Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 1



Category:Operation Overlord people

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  20:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting operation overlord people
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERCAT which rarely if ever meets the criteria of WP:DEFCAT. Most of the people in it, ex. Charles Coleman (British Army officer), just happened to be there, but that's about it. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Uncertain about what qualifies someone for membership in the category. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  19:51, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - as noted, this is OVERCAT and non-defining for the vast majority of the thousands of people involved. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:19, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nomination as nondefining and overcategorization. BilCat (talk) 01:46, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Split and prune -- Operation Overlord was the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. I am not clear how long after the landings the term continued to be used.  At present the category is so overpopulated as to be useless as a navigation tool.  I would suggest a split into British, American and Canadian categories.  To qualify for inclusion, the bio article needs to mention Operation Overlord or the Normandy landings or the subterfuge operations to make Hitler think the main thrust would be across the Straits to Calais.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete We categorize people by war, not by individual campaign in the war. Down the latter road lies madness.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:33, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly OVERCAT. Intothatdarkness 14:09, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. In addition to the policy rationales explained by the nominator and others, the current mass additions to this category, apparently almost all without a citation, by an IP ignoring user talk page warnings by several different editors, clearly demonstrate the practical problems of maintaining such a category in accordance with WP:V. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:29, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I've seen this added twice in fairly rapid succession by this IP. Intothatdarkness 17:53, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comments Can this be closed by an uninvolved user soon? It's been open for over 2 weeks, and the consensus seems clear to me. The IPs are continuing to add the category to many articles, including ones where it's been deleted multiple times. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 22:12, 16 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedians interested in The Witches (novel)

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 00:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedians interested in the witches (novel)
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:USERCATNO. Overly narrow scope. 1857a (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Family saga
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Category:Religious fiction
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Category:Historical fiction

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 00:42, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Historical fiction to Category:Fiction about history
 * Nominator's rationale: While the parent category for this is Category:Works about history, this has a more ambiguous title, since historical can also mean "old". Worse, this sits atop many child categories that may need to be renamed from 'historical' to 'about history'. Since I don't know the gadget for mass nom, I am starting with this one and hope ore experienced category editors can help, assuming of course there's a general consensus to address this issue. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 16:26, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Hmmm. I see the idea, but "Historical fiction" is the very well known standard term, used in the industry and by readers, whereas "Fiction about history" isn't. I doubt much confusion is actually likely. Of course most of the fiction is not "about" history, it is about the characters, who are just given a historical setting.   Johnbod (talk) 16:33, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Johnbod Fair enough. Category:Fiction with a historical setting would be even more clear. Categories should not be ambiguous. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * More clear, but less familiar. I think "Historical fiction" is such a well known term that there is no ambiguity, as do others. Johnbod (talk) 02:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I dont see this as an improvement to a very well established term. Rathfelder (talk) 22:37, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose Historical fiction is not necessarily about history. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:36, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. 'Historical fiction' is a widely-used term so it should be kept as the common name; this standard usage resolves the ambiguity and doesn't necessitate a change. FrankSpheres (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Historical fiction is a defined, recognized literary genre that's existed for decades. Fiction about History feels like another of those made-up Wikipedia categories. Intothatdarkness 14:18, 8 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Kintetsu

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 * The result of the discussion was: split. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  20:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose splitting Category:Kintetsu to Category:Kintetsu Group Holdings and Category:Kintetsu Railway
 * Nominator's rationale: split per WP:C2D: Kintetsu Group Holdings and Kintetsu Railway. Most articles are about railways but not all. This was opposed for speedy renaming. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:30, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Category:Kintetsu to Category:Kintetsu Railway – C2D. Gonnym (talk) 10:37, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose As the main article is arguably Kintetsu Group Holdings so it would need a full discussion on whether to further refine it to "railway" as the group also owns other businesses such as department stores, etc. However, that would also disqualify the other ones from speedy move and require a full discussion. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:51, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * pinging contributors to speedy discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:39, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * second ping attempt. It seems that pinging is disabled after a collapsed section. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:13, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the second ping, got it now. I have no problem with the split. Gonnym (talk) 12:03, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Would not Kintetsu Railway be a subcategory of Kintetsu Group Holdings? I don't see the requirement for a split here. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes it would. So the proposal is to split into a parent category and a subcategory. Neither of the two exists right now, so "split" is procedurally the right terminology. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:14, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Marcocapelle can this be closed? We are all agreeing here. Gonnym (talk) 17:17, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It is not appropriate when the nominator or one of the other discussants closes the discussion, WP:INVOLVED. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:21, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedians interested in hit and miss engines

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 00:45, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedians interested in hit and miss engines
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:USERCATNO. Overly narrow scope. 1857a (talk) 12:14, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom; any collaborative value appears to be limited to the single article hit-and-miss engine * Pppery * it has begun... 14:30, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Fictional characters with body dysmorphia

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename.  bibliomaniac  1  5  20:43, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Fictional characters with body dysmorphia to Category:Fictional characters with body dysmorphic disorder
 * Propose renaming Category:Fictional characters with multiple personalities to Category:Fictional characters with dissociative identity disorder
 * Nominator's rationale: purge and rename, only keeping characters with a clearly established mental disorder. The question at stake is what the encyclopedic purpose of these categories is and I would answer that question by getting information about how real life disorders are portrayed in fiction. These nominations were opposed at speedy renaming. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:55, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Category:Fictional characters with multiple personalities to Category:Fictional characters with dissociative identity disorder – C2D. Gonnym (talk) 09:56, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose Multiple personalities in a fictional context does not necessarily indicate that they have a mental disorder, as it does in real life. For example, Pyra/Mythra from Xenoblade is an example of a character who has multiple personalities due to magic, and on purpose. Robots can also have multiple personalities simply because they are programmed to. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:36, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The category states The main article for this category is Dissociative identity disorder. is in two "dissociative identity disorder" parent categories, and multiple personalities redirects to Dissociative identity disorder. This cannot be any more C2D than this. Gonnym (talk) 12:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, looking at the category's contents it very clearly does not match up to what its explanation describes it as. I also think that making the scope smaller would unnecessarily exclude some characters for no reason. Either way it needs a more complete discussion. It might require a split or subcategory rather than a move. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:45, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Category:Fictional characters with body dysmorphia to Category:Fictional characters with body dysmorphic disorder – C2D: per Body dysmorphic disorder. Gonnym (talk) 09:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose As the category states that it encompasses several disorders including body dysmorphic disorder, anorexia and bulimia. The scope should be discussed in greater detail if it is to be changed. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:44, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yet again you oppose something that is C2D. body dysmorphia redirects to Body dysmorphic disorder. Feel free to split the contents to more specific categories, but the current name is incorrect and your opposition is not supported by the guideline. Gonnym (talk) 12:48, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am merely saying that blindly moving the page ignores what it actually is and will miscategorize things. This seems like something that would require a WP:CFD split discussion before any move can take place. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:02, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * pinging contributors to speedy discussions. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:01, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * second ping attempt. It seems that pinging is disabled after a collapsed section. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:14, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the second ping. Gonnym (talk) 12:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Our categories should follow the articles they are based on. As I pointed out body dysmorphia redirects to body dysmorphic disorder and multiple personalities redirects to dissociative identity disorder. This is a very basic principle of our category system and one which the speedy criteria (C2D) is based on. If these redirects aren't correct, then whomever wishes should create an article there and then a new category can be created. However, I'm not sure such articles will survive AfD as the current targets are perfectly fine. Gonnym (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose As I stated in the speedy discussion, "multiple personalities" in fiction does not mean dissociative identity disorder, which is a real life condition, so this is a misinterpretation. The second is a bigger category being changed in scope. Body dysmorphic disorder is NOT anorexia, which is also stated as one of the things the category contains. I have no objection to a subcategory being made, but moving this one isn't necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:05, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support both renames. Matching the article name trumps other concerns.  If a requested move discussion on one or both articles results in consensus to rename, a second category rename can speedily follow.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:30, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * OOjs UI icon add-constructive.svg Support per C2D, with purging as necessary. &#8213;  Qwerfjkl talk  21:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Faculty by university or college in Finland
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Category:Doctors of Divinity

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 * The result of the discussion was: no consensus to delete, but prune, removing people with honorary degrees. – Fayenatic  L ondon 11:51, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting doctors of divinity
 * Nominator's rationale: Non-defining per WP:COPDEF and WP:CATDEF. This appears to be the only doctorate or degree category that includes people. We don't have Category:Doctors of Philosophy for every university professor or Category:Doctors of Medicine for every physician with an M.D., nor Category:People with master's degrees, etc. People are notable because of their writings or actions, not because they achieved a higher degree (although the degree may be incidental to someone's notability). --Animalparty! (talk) 07:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep: Being a doctor of divinity is unusual and is clearly a defining characteristic. I would agree that being a doctor of philosophy or medicine is less defining, not sure if those would pass the test. (, you might like to read the GNG, notability has nothing to do with writings or actions, it just comes down to significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. But that’s another discussion.) Moonraker (talk) 15:44, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * it may be helpful to explain why this is a special case. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:30, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , I don’t know about a special case, I was just saying that this is clearly defining… “A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently define the subject as having—such as nationality or notable profession (in the case of people)…” That is the case with doctors of divinity. Since the Middle Ages, they have been a small and influential group of people in the world of theology. Moonraker (talk) 17:14, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Is a Doctor of Divinity degree widely held to be more prestigious and significant than other higher degrees or honorary degrees, e.g. Doctor of Ministry, Doctor of Theology, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science or Legum Doctor? The article Doctor of Divinity indicates the degree can be either post PhD level or honorary. Is there something fundamental that unites D.D. holders beyond holding the same piece of paper, and that is distinct from, say Category:Theologians?  We probably don't categorize M.D. holders because it would be nearly synonymous and substantially overlapping with Category:Physicians, and don't categorize PhD holders because it could combine physicists, art historians, economists, theologians, etc. that share very little functional similarities worth grouping. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:27, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , I’d say the answer is yes, but all comparative judgements are subjective. Defining says nothing about prestige or significance. We could find hundreds of categories that have no shred of prestige. It’s just a question of whether the characteristic is defining. We can of course disagree on that, but that is the issue. Moonraker (talk) 20:16, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:OCAWARD, it is mostly used as an honorary degree acquired after having become famous as a theologian writer. Being categorized as a theologian suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:19, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * , as you say, mostly used as an honorary degree, but WP:OCAWARD has exactly the same pivotal point as defining, is this or is it not defining? Moonraker (talk) 20:25, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:DEFCAT and the above. Here's to take a few random examples: William Temple (bishop) is notable for having been the Bishop of Manchester and subsequently the Archbishop of York and of Canterbury. The fact he happened to have been also a doctor of divinity is not a defining characteristic of his notability. Similarly, David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes was Archbishop of York; John Brinkley (astronomer) is notable for his achievements in astronomy; William A. Williams (creationist) is notable for being dumb writing on of the first modern books promoting creationism; George Walker (soldier) is notable for his involvement in one military event, ... This might be a small sample, but scrolling through the others (which similarly include mostly other bishops, including archbishops of York and Canterbury, but also a few other odd cases), it certainly looks representative, and mighty persuasive. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:28, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep but prune -- We should not categorise honorary DDs. Where it is the equivalent of D.Litt. or D.Sc. (which are higher than Ph.D.) we might categorise them, as this is a relatively rare distinction.  If it happens that the university awards a DD for Ph.D. in theology, it should not be categorised.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:27, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Its a qualification, not a profession.Rathfelder (talk) 19:44, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:OVERCAT. UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:32, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:DEFCAT. A defining characteristic does not confer notability or even relate to it. A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently define[1] the subject as having—such as nationality or notable profession. Being an astronomer does not confer notability, but it is a defining characteristic, even if the astronomer in question may be notable for a completely unrelated reason. This applies in this case too. Agree with pruning out honorary doctorates. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:10, 31 May 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedians interested in rail transport In Victoria, Australia
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