Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 6
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Category:Male underwear models
Category:Gay-related television episodes
- 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)
- Keep but if not then Double upmerge MaybeMaybeMaybe (talk) 06:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- If you're not prepared to explain your reasoning to keep a category that you created, the closing admin is likely to look upon it as WP:JUSTAVOTE. BencherliteTalk 08:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- 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. BencherliteTalk 08:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- Delete I do not see a reason to categorize specific episodes in this manner.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:55, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Category:Central Districts cricketers
- Propose renaming Category:Central Districts cricketers to Category:Central Districts (team) cricketers
- 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 מישהו Od Mishehu 11:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Rename either to Category:Central Districts cricket team players or Category:Central Districts Stags cricketers. The main article has "Central Districts Stags" and the category implies that that is the main article, but it is a redirect to Central Districts cricket team. I think the real solution may be to rename the article to Stags over the redirect and category to match. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Category:Photojournalists by country
Category:Sportspeople of multiple sports
- Propose deleting Category:Sportspeople of multiple sports - Template:Lc1
- Propose deleting Category:Sportspeople of multiple sports - Template:Lc1
- 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 מישהו Od Mishehu 09:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- 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. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:55, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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.
- Lists of multi-sport players'. We have at least 6 of those, such as List of Australian rules footballers and cricketers and List of New Zealand double-international sportspeople. Those lists should be in some common category.
- 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.
- I have a lot of sympathy with the basic proposition behind the nomination, but it needs a lot more consideration. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:00, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
- Delete/rescope to remove BHG's #1 - Players will already need to have (usually several) cateogries for each individual sport, this category is not adding any information to their article nor are those it links together necessarily similar. A Category:Lists of multi-sport players or similar could hold #2. That leaves #3, the subcategories. I would argue that Category:England international footballers who also played Test cricket should be listified, as could any notable or common populator of the main cat. Category:Gaelic games players by sport is sufficient parent for the rather vaguely named Category:Dual players, and Category:Footballers who switched code is already a parent cat linking all the appropriate categories. --Qetuth (talk) 09:41, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment: Category:Dual players is not "rather vaguely named" - it matches its parent article and is easily enough understood if a person were to check its content. Though I realise the point is irrelevant to this discussion, i.e. to delete or not delete Category:Sportspeople of multiple sports, which is obviously of much wider scope. --86.40.107.9 (talk) 01:35, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
- 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)
Category:Jurist stubs
Category:American musicians of Swedish descent
Category:Transgender-related television episodes
Category:Same-sex marriage television episodes
- Propose deleting Category:Same-sex marriage television episodes - Template:Lc1
- Propose deleting Category:Same-sex marriage television episodes - Template:Lc1
- 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)
- Delete as per nom, or upmerge to Category:LGBT-related television episodes, though I find that to be a rather subjective category. Nymf hideliho! 11:55, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Keep or Double upmerge to both the parent categories so to same sex marriage in television cat as well.MaybeMaybeMaybe (talk) 21:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- If you're not prepared to explain your reasoning to keep a category that you created, the closing admin is likely to look upon it as WP:JUSTAVOTE. BencherliteTalk 08:18, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- 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. BencherliteTalk 08:18, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- Delete the overlap of television espisode and marriage type is not an established way of categorizing.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- Finally, one not "related", but alas not notable intersection, either" Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:08, 13 November 2012 (UTC)