Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 October 14



Singer-songwriter albums

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting:


 * Category:Singer-songwriter albums
 * Category:Singer-songwriter compilation albums‎
 * Category:Singer-songwriter EPs‎
 * Category:Live singer-songwriter albums‎
 * Category:Singer-songwriter video albums‎
 * Nominator's rationale: It seems that these categories are categorizing albums of artists by occupation. Aside from being incorrectly being categorized under, there has never been a tree structure to categorize albums by occupation of the artists. This would only lead to overcategorization and the intersection seem pretty trivial to the albums themselves, as opposed to defining characteristics of an album, like genre. Do we really want to see categorized like , , ? I don't think this is a road we would want to go down. — ξ xplicit  22:19, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep: This is a genre as supported here Allrovi, The ideology of genre: a comparative study of generic instability, Rock: A Canadian Perspective, The words and music of Carole King. I believe that's enough. Andrzejbanas (talk) 22:34, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, this is confusing... if covers all musicians who write, compose and sing their own music—as a profession—why is  limited to the genre? Some sort of distinction needs to be made in the category name between the two. —  ξ xplicit  23:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, possible rename As pointed out at singer-songwriter, this is a genre of music as well as an occupation of a kind of folk/pop singer. If (e.g.) Kelly Clarkson wrote her own music and performed it, she would not be a "singer-songwriter" like Joni Mitchell. I suppose it's possible that it should or could be renamed Category:Singer-songwriter (genre) albums, but that really seems unnecessary to me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:14, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. The links provided by User:Andrzejbanas are historically correct, however, the term has now widened to include any singer who (sometimes) also writes their own songs, therefore claims of "genre" are completely weakened to meaningless. The Singer-songwriter article opens up with the words, "Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies, and includes names like Elton John, each of the Beatles and Jagger/Richards. So claims this is still a "genre" are wide of the mark.
 * The guidelines at WikiProject Albums/Article body states "Per WP:CATEGORY, an album may be categorized by a characteristic (such as producer, composer, record-label, etc.) only if it is a defining characteristic of the album (i.e. reliable, secondary sources commonly and consistently define the album as having the characteristic—not just mention it in passing or for completeness). Of the few albums I checked none defined the album as a "singer-songwriter" album, so it looks like these categories also fail under the guidelines, too.
 * For a sample of artists who are classified of singer-songwriters in WP, there is Adele (singer), Henry Rollins, Mariah Carey, Bill Haley, Sam Cooke and Geri Halliwell. None of whom I would call singer-songwriters of "the bardic tradition" but would be fully entitled to be listed in these categories. I also note the artist for whom the term was coined is not listed in any of these categories, which also speaks volumes for the lack of worth of these particular categories.
 * Cheers. Richhoncho (talk) 09:56, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. I understand the roots of the phrase, but this is way too spongy a term for our encyclopedic usage.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete-- I'm a biographer of musicians, & for 4 years have created, edited, & found photos needed for their articles. I negotiated over 1,500 photo uploads to Commons for articles left behind by others without pics, references etc.--and poor writing and categorization!! There should not be a category for their work- I (personally) don't view singer-songwriter as a profession (that would be "musician") and their work draws from different genres which can be listed instead. Jeezy! Singer-songwriters emerged in the 1960s. Generalization? They'd perform their own material which often had a message they wanted to convey. They include James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Harry Chapin, and Neil Young- a very short list off the top of my head. Leahtwosaints (talk) 00:06, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


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U.S. Navy vessels named after people by state

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 * The result of the discussion was: upmerge to Category:United States Navy (X)-related ships. I'm upmerging these so that their connection to their state doesn't get lost; people can delete those category links later if desired. I'm also upmerging the related Category:United States Navy vessels named after people from New York and deleting the soon-to-be-empty Category:United States Navy vessels named after people.--Mike Selinker (talk) 16:04, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * united states navy vessels named after people from the district of columbia


 * united states navy vessels named after people from florida


 * united states navy vessels named after people from georgia (u.s. state)


 * united states navy vessels named after people from maryland


 * united states navy vessels named after people from michigan


 * united states navy vessels named after people from minnesota


 * united states navy vessels named after people from missouri


 * united states navy vessels named after people from montana


 * united states navy vessels named after people from new jersey


 * united states navy vessels named after people from north carolina


 * united states navy vessels named after people from north dakota


 * united states navy vessels named after people from ohio


 * united states navy vessels named after people from pennsylvania


 * united states navy vessels named after people from south carolina


 * united states navy vessels named after people from south dakota


 * united states navy vessels named after people from texas


 * united states navy vessels named after people from utah


 * united states navy vessels named after people from virginia


 * united states navy vessels named after people from washington (state)


 * united states navy vessels named after people from west virginia


 * Nominator's rationale: Delete/Upmerge. WP:OC, not especially defining, badly populated (I'm sure more than one person from Texas has had a ship named after them...) small categories. Suggest leaving the one for New York, as it seems to be significantly more significant (to run the risk of being redundant) than the others with 49 articles, but the contents other by-state subcats of Category:United States Navy vessels named after people should be upmerged both to that parent that and to the Category:United States Navy state-related ships categories. (Note that the "after foreign nationals" and "after Presidents" are very defining and should be kept irregardless of this). The Bushranger One ping only 21:16, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete For one thing, whoever is populating these categories is justifying this with extremely tenuous connections which I for one would not categorize as being "from". For example, of the four people with ships listed under "Maryland", one has no stated association with the state, one was born in Colorado and buried in Baltimore, and one was born in Venezuela, the son of a diplomat from Baltimore. Only one was actually born in the state. The whole thing strikes me as a trivial intersection, especially if this low standard is going to be accepted; considering that most of these are going to be military men, the number of states that most of them have some connection with is going to be pretty large. Mangoe (talk) 12:31, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete – I am hard-pressed to see that any of these (including "after foreign nationals" and "after Presidents") have any bearing whatever on the categorisation of a warship. This is categorisation by some property of the name. (I had thought irregardless was a family joke but I see it has wider currency.) Occuli (talk) 14:22, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment does this include people from territories before they became states? (or people from territories from which states were carved out of?) 70.24.251.158 (talk) 08:02, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be overcategorization per nom and comments above. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


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Category:Alicante

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 * The result of the discussion was: no consensus. We probably need a global discussion on city/province categories in Spain, since we've had a bunch of discussions and no clear direction.--Mike Selinker (talk) 16:06, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Alicante to Category:Alicante (city)
 * Nominator's rationale: Rename. Disambiguation needed - Alicante is also a province of Spain. Mayumashu (talk) 17:19, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Article is at Alicante; category should match the article name for place names, I think. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


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Category:Listed buildings by function

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Listed buildings in the United Kingdom by function.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:27, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Listed buildings by function to Category:British listed buildings by function or Category:Listed buildings in the United Kingdom by function
 * Nominator's rationale: Rename. Listed building is a term used world wide for many different purposes. From historic designation to energy savings it is widely used making the term inherently ambiguous. While there is an article for listed building that does not help with a category like Category:Listed bridges.  This is trial balloon at the top of this tree.  If this rename has consensus, there will be a need to rename a batch of subcategories.  Vegaswikian (talk) 06:52, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Rename to Category:Listed buildings in the United Kingdom by function: subcat scheme for Category:Listed buildings in the United Kingdom (which was renamed from Category:Listed buildings at cfd in Jan 2011). I would consider this to be a speedy after the previous rename. Occuli (talk) 13:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


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Category:Symbolic color

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete.--Mike Selinker (talk) 16:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * symbolic color


 * Nominator's rationale: This seems impossibly vague to me--what are the inclusion criteria? Any time that color is associated with a political ideology, religious group, military tradition, etc.? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:04, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Endless and useless category as the entries would have nothing to do with each other.Curb Chain (talk) 06:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete – this is analogous to categorisation by shared name: in this case, the names contain a colour. Occuli (talk) 09:46, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: Perhaps as Koavf mentioned, it seems that the purpose would be topics in which color is chosen because of its meaning in some other context, as distinguished from where the color is natural or was chosen arbitrarily. I would say this category could be useful, though some of the articles in it right now aren't very good examples.  A better example of appropriate topics (which I don't see on Wikipedia yet) would be "Green in symbolism" or something like that.  "Liturgical colors" seems like a better example also; the colors used for vestments symbolize different concepts.  Color symbolism appears to be the main topic article, though that article is very incomplete.  I'm sure there could be articles about why, for example, leftist movements such as labor unions and socialism use the color red.  All that being said: I'm not sure there are a lot of existing articles to fill this category, even if there should be. --Closeapple (talk) 16:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment User:Stefanomione created Category:Metaphors by reference, which has been around for a while, though I've never been fond of it. I suppose we could rename to "Metaphors referring to colors," or some such name, and keep, if there was any interest. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:11, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


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