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Nominator's rationale: I found this uncategorised category of actors of the
Le Splendid café-théâtre company, and categorised it crudely under
Category:French actors. However, I can find no other categories of actors-by-company, even for theatres well known as training grounds, such as the RSC and the UK's National Theatre. Even though this seems to me to be a somewhat wider and more significant category can those deprecated by
WP:OC#Performers_by_performance_venue, it does not seem to me to be sufficiently more significant to justify categorising in this way. In the course of their careers, many actors will spend a significant time with a number of notable companies, and categorising in this way will just cause category clutter. It might a good idea to listify this category. --
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Category:Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Category:Follow That Dream issues
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Category:Airline company headquarters
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. These articles are mainly about the buildings themselves. We have historic and listed buildings in this tree so making it clear that it is about the building would seem be be a reasonable rename.
Vegaswikian (
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19:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Rename per BHG- the plural version is normally used for "headquarters", even when only one is meant. (You say, "I'm going back to headquarters", not "back to headquarter".) I do think it's defining for these structures, though more for some than others.
Bradjamesbrown (
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03:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Strong delete (changing my !vote after Debresser's question prompted me to look again). Checking the 6 articles in this the category (as opposed to its sub-category), it seems to me that being an airline HQ is a defining characteristic of only two of the buildings listed:
Mexicana de Aviación Tower and
Waterside (building). The
Beehive (Gatwick Airport) is notable only as an airport terminal, not for its subsequent uses;
Shiodome City Center is a multi-use office building, not particularly defined any of its tenants;
Donington Hall is much more notable for many things other than being an airline HQ; and the major tenant of the
Place Ville-Marie is a bank, not an airline. I have not yet checked the sub-category
Category:Airline company headquarters in the United States, but on the basis of what I have seen here I think that this category is a very bad idea. Buildings usually have many uses in the course of the lives, and it seems foolish enough to start categorising them on the basis of whether they were used as a company HQ rather some other form of office, but then subdividing that by the industry in which they were a HQ seems like a recipe for horrendous category clutter. If we go down this path, how many such categories do we end up with on the
Shiodome City Center or
Canary Wharf? The same problems seem to me to apply to the other sub-cats of
Category:Headquarters, which should be deleted as well. Rename it as above if kept, but it would be much better deleted. --
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Category:Members of the Society for Biblical Studies in India
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Nominator's rationale: This is a category for members of the
Society for Biblical Studies in India. According to the
Membership section of the head article, "Membership of the Society is open to persons holding an M.Th. or a Licenciate in Scripture or Biblical theology from a recognised College or University". Other CFD discussions seem to have formed a consensus that we do not categorise by membership of learned societies where membership is open. My understanding is that we reserve such categories for people who have been selected by the society for making a notable contribution to the academic field, e.g. by appointment as a "fellow" of the society. A peek at
Category:Members of learned societies does not suggest that there are many other exceptions to this principle, so unless someone has evidence that there is a good reason to treat this category differently, it should be deleted. No objection to listifying it, if other editors think that a list would be appropriate.
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17:37, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Fellowships are sometimes a recognition of notability, and thus worth a category, e.g FRS and FSA, but not mere membership, open to any graduate.
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Canadian expatriates
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Categorizes biographies by non-defining characteristic. The biographies are already in their university's category, which is their notability.--
TM17:33, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The parent category is
Category:Canadian expatriates in the United States, to which these categories should be merged if deleted. However,
Category:Canadian expatriates in the United States is heavily sub-categorised, so I don't see any particular reason to single out these sub-cats. Declaration of interest. I am an expatriate myself, part of the
Irish diaspora, and whilst my own notability has not so far been prompted anyone to write a wikipedia article on me (no comment on whether I should make the grade or not), I regard my status as an Irish expatriate to be very much a defining characteristic of who I am and why I achieved what I did. So on those grounds I support the logic of categorising by expatriate status, but I do have some reservations. These expatriate categories create a lot of category clutter, and they are essentially an intersection between (in this case)
Category:People from Canada and
Category:American people by occupation. If the long-discussed
Category intersection is ever implemented, then expatriate categories may be one of the many forms of intersection categories which we can dispose of, but I don't know whether that software feature will arrive before
Godot. When it does we can look again at these categories. --
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Reply. In theory, you are right that a Canadian expatriate in America should not be in a category of American people, but since "Foo American college boo sport players" is ultimately a subcategory of
Category:American people by occupation, the team category puts her there. It's a useful reminder of how wikipedia's category system is structured to facilitate navigation rather than provide a perfectly-accurate taxonomy. --
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Category:Railway stations managed by Southern
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Comment. Managed and served are two different aspects. Managed refers to the station buildings. Served refers to the train services using that station. Not necessarily the same, but in this instance they probably are.
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Category:London Overground stations
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Category:Films set in the 2060s
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Keep - I think there are more than enough entries there to justify it, especially as it's part of the larger films set in the 21st century category subdivision.
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Category:BYU Sports
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I think the teams more commonly go by "BYU Cougars" than "Brigham Young Cougars". The g-hits are 1.3 million to 450,000. That said, some might prefer to avoid the abbreviation.
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Category:People executed by the Spanish Republic
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Category:Charter 08 signatories
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Being a signatory to a manifesto or a petition or other document should not be the basis of categorization except for perhaps the very most significant of documents, like the other in
Category:Signatories by document. I don't think
Charter 08 rises to that level. If the signatories category is deleted, the eponymous category contains nothing other than the main article, so it could be deleted too.
Good Ol’factory(talk)06:07, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep When one lives under an authoritarian regime, the act of signing an oppositional manifesto such as this or
Charter 77 can all too often be a defining characteristic of one's subsequent life, in a way that signing something like
Charter88 in the UK or even the
Manifesto of the 121 in France wasn't.
AllyD (
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10:25, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Why not? They are signatories; it is a document. Seems to fit perfectly. The reason there may be a feeling it doesn't quite "fit" is precisely because of what I said before—this is not as significant a document as the others by which we categorize people by being signatories. It's kind of irrelevant that it was signed to oppose an authoritarian regime—the manifesto just hasn't risen to the level of fame or importance that a person is defined by having signed it.
Good Ol’factory(talk)06:39, 3 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Alansohn says "defining characteristic" in relation to so many categories that I have long since assumed that his definition must be highly inclusive. Maybe some day he could explain it, so that we are all clear about what he means? --
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I believe one of his personal bugaboos is that there is no positive definition for "defining" that is agreed upon. He's been pressed for a suggestion on that before, but if I remember correctly basically he came up with a slightly reworded version of
WP:V, which no one else really agreed with. If "verifiable = defining" to him, that would explain why it's constantly invoked. (Of course, I am open to be corrected on any of this by Alansohn, who usually doesn't pass up a legitimate opportunity to correct me.)
Good Ol’factory(talk)18:29, 7 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep for reasons well expressed above. Afterward another category probably should be created that groups it with similar categories and articles such as Category:Charter 77 signatories.
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Category:Clarence Fok Yiu-leung films
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Creator's rationale: It's not a problem at all, and I see no need for anyone to have a dicussion/debate concerning the renaming. I would be more than happy to do it myself, but I appreciate tha nomination. (
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Category:The Guns releases
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Category:Hotel chains of Syria
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. OC for the single entry. If you look in
Category:Hotel chains, the main parent, attempts to this point to split out the contents have centered on the type of hotel chain rather then where the chain operates or is based. Starting to split out these companies by where they are based would not be an aid to navigation. Consider this a test case for the two other related categories. If kept, it should probably be renamed to
Category:Hotel chains based in Syria.
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Category:Civility essays
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Category:User:Tyrogthekreeper/Images
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Category:Abbey Road
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Nominator's rationale: The category seems to be used only to list the tracks of
Abbey Road and the name of the Beatles, however they are already all listed in the album's article.
Laurent (
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01:07, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete Categories for songs on an album seems like overkill to me. The songs are listed in the album's article. Why would someone go to a category that is named after the album when he or she can go to the album article, a page that is easier to get to than a category page? —
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03:17, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't see it as overkill when it's the greatest band in history.
TheWalrusWasPaul
It doesn't matter at all whether these were the works of the greatest person in the history of all known and possible universes, or some talentless dork who faded into obscurity after releasing one flop album. This is about categorisation, and we assume at CFD that all articles are on notable subjects ... so the only issue here is whether the category helps readers to navigate between related articles. We assess that by the principles set out at
WP:CAT (plus a few associated guidelines such as
WP:OC), regardless of what anyone thinks about the merits of the articles themselves, let alone the merits of the subjects of those articles. --
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Category:People from Woodford
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Since I was an admin that was against the original rename; does that make me uninvolved enough in this context? I think consistency is enough to trump other concerns. HTH
Kbthompson (
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15:25, 2 January 2010 (UTC)reply
I think so too. I didn't agree with the original move, but do agree with common sense. It is uncontroversial that the category should follow the article automatically.
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