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Nominator's rationale: Miller only produced half of Brand New Girlfriend, and his only other production credits are non-notable singles by Steve Holy and Amy Dalley which were never put on an album. Precedent is that the producer should have worked on at least a couple full albums to have their own category. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?)20:49, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Entertainers who have performed in yellowface
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Delete for Different Reasons While Mickey Rooney's performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's was disgusting, it was a one-off acting performance not a career specialty making this a WP:PERFCAT issue. (The closest I can think of is Boris Karloff's five Detective Wong movies but he wasn't typecast afterward.) In contrast, blackface minstrel performing was often a niche career. No objection to listifying in the article space, although I suspect playing "redface" in Western movies was so common that a list would be unwieldy. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:01, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Just for clarity, I was proposing it for deletion as a non-defining WP:PERFCAT, but with the caveat that there could be some performers for whom it was defining in the same way as blackface. I just don't know enough about it - my guess would be that there may well be a handful of performers for whom it was defining, but there's so much potential for trivial mentions that it's a bad idea anyway.Le Deluge (talk) 10:00, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You only have to google to find lots of incidents of this, especially heinous is 21st century incidences - Cloud Atlas (Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess), Emma Stone in Aloha, Luise Miller won an Oscar in yellowface in The Good Earth, as did the white woman who played Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously. Katherine Hepburn has done yellowface (Bad Seed), Marlon Brando has done it, Christopher Lee, Paul Muni, the list goes on and on. Hollywood has notoriously been eager to display Asian culture without showing Asian people. This is a very big issue if you are at all ...not white. To dismiss its significance makes Wikipedia a "white safe" place but uninclusive of diverse people. Recently the Calvin Trillian (sp?) poem in The New Yorker has given more credence to the "we want to experience Asian culture but not see your people" current trend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.35.31.2 (talk) 00:36, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete performer by performance variant; next we'll have actors who swished offending LGBT sensibilities of today, actors who spoke with an accent not their own (cultural appropriation), actors who played disabled people (why didn't hollywood cast an appropriate actor), Jewish actors who played Christians, Christian actors who played Jews, Protestant actors who played Catholics, anyone not of the Roman Pagan faith who played an ancient Roman, etc. trivialities Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:55, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: The category name contains an implausible typo ("Categiory"). It redirects to the correctly spelled category but this is unnecessary as any incoming links to the misspelled category are extremely unlikely. 97198 (talk) 09:57, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete and please stop this recent 'notable deaths' madness. Otherwise, we will soon be running out of trout to use for slapping. -- WV ● ✉✓06:07, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. We already have the appropriate category in place for this type of article, and do not need an extra layer of subcats for the deceased person's former occupation in life — and categories, as a rule, should never contain the word "notable" in their names. The standalone notability of the death incident is an inherent precondition for this kind of article to even exist at all, so "notable" does not have to be explicitly restated by the article's categories. Bearcat (talk) 14:41, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rename -- Category:Deaths of musicians. All the articles are one the death of a specific musician. If the circumstances of their death were not notable enough to require an article, we would not have one. However the category needs to be limited to articles about the death, not merely general bio-articles that mention the death. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:03, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support this excellent suggestion of rename Such category would allow one to read about different articles and compare and learn. An early reaction to support delete can be knee jerk but Peterkingiron's idea is outstanding! Whiskeymouth (talk) 18:48, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Do we really need a category stating this? I think that "Deaths by person" or other categories related to death causes should suffice. I agree that this seems simply over-categorizing.--GDuwenTell me!20:29, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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