Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Female chess players

The following discussion comes from Categories for deletion. This is an archive of the discussion only; please do not edit this page. -Kbdank71 17:23, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Female chess players
''keep:6, delete:10. consensus to delete.'' Kbdank71 17:24, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

We don't normally separate genders in categories. I agree that there may be some value in this, since famous female chess players are still relatively unusual, but I believe a list would be better suited. (I brought this up on the talk page&mdash;one person agreed with me and one did not.) -Aranel (" Sarah ") 18:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm a fan of chess and female chess players (since a lot of them are Hungarian), but I agree a list is probably better.  -Kbdank71 18:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. See the category's talk page. --Sonjaaa 23:39, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. "since famous female chess players are still relatively unusual". See also my comments on the talk page. Dysprosia 02:24, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notable enough to put on a list, but I don't think we need to separate male and female chess players, in the categorization scheme. --Azkar 02:40, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * List and delete. -Sean Curtin 18:27, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Delete - spurious relationship. -- Netoholic @ 18:45, 2005 Mar 10 (UTC)
 * List and Delete Names will give away gender a lot of the time, a list can provide extra info in a better way (e.g. first female grandmaster), much rather have them separated by nationality. Greg Robson 21:40, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. People in this cat aren't directly in Category:Chess players, which sounds sexist.  (Unless we make a Category:Male chess players?  That's sounds dumb.)  --A D Monroe III 23:04, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable and unique category. No need to make a Male chess player category as most people assume, rightly or wrongly, that chess players are male. Megan1967 02:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (reluctant). While I can see the arguments keeping as a special case due to the overwhelming majority of male to female players, it is sexist and should be deleted. All players, regardless of gender should be in Category:Chess players. Use a list instead for female chess players. As an aside, FIDE should get rid of the "Women" specific titles like WIM and WGM which gives women a unique status within the chess community. RedWolf 02:45, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I just used this category and I think that it might be useful. Sjakkalle 12:09, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete List instead. siafu 14:22, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Gangleri | [ Th] | T 16:58, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
 * List and delete. We don't (and shouldn't, in my view) have categories for Category:Female mathematicans or Category:Female computer scientists, so why chess players? &mdash;Caesura 20:26, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. While women can play chess in open tournaments, there is, indeed, in the chess world, a separate category for women; there are national women's championships as well as a world women's championship. As far as being sexist, that's a matter of interpretation, not a fact, but separation does reflect the reality of the chess world. Deleting this category would be little more than an exercise in denial. --Batgirl 20 Mar 2005