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April 4[edit]

Category:Forts in Ghana[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus for merge (category also was not tagged with Template:Cfm). Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:52, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Forts in Ghana to Category:Castles in Ghana
Nominator's rationale: Forts & Castles do not form distinct categories and some forts are already listed under 'Castles' — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnTurl (talkcontribs) 21:27, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Paranormal places[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. There's certainly no consensus to delete, as these are places known for people talking about them as paranormal. So then the question becomes: Does use of the word "paranormal" imply belief that the paranormal actually exists? There's no consensus on that here either, but at the very least it doesn't seem to commenters that it's as bad as "haunted." It's not clear where this will go from here, but bringing it up for renaming rather than deletion might help.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:04, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Paranormal places (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator’s rationale: Delete: This assertion that there are ‘Paranormal places’ can only bring our encyclopaedia into disrepute. Ian Spackman (talk) 22:32, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Category:Paranormal places in Australia to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Australia
  2. Category:Paranormal places in Canada to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Canada
  3. Category:Paranormal places in France to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in France
  4. Category:Paranormal places in Germany to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Germany
  5. Category:Paranormal places in India to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in India
  6. Category:Paranormal places in Ireland to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Ireland
  7. Category:Paranormal places in Italy to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in Italy
  8. Category:Paranormal places in the Philippines to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in the Philippines
  9. Category:Paranormal places in the United Kingdom to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom
  10. Category:Paranormal places in the United States to Category:Reportedly haunted locations in the United States

Simply south...... trying to improve for 5 years 23:19, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That won't work. There's more than ghost stories under the paranormal umbrella (ufology in particular). Maybe "Reportedly paranormal"? In any case, I still believe it's overkill and that a simple introductory sentence is just as effective to quell the concerns of those who find that we're hinting at the actual existence of paranormal phenomena. Pichpich (talk) 23:28, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think the problem with the cat is that it invites WP:OR. Granted, we may cite a RS that reports some person seeing a UFO, Bigfoot, or a ghost at 123 Main St, USA, but we should not have Wikipedia deciding that address is now a "paranormal place" (i.e. a place confirmed as being the site of events outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.) - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's the problem though. The category is not intended to validate the existence of paranormal events: it's intended to validate the existence of legends. This in itself is not OR. Pichpich (talk) 23:51, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your point about legends, however I think editorially deciding that a location where something weird was reported is a "paranormal place" is not accurate nor sufficiently neutral. More specific cats such as "Reportedly haunted locations", "Reported Chupacabra sighting locations", "Reported UFO sighting locations" etc. might serve better. Nothing against legends. I just feel the cat name is a bit too broad. - LuckyLouie (talk) 01:40, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My belief (see above) is that "Reportedly paranormal places" is an overkill and an insult to our readers' intelligence. But we seem in agreement that the category should be kept and cleaned up. Pichpich (talk) 02:26, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure about that, but I'm in agreement the category should be renamed to something more appropriate, such as examples I gave above. - LuckyLouie (talk) 03:04, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs about serial killers[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Songs about serial killers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete? I'm actually leaning towards keeping the category but that might be the minority point of view. Pichpich (talk) 19:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sport in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy merge C2C per convention of Category:Charlottetown. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:42, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Sport in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Category:Sport in Charlottetown
Nominator's rationale: Merge Clear duplicate. All subcategories of Category:Charlottetown don't include the province in their title. Pichpich (talk) 18:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Natural structures in Afghanistan[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Natural structures in Afghanistan to Category:Landforms of Afghanistan
Nominator's rationale: Merge to match standard name of similar categories. Pichpich (talk) 18:48, 4 April 2011 (UTC) Pichpich (talk) 18:48, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Merge the category seems to have no parent category, so unless other countries have a category for "Natural structures", I think the two items can be included in Landforms Hugo999 (talk) 11:16, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Open source software hosting facilities[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose Renaming Category:Open source software hosting facilities to Category:Project hosting websites. It seems unnecessary since Category:Free software websites already exists. --111.241.72.178 (talk) 18:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Geography of Sakha Republic[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (target has been created via discussion immediately below). Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:50, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Geography of Sakha Republic to Category:Geography of the Sakha Republic
Nominator's rationale: This is a duplicate category, and should be merged with the below nominated category, if/when that discussion closes. Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 17:40, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Geography of Sakha[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Geography of Sakha to Category:Geography of the Sakha Republic
Nominator's rationale: The more correct name is Sakha Republic, and as one can see from the parent and subsidiary categories present in this category they all use the form "Sakha Republic" hence this should be renamed for consistency. Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 17:27, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:United States Ambassador to Iran[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:United States Ambassador to Iran to Category:United States ambassadors to Iran
Nominator's rationale: Speedy merge per C2C. Plural form is used in every occupation category. Pichpich (talk) 14:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:CEO[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:45, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:CEO to Category:Chief executives
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge and possibly diffuse to the "by nationality" subcategories. This is clearly a duplicate. Pichpich (talk) 14:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
About that last point. My feeling (for what it's worth) is that it's reasonable to say of someone that he's a "chief executive" whereas saying "chief executive officer" feels awkward if it's not followed by the company's name, e.g. "chief executive officer of Acme Corporation". Pichpich (talk) 18:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Gay politicians from the United Kingdom[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:18, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Gay politicians from the United Kingdom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:LGBT politicians from the United Kingdom and ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Gay politicians. There's really no need to subdivide an ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:LGBT politicians by country subcategory even further by gender, the intersection isn't helpful and the category still won't be excessively large. Bearcat (talk) 07:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Gay politicians won't be excessively large even after the two upmerges I've proposed (it'll still be under 400 articles), and while some of the largest "LGBT occupation" categories have been subdivided by country and/or by splitting out each individual letter from the acronym, the LGBT wikiproject has always tried to avoid intersecting those two schemes to create a third "individual letter subdivided by country" level of categorization, because neither the wikiproject nor the encyclopedia as a whole actually needs to get that narrow. If we kept this, for example, and then recatted the remaining gay men from ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:LGBT politicians from the United Kingdom who haven't already been funnelled down to the gay subcat, then there would only be ten articles left in the parent — and on those grounds, we could never justify the parallel subcats for lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender politicians. And if we can't create L, B and T, then we don't need G — if it's not possible to create and populate all four at once, then we don't need or want one of them to exist in isolation. Bearcat (talk) 18:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Gay politicians from the United States[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:16, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Gay politicians from the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:LGBT politicians from the United States and ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Gay politicians. There's really no need to subdivide an ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:LGBT politicians by country subcategory by gender, and the category still won't be excessively large. Bearcat (talk) 07:55, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Actors who have played Doctor Who[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:44, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Actors who have played Doctor Who (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAT#PERF - "Avoid categories which categorise performers by their portrayal of a role. This includes portraying a specific character (such as ...)" This category would appear to be in violation of this. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:26, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Two questions for the IP and Dream Focus. Have you read WP:OCAT#PERF? It specifically states that we are to avoid these kinds of categories. Do you know what "typecast" means? Under the definition of the word none of the actors who have played the Dr would appear in the cat (with the possible exception of Hartnell) as they all - even Tom Baker - have had careers where they went on to appear in roles completely unlike the Doctor.MarnetteD | Talk 17:44, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Categories are for defining characteristics, being typecast is a defining characteristic. Hartnell, Pertwee and yes, Tom Baker, all have had issues with typecasting after Doctor Who. There's several theatre reviews about plays that Pertwee performed in, with notes about disappointment with the lack of Whoviness of them. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 03:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Even if this is true it isn't really typecasting because there are no other theatrical characters anything like 'the Doctor'. Also it's hardly worth having a category for three people only one of whom (Pertwee) could unarguably have suffered from his association with the role. PRL42 (talk) 07:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:School types and Category:Schools by type[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:09, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:School types (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Schools by type (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

One should be merged into the other, or into a single new category. Each has a sizable number of pages in it. Neutralitytalk 04:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. They're not the same. The former includes articles describing specific types of schools, while the latter includes articles about individual schools classified by their type. - Eureka Lott 14:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The first category contains articles on types of schools; the second mostly contains articles on individual schools, excepting a few misfiled type articles. Mangoe (talk) 16:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Academic organizations and Category:Academic institutions[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 18:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Academic organizations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Academic institutions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Confusingly similar. In fact, our article page on academic organization is a redirect to the article on academic institution. I think we should merge Category:Academic institutions into Category:Academic organizations, moving the subcategories and listed articles in "Academic institutions" to "academic organizations." Neutralitytalk 04:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rename to ? It's pretty clear that whoever has been maintaining the "organizations" category has a pretty good idea of what goes in it: societies and the like which exist outside of schools/universities. Perhaps a better name for it would do the trick. Mangoe (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep as is. The contents of these categories are not even close to being similar. Hmains (talk) 02:40, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The difference in content is clear. Cleanup will probably be necessary from time to time because some confusion is inevitable but I don't think this requires a name change. Pichpich (talk) 11:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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