Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 May 23



Category:Steelpan players

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic  L ondon 07:36, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Steelpan players to Category:Steelpan musicians
 * Nominator's rationale: Merge duplicate categories. I'm suggesting merging the newer and smaller category but the reverse merge would be as acceptable. Tassedethe (talk) 14:16, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Support I prefer the proposed method, as the reverse would potentially exclude composers and the like. SFB 13:28, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


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Category:Branches of Christianity

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic  L ondon 08:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Branches of Christianity to Category:Christian denominational families
 * Nominator's rationale: Merge. The category is redundant. Only one of the two is needed. tahc chat 03:43, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Strongly agree with the merger! Marcocapelle (talk) 09:38, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Comment The only use that their separate existances served was to give a fig leaf to the Catholic Church, whose position it is that it is not a denomination of Christianity. Calling it a "branch" allowed it to be seen in the overall context while preserving their sensibilities. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:00, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge these appear to cover the exact same topic, given no clear distinction between a branch and a denomination. SFB 13:22, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge to Category:Christian denominational families per nom, keeping the chart. Johnbod (talk) 14:34, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


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Category: Shabbat

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 * The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:00, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Sabbath to Category:Shabbat
 * Nominator's rationale: Merge. The category is redundant. Only one of the two is needed.Marcocapelle (talk) 13:35, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * In retrospect I understand. Category:Shabbat refers to the Jewish tradition, while Category:Sabbath refers to the Christian tradition. Still, it's very confusing!
 * New proposal: rename Category:Sabbath into Category:Shabbat (Christian) Marcocapelle (talk) 22:21, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose both proposals. The first one merges the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the second tries to label the Christian one in Jewish terms. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Dear BrownHairedGirl, how do you mean the latter? Proposal is just to make clear that the word is used in Christian sense, so to add this in brackets. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:25, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * BrownHairedGirl's point is that "Shabbat" is a Jewish term unfamiliar to most Christians. Category:Sabbath could be renamed to Category:Christian Sabbath but I do not see way that improves on things. It seems better to make Shabbat a sub-cat of Sabbath, and consider Sabbath for all types there-of. tahc chat 19:20, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose all of the above. I would only support Tahc's suggestion if the main category was Category:Days of rest. SFB 13:25, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * SFB, you seem to be asking for vagueness.
 * Do you want Category:Sabbath to be about Christian sabbath only, but just not call it that? tahc chat 17:04, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Sabbath does not exclusively refer to the Christian Sabbath. The article Sabbath is even broader and actually covers all days of rest. I advocate changing Category:Sabbath to Category:Days of rest – a category covering articles that exclusively cover the Christian Sabbath and not days of rest more broadly would be a small one indeed. SFB 20:47, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Nearly everything that is directly in Category:Sabbath is about the Christian Sabbath-- it would not be "a small one indeed."
 * Oppose a change to Category:Days of rest. That would include many things such as Labour/Labor day.
 * I agree that until or unless we change anything to Category:Christian Sabbath we can consider this one about Sabbath in general. tahc chat 23:03, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Of the eleven items currently in the category, only five are specifically describing just the Christian Sabbath. SFB 17:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I see you are correct. All the more reason to keep the Category:Sabbath about Sabbath in general. tahc chat 22:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep -- Shabbat is a Hebrew word for a period from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Sabbath is an English word derived from it, which is sometimes (perhaps incorrectly) applied to Sunday.  The Seventh Day Adventists worship on Saturdays. I would support (at least in gental terms) the line being taken by BHG and Tahc, of having Sabbath as the parent and the differnet interpretations of that (by Jews and various kinds of Christians) as subcats.  Peterkingiron (talk) 20:36, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * There's a lot of distracting discussions going on now. My main point was, we seem to forget that a naive reader won't know the difference between Sabbath and Shabbat. If we would add Sabbath (Christian) and possibly even Shabbat (Jewish), things would be much clearer. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:10, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose Merge Category:Shabbat corresponds directly to its parent article Shabbat, contains articles related to the Jewish Sabbath and the mixing of the two is inappropriate. Alansohn (talk) 03:12, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Withdraw proposal. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:25, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


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Category: Judeo-Christian topics

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:37, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Judeo-Christian topics to Category:Christianity and Judaism
 * Nominator's rationale: Merge. Category is redundant. One of the two is sufficient.Marcocapelle (talk) 13:35, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Category:Judeo-Christian topics refers to a set of beliefs and ethics held in common by Judaism and Christianity, while Category:Christianity and Judaism is a comparative religion article. Editor2020 00:42, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Although the original intention of Category:Judeo-Christian topics may have been different, in practice there are mainly separate Jewish articles and separate Christian articles categorized here. So then practically speaking the category no longer serves it purpose. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose The Judeo-Christian tradition is not just a mashup of Christianity and Judaism. Has a notice of this proposal been posted at WikiProjects of Judaism, Christianity and History of Christianity? Liz  Read! Talk! 21:55, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not suggesting that the Judeo-Christian tradition is just a mashup of Christianity and Judaism. I'm just referring to the fact that there's currently many articles in this category that are written either from a Christian or a Jewish point of view, e.g. Christian views on the Old Covenant or Holy Spirit (Judaism). Alternatively, there are articles with a separate Christian chapter and Jewish chapter, e.g. Idolatry, which isn't any better. And there's also articles which have nothing to do with beliefs and ethics, e.g. Alba Bible and Fiscus Judaicus. The whole point is, the purpose of the category is apparently not clear to people who are (have been) categorizing these articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:37, 30 May 2014 (UTC)


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Category: Christian terms

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Christian terminology. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:19, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting Category:Christian terms
 * Nominator's rationale: Delete. It is an extremely vague category. Almost everything that refers to Christianity can be put in this category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Rename to Category:Christian terminology to match Category:Religious terminology. Editor2020 00:46, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Support rename to Category:Christian terminology, per Editor2020. tahc chat 05:25, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support move to terminology - widely used format. SFB 13:26, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support move to terminology Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:04, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Repeat my call for deletion but I'll phrase my motivation better. A 'term' or 'terminology' is a non-defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * What would be a better category for articles like Moh, Gursikh or Infaq? It would be a bit much to upmerge such articles to the parent religion category. SFB 08:37, 31 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Moh and Gursikh: Sikh beliefs or Sikh philosophy or Sikh practices (I'm not really sure which of the three, you will probably know better). Btw, it's striking that there is currently so little classified in Sikh beliefs.
 * Infaq: Islamic ethics and Quaranic words and phrases. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:00, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Just to avoid any misunderstandings: this proposal refers to Christianity only. The large amount of articles in Christianity already has an additional subcategory within Christianity (next to Christian terms), so there is little upmerging to the parent religion category needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:07, 31 May 2014 (UTC)


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Category:Religious freedom

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 * The result of the discussion was: speedy redirect. The additions to the category by the user who created it were highly tangential, so I've simply removed them. Graham 87  04:46, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting religious freedom


 * Nominator's rationale: Redundant of Category:Freedom of religion. EvergreenFir (talk) 00:53, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * "Freedom of religion" is a ponderous, overly wordy way of saying "religious freedom", which is what most people say, rather than what academics say when they want to stuff their sentences with extra syllables. Can the category have both names? It should. Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 01:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


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