Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 28



Musical theatre actors

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 * The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nominator. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 22:30, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge Category:Musical theatre actors to Category:Actors
 * Merge Category:Musical theatre actresses to Category:Actresses
 * Merge Category:Male musical theatre actors to Category:Male actors
 * Merge Category:American musical theatre actors to Category:American actors
 * Merge Category:American musical theatre actresses to Category:Actresses
 * Merge Category:American male musical theatre actors to Category:American male actors
 * Merge Category:Venezuelan musical theatre actors to Category:Venezuelan actors
 * Merge Category:Venezuelan musical theatre actresses to Category:Venezuelan actresses
 * Nominator's rationale I originally wrote a longer nomination, but in processing it to save I lost it. Here I am focusing on a few, but I intend for all to be upmerged. I went through over 100 articles in the AMerican muscial theatre actresses actegory, and only about 30 were only musicial theatre actresses, and a few of those may have been involved in non-muscial stage productions, it would take a lot more indepth research to be sure. About half were involved in television, film and muscial theatre productions, and the rest overlapped only into either television or film. There is way too much overlap to justify keeping these categories. The Venezuelan case is even more extreme, all the articles in it are also in the film and television categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:21, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The substantive rationale for this badly-explained proposal is unclear. (Sorry to hear that you lost your rationale JPL; but when that happens you need to rewrite rather rather than just proceeding without it). It seems that JPL's concern may be that the categories are being applied to too many actors for whom musical theatre is non-defining. If that is so, then WP:COPDEF applies: categorise the articles in these categories only if musical theatre is a defining characteristic of the actor and purge the others. Deletion is the wrong remedy and would deprive readers of a grouping of the many actors such as Mary Martin for whom musical theatre is v much defining.
 * Procedurally the nomination is so flawed that is a disaster:
 * Incomplete set of subcats Category:Musical theatre actors has 124 "fooian musical theatre actors" subcats, but only 7 are listed here. No rationale is given for omitting the others. If JPL wants all to be upmerged they all need to be tagged and listed. JPL has participated in many CfD discussions over more than a decade and there is no excuse for a nomination such as this to remove categories which have been neither tagged nor listed.  No responsible closer could weigh the outcome as a consensus to remove without notification.  Note too that if the nomination was implemented as proposed (with a limited set of subcats) then all the other by-nationality categories  such as Category:British musical theatre actors would lose a common parent which would impede  navigation.
 * WikiProject Musical Theatre is very active and does a great job of developing the articles within their scope. (see e.g. 16 featured articles and 32 good articles). Before making a far-reaching proposal such as this JPL should have discussed the idea with those editors who have expertise in the topic. Instead he did not even notify the project.
 * Incomplete set of merge targets . Every Category:Fooian musical theatre actors is a subcat of both Category:Fooian stage actors and Category:Fooian singers.   If these cats are to be upmerged then it should be to both targets ... but this sloppy nomination lists neither target.  No explanation is offered for this.

I now that JPL means well, but a multiply-flawed nomination such as this is a disruptive waste of time. I hope that will withdraw it. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 15:26, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Musical Theatre has been notified. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 15:34, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment This is absurd. Listing each page takes an insane amount of time, especially when there are 124 present. There is no need to upmerge to singing. If the only defining singing the individuals did was in stage productions, they are actors who sing. If it was elsewhere, they will always be in approapriate subcategories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Per WP:CFD, If a group of similar categories or a category and its subcategories, use an umbrella nomination (each category must be tagged. Listing all the categories takes only a few minutes if the right tools are used competently. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 21:17, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Adding
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine musical theatre actors to Category:Argentine actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine musical theatre actresses to Category:Argentine actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Australian musical theatre actors to Category:Australian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Australian musical theatre actresses to Category:Australian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Australian male musical theatre actors to Category:Australian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian musical theatre actors to Category:Austrian actors
 * Upmerge Category:British musical theatre actors to Category:British actors
 * Upmerge Category:British musical theatre actresses to Category:British actresses
 * Upmerge Category:British male musical theatre actors to Category:British male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Belgian musical theatre actors to Category:Belgian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Belgian musical theatre actresses to Category:Belgian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:English musical theatre actors to Category:English actors
 * Upmerge Category:English musical theatre actresses to Category:English actresses
 * Upmerge Category:English male musical theatre actors to Category:English male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Musical theatre actors from Northern Ireland to Category:Actors from Northern Ireland
 * Upmerge Category:Scottish musical theatre actors to Category:Scottish actors
 * Upmerge Category:Scottish musical theatre actresses to Category:Scottish actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Welsh musical theatre actresses to Category:Welsh actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Welsh musical theatre actors to Category:Welsh actors
 * Upmerge Category:Welsh male musical theatre actors to Category:Welsh male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Scottish male musical theatre actors to Category:Scottish male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Brazilian musical theatre actors to Category:Brazilian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Brazilian musical theatre actresses to Category:Brazilian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Brazilian male musical theatre actors to Category:Brazilian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Canadian musical theatre actors to Category:Canadian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Canadian musical theatre actresses to Category:Canadian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Canadian male musical theatre actors to Category:Canadian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian male musical theatre actors to Category:Austrian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian musical theatre actresses to Category:Austrian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Flemish musical theatre actors to Category:Flemish actors
 * Upmerge Category:Flemish musical theatre actresses to Category:Flemish actresses
 * Withdraw I will see about applying this more correctly and see what that gives us.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:27, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Sports events by city

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events by city to Category:Sports competitions by city
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events in Bucharest‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Bucharest‎
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events in Calgary to Category:Sports competitions in Calgary
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events in Cardiff to Category:Sports competitions in Cardiff
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events in Copenhagen‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Copenhagen‎
 * Propose merging Category:Sports events in Ljubljana‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Ljubljana‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Amersfoort to Category:Sports competitions in Amersfoort
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Amsterdam‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Amsterdam‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Heerenveen‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Heerenveen‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Hilversum‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Hilversum‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Louisville, Kentucky‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Louisville, Kentucky‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Manhattan Beach, California‎ to Category:Sports competitions in Manhattan Beach, California‎
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Qawra to Category:Sports competitions in Qawra
 * Propose renaming Category:Sports events in Sofia to Category:Sports competitions in Sofia


 * Nominator's rationale: All the content I have seen in the city categories could be grouped under competitions, bar 121st IOC Session which could be upmerged. This division between events and competitions does not aid navigation as duplicate content is spread across two trees. Non-competition sports events are so uncommon as not to warrant subdivision at city level. SFB 21:57, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Support, we do not need duplicate categories and competitions is a more specific descriptor than events. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:56, 13 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Actors by medium

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:00, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Upmerge Category:Film actors to Category:Actors
 * Upmerge Category:Film actresses to Category:Actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Male film actors to Category:Male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Stage actors to Category:Actors
 * Upmerge Category:Stage actresses to Category:Actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Male stage actors to Category:Male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Television actors to Category:Actors
 * Upmerge Category:Television actresses to Category:Actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Male television actors to Category:Male actors
 * Delete Category:Afghan actors by medium (all sub-cats with entries are either TV or film)
 * Upmerge Category:Afghan film actors to Category:Afghan actors
 * Upmerge Category:Afghan film actresses to Category:Afghan actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Afghan male film actors to Category:Afghan male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Afghan television actors to Category:Afghan actors (only one sub cat, no direct aritcles)
 * Upmerge Category:Afghan television actresses to Category:Afghan actresses (one article)


 * Upmerge Category:Albanian film actors to Category:Albanian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian film actresses to Category:Albanian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian stage actors to Category:Albanian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian stage actresses to Category:Albanian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian male stage actors to Category:Albanian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian television actors to Category:Albanian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian television actresses to Category:Albanian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Albanian male television actors to Category:Albanian male actors
 * Delete Category:Algerian actors by medium (only sub-cats are stage, televions and film)
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian film actors to Category:Algerian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian film actresses to Category:Algerian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian male film actors to Category:Algerian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian stage actors to Category:Algerian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian stage actresses to Category:Algerian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian male stage actors to Category:Algerian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian television actors to Category:Algerian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian television actresses to Category:Algerian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Algerian male television actors to Category:Algerian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine film actors to Category:Argentine actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine film actresses to Category:Argentine actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine male film actors to Category:Argentine actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine stage actors to Category:Argentine actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine stage actresses to Category:Argentine actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine male stage actors to Category:Argentine male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine television actors to Category:Argentine actors
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine television actresses to Category:Argentine actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Argentine male television actors to category:Argentine male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian film actors to Category:Armenian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian film actresses to Category:Armenian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian male film actors to Category:Armenian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian stage actors to Category:Armenian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian stage actresses to Category:Armenian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian male stage actors to Category:Armenian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian television actors to Category:Armenian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian television actresses to Category:Armenian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Armenian male television actors to Category:Armenian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican film actors to Category:Puerto Rican actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican film actresses to Category:Puerto Rican actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican male film actors to Category:Puerto Rican male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican stage actors to Category:Puerto Rican actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican stage actresses to Category:Puerto Rican actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican male stage actors to Category:Puerto Rican male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican television actors to Category:Puerto Rican actors
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican television actresses to Category:Puerto Rican actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Puerto Rican male television actors to Category:Puerto Rican male actors
 * Upmerge Category:American film actors to Category:American actors
 * Upmerge Category:American film actresses to Category:American actresses
 * Upmerge Category:American male film actors to Category:American male actors
 * Upmerge Category:American stage actors to Category:American actors
 * Upmerge Category:American stage actresses to Category:American actresses
 * Upmerge Category:American male stage actors to Category:American male actors
 * Upmerge Category:American television actors to Category:American actors
 * Upmerge Category:American television actresses to Category:American actresses
 * Upmerge Category:American male television actors to Category:American male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Australian film actors to Category:Australian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Australian film actresses to Category:Australian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Australian male film actors to Category:Australian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Australian stage actors to Category:Australian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Australian stage actresses to Category:Australian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Australian male stage actors to Category:Australian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian film actors to Category:Austrian actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian film actresses to Category:Austrian actresses
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian male film actors to Category:Austrian male actors
 * Upmerge Category:Austrian stage actors to Category:Austrian actors


 * Nominator's rationale To begin with at a basic level overlap in mediums is very high among actors, especially among those who have careers that make them notable. I went through the first 109 entries in Category:American television actresses, of those only 2 had no overlap with any other actress category. Even at that one of them maybe needed to be put in Category:Web series actresses. This is the second problem, the lines betweeen these mediums are very fuzzy and not always defining to the acting. First off, are web-series just videos produced for YOuTube, or does this cover Orange is the New Black and every other TV show that was made by Netflix and other streaming services. What are made for TV movies, are they films or television? What about films made to be released on netflix? Then there is the actual acting overlap. Most of the main actors who appear in Star Treck the TV show go on to appear on the later films. Many actors who performed on stage repraise the same roles in a film. This is true of multiple musicals made in the 1960s. At the extreme we have examples like Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman where they made the pilot TV espisode in a way that if it didnt get taken by a network, they could market it as a film in Europe. It is quite common for people to have had significant roles in notable production in film/television and on the stage. Some of the other mediums are also fairly high in overlap, but these three have huge levels of overlap. For the purposes of this nomination I only focused on the three most common categories, film/TV and stage. Whether other sub-categorizations by medium work is a bit harder to gage, so I will leave it for seperate nominations. I know this nomination is not complete, but it was taking a long time, and I figured this was a good start. I wanted to nominate every category that is a direct overlap of nationality and film, television or stage acting (not sub-categories beyond that level though), but I also wanted to make sure there was some support before spending the huge amount of time to do all categories. This is averaging 9 categories a country and with over 100 countries this is probably in total over 900 categories, maybe over 1000.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:25, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment is the aim of this different per country? These divisions make a lot more sense for countries where the given industry is highly developed, for example many American actors' careers tend to focus more on Hollywood film, or Broadway, or TV series. Of course there are overlaps, but there are clear differences (e.g. Megan Fox is not a stage actor) – perhaps stage is an outlier compared to the filmed mediums and should be excluded as it's quite a different art form? I do agree with your general point though.
 * Maybe a better approach would be to change the medium tree to a locational one rather than personal, i.e. things like Category:Film actors in the United States. Of most importance to notability is the combination of the medium and the location. Take a country like Albania: it has no highly developed acting industry, hence a lot of overlap for Albanian actors working in film/TV/stage and little point to categorisation by medium. Compare that India, which does have a highly developed film industry, so many Indian (and non-Indian) actors could be grouped together under Category:Film actors in India instead, many of whom do not do stage or TV. This will allow us to categorise people who work together in the same industry. Also, there is a big difference signified when an Albanian actor sits in Category:Albanian film actors compared to an Albanian actor who sits in Category:Film actors in the United States, yet we don't have a way to signify that at the moment. SFB 21:41, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment The above comments seem to ignore what I have identified, that the vast majority of television actors in the United States, well over 95%, act in other mediums as well. They ignore actually just about everything I said. Films become TV shows, TV shows become films, people move from broadway to Hollywood and back. There is too much overlap to make it worth categorizing. We do have categories like Category:Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States. Medium overlaps way too much to justify having such overalping categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:40, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I've engaged with your proposal and suggested a different proposal to solve the same problem (combination of nationality and acting medium is not very defining). The above proposal gets rid of all the "national actor by medium" subcategories and replaces them with only "national actor" categories, supplemented by non-national categories specific to major industries/communities. If your proposal is hard-pushing to get rid stage acting as a vocation entirely from the category tree, then I apologise for having wasted time by engaging with such a discussion. SFB 19:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Let me see if I get this. If we have a woman who acted on Broadway, in Hollywood films, and in the West End of Britain, and they were Canadian. We would categorize them as Category:Canadian actresses (probably in the appropriate century sub-cat), then in 3 by community/area where they acted categories. This might be workable, although with the way so many American funded and directed films have been filmed internationally and with some films having complex situations of funding, nationality and main residence of director, etc, I am not sure the film lines would be easy to figure. I am also not sure exactly how those porposed categories would interact with current ones like Category:Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States. For the record the expatriate actor categories are not well developed, and the lines between three groups are even less clear. There are essentially three groups. To make this understandable I will prosent them going from one specific country to another, but they work with any two countries. You have in the case of Irish actors in the United States, those who are immigrants, those who are expatriates, and those who come to the US basically the minimum of time to film. Maureen O'Hara seems to have started as an expatriate, but I believe she eventually became a naturalized US citizen. Some immigrants are easy to spot, they came years before they started acting. However others it is a harder call to say if they were immigrants who spent their whole time acting, or expatriate actors who never ended their career. The line between being somewhere just to film and being there enough to count as an expatriate is a bit hard to. I think in general if someone appears in multiple stage productions that are based in a country, say on Broadway, they would count as an expatriate in the US if they are from elsewhere, but the filming side remains a bit harder to track. Clearly Mark Hamil does not become an expatriate in Tunisia because he filmed some scenes for Star Wars there, but has Henry Cavil been in the US enough during his film career to count as an expatriate here?John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment at an absolute minimum film/television/web series should all be merged, especially since the lines between a made-for-TV movie and a direct-to-video movie are blurred with the advent of films-made-for-netflix. However as I show with the muscial theatre actors, they have an over 70% overlap with TV/film actors, so this does not seem a strong outlyier.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:46, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Note that Lambert is trying to empty the categories while the CfD is ongoing. Probably worth checking more of their edits on this.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I object to being refered to in the plural. The right way to speak of me is "his edits on this."John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I object to people trying to WP:GAME their own CfD's by doing this. Looks like Lambert is continuing with their disruption on this matter.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:34, 1 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Agree the difference in acting on stage vs. film isn't so great that one cannot move between them; the argument between film and tv is even less. For the same reason we don't have Category:Clay court tennis players, or divvy up cricket players between whether they play 5 day matches or just the one day sorts. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:33, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Yes there is some overlap. But a significant proportion of actors devote themelves predominantly to one medium with occasional forays into others. The problem here is that too actors are being wrongly categorised in a medium where they made only rare appearances contrary to WP:CATDEF. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 21:43, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Procedural oppose (Note that I already !voted above)
 * This proposal is huge. There are 26900 pages in Category:American actors by medium+subcats, 11453 in Category:British actors by medium+subcats and 6949 in Category:Indian actors by medium+subcats; worldwide, there are must be well over 100,000 articles in these categories.
 * Such a massive change would be very very hard to reverse, so it should proceed only if there is a clear and broad consensus to do so.
 * However this nomination cannot build that clear and broad consensus. It lists only 79 of the 2751 subcats of Category:Actors by medium, which is only 2.5%. No WikiProjects have been notified.  After 5 days only 4 editors have commented on the nomination.
 * That is a completely inadequate basis for such a huge change.
 * If the nominator wants to pursue this idea, then the way to build that clear and broad consensus is to start with an RFC and notify it widely. Host it at WP:VPP, notify all relevant WikiProjects, and allow it to run for the usual 28 days of an RFC.
 * If the RFC demonstrates a consensus for change then come back to CfD with a comprehensive and complete nomination (rather than a 2.5% sample) to implement that consensus.
 * This sample nom would cause huge problems even if it was implemented only on the categories listed. For example Category:Film actors has 14 subcategories.  proposes upmerging only 2 of those subcats and then dumping the other 12 into Category:Actors which is a recipe for swamping Category:Actors. He proposes to do the same for Category:Stage actors and Category:Television actors and for the gendered subcats of each which make an undifferentiated mess.  I don't support the substantive idea behind this but I do see that the nom has a genuine concern; however this nomination is no way to address it.
 * So JPL: please just withdraw this hasty and ill-considered sample nomination. It is a simply useless way of approaching such a big issue. -- Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 01:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Contrary to BFG's claims, this has been posted to the film wikiproject.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:40, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * JPL, your post at WT:FILM didn't even link to this discussion. And what about stage and Television? Why not notify those projects? (No your post  at WT:TV is no good: you didn't even link to the discussions)
 * Now have you have opened an RFC at WT:FILM ... while this discussion is still open. So now we have two separate discussions considering essentially the same proposal (see WP:MULTI for why that is a bad idea).  And both discussions are botched: your post at WP:VPP also has no link.  Instead you make an WP:ABF about my objection and ramble on about the substantive issue rather than linking to a centralised discussion.
 * WP:COMPETENCE is required, esp when making such a far-reaching proposal. You have been editing for nearly 10 years and after that long it is amazing that you cannot or will not complete the simple task of posting  a notification which is a) concise b) neutral and c) includes a link.  You have managed zero out of three. Astonishing ... and disruptive. - Brown Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 23:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose per all the reasons BHG has said, above.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:50, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose as the distinctions help editors searching for specific categories of actors/actresses such as French television actresses where they are not interested in French actresses who only acted in films and there are many many similar examples of where these distinctive categories are helpful. Upmerging these categories would make searching more difficult and make a big timesink for many editors searching for specific types of actors/actresses so basically it is an unhelpful and retrograde move, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 10:30, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Also as this affects tens of thousands of categories a sample of a hundred is too small, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 13:33, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Note there is an RFC on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film Atlantic306 (talk) 13:33, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose as these kinds of distinction help all Wikipedia users (including just-plain-readers, as well as editors) who are searching for specific categories of whatever. Whenever a category contains thousands of entries, it's only sensible to sub-categorise along the most salient points of difference, as this aids in the search.  yoyo (talk) 14:33, 10 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:European "Years"

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Themed years of the European Union. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:45, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:European "Years" to Category:European Years
 * Nominator's rationale: I am not sure that "scary quotes" are appropriate here. And it seems that EU agrees with me. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:45, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Support under the presumption that the rename is to Category:European Years ? SFB 22:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, yes. Fixed. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:31, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Rename but to Category:Themed years in European Union, which will clarify what it is about. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:50, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Support alt rename to Category:Themed years in European Union, European Union is more accurate than European, and we shouldn't confuse this with Category:Years in the European Union. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment to that would appear to need "the" before EU. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:18, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is correct. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 7 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Rename (with "the") per Marcocapelle. With or without scare quotes, I had no idea what "European Years" meant; the new revision makes it clear. DragonflyDC (talk) 00:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree Peterkingiron (talk) 15:52, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Category:Themed years of the European Union - building on the above - they are "of" not "in" - there will be plenty of local ones, these are the official pan-EU ones. Johnbod (talk) 02:15, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Even better. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:28, 20 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Literary gatherings in Sindh

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:47, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting literary gatherings in sindh


 * Nominator's rationale: "Literary gatherings" does not make any sense. Saqib (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Rename to Category:Literary festivals in Sindh or upmerge to Category:Literary festivals in Pakistan and Category:Festivals in Sindh. Oculi (talk) 13:12, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Rename First let me know how it does not make any sense, and rename as per Oculi.JogiAsad (talk) 23:52, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge per Oculi, this is case of WP:SMALLCAT as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:06, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Filmed deaths during crashes

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:45, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting filmed deaths during crashes


 * Nominator's rationale: Meaningless name doesnt help navigation. Created recently as a sub-cat of Category:Filmed accidental deaths, the creator has moved cats from this to the new sub-cat. I have tried to parse the category name but still doesnt make sense in English or in the articles it is being used for (not all but mainly transport accidents). MilborneOne (talk) 12:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Support deletion Per nom, a distinction without a difference that has led to editors spamming the cat based on whether a vehicle/plane/train/baloon hit something and somebody died, generally morbid without assisting the reader, unless one is just looking for ghoulish videos on YouTube. I have reservations about the whole "filmed deaths" tree - I think it ought to be considerably pruned, as people have been adding it to every event in which someone died, and it's becoming meaningless.  Acroterion   (talk)   13:09, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Replace with better defined/more specific category(ies) – agree that the current category name is not very meaningful. A possible replacement for most of the articles currently in there could be Category:Filmed fatal air accidents, and similar categories for crashes of other means of transportation. --Deeday-UK (talk) 14:59, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Too clunky and vague. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:59, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Question shouldn't the content be merged back to Category:Filmed accidental deaths? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete the dangling modifier! – Laundry Pizza 03  ( d c&#x0304; ) 14:25, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Suggest Category:Fatal crashes caught on film. Most are aeroplane crashes, but we also have an airship and a train.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment not sure that most of these are notable for having been filmed; but air crashes are elusive of being caught on film (and were more so before the ubiquity of smart phones in the much of the industrialized world), a case could be made for those, perhaps a new title and a substantial purge. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:37, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete (no upmerge) as non-defining in most/all cases. Crashes can be categorized in categories such as Aviation accidents and incidents in in . DexDor(talk) 06:01, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete one of way too many categories covering the overlap of method and place of death.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:03, 2 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:2nd millennium in the Republic of Siena

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting Category:2nd millennium in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:Millennia in the Republic of Siena
 * Nominator's rationale: delete, the history of the Republic of Siena lasted too short to subdivide it in millennia. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:50, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Support -- I am of the view that we virtually NEVER need millennium categories, as there have not been enough centuries in recorded history to need splitting. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)


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Republic of Siena

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. As for the WP:SMALLCAT defence by user:Tim!, the overall hierarchy is no longer "accepted" where it produces isolated micro structures like this, per many CFDs over the last three years (and despite my own preferences). As for the objection to merging to "Italy" by user:Greyshark09, the hierarchy for long-ago establishments in Italy exists and has not been nominated for deletion, so it is proper to merge into that hierarchy for now. Once those rationales are set aside, the remaining arguments provide sufficient consensus for the nomination to proceed. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:1240 establishments in the Republic of Siena to Category:1240 establishments in Europe, Category:1240s establishments in Italy and Category:13th-century establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose merging Category:1255 establishments in the Republic of Siena to Category:1255 establishments in Europe, Category:1250s establishments in Italy and Category:13th-century establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose merging Category:1472 establishments in the Republic of Siena to Category:1472 establishments in Europe, Category:1470s establishments in Italy and Category:15th-century establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose merging Category:1520s establishments in the Republic of Siena to Category:16th-century establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1240 in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1240s establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1240s in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1250s establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1250s in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1255 in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1470s establishments in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1470s in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1472 in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:1520s in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:Years of the 13th century in the Republic of Siena
 * Propose deleting Category:Years of the 15th century in the Republic of Siena
 * Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, mostly just one article per category. This is follow-up on a previous nomination that was withdrawn as too broad (too many countries involved). Also relevant is this other discussion in which was decided to keep the Italy tree for pre-1860 categories. That implies that Italy categories must also be listed as a target here in this merge nomination. Note that the 1520s category has only one merge target, because the one article of that category is already in Category:1525 establishments in Italy. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:38, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Support, though I hope those deletions are also upmerges to relevant century categories rather than pure deletions. Grutness... wha?   01:44, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * There are only 4 articles in this whole tree and they are merged per the first 4 lines of the nomination. The remainder consists of container categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:50, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah - OK, gotcha. Grutness... wha?   02:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:SMALLCAT states "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme". and these are part of large overall scheme. Tim! (talk) 07:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This is not part of an overall accepted sub-categorization scheme, we only accept trees like this if they are decently populated. Most countries, especially of this size, especially in the Middle Ages, do not have a tree by year. See as a random example Category:1255 by country. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Upmerge as nom. At the bottom of this bush (it is not a tree), there are just four articles, which are giving rise to 16 categories.  That is totally over the top.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:59, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Query - how is this different to the logic of the Austria-Hungary nomination?Laurel Lodged (talk)
 * This nomination concerns the whole tree of Years in the Republic Siena, while the problem with Austria was there are quite a few (sub)categories of Years in Austria missing in the nomination that were either before or during the period of the categories that were nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:39, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The conclusion then is small nominations will succeed but large nominations will fail because nobody has the time to do all the nominations in large trees. What a depressing thought. Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:44, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually the CfD logs for the last 6 months show that plenty of very large nominations have been made and succeeded, so the assertion that nobody has the time to do all the nominations in large trees is demonstrably false.
 * What Laurel Lodged actually means is that Laurel Lodged lacks the technical skills (mostly simple regex) to prepare large nominations efficiently. -- Brown <span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(-3deg)">Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 15:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Leaning to oppose. I have supported many such nominations in the past, especially when prepared as comprehensively and accurately as this. ( is the master of big nominations).  The core rationale is obviously correct: that by-year categories for small territories before the modern era tend to be small.
 * However, I am increasingly concerned by the effect of these merges, which is to replace one category on an article with 3 categories. This causes clutter (which imepedes navigation) and overall makes for a lot of confusion.
 * It also makes it much more difficult for editors to accurately categorise an article. e.g. instead of placing an article in Category:1240 establishments in the Republic of Siena this merger means that the same article shoud go in Category:1240 establishments in Europe, Category:1240s establishments in Italy and Category:13th-century establishments in the Republic of Siena.  How many editors will know how to do that accurately?  I suspect very few.
 * So I am now inclined to think that the cure may be worse than the disease. -- Brown <span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(-3deg)">Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 23:38, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * My point of departure is that editors need to check which category/categories exist, especially in case a 'first guess' category appears not to exist. This applies regardless which topic or which tree it is about. Also I suspect (but can't verify) that most new articles will be created by taking the format of a related article as a start for the format of the new article, including the categories listed. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:34, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * This is interesting. I opposed Marcocapelle's early nominations of this kind for similar reasons. In earlier years such categories would have been kept per the exception to WP:SMALLCAT, i.e. as part a widespread scheme of categorisation. However, the editors who attend CFD over the last few years have been consistently in favour of these nominations. I stopped opposing them, mainly because I was doing a lot of CFD closures and therefore could not also participate in the discussions, and have put in many hours to implement them tidily, even though I would have preferred to keep the original structure. May I point out that your objections equally apply to Elections in Ireland by year, see Categories for discussion/Log/2018 March 21? – Fayenatic  L ondon 07:16, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose - obviously there was no Republic of Italy in the Middle Ages (not to confuse with the Italian peninsula). When people say "Italy" they tend to refer to either modern state or the geographic peninsula, however article Italy is specifically about the state. "In Italy" hence refers to modern Italian Republic.GreyShark (dibra) 12:59, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you sure about your vote  ? It's looks like your intent might have been to "Support". Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:22, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Norman religious buildings
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:English churches with Norman architecture, splitting to a new parent Category:Churches with Norman architecture for the ones not in England. I acknowledge that these names are not consistent with other categories, so they might be considered again later. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Norman religious buildings to Category:Church buildings in England of the Anglo-Norman period
 * Nominator's rationale: rename to describe the scope of the category more clearly. Norman (without Anglo-) wrongly suggests that they were established in Normandy by the Normans who settled there in the 10th century, rather than in England in a later period. And they are all church buildings, so why not mention that in the category name? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment - they are mostly but not all in England. It's a subcat of Category:Norman architecture the scope of which is by no means restricted to Normandy. I have no objection to a rename to Category:Norman church buildings. Oculi (talk) 12:18, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * If they are currently not all in England the category should be split. It does not make sense to lump church buildings together of different time and different space. By the way, the article Norman architecture says the term is in particular used for English Romanesque architecture, so I presume the contemporary church buildings in France are called Romanesque rather than Norman (e.g. although this may not be the best source). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:32, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Feel entirely free to split it. The Normans were renowned for their church buildings ([see Google search]) and it makes complete sense to categorise them together. Oculi (talk) 13:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I am bit confused by this discussion. The category description says it is for religious buildings of the Norman era and that is why I started this nomination. So is this about an era (in England) or is it about an architectural style? Marcocapelle (talk) 21:20, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Both really - unlike the Victorians they only had one style to choose from, & the style & dynasty coincide closely enough. That's the way sources treat the matter. Johnbod (talk) 15:07, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Rename somehow. They are all churches.  The term "Norman" for the architectural style is peculiar to England.  Elsewhere, the style is called Romanesque.   Category:Norman architecture church buildings in England would probably do it.  It should be noted that documentary evidence of the building date is uncommon, so that the dating to usually from the architectural style, which did not necessarily end on precisely 1154.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:06, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * (as nom) I would be okay with that too. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 30 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: some of these buildings are not in England but in Sicily! The category is apparently for Norman-built not Norman-style. Rmhermen (talk) 22:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * These articles should be purged. And we do not have any (other) categories of buildings by ethnicity, that is an odd intersection. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:10, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Nonetheless, it follows common usage in architectural history in English, where buildings in England, Ireland and the appropriate parts of Italy are "Norman", but in France "Romanesque" (except perhaps in Normandy itself). But it is probably best to narrow the category name to England, and ensure the others are in Category:Norman architecture in Italy Johnbod (talk) 02:21, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Rename to Category:English churchs with Norman architecture - very few are all Norman, having been added to later. Note that for the preceding period we have: Category:Standing Anglo-Saxon churches (ie keeping out all the vast numbers of AS foundations that have been completely rebuilt) and a sub-cat of Category:Churches with elements of Anglo-Saxon work. One might go that way. Most of these churches are in fact mainly of later periods - a typical example is All Saints Church, Leicester "The west doorway is Norman in style,[2] and the rest of the church is in geometrical and Decorated styles.[1]".  Johnbod (talk) 02:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Rename per on the assumption that there are not masses of them in Wales. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
 * There seems only to be one at present -St Garmon's Church, Llanfechain, "described by Haslam as the most complete Norman church remaining in Montgomeryshire" says the article. Johnbod (talk) 12:56, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Just to note that the most Norman of all Norman religious buildings are in Category:Romanesque architecture in Normandy, correctly per the convention mentioned above. If this category was kept that should be added as a sub-cat though. Johnbod (talk) 02:07, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * (as nom) Either Peterkingiron's or Johnbod's alternative is fine with me. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Knights de Brus
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 05:07, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting knights de brus


 * Nominator's rationale: This is an odd and problematic category. It only has one entry, who could easily be added to the supercategory "French knights".  We do not normally categorise knights by what family they belong to. PatGallacher (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete I don’t know anything about the naming of French knights, but I do know that the purpose of categories is to group related pages for easy navigation. A category with one page in it does not accomplish that and is therefore not appropriate. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:04, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is a wholly unnecessary category. We do not normally allow categories by surname, which it what this is trying to be.  Parenting the one article as French is inappropriate: he was born in Normandy and should be a Norman knight, if anything.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:10, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * To complicate matters further, I can't find a clear source that he was a knight, although I suspect he probably was. PatGallacher (talk) 19:07, 30 April 2018 (UTC)


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