Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 August 7



Category:People known by their middle name

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting people known by their middle name


 * Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization. These people aren't notable because they chose to go by their middle names. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:21, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, I made this category. I'm not sure if it's true that they aren't notable. It's something notable enough that all the articles for these people do mention it. &mdash;ajf (talk) 22:29, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete not a defining characteristic Snuggums (talk / edits) 22:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete this triviality. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. This is non-defining. kennethaw88 • talk 01:24, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Trivial, non-defining characteristic. I spent a huge amount of energy expanding the category, but I still think it is trivial.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:40, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment It is also open to a lot of debate. Should Ted Cruz, known by a nick-name derived from his middle name be here? Jake Garn, under the same condition?John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:14, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per Snuggums. Snappy (talk) 11:30, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - I agree that this is too trivial for a cat. Neutralitytalk 04:58, 16 August 2015 (UTC)


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Category:Technology and inventions by region

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge while leaving detailed implementation to nominator. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:28, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Technology and inventions by region to appropriate parent categories
 * Nominator's rationale: Selective upmerge to parent categories Category:Categories by region, Category:Inventions, Category:Technology and Category:Science and technology by location. This category contains one article and 3 sub-cats which have little in common, and is not useful for navigation. I have not spelled out which members I think belong in which parent categories, but am willing to implement this judiciously if there is consensus to move the contents up into appropriate parents. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:10, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete and upmerge this seems a contrived category. Presumably "technology by region" is largely a useless category given the relatively global marketplace - I would assume that television, radio, cell phones are nearly in every region, and while things like the abacus could be used more often in some regions than others, it is not unobtainable elsewhere. As for where an invention is made is better handled in the parents (or diffused to their children). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


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Category:Articles lacking in-text citations from Aug 2015

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting articles lacking in-text citations from aug 2015


 * Nominator's rationale: Redundant category, as Category:Articles lacking in-text citations from August 2015 already exists. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 03:48, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as the category creator I have no objection to its deletion. Dan arndt (talk) 04:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


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Category:Historical settlements of Ukraine

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic  L ondon 20:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Propose Deleting Category:Historical settlements of Ukraine
 * Propose Deleting Category:Historical settlements
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. This category is a grab bag of different meanings of the word "historical": - towns that were annexed into adjacent cities (1, 2, 3), cities that had a Jewish population killed in the Holocaust (4, 5, 6), types of city that aren't specifically Ukrainian (7, 8) and one that was founded in the 11th century A.D. (9). There are definitely some defining attributes here so I added the appropriate articles to Category:Former municipalities, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Category:Populated places established in the 11th century. As an overall category though, this is too subjective and it groups towns with almost nothing in common, save being in Ukraine. (The parent category has a handful of articles from around the world but all of them already have more specific categories to explain why they are historical.)RevelationDirect (talk) 01:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: Notified Sanya3 as the apparent category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Ukraine. – RevelationDirect (talk) 01:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT, if these categories would be expanded they would merely going to coincide with the tree of Category:Populated places by century of establishment. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 8 August 2015 (UTC)


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