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January 31[edit]

Tampa Bay Rowdies[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: merge all. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:08, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: per WP:OVERCAT. The Tampa Bay team that played in the AISA and ASL/APSL were all from the same franchise from 1975–1993 and the current Tampa Bay Rowdies team that plays in the new NASL began as FC Tampa Bay before being renamed to Tampa Bay Rowdies in 2012. – Michael (talk) 22:55, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge -- It is presumably all one team. We treat alumni of merged universities and colleges as alumni of the successor, despite the anacrhonism involved. I do not see why the same principle should not apply to sporting teams. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge these are two different teams, not 4.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Works by Peter Carey[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:10, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Only contains one sub-cat Category:Books by Peter Carey‎ which is adequately categorised without this. – Fayenatic London 22:40, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Pittsburgh Riverhounds[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge all. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:34, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Another clear cut example of WP:OVERCAT. – Michael (talk) 22:32, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Works by Ovid[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:11, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to Category:Ovid and Category:Classical Latin literature. Only contains 1 sub-cat Category:Poetry by Ovid which is in Poetry by writer; there is no need for this otherwise empty level in "Works by writer". – Fayenatic London 22:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, though for the sake of encyclopedic pedantry I feel compelled to point out one thing. All of Ovid's extant work is in the form of poems. However, he did write one play, Medea, which is lost but which has generated enough commentary (regarding the ancient testimonia, scholarly conjecture about his treatment based on what he says about Medea elsewhere, what his sources would've been, whether Seneca drew on it, what the circumstances of its performance would've been in Augustan Rome) to support a little article. I offer this only as a possible reason (excruciating correctness) for why such a category would've been created in the first place. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Charleston Battery (USL A-League) players[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Merge. per WP:OVERCAT. – Michael (talk) 22:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge subcategorizing soccer teams by every league they have been in will just create a mess.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:39, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge - it's the same team, no need for a category for every league played in! GiantSnowman 10:59, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mongol Muslims[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Mongol Empire Muslims. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:39, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Mongol people are a large group bound together by speaking Mongolic languages, whereas this category is about citizens of the contemporary republic of Mongolia, irrespective of ancestry. —Justin (koavf)TCM 22:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mongol Christians[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Mongol Empire Christians. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:39, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Mongol people are a large group bound together by speaking Mongolic languages, whereas this category is about citizens of the contemporary republic of Mongolia, irrespective of ancestry. —Justin (koavf)TCM 22:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs by Japanese idols[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:J-pop songs. If there's something that doesn't belong there, it can be removed.--Mike Selinker (talk) 05:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Trivial association —Justin (koavf)TCM 21:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Delta Upsilon UWO alumni[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:36, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Merge. It was years ago now that we deleted all the categories that categorized people by university or college fraternity/sorority. This is another one that has popped up since. It can simply be merged with the appropriate alumni category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:20, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. We categorize people by the nstituion they were educated at, not by belong to a specific club there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:57, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Dutch and French Governors of Mauritius[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: reverse merge.--Mike Selinker (talk) 06:55, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I recently create two articles Opperhoofd of Mauritius and Governor of Isle de France and also create a category for each of them, later i found that these categories already existed on the same topic but with different name. I think we should rather keep the new one to match the article name.Kingroyos (talk) 19:50, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Works by filmmakers[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename 1, and merge 2 per nominator. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:07, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Rename. We use the singular for the "by" parameter. As for the sub-cats for screenplays, the person was working in the capacity of a writer rather than actor/director when writing the screenplay, so it is not appropriate to separate out these categories. It might be interesting to listify one as "Screenplays by writers better known as actors" or "...also known as actors", but crossovers between acting, writing & directing are not unusual and I am not sure how valuable such a list would be. – Fayenatic London 09:27, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming to Category:Works by filmmaker per naming conventions. For the other two, I have to agree that the fact that a particular film's screenwriter happens to also have been an actor or a director does not constitute a defining characteristic of the film. Listification maybe (though I'd suggest that even that would be excessively trivial), but unequivocally WP:OCAT by non-defining characteristic as a category. Delete both of those. Bearcat (talk) 19:32, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support There are enough films with a lead actor who was als writer and director (God's Army and Life is Beautiful come to mind and I am sure there are others), that the two screenplays by categories do not work. As it is I can see no way to avoid putting Life is Beautiful in both categories, except that maybe it makes no sense to put a film in a screenplay category when the screenplay was written by the person who directed the film.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I came across the CfD quite by accident, and I agree on all three points. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:35, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I created the first category, only to realize a few days later that I made a typo mistake. Regarding the other categories, I also agreed that they are not useful. Andreasm just talk to me 05:15, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Tubing[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Tubing (material). Everyone wants some change, though there is disagreement on which is best. So I picked one.--Mike Selinker (talk) 05:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The main article is Tube (fluid conveyance), but "Tubing" is a better category name than "Tubes". However, Tubing is ambiguous; most notably, there is Tubing (recreation). Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:17, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Spike TV network shows[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: To match parent article and category Spike (TV channel). Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 06:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Governors of Mauritius[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy close. I am closing both of these discussions together, because the same issues apply to both. In each case, an existing category was emptied out of process by the editor who made these nominations to delete the pre-existing categories. Whatever any editors views on the merits or demerits of a category name, a renaming should take place only if a consensus has been established at CFD ... but these two nominations simply seek the rubber-stamping of a renaming which has already been implemented.
I will revert the edits by which the two nominated categories were emptied, to restore the status quo ante. If the nominator (or any other editor) wants to pursue this renaming, it should be done in the normal way: by making a proposal at CFD to rename the existing category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Dutch Governors of Mauritius[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Same category exist Category:Opperhoofds of Mauritius‎ Kingroyos (talk) 20:49, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Category:French Governors of Mauritius[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Same category already exist Category:Governors of Isle de France Kingroyos (talk) 18:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment You created the destination category today [2], so the contents were moved out of process. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 02:26, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose this is overly ambiguous. Île-de-France has an alternate spelling of "Isle de France" in English, and a former French spelling of "Isle de France".
    • Comment the destination category "Governors of Isle de France" should be deleted as highly ambiguous. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 02:26, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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