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November 21

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
Support: Did not know that category existed. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 18:17 21 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)[reply]

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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • Delete - Non-notable intersection, and mislabled category (should be "Wikipedia shortcuts...") to boot. -The Bushranger One ping only 20:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete How could this be useful? —Justin (koavf)TCM02:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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. -- œ 18:47, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    I believe it's because the nominator did it manually, instead of using Twinkle which automatically notifies the creator. -- œ 08:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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. (PS. nothing wrong with doing it manually; of course you're not obligated to use Twinkle, but it is a common courtesy to notify a category's creator if you intend to have their creation deleted. Oh, and although the creator of the category may have abandoned it, I certainly have not, and it is being maintained and looked after, so I hope that's taken into consideration when the final decision is made.) -- œ 11:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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. -- œ 11:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south

Propose renaming Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south to Category:Kingdoms of the extreme south of ancient India Category: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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Category:International Sailing Federation Members

Propose splitting Category:International Sailing Federation Members
to Category:Members of the International Sailing Federation
and Category:Classes of the International Sailing Federation
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)[reply]

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 (talkcontribs) 13:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by User Yachty4000 / 21st Nov 2011

Category:Parks and public spaces in Montreal