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February 20

Category:Michael Franks

Category:Michael Franks - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. An eponymous category with a single child category and its eponymous article. Typically, an eponymous category is created when there are various subcategories and related articles on the subject to warrant it. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 22:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I do so when I find them. I don't go searching for them. Thanks. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 02:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, I find most things through serendipitous circumstances myself. Cheers :) --Ruben[nerd] (talk) 07:30, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Good point regarding renaming; not calling it that from the outset was my mistake, along with not adding the templates or other categories sooner. For a newbie's (aka: mine!) future reference though, what bearing does anemia have on eponymous categorisation? Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars, feel free to chime in here too. Doesn't the former regard utilisation, and the latter semantics? Cheers --Ruben[nerd] (talk) 11:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
By anemic I just meant "lightly populated" or "not much content". Good Ol’factory (talk) 20:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People by city in Virginia

Propose renaming Category:People by city in Virginia to Category:People by independent city in Virginia
Propose renaming Category:People by town in Virginia to Category:People by city or town in Virginia
Nominator's rationale: It seems that Virginia is the only state (as far as I know) that seperates 'People from...' by 'Town' and 'City', this, apparently, being due to the fact that Virginia 'Towns' are what most states would consider 'Cities', and Virginia 'Cities' are independent entities standing alone from any county. These renamings would help to clarify things, with 'by independent city' being a subcat of 'by city or town', allowing all city-equivilants in Virginia to be found under a single subcategory of Category:People by city in the United States by state. The Bushranger One ping only 22:47, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Presidential candidates

Category:Lord Lilford

Propose deleting renaming Category:Lord Lilford to Category:Barons Lilford
Nominator's rationale: Delete (or rename) Rename.. My first concern is that I'm not sure that we categorize people who have held the same title in the same category named after the title? If kept, my second concern is that the article about the title is Baron Lilford, and Lord Lilford redirects there. My third concern is that if kept, the category needs to be pluralised. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Guinness World Records

Category:Guinness World Records - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This is OCAT; apparently by its contents it's a category for nearly anything or anyone who was ever in the Guinness Book of World Records. Right now, the category is manageably small, but it it were to be populated along those lines, it would basically be whatever GWB has ever had in it. What's next? Things in the Brittannica? Things in the Book of Lists? People in Who's Who? Best rock songs per Rolling Stone? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete per nominator, with great haste, and lethal force. Categorising things by their inclusion in books of lists or records would lead to horrendous category clutter. (I'm sure that this category was created in good faith by an editor unaware of the consequences of this type of categorisation, but however attractive it may seem at first glance, it doesn't work. If someone wants to read the Guinness Book of World Records, it is available for purchase or can be read for free in most libraries). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:41, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. We always delete the kind of category that categorizes people because they appeared in some other work. It leads to overcategorization and sets a bad precedent for future category development. These are not articles about Guinness records, which is what the name suggests. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:40, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. 67.239.100.244 (talk) 17:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or better still recategorise I think I know how to make this work without "clutter" - make it similar in fashion to the categories listed on the Guinness World Records website, and leave it at that. It would be great to have a Inaugural, superseded by, current in the relevant pages categorised by this. In short, if you remove the guinness world record category you should then look at removing DJ award categories and other awards as they have less relevance. A guinness world record is an award of World merit. There is nothing bigger in the world to signify such a world achievement. Each article categorised to this should be notable on its own merit. I mean, an article really shouldnt be written for a person who has the only claim to fame as having watched soapies for the longest time, unless it was lindsay lohan or something (no offence to be taken).

Category:People educated at Royal Wolverhampton School

Category:Whitbread Awards

Propose renaming Category:Whitbread Awards to Category:Costa Book Awards
Propose renaming Category:Whitbread Award winners to Category:Costa Book Award winners
Nominator's rationale: The Whitbread Awards have been renamed the Costa Book Awards starting in 2006. We recently renamed Category:Whitbread Award winners (books) to Category:Costa Book Award winning works.-- Mike Selinker (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jibanananda Das

Propose renaming Category:Jibanananda Das to Category:Works by Jibanananda Das
Nominator's rationale: Rename to conform to the convention of Category:Works by author. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:12, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know the convention of categorization very well. I did it after watching Category:Rabindranath Tagore. If it can exist, I think Category:Jibanananda Das can exist too. What would happen if I later want to include an article on a person who was a critic or translator of Jibanananda Das, e.g. Abdul Mannan Syed, Chidananda Dasgupta and etc in that category. If it is inappropriate, please, let me know. Anyway Category:Works by Jibanananda Das is also welcome. As you are an experienced editor and admin, please, feel free to do what suit best. Thanks. -- Smmmaniruzzaman (talk) 05:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Croatian presidential candidates, 1997

Category:Croatian presidential candidates, 1997 - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Very limited category per WP:SMALLCAT, only two members at the moment. GregorB (talk) 15:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note Category:Croatian presidential candidates created a and populated, but not with the contents of subcats. There are some minor issues with the overall categorisation of the parent-parent - ie are presidential candidates subcats of "president of foo" or vice versa? or should an entire category be created to contain both as per Category:Presidency of the United States ? - there's some minor work here needed overall.
Also despite its tiny size (probably should be expanded by 1 to include the winner) - I can't help noting the utility of this category - which is actually far greater than the lump together parent category - ie the proposed mergeto parent Category:Croatian presidential candidates doesn't seem that useful to help find things because it lacks dates. (On the other hand I could just read the relavent articles listed in Category:Presidential_elections_in_Croatia..
one of two options : either keep, and assume further potentially useful cat. work will be done. or delete and delete everything in Category:Croatian presidential candidates, but keep Category:Presidential elections in Croatia - I'm basing this on my expectation of what categories actually end up being useful, rather than any rules-conforming or completeness arguments..Mddkpp (talk) 21:00, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
@ Mddkpp: "are presidential candidates subcats of "president of foo" or vice versa?"
Answer is vice-versa. All Presidents were once candidates, but not all candidates became president. For example, see Category:Irish presidential candidates and is subcat Category:Presidents of Ireland. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Campaniles

Propose merging Category:Campaniles to Category:Bell towers
Nominator's rationale: Merge. As far as I can tell these two terms are synonymous. (If not can someone modify the main article Campaniles so that the meaning is clear - currently it says The term applies to bell towers which are either part of a larger building .. or free-standing - that covers everything ?)Mddkpp (talk) 14:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
aside - new subcat? A quick check shows that the Category:Campaniles hasn't been used exclusively for free standing bell towers - however if people think "Free standing bell towers" (or similar) is a valid cat, then agree here, and I will try make that..Mddkpp (talk) 16:04, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Further aside. A while ago while going through building categories I noticed that Category:Bell towers and Category:Clock towers were added based on a tower in a building with a bell and/or clock. In most of these, these features were not defining. So one wonders if some of these entries even belong. For many this could be as useful as Category:Red towers. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:29, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge Category:Bell towers is something of a mess, in that it has a lot of buildings with clock towers or even structures that look something like bell towers, plus a lot of churches with bells in a tower, but by and large the proper membership of the category consists of freestanding bell towers, i.e., campaniles. I don't see a lot of reason to keep the small number of integral towers separate. Mangoe (talk) 00:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sanchez family

Category:Sanchez family - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT, unlikely to be expanded further Secret account 06:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Defense wings of the United States Air Force

Propose merging Category:Defense wings of the United States Air Force into Category:Air defense wings of the United States Air Force
Nominator's rationale There are only ten wings that could possibly be included in this Category. Two are currently listed in the category. All USAF Defense Wings in existence in September 1954 were renamed Air Defense Wings, (six of the ten wings). The potential universe of Air Defense Wings is 65 (with 19 currently categorized). There is no substantive difference in the type of unit. If needed Category:Defense wings of the United States Air Force could be retained as a redirect page to Category:Air defense wings of the United States Air Force. --Lineagegeek (talk) 04:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MILHIST notified. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Objectivism

Category:Naturalism

Category:S2 Games media

Category:S2 Games media - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. A sub-category, which has been in existence since 2006, with a single file pertaining to it. This video game developer has not the prominence or notability to necessitate having a category for media images, let alone one that only pertains to its company logo. Therefore, it is not sensible that this sub-category is deleted. DarthBotto talkcont 23:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]