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Turing Award laureates

It's not clear to me that turing "List of Turing Award laureates" into a redirect to Turing Award was an improvement, though I won't revert it. FWIW, why? ---- Charles Stewart 17:08, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is such a list on that page (Turing_Award#Turing_Award_recipients). -- User:Docu

Henry VIII and more

Hi Docu! I deleted the birth year categories of Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr because there is no certainty to their birth year, unless your bot knows something the rest of the world is missing. If you feel that three categories is *still* not enough i suggest, respectively, Category:People decapitated in May, Category:People decapitated in February (can be sub-categorized in Category:Decapitations per month), Category:Women who died in childbirth in October and Category:Women who died in childbirth in September (of course a part of Category:Childbirth death by month). As for Anne Boleyn, i would also recommend Category:People supposed to have six fingers, but maybe this already exists under a different name. If D6 is ever bored, i'll be glad to offer more suggestion to other useful categorization schemes. Best regards, [[User:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]] 16:20, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Anne Boleyn, etc. : The categories are also used for approximate years as per Wikipedia:People by year.
Category:People decapitated in May, Category:People decapitated in February (can be sub-categorized in Category:Decapitations per month), Category:Women who died in childbirth in October, Category:Women who died in childbirth in September, Category:Childbirth death by month), Category:People supposed to have six fingers: Aren't they all redundant? Now that we have Wikipedia:People by year, it should be possible to build a query based on an existing list and/or the date in the article with the same year as the category of Births_by_year/Deaths_by_year?
BTW don't we need a Category:Wives of Henry_VIII ? -- User:Docu
- Yeah! We could group it somehow with Category:Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor and Category:Girlfriends of Hugh Heffner in something like... let me see... Category:Celebrity consorts? muriel@pt 20:37, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  - As we already got Category:Wives_of_Charlemagne, so we might as well go with Category:Wives of Henry_VIII (replacing Category:English queen consorts)? -- User:Docu
    - I would rather see the wives of Charlesmagne vaporized! What are you expecting to fill it with? 8 stubs about 8 women we know nothing except they married him? At least Henry's girls are real historical women not just names. I think that by creating the category Henry VIII wives, we should removed them from the british consorts. Yesterday i spent hours removing duplicates of Ancient Romans and Ancient Roman women. muriel@pt 22:23, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I tend to agree about Charlemagne's, even if that means that the existing (sub)stubs should become redirects. BTW D6 should be able to eliminate duplicate categorizations such as Ancient Romans. I'd need to set it up to do that first though. -- User:Docu
- Those are good news! The Category:Ancient Romans should be removed from articles in Category:Families of Rome because this category is about families not individuals. muriel@pt 11:44, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  - I will give it a try. -- User:Docu
    - Done: D6 removed it from 15 articles. -- User:Docu
- More : When D6 creates for instance Category:Counts of Flanders, it can connect it with Category:Counts. Same for Dukes, there is a Category:Dukes. muriel@pt 12:40, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  - I'm a bit hesitant to do this, as, depending on the country and the time period, e.g. Prince of Wales, Prince of Monaco, and Prince-elector don't necessarily need to be in the same (parent-)category, and not all Dukedoms need a category. Category:Peers seems to work well for the British. -- User:Docu
    - Sure, but Peers are just Peers. The Dukes of Brittany or Burgundy, for instance, were heads of state, as were the Counts of Holland, Hainaut, Luxemburg, etc. I tried to make that clear in Category:Dukes, which i linked to Category:Heads of state. Prince of Monaco also fits in Cat:Heads of state. Or do you have other suggestion for Category:Dukes parenting? muriel@pt 22:21, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      - I wouldn't have used it in the first place, but maybe I will come up with one. -- User:Docu