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January 24

Category:Military equipment of the Falklands War

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:19, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:: Categorizing a type of weapon by a war in which it's been used is against WP:DEFINING and WP:OC#PERFORM. See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_December_31#Category:Falklands_War_weapons and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_January_7#Category:Falklands_War_aircraft. Note: The 2 categories containing articles about individual ships are not included in this nom. DexDor (talk) 23:53, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Military equipment of the Iran–Iraq War

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Categorizing a weapon type by a war in which it's been used is against WP:DEFINING and WP:OC#PERFORM. See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_December_31#Category:Falklands_War_weapons. DexDor (talk) 23:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Elementary mathematics

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The result of the discussion was: keep Category:Elementary algebra and Category:Elementary geometry, no consensus on the others. – Fayenatic London 19:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This categorization fails WP:DEFINING (for example the Integer article should not be under Category:Education), is not a useful way to categorise things (for example Category:Trigonometry includes articles about aspects of trigonometry that are unlikely to be taught in schools). The contents of a mathcs curriculum will vary from year to year and from country to country. If someone wants to create a list of mathematics topics taught in schools (in a particular country/period) then that would be fine - as long as it's referenced of course. Apart from the Elementary mathematics article there should be no need to upmerge as it's unlikely that any/many of these articles are not already in more appropriate places under Category:Mathematics. We don't (AFAIK) have any other similar categories for other subjects (Category:Introductory physics was deleted a while back). DexDor (talk) 23:23, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've withdrawn Category:Elementary special functions from the nom as result of discussions below. DexDor (talk) 22:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose more detailed vote below The second article I checked, Semicircle had only Category:Elementary geometry. I agree 'elementary' is not the clearest name, but either deleting or upmerging leaves a categorisation basically useless to readers, with articles like Addition having their only category one which contains things like Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket. This is one example of many where articles belong in elementary algebra/arithmetic (or some similar category) and also somewhere in the abstract algebra tree, when the majority of readers who might be interested in the article know nothing of abstract algebra. It is possible that the geometry category could be merged, with some work on properly categorising exceptions, into Category:Euclidean geometry, but overall these categories serve a purpose which has no replacement offered. --Qetuth (talk) 00:20, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, Category:Elementary special functions is a completely different beast to the others. It is well defined, not based on educational levels, and should not be part of this nomination, nor I believe a subcategory of Category:Elementary mathematics, although I can't quite pick where it should go instead without more thought. --Qetuth (talk) 00:26, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Which probably goes to show we should get rid of this whole tree.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:43, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Upmerge to the various mathmatics parents articles. This is a misguided way to categorize these topics. Math curriculum will varry, especially on the secondary level. I find the well reasoned arguments for why this is bad categorizing very well explained.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Revised vote after examining contents in more detail:
No opposition to upmerging Category:Elementary arithmetic or Category:Elementary number theory to their non-elementary counterparts. Also check what articles in the latter would need to be readded to the Category:Number theory tree.
Strongly oppose doing anything with Category:Elementary special functions besides removing it from Category:Elementary mathematics, as this is a completely different use of the word 'elementary' and irrelevant to this discussion.
Oppose a simple upmerge or deletion of Category:Elementary algebra or Category:Elementary geometry, but agree that a rename/resort might be a good idea. The problem with these is that there is a very big difference between the contents of these categories and their non-elementary parents. What schools call 'algebra', and what mathematicians call 'algebra', are in practice different topics, although there are links between them, so merging these would be categorisation by shared name. This is not so much a matter of WP separating things out because they are on a school curriculum, as both WP and schools separating things out because they are of a different nature, and WP then linking the school curriculum to show a more objective definition.
Selectively upmerge the contents of Category:Elementary mathematics to Category:Mathematics, Category:History of mathematics and Category:Elementary algebra. Currently Category:Mathematics is kept virtually empty, there is no reason it could not hold most of these basic concepts. --Qetuth (talk) 10:11, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose upmerging elementary algebra and geometry to their parent categories (because there is a huge difference between what "algebra" and "geometry" mean to a school student and to a professional mathematician, and these category differences largely reflect that distinction). Also oppose upmerging elementary mathematics to mathematics for a different reason: I think the main mathematics category should be reserved for major branches of mathematics (i.e. the few articles there now should be diffused to lower categories), and the articles now in elementary mathematics just don't belong at that level of prominence within the mathematics hierarchy. And of course oppose any change to elementary special functions: that's a different usage of the word "elementary", a term of art for a very specific topic, and is almost as far off-topic for this CfD as Category:Elementary schools in the United States would have been. I would support removing the elementary special functions category from being a child of the elementary mathematics category, though, because that seems to reflect the same confusion rather than being a natural subcategory relation. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:27, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all proposed remedies. The purpose of categories is to provide readers with a useful way to navigate between pages on related topics that share a defining characteristic. It seems clear to me that "Elementary geometry" and "Elementary algebra" are such useful navigation aids. I don't buy the argument that "elementary" is not a defining characteristic, in the sense that what people learn in school called "algebra" is a different subject from what mathematicians call "algebra", and there should be separate categories for these different notions. Readers will want to navigate related pages that include things like addition and multiplication, but exclude things like the Fundamental theorem of Galois theory. So it seems to me that these categories serve a clear purpose. I don't agree with an upmerge of Category:Elementary mathematics, basically for the same reasons articulated by David Eppstein, but that category could use some trimming and diffusing into subcategories. Sławomir Biały (talk) 22:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose merger or deletion per David Eppstein and Sławomir Biały. Nominator argues that the categories are not useful. They may not be useful to him, but they are certainly useful to whomever created them. And I personally think that they are more useful than upmerging or simply deleting them. -Nathan Johnson (talk) 05:23, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Philippe Chatrier Award

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The result of the discussion was: listify and delete. I will invite the nominator to consider creating the list. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:12, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Listified by DexDor to Talk:Philippe Chatrier#Award_category, as explained here. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#AWARD. It's also a strange categorization scheme that puts a Japanese multinational below Category:Tennis players. DexDor (talk) 23:03, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's not strange categorisation it's listed ABC. It just so happend that the NEC won the award for services to wheelchair tennis. GAtechnical (talk) 13:43, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So the mysterious award is not limited to tennis players, and accordingly Category:Tennis players is not a parent category. Oculi (talk) 15:34, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete We have a very high bar for awards cats, although it has never been officially set. It is way above having an article on the award, and more something like being the prevmier, at least national if not international award, in a very broad field, with very broad recognition that you can get enough editors to believe is a truly worthwhile thing to have a category and vote keep on. This award does not come anywhere near that. It may or may not be notable enough to have an article, but certainly does not need a category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Listify and then delete, as we invariably do with award categories. Lists do the job better than categories as they can place the people in date order. As we do not have Philippe Chatrier Award, whatever it may be, plain deletion would destroy potentially valuable information. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Eurovision Song Contest venues

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The result of the discussion was: delete. The Bushranger One ping only 01:08, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#AWARD DexDor (talk) 23:01, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OC#VENUES DexDor (talk) 06:27, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:EC 3.5.1

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at CfD 2013 February 9. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:05, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Rename. Ran into this one by accident. EC 3.5.1 seems to be a short hand standardized notation for Triphosphoric Monoester Hydrolases. Since neither the short form or the long form have articles, it is not clear what term should be used. This is a trial nomination. If there is a consensus, then the related categories will need renaming. Comments especially welcome. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Relisting comment: The nom specifically asked for comments so I assume people would be ok with relisting to give the opportunity to have more discussion. It doesn't seem like enough conversation has taken place here to come up with a plan.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, delldot ∇. 19:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:WikiProject Medicine descendant projects

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The result of the discussion was: keep. There was no consensus on whether the wider point of whether or not a WikiProject should have unfettered freedom to organise its own categories, but there a is a consensus that this is an appropriate way to group the large number of descendant categories of this project. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Most descendant projects are simply listed in the category of the parent project. Adding this middleman is overcategorization. RockMagnetist (talk) 18:53, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep there certainly are enough contents that it makes sense from an organizational standpoint, so I don't see how this is overcategorization. Since most projects don't have many descendant projects, I doubt they'd need it, but there aren't just a handful here. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 01:52, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    For an example of a project with a lot of descendants that doesn't seem to need this subcat, see Category:WikiProject Biology. RockMagnetist (talk) 03:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It's really up to WikiProjects to decide how to manage their stuff. OVERCAT is irrelevant, because it's about cats in the main namespace. Also, unlike WP Biology, WPMED has a lot of subcats about WPMED. Mushing 16 other WikiProjects' cats into a list that already contains 9 WPMED-specific cats (for task forces, the collaboration, etc) is just going to make it harder to find the WPMED-specific cats. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:43, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I created the category 4.5 years ago to organize WPMED's categories, which were previously a mess - everything was dumped in Category:WikiProject Medicine. Having all of the descendant categories in a subcategory makes it easy for WPMED to determine which categories are part of WPMED, and which are dumped there for lack of a better categorization. All of the categories directly in Category:WikiProject Medicine WPMED directly looks after and are within its scope. Anything in Category:WikiProject Medicine descendant projects WPMED does not look after. (Excluding Category:WikiProject Hospitals, which the nominator just added to Category:WikiProject Medicine today - which is likely the impetus of this CfD.) All of WPMED's categories are neatly categorized into subcategories. Throwing all of the descendent categories into the main category just adds clutter. And surely 16 categories is enough to warrant a subcategory. Looking at Category:WikiProject Biology, their category structure is a mess. You shouldn't have to look through 23 unrelated categories to find which ones are actually relevant to the project (which is likely what you are looking for in a category named for the WikiProject - not descendent projects). --Scott Alter (talk) 04:47, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I agree that it's up to a WikiProject to manage its own stuff, but the choice of parent category is up to the children, as is the choice of wikiproject parents. I suspect that you made the choice for them when you created this category. Also, I think that 23 subcategories doesn't really qualify as a "mess". RockMagnetist (talk) 17:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • When I made this category, I just moved all of the projects already in Category:WikiProject Medicine to Category:WikiProject Medicine descendant projects. The decision to place the "child" projects within WPMED was made either by the individual project's membership, or (more often) by other people trying to appropriately categorize the eponymous project categories. I would even argue that none of the projects in this category are actually children of WPMED. Because WPMED is the largest and most active of them all, it has subsumed the role of parent without actually being one. If you look at WPMED, the project does not list any children or parent projects - just "Related projects." Almost all of the former descendent projects have been converted to task forces and are now part of the project (see related projects prior to WPMED task forces creation). If the assigning of parentage is entirely necessary, all of these projects should be descendents of WP:Health (which is barely semi-active now, and had been inactive when this category was created) - not WPMED. And when I say "mess", I just mean the clutter of mixing WPMED-related articles and categories with the other projects' categories and pages. Members of one project are not necessarily interested in another, and should not have to go through a mix of content to find what you are looking for...thus leading to my related proposal linked below. --Scott Alter (talk) 22:35, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Scott, at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council#WikProject_category_categorization, you have proposed an intriguing idea that is relevant to this discussion. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:08, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • If my proposal is followed through, this category would end up being not needed. However, that is for a different rationale - unrelated to this CfD. The two issues should be evaluated separately. This discussion will be moot if the proposal is enacted...but this CfD will likely close before the other discussion. --Scott Alter (talk) 22:35, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Influential Kenyans

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The result of the discussion was: delete. WP:SNOW. The Bushranger One ping only 01:19, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not an objective categorisation. PamD 13:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Postal history by country

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The result of the discussion was: keep Category:Postal history of Slovenia, but merge all the others without prejudice to re-creating them if they can be populated with more than one article. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge, without prejudice to re-creation if related articles are found. Currently, these categories each only contain the like-named main article. (Note: parent categories are not uniform as some countries have a sub-cat "History of Foo by topic".) – Fayenatic London 13:11, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, as promised, I've created this article at Museum of Post and Telecommunications (hopefully it will be expanded through time). --Eleassar my talk 13:30, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Harz Mountain geography stubs

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The result of the discussion was: delete category and template. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Unproposed template and category for an area that is not an official administrative region. All of the subcategories here are already subcategorized under the official regions. Propose deleting category and template. All articles tagged with the template should be examined for better placement in the official regions. Dawynn (talk) 12:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Postage by country

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The result of the discussion was: delete. The Bushranger One ping only 01:10, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Not needed; contains only 3 cats, of which 2 are already in the other one (Category:Postal systems by country). There is no need to upmerge to any parent either. – Fayenatic London 12:34, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Six Flags rides

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The result of the discussion was: rename - C2C, matching standard for sort of category as used in others. The Bushranger One ping only 02:30, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category doesn't just contain rides. Astros4477 (Talk) 02:24, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cedar Fair rides

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The result of the discussion was: rename - C2C, matching standard for sort of category as used in others. The Bushranger One ping only 02:30, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category doesn't just contain rides. Astros4477 (Talk) 02:08, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Films about dragons

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The result of the discussion was: keep procedural keep. The only editor to support the nominator's proposal to delete asked "how much about dragons must the film be?", which does not appear to be a fully resolved question. However, since the same editor noted that this question also applies to most "films about Foo" categories, there is no particular reason to single this category out from all the other "films about Foo" categories, or from the huge set of categories under Category:Works by topic.
Since Category:Works by topic is a huge category tree, a group nomination of such categories would be unwieldy. Editors who want to discuss appropriateness of this type of categorisation may want to consider opening a WP:RFC on the subject. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:29, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
PS. I note that in any case, this category had not been tagged to indicate that it was the subject of a deletion discussion, so the result of this discussion cannot be considered to represent a consensus. I have therefore changed the result of this discussion to "procedural keep" ... and will administer a {{minnow}} to the nominator for this oversight. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:34, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good point. Is The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the Horses category, because that film has at least one horse with a specific name, maybe more.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:54, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Fayenatic london. To address Carlossuarez46s concern, 4 different paragraphs in the plot section of the article in question mention a dragon, and the lead links to Dragon (Middle-earth), yet no mention of horses is given at all. To address JPLs question, again no mention of horses (or Dragons) in that article that I can see, but if it were to be added to the Horses category (which I am not suggesting) I think being largely set in Rohan (Middle-earth) would be a stronger argument than the clearly undefining "has a named horse". --Qetuth (talk) 00:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The characteristic is a defining one and should be based on reliable and verifiable sources supporting the description. Borderline cases -- if any exist -- should be addressed on the talk pages of any article in question, and the excuse is never a valid reason to delete a category. Alansohn (talk) 21:33, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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