Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 July 14

July 14

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Category:People doing/with PhDs

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The result of the discussion was: Already empty thus nothing to rename or merge so just delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:31, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:People doing/with PhDs to Category:Wikipedians with PhD degrees
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Virtually the same thing. I don't think we need a separate Wikipedians category for those working on but not yet completed a PhD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:05, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs by Starsmith

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The result of the discussion was: Rename, then purge any not actually produced by. Create a separate written by category if needs be. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:30, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Songs by Starsmith to Category:Songs produced by Starsmith
Nominator's rationale: Rename As far as I understand, the structure of the category tree dealing with songs distinguishes between songs by artist, songs by author and songs by producer. This category claims to merge the last two which is a bad idea but this is immaterial in this case since all songs currently listed here are songs produced by Starsmith. Pichpich (talk) 21:14, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Recheck the articles. He has written some of them. I Help, When I Can. [12] 21:42, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I created it to include both written and produced, but I can see what you guys are getting at. I Help, When I Can. [12] 00:48, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Soul Whirling Somewhere albums

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:59, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Soul Whirling Somewhere albums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Redlink artist, sole album in this category is tagged {{db-album}}. If/when that is deleted, then this is speedy-able. —Justin (koavf)TCM21:09, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs written by Lennon/McCartney

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy rename C2D. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:02, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Songs written by Lennon/McCartney to Category:Songs written by Lennon–McCartney
Nominator's rationale: Per main article (moved a couple of months ago by someone other than me) and WP:SLASH. —Justin (koavf)TCM19:53, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sigmund Freud scholars

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Sigmund Freud scholars (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This latest category from User:Stefanomione groups four individuals whose bio articles mention using or popularizing Freudian concepts in one manner or another, but none are truly defined as scholars of Freud, it seems to me. And Freudians are already well categorized in Category:Freudians. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:40, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scout Releases albums

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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nominator. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Scout Releases albums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: redlink record label —Justin (koavf)TCM18:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mild oppose - created a stub. Rich Farmbrough, 22:09, 14 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]

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Category:Media in media

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The result of the discussion was: Merge in & about the to Category:Media about media. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:48, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Media in media (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This seems to me to be one example where User:Stefanomione's zeal for new category branches leads us astray. The thesis for this branch seems to me that if media A is "in" media B, it's a defining characteristic. But media that is "about" media, such as the parents Category:Media about the media and the higher-level Category:Media about media, also by necessity have media "in" them, surely? Plus, we also have Category:Metafiction and its sub-cat Category:Metafictional techniques. I'm just not seeing the need for this oddly phrased off-shoot. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:41, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Theatrical media

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:48, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Theatrical media to Category:Media about theatre
Nominator's rationale: I can't see any meaningful distinction between these two categories. Am I missing something? The target cat seems to me to benefit from using the X of Y naming scheme, but I'd be equally open to a reverse merge to Theatrical media, which is an older and better populated category. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:27, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Lee Perry albums

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy rename C2D. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Lee Perry albums to Category:Lee "Scratch" Perry albums
Nominator's rationale: Per main article —Justin (koavf)TCM18:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Metal oxide-zinc batteries

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:18, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Metal oxide-zinc batteries
Nominator's rationale: A redundant category. Every battery that uses zinc uses some kind of metal oxide as the other electrode. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:50, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question. Do you mean the category itself is redundant to another category or that the category name contains a redundancy? If the former, what category is this one redundant to? Good Ol’factory (talk) 11:36, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per GoF in that this cat does not appear to be redundant to anything, as well as procedural grounds: the category has not been tagged nor has the category creator been informed of this discussion. The former is a must and the latter a courtesy, I suppose, but taken together it's a no-no in my books. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:11, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment categories are not like articles. Informing the creator does not seem as important. I am pretty sure there are a few categories I created just because I found articles in them but they did not yet exist. At least in my experience category creators have less direct insight on them than article creators.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:58, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Podunk

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The result of the discussion was: speedy deleted per G10: "Pages that disparage ... their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose".. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:10, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Podunk (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Category appears to exist to editorialize about the significance of the places included. It does not appear to serve any constructive purpose and should be deleted Monty845 17:46, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jews of Roman Alexandria

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Jews of Roman Alexandria to Category:Ancient Roman Alexandrian Jews
Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Ancient Romans. Chesdovi (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Roman-era Alexandrians

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Roman-era Alexandrians to Category:Ancient Roman Alexandrians
Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Ancient Romans. Chesdovi (talk) 17:36, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Roman era Jews

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:20, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Roman era Jews to Category:Ancient Roman Jews
Nominator's rationale: Consistent with other Category:Ancient Romans. Chesdovi (talk) 17:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
But a different meaning, presumably the existing category means something like Category:Jews of the Roman Empire who may well not have been (indeed were almost certainly not) Ancient Romans. Rich Farmbrough, 22:08, 14 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]
I had quite a lot of trouble determining who belongs where. It seems that the "Ancient Roman Empire" cat is split between the later "Roman Empire" cat but all Roman People are listed under "ARE". It is clear that these Jews are from the later empire, and am considering spliting them of under a new cat "Jews and Judiams in the Roman Empire". Thoughts? Chesdovi (talk) 22:24, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Ancient Jewish Roman history

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:21, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Ancient Jewish Roman history to Category:Jews and Judaism in the Roman Empire
Nominator's rationale: The new name will enable us to better categorise the emplire under countries, while still allowing for it as a sub of Ancient Jewish history. Chesdovi (talk) 16:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename not exactly per nom, though I don't see how "The new name will enable us to better categorise the emplire under countries" at all. Note that there are several centuries of Roman history that are not the "Roman Empire". Other options are possible, and probably better, eg: Jewish history in the Ancient Roman period etc. Johnbod (talk) 22:07, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think all Jewish history dates from the RE period; any older stuff cn be under Ancient Roman Hstory. Chesdovi (talk) 18:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Torah events

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 15:19, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Torah events (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This appears to be a completely miscellaneous category with no real value or definition as to what should be in it. What is an 'event'? Why is Miriam listed as being an event? In what way is Aaron's rod an event? If the Tower of Babel counts as an event, how come Noah's Ark doesn't? This category could potentially have every single Old-Testament-related article in it, and it simply doesn't seem remotely helpful to me. It should be deleted. ╟─TreasuryTagNot-content─╢ 10:05, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Indian astrology

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The result of the discussion was: Rename per main article. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:12, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Indian astrology to Category:Hindu astrology
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Per main article in category, Hindu astrology. Additionally, the word "Indian" is ambiguous, as it also refers to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:16, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Another problem with "Indian" is it could refer to astrology done by Muslims using Muslim astrological precepts who happened to live in India. On the other hand, I would assume that Hindu astrology can include people who accept Hinduism as the central part of their astrology working ouside of India, such as the 20% of Bangladesh's population that is Hindu or astrologesrs of the medieval Hindu kingdoms in what is now Indonesia. The Hindu word also allows us to avoid the issue not only of India's disputed modern border but also the fact that India before 1947 refered to a much larger area than it does today.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Indian refers to a country and Hindu to a religion.Shyamsunder (talk) 10:44, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You are correct that Hindu and Indian are not technically synonomous. However in this context "Indian" never refered to a "country" but to a sub-continental region which has never been clearly 100% unified and only under the British Raj came close to unification, but that was with 500 semi-indepedent states. Beyond this the Sanskrit Cosmopolis that lasted from about 300-1300 extended into modern Indenesia and Cambodia and was never in any political way at any point unified with India. The works of Sheldon Pollock are a good starting place on this theory, especially The Language of the God's in the World of Men. For the purposes of this nomination the most important fact is that the article Indian astrology is actually a redirect to the article Hindu Astrology. Hindu is a term developed in the 19th century and in origin means something like "the religion of India". Hind and India are alrernate English expressions that are synonomous.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Indian culture by ...

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:14, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Indian culture by community to Category:Culture of India by community
Propose renaming Category:Indian culture by state to Category:Culture of India by state
Propose renaming Category:Indian society by state to Category:Society of India by state
Propose renaming Category:Indian society by community to Category:Society of India by community
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The word "Indian" is ambiguous, as it also refers to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:13, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
So? This list shows that there are lots of other English speakers who should be considered. Ephebi (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Tours

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Tours, France but revisit if a better form can be found. There's a pressing need for disambiguation and no support for the current title but this one is very tricky because several diggerent naming conventions intersect and both the main article Tours and Category:Cities in France offer little help. However I note Brest is at "Brest, France" and that seems the only other case in metropolitan France so that predent helps break the tie. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:24, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Tours to Category:Tours (city)
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Very much in need of disambiguation. (I was searching for a category for WP pages describing professional sports tours.) Mayumashu (talk) 06:41, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Advertising-free websites

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:41, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Advertising-free websites (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Is this a defining feature of a web site--lacking something? —Justin (koavf)TCM03:20, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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