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August 23

Delete, see below. -- ProveIt (talk) 23:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, or else create Category:Actors by continent. -- ProveIt (talk) 23:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, overenthusiastic categorization. Plus, they left out the meatball chef. -- ProveIt (talk) 22:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fields Medal

Category:Fields Medal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Abel Prize

Category:Abel Prize (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)


Redirect to Category:Government of the District of Columbia. See discussions of May 17th and August 9th. -- ProveIt (talk) 21:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hong Kong-related computer software into Category:Science and technology in Hong Kong

Category:Wikipedian Star Wars edits Organization

Category:Wikipedian Star Wars edits Organization (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:American revolutionaries

Category:American revolutionaries (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Do you honestly think that due to the fact that they were all americans and all radicals that Nat Turner, Eugene V. Debs, Benedict Arnold and Benjamin Franklin belong in this lump category? That is a flimsy argument. Desertsky85451 22:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Choalbaton solid and well made argument. There is no basis for singling out this category. You should either nominate all national categories of revolutionaries or none (and I'm pretty certain you would be wasting your time nominating all of them). Osomec 09:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
By your awesome logic, when I have got a spare moment, I think I'm going to go and create a category for "American sports people", and add folks ranging from Jessie Owens to Hines Ward and Nancy Kerrigan. Then I'll go and do the same for sports figures from every country!!! Thanks for the suggestion, Osomec! I'm always looking for ways to improve wikipedia Desertsky85451 16:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
See Category:American sportspeople and category:Sportspeople by nationality and try not to be such a smart alec when you don't have the facts. Nathan Mercer 10:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, or create Category:Academy Awards winners by ethnicity. -- ProveIt (talk) 18:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hapas

Category:Hapas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Mestizo

Category:Mestizo to Category:Mestizos

Rename to Rave Master characters, to match Rave Master. -- ProveIt (talk) 17:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

French Open

Category:French Opens by year (tennis) to Category:French Open events by year
Category:French Opens to Category:French Opens by year

Category:French presidential election candidate, 2007

Category:French presidential election candidate, 2007 to Category:Candidates for the French presidential election, 2007

Verify and convert to article. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:47, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, distribute between Category:Bug Pokémon, Category:Fictional arthropods, Category:Fictional insects. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Category:Sebastian Faulks novels, convention of Category:Novels by author. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Category:User 1337. -- ProveIt (talk) 15:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just making it briefer.--Mike Selinker 14:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Only two users have selected into this category. I don't much like what it says about others, sort of like category:User intelligent.--Mike Selinker 14:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Category:Belizean music. -- ProveIt (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete since Awesum is subjective. -- ProveIt (talk) 14:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most Happy Days characters do not have pages, so this category seems useless and should be deleted. - Triviaa 17:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Category:Mead. -- ProveIt (talk) 13:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Conspiracy theorists

Category:Conspiracy theorists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Please compare:

Advancing conspiracy theories is not a profession, and (at leat in itself) not a crime. It may even be a rather peripheral aspect of a person.

Pjacobi 11:39, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete Pjacobi 11:39, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as it will lead to POV inclusions --BlackJack | talk page 14:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete. Used predominantly as "commentary by categorization" (perhaps to do an end-run around NPOV and WP:V rules). Also, this category is in stark conflict with the recently tightened policy in WP:LIVING (for those categorized persons currently living, which looks like most of them right now). LotLE×talk 16:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Baseball,Baby! ballsstrikes 16:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, with updated category description - I took the liberty of expanding the category definition to hopefully remove most or all subjectivity within this category. Specifically, to be included in Category:Conspiracy theorists an article must describe a person who actively defends one of the Conspiracy theories listed in Category:Conspiracy theories. In other words, for every specific conspiracy theory article listed under that category on Wikipedia, a person who verifiably actively defends that theory is defined as a conspiracy theorist for purposes of category inclusion. That should make it straightforward to objectively determine whether or not someone belongs in the category; just cross-check the Conspiracy theories category against beliefs mentioned in the article. Any thoughts? Dugwiki 21:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Follow-up comment - One thing the above suggestion will mean is that we should also make a pass through the articles in the category to remove people who don't fall under the narrower definition. Some of the articles may be about people who espouse fairly esoteric or unique theories that aren't notable enough for an article, or who are just generally paranoid. Those people's articles should be removed under the new narrow definition. Dugwiki 21:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Hi Dugwiki! While your efforts try and perhaps would be able to achieve objectivity, they don't address the the "Is this a good job for a category?" problem. In theory you can transform every fact in an article into a category assignment but is that a good idea? Inmy not so humble opinion, categories or for forming article hierarchies, giving some organisation for out 1.3M articles, and as a navigation tool. Not for experiments in knowledge representation. In addition there is still a WP:BLP problem with your approachm, which I can explain if requested. --Pjacobi 06:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • Let me answer the first concern about utility by saying that yes, I think in this case it would be a useful subcategory of Conspiracy theories. It is functionally very similar to the reason you have Category:Physicists as a subcategory of Category:Physics. Namely, it allows you to group articles by the type of object being described (eg. people versus places versus physical objects versus ideas). So if someone wanted to look up a person who studies physics, they can go to the people-related subcategory of Physics. In the same manner, if you wanted to find someone who studies conspiracy theories, you can go to the people-related subcategory of Conspiracy theories. Therefore from an organizational standpoint it is consistent with similar categories and generally a pretty navigational tool.
        • Now it is possible to argue that the parent category of Conspiracy theories is biased. But since I think that argument already took place and the consensus was apparently to keep the category, I am working under the assumption that Category:Conspiracy theories remains a valid, accepted Wiki category. So with that assumption in mind, it is fairly simple to divide out the articles about people who study those theories without introducing further bias into the result. If the parent category were ever deleted, then obviously the theorist subcategory likewise should be deleted too.
        • Hope that clears up my reasoning a bit, but if you think I'm overlooking something please feel free to post it here. Dugwiki 17:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete This is too open to abuse. It is not enough to hope that it won't be abused when it is a near certainty that it will be. Wikipedia needs to protect itself from its inherent weaknesses, moreso than a professionally edited encyclopedia. Osomec 09:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per previous arguments. Nathan Mercer 10:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- very useful category to keep track of what people make a living from these kinds of theories. Morton devonshire 20:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, it's an informative category, and a well-defined term used by academics and journalists. Some people's only reason for inclusion in Wikipedia is their consiracy theory. There's no reason to not to say so. Tom Harrison Talk 21:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I stand beoynd my argument from the last CfD. Pavel Vozenilek 21:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Let's not mince words here...some folks are what they are.--MONGO 22:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete violates WP:LIVING. There are conpiracy theoris, but no conspiracy thesorists, just as there is pseudosciens, but no pseudoscientists. --Striver 18:41, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete per Striver. Dionyseus 06:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Obviously some people are conspiracy theorists, they make a living talking about conspiracy theories. Some just are known for being conspiracy theorists. If you are known for frequently, theorizing of conspiracies ... your a conspiracy theorist. --zero faults |sockpuppets| 12:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, conspiracy theories exist and some peoples' main notability is being a conspiracy theorist. Informative category. Wikipedia is not censored to protect readers who get offended when a spade is called a spade. Weregerbil 09:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Agree with POV inclusions concerns and category in conflict with policy in WP:LIVING. Those who question the Bush Admin or other authority on wikipedia are automatically shackled with this term as part of an effort to deride them. Overall, it decreases the validity of wikipedia since it increases obvious bias. bov 00:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Seems its a term or so says CNN [1] [2] I am sure you can find this tag plenty of places, some of the people on this list do lecture on their conspiracy theories and make money off books and papers they have published regarding them as well. --zero faults |sockpuppets| 12:42, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Transportation games

Category:Transportation games to Category:Transportation infrastructure computer games

Category:Unreleased films

Category:Unreleased films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Ancient historians

Category:Atlanta rap artists

Category:Atlanta rap artists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Kentucky colonels

Category:Kentucky colonels (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I can't figure out what this category is, exactly. But a category of people named Kentucky colonel (an honorary designation) would probably be acceptable. --W.marsh 23:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I looked at all of the articles and there is no mention of Kentucky colonels that I could find in the articles. So without any idea what this category is for, I'd vote delete. It appears to be a category of random entries now. There is a group called THE HONORABLE ORDER OF KENTUCKY COLONELS, if these individuals are members of this group, then I still lean delete since we would need a way to verify membership and would membership be notable? Maybe. Vegaswikian 05:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. It is an honor bestowed by the governor of Kentucky, and the KY SoS even mentions and links to the Honorable Order, leading me to believe that the Order's website is authoritative with respect to membership. -choster 21:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • As I read it, they are appointed fund raisers and ambasadors for Kentucky. So I'm not sure that 2,300 appointments, I think I saw that number somewhere, by the governor of Kentucky is that notable. They also have a role at the Kentucky Derby. And the fact that the membership list is not apparenly public raises the issue of WP:V. Vegaswikian 06:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies of Turkey

Wikipedians by organization

Category:A.C. Siena

(AHL) team categories

Category:Ellen (TV series) guest stars

Category:Australian orchids

Category:Luxembourgian duchesses