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Nominator's rationale:Rename. Change "Poles" to "Polish people" per recent change in other similarly-named categories:
2009 August 24 CfD.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy rename per content of previous discussions and speedy criteria #4.
Debresser (
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Swiss people
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Speedy rename per arguments of nominator and speedy criteria 34.
Debresser (
talk) 12:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent category.
Alansohn (
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Rename all, per similar discussions. --
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Category:Mountain biking venues
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The result of the discussion was:Close per
WP:SNOW and the functional withdrawal of the nomination by the nominator. NAC.
Otto4711 (
talk) 02:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. There exist places called 'venues' meant for mountain biking. There also exist 'trails' that goes from place A to B.
Kslotte (
talk) 21:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
I didn't had the chance to give a comment on the thoughts and the decisions back then. Now I'm watching this page and can give you reasons for the namings. Note, that naming changes are not exactly the same as the earlier ones. --
Kslotte (
talk) 22:33, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep - the
recent cfd came to exactly the opposite conclusion.
Occuli (
talk) 00:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep - a venue is a 'place' which includes a trail.
Twiceuponatime (
talk) 08:47, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep - OK, thanks for your input. --
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Category:Mountain biking in Australia
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The result of the discussion was:Keep. --Xdamrtalk 18:47, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
OK by me - it would seem reasonable for everything in
Category:Mountain biking venues to be of the form 'Mountain biking venues in Foo'.
Occuli (
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Oppose Rename to reflect content of category.
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Category:Mountain biking resorts, venues and trails in the United States
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Category:Mountain biking venues in the United Kingdom
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The result of the discussion was:Close per
WP:SNOW and the functional withdrawal of the nomination by the nominator. NAC.
Otto4711 (
talk) 02:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep - a venue is a 'place' which includes a trail.
Twiceuponatime (
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Keep - I support this suggestion (after some thoughts). --
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Category:Mountain bike races and events in the United Kingdom
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Some thoughts ... maybe making it more simple and remove the word 'races' and have it only as
Category:Mountain biking events and all sub-categories named the same way. --
Kslotte (
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I support this suggestion. --
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Category:Mountain bike races and events in the United States
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Category:Coatbridge Irish
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Support -- I thought that is what was decided in previous CFD, but that actually related to a mis-capitalised version of the present one. It is a pity that this was nmot dealt with at the same time.
Peterkingiron (
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Category:Military personnel killed in action
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The result of the discussion was:No Consensus. --Xdamrtalk 19:08, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The title is misleading as the category's description indicates that it includes not only military personnel
killed in action but also those who
died of wounds sustained during combat. Moreover, it seems unnecessary to categorize separately those who died on the battlefield versus those who died from wounds sustained in battle after reaching a medical facility. Perhaps a more accurate title would be
Category:Military personnel killed in combat...? A second issue to consider is whether to include personnel who died of non-combat causes, such as disease, while participating in a war. (
WikiProject Military history notified using {{
cfd-notify}}.) –BLACK FALCON(
TALK) 20:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
"Killed in combat" wouldn't cover post-combat death of wounds either, I think. Something very broad like "military personnel killed in wartime" might work, but then we'd need to consider whether we want to include or exclude edge cases like commanders assassinated (outside of actual combat) during wartime, soldiers executed by a court-martial, and so forth.
Kirill[talk][pf] 21:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Casualty would be better as it covers those who died of illness etc. Casualty is used by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Category:Military casualties?Twiceuponatime (
talk) 08:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Sorry, I withdraw that - I should have read the description in the category. The cat covers those who died in action, or of wounds from action. That means it disregards those who died of illness.
Twiceuponatime (
talk) 08:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep -- Those who died of disease certainly do not count as KIA. The US uses this term, and I would suggest that the category should follow the definition given in the first paragraph of
killed in action. This covers both those killed literally on the battlefield, and also those who subsequently die of their wounds. It would thus exclude the large number of British troops who died of disease on the Boer War and deaths from malaria in the Burmese campaigns of WWII. KIA is the recognised term. Though "killed due to combat" might be more accurate, I think we should stick with what we have. We may need a sister category for those who died of disease on campaign.
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Category:Hank Williams Sr. albums
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Rename per nominator.
Debresser (
talk) 12:38, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent article.
Alansohn (
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Category:College houses of the University of Chicago
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The result of the discussion was:Delete. --Xdamrtalk 19:03, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Redundant category. Simply put, no college house of the University of Chicago has its own article, and so there is no need for this category. Every single page in this category is either a redirect to a
Category: Residence halls of the University of Chicago or a residence hall with only one house. —
DroEsperanto (
talk) 14:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete – most of the redirects should be deleted as well, as there is no mention of them in the articles to which they redirect.
Occuli (
talk) 14:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
question I find residence halls that have a single college house; I find halls that have multiple college houses
Burton-Judson Courts. Does this match the nomination assertions?
Hmains (
talk) 20:00, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Yup. The only houses that (kind of) have their own articles are those of the single-house dorms, for which the article is really on the dorm, not the house community. —
DroEsperanto (
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Category:Guayaquil (canton seat)
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. It was not immediately obvious to me how this differed from
Category:Guayaquil (canton). New name would be clearer English.
Tassedethe (
talk) 13:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
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Category:Greeks in Serbia
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Object -- It is quite possible that many of those involved are of ethnic and lingistic Greeks without them or any ancestors having lived in Greece for many hundreds of years. This is a common phenomenon in the former Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe generally. In some parts of Eastern Europe people migrated to their ethnic land at the end of WWII and the Turks of Greece and Greeks of Turkey were exchanged in the 1920s, but that did not happen elsewhere.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 18:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support. The sole person linked is a citizen of Serbia of ethnic Greek ancestry. These pages (
Category:People by ethnic or national origin) typically allow both for ethnic or national descent or origin. An explanation on the page to this affect, however, should be provided for clarity
Mayumashu (
talk) 03:02, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to reflect content of category.
Alansohn (
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Category:Bahamian directors
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The current title is ambiguous, although the inclusion criteria state it is for "theatre directors". However the only entry is a Bahamian film director, so suggest renaming the category and altering the criteria.
Category:Bahamian theatre directors can be created if needed.
Tassedethe (
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Support Rename to better reflect content of category.
Alansohn (
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Category:Great Northern Railway locomotives
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Support Rename to match title of parent article.
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Scenographs
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The result of the discussion was:Rename all per nom. --Xdamrtalk 18:56, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Speedy rename per nominator and speedy criteria #4.
Debresser (
talk) 11:26, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent articles.
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Category:Lithuanian graphics
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. Only content is a bio of a Lithuanian graphic designer, current title suggest "Graphic designs from Lithuania" or similar.
Tassedethe (
talk) 09:37, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Merge per nominator.
Debresser (
talk) 11:25, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Merge to use category in broader structure.
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Category:Journalists killed while covering the war in Afghanistan
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Nominator's rationale: The category description claims that the category "covers the
Afghan Civil War, the
Soviet war in Afghanistan and the
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)", but we should not mix categories for different military conflicts. In any case, all of the journalists in this category were killed in late 2001 or thereafter, so they all died while covering the
War in Afghanistan (2001–present). (Category creator not notified because: indef-blocked). –BLACK FALCON(
TALK) 02:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Rename to match title of parent article.
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Category:Military personnel of the Afghanistan War
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The result of the discussion was:Rename all per nom. --Xdamrtalk 18:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Support Renames to match title of parent article.
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Category:Nonwar armed confrontations
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The result of the discussion was:Delete. --Xdamrtalk 19:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: The scope of this category is much too broad for it to be a viable grouping. A "nonwar armed confrontation" could be understood to refer to "an armed confrontation other than a war"—a definition which would encompass even events that take place in the context of a war, such as individual battles—or "an armed confrontation outside the context of a war". While the second definition is not quite as broad, it still would be too encompassing as it would include basically any armed confrontation (violent and non-violent) that takes place outside the context of a declared war or in which both sides are not formal militaries. So, it would include: riots, protests (even if protesters are unarmed, the police often are armed), law enforcement raids, shootouts between law enforcement and criminal elements, gang shootings, massacres of civilians, internal conflict that does not rise the to level of war (such as low-level insurgency), hostage crises, domestic disputes involving weapons, armed robberies, gunfights, armed repression by a state's security forces, and a host of other events whose only similarity is that they involved weapons outside the context of a war. (Category creator notified using {{
cfd-notify}}.) –BLACK FALCON(
TALK) 00:01, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete (was Comment): I think {subst:cfr-speedy|new name} would be appropriate to new name "Law enforcement actions." Those which are not can be moved in appropriate categories, if they are not already, like riots, pogroms and massacres. Many of them are such actions and I don't see a relevant category. If there is one, do tell.
CarolMooreDC (
talk) 01:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Yes, I think the current category as is is much too vague and ill-defined. I think I'd prefer to see
Category:Shootouts,
Category:Police shootouts or some such as a sub-category to
Category:Law enforcement operations, the appropriate crime category as well as
Category:Conflicts, with the category contents that don't fit in shootouts upmerged, until such time as new confrontational categories are created. I could be convinced otherwise, though.
Shawn in Montreal (
talk) 15:06, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Comment -- This is an thoroughly unsatisfactory category. The
Malayan Emergency of the 1950s was technically not a war, because the British government did not to pay war wages to its soldiers, but would come in this category. What we have is a mixture of shootouts pogroms (massacres), etc. etc. This category covers a multitude of conflicts, and if fully populated would need to be split. So why not split it at once and then delete what remains?
Peterkingiron (
talk) 19:01, 7 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Good analysis. Tutt-Everett already under
Category:Rivalry, which equals feud :-) If no one else wants fun of doing last four I'll do soon.
CarolMooreDC (
talk) 03:43, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete this cat is nonsensical. Some of the articles are about crimes one of the articles (
Soapy Smith) didn't belong as the events took place during the Spanish - American War.
L0b0t (
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