Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 August 5

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August 5

NEW NOMINATIONS

People by city

There are still a good number that are inconsistent with the "People from foo" convention. As this seems to be the accepted naming convention based on previous discussions, all the following should be renamed for consistency. --musicpvm 07:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - "people from" is highly subjective, and thus POV. How on earth do you objectively define where someone is "from"? Where they spent their formative years (say 5-15)? The only objective method of doing this is to use cold, hard facts, and where someone was actually born (there can only be one place) is usually a matter of record. "Natives of" is the only NPOV way of titling these types of categories. All the other "people from" cats should be moved (back) to "natives of". --Mais oui! 08:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per standardization, and also to avoid overcategorization with natives/non-natives. People born one place and who later spend much time in another are "from" both places, and many categories reflect that. --Dhartung | Talk 08:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:F-Zero Playing Wikipedians

Category:F-Zero Playing Wikipedians was renamed to Category:Wikipedians who play the F-Zero series due to Wikipedia's Categories for Deletion policies. FullMetal Falcon 05:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination is already covered in the nomination from several days ago.--Mike Selinker 05:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Perth landmarks

Delete, Shouldn't be here, created by accident. frendy 03:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional cab drivers

Move Category:Fictional cab drivers up 1 level to Category:Taxicabs then Delete Category:Cab drivers that will then be empty. I am rationalising the Taxicab articles and simplifying the Taxicab category structure so things can be found.! TerriersFan 00:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The articles here are about people, not cabs. And we shouldn't mix fictional and nonfictional article subjects. This feeds nicely into category:Fictional drivers and category:Cab drivers (although that's empty, and I could swear that when I made the category, there were articles going into it), so I'd leave it alone.--Mike Selinker 05:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Universities in Tasmania and the Northern Territory

Delete, There is only one University in the Australian state of Tasmania and the Northern Territory, so unless there’s ever more universities created (and under the current Commonwealth Government, that seems very unlikely), there’ll only be one article in each cat. Articles in these categories should be moved up to the parent categories. —Felix the Cassowary 01:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It is much better to have neat and complete sets of subcategories. ReeseM 01:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per ReeseM - also, I'm not sure where the Australian Maritime College and former Tasmanian State Institute of Technology would fit into this category arrangement; tertiary institutions, but not universities. -- Chuq 02:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per ReeseM. In these cases one-member categories are not such a problem. --Dhartung | Talk 08:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Forums of Rome

Category:Forums of Rome to Category:Fora of Rome

Come on, this is most definitely a Roman topic, so we should use the proper Latin plural. —Keenan Pepper 00:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is not the Latin wikipedia. ReeseM 01:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you in favor of renaming Category:Cacti to Category:Cactuses and Category:Matrices to Category:Matrixes? —Keenan Pepper 04:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename per nom. ♥ Her Pegship♥ 06:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose see Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_30#Category:Stadiums_to_Category:Stadia. -- ProveIt ^(talk) 06:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to point out that Category:Stadiums is for modern-day sports venues, while Category:Forums of Rome is for ancient Roman structures. People interested in stadiums say stadiums, but people interested in ancient Roman fora say fora. —Keenan Pepper 06:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google gives about equal (minuscule) results for both. I say use English, so oppose. --Dhartung | Talk 08:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]