Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 October 12



Category:Space police officers

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 07:03, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Space police officers to Category:Fictional police officers
 * Nominator's rationale: This falls under WP:NARROWCAT as its contents can be sorted into Category:Fictional police officers, and Category:Fictional astronauts with no real issues. Fictional astronauts already covers the science fiction part. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:17, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


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Category:Users who do not wish to receive talkbacks

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete/rename. There is consensus to delete the category if Twinkle functionality is not impacted; otherwise, the category should be renamed to Category:Wikipedians who wish to not receive talkbacks. The category should remain as is until Twinkle is updated. Tracked: 405 (non-admin closure) —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:09, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Users who do not wish to receive talkbacks to Category:Wikipedians who do not wish to receive talkbacks
 * Nominator's rationale: Rename following the parent hierarchy Category:Wikipedians. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:07, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Just noting that renaming this category will affect Twinkle. I haven't got time to look at addressing this now, but certainly this category should not be renamed until Twinkle has been fixed. A post on WT:TW might help. — This, that and the other (talk) 10:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Is this category absolutely necessary in order for some sort of function related to talkbacks not showing up on these pages to work? If it is being used in such a way, can it detect a template as opposed to a user category instead? The bottom line is that it is not useful to group users by this preference in a category.  It's useful information to know, but that can be accomplished on a notice on the userpage.  To keep a category around implies the grouping of such users is beneficial to the encyclopedia, which I would posit there is not.  My preference would be deletion, but if there's some sort of unavoidable usage of this category related to a bot's function that cannot be altered to use a template instead, then reluctant rename per nom. VegaDark (talk) 06:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per VegaDark, but only if Twinkle can be made to detect the use of No talkback. Alternatively, rename to Category:Wikipedians who wish to not receive talkbacks, to reflect an active preference ("wish to not receive") instead of a lack of preference ("do not wish to receive"). One who "do[es] not wish to receive talkbacks" could be either opposed to receiving them or neutral about receiving them, whereas "wish to not receive" conveys active opposition. -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:00, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree your proposed rename is better, if deletion is ultimately not an option. VegaDark (talk) 23:36, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Black Falcon, great tweak! Would it be possible to further change this category into a positive statement? gidonb (talk) 04:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * That would be ideal, but I'm not sure how to do it given the category is based on a negative characteristic. I think "who wish to not receive talkbacks" is as positive as it can be: "who wish" is positive, it just happens that the positive statement is about a negative preference ("to not receive talkbacks"). I'd certainly welcome other suggestions. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:44, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * What is your view on a possible deletion of this category? Marcocapelle (talk) 22:01, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree that it depends on the requirements of Twinkle. No one seems to have posted a question about this at WT:TW yet. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:32, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I posted a link to this discussion at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. -- Black Falcon (talk) 02:24, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The category name is hard-coded here. I'll let a dev comment on whether detecting no talkback directly instead of a category would break uses, such as where the template is transcluded indirectly to a user's talk page. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:53, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Would you be willing to close this discussion? Regular admins are probably skipping this discussion because of the technical issues. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)


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American track and field athletes by state

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename, but editors are permitted to re-create "people" categories as parents where there are sufficient contents to make this useful. – Fayenatic  L ondon 16:55, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming the following categories:
 * Category:Track and field people from Arizona to Category:Track and field athletes from Arizona
 * Category:Track and field people from Arkansas to Category:Track and field athletes from Arkansas
 * Category:Track and field people from California to Category:Track and field athletes from California
 * Category:Track and field people from Colorado to Category:Track and field athletes from Colorado
 * Category:Track and field people from Florida to Category:Track and field athletes from Florida
 * Category:Track and field people from Georgia (U.S. state) to Category:Track and field athletes from Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Category:Track and field people from Idaho to Category:Track and field athletes from Idaho
 * Category:Track and field people from Illinois to Category:Track and field athletes from Illinois
 * Category:Track and field people from Indiana to Category:Track and field athletes from Indiana
 * Category:Track and field people from Michigan to Category:Track and field athletes from Michigan
 * Category:Track and field people from Montana to Category:Track and field athletes from Montana
 * Category:Track and field people from New Jersey to Category:Track and field athletes from New Jersey
 * Category:Track and field people from New York (state) to Category:Track and field athletes from New York (state)
 * Category:Track and field people from Ohio to Category:Track and field athletes from Ohio
 * Category:Track and field people from Oregon to Category:Track and field athletes from Oregon
 * Category:Track and field people from South Carolina to Category:Track and field athletes from South Carolina
 * Category:Track and field people from Texas to Category:Track and field athletes from Texas
 * Category:Track and field people from Virginia to Category:Track and field athletes from Virginia

The following states would be unchanged but have been reverse tagged to cover the alternatives:
 * Category:Track and field athletes from Louisiana
 * Category:Track and field athletes from Massachusetts
 * Category:Track and field athletes from Pennsylvania
 * Category:Track and field athletes from West Virginia
 * Category:Track and field athletes from Wyoming
 * Nominator's rationale: To have all the American "state" subcategories for track and field the same; using "athletes" not "people". Preferebly using "athletes" as most of the sports use "athletes" or similar eg baseball players, golfers (the exception is "ice hockey people"); (see eg. Category:sportspeople from California. Note that at present four states out of 21 use "athletes" and the remaining 17 use "people". Also there are separate subcategories for "sports coaches" I have tagged the four "athletes" subcategories for the four states for the reverse change so that both options are tagged and covered. Hugo999 (talk) 22:18, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Disagree--keep distinct with "people" as the parent of "athletes" Some category schemes have so many members that it makes sense to have categories for players, coaches, etc. E.g. look at Category:Baseball people. In the case of (again, e.g.) American football, there are persons who are in the field of American football who are not players such as team owners, announcers, etc. The question for me is if there are enough individuals to justify it. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:04, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Category:American track and field coaches does not have state subcategories at present, so I would suggest that they go into that category and the appropriate subcategory of Category:American sports coaches by state e.g. Category:Sports coaches from Texas. Hugo999 (talk) 12:59, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There aren't enough articles about coaches to turn this into viable state categories. Koavf is right, but the easiest way to implement this is to rename the people categories to athletes as nominated and then recreate the people categories for miscellaneous people involved in track and field, such as coaches. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Adding other categories like owners etc etc won’t justify a separate category for “track and field people by state” (fewer owners of track and field teams than of American football or Baseball teams?). And other “by state” sportspeople categories eg Category:Golfers from California or  Category:Soccer players from California are direct subcategories of  Category:Sportspeople from California with no subcategories for "Golf people from California" etc. Hugo999 (talk) 08:10, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment and !vote - given the comments from various people above, wouldn't it be better to keep these categories and simply create subcategories of them for the athletes themselves? Grutness...wha?  00:35, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: As pointed out above by Marcocapelle there are not enough track and field coaches in Category:American track and field coaches (about 100) to justify a breakdown by state, and I don’t think there will be many “track and field” people apart from coaches (no “owners” ?). Perhaps after renaming the “track and field people” to “track and field athletes” for those “state” subcategories it may be apparent how many "track and people" people including coaches there are, and whether any separate "track and field coach" categories by state are required? Hugo999 (talk) 08:08, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Grutness...wha?  00:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ℯ  xplicit  04:19, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Rename per nom. The parent category is Category:American track and field athletes and there is no Category:American track and field people, or even Category:Track and field people. Oculi (talk) 09:41, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Further comment: There may be enough track and field coaches in some states to justify a new category; if so the category could be similar to Category:Basketball coaches from New Jersey; say Category:Track and field coaches from New Jersey directly parented on Category:Track and field in New Jersey. PS: And make the "by state" categories non-diffusing so coaches remain in the overall categories also. Hugo999 (talk) 04:34, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Rename all per nom, and purge/recategorize biographies of coaches per Hugo999—i.e. into Category:American track and field coaches (or an existing subcategory) and the appropriate subcategory of Category:American sports coaches by state. Using AWB, I found 48 articles that are in both category trees: Christopher Asher, Jeff Atkinson (athlete), Jeanette Bolden, Bert Bonanno, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Jim Bush, Nick Carter (athlete), Dean Cromwell, Pat Daniels, Jon Drummond, Jeremy Fischer (athlete), Ralph Glaze, Johnny Gray, Brutus Hamilton, Flint Hanner, Jess Hill, Harvey Holmes, Chris Huffins, Payton Jordan, Bob Kersee, David Klech, L. D. Weldon, Bob Larsen, Leo Long, Jess Mortensen, Brandon Richards, Khadevis Robinson, Herschel Curry Smith, John Smith (sprinter), Jim Sorensen, Bill Toomey, Larry Wade, Cornelius Warmerdam, Lloyd (Bud) Winter, Tom Pukstys, Dennis K. Stanley, C. W. Martin, Eugene Oberst, George Philbrook, Bill Squires, Roy Griak, Stan Wright (track coach), Vin Lananna, Mel Rosen, Bill Dellinger, Jamey Harris, Andrew Kerr, Sharon Couch. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:59, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Rename Keep per Koavf.  "Athletes" is a subcat, and precludes coaches, etc.  To preserve the category structure of this sport (or, rather, range of sports), the "people" layer is needed. This is actually true throughout sports and some various other things, we just haven't cleaned up all of it to make that much sense yet.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  07:55, 8 November 2017 (UTC); corrected: 14:29, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * as Koavf opted for "keep", and your rationale points to keeping, please clarify whether you meant "keep per Koavf" rather than "Rename per Koavf". – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, right; I'd typed the wrong word.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  14:29, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep all per Koavf. Creation of categories does not necessitate an AfD. Nominator or any other person can create categories as needed while checking individual articles for track and field roles. gidonb (talk) 04:26, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Please see User:Marcocapelle's response to Koavf: There aren't enough articles about coaches to turn this into viable state categories. Koavf is right, but the easiest way to implement this is to rename the people categories to athletes as nominated and then recreate the people categories for miscellaneous people involved in track and field, such as coaches. Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * RSVP? – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I do not see how any of this is easier. It might be me, I'm not saying. Easy in my book is to move forward and not wait for discussions. gidonb (talk) 04:31, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * @Gidonb: It's essentially a question of workload: creating the 'athletes' categories and shifting thousands of articles manually, versus renaming the categories as proposed (and letting a bot perform the category shifts) and then moving a few dozen articles back into more appropriate categories. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:38, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Rename all per requests above to save some time in the elimination process. gidonb (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


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Category:History of the Adal Sultanate

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge and delete as nominated.  ℯ  xplicit  01:31, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:History of the Adal Sultanate to Category:Adal Sultanate
 * Propose deleting Category:Centuries in the Adal Sultanate
 * Propose deleting Category:15th century in the Adal Sultanate
 * Propose deleting Category:16th century in the Adal Sultanate and moving the two articles to Category:Adal Sultanate
 * Nominator's rationale: merge as redundant category layers, in the end containing no more than three articles and one (battles) subcategory. This is follow-up on this earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:06, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Support No conceptual problem with these type of categories but, when they're applied to such a small group of articles, it serves to break them up and hinder navigation rather than group them and aid navigation. No objection to recreating any category if it ever approaches 5 or so articles. RevelationDirect (talk) 08:54, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Support This was a relatively short-lived state, for which there is not enough content to require any splits. Category:Adal Sultanate is all we need.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:20, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - certainly doesn't warrant WP:SMALLLCAT since there is much potential for future expansion. We can apply SMALLCAT only when it is a small period of history (or very undocumented), while Adal Sultanate existed for two centuries in late Middle Ages and early modern era and is well documented.GreyShark (dibra) 09:06, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * There's also a conceptual problem here that everything about former countries is really history so this overlaps with the parents. (Some more prominent former countries will have articles discussing the history as a formal subject so this type of category can make sense in some cases but I don't see that here.) RevelationDirect (talk) 02:48, 19 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment - previously there have been five articles in the Adal Sultanate categorization, but after September vote it was narrowed and now aimed to be entirely deleted. This is a clear case of emptying the categories and then claiming WP:SMALLCAT out of process. This has to stop - WP:SMALLCAT doesn't apply on cases which can potentially be expanded into full trees, otherwise all new trees would be deleted.GreyShark (dibra) 09:28, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * In September there was a merge proposal to get the remaining categories better populated. As already predicted in the former discussion, more merging is needed in order to get better populated categories. Merging categories can not, should not, lead to worse populated categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:35, 19 October 2017 (UTC):


 * Keep all There is no justification for deleting Category:History of the Adal Sultanate and Category:Battles of the Abyssinian–Adal war (second one is not proposed). Keep all other categories for navigation and consistency, also taking into account that there is room for growth. gidonb (talk) 04:34, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As mentioned earlier, the four nominated categories together contain only three articles and a subcat. Even while taking some growth into consideration, this is not going to lead to viable categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:55, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. There just aren't enough articles at this time to justify subdividing Category:Adal Sultanate in this manner, and these splits only hinder navigation. Similar to RevelationDirect, I have no objection to recreating some or all of these categories as more articles are created, though my threshold is quite a bit higher than just 5 articles—I think we should not look to split the main category further until it approaches a few tens/dozens of articles. -- Black Falcon (talk) 02:20, 10 December 2017 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia Version 0.5

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 * The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 00:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedia version 0.5
 * version 0.5 articles by importance
 * high-importance version 0.5 articles
 * low-importance version 0.5 articles
 * mid-importance version 0.5 articles
 * na-importance version 0.5 articles
 * top-importance version 0.5 articles
 * unknown-importance version 0.5 articles
 * wikipedia cd selection-0.5
 * version 0.5 articles by category
 * arts version 0.5 articles
 * engineering, applied sciences, and technology version 0.5 articles
 * everyday life version 0.5 articles
 * geography version 0.5 articles
 * history version 0.5 articles
 * language and literature version 0.5 articles
 * mathematics version 0.5 articles
 * natural sciences version 0.5 articles
 * philosophy and religion version 0.5 articles
 * social sciences and society version 0.5 articles
 * uncategorized version 0.5 articles
 * version 0.5 articles by quality
 * a-class version 0.5 articles
 * b-class version 0.5 articles
 * c-class version 0.5 articles
 * fa-class version 0.5 articles
 * fl-class version 0.5 articles
 * ga-class version 0.5 articles
 * list-class version 0.5 articles
 * na-class version 0.5 articles
 * redirect-class version 0.5 articles
 * start-class version 0.5 articles
 * stub-class version 0.5 articles
 * unassessed version 0.5 articles
 * version 0.5 held articles
 * wikipedia version 0.5 selected articles
 * Nominator's rationale: Version 0.5 is a 10-year-old test release of a few thousand articles which were mirrored on January 1, 2007. At this point, these template-populated categories are historical, unneeded (see discussion), and anachronistic—categorizing Version 0.5 articles based on present-day article quality and importance ratings. A full list of articles included in Version 0.5 is available here, so no information will be lost due to deletion. (Category creator not notified: bot) -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:03, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Category:Wikipedia Version 0.5 was not properly tagged. Version 0.5 has also been notified.
 * Delete all per nom, pending an explanation from someone as to why retaining these categories would benefit the project, which there does not appear to be as the nom points out. VegaDark (talk) 01:37, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ℯ  xplicit  00:43, 12 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete/Question Admin categories need to serve a current (or future) function and these are clearly historical. Does implementing this require editing templates? RevelationDirect (talk) 09:30, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, V0.5 and WP1.0 will need to be edited. -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:40, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as historic clutter. SilkTork (talk) 23:44, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Basically listify for historic record, only the list already exists. Remains deletion. gidonb (talk) 04:39, 20 November 2017 (UTC)


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