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Nominator's rationale: This category was created as "Ejected Centaurs", and moved without discussion without formal discussion to "extended centaurs". Centaurs are, in non-technical language, things between comets and asteroids. On some definitions centaurs are within Neptune's orbit. The members of this category are considered centaurs by other definitions, even though they are
Category:Trans-Neptunian objects. –
FayenaticLondon 23:40, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Rename. And here I was, trying to imagine a horse with a long body and a man's head.
Grutness...wha? 00:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment, some of the objects in the articles are described as trans-Neptunian objects, others are described as centaurs. If they really are all of the same kind it would be helpful to harmonize the articles.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 21:38, 25 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Additional note: Although there was no CFD discussion, and no link in the edit summaries, I have just found that some editors did confer before the move to the current name, see
User_talk:Kheider#2012_DR30_and_orbital_classification and following. –
FayenaticLondon 10:22, 27 December 2020 (UTC)reply
This looks really messy. @
Rfassbind and
Kheider: pinging both discussants in the latter discussion.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 11:49, 27 December 2020 (UTC)reply
To nominator "Trans-Neptunian centaurs", is this term ever used in literature? A quick google search only gives me two hits of minor importance, while
Extended centaur seems well documented. Also ping @
Exoplanetaryscience:, just in case. — Rfassbind– talk 07:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment As an add-on to this: The nominator's description seems to indicate that centaurs are a mutually exclusive orbital body to trans-Neptunian objects, and this is simply not the case. Centaurs are simply defined as any object whose average orbit is beyond Jupiter but closest point is within Neptune, and not in an orbital resonance with one of these planets (hence Pluto and the rest of the Plutinos do not count, nor do the Uranus or Neptune trojans) whereas a trans-Neptunian object is just any asteroid whose orbit goes beyond Neptune. All this is to say that they are all still technically centaurs, even if individual articles do not say as such. I've also definitely seen the term "extended centaur" used quite prevalently in scientific literature. Still, I don't have strong opinions one way or another. They are the same thing regardless.
exoplanetaryscience (
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Comment This classifications is based on the simulated behavior of the orbit when extended over 10 million years. The extended centaurs are non-resonant objects whose closest approach to the Sun is less than the semi-major axis of Neptune (~30 AU) at any time during the simulation. But since creating the category the Minor Planet Center has combined
Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects into a single generic list making the category much less Wikipedia-friendly. Changing it to "Trans-Neptunian centaurs" might make more sense for people taking a quick glance at a category. This category (the semantics) has driven me crazy for 5 years. --
Kheider (
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I took more than a quick glance: I read the page history and the talk page, and there was no indication of any discussion anywhere. It would have helped if some clues had at least been left in edit summaries. I only noticed the discussion on your user talk page when I went to give specific notice of this nomination to editors who had worked on the category page. –
FayenaticLondon 10:32, 29 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I do not object to merger, but the Centaurs target should not be that one but the astronomy category (nominated below). I have not looked into whether the member pages also necessarily belong within
Category:Damocloids;
Kheider, please advise. –
FayenaticLondon 10:32, 29 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks, I have fixed the merge target.
Marcocapelle (
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Most of the ext-centaurs are already listed under damocloids so I do not see a need to merge the remaining ones. Merging them to Centaurs (minor planets) and Trans-Neptunian objects seem like a good idea. I have not messed with damocloids in about 3 years because I was hoping for a more Wikipedia friendly definition to develop. --
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Category:Centaurs (minor planets)
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Nominator's rationale: Rename, corresponding to
centaur (small Solar System body). This could be nominated speedily,
WP:C2D, but I am listing it on this page for completeness along with two of its sub-cats. –
FayenaticLondon 23:34, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Rename to match main article to ease navigation. -
RevelationDirect (
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Rename per nom to match main article to ease navigation. --
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Category:Politicians from Hopkinton, Rhode Island
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Nominator's rationale: Small community (Under 10,000) people with just four entries. In fact this subcategory has more entries than its parent.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof? 18:34, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge but do we need another target reflecting them being politicians? The two I looked at seemed not to need that.
Peterkingiron (
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Merge we do not need this type of category for 4 people.
John Pack Lambert (
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Merge per nom. --
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Nominator's rationale: Small one-county community with just one entry.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof? 13:08, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Definite maybe I’ll run a search to see how many other people might fit in this category.
Peter Flass (
talk) 14:40, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Approve After a search, I only found one other person.
Peter Flass (
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Merge for Now With no objection to recreating later if it ever gets up to 5+ articles. -
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Merge per nom. --
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Category:Movie memes
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Nominator's rationale: The category is somewhat misleading, as it doesn't contain memes themselves, but films or franchises that contain them.
Brandmeistertalk 12:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete No conceptual objection to the topic, but this is false advertising. -
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Delete per the above comments, and as being non-defining. LugnutsFire Walk with Me 17:26, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete The category includes the fims themselves, and not any memes.
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Delete per nom. --
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Fiction about astronomical locations
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You are right, in retrospect it should have been a split between "about" and "set" all the way.
Marcocapelle (
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I expect "set on" would be sufficient in most cases. Mind you, for some locations, different wording would be needed; "set around" stars, "set in" galaxies?
As for the member pages,
Destiny 2 has the centaur Nessus as one of 4 settings; the sequel presumably also uses it;
The Ganymede Club mentions colonies on small planetoids; and as you say
Pilot (short story) is fully set on Chiron. IMHO these are all good enough to stay in a "set on" category. –
FayenaticLondon 11:42, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment The "set around" thing looks fishy and borders
WP:NONDEFINING. If anything, this should be "set on", but then the plots should be checked if it's indeed so.Brandmeistertalk 13:08, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
No fiction is set on a star - the stories are set on planets orbiting a star, etc. –
FayenaticLondon 13:19, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
No it doesn't, because those are the former names from which they were moved in the previous CFD linked above. Those names were considered not defining. Setting or "fiction about.." is more clearly defining. –
FayenaticLondon 18:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support-ish per nom. I think this would be an improvement, but I think an even better one would be to upmerge these back to "Vega in fiction", etc. though the original mass rename was an improvement itself, over "Vega in fiction", etc. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 19:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC); revised: —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:32, 27 December 2020 (UTC)reply
'Vega in fiction' suggests that it is fiction about Vega which is clearly not the case. Note that all of these are borderline
WP:NONDEF cases anyway, there is hardly any reference to geography in this type of fiction and the main feature is that they are set in space.
Marcocapelle (
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"Foo in fiction" just means that foo is mentioned or referenced there, not necessarily that it's about Foo. "In" has more general meaning, "about" is more specific. But I'm neutral here anyway.
Brandmeistertalk 08:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Right! And in the previous round there was a counter-argument of sorts that also militated against "Foo in fiction" for such cases: "There is precedent for renaming this type of category to prevent misuse for minor references." I.e., people will stick things in these categories if these astro-places were even passingly mentioned. So, while I think the proposal is a bit clearer and more narrowing than the current names, reverting to "in ficton" would be a mistake twice over (two different groups would misuse the category two different ways). Sorry I didn't think that through sufficiently on the first pass. I'll blame it on Xmas Eve. PS: I don't disagree with the point that some of these may be NONDEF, but we might have to approach this on a case-by-case basis when it comes to deletion. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:32, 27 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Tentative support Makes sense to turn into setting categories. Though in some cases, the fiction concerns aliens from these locations. Should Canopus be disambiguated from fictional depictions of
Canopus, Egypt?
Dimadick (
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Support per nom. --
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Category:Fiction about Earth
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Nominator's rationale: This one is worth reconsidering separately. It includes subcats for each continent in fiction, along with other aspects. –
FayenaticLondon 13:16, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep as-is. As noted in the larger related CfR above, "Foo in fiction" as a category name for an astronomical body has a problem: one group of editors will think it means only fiction with that body as a central focus (which is also what the current name conveys), while another group will think it means any passing mention. As I said in
the prevoius CfR on this stuff a month ago: "I'm not sure there is any utility at all in the one about Earth. That would seem (broadly interpreted anyway) to account for all fiction ever, that did not take place in outer space or in a fantasy alternative world. Even narrowly interpreted to require considerable treatment of Earth as an astronomical body, that would still include the vast majority of science fiction ever written, probably." That applies especially to "Category:Earth in fiction". I was originally arguing that it also applied to the current name, but this category has largely been repurposed to hold subcats like continent ones. While the above larger CfR makes great sense for most cases, it would fail badly for "Category:Fiction set on earth", which would be the ultimate case of what I was taking about in the old CfR.
So, this is one case where our preference for consistent category names has to take an IAR/COMMONSENSE break and permit a divergence that will be too confusing if we do not. There's much precedent for this, e.g. when things have names like "English billiards", and we have
Category:Snooker players, and
Category:Pool players, and
Category:Carom billiards players, which have to diverge to
Category:Players of English billiards to avoid confusion with a "Category:Billiards players from England". There are many clarity exceptions like this. Earth, from a fiction-setting standpoint, is completely unlike all the other categories nominated above, because almost all fiction is set here.
Side proposal: We could create an additional subcategory, to "net" a certain class of sci-fi, e.g. "Category:Earth as a astronomical body in fiction", or "Category:Fiction about Earth as an astronomical body", or something like that, then make
Category:Fiction about Earth a container category that must diffuse. I think this would take care of all of the "loose" articles presently in the category, except for a couple that already have another subcategory to go into (e.g.
Earth-Two belongs in the subcat
Category:Counter-Earths, I would think). —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:51, 27 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep as-is There is no way to change the title without changing its scope.
Dimadick (
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Keep for now. --
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The result of the discussion was:merge/delete as nominated.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:17, 1 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: delete per
WP:SMALLCAT, only one or two universities / colleges in each of these cities / districts.
Marcocapelle (
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Merge All No conceptual objection to this degree of diffusion IF the contents justify it. They don't and growth potential is limited. -
RevelationDirect (
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That is a fair point, I have added the provincial merge targets.
Marcocapelle (
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Support (with the provincial target). This is a clear case of over-diffusion, whose solutuon is upmerging.
Peterkingiron (
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Support per nom. --
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Suicide by period
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Nominator's rationale: rename, these are set categories, almost without exception they contain articles about individual suicides. Note that I created a few "older" (pre-1940 and 1950s) decade categories just now, but the larger part of the tree already existed.
Marcocapelle (
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Rename — wow, that was a lot of work! But do we really need the "by decade" categories? Simpler to have "by year", then group the years into centuries, without the double tags on each article. Or we need to have better tagging instructions, so that they are only "by year" for larger categories or "by decade" for smaller ones, with both grouped into centuries. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 11:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
That is food for a next discussion. I think at least we should diffuse all 20th century decade categories to years.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 12:19, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Agree. I've started the diffusing from most recent decade (1970s). William Allen Simpson (
talk) 17:06, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Done diffusing mixed decades/years 1940s–1970s by hand. All the years before that are in decades only, so no hand checking needed. Better to handle after the rename is completed. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 21:05, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks! At second thought it may be too soon to diffuse the pre-1940pre-1920 decade categories as well.
Marcocapelle (
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Meanwhile I have diffused the 1930s and 1920s after all.
Marcocapelle (
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Rename - I don't share the objection to 'decades' (which has been made successfully elsewhere); this, as a subcategory of
Category:Deaths, should follow the (exemplary) structure of
Category:Deaths by period.
Oculi (
talk) 14:25, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support Simpler titles tend to aid navigation.
Dimadick (
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Support per nom and commentary of Dimadick|. --
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Category:American scientists of Italian descent
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Nominator's rationale:WP:OCEGRS. I am quite skeptical that being "of Italian descent" is a
WP:DEFINING feature of the American scientists in this category.
AleatoryPonderings (
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Delete — all those I've checked are at least 2nd generation (some more). ISSNAF is explicitly for 1st generation. Agree about those other categories, too.... But it is so easy to create these intersection categories, and so hard to delete them. A neverending process. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 21:11, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as a trivial intersection category.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete per nom. --
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Category:Musicians who committed suicide
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Nominator's rationale: Trivial intersection. No notable
WP:DEFINING link between the occupation and the manner of death, even though the death itself may have been notable.
Note: Sources about the death of a person will often discuss both their occupation and their cause of death. This doesn't make this intersection any more notable than a combination with other aspects often discussed in such notices, such as their number of children. See previous:
Delete We can categorize by each, but the intersection of the two does not seem defining. Generally, they are notable for being singers and, since they already have an article, their death is defining.
RevelationDirect (
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Comment: there's also a potential can of worms here...
Nick Drake died from an overdose of prescription drugs, but the coroner was about the only person who believed it was a suicide, and not an accidental overdose. So to have a category explicitly stating that he died by suicide would not necessarily be correct... if kept, it should be
xxxx musicians ruled to have died by suicide.
Richard3120 (
talk) 14:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep I don't see this as trivial, and the sources cover it.
Dimadick (
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Delete per nom. --
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the White Double Cross
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Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are
listed right here. -
RevelationDirect (
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Delete per nom. --
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Category:Recipients of the Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation
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The
Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation is an award that given by the
Prime Minister of Jamaica that falls outside of the Jamaican Honours System. The PMs must be big fans of boxing since 3 of the 4 recipients here are professional boxers who are already under
Category:Jamaican boxers. Within the articles, 1 mentions this award in passing while 3 don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right
here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Fortified frontiers
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Nominator's rationale: Identical scope for this category and its parent, as frontier is understood to mean border, and barrier implies some sort of fortification. What is a border barrier that is not fortified?
Place Clichy (
talk) 00:15, 24 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge -- They seem to be substantially the same thing.
Peterkingiron (
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Merge per nom. --
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