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Nominator's rationale: Same logic as at
Talk:List of Lightning women's cricketers#Requested move 21 July 2022, where we removed (women's cricket) from the related list article. The proposed name is much more sensible, but there are men's cricket teams nicknamed Lightning, and so women's is needed to disambiguate
Joseph2302 (
talk) 15:38, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Why would we choose to make it clunky when it could be less clunky- seems illogical to me? Also, it's a subcategory of
Category:Players in English domestic women's cricket by team, which uses the names "women cricketers", so C2C doesn't apply- there are 2 parent categories with different naming conventions.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 14:35, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It is more straightforward to follow the parent category, a practice much wider than cricket categories. The 'local' category takes precedence in C2C.
Oculi (
talk) 16:08, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
There are 2 parent categories, with different conventions. We shouldn't therefore automatically default to one of those conventions without a discussion. Speedy criteria are for obvious cases, this is not an obvious case, as it has multiple parent categories.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 16:18, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
We do exactly follow the convention in the more specific category at speedy, namely
Category:Lightning (women's cricket), which follows the article
Lightning (women's cricket). There are countless examples of this. Nearly all categories have multiple parents.
Oculi (
talk) 15:54, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That's textbook
WP:IAR. Sure we do have guidelines and conventions on Wikipedia and they are very good, but it is a founding principle that they should be put aside when they only come up with a syntaxic absurdity such as this.
Place Clichy (
talk) 09:19, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support move to women cricketers Per Mpk662's comments.
Rugbyfan22 (
talk) 18:53, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I've added a third category to the discussion. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Qwerfjkltalk 20:17, 20 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment - To clarify as it has now been added to the discussion, I was proposing a move to
Category:Loughborough Lightning cricketers without the "women" as listed, as there are no other cricket teams that it could be confused with, unlike with Lightning and Sunrisers.
Mpk662 (
talk) 20:55, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support this, no need for women's in the Loughborough Lightning case, as they don't have a men's cricket team.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 10:49, 22 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Category:Ulster unionism
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Nominator's rationale: Ulster is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland the remaining three are in the Republic of Ireland.
Privybst (
talk) 15:55, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose I see your point, but there was Ulster Unionism in all nine counties. Take a look at
North Monaghan, for instance, before partition the Unionists got about a third of the votes there. Also, the
COMMONNAME in reliable sources is Ulster Unionism — check Jstor, Google Scholar, and Google Books, thousands of hits, the latest being for Presbyterians, Ulster Unionism and the Establishment of Northern Ireland, 1905-47 (
Queen's University Belfast, 2021), which covers all nine counties.
Moonraker (
talk) 19:51, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support this proposal as well.
Privybst (
talk) 07:14, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose -- The present name is the normal term. Certainly NI is only 6 or the 9 counties of Ulster, but in practice today Ulster and Northern Ireland are politically synonyms.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 11:39, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose both Unionism in Northern Ireland and Unionism in Ulster.
Ulster unionism is the main article, and how unionists are universally referred to.
Scolaire (
talk) 18:01, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I never noticed that. Weird! My Oppose stands, since "Ulster Unionism" appears, bolded, in the first paragraph of that article, because it is how unionists in Ulster are referred to.
Scolaire (
talk) 09:04, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Qwerfjkltalk 20:11, 20 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose, "Ulster unionism" is the common name, as demonstrated above.
Warofdreamstalk 20:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose, rationale is exactly why it shouldn’t be renamed; only 2/3 of the counties sit within NI. If this category were renamed to "Category:Unionism in Northern Ireland", it would discredit the other third of the counties constituting Ulster. —
Mugtheboss (
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Academic personnel in the United States
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Nominator's rationale: rename, the arguments are exactly the same as in
the discussion below, but the outcome of the discussion may be different per
WP:ENGVAR.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:40, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. Per discussion below, it would be an improvement to have a neutral, homogeneous name for these categories that would cover all local situations.
Place Clichy (
talk) 10:24, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support per above. --
Privybst (
talk) 11:43, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment - if the further intention is to rename all subcats, it might be as well to add a few such as Yale, Harvard, UCLA, lest the plan meet opposition further down the tree.
Oculi (
talk) 11:59, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you, that is a good suggestion.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 19:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
To avoid confusion: Yale, Harvard, UCLA category pages were tagged to get more input to the discussion, but they cannot be renamed in this discussion, because it would leave inconsistency at the lower category level. The lower level may be nominated after this discussion.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:37, 17 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment -- This usage of faculty may be normal in US (but I do not know). If so, there is no reason why this should not be kept. We frequently allow subcats to use local terminology, despite it being at odds with their parent. I have voted for a change for other countries, but am staying neutral on this one, as I am not an American.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:14, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
This looks as though it might be agreed! If so can we agree on this format - Foo University academic personnel - with the name of the university first?
Rathfelder (
talk) 21:49, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Essentially all non-UK universities have categories named "University X faculty" for their faculty members. This is exactly an ENGVAR thing. In American English, "faculty" and "professors" are synonymous. "Academic personnel" is much vaguer and would also include graders and teaching assistants (typically students supported through a job grading coursework) as well as postdoctoral researchers. We want our category names to be specific, because those other positions are not defining and should not be included in the category. "University X faculty" is the correct, idiomatic, and more specific description of the people in the category. Additionally, we should not handle three universities out of all of the ones in the world differently than all others. —
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Qwerfjkltalk 17:21, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I thought this would be just a discussion about terminology, but now it appears that it is a discussion about content too. Surely we do not want to restrict these categories to professors only, don't we? At least in European context that would not make much sense. All people who are notable as an academic researcher/educator should be in these categories. While many of them undoubtedly will be professors, and none of them will be students (who aren't academics anyway), the title should not be a requirement.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:11, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That is precisely indeed why a neutral wide-encompassing name is desirable for the category. Sometimes vague is good. The boundary between professors and non-tenured teachers is very different from one university to the next even withing the same country, thanks to the richness of university culture. The same can be said for the boundary between teaching and research positions. They can't be stable basis for Wikipedia categorization. We should focus on the substance, not the title.
Place Clichy (
talk) 08:56, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support in the ground of uniformity. If academics who are not professors are notable enough they should be included, but my impression is that in the USA professors are more numerous than in some other places.
Rathfelder (
talk) 13:14, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Further comment -- This is an ENGVAR issue. We should not require British usage to be applied to American subjects or vice versa. It is quite normal for the children-cat of an international parent-cat to have a variety of names, reflecting local usage.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 11:34, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose - in cfd discussions over the years I have formed the impression that US editors (not represented here other than David Eppstein) are very content with 'XXX faculty'. Unless this proposal is endorsed by a consensus of US editors,
Academic personnel is too flimsy an article to underpin an extensive category tree.
Oculi (
talk) 01:59, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Qwerfjkltalk 20:06, 20 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: For good housekeeping following previous discussions which resulted in moving members manually and deleting the parent cat
Songs in memory of deceased persons and where both categories existed,
Songs in cMemory of XXX were merged with the Category, Songs about XXX. As stated in previous nomination mentioned above, whether a song was written before or after the death of the subject seems such an artificial distinction.
Richhoncho (
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Nominator's rationale:Cantrip,
Card advantage and
Proxy card aren't specific to Magic: The Gathering so don't belong here. That leaves only three entries, which should be upmerged to the parent.
* Pppery *it has begun... 02:00, 20 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete category and selective upmerge as per
Pppery's assessment, the MTG-specific articles should be upmerged, and the generic card game terminology should not be upmerged.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 10:48, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete and support some of Joseph2302's suggestions. (Those can be done at any time through normal editing.)
Jontesta (
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Support per recently established consensus.--
User:Namiba 18:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete all as per the recent linked CFD which has clear consensus to delete these types of categories.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 10:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete all per previous consensus.
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