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Upmerge there is no parent category of "Models by clothing type", nor equivalent category of lingerie models at Category:Lingerie. List of male underwear models is enough. (NB some of the models are already in national subcategories of "male models" so there may need to be a bit of post-merger checking for duplicate categories.) BencherliteTalk23:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge we have not even accepted a scheme where we seperate out people who model clothing from people who model for artists/photographers, so the models by specific clothing type is even less justified.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:54, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious merge per nom -- There are many models where the adverisers are only interested in one part of the body (e.g. their hand or leg). We do not need to split them accordin g to what they model. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:23, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. Another fragmentary category, splitting up a small set of articles into smaller and smaller sub-categories. There is no evidence that homosexual males were or are treated differently at the episode level than how homosexual women or bisexuals of either sex is treated at the episode level. This fails WP:CATGRS which states that gender must be relevant to the subject. It is not relevant here. Buck Winston (talk) 23:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge per nom (single upmerge only). The splitting of LGBT-television episodes into one (or in some cases, more than one) subcategory of LGBT-ness is overcategorization. So for that reason I would oppose an upmerge to the other parent, Category:Gay (male) television, also created by MaybeMaybeMaybe and seemingly intended purely as a container category for other categories that he is diffusing into the subcomponents of LBGT-ness. BencherliteTalk08:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The current name sounds like it refers to districts which are central (either in location or in importance); we should disambiguate it. עוד מישהוOd Mishehu11:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: I see no reason why being notable in more than one sport is itself any more than the sum of its parts (that is, each sport separately); even if it is, this should be a list and not a category. עוד מישהוOd Mishehu09:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I've never seen the point of this category either. The indivudal sports would be on the relevant bio page, and this doesn't serve any real purpose. Plus the wording is clumsy. LugnutsDick Laurent is dead07:55, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this is not a notable level of categorization. It becomes overcat because we could have people in here for both swimming and water polo, which are not all that different. There are probably some cases where it could become disputed because it would not be clear whether the person was noted for more than one sport, or if their two sports were really the same sport.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for now. First, this yet another nomination which proposes deletion without apparently looking the consequences. There are three different types of content in this category:
Individual players, lot of them. Lumping them all together is silly; a football player who was also a competitive sailboat racer has little in common with a tennis player who also competed in badminton, or a swimmer who also did the long jump.
Sub-categories for specific intersections. So long as we have those categories, they should be in a common parent. None of them are included in this nomination, so deletion will deprive them of a common parent. I am no expert of sport, I do know that those who switched from Gaelic Football to Australian Rules football (see Category:Gaelic footballers who switched code) are a notable topic in Ireland. There may be similar significance for some of the other pairs, such as players who switched between Rugby union and Rugby League.
Delete multiple categories do not work well. A person of French and Portuguese descent is not categorised as "French-Portuguese" but as of French descent and Portuguese descent. We should apply the same rule to those engages in multiple sports. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
REanme per nom. To my mind as an Englishman, a jurist is someone concerned with the theory of law. I suspect that there is a slightly different view in US, so that the target is more NPOV. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:36, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale according to Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality we are told "Dedicated group-subject subcategories, such as Category:LGBT writers or Category:African-American musicians, should be created only where that combination is itself recognized as a distinct and unique cultural topic in its own right. If a substantial and encyclopedic head article (not just a list) cannot be written for such a category, then the category should not be created." This category covers a trivial instersection with no scholarly study of it as such, so it should be deleted per guidelines.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:01, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteUpmerge per nominator and per WP:CATGRS, unless someone has evidence in reliable sources that "American musicians of Swedish descent" are a distinct and unique cultural topic about which we could have an encyclopedic article (not just a list). --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 13:39, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
BHG, you have really confused me. You have shut down and done nothing on similar discussion that went delete because we were not favoring deleting Americans by descent and the specific Americans by occupation. So are you saying we should not categorize people in Category:American people of Swedish descent and Category:American musicians, or is it possible that people say "delete" when they mean upmerge, and that your refusal to interpret previous actions in that manner was a needless push for precision in language that is not reflected in how people actually use it.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:02, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge but note that this opens a big can of worms because of Category:American musicians of European descent. The problem is that the descent categories are bordering on trivia. Beck is "of Swedish descent" because his mother is one quarter Swedish. Jerry Garcia's parents were named Jose Ramon Garcia and Ruth Marie Clifford so something tells me that his Swedish heritage wasn't a big part of his identity. Harry Nilsson is of Swedish heritage because of his father but his father abandoned him when he was three. Darby Crash never met his Swedish father and only learned of his existence in his teens. And so on. This category would only make sense if there was a noticeable Swedish slant to the music of Americans of Swedish descent but our notion of "Swedish descent" is so broad that this is clearly impossible. Actually, I'm sure a few people would cite Jerry Garcia among examples of quintessentially American musicians. Pichpich (talk) 22:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Merge. Small category with little or no growth potential. Very few individual television episodes that deal with transgenderism are independently notable. This category fragments an already small set of articles into ever smaller and smaller categories. Buck Winston (talk) 01:38, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge to Category:LGBT-related television episodes (single upmerge only). The splitting of LGBT-television episodes into one (or in some cases, more than one) subcategory of, or issue related to, LGBT-ness is overcategorization. I am uncertain about the utility of the other parent category, Category:Transgender in television, created by MaybeMaybeMaybe as well. Other people may have better views that help clarify my own. NB All of the subcategories of Category:LGBT-related television episodes, all created by MaybeMaybeMaybe have been nominated for deletion or merger, and it is a pity that he is failing to heed repeated calls to take more care when considering the appropriateness of a new category. BencherliteTalk09:45, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Small category unlikely to expand, also overcategorization based on what is ultimately a trivial thing. Not every aspect of every television series needs to be categorized and all of these new categories invite category clutter and fragmentation of a small set of articles. Buck Winston (talk) 01:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge to Category:LGBT-related television episodes (single upmerge only). The splitting of LGBT-television episodes into one (or in some cases, more than one) subcategory of, or issue related to, LGBT-ness is overcategorization. I am uncertain about the utility of the other parent category, Category:Same-sex marriage in television, created by MaybeMaybeMaybe as well - that too strikes me as overcategorization of TV episodes by issue. If a same-sex marriage category is needed at all, I wonder whether Category:Same-sex marriage in fiction would be better. Other people may have better views that help clarify my own. BencherliteTalk08:18, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Overcategorization. Not every aspect of every episode of television needs a category. The existing list article Lesbian kiss episode serves nicely for anyone seeking information on the subject and includes links to each of the episodes. Buck Winston (talk) 01:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. BrownHairedGirl made a very good point. This categorization is getting silly and tedious. This is trivial and non-defining at best. Nymfhideliho!06:56, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this is an overcategorization of television episode by portrayal of specific interaction. We do not have any schema that supports categorization in this way.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
