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Category:People of the Ottoman Empire
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The result of the discussion was:rename.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 03:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep -- I think the present form preferable. "Ottoman" refers to the descendants of Osman, the founder of the ruling dynasty. I consider that WP is wrong in applying the term as if it were an adjective for the state. 18th century British Customs Accounts classify trade with the area as with "Turkey". Today we use "Turkish" as a term for the people of (modern) Turkey; people of Turkish ethnicity elsewhere are (I think) usually referred to as Turcomans. Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Christians etc of the Ottoman Empire is an accurate description. To call a Christian (whether Greek, Armenian, Assyrian or Maronite) an Ottoman or even a Turk is a misdescription.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 23:10, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename as nominated. "FOOian people" is the convention for nationality. I don't think most people interpret "Ottoman people" as meaning "descendants of Osman".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 04:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment I just notified the Ottoman Empire wikipedia project of this proposal.
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Category:Greek women of the Ottoman Empire
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The result of the discussion was:merge.--
Mike Selinker (
talk) 03:21, 31 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale x women categories are only supposed to be used as holding categories for more specific categories or for general articles, as is doen with
Category:American women. They are not supposed to be used as categories to group all biographies of women. However we only have bio articles directly in this category and no sub-cats, so we should just move. It should not be merged to
Category:Women of the Ottoman Empire because that is a contained cat.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 22:51, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
The reason to not upmerge them there is because that is a container category, not to have biographical articles. If they fit in appropriate subcats of that category, they can be moved such, but contained categories like that are not to have biographical articles, so we cannot merge these biographical articles there.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:17, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment I have tagged the target because it is being considered for renaming. I think the current name works fine, and see no reason to rename the category.
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Category:Australian professional wrestling promotions
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The result of the discussion was:keep.
delldot∇. 01:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Underpopulated and no chance of any more being added as there are no more notable promotions past or present.
121.214.113.49 (
talk) 22:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep - Part of an established tree, most of which has no more articles per country than this branch. It is also the only parent of its child cat. --
Qetuth (
talk) 07:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep as per
Qetuth. This category forms part of a useful navigation structure. --
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Nominator's rattionale They are the same thing. However we generally use the from form for places that are not independent nations.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Reverse merge to
Category:Gibraltarian people. They are a distinct ethn-cultural group, and the article is at
Gibraltarian people. "FOOian people" is the guideline standard for people who constitute distinct national or ethnical groups.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 09:53, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment -- The subject is effectively "people of Gilbraltar". The target is an expatriate ones. Contrary to some recent noms, Gibraltar is a dependent territory of UK, not part of UK. It has its own native population, who have been there since the British occupation of the headland over 300 years ago. Legally they are citizens of a British overseas territory. That is effectively an ethnicity.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 16:41, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
The target is not an expatriate category. It is a standard name for people by place below a certain level. The "from" in no way implies the people are no longer there, anymore than does
Category:People from Michigan.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:22, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Reverse merge to Category:Gibraltarian people, per Good Ol’factory. --
Mais oui! (
talk) 08:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment I really do not care which way we merge the category as much as I think we should merge it one way or the other.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 23:36, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Reverse merge per Good Olfactory
Mayumashu (
talk) 05:19, 11 December 2012 (UTC)reply
reverse merge to match the main article.
146.90.110.75 (
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Category:Roller coasters introduced in 2013
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The result of the discussion was:delete. Some or all of the members of this cat are already in the under construction cat, but editors can add those that are not if it's appropriate.
delldot∇. 02:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: This category should not exist until a roller coaster has opened in 2013. Problems can lead to these roller coasters not opening in 2013 so the category shouldn't exist until there's a use for it. This has been the standard for the previous years.
Astros4477 (
talk) 19:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete we should not have any 2013 categories until at least Jan. 1, 2013.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 19:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Fine then, delete it, I don't really see how it's difficult to just remove the coasters that don't open (which is extremely unlikely for any on the list regardless).
Aadams—Preceding
undated comment added 00:06, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
The thing is, none of those coaster have been introduced in 2013 yet.--
Astros4477 (
talk) 00:26, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment Wouln't deleting the category be a reason against recreating it?
Dimadick (
talk) 22:39, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I think it is generally understood that when categories are deleted as violating the rules about wikipedia not being a crystal ball they can be recreated once such rules no longer apply.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 00:06, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment Even though it is now 2013 (at least some places, although not where I am) I think we should still delete this category and wait to create it until a rollercoaster is actually introduced this year.
John Pack Lambert (
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Category:21st-century actors
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The result of the discussion was:keep, but this decision does not preclude creating subcategories. This would be a parent category and would not need to get deleted. I think I do not see enough consensus here to go ahead and create the subcats as part of this CFD, but others can try to find a consensus to do that and go ahead themselves at any point.
delldot∇. 04:24, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Not sure what to do with this category but it needs to split or it's going to become messy and useless. For the entire 100 years,
Category:20th-century actors totalled 1,048 entries but, 12 years into the millenium this cat already has 1,460 and is going to become ridiculously large. AussieLegend (
✉) 15:23, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep as is. I fail to see how the category is useless when it grows.
Dimadick (
talk) 15:26, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
The argument is not that the category is not needed but that it should be split. Saying keep does not make sense.
Keep although I have to admit I am not convinced that people by occupation by century is as useful a way to break categories down as some think.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:06, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Question Are people by occupation by century categories allowed to be broken down by nationality or is that too precise? If so, I could see breaking this category down.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:06, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Split by nationality It makes sense to split a category like actors by nationality by century.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
This has been done for the writers by century category, but only for French and Irish writers, at least in the 20th and 21st centuries.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep per Dimadick. I agree with everything Dimadick has said. I fail to see why the category shouldn't be kept as is. -
And we drowntalk · 8:18, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
As indicated above by somebody else, "keep" votes don't make sense as I'm not proposing that we delete the category, just split it into more manageable chunks. What are the advantages to not doing this? --AussieLegend (
✉) 09:14, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
If the category is split, it will become an essentially empty category with multiple subcategories. So "Keep as is" votes do make sense. And the obvious advantage of any large category is giving an easy overview of its subject to anyone searching for the info. Numerous small categories do not particularly help from a reader's perspective. --
Dimadick (
talk) 09:32, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I said keep as is. Not only keep. And keep votes do make sense, sorry. The advantage of one big category for each century is that is makes things far easier for everybody. One should be able to look for actors by century and not have to then know what country they were from or something else in order to find them. I don't think more precise categories are going to do anybody any favors, and I think the burden of proof is on you here,
AussieLegend to convince us why things shouldn't stay the same. These actors by century categories make sense to not be broken down into smaller categories, and clearly most of us seem to think that. -
And we drowntalk · 14:35 PM, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
All three people who have voted for keep. That is hardly "most" of anything.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 20:28, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete -- A split by time (e.g. decade) is difficult, because a typical actor will be active for several decades. A 19th century category may be appropriate, but about a year ago, we had a large scale cull of categories making a 20th/21st century. I think the answer is that they shall all be distributed to appropriate (probably national) subcategories of "actors". Accordingly the initial action will need to be a merge (without retaining redirect).
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:08, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Exactly. These are underpopulated categories. I am also uncertain why the cull of categories mentioned by Peterkingiron took place. Just to make articles more difficult to locate?
Dimadick (
talk) 22:37, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I think the logic is that we are not supposed to split people into present and past categories, and that is what is essentially going on when you only have two categories. However since we do have
Category:19th-century actors,
Category:18th-century actors,
Category:17th-century actors and so forth, this is not an issue here. It would probably be a good reason not to subdivide into film actors, television actors, radio actors etc., since those categories will at present be limited to mostly just two century cats (how many films were made in the 19th century?). I think we should also work to make sure that people only get placed in actors cats for centuries in which they actually acted. If someone was born in 1082, but did not appear professionally until 2001, they should not be in the 20th-century actors cat.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 23:48, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Several hundreds of (short) films were created in the 19th-century, but since most of them were non-fiction documentaries the people depicted could hardly be listed as actors. The 19th-century category should be dominated by stage actors.
Dimadick (
talk) 09:13, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Either split actors from actresses, or split by nationality. Statυs (
talk) 12:57, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
AS I indicated above 19th 18th 17th and 16th century categories would be appropriate, but the 20th and 21st century ones would not. WE did a mass cull on the 20th/21st century distinction as an attempt to get a past/present distinction by the back door.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 23:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment it seems that there is no support for deleting this category.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 02:07, 25 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep Could we keep the category and then split it into subsections such as nationalities?--
5 albert square (
talk) 00:56, 29 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Since that is what has been done with both
Category:19th-century writers and
Category:20th-century writers, although never as agressively built than this category and the 20th-century actors categories, I see no reason not to. In fact, technically the splitting out nationalities could be done without CfD endorsement, but it is better to seek a consensus on the matter before acting, although the lack of many comments seems to indicate not many care. My guess is this category could be brought to about 10,000 entries without any new articles added to wikipedia, maybe not quite that many, but close. I would urge people to caution, and to not add people to a century category unless they acted in a forum at least widely viewed during the century involved. I thought of saying "professional forum", but would not limit it in all cases.
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Category:Taishanese people
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The result of the discussion was:rename to
Category:People from Taishan and
Category:People of Taishan descent. No objections to the change of target from the nom. Thank you much, Nlu, for offering to help carry out the split, I will list it at
WP:CFD/W/M#Other (and thanks to anyone else who wants to help as well). If the article doesn't give a clue about which new category to place the person in, it probably shouldn't be in either.
delldot∇. 00:57, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: This category is trying to serve two different purposes, and I think as one single category, it does not serve its purpose particularly well. People who are born from Taishan should be dealt with distinctively from people with ancestry from Taishan. Split. --
Nlu (
talk) 05:39, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Split per nom, we should not have such indiscriminate conglomeration of people categories.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 19:47, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment shouldn't this also have a category for
Category:Taishanese speakers (Taishanese/Toisanese/Hoisanese -- first from Mandarin, second from Cantonese, third from the language itself) ? --
70.24.245.172 (
talk) 20:05, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment the second target should be
Category:People of Taishan descent, which is the normal format for expatriate categories. If a split is to be undertaken, the nom will need to do the work, by adding the right target category to each article. It is not reasonable to ask the closing admin to do this. When that is completed, the subject category can be deleted or become a dab-category.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 16:45, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I would be willing to do that to the extent I can tell from the article contents themselves. --
Nlu (
talk) 19:50, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment nominating to split is however totally acceptable. It is much better that the person bring the issue here for discussion instead of trying to implement their idea and then present us with a rename nomination and a fait accompli.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 23:49, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment Should I go ahead and start doing this? Is there enough a consensus even though the discussion isn't closed yet? --
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Category:Typhoon templates
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Presidentman: Actually they are the same things, Tropical Storms, Typhoons, Hurricanes, etc are all
regional names for tropical cyclones, so as i said do we really need 3 categories for the same thing?
Jason Rees (
talk) 00:11, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Actually we can justify it because these are the top level categories for tropical cyclone templates and there are 7 subcats within Hurricane templates that takes care of any templates related to basins. We could also merge them into each other and redirect them.
Jason Rees (
talk) 01:53, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge - Under
Category:Tropical cyclone templates, typhoons may be in different basins than hurricanes, but they are all tropical cyclones. They should be subcategories, potentially. I'd rather have 1 category than 3 categories of the same thing in different names. TheAustinMan(
Talk·
Works) 00:18, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge, no need to split by basin, there aren't enough. ♫
Hurricanehink (
talk) 04:20, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge under
Category:Typhoon templates, there's not reason to preferentially use "hurricane", since the most severe ones are Pacific Typhoons, which also have a much longer written meteorological history. --
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Category:Psychiatry community services
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Nominator's rationale: the distinction is too fine to break it out. ps. if kept it still needs to be renamed "Psychiatric community services".
Mercurywoodrose (
talk) 04:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Merge - category was meant to encompass care in the community type services but probably ill conceived. Also, as noted, noun used instead of adjective - doh - sorry about that.
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Category:Latin Americans YouTube Channels
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The result of the discussion was:self-close; category was speedily deleted as empty after contents were all deleted.Good Ol’factory(talk) 04:36, 17 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:Rename. Since YouTube is on the Internet, I think it makes more sense to divide YouTube channels by language than by area of the world that they originate from. (Some of the original contents of the category have been deleted, so deletion/upmerge to
Category:YouTube channels is another possibility.)
Good Ol’factory(talk) 00:32, 7 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Yes, I have corrected this. I guess I should not have assumed that this category uses the standard capitzlization form.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 23:37, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete. Contains one article only, which does not even seem notable.
Nymfhideliho! 15:38, 8 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment for what it is worth this category now has no entries, so renaming at this point probably does not make sense. I am not sure what happened to the one article.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 23:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)reply
It may well have been deleted. All of the contents were nominated for deletion either through PROD or AFD, so I expect that's what has happened.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I speedied the only article in the cat.
Nymfhideliho! 07:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Ah, OK. I guess this can be safely deleted then, and it will be speedily deleted as empty before too long.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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