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Well, we already have information at
Banned films#Iraq. It appears that the majority of films banned in at least one place have actually been banned in several places. If we did have "films banned in..." categories for every country they would become an unwieldy eyesore when stacked at the bottom of Borдt, and exhibit a high degree of redundancy when browsed. Delete. —
CharlotteWebb23:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom & CharlotteWebb. This is pretty analagous to the "xxx-by-performance" cats that are well understood not to make good sense as categories.
Cgingold (
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02:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete - Many works have been banned, proscribed, censored, restricted, redacted, or burned in one or more places by one or more entities; that is not a defining characteristic of the work, although it may be worth noting in the article about the work, and it may be worth writing an article about censorship in Iraq. (I note in passing that the impulse behind this kind of category is really to address a topic that is probably worth addressing, but the topic needs to be addressed straight-forwardly and with references as an article -- not a cheap to create, expensive to maintain category that produces only an alphabetical list of contents. --
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16:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)reply
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Category:Scandals in sports
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I'm the creator of "Scandals in sports"; I did a cursory check for a similar category and found none. Now that I know a similar category exists, I favor the deletion of the new one created by me - I will begin using the preexisting category.
Brain Rodeo (
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21:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Brian, you could move the four articles to the other category, tag the empty one with {{db-author}} and be done with it. On a general note though I don't think it is appropriate to categorize a person as a "sports scandal". If they were involved in a "sports scandal" we can write an article about the incident and put that in the category instead. —
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Category:Counterterrorism
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Category:Predator series
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Nominator's rationale: (franchise) is a better disambiguating term as that’s what this category includes: all articles related to the Predator film franchise and its related media (comics, video games, etc.). The parent category for all things Alien-related has been changed to
Category:Alien (franchise) after an AfD, and this closely-related franchise has a similar difficulty with naming that could be solved with an identical category rename. This move would mirror the inclusive renaming of the Alien category.
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Basketball players by club in Spain
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Category:Homo mermanus
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Category:Sea creatures
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Keep: I have not yet seen a category specifically for Sea Creatures. I feel that this category being here would help to give some insight as to what a sea creature is!!! —Preceding
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Kavin93 (
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19:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete - the category is apparently intended to serve as a home for anything and everything that ever lived in the ocean, whether real, fictional or mythological. As such the category would be potentially enormous, encompassing everything from
plankton to
The Little Mermaid. Not useful for organizational or navigational purposes.
Otto4711 (
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19:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Comment - This might be appropriate as a category of categories, but it should contain no articles, which should all be in subcategories of it. I have not investigated in detail and so give no vote.
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00:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fish out of water films
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I am skeptical of the assertion that this, a sub-category of
Category:Films by genre, pertains to an actual genre, or that unambiguous criteria could be adopted. As currently written, the category's description page isn't a far cry from saying "films which kinda sorta have a plot" and the lack of an explanatory article (see the red link) is also somewhat telling. Delete. —
CharlotteWebb18:08, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete. While "fish out of water" is an expression, it does not seem to be a defined film genre -- see
Google Books Search with the keywords "fish out of water" movie OR "fish out of water" film. Like Charlotte pointed out, the lack of an explanatory article is telling. In addition, reviewing the films that are categorized under this, there seem to be a lot of questionable entries, a lot of which just has to do with ordinary figures involved in extraordinary circumstances. The category does not seem appropriate because it would be too opinionated to determine if a film fits the "fish out of water" term. In addition, I'm not sure if the term would solely apply to comedies. There are some serious examples on there like
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home that could qualify for the term, too. Ultimately, this category does not follow a defined genre, and the criteria for inclusion seems too subjective for navigation. —
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20:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete. Charlotte Vale is a "fish out of water" in her own home and, to a certain extent, as a cruise ship passenger in Now, Voyager, and the unnamed heroine of Rebecca is a "fish out of the water" throughout most of the film. I hardly would categorize either of these as "Fish out of water films," although some could argue they qualify because of the positions in which their lead characters find themselves, so it becomes an issue of POV and whose should be dismissed and whose should prevail. I think it's better to avoid what could become heated discussions and just delete the category.
MovieMadness (
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18:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete pure POV and suffers the same ills of all films about categories: how much about the subject must the film be and what RS tells us that it's at least that much.
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18:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)reply
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Keep - I created this darn category because none of these articles were part of the Pokemon category, and they are a large enough number (more than 24) to be its own paragraph. If it must be deleted, please upmerge them all to Category:Pokemon.
Judgesurreal777 (
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17:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete - performer by performanceovercategorization. Consensus is clear that we do not categorize actors on the basis of the TV shows/films/video games in which they appear. Neither should this be upmerged to the parent category as this is also overcategorization.
Otto4711 (
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17:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete. It's also a confusing title. I assume these are voice actors? Pokemon is an animated franchise, after all. There are no on-screen actors. --
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18:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)reply
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