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This category is ambiguously named. Should it include food retailers that sell exclusively organic products? Or is having a small percentage of organic foods enough? I don't feel a category is currently warranted for the former given the lack of articles about subjects that fit that parameter. In the event of the latter, most articles in both Category:Supermarkets of Canada and Category:Supermarkets of the United States carry at least some organic products. The existence of this category would therefore result in the unneccessary duplicate categorization of articles. Kurieeto 02:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This category was created on December 6, 2004, and currently contains 1 article. This level of categorization is therefore demonstrated currently unneccessary in my view. Kurieeto 02:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: ...

Specifically: Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Virginia Tech, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Carnegie Mellon University, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Loughborough University, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Wales, Bangor, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Waikato, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Victoria University of Wellington, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Massey University, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Lincoln University, New Zealand, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Canterbury, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Dublin Institute of Technology, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Athlone Institute of Technology, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Western Ontario, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Ontario College of Art and Design, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Northern British Columbia, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Dalhousie University, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Algonquin College, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Alberta, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Western Sydney, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Sydney, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Queensland University of Technology, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Melbourne, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Macquarie University, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Argentina, Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Hong Kong

Comment Well, when someone wants to use it, then they can create it at that time. The only way these are going to get some great use in a short period of time would be if you make a Userbox for each of them. There is no point putting a seperate category for each uni unless people are going to use them. When someone wants to put themself in the category, then they can then create it. It's pointless just having tonnes of empty categories. čĥàñľōŕď 00:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We don't create categories with the hope that someone will populate them in the future, they are created as they are needed. Given your logic, we may as well create thousands of categories for every university with the hope that some wikipedians will place themselves in that category. It just doesn't seem logical. Semiconscious · talk 09:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There are only nine universities in New Zealand; as such it made sense to make the nine at the same time and announce it at the NZ wikipedians' notice board. I was planning to make templates for them all, but given that only 74 minutes passed between making them and them being nominated for deletion, I hadn't got round to it. As it is, none of them have deletion templates on them, so it was purely by chance that I saw them listed here. Grutness...wha? 10:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Crap. I'll add the deletion templates. Anyway, "alma mater" doesn't refer to just colleges and universities either. But my comment above still stands. Semiconscious · talk 10:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to avoid use of acronym in category title. Semiconscious (talk · home) 23:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a subcategory of Category:American television. Oddly it also contained an article about a national British TV news programme but I have taken that out. Not sure such a category is much use in other countries but it this can always be recreated with subcategories for other countries if anyone creates any. However for now it would be better to give this a name which reflects what it is. Calsicol 23:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

merged articles and cats into Category:Wikipedians by alma mater where all the other universities are. -- Chanlord 23:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

redirect of above. -- Chanlord 23:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merged into Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of California, Berkeley. -- Chanlord 23:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Listing this category is essentially down to the point of view (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) of the editor, and it isn't particularly helpful to the reader. Category:Alcoholics exists, and those with verifiable drink problems (Wikipedia:Verifiability) can be listed there. Category description is very vague, and if a person happens to fit them then a section in their article would be better than a simple addition to a category - the entry in the article can be verified and reference as normal (Wikipedia:Citing sources). Thanks/wangi 21:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to the standard form. CalJW 18:50, 9 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Seaside resorts

A follow up to the next nomination down. The "in" form is standard for settlments:

Rename all CalJW 18:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A follow up to the nomination below. The "in" form is standard for settlements. CalJW 18:06, 9 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Rename to match the format of all the other subcategories of Category:Visitor attractions in the United Kingdom except for one, which I will be nominating in a minute. CalJW 18:05, 9 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

This POV category lists a bunch of unrelated people: these are people executed for religions reasons, which should be in Category:Martyrs, political reasons, which should be in Category:Executed politicians or Category:Executed activists, etc. Ze miguel 15:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--Dangerous-Boy 09:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rename for consistency. See the other categories around/above it.
(Let's not get into the "United States" vs. "U.S." debate here. I've started a disccusion about that at the Village Pump here.
Mark Adler (markles) 13:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment and oppose: Sorry Mark, but when it comes to a rename, I can't not argue about the US/United States debate as it's central to the future identity of the category. I have commented on the village pump on this matter: all "US" whatever titles should be changed to "United States...." at the very least. Semiconscious · talk 10:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename. I will concede that "United States" is better than "U.S.". But for right now, let's leave it at U.S. Just as soon as the change is made, then you can propose (and I will support) a further change from U.S. to United States. Let me add, however, that categories are not just a just a technical way of displaying lists.—Mark Adler (markles) 20:23, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding abbreviation. - EurekaLott 05:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding abbreviation. - EurekaLott 05:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

reformat without the abbrevition in line with Category:Chief executives. The United States has a President not (unlike Hong Kong), a Chief Executive. Calsicol 02:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

More concise category title, fits in with the existing fictional character convention better. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bad joke based on Russell's paradox. Delete. dcljr (talk) 01:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment By the way, note that Category:Categories that are not self-inclusive was created and redirected to Russell's paradox back on April 1, 2005. - dcljr (talk) 01:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
week keep this seems to be a re-occuring feature, if deleted it will no doubt be recreated soon enough. It is also a very good example of a rather important paradox, which makes the paradox very concrete and maybe more understandable than just a textual description in Russell's paradox. --Pfafrich 11:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Vegaswikian 06:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is the opposite of the convention currently used in that parent category. I'm willing to favour the change if someone can explain why it's being proposed and is willing to standardize all the other international categories as well, but otherwise I would still prefer to retain and apply the existing convention, which supports "American X" rather than "United States X" or "X of the United States". Bearcat 20:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge. No argument. siafu 01:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is the opposite of the convention currently used in that parent category. I'm willing to favour the change if someone can explain why it's being proposed and is willing to standardize all the other international categories as well, but if it's being done just because of Ronald20's ongoing insistence on making the Mexican and Canadian categories conform to whatever's done to the American ones even when that doesn't actually fit Mexican or Canadian reality, then oppose on principle. Bearcat 20:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge. No argument. siafu 01:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is the opposite of the convention currently used in that parent category. I'm willing to favour the change if someone can explain why it's being proposed and is willing to standardize all the other international categories as well, but if it's being done just because of Ronald20's ongoing insistence on making the Mexican and Canadian categories conform to whatever's done to the American ones even when that doesn't actually fit Mexican or Canadian reality, then oppose on principle. Bearcat 20:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]