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Category:Places associated with The Beatles
- Category:Places associated with The Beatles - Template:Lc1
- Category:Places associated with John Lennon - Template:Lc1
- Category:Places associated with George Harrison - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete. Associated with is totally subjective as inclusion criteria. The top level category might be kept and renamed to be for lists which would show why the association was significant. If this nomination gain traction, there are other like purposed categories that will need nomination. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete Per nom--virtually random association of places all across the world. Abbey Road Studios? Shea Stadium? Parts of India they visited? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:12, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete Notability is not inherited, category style. - The Bushranger One ping only 03:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Dammit, and creating this cat was my one unique connection with John Lennon....Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Don't worry, you're still only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Dammit, and creating this cat was my one unique connection with John Lennon....Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete even if the affiliation of a place with a famous person or group were notable for the place; this is a bad precedent. Think of how many notables we have a few tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands among our several million articles; each with a category. And into how many shall London and New York City be placed? Cat clutter beyond words.... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:42, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete -- This is far too vague to be of value and will clutter up the category section of articles. This falls into a similar class to Performance by performer and award categories, though of course it is neither. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Places associated with, part 2
- Category:Places associated with James Joyce - Template:Lc1
- Category:Places associated with Malcolm X - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete. Associated with is totally subjective as inclusion criteria. The top level category might be kept and renamed to be for lists which would show why the association was significant. If this nomination gain traction, there are other like purposed categories that will need nomination. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Upmerge,at least for James Joyce and Malcolm X. Or better yet, consider them apart from The Beatles. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:06, 23 November 2011 (UTC)- OK, I split those last 2 out. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:08, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 08:12, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- OK, I split those last 2 out. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:08, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Keep Malcolm X. The Malcolm X category has three articles unquestionably associated with him: the places he was born and died, and his mosque. When new articles are written about other places associated with Malcolm X, they may be appropriate for the category. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 08:12, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- But are these defining? Categories are a navigation aid. What you are describing is likely already in the main article which makes that case that nothing is gained by having a category. If additional navigation is needed, a template would be much better in a case like this. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Is the association with Malcolm X a defining characteristic of each article in the category? Absolutely. However, as you mention, the articles are all linked to from Malcolm X. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 06:39, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- But are these defining? Categories are a navigation aid. What you are describing is likely already in the main article which makes that case that nothing is gained by having a category. If additional navigation is needed, a template would be much better in a case like this. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Upmerge James Joyce. The James Joyce category is less clear. It includes the tower in which he lived (for a week), which has been turned into a museum, and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, with which Joyce himself was not associated as far as I can tell. I think it should be upmerged. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 08:12, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete even if the affiliation of a place with a famous person or group were notable for the place; this is a bad precedent. Think of how many notables we have a few tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands among our several million articles; each with a category. And into how many shall London and New York City be placed? Cat clutter beyond words.... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:42, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Listify no clear inclusion standards, or why it would be defining. A lot of places advertise that "X slept here" so, lists with inclusion standards explicitly stated would be better. 70.24.248.23 (talk) 14:26, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete -- too vague, and non-defining. The result can be achieved by including the people in a list of "people from" in the relevant articles. This has simialr problems to award categories and performance by performer categories. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:51, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Non-profit organizations based in New York, New York
Category:Witnesses of the Iraq Inquiry
- Category:Witnesses of the Iraq Inquiry - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete. Generally speaking, I don't believe that having been a witness in a particular public inquiry is defining for a person. Looking at the articles in this category, it's not defining for those who testified at the Iraq Inquiry. It should be mentioned in their bio article and they are already listed at List of witnesses of the Iraq Inquiry, but we don't need a category for it. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:25, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Witnesses by case is basically performer by performance and consistent with good sense and mucho precedents, should be deleted. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:43, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete -- It is in the nature of a performance by performer category. If kept, to should be renamed "witnesses to ...". It is (or should be about those who testified, not those who watched it from the gallery! Peterkingiron (talk) 16:54, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Punjabi folk
- Propose merging Category:Punjabi folk to Category:Punjambi culture
- Nominator's rationale: Merge or rename?. I'm not quite sure what to do with this category. It is defined as including "article about any folk thing/cultural activity of Punjab region like, folk dances, folk music, folk instruments, folk songs, folk singers, festivals related to Punjab region or any tradition or cultural activity etc." I'm not sure that "folk" is commonly used as a broad noun in this sense, except maybe to refer to "folk music". But this includes dances and festivals as well. Is it so broad that it just needs to be upmerged? Or is there a way we could rename this? (Note that folk is about the word meaning "people".) Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Support - "Culture" seems appropriate. - The Bushranger One ping only 03:56, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Rename but purge and repurpose to Category:Punjabi folk music and dance, which would make an appropriate category. We already have Category:Punjabi culture, of which this should be a subcategory. The target is a redlink due to a spelling mistake. The present definition is too woolly at the edges, and it will thus need to be purged, with purged items going into the "culture" category. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Looting
- Category:Looting - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: This is too vague a label and is (therefore) being placed everywhere there was or might have been, an instance of "looting." This is best placed on individual bios who were prosecuted for looting (theft). Vague categories with poor definition of scope should have no place in an encyclopedia. Great for tabloids! Student7 (talk) 17:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Keep that a few articles may be miscategorized is not a reason for deletion. Looting is apparently sufficient to support an article Looting, and several articles related specifically to that topic, which seem best categorized under that term. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:46, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Keep per Carlossuarez46. Articles like Archaeological looting in Iraq, Looted art, Art theft and looting during World War II and Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum self-evidently have a sound home in this cat. By all means feel free to remove any articles inappropriately included in the cat, but the mere fact that a category contains miscategorised articles is never a valid reason to delete it. (If it was then we could delete about 50% of our categories!)--Mais oui! (talk) 07:55, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians who like Halo
- Propose merging Category:Wikipedians who like Halo to Category:Wikipedians interested in Halo (series)
- Nominator's rationale: Merge The point is to foster collaboration between Halo aficionados so the two categories have the same intended scope. Pichpich (talk) 16:04, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Support: Did not know that category existed. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 18:17 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, or delete. Liking Halo is not something worth categorizing for purposes of collaboration. VegaDark (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians with Top3violations Userbox
- Category:Wikipedians with Top3violations Userbox - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete Recently created. This category serves no useful purpose for collaboration and "What links here" would work just as well in any case. Pichpich (talk) 15:44, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete per extensive precedent. VegaDark (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Shortcuts that are English words
- Category:Shortcuts that are English words - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete. I can't think of any reason for this category to exist, and a request for explanation on the category's talk page received no response. Theoldsparkle (talk) 15:05, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete Can't see the point. These English words are often relevant but they're sometimes complete accidents of acronyms, e.g. WP:ACE, WP:ACRE, WP:ADD, WP:AID, WP:AM and so on. Pichpich (talk) 17:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete - Non-notable intersection, and mislabled category (should be "Wikipedia shortcuts...") to boot. -The Bushranger One ping only 20:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Speedy delete How could this be useful? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Keep. Ever since I stumbled upon this curious category a couple years ago it's become somewhat of a pet project of mine to collate these as I come across them. Please don't tell me all those edits and time I spent categorizing these was a complete waste. I agree that it's not the most useful category, but it exists, and has existed for some time, and it's not hurting anything. And it's interesting. So let's not delete a harmless category just for the sake of having something to delete. Please? ps. I replied at the category talk page. -- Ϫ 18:47, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Keep. It's a bit of harmless fun. I created it eons ago as a testament to the way Wikipedia sometimes devolves into acronym soup. It is linked from Wikipedia:Shortcut and Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia (among a few other places) to help newbies recognize that sometimes we use acronyms that look like English words but aren't actually intended to be understood that way. It's not the most helpful category in the world, but I don't see how it is harmful either. Just let it be. Dragons flight (talk) 19:56, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- PS. I also find it a little odd that I was notified of this deletion discussion only 6 days after it was posted... Dragons flight (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I believe it's because the nominator did it manually, instead of using Twinkle which automatically notifies the creator. -- Ϫ 08:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- I believe I followed all instructions on this page. The instructions here for nominating a category for discussion did not direct me either to use Twinkle nor to notify the category's creator. I do not use Twinkle because I have no interest in it and the only time I hear about it is in discussions about ways it doesn't seem to work very well. I did not notify the creator because I think if you care about a page, you should watch it. (If you don't mind that the category you created could look like this in perpetuity, I don't know why you should mind if it's deleted altogether.) Theoldsparkle (talk) 17:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Of course I care, and have always had the page on my watchlist, and had I been online at the time that would of been reverted instantly. -- Ϫ 11:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- I believe I followed all instructions on this page. The instructions here for nominating a category for discussion did not direct me either to use Twinkle nor to notify the category's creator. I do not use Twinkle because I have no interest in it and the only time I hear about it is in discussions about ways it doesn't seem to work very well. I did not notify the creator because I think if you care about a page, you should watch it. (If you don't mind that the category you created could look like this in perpetuity, I don't know why you should mind if it's deleted altogether.) Theoldsparkle (talk) 17:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- I believe it's because the nominator did it manually, instead of using Twinkle which automatically notifies the creator. -- Ϫ 08:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- PS. I also find it a little odd that I was notified of this deletion discussion only 6 days after it was posted... Dragons flight (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete; if kept, restrict it to shortcuts which are intentionally English words (such as WP:BEAR, WP:CIVIL) and rename to a name which reflects that. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:15, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- By "intentionally" do you mean excluding the 'accidents of acronyms' as mentioned by Pichpich above? I can go through the category and remove all of those if that's what people want, but I don't think it really matters that it's an acronym, it's still an English word. I'm also okay with renaming it to whatever's suitable. I just really don't want to have all the time I spent expanding this category be for naught. -- Ϫ 11:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Category:Snooker leagues
- Category:Snooker leagues - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: There are simply not enough articles for this category. Armbrust Talk to me about my editsreview 13:23, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Comment: This can safely upmerge to Category:Snooker organisations and Category:Cue sports leagues temporarily, but it is only unpopulated because no one's gotten around to writing the articles yet. There are certainly enough notable (i.e. national-level) snooker leagues in and outside the Commonwealth to well-populate the category. Not sure I see much logic in deleting the category only to put it back later, but it's not a big deal either way. At any rate, I just wanted to clarify that this is not like some Category:Goose-juggling leagues that couldn't actually be populated. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 14:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Upmerge for now. But what about Category:Goosing leagues? ;) - The Bushranger One ping only 14:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Delete The only professional league is Premier League Snooker; there are plenty of amateur leagues, but there clearly is no real interest in covering amateur snooker on the snooker project as yet. We don't even cover international amateur titles such as the IBSF (yeah I know it should be covered but the snooker project doesn't have many participants and there is a backlog of stuff to do for the pro game, so that is where effort is normally expended). Unless someone comes along with an active interest in developing amateur coverage, then it isn't going to be utilised. For now leagues should be covered in Category:Snooker competitions rather than 'organisations', since organisations here denote governing bodies such as the WPBSA, IBSF etc, which incidentally could set up a league. Betty Logan (talk) 15:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south
- Propose renaming Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south to
Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south of ancient IndiaCategory:Southern kingdoms of ancient India - Nominator's rationale: Rename. The "extreme south" of what? And when? Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:Southern kingdoms in ancient Bharat to match Category:North western kingdoms in ancient Bharat and Category:Northern kingdoms in ancient Bharat. - The Bushranger One ping only 14:14, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Bharat is ambiguous as a place name, so those categories are not ideally named either. In context, "Bharat" in those categories probably just means "India". Therefore, "Ancient India" is probably best because it is clear and matches Category:Ancient India. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:02, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- "Ancient India" is fine with me then. - The Bushranger One ping only 03:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- If there's consensus here then afterwards I will nominate the Bharat categories. I do like the suggestion to change it to "southern kingdoms ...", though. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- "Ancient India" is fine with me then. - The Bushranger One ping only 03:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Bharat is ambiguous as a place name, so those categories are not ideally named either. In context, "Bharat" in those categories probably just means "India". Therefore, "Ancient India" is probably best because it is clear and matches Category:Ancient India. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:02, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Strong rename extremely ambiguous. 70.24.248.23 (talk) 21:24, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Support revised nom to Category:Southern kingdoms of ancient India. This has a clear purpose. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Ambassadors of the United States
Category:Boat magazines
- Propose merging Category:Boat magazines to Category:Sailing magazines
- Nominator's rationale: Near complete overlap between these categories. Not 100% sure which one should be merged with which, but I don't believe there should be two - There can be only one. The Bushranger One ping only 03:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Rename Category:Boat magazines to Category:Boating magazines. Don't merge since sailing is, I believe, a subset of boating. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:09, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- That makes sense, I reckon. Should sailing be a subcat of boating then here? - The Bushranger One ping only 22:46, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Logically, yes. However this may be one of those cases when you make an exception. I'd like to give the experts a chance to chime in. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- That makes sense, I reckon. Should sailing be a subcat of boating then here? - The Bushranger One ping only 22:46, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:Sailing ship elements
- Propose renaming Category:Sailing ship elements to
Category:Sailing ship and sailboat componentsCategory:Sailing ship components - Propose renaming Category:Sailboat anatomy to Category:Sailboat components
- Nominator's rationale: More logical names (following Category:Aircraft components) that are also more inclusive and descriptive. The Bushranger One ping only 03:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- Comment. You keep coming up with these. Why not just rename both to Category:Sailing ship components? Vegaswikian (talk) 20:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Because then people might well look at it, go "oh, sailing ships, that's old stuff". However having the first category as just "Sailing ship comonents", with "Sailboat components" as a subcat, would work I guess - changing to that. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:53, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, we have a situation where sail is in multiple lower level categories, but not in the top one where you would expect to find it. Is this a result of too many categories in this area? Vegaswikian (talk) 03:59, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- Because then people might well look at it, go "oh, sailing ships, that's old stuff". However having the first category as just "Sailing ship comonents", with "Sailboat components" as a subcat, would work I guess - changing to that. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:53, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Category:International Sailing Federation Members
- Propose splitting Category:International Sailing Federation Members
- Nominator's rationale: At the moment there is a mish-mash of content in this category, including both boating clubs that are affiliated with the ISF, and ship types that define classes of the ISF - which having classed as "members" is very confusing. Proposing this split to make things more logical. The Bushranger One ping only 03:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
When I created this category my plan was simply to have all the ISAF members grouped in hindsight your suggestion follows the structure of the two templates I created which appear on International Sailing Federation which is what I am more interested in maintaining. I have no concerns with you implementing your suggestion but at present very few ISAF member nations have pages although I plan to slowly address this.
Template:International Sailing Federation Template:International Sailing Federation Classes
Maybe the naming protocol for the groups could follow what the templates should have been named.
- to International Sailing Federation Member National Authorities
- and International Sailing Federation Classes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yachty4000 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Comment by User Yachty4000 / 21st Nov 2011
- That could work (I'm not sure if "X of Y" or "Y X" is the preferred naming style here, tho). - The Bushranger One ping only 14:15, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
- A split is definitely in order. I thought of doing this a few months ago but either forgot or more likely found some cop out ("I'll leave it to someone from WikiProject Sailing" or something along those lines). Pichpich (talk) 04:44, 22 November 2011 (UTC)