Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 July 24



Category:Palmetto, Georgia

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete, but keep . – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:21, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting palmetto, georgia


 * Propose deleting economy of palmetto, georgia


 * Propose deleting people from palmetto, georgia


 * Propose deleting people from palmetto, georgia, by occupation


 * Propose deleting sports in palmetto, georgia


 * Propose deleting tourist attractions in palmetto, georgia


 * Nominator's rationale: Eponymous overcategorization for a small town (pop. 4K), without the volume of content needed to justify an eponymous category. Its article is basically the generic demographic profile that we used to let bots create as data dumps, and has had no content added to it suggesting that there's anything of note in the community to file in an eponymous category tree. And furthermore, this category tree is totally misconstructed: the people category contains just one person (violating WP:SMALLCAT) and a sportspeople subcategory which is just duplicate categorization of the same person (and has already been separately nominated for its own deletion discussion by somebody else, which is why I haven't included it here), while all of the other subcategories just recursively reparent each other without actually containing even one other article between them. As always, every town or city does not automatically get its own dedicated eponymous subcategory tree just because it exists: the question of whether such a category is warranted or not hinges on how much content there is to file in it — but this entire scheme is literally using seven categories just to overcategorize one person, which is not a thing we do. Bearcat (talk) 15:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete all per nominator except People from Palmetto, Georgia which instead should be KEPT per prior precedents, here is one example, concerning communities that are in more than one community county.
 * Note- All of these were created by a well meaning editor who I have tried to give some friendly guidance to. They have made some similar mistakes....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:47, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete all except Category:People from Palmetto, Georgia. These categories collectively contain one article, Ashley Chastain. Palmetto straddles a county border, so per the cited precedent it should be kept as a separate category as long as at least one notable person is contained within. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 03:41, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete all -- Neutral on "people from". The whole tree contains a single article, which is not enough.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Sports in Palmetto, Georgia and Category:People from Palmetto, Georgia, by occupation have been emptied already. Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is because this earlier discussion closed as delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 31 July 2019 (UTC)


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Canadian politicians of Afghani descent

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 10:01, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Afghani descent to Category:Canadian people of Afghan descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Algerian descent to Category:Canadian people of Algerian descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Bangladeshi descent to Category:Canadian people of Bangladeshi descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Iraqi descent to Category:Canadian people of Iraqi descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Moroccan descent to Category:Canadian people of Moroccan descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Nepalese descent to Category:Canadian people of Nepalese descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Somalian descent to Category:Canadian people of Somali descent
 * Propose merging Category:Canadian politicians of Tunisian descent to Category:Canadian people of Tunisian descent
 * Nominator's rationale: One, two or three person WP:SMALLCATs for triple intersections of nationality, ethnic background and occupation. This is not automatically always a defining characteristic in its own right, and such a category does not automatically always need to exist as soon as one or two people can technically be added to it — and furthermore, these are all newly created within the last 24 hours by an editor who was actively trying to undermine a still-open CFD discussion on some of the other subcategories of, by building out a new tree of sibling categories so that the other discussion would retroactively transform into incomplete partial breakage of an "established" category scheme that's suddenly much more "comprehensive" than it was at the time of the original nomination. But as always, you don't forestall CFD discussions through stunts like this — you build consensus on the strength of your arguments in the discussion, not by personally expanding the scheme so that you can break the original nomination rationale by pretending that the nominator negligently failed to account for the "whole" tree. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Support - absurd level of detail. Oculi (talk) 18:43, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - per WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:DEFINING. Would not be opposed to some of the articles in these categories being moved to new more broader categories such as Category:Canadian politicians of Asian descent for example. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 21:12, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Inter&#38;anthro. We need an ethnic politician target too.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Support though take care with merging: some articles are already in e.g. Category:Somalian emigrants to Canada and do not need to be added to Category:Canadian people of Somali descent in that case. This needs to be checked manually, I guess. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Politicians by religion
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 August 4%23Category:Politicians by religion

Category:Institutes of the Roman Curia
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 August 4%23Category:Institutes of the Roman Curia

Category:List-Class articles

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 * The result of the discussion was: do not rename. MER-C 10:02, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:List-Class articles to Category:List-class articles
 * Propose renaming Category:List-Class Abkhazia articles to Category:List-class Abkhazia articles
 * Propose renaming Category:List-Class Adelaide articles to Category:List-class Adelaide articles
 * Propose renaming Category:List-Class Adele articles to Category:List-class Adele articles
 * Propose renaming Category:List-Class Aerosmith articles to Category:List-class Aerosmith articles
 * Propose renaming Category:Redirect-Class articles to Category:Redirect-class articles
 * Propose renaming Category:Start-Class articles to Category:Start-class articles
 * Propose renaming Category:Stub-Class articles to Category:Stub-class articles
 * Nominator's rationale: Per MOS:CAPS, MOS:HYPHEN and WP:LOWERCASE, Wikipedia is supposed to avoid unnecessary capitalization. Per WP:TITLE: "The general rule in English to not capitalize after a hyphen unless what follows the hyphen is itself a proper name (as in post-Soviet) ..." Per MOS:HYPHEN: "Do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for a proper name: Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like." Then why do we have uppercase here for "Class" after a hyphen? Note that there is also a still-open closely related speedy request that I filed on 2 July for renaming Category:List-Class Politics of the United Kingdom articles to Category:List-class politics of the United Kingdom articles (with lowercase for both the "c" in "class" and the "p" in "politics". —BarrelProof (talk) 03:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ping to, who commented on the prior speedy request. —BarrelProof (talk) 06:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Nominator's rationale: Per MOS:CAPS, MOS:HYPHEN and WP:LOWERCASE, Wikipedia is supposed to avoid unnecessary capitalization. Per WP:TITLE: "The general rule in English to not capitalize after a hyphen unless what follows the hyphen is itself a proper name (as in post-Soviet) ..." Per MOS:HYPHEN: "Do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for a proper name: Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like." Then why do we have uppercase here for "Class" after a hyphen? Note that there is also a still-open closely related speedy request that I filed on 2 July for renaming Category:List-Class Politics of the United Kingdom articles to Category:List-class politics of the United Kingdom articles (with lowercase for both the "c" in "class" and the "p" in "politics". —BarrelProof (talk) 03:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ping to, who commented on the prior speedy request. —BarrelProof (talk) 06:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ping to, who commented on the prior speedy request. —BarrelProof (talk) 06:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the ping. Oppose, unless this could be automated on a grand scale, because the existing names are consistent with others within Category:Articles by quality. The nomination is correct in principle, but this would require a wider nomination and a vast amount of work; probably nobody would enjoy nominating all the categories manually, nor updating links afterwards. Perhaps Template:WPBannerMeta could be tweaked to use lowercase c in "-class", but thousands of categories and templates would need to be renamed or replaced.
 * I guess the article assessment process started out with American-style capitalisation. IMHO it would have been better to use lower-case, but it's not worth changing it now, especially as it is not part of the encyclopedia content itself; i.e. it's separate from the category hierarchy for articles.
 * As for the UK politics example, the naming is consistent within Category:Politics of the United Kingdom articles by quality, and the point of the uppercase P in "Politics” is to match the project name WP:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom. I think all WikiProjects (see Category:WikiProjects) use a capital letter for their topic, whether or not it is a proper noun. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:12, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * So, just to clarify, you agree in principle, with the "X-Class" → "X-class" renaming if applied across the entire group of Category:Articles by quality (which is what is proposed here – please see the Redirect, Start and Stub examples above), and are only saying you oppose it because of the amount of work that would be involved, right? —BarrelProof (talk) 12:52, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Clarifying comment: The suggestion is to apply this change across the entire group of Category:Articles by quality subcategories. —BarrelProof (talk) 13:01, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, exactly. – Fayenatic  L ondon 23:54, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose If this renaming were to go ahead, the User:WP 1.0 bot will need some recoding before the changes were done to handle the new category names. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:31, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose (i) If you are considering the explicity-named categories in isolation, why should these become different from the norm? (ii) If you are also considering all of the other similarly-named categories, there are over thirty thousand of these and I cannot see any benefit to a mass renaming. Plus, there are templates, bots and scripts that have been written to expect a particular name format, those will all need to be amended too, so you need to inform the maintainers before making any changes, and be certain that they are willing to accommodate your proposal - this is where User talk:Legoktm/March 2019 fell over. At least one of the bots which process these cats is presently in a status of "amend only if it is a critical Unbreak Now! issue". -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:22, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I am certainly proposing interpretation "(ii)", not advocating a hodgepodge of inconsistency. It appears that my suggestion is doomed, but only for reasons of logistical difficulty. No one has disputed the merit of the argument. —BarrelProof (talk) 18:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * OK then, I also oppose it because it's a completely unnecessary alteration to capitalisation of a category system whose members should never contain pages in mainspace, so are not directly facing the reader. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:36, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:05, 30 July 2019 (UTC)


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Television episodes written by...

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 * The result of the discussion was: don't rename. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 00:40, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming categories starting with "Television episodes written by" to "Television programs written by"


 * Nominator's rationale: Using the word "episodes" limits the categories to episodic television; changing that word to "programs" broadens the potential category members. Trivialist (talk) 02:47, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose - The limit is there for a reason. A series can (and usually do) have many writers, so making the category "Television programs written by" is unhelpful and also does not give any real value information. Ok, so you've tagged the category, and? Does anyone using the category actually know now what specifically D. C. Fontana wrote? The current category does. --Gonnym (talk) 05:53, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The parent Category:Television programs by writer already exists, and can be used for broader categories where appropriate. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:30, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose for the reasons given above and also because we tend to avoid the use of the term "program(me)" because of the transatlantic problem. Grutness... wha?   13:54, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose and learn how the British spell the word programme. Only computers have programs here.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:16, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is for specific episodes. Most series have different writers per episode. Dimadick (talk) 06:58, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose: per Fayenatic london. — Bilorv (he/him) (talk) 00:18, 27 July 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Cow and Chicken
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 August 4%23Category:Cow and Chicken