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Nominator's rationale:WP:OR? Hardly defining, as all furniture is portable, it's just a matter of need and effort. Contains pretty random stuff, such as
Litter (vehicle) (a vehicle, not furniture) or
Poäng (a chair that is not more portable than any other chair). Sandstein 21:17, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I was a bit unsure about "litter", which I got to from
sedan chair; maybe not a good call, I'd be fine with removing that.
Poäng is a
CKD furniture design and I believe the assembly is reversible; it packs flat. Perhaps CKD furniture should be its own category; some of it is not designed to be taken apart again.
Some cultures put furniture away and take it out over the course of the day to change the use of a room (parts of East Asia and the Middle East, for instance). Generally these are cultures that sit on or near the floor, so the furniture is smaller and lighter than if it was made for sitting half a meter above the floor. Then there's cultures that are nomadic or semi-nomadic, and pack furniture up to move it from place to place; medieval European rulers, who travelled around their domains, had such furniture, as did soldiers (
campaign furniture). Movable folding furniture of various types generally folds so that it can be easily packed away or transported, so it is included. Such folding furniture might also go in
Category:Space-saving furniture, which has been around for years. Generally,
Category:Furniture is not very well-categorized, and I'd be delighted if someone with more experience with categorization had a go at it.
HLHJ (
talk) 22:07, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I'd be in favour of a cat for folding furniture, but it wouldn't be logically equivalent. Metamorphic or mechanical furniture usually folds;
wall beds may be built into the wall and thus very non-portable, and
folding seats are generally bolted to something, but they fold up. A
chabudai (1800s-modern type of Japanese table), on the other hand, is designed to be stowed away in a closet and taken out again at least once a day, and is likely to be transferred between rooms, or even hauled out to a garden. But it may or may not have folding legs; the legs are so short that they don't make it very unwieldy or bulky. Ditto for much Japanese furniture, including traditional beds; they get packed away each morning, but aren't exactly folding in the hinge-or-pivot sense. The same goes for Middle Eastern and Central Asian furniture, which we have much less content on, and most nomadic furniture. Some medieval progress-through-the-realm furniture, like the
Glastonbury chair and
trestle tables, readily dismantles to pack flat, but doesn't actually fold. Other medieval European designs, like a
desk on a chest or a
portable desk, don't fold (unless you count the lid), but are designed to be moved around. Most
campaign furniture disassembles or turns itself into chests; only a small amount of it folds; a quick skim of the photos in that article will show what I mean.
HLHJ (
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It is not equivalent indeed, but it might be an alternative to deletion.
Marcocapelle (
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Apologies,
Marcocapelle; you didn't imply that it was equivalent, indeed you clearly implied the contrary. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, but I did; I should have written and posted my reply in less of a hurry. I think about a third of
Category:Portable furniture might go into
Category:Foldable furniture, assuming that sometimes-folding things like the
chabudai would be in-scope. Plus some folding furniture that isn't portable. I'm unsure if the scope would include mechanical furniture,
step chairs and
mechanical desks and the like.
CKD furniture is a common industrial classification and possibly sufficiently unsubjective. CKD furniture is a bit borderline as it is made to be shipped to the consumer, then assembled, but not necessarily moved more than once. I think any cat for CKD furniture should exclude things like Glastonbury chairs, since they are designed to be repeatedly moved by the consumer, but I'm open to argument.
All buildings can also be moved with enough effort; even the temples of
Abu Simbel, cut into the living rock.
Portable building says "A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located." I don't think that's too subjective for buildings. Distinguishing furniture designed to be moved about from furniture not made to be moved is, in my direct experience of furniture, fairly clear: if you want to move it, you build in characteristic design features, so that it takes less space or weight or doesn't break in transit (I have no experience of sedan chairs).
With sedan chairs, and presumably
hibachi and
shichirin, and maybe Japanese-style futons and
zabutons, possibly even portable desks and
Bible boxes, the question might be more "Are they really furniture?" (a non-portable sedan chair would be pretty useless
). The article definition is "movable objects intended to support various human activities", which would include, say, dishes of food, bike trailers, outboard motors, haystacks, firehoses, and towtrucks; but it is hard to define. Is anyone worried about this, or does everyone think it will be pretty easy to get consensus on whether a thing is furniture?
Would adding categories for folding furniture (overlapping with portable furniture) and CKD furniture (either as a subcat of portable furniture, or a separate cat, but with no overlap), resolve enough of the subjectivity here? Are there any other things in
Category:Portable furniture which don't belong there as they are only debateably portable, or furniture?
HLHJ (
talk) 01:07, 1 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete not all that defining. Especially since many furniture terms refer to many sizes of things. Is a table protable? Probably all are if you are willing to, but there are some tables I can pick up with little effort and move around my house, and there are some tables like the one in my dining room, that I generally would remove the leaves from before trying to move, and still want at least one other person helping me.
John Pack Lambert (
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So far I've dealt with this by including only articles on portable subtypes. For instance,
Director's chair and
Daensen folding chair, but not
chair;
folding table and
trestle table, but not
table (furniture). I don't think there are director's chairs or folding tables that are not designed to be moved, but if there are, they are certainly not the main topic of the respective articles.
HLHJ (
talk) 17:39, 6 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep Absolutely defining. Most furnitures are stationary and are rarely shifted (except for room renovation or cleaning). Some other are designed to be portable -> these have to be in this category. --
Just N. (
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keep per Nussbaum. Clearly different from ordinary furniture.
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Category:Songs about the boys being back in town
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Delete. A bona fide joke if I ever did see one. --
Just N. (
talk) 19:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Category has been emptied. LizRead!Talk! 03:14, 7 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete Not remotely useful or likely to be expanded.
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Category:Sawmills in Wisconsin
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Nominator's rationale: 1-article state category is too specific when there's no national category. Upmerge for now with no prejudice to creating it again if required. Creator might want to have a look at existing categories before creating new ones - and categorise all new categories in turn.
Le Deluge (
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Comment I'm absolutely sure there are lots and lots of sawmills in every US State (except e.g. Washington DC which is mostly urban). But nearly never they get relevance rating. And on what criteria? Historical relevance? No idea what for. --
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Category:Irish theologians
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Nominator's rationale: They are all Christians.
Rathfelder (
talk) 09:54, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose:
Both categories are part of an established series, per
WP:SMALLCAT.
This is a proposal to downmerge a category to its subcat. That destroys the parenting. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 11:42, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose also. I have told Rathfelder many times that a category with one subcategory is not a problem, and have pointed out that Rathfelder has created thousands of such categories (eg
Category:Omani physicians, sole subcat
Category:Omani surgeons, 1 article in all, both created by Rathfelder). I have also stated several times at cfd that downmerges are problematic.
Oculi (
talk) 12:16, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
The theological categories are a mess. Even the term theologian is a bit contested for some religions, but it seems pretty obvious that religion is the primary characteristic of theologians.
Rathfelder (
talk) 13:07, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Rathfelder, what on earth are you on about? Nobody disputes that religion is the primary characteristic of theologians. That's why theolgians are subcatted by religion. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 13:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I see that indenting is still beyond Rathfelder, although all other contributors to cfd have mastered the technique, many on their first day.
Category:Tunisian theologians should not be connected to a religious subcat, obviously. Someone like
Boubaker El Akhzouri should be in a religious subcat as well as a national one, eg
Category:Muslim theologians (if he is one). This does not require the creation of endless intersections. It is this
sort of edit which makes a mess of category trees.
Oculi (
talk) 20:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose per @
Oculi:. Plus I find the indenting issue really annoying.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 13:16, 2 June 2021 (UTC)reply
There are things about you which I find annoying, but I dont go on about them because it does not encourage an ethos of collaboration. Please stop making personal remarks.
Rathfelder (
talk) 20:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Rathfelder, your long-term failure to avoid many errors big and small has been raised at CFD many times, by several editors. If you want to encourage an ethos of collaboration please learn from the criticism instead of complaining about it. You could start by fixing the indentation. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 07:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose Some one sub-category container categories work. When we categorize by religion intersecting with nationality this happens lots of times. This is a liveable set up. We want to categorize theologians by both nationality and religious belief/philosophy/whatever the right word for that is. We want to be exact in our description. The way things are works, a few oddities in tree formation is doable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 12:41, 3 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose -- If the subject had any articles in it, it would probably be appropriate to move them down a level, but it is appropriate to keep the present structure, as we may possibly get one from another religion.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 14:05, 6 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Oculi and BrownHairedGirl. --
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Category:Indian Orthodox church buildings
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Nominator's rationale:WP:C2D, as Indian Orthodox Church redirects to
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and these are two names for the same organisation. Prefer church buildings to churches to make it clear that these categories contain articles about local church buildings, not independent church organisations.
Place Clichy (
talk) 09:31, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Support per our uniform naming of this organization.
Elizium23 (
talk) 09:36, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
There are other churches in India which may use the word orthodox as part of their name within a different compound expression (see
Oriental Orthodoxy in India,
Oriental Orthodox churches in India), but only one of them is referred to by the name of "Indian Orthodox Church". Likewise, there are many churches which are both Russian and Orthodox, but the
Russian Orthodox Church name is a proper noun for one, not all, of them. Any way, the categories should be merged.
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Category:Unofficial leaders
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Nominator's rationale:delete per
WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and
WP:POV. The category is apparently meant for heads of state or prime ministers who are facing an opposition that disputes the election result. Just as an illustration how POV such a category is, people might argue that
Joe Biden belongs in here and others would be strongly against it. The category was nominated at CFDS for renaming to
Category:Disputed leaders but that does not solve the issue.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:02, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Support: this category shouldn't have such an ambiguous name, and failed speedy renaming for the above reasons. ―Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 07:37, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Ambiguous and a honey pot for POV and COATRACK. Consensual democracy is probably the exception on this planet, both in space and time, so undisputed leaders are probably a rarer occurrence.
Place Clichy (
talk) 09:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete The two people in question are long serving political leaders, who without question are in actual power. This category also suffers from extreme presentism. There are lots of people whose leadership was way more questioned than either of these people.
John Pack Lambert (
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Delete per nom. --
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Category:Articles using template 'Track gauge' with unrecognized input
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The result of the discussion was:rename. This doesn't preclude a RfC to formalize a convention.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 03:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus Please add new comments below this notice. As noted, this was contested at CFDS. Thanks,
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:44, 30 May 2021 (UTC) reply
So there are some general trends, but not a naming convention per se. This might be a good time to just run an RfC to actually make a formal convention. FWIW, I would standardize on the "Template:" format, as it allows a user to directly copy part of the category name into the search box and see the template involved. I wonder if there's an argument for using an underscore "_" for spaces in the template name to avoid ambiguity, which is the virtue of the quotation marks in this CfD.
VanIsaac, MPLLcontWpWS 18:58, 3 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Rename per nom. --
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Category:Simultaneity
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Nominator's rationale: While I understand what the creator of this category is trying to do here, I think the result is inevitably a set of concepts too disbursed to be a coherent category. As it stands, it includes such things as
Simultaneous death,
Simultaneous game, and
Glocalization, which have no relation to each other beyond the happenstance of describing two or more things happening at once.
BD2412T 04:45, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose "two or more things happening at once" is a defining feature of many concepts. Are you going to nominate for deletion
Category:Sequences in time, too?
fgnievinski (
talk) 05:01, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
I suspect that your bringing it up here multiplies that chances that
Category:Sequences in time will be nominated for deletion.
BD2412T 05:37, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete, this leads to a category with totally unrelated items. We have
Simultaneity (disambiguation) for this, some of the category content can be added here.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 05:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
That DAB page does note the primary topic (the relation between two events assumed to be happening at the same time), though.
fgnievinski (
talk) 03:51, 31 May 2021 (UTC)reply
WP:SHAREDNAME gives an important caveat, though: "Avoid categorizing by a subject's name when it is a non-defining characteristic of the subject" [emphasis added]. So, assuming the definingness of simultaneity is not being challenged, an eponym category seems reasonable.
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Nepenthes is a carnivorous pitcher plant and there are a number of
Nepenthes infauna that live nearly exclusively on this plant, so there is a subcategory of this one that is well populated and defining. In contrast, the only article directly in this category is
List of Nepenthes endophyte species, which contains species that live many places including this plant. Organisms that live many places are not defined by this association so there's no growth potential past the 1 list article. -
RevelationDirect (
talk) 00:04, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose We shouldn't merge apples and pears! Nepenthes infauna don't belong into Category:Nepenthes. --
Just N. (
talk) 20:46, 6 June 2021 (UTC)reply
If that would be an issue then the category should be deleted instead of merged, after manually checking that the articles are interlinked.
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Category:Streets associated with the University of Cambridge
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Many of the streets in Canberra go past government buildings, may of the streets in Detroit go past auto factories, and many of the streets in Cambridge go past university buildings because it's a
college town. This is not a workable way of categorizing streets because of the category clutter it would eventually create. -
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