmasher (talk) 05:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have just blocked an IP for re-populating this category with articles that do not fit the category scope and have rolled back all of the IP's edits. Best, Mifter (talk) 19:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2010s automobiles

Category:People from Bedford Indiana

category:People from Bedford Indiana - merge into category:People from Bedford, Indiana
Nominator's rationale: obvious typo just left for someone else to pick up.... Ian Cairns (talk) 14:33, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Unmarried people

Category:Unmarried people - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. There's been broad consensus in the past that we are not going to try to categorize people by marital status. In the past we've deleted categories for Undifferentiated spouses; Polygamists; Spouses of polygamists; Marriages by year; People who married their cousins; and Widows, but I've never seen a one for single people before. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:02, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:X-Men characters

Propose renaming Category:X-Men characters to Category:Lists of X-Men characters
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Contents are in the form of lists. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2010s American television series

Category:2010s American television series - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CRYSTAL, we should not be adding this kind of category to TV series until 2010. — TAnthonyTalk 02:07, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree on this point; this category came to my attention because its creator was tagging series into it seemingly based on his own impression of whether an existing series would be airing in 2010, rather than pickup announcements, etc. This category is related to but different than Category:2010 television series debuts, which is populated as debuts are announced. Is it nitpicking to note that pretty much any series can be cancelled at any time? It is tempting to assume that any continuing series set to return this fall and/or contracted for multiple seasons will continue through 2010, but is this the kind of determination we want to make in June? I suppose this issue will only arise every decade, but if this CfD has increased awareness then it's served a purpose.— TAnthonyTalk 19:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]