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Subcats of Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

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The result of the debate was no consensus (no change) --Kbdank71 20:21, 19 September 2005 (UTC) NOTE: This is being listed as unresolved because the subcats from Nebraska on were not tagged for renaming. I'm doing this now, and will keep those cats open for discussion. --Kbdank71 19:16, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Can we please rename to a standard? We have: 

   * U.S. Representatives from Alabama
   * U.S. Representatives from Alaska
   * U.S. Representatives from Arizona
   * U.S. Representatives from Arkansas
   * U.S. Representatives from California
   * U.S. Representatives from Colorado
   * U.S. Representatives from Connecticut
   * U.S. Representatives from Delaware
   * U.S. Representatives from Florida
   * U.S. Representatives from Georgia
   * U.S. Representatives from Hawaii
   * U.S. Representatives from Idaho
   * U.S. Representatives from Illinois
   * Members of the U.S. House from Kansas
   * U.S. Representatives from Kentucky
   * U.S. Representatives from Louisiana
   * U.S. Representatives from Maine
   * Members of the U.S. House from Maryland
   * U.S. Representatives from Massachusetts
   * U.S. Representatives from Michigan
   * Members of the U.S. House from Minnesota
   * U.S. Representatives from Mississippi
   * U.S. Representatives from Missouri
   * U.S. Representatives from Montana
   * U.S. Representatives from Nebraska
   * U.S. Representatives from Nevada
   * U.S. Representatives from New Hampshire
   * U.S. Representatives from New Jersey
   * U.S. Representatives from New York
   * U.S. Representatives from North Carolina
   * U.S. Representatives from Ohio
   * U.S. Representatives from Oklahoma
   * U.S. Representatives from Pennsylvania
   * U.S. Representatives from Rhode Island
   * U.S. Representatives from Tennessee
   * U.S. Representatives from Texas
   * U.S. Representatives from Vermont
   * U.S. Representatives from Virginia

Rename "Members of the U.S. House from Foo" to "U.S. Representatives from Foo". -- Reinyday, 00:05, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Governors of North Carolina
  • Members of the North Carolina State House
  • North Carolina Court of Appeals judges
  • North Carolina General Assembly by session
  • North Carolina State Senators
  • North Carolina Supreme Court justices
  • North Carolina city council members
  • U.S. Representatives from North Carolina
  • U.S. Senators from North Carolina
-- Reinyday, 00:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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Category:U.S. state insignia → Category:United States state insignia

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The result of the debate was merge --Kbdank71 16:31, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was cleaning up at the bottom, and did the move Category:U.S. state insignia by state → Category:United States state insignia. Then I noticed this one was a parent to Category:U.S. state insignia by state, which just seems wrong. It evidently got left out of the rename spree. It seems this was intended as a parent cat, but since the target isn't "...by state", and keeping the existing cat is confusing at best, we should probably merge it. -Splash 22:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scotland to visit

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The result of the debate was party at Grutness'!!! Um, I mean rename as nominated. --Kbdank71 16:36, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A rather clumsy name which was chosen before the standard was established (See category:British visitor attractions by locality). It should be renamed category:Visitor attractions in Scotland. Could Americans please note that the term "landmarks" while fine for the U.S. is not suitable for UK categories as the word has a much narrower meaning in British English. Visitor attractions is the correct British English term. CalJW 22:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Romanesque sites of Catalonia

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty category - TexasAndroid 21:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Germanium compounds

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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 16:39, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty category - TexasAndroid 21:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Russian Intelligentsia

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:46, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty category - TexasAndroid 21:16, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sahaba's ancestors

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty category - TexasAndroid 21:05, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sports lists

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The result of the debate was merge, then rename (add hyphen) --Kbdank71 16:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Overly broad category. While it currently has only cricket and rugby entries, the category could conceivibly hold just about any sports related list. All three current categories have other, more useful, categorizations, so IMHO this one could (and should) just disappear. TexasAndroid 20:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Let's please not clutter this vote with a rename of a (currently) unsubmitted category. If you want to submit Category:Sports related lists for rename, please do so. But strongly IMHO it should get it's own vote separate from this one. TexasAndroid 02:37, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No need to bow at the altar of bureaucracy. I'm in favor of taking care of it all at once, if possible. siafu 03:19, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Former students of Trinity College, Cambridge

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The correct category should be Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge. I've added this category to the (single) entry here, but the dud category needs deletion. Bluap 19:04, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. -- Reinyday, 20:14, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. No argument. siafu 22:36, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. We did all these a couple weeks back — this might be speediable as an unknowing recreation. If these keep coming back, we'll have to do {{categoryredirect}}s. -Splash 23:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Reverse merge (or at the very least redirect if consensus is delete) If these keep coming back I'd say it indicates that "alumni" is not the most intuitive term to use for this. Granted it's well known and growing in populatiry in higher avademic circles and many universities across the globe doesn have "alumni networks", but usage of the term is extremely rare in everyday use (at least outside the US/UK) and for the vast majority of the "unwashed masses" (those not part of an alumni network) alumni is basicaly an "alien" word. So why use it in this context when "former students" works equaly well and is understood by anyone who undrstand English. Granted this is not the simple english Wikipedia but still... --Sherool 18:00, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Reverse merging this will result in 1 category in 20-something being different. Why would that be helpful? If you really want all 20-something the other way around, it would be better to propose to undo the renaming en-masse than to do it for one single category,surely? -Splash 18:29, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah I guess. Consider it a "protest vote" hoping to "stir up" some debate on the issue rather than let it get "rubber stamed" though on the merit of presidence alone. If my little "rant" here can't get anyone to reconsider, at least in principle, even if they favour renaming for the sake of consistency, then such an undo nomination would be an utter waste of time. Feel free to disregard my vote in this instance if there is a "no consensus" danger. I'm basicaly just fishing for more input on the issue. Guess the village pump would have been a better place, but I'll give if a couple of days here first and see what turns up first. If there is a strong consensus in favour of the rename (for other reasons than consistency) I'll yield. --Sherool 19:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ok, seems I realy am the only one bothered by the use of the term, at least among the people who frequent CfD, so I just changed my vote to a comment. I did a little "survery" on a forum I frequent and most people did know off the term. It should be noted that it has different meaning in different countries though (at least that's what I was told) in Canada it aparently only apply to people who earned a degree (opposed to how it apparently also apply to drop outs in the US), also in Australia the term is only used for former students (graduates or not) who actively keep in touch with the school (guest lecturers and such I guess), while the rest are usualy refered to as either "old scolars" or just ex students (except maybe at "formal" avaversary reunion parties). --Sherool 23:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Natives of Gdańsk to Category:Natives of Gdańsk/Danzig

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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 17:01, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Both names Gdańsk and Danzig allowed.

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Buildings and structures by country - the rest

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 17:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have already nominated various building categories that are missing "and structures" from their names, so here are the rests of the national categories. Is seems that at some point a decision was reached that all buildings categories should be called "buildings and structures" (see Category:Buildings). This makes sense as it removes any doubt as to whether things like bridges, tunnels, dams, masts, walls, locks, piers and towers may be included. The majority of the national categories already include the word "structures" but the ones that don't include most of the bigger ones that were presumably created earliest, eg UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China. I would like to see these all made consistent now. I have listed the amended titles in brackets where it involves any change other than adding "and structures" after "buildings".

Also, Category:Lists of structures should be renamed Category:Lists of buildings and structures

Rename all CalJW 15:57, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Add another one to the list: Category:Buildings and structures of New Zealand → Category:Buildings and structures in New Zealand. Grutness...wha? 01:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I listed the seven categories containing of separately - see below. CalJW 05:12, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lists of structures

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The result of the debate was rename as above --Kbdank71 17:32, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was no clear consensus: keep --Docu, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Suggested renaming to: Category:Lists of buildings and structures (see above).
  • Keep, the shorter version "Lists of structures". Every building is a structure. -- User:Docu
  • Keep per Docu. -- Reinyday, 07:43, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Cold War people

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 17:34, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This category has no clarity of definition whatsoever. As several people have observed on the talk page, it does not provide any useful information other than the fact that a person had something to do with the cold war. This category has an archived peer review request which asks whether every national leader during the cold war be in this category? Revealingly, there is no response! The cold war was the basis of geopolitics for decades. How do you then generate a list of "cold war people"? How about every foreign minister too? Where do you draw the line?!

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Category:Oceanic trenches by depth (km)

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The result of the debate was listify --Kbdank71 17:39, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Listify and delete. Same format like Category:Mountains by Elevation (km), which has been recently deleted. Purpose of categories is not to sort by elevations, depths, lengths, areas etc., but to sort by name. - Darwinek 12:03, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. Interesting that someone who is doing so much work on trying to reinvent the wheel, and spending so much energy arguing about it, is accusing others of being stubborn. Perhaps it's everyone else who's marching out of step. Grutness...wha? 01:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:UCL professors

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete pls. No longer used and now emptied, created by me on Sunday and now replaced with Category:UCL academics after discussion (not all academics are professors under the UK system). --stochata 11:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:User pascal

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 18:04, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rebundant with Category:User pas and not used. CG 10:34, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

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Category:User fortran

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 18:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rebundant with Category:User for and not used. CG 10:34, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

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Category:High profile American lawyers

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 18:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

While it's possible that there may be some potential subcategories for Category:American lawyers that are useful, accurate, and clear to laypeople, this is not one of them. Ultimately an arbitrary designation because the term "high profile" has no substantial meaning, and whatever meaning it has will likely already be accounted for by the simple fact that the lawyer deserved an article. So that's a delete from this side. Postdlf 05:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Any lawyers that are not high profile (or better, "are not prominent") are unlikely to have Wikipedia entries. So Delete. Grutness...wha? 10:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete We don't do categories that make subjective judgements about eligibility. It is a problem though that the category system doesn't highlight key articles. Imagine how big some categories will be in 20 years time! The ability to sort the articles in a category by length or number of edits would help to address this budding problem. CalJW 15:59, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete adjectival cats. Any so-named cats will only retain their entries if the articles either a)are clearly notable or b)are questionably notable and survive AfD. -Splash 00:00, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. —Lowellian (reply) 17:40, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Only high profile lawyers deserve articles. Osomec 17:24, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: "High profile", as it is used here in the States, does not mean notable. It refers to getting a lot of media attention. The OJ Simpson case and the Scott Peterson cases were high profile, and the lawyers in those cases were high profile lawyers. A Google search reveals about 30,000 instances of the phrase "high profile" in the English Wikipedia, and about 15,000 instances of the phrase "high profile lawyer" on the web. However, if this usage is not clear, particularly to English speakers in other countries, then the category should certainly be deleted or renamed. -- Reinyday, 02:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
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category:Russian state

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 18:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this category is unique. I have looked at its history and at one time it was the head category in Category:Russia and it contained things like law enforcement and military until I took them out. All in all it revealed a distinctly Russian point of view about the primacy of the state which shouldn't be apparent in Wikipedia. The standard category would be category:Government of Russia, which would have 27 companions in category:Government by country. Rename CalJW 00:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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