Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 February 18
February 18
Category:Carnival of the United States
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- The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Carnival in the United States. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:01, 25 February 2012 (UTC) (Typo fixed. Timrollpickering (talk) 00:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC) )
- Propose renaming Category:Carnival of the United States to Category:Carnivals in the United States
- Nominator's rationale: Rename. Needs to be plural and isn't the norm form here to use 'in' and not 'of'? Vegaswikian (talk) 22:58, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Speedy rename C2A/C2C - The Bushranger One ping only 23:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)- Speedy -- clearly needs plural. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:04, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Comment. I think this is about Carnival (the holiday/celebration), not Traveling carnivals. If that's the case, it should just be Category:Carnival in the United States, similar to Category:Carnival in Colombia. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm, you might be right there. Rename to Category:Carinval in the United States, then. - The Bushranger One ping only 04:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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Someone might want to move this to the correct spelling, currently it is at "carinval", should be carnival. Heiro 20:10, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Relief workers in Noakhali
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- The result of the discussion was: Keep/no rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:02, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Relief workers in Noakhali to Category:To be determined by consensus
- or alternatively, delete
- Nominator's rationale: This is category was uncategorised, so I added it to Category:Massacres in India, since it relates to those who acted as relief workers after the Noakhali genocide. I have several concerns about this category, including:
- I can't find any other categories for relief workers
- If kept, where does this fit in the category tree? I can't find anywhere that seems like a neat fit
- The category includes some highly notable people such as M. K. Gandhi and Dhirendranath Datta. I wonder whether their role in Noakhali was a defining characteristic of such people.
- The article Noakhali genocide has been challenged over alleged lack of neutrality. I am in no position to make a substantive judgement on that, but I wonder about the neutrality of categorising only those on one side of an ethnic conflict. If we are going to keep this, shouldn't it be as part of a categorisation all notable people from that episode?
- I don't have answers to those questions, so I am neutral for now on what to do. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:25, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- The Noticeboard for India-related topics has been notified. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:08, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Keep: Your concerns about the category are answered below.
- Yes, there are no other categories for relief workers. However, we should keep in mind that Noakhali genocide was an such a shocking incident, that political leaders, social workers and women's rights activists from all over British India went to Noakhali for relief and rescue operations. No other ethnic conflict in India attracted so many social workers, who would stay there months after months. Some of the relief workers settled there and spent their entire life. In case of such a unique historical event, I believe it is justified in having a category for the relief workers in Noakhali.
- Most of the relief workers were social workers and women's rights activists. Therefore Category:relief workers in Noakhali may be kept under Category:Indian social workers.
- For people like M. K. Gandhi, Noakhali was an important episode. Please refer to Pyarelal Nayyar's Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase. Mahatma Gandhi, at the age of 77, spent four months in makeshift camp and toured village after village in barefoot to harvest unity and drive out ill feeling between the Muslims and the Hindus. Today, Mahatma is known in Bangladesh mainly for his tour of Noakhali. In Noakhali there is even an ashram in his name. Dhirendranath Datta was the local leader. He was from Comilla town and he visited the affected region first and made provisions of the earliest relief efforts. For others like Nirmal Kumar Basu, Ashoka Gupta, Leela Roy or Nellie Sengupta, the relief efforts in Noakhali constituted a significant part of their career activities. This can be verified from their books. Ashoka Gupta, especially was known for her relief activities in Noakhali.
- It is not about categorising people on one side of the conflict. It is about people who took part in relief operations. It was not that none from the other side took part in relief operations, though they may be few in numbers. Most notable among them was Amtus Salam. Unfortunately there is no WP article on her. Her name should be added to this category as and when there is a WP article about her.
- I hope I have answered your questions. BengaliHindu (talk) 12:19, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose: The Rationale are as follows.
- Noakhali cannot be categorised as an ethnic conflict/riot, it can only be categorised as a well planned one sided communal assault by Muslim League on hapless hindu citizens who were a microscopic minority with active connivance of the Muslim league government. In 1946 this incident was preceded by the Great Calcutta Killings and consequently polarised Hindus and Muslims beyond repair. Hence it is only natural that Muslims well desist from taking part in releif operation for the benefit of riot affected Hindus.
- For MK Gandhi Noakhali was one of the important episodes if not the most important incident. It is to be noted that after Gandhi's visit to Noakhali this incident attracted attention of the press and general masses. Prior to this incident noakhali was cut-off from the outside world by Muslim League ex MLA Goloam Sarwar by cutting telegraph lines etc in order to facilitate murder and rape without hindrance. The incidents of Noakhali got reported in the "statesman" weeks after it occured. Unknown.citizen12 (talk) 15:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Comment -- Many terrible things happened during the India/Pakistan partition. It is almost inevitable that the Muslims of Pakistan and Bangladesh will have have one POV on them and the Hindus of India a different POV. WP seeks a NPOV position. I have not examined all the articles, but wonder if all the relief workers were acting purely from humanitarian (rather than partisan political) motives. I suspect that we need to start by finding a NPOV title for the article, after which it should not be difficult to find a NPOV one for this. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:13, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete performer by performance. We shouldn't categorize relief workers by the various disasters they attend. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Keep per reasoning above. The group is referred to as "relief workers" by the academic literature on the topic, even the satyagrahi is called thus, and it would require original research on our part to rename the group something else. Finding the NPOV in ethnic strife is an insurmountable task for the human race, so I don't think attempting to resolve that issue first will lead to a new name for the category. Pseudofusulina (talk) 05:34, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Book Sense Book of the Year winners
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- The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Indies Choice Book Award winning works. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Book Sense Book of the Year winners to Category:Book Sense Book of the Year winning works or Category:Indies Choice Book Award winning works
- Nominator's rationale: Administrative relisting. This was the one category in a previous discussion that requires further consideration. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:47, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Notes on current -02-16 parent and sibling categoriesBullet points concern all Categories nominated above, in the same order.
Beside the parent categories identified here, two other members of Category:Categories named after awards are named for books.
No doubt other "Categories named after awards" do concern book awards. Some author and book categories that I have identified here may be missing from Category:Writers by award and Category:Books by award. Meanwhile some parent or general categories are members of both. Other sightings:
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- Rename to Category:Indies Choice Book Award. Following up on my thoughts from that nomination: The Book Sense award was renamed the Indies Choice Book Award in 2009. This category contains neither authors nor books, but rather pages on individual years of the awards. So this rename makes the most sense to me. We could also create an authors category and a winning works category, of course.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support Mike Selinker. The precedent on renamed or merged colleges is that the alumuni of the predecessor are treated as alumni of the successor. Applying the principle here, the category should be Indies Choice. However it needs a headnote explaining why the category contains Book sense categories. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete not a major award. WP:OC#AWARD. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Roseens
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- The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Alumni of Institut Le Rosey, due to the other subcats of Category:Alumni by secondary school. If someone wants to nom the whole tree, feel free. - jc37 01:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Roseens to Category:to be determined by consensus
- Nominator's rationale: This category, for alumni of Institut Le Rosey, has the wrong name by all standards. According to the list article it's using almost the French form "Roséens" rather than the English "Roseans", but both of these are truncated as they should be "Anciens Roséens" or Old Roseans". However whichever of these is used it is inaccessible to all but those in the know and a reader friendly form like Category:Alumni of Institut Le Rosey (per Category:Alumni by secondary school in Switzerland) or similar is preferable to any of those. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:Alumni of Institut Le Rosey for clarity and for consistency with other continental European subcats of Category:Alumni by secondary school. "Roseens" is an inhouseWP:JARGON term wjich is no doubt well understood by alumni of that school, but it is utterly meaningless to anyone unfamiliar with the school's subculture. Categories are a navigational device, and using obscure terms to name them destroys that navigational function. Much better to use a plain English descriptive term, and explain the jargon term in the category text and the head article. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:People educated at Institut Le Rosey or Category:Alumni of Institut Le Rosey, with the "People educated at..." form being preferred (but won't hold it up if the second is the consensus). - The Bushranger One ping only 23:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would be fine with the "People educated at" form. That is now the convention for categories in many English-speaking countries, and while it does not currently appear to be used for continental European categories, I would support using that format in this case if it was the start of a wider renaming. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:32, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- When tidying up the general alumni categories I generally went first with the universal non-"Fooians" format used by a country's existing category, then with the majority format, and then when there was nothing to guide I used "Alumni by..." for the parent categories for non-Commonwealth countries like Switzerland. We could easily rename the parent category as well if needs be. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:21, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would be fine with the "People educated at" form. That is now the convention for categories in many English-speaking countries, and while it does not currently appear to be used for continental European categories, I would support using that format in this case if it was the start of a wider renaming. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:32, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Prefer Category:People educated at Institut Le Rosey. This seems to be a high profile Swiss secondary school. Whether it is a secondary school in the ordinary sense or some kind of finishing school is not clear to me. The category clearly needs to survive, but with confusion over whehter it should be Old Roseans or Old Roseens, and the current dislike of the old fooian format (except for the most major British public schools, I think the best solution is "people educated at ...". Peterkingiron (talk) 20:54, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Alternate Rename to Category:Institut Le Rosey alumni. Shorter and matches university cats in Category:Alumni by university or college in Switzerland RevelationDirect (talk) 22:15, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- All the "alumni" cats should probably be renamed to the "People educated at..." format eventually, actually, I think (but it takes time). - The Bushranger One ping only 22:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:People educated at Institut Le Rosey or Category:Alumni of Institut Le Rosey. I too prefer the first though I don't think it matters much. The important thing is to drop the little-used demonym. Pichpich (talk) 23:51, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:NFPA-H=0
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- The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:09, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose deleting:
- Category:NFPA-H=0 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-H=1 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-H=2 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-H=3 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-H=4 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-R=0 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-R=1 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-R=2 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-R=3 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-R=4 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-F=0 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-F=1 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-F=2 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-F=3 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA-F=4 ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Category:NFPA categories ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: I found these categories in the list of uncategorised categories, with no explanation as to what they were about. After a little burrowing I discovered that they apparently relate to fire-hazard ratings of the National Fire Protection Association. They have are populated with chemical substances through a tweak to {{NFPA-chembox}} which was added in these edits by the creator of the categories, who is a new editor.
I was unsure of how to categorise these categories, so I added them all to Category:Safety codes. I'm not sure whether that was the best possible parent, but will notify WikiProject Chemistry and hopefully someone can advise on how to organise them if kept. However, the assignment of a particular chemical to a fire hazard code by one national safety association seems to me to a weak example of a defining characteristic, so I have nominated them for discussion here and look forward to expert input. I will personally remain neutral in the discussion for now, because I don't yet know enough about the topic. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC) - WikiProject Chemistry has been notified. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:59, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete all I was thinking of nominating these categories myself. They are problematic for a number of reasons. First the NFPA classifications are rather coarse and ultimately of limited scientific value since there is no clear dividing line between NFPA-F=2 and NFPA-F=3 for instance. It's also hard to argue that these are defining characteristics especially for low-risk chemicals. I don't think anyone thinks "NFPA-R=2!" when they hear the words ammonium benzoate. Finally, categorizing chemicals according to a classification made by a single organization sets a bad precedent. It would presumably make sense to also add categories for the many many other safety codes systems in the world, leading to serious category clutter problems. Pichpich (talk) 18:39, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe move to Category:No health hazard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kc kennylau (talk • contribs) 23:13, 18 February 2012
- We don't categorise topics by the absence of a particular attribute. We have a Category:Cities in the United States, but no Category:Cities not in the United States; Category:Murderers, but no Category:People are not murderers; Category:Chemical weapons, but no Category:Non-chemical weapons. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe move to Category:No health hazard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kc kennylau (talk • contribs) 23:13, 18 February 2012
- Procedural note I've added Category:NFPA categories to the list. It was created after the debate started but it's designed simply as a container category for the categories already nominated for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pichpich (talk • contribs) 16:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for that addition. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Without a capnote to explain what these categories are, the whole tree is completely meaningless. As I do not understand what they are about, I can hardly pride a meaningful vote -- Delete and start again?. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:41, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- What you're looking for is the WP:TNT, I think. ;) - The Bushranger One ping only 22:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. In addition to being wholly unintelligible without research or previous knowledge, the scheme seems kind of overly centric to one particular classification. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Gentrification of Atlanta, Georgia
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- The result of the discussion was: Upmerge & delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Category:Gentrification of Atlanta, Georgia ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: 'Delete per WP:OC#SUBJECTIVE. The concept of gentrification is definitely notable, but it is a rather subjective idea, and I find it very hard to see any way of setting objective criteria for inclusion in this category. The term can be used in a pejorative way, so it raises WP:NPOV issues.
Note also that there is no Category:Gentrification. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:22, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete Completely agree with the nominator. Pichpich (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete - unfortunatly there's no speedy criterion for "arbritary and capricious categorization"... - The Bushranger One ping only 23:37, 18 February 2012 (weil)
- Rename to "Economic and demographic transition in Atlanta neighborhoods" if gentrification is such a loaded term. There are quite a few more articles that fall under this subject which I did not create capriciously in my opinion. One wonders if the other editors have read the articles that fall into the category. Keizers (talk) 11:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- "Economic and demographic transition in Atlanta neighborhoods" sounds like the title of an essay or a sociology dissertation, and its scope is far too vague to make a viable category. It could cover most of the non-military topics in Category:History of Atlanta, Georgia. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:53, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- merge to parent: Category:Culture of Atlanta, Georgia. The whole subject feels ratehr too POV anyway. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:King's Academy
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- The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose deleting:
- Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category for King's Academy, a new, high-profile heavily-funded school in Jordan. The Category:King's Academy contains only the eponymous article and the "faculty" subcat. None of the people in Category:King's Academy faculty are staff of the school; they are all either trustees or members of the advisory board. In no case is their relationship with the school a defining characteristic of the individual categorised. (It's not a major item on the CV of King Abdullah II of Jordan).
(Note: I found this category in the orphanage) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete both -- This is a boarding school, not a university. The faculty category ought properly to be called "King's academy board members". They are all rulers, politicians, or business people who are on the governing board. We might possibly rename it to Category:King's Academy people, which I think I have seen used in relation to people associated with universities who are not teaching staff. However, this is at most sondary education, and I do not think we need a category at all. There is nan adequate list in the article. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:31, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete Both I was going to say keep the top-level when I thought it was a university, but I don't find boarding schools inherently notable. RevelationDirect (talk) 22:12, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete both As Peter noted above, the faculty category should be emptied since nobody currently in that category actually teaches at the school. We're left with an empty category (which is likely to remain empty since boarding school teachers are typically not notable) and a category whose sole content is an empty category. Pichpich (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete both per Peterkingiron, RevelationDirect and Pichpich. Steam5 (talk) 04:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Video games based on American Broadcasting Company network shows
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- The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:16, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Category:Video games based on American Broadcasting Company network shows ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Delete (Follow-up to this debate. The following is a copy of my rationale in that first discussion) Not a meaningful categorization. The fact that a video game is based on a television show is important but there's nothing network specific about the nature of such games. If one is given a video game and asked to decide whether it's based on a Fox TV show or on an NBC TV show, I don't think it's possible do to much better than a coin flip so the network is not a defining characteristic. Pichpich (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders
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- The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 08:39, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders to Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders
- Propose renaming Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders athletes to Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders athletes
- Nominator's rationale: Per all other gender-split categories of Category:College sports teams in the United States by team. In this nomination on gender-specific teams from two years ago, Texas Tech was given what I'd characterize as a specious exemption from this naming guideline. The women's basketball team still calls itself the Lady Raiders, so the main category should reflect that. See also Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders basketball.--Mike Selinker (talk) 02:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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NASCAR race team categories
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- The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:20, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Propose deleting Category:Bill Davis Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Brad Keselowski Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Bud Moore Engineering drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Chip Ganassi Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Dale Earnhardt, Inc. drivers
- Propose deleting Category:DiGard Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Evernham Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Front Row Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Furniture Row Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Germain Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Hendrick Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Joe Gibbs Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:JR Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Junior Johnson & Associates drivers
- Propose deleting Category:K-Automotive Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Kevin Harvick Inc. drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Kyle Busch Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Melling Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Michael Waltrip Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Morgan-McClure Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Penske Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Petty Enterprises drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Phoenix Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Red Bull Racing Team drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Richard Childress Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Richard Petty Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Roush Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Stewart-Haas Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Turner Motorsports drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Wood Brothers Racing drivers
- Propose deleting Category:Yates Racing drivers
- Nominator's rationale: Delete all. While established in good faith, this category series is, unfortunatly, a severe overcategorization. The inclusion criteria is, it seems, 'any driver who started in even one single race for the team at any level of racing' - hardly defining, and it leads to some drivers' pages getting Thirty Cat Pileups in the category section as team after team, major (Penske) mid-level (Morgan-McClure) and minor (K-Automotive) get their categories added. This is information that should be included in list form on the team pages (for instance, Richard Childress Racing could have a table added listing "drivers who have compted for..." with "driver", "series" and "starts" columns) or in navboxes, but I don't believe this is an appropriate form of categorization. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Keep. While I get where Bushranger is coming from, stock car racing is a team sport, and these players should be categorized by the racing teams they're on. I would certainly favor a more narrow definition of who gets into these categories, though. Maybe each could get a hatnote that suggests drivers only fit if they were on the team for a full season?--Mike Selinker (talk) 02:06, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe 10+ races? Lots of "full season" deals get scuppered when greener pastures beckon between July and October... - The Bushranger One ping only 02:29, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete -- I do not know about stockcar racing, but in other sports drivers switch from team to team every year or two. These are thus performace by performer categories. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete I agree with Bushranger, this is overcategorization. Drivers switch teams rapidly but the key is that it is not a defining characteristic. It should be done with a table in the teams' articles, as Bushranger suggests. Royalbroil 02:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've added an example of the sort of tables at Bill Davis Racing#Drivers. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Keep Ultimately I feel that this is much closer to something along the lines of Category:Baseball players by team than a much more fickle performer by performance scheme. Baseball players too play for various teams and switch fairly often as they are traded, signed as free agents and moved from AA to AAA to the big leagues and back. It's true that this is the cause of significant category clutter for a few players but we've come to tolerate this mild annoyance in exchange for what I think is a pretty meaningful and valuable browsing tool for our readers. "Performer by performance" is intended to cover one-time performances: a specific movie, a specific role, a specific concert and so on. I think we all agree that categorizing sportspeople by their professional team avoids that pitfall although it's always possible to find some cases where a person's involvement with the team was extremely limited. We categorize John Doe as a Boston Red Sox player even if he only had one appearance as pinch-runner but we don't call into question the existence of Category:Boston Red Sox players because John Doe's case is too "performer by performance". Finally, not all NASCAR teams are equally prestigious and some were particularly dominant in this or that era. That can make the team categorization quite significant. Pichpich (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- The thing is comparing auto racing to stick-and-ball sports is a little apples-and-oranges. While some teams (like Penske) stick around for as long as the Yankees have (or seem to anyway), most teams come and go, appearing from nowhere and then vanishing to whence they came, very quickly - while the Montreal Expos are remembered, K-Automotive Motorsports won't be even 10 years from now. Playing even a single game in MLB for the Seattle Mariners makes one notable both as a major leaguer and a Mariner; racing a single race for Front Row Motorsports only makes one notable as a Sprint Cup driver. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:20, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- It's not a perfect comparison but it's much better than likening it to performer by performance. MLB teams have indeed been very stable but that's not true in all major sports. The World Hockey Association was notoriously unstable and many hockey buffs will be stumped if asked to recall the names of the 26 teams. Yet we keep all subcategories of Category:World Hockey Association players as part of a consistent scheme. I think most obituaries of former Penske Racing drivers will mention that team. That makes it a defining characteristic and I find i difficult to argue otherwise. K-Automotive Motorsports? Yeah, not so much. But I think you're suggesting deleting Category:Penske Racing drivers so that the not-so-meaningful Category:K-Automotive Motorsports drivers can be deleted as well. I suggest keeping Category:K-Automotive Motorsports drivers because deleting it would also result in deleting the very meaningful Category:Penske Racing drivers. Pichpich (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Actually I'm saying that they really all should be deleted, not just making a WP:OTHERSTUFF argument. While driving for Penske can be defining, driving a single race for the team is likely not. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a "delete some, keep others" result; if these are kept, though, I'd like to suggest that they (a) should be generally limited to major teams, and (b) should be hatnoted with an explanation to only include drivers who competed in a significant portion of a season (as opposed to a full season, per my comments above) or who are otherwise intristincally linked with the team in question.- The Bushranger One ping only 23:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not saying that your argument is OTHERSTUFF but I don't think it's fair to decide the fate of these categories by using the least significant among them (K-Automotive Motorsports) and the least significant way in which a driver might belong to a category (a single race). Most of the above are significant teams and the majority of drivers were part of their team for multiple races and in many cases multiple seasons. I'd be ok with your suggestion (b) though it might be tricky to define "significant portion". Suggestion (a) however would force us to draw an even more arbitrary line. Pichpich (talk) 23:38, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- The trouble is that as things stand now anybody who drove for any team in any series in any number of races seems to be eligible for this sort of category, which is exactly what WP:OC defines. We don't need Category:Black Jack Racing drivers, for instance (ran one race in 2009 with Dexter Bean, had David Starr and Kelly Bires DNQ in one attempt each). There has to be a line somewhere or else that is exactly what this will come to at some point, therefore the category tree either has to have a "team significance cutoff" or it has to be decided by the "least significant team and least siginificant way a driver can belong" lest it become a Category Tree Of Unusual Size. - The Bushranger One ping only 04:29, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not saying that your argument is OTHERSTUFF but I don't think it's fair to decide the fate of these categories by using the least significant among them (K-Automotive Motorsports) and the least significant way in which a driver might belong to a category (a single race). Most of the above are significant teams and the majority of drivers were part of their team for multiple races and in many cases multiple seasons. I'd be ok with your suggestion (b) though it might be tricky to define "significant portion". Suggestion (a) however would force us to draw an even more arbitrary line. Pichpich (talk) 23:38, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Actually I'm saying that they really all should be deleted, not just making a WP:OTHERSTUFF argument. While driving for Penske can be defining, driving a single race for the team is likely not. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a "delete some, keep others" result; if these are kept, though, I'd like to suggest that they (a) should be generally limited to major teams, and (b) should be hatnoted with an explanation to only include drivers who competed in a significant portion of a season (as opposed to a full season, per my comments above) or who are otherwise intristincally linked with the team in question.- The Bushranger One ping only 23:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- It's not a perfect comparison but it's much better than likening it to performer by performance. MLB teams have indeed been very stable but that's not true in all major sports. The World Hockey Association was notoriously unstable and many hockey buffs will be stumped if asked to recall the names of the 26 teams. Yet we keep all subcategories of Category:World Hockey Association players as part of a consistent scheme. I think most obituaries of former Penske Racing drivers will mention that team. That makes it a defining characteristic and I find i difficult to argue otherwise. K-Automotive Motorsports? Yeah, not so much. But I think you're suggesting deleting Category:Penske Racing drivers so that the not-so-meaningful Category:K-Automotive Motorsports drivers can be deleted as well. I suggest keeping Category:K-Automotive Motorsports drivers because deleting it would also result in deleting the very meaningful Category:Penske Racing drivers. Pichpich (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- The thing is comparing auto racing to stick-and-ball sports is a little apples-and-oranges. While some teams (like Penske) stick around for as long as the Yankees have (or seem to anyway), most teams come and go, appearing from nowhere and then vanishing to whence they came, very quickly - while the Montreal Expos are remembered, K-Automotive Motorsports won't be even 10 years from now. Playing even a single game in MLB for the Seattle Mariners makes one notable both as a major leaguer and a Mariner; racing a single race for Front Row Motorsports only makes one notable as a Sprint Cup driver. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:20, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. Overcategorization. There are many more teams (probably over 100) that has had multiple drivers. -- Nascar1996(Talk • Contribs) 20:27, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Delete all per nom. Steam5 (talk) 02:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Parks in Greater Moncton
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- The result of the discussion was: merge.--Mike Selinker (talk) 18:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Parks in Greater Moncton to Category:Parks in New Brunswick
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. This category is not enough articles per WP:SMALLCAT and it's growth. It's the only park in the Greater Moncton region. Steam5 (talk) 01:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Merge per WP:SMALLCAT, but to all parent categories: Category:Parks in New Brunswick, Category:Visitor attractions in Greater Moncton, and Category:Buildings and structures in Greater Moncton.
If there are more of these Greater Moncton smallcats, please add them to this nomination rather than releasing them one at a time. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:54, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for supporting merge, my friendly BHG. I found some Greater Moncton categories that are not in articles. I put the template for speedy deletion. If it doesn't work. I will put the Greater Moncton categories that has no articles for a full discussion no matter what happens. ;-) Steam5 (talk) 03:58, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Merge all but ensure that the articles are also in Category:Moncton, which may beed a capnote that it covers Greater Moncton, if that is bigger. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:08, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Merge to all parent categories: Category:Parks in New Brunswick, Category:Visitor attractions in Greater Moncton, and Category:Buildings and structures in Greater Moncton. And rebuke the nom for removing the Greater Moncton parent categories: there is consensus to upmerge some Greater Moncton subcats but not necessarily all of them. (There is Category:Greater Moncton.) Oculi (talk) 14:55, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Note. I found that the nominator had removed the parent categories from several greater Moncton categories, including this one. This had the effect of emptying some container categories, which the nom then tagged for speedy deletion. I am sure that this was done in good faith, and that the nominator was unaware that categories should not be depopulated without consensus, but depopulation and de-parenting while a discussion is underway impedes other editors ability to assess the stituation. So I reverted the category blanking. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- My fault BHG, I'll leave the specific Greater Moncton categories, at least for now until de-population is underway. Also, BHG User:Shawn in Montreal is oppose merging this category. And BHG, could you talk to User:Shawn in Montreal why did you oppse merging? Just ask him why, if you please. Thanks. ;-) Steam5 (talk) 21:03, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose First off, this provincial park is not even in Greater Moncton, as I explain at the related CfD: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_14#Category:Beaches_of_Greater_Moncton. But that aside, Moncton appears to be home to at least 4 rather large urban parks and greater number of smaller parks. One of those large parks, Riverfront Park, Moncton (now currently a redirect to the trail) is the only valid content for the nominated category at this time, and I've added. As for this "Greater Moncton" thing, the link I've posted above is for the official site of the city of Moncton proper -- no "Greater" -- and I would have no objection to a rename along this line. Category:Parks in Toronto is not a subcat of something like Parks in the Greater Toronto Area (though I suppose it could be). At any rate, I'm not sure Gene/Hogie75's fondness for the Greater moniker should guide in all cases, and he is admittedly new to this project and still learning. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:11, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Jesus, I see he's also created Category:Parks in Moncton and Category:Parks in Dieppe, New Brunswick, but they weren't added to the category. There does seem to be enough to populate this category. I now suggest we just leave it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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