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Category:American football venues in the United States

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I completely understand and agree with the move from the use of "soccer" in the categories for non-U.S. countries. However, this usage is similarly incorrect. Nobody in the United States refers to our football as "American football". There isn't a standard to use "football" to unilaterally refer to the game Americans know as soccer - if there was, Category:Soccer venues in the United States, a preference towards using the American name for the sport for the category referring to the United States, wouldn't exist. It only makes sense to use that same standard instead of imposing a Euro-centric naming approach.

I am also nominating the subcategories in this category, namely the divisions by individual states, and the category "College American football venues", which is similarly redundant - if "college football" can be used without any separate distinction on the English Wikipedia, I see no reason why we need further "clarification" here. --Fuzzy510 17:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is part of Commons:Categories for discussion/Current requests/2007/07/Category:Soccer in England & Category:Soccer in Scotland. /Lokal_Profil 10:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I looked there and found the discussion impossibly complicated. I agree with Fuzzy510. - Jmabel | talk 04:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Category names should be predictable. Is it intuitive that "Football venues in the United States" and "Football venues in England" have very different content? Even though you might confuse many people who don't speak English as their mothertongue, you could argue that it actually is intuitive. But what would you call the supercategories of these two? They can't both be "Football venues by country". Samulili 07:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep No clear request. This category name is a compound name, built from American football. As long as the expression American football is used in Commons, there is no reason to change this expression in any American football-related category. --Juiced lemon 08:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)--Juiced lemon 08:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus, nothing changed --rimshottalk 14:48, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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