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February 3[edit]

Category:UK Government logos[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: temporarily merge Category:UK Government logos and Category:UK Government agency and department logos to Category:Logos of the United Kingdom Government. There is no consensus for where these should be categorized, but there is complete agreement that there should be only one category. So as a temporary fix, I chose the one with 86 entries rather than the one with 1 and the other with 0, at least after out-of-process removal. We can now open up this single category for renaming if folks like.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Replaced in use by Category:Logos of the United Kingdom Government. Cloudbound (talk) 23:28, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps we should now choose a title and run with it? Cloudbound (talk) 18:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Sportspeople from[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: administrative close. Users should not use the nomination process to prove a point. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:35, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • RE-name as a representative sample, the following categories
Category:Sportspeople from New York to Category:Sportspeople from New York or where a large part of their sports career may have been in New York
Category:Sportspeople from California to Category:Sportspeople from California or where a large part of their sports career may have been in California
Category:Sportspeople from Thurso to Category:Sportspeople from Thurso or where a large part of their sports career may have been in Thurso
Category:Sportspeople from Paris to Category:Sportspeople from Paris or where a large part of their sports career may have been in Paris
Nominator's rationale I have to be honest and admit that I initialy thought that the scope of such categories was limited to notable sportspeople who were born in the town/city/state/country listed. It seems that this is entirely wrong and I must offer thanks to User:BrownHairedGirl for pointing out the error of my ways. For fear of misrepresenting her line of thought, and because of the sheer simplicity of the language employed, I can do no better than to exactly quote her rationale. I'm sure you will find it as persuasive as I did:

"There is a long-standing consensus at CFD against categorising people by where they were born. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence, "the place of birth is rarely notable". The same guideline notes that People are sometimes categorized by notable residence, in the form People from Foo (not "Natives of Foo"), regardless of ethnicity, heritage, or nationality.
So, let's take the fictional example of Sean Citizen. Sean's parents lived in County Leitrim, which has no general hospital, so he was born in Sligo General Hospital, and he lived in Leitrim until he was 4. He then moved with his family to County Clare, where he went to school in Ennis. Having done well in his Leaving Cert, Sean studied Ology at a university in Dublin, and he got his first job in Cork city, where he lived for 7 years. Aged nearly 30, Sean moved to Dundalk, where he spent the rest of his life. In Dundalk, he realised that his long-standing attempts to get onto a local club's Gaelic Football team were futile, so he took to studying team management. After a few years of managing a local club which he took from no-hope status to the county championship, Sean became manager of the Louth GAA county team. The team's improved standing under his management generated quite a bit of news coverage over the years. Now, which county was Sean from? Leitrim, Sligo, Clare, Dublin, Cork or Louth? Answer: Louth. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence, it is is Sean's only "notable residence".

In my defence, I should say that I have been unable to find a single "Sportpeople from Foo" article that has a scope definition on top, so I can hardly be blamed for my naive error. Nevertheless, following this unanticipated revelation, it became abundantly clear that the current name is woefuly inadequate to the task. While the proposed name is, I feel, a faithful rendering of the consequences of the doctrine expounded above, I must beg that the honour and glory be given to my muse, BrownHairedGirl.
As a consequence of the re-naming, it's only right that I should highlight some likely consequential changes:
Demba Ba - a soccer player of Senegalese parents who was born in France and who is currently in the ManU first team. He is listed in only 1 sportsperson category - Category:Sportspeople from Paris. He will now also be listed in the "Sportspeople....Manchester" category.
Vijay Mehra (cricketer) - cricketer for the UAE who is listed in only 1 sportsperson category - Category:Sportspeople from New York. He will now also be listed in the "Sportspeople....UAE" category.
Thomas Carey (cricketer) - cricketer for Northhampton who is listed in only 1 sportsperson category -Category:Sportspeople from California. He will now also be listed in the "Sportspeople....Northhampton" category.
Tommy McGee (rugby union) - rugby player who played his his entire career in England who is listed in only 1 sportsperson category - Category:Sportspeople from Thurso. He will now also be listed in the "Sportspeople....England" category.

Assuming these proposals meet with approval, I propose to nominate the entire tree structure for similar mass re-namings. Thank you. Laurel Lodged (talk) 22:34, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Burials at Archcathedral Basilica of Sts. Stanisław and Vaclav, Kraków[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:45, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unwieldy name [no Google hits outside WP and its mirrors] to be changed to Wawel Cathedral, which is the title of the cathedral's article. Renata (talk) 20:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Male kings and Category:Female queens[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete per WP:CSD#G1 as bad joke / attention-seeking / WP:POINTy disruption / whatever. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:05, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Created to make a rather bad WP:POINT that anyone who believes that there is a difference between male and female actors are part of "a bunch of gender-specific monkeys". Alansohn (talk) 19:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Of course you're not at all bitter that I passed you in DYKs when you used to try to create as many as possible. Pretty much anybody else here would understand it is sarcastic humour rather than WP:POINT and an admin would silently delete them with a chuckle. It would be different if it was Female actors and Male actors, but if people are insisting on using the old term actress then the old masculine term "actor" still applies and "male actor" is not need to distinguish. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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970s cats[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge all. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:24, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. These categories have only one entry in each of them, so it would be better just to upmerge them to the parent. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:35, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question: are you proposing a quadruple upmerge to each of the four parent categories (Category:YYYY disestablishments / Category:States and territories disestablished in the YYY0s / Category:YYYY in politics / Category:YYYY in international relations) and if not, why not? BencherliteTalk 23:06, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • This has the same problem as the previous nomination in that it takes a category which is part of a series and leaves dozens of similar categories e.g. Category:States and territories by year of disestablishment. If everything in Category:States and territories disestablished in the 10th century and the earlier centuries is nominated for an up-merge to the next level (decades) I could support the proposal. Tim! (talk) 07:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. There is no reason to keep single entry cats, especially when the article is also the only entry in one of the parent cats. This seems a broad enough nomination to work with.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge -- too little potential content. The particular year is probably best recorded by ensuring that the articles also have Category:971, etc. I would not rule out a wider merger to a 10th century category. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Quarters in Istanbul[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus.--Mike Selinker (talk) 09:53, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Doublet of the long established and structured Category:Neighbourhoods of Istanbul. If necessary, we can rename this one as Quarters of Istanbul. Alex2006 (talk) 09:59, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Quarter (semt) and neighbourhood (mahalle) are completely different things. Quarters are non-administrative regions, and they don't have certain borders. Neighbourhoods have certain borders and they are represented bu muhtars. This map shows neighbourhoods of Şişli. You can not see quarters of Şişli such as Osmanbey, Nişantaşı, Pangaltı etc. in this map.--Rapsar (talk) 12:20, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have no idea what is the nuance around "in" or "of". As user Rapsar explains above, the neighbourhoods and quarters of/in Istanbul are not exactly the same thing. The "neighbourhoods" have defined borders; so we should better use (I mean prefer) this concept in WP and not so much the not very accurate "quarter". The quarters are there, known and used by people, but as they do not have fixed borders, sometimes not everybody understands the same area by the name of a quarter. Normally even this should not be a problem but the long history of cities like Istanbul and the presence of many controversial attitudes in WP do not leave me to simply ignore this matter; because we have seen and continue to see that formerly used (now only by some Wikipedians) names of parts of the city, like "Galata" or "Pera" are being objects of POV users to try to present them as current demonyms of Turkish places. After all this, I will only say I have confidence in both user:Alessandro57 and user:Rapsar and would normally agree with what they, or other objective users agree on. --E4024 (talk) 12:49, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I think that I expressed myself not clearly. The difference between a quarter and a neighborhood in Turkey is clear. What I mean is that the category neighbourhoods of Istanbul is presently mainly populated with quarters, and not neighbourhoods. So the right thing to do is move the category (and subcategories) name from Neighbourhoods of Istanbul to Quarters of Istanbul. Alex2006 (talk) 13:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose deletion; although we now have a proposal to rename that should be discussed. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:06, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I think that we have two possible solutions here: either we rename the Category:neighbourhoods of Istanbul and subCats to Category:Quarters of Istanbul (and subcats) and then move the neighbourhoods to a new neighbourhoods cat (with subcats?) or we leave the situation as it is, traversing the existing neighbourhoods subcategories and moving all the quarters in the existing (unstructured) quarters category. This soultion will have the inconvenient of leaving several neighbourhoods subcategories empty (ex: Category:Neighbourhoods of Bakırköy), since at the moment they are populated only with quarters. Alex2006 (talk) 14:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted from CfD 2013 January 16 to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:42, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Nishapur Quarter[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. No prejudice against immediate renomination due to lack of consensus. The Bushranger One ping only 03:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. We should not be categorizing populated places by their former countries' subdivisions. All the articles in this are properly classified in their current countries/subdivisions, etc. If an article were created describing the extent of Nishapur Quarter it would fully explain what its borders were and what places were included, but categorizing like this would lead to a huge mess where many places would have so many categories of not only their former countries, but every incarnation of subdivisions that such country went through. Category:Populated places in Wessex anyone? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:10, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- I do not see that the objection is completely valid. The scope of a former subdivision is of historical interest, but I would prefer to see a category of this nature being a container for the modern subdivisions. To apply the nom's analogy, it would be appropriate to have a category Category:Counties of Wessex, with Devon, Hampshire, Berkshire, etc as members. In that case, the extent of the ancient kingdom can be defined from modern county boundaries. I do not know if this applies to the subject here. Peterkingiron (talk) 10:49, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The first article I came across was an ancient city that no longer exists. It makes sense to put ancient cities under the name of the place when they existed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:08, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted from CfD 2013 January 16 to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:39, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Watersports[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to 'Water sports in' with tree being grown from there. The Bushranger One ping only 03:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging:
or renaming:
Nominator's rationale: These two categories appear to be the only categories which contain the word "watersports". There is no Category:Watersports, and each of these categories has only a single parent.
We do have a generic Category:Water sports which is solely a container for types of water sport, so if kept then these categories should be renamed and added to a new subcat of Category:Water sports ... but do we want to start a hierarchy of Category:Water sports by location? It would mostly be a container category for the individual sports (swimming, sailing, diving etc, per the List of water sports), and I'm not aware of other analogous groupings of sports (such as Category:Ball games by country or Category:Ball games by location) — but pls correct me if I have missed something. The closest parallel I can see is Category:Winter sports by country, which is almost empty.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Polytheliacs[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:52, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining characteristic, WP:OC#TRIVIAL. Nymf talk to me 09:42, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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