Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 21

June 21

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Category:Toronto musicals

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The result of the discussion was: delete -- Black Falcon (talk) 00:13, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Toronto musicals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. There is nothing defining about happening to have played in Toronto. Musicals play in dozens or hundreds of cities and categorizing by them is unworkable. Harley Hudson (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Batman: The Animated Series characters

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy keep. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:20, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Batman: The Animated Series characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. It's extremely unlikely that any iteration of any character specific to this series is going to become independently notable. The two actual articles are not specific to this series and they and the single redirect don't need this permanently small category. Harley Hudson (talk) 22:53, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:J.Williams

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. If the article name changes, we can speedily rename the categories.--Mike Selinker (talk) 18:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:J.Williams to Category:J.Williams (singer)
Propose renaming Category:J.Williams songs to Category:J.Williams (singer) songs
Nominator's rationale: Rename. I proposed renaming to match J.Williams (singer). Category:J.Williams (singer) albums is already in this format. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:28, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Misia

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The result of the discussion was: result. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:07, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Misia to Category:Misia (Japanese singer)
Propose renaming Category:Misia albums to Category:Misia (Japanese singer) albums
Propose renaming Category:Misia songs to Category:Misia (Japanese singer) songs
Nominator's rationale: Rename. I suggest renaming these to match the article Misia (Japanese singer). Misia is ambiguous and these categories are liable to be confused with categories for Mísia (Portuguese singer). Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:08, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:2000s metal groups

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:09, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:2000s metal groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization. Alternately rename Category:2000s heavy metal musical groups per parent cat. and metal/heavy metal music. —Justin (koavf)TCM21:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Music groups

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:10, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:1790s music groups to Category:1790s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:2010s music groups to Category:2010s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:2000s music groups to Category:2000s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1990s music groups to Category:1990s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1980s music groups to Category:1980s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1970s music groups to Category:1970s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1960s music groups to Category:1960s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1950s music groups to Category:1950s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1940s music groups to Category:1940s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1930s music groups to Category:1930s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1920s music groups to Category:1920s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1910s music groups to Category:1910s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1900s music groups to Category:1900s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1890s music groups to Category:1890s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1880s music groups to Category:1880s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1870s music groups to Category:1870s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1860s music groups to Category:1860s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1850s music groups to Category:1850s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1840s music groups to Category:1840s musical groups
Propose renaming Category:1820s music groups to Category:1820s musical groups
Nominator's rationale: Per main cat: Category:Musical groups. There is an apparently random scheme of using "musical groups" and "music groups" at times. Others are simply "Category:Foo groups", which might make sense for musical genre groups, so I haven't bothered suggesting them. It seems advisable to have a common scheme for these and since the main category and its immediate subcats are "musical groups" then I am proposing implementing this naming scheme on all sub-subcategories. —Justin (koavf)TCM20:50, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. Ample navigate is provided by the by year and by century categories and their associated navigation templates. This level of categorization does not add any value. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:25, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. This categorization by decade of the group is just an open invitation to overcat. We generally categorize by when things were founded, not be when they existed. For this reason we have Category:Musical groups established in the 1790s and so forth when there are too few by year. This is especially relevant because many of the 19th-century established musical groups we currently have articles on are still funtioning today, meaning that they could be put in 15 or so of these musical groups by decade category. That is clearly an example of a system that will cause over-categorization.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:19, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Justice League (TV series) episodes

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:11, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Justice League (TV series) episodes to Category:Justice League (TV series)
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Single-entry category with little likelihood for expansion. Already in its other parent through a sub-category. Harley Hudson (talk) 20:18, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Orissa

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The result of the discussion was: Used Orissa per main article, create redirects from Odisha, revisit if the main article name changes. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Orissa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: I'm really not sure what's going on here, but some categories are named Odisha and others Orissa--there is apparently some conflict about the proper name of the state. Either way, there is no need for two separate categories with either name and wherever the main article is (presently at Orissa), then all of the categories associated should be named as such. —Justin (koavf)TCM17:19, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment What happened is that the name Orissa was officially changed to Odisha very recently. Akkida (talk · contribs) decided to just duplicate the entire category tree and manually empty out the old categories. The result was a complete mess. I did bring up the issue with him [1] but he was not exactly open to the idea that maybe this wasn't the right way to do things [2]. So I just went the "ah screw this" route and forgot about it. My two cents is that every subcategory should match the current title of the article (Orissa) and that they should all be moved to Odisha once the main article is moved. This will happen eventually since the official name change has taken effect but until then, the categories should match the article. Pichpich (talk) 22:35, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I guess we need to move everything back to Category:Orissa until the article name is changed. That includes all of the subcats. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:39, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It may be also wise to keep category redirects to avoid a repeat. Pichpich (talk) 14:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with that. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:48, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Category:Orissa. Official name changes do not guarantee that we will have to change the article name. The general rule is to use the common and expected name of a place, not the official name. Maybe in 20 years it would make sense to change the article name, but I would oppose it at present.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Boston City Council members

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:31, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Boston City Council members to Category:Boston city councillors
Nominator's rationale: The Boston City Council web site uses "city councillor" as the term rather than "city council member" for these officials.[3] OCNative (talk) 07:41, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:California city councillors

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:32, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:California city councillors to Category:California city council members
Nominator's rationale: I'm a native Californian, and I've never heard of our local officials being called city councillors; they're always called city council members, city councilmen, or city councilwomen. I am proposing "California city council members" as that allows us to include people from both genders in the category. Additionally, all the subcategories use "council members" rather than "councillors" for these officials: Category:Los Angeles City Council members, Category:Oakland City Council members, Category:Richmond City Council members (California), Category:Sacramento City Council members, Category:San Diego City Council members, and Category:San Jose City Council members. The only exception to this is San Francisco who has a Board of Supervisors, but that's because San Francisco is a consolidated city-county. According to the web sites of nine of the ten largest cities (again excluding San Francisco and its supervisors), they are "council members" rather than "councillors" as seen from the official council web sites: Los Angeles ([4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], and [18]), San Diego, San José ([19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], and [28]) Fresno, Sacramento (the state capital), Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, and Anaheim. OCNative (talk) 07:25, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. This also agrees with most precedents. One exception is senators, but that term is almost always used, I have never heard the term "senate members" and only rarely "members of the senate".John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:26, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:The Divine Comedy

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:33, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:The Divine Comedy to Category:The Divine Comedy (band)
Nominator's rationale: Per main article, and to disambiguate from the Divine Comedy. Jafeluv (talk) 07:06, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Eve (entertainer)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:33, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Eve (entertainer) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OC#EPONYMOUS. Recent consensus has directed that eponymous categories are unnecessary for musicians when there are only subcategories of songs and albums to populate it. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 06:14, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:National Public Radio

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:36, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:National Public Radio to Category:NPR
Nominator's rationale: Per main article. If this passes, subcat.s are speedyable. —Justin (koavf)TCM04:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
But I think NPR is not widely known. I had no idea what NPR was, or what it stood for, until I clicked on the article.Curb Chain (talk) 05:04, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think I prefer NPR (USA), as we often disambiguate "National". But NPR (radio) would work too, as Nevada Public Radio is not a major article, per Jafeluv, and there is little chance of confusion. Ephebi (talk) 07:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't like their idea either! But unfortunately the organisation didn't ask us and has already taken the decision to drop its former full name for an abbreviation. The question is therefore how to resolve that ambiguity. Ephebi (talk) 07:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Midis with pitch bend

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Midis with pitch bend to Category:MIDI files containing pitch bend data
Nominator's rationale: See previous nomination. — This, that, and the other (talk) 03:14, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Where in the archive would that be? Hyacinth (talk) 00:03, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Just beneath this one. — This, that, and the other (talk) 11:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Music midis

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Music midis to Category:MIDI files
Nominator's rationale: A few reasons for the rename:
  1. MIDI is an acronym. It is incorrect to spell it in lowercase.
  2. Even though MIDI can handle non-musical information, I would expect that all MIDI files on wiki contain musical data. Hence, the word "music" is redundant.
  3. MIDI files should be called just that, not "MIDIs". — This, that, and the other (talk) 03:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Desert Island Discs castaways

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The result of the discussion was: delete. There's no groundswell for "listify," but a list article is certainly plausible.--Mike Selinker (talk) 18:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Desert Island Discs castaways (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Trivial. —Justin (koavf)TCM00:50, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:United States Senate elections, 2011

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The result of the discussion was: Deleted as C1. After Midnight 0001 18:13, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:United States Senate elections, 2011 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Empty. Maybe someday there will be a special election to the U.S. Senate in 2011, but so far none are expected. —Markles 00:47, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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