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Nominator's rationale: Redundant to
Category:Historians of U.S. states. All relevant categories this cat is in have been added to Historians of U.S. states; all subcategories (no articles; it's a container cat) have also been added to Historians of U.S. states pbp23:21, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
DElete -- the one artilce in the subject is already in the target so that there is no need to merge. I can see a theoretical disticntion between the two names, one being about historians who write about the whole US, split by the state where the live and work, but I do not think that would make a useful category. The present target is probably as good a target as we will find for those who write about the hisotry of individual states.
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Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Josh24B
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Purpose for it's creation was to remove it from
Special:WantedCategories. When I do clean-up work on that special page, for the sock categories the standard solution to having a large number of socks in a red-linked category is to just create the category. Someone went to the trouble of tagging all the socks, and that shows a need for the category, IMHO. I don't have a strong opinion against deleting the category, but I would ask that it not be deleted with the large number of socks still in it. I'm not sure if there is a way to tag socks without them appearing in a category, but if there is, then it should be employed. If there is not, then the socks may need to be un-tagged. If neither of these is a valid option, then I would oppose red-linking a category with 15 items in it, which would just put it right back on Special:WantedCategories -
TexasAndroid (
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21:38, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
I really don't have a problem with it per se, but it's misleading because it's incomplete and the purpose wasn't clear. Are there lots of categories like this? That is, incomplete lists of sockpuppets?
NE Ent22:15, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep – its purpose is to collect together suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Josh24B and any others should be added when found.
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Category:Latin American newspaper editors
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Current ministerial offices in Victoria (Australia)
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Category:Russian Muslims
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Nominator's rationale: These names are ambiguous as they confuse ethnic Russian converts and other peoples of Russia who are traditionally Muslims. So these should be changed to less ambiguous and more accurate names.--
Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (
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17:49, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Prcedural note' Neither the main category nor any of its subcats have been tagged.
Comment I have created
Category:Soviet Muslims and
Category:Imperial Russian Muslims and moved the relevant articles to include these categories as well or in exclusion of the Russian one. Possibly more people could be moved to the Soviet one in addition to the Russian one. The thing is that in many of these articles about ethnic Tatars especially, the article in the first sentance describes the person as Russian. This is a by nationality category and many of these people are clearly of Russian nationality. On the other extreme was
Abraham of Bulgaria who was a Volga Bulgar living long, long before Tatarstan was incorporated into Russia, so the description of him as in any way Russian is just plain off. What next, will
St. Paul of Tarsus be put in
Category:Turkish Christians because he was born and raised in what is today Turkey?
John Pack Lambert (
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18:37, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Neutral. Sadly, the convention of ppl-by-nationality categories is to use the adjectival form, so I can't support this nomination. I would support a nomination which started with
Category:Russian people, because at least it would try to consistently remove the ambiguity. However, I will not oppose this nomination, because even though the adjectival form for nationality categories is a widespread convention, it is a bad one which leads to ambiguity and or POV terminology in many cases. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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09:10, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Keep Russian is a nationality. I do not think we should be splitting categories by Imperial/Soviet/post-Soviet unless they get over populated. I will accept that there may be a problem over people whose descendants became Russian citizens due to Russian conquest, but the best solution will be to edit out inappropriate national statements and to categorise them accordingt to more specific ethnic or national categories. It may be that this will mean that they go into a category that has a parent that is inappropriate to them, but that cannot be helped. We have a longstanding principle that the alumni of an institution that was subsequenly merged or renamed are treated as alumni of the successor. I think a similar principle needs to some extent to be applied here.
Comment We need different Soviet categories. Soviet is clearly different than Russian. The Soviet Union included millions of people living beyond the reach of Russia in any sense. Russian is being used to identify people connected with the modern nationa state. While it can be used for the Russian Empire as well, we need to differentiate those because we need to be clear we are using it as a nationality and not an ethnicity identifier. The alumni analogy does not work. It would work in the case of Dahomey becoming Benin, and works with a continued existence of Germany, but the Soviet Union encompassed areas that were clearly not Russia. It also allowed for a movement of peoples in a way that meant that when it collapsed in lots of people relocated, many in fear for their lives, because they were outside ethnics in the area. The nationality of the people is Soviet, and they should be so identified. There may be cases where it works to also identify them as Russian, but to assume everyone in the Soviet Union can be called "Russian", which seems to have been done in some categorization (I can not tell you how many artlces I have come across that essentially said "Oleg Barishnakov was a Soviet skier", then told of his one olympic competition, and are then categorized under "Russian skiers" when Russian was not even mentioned in the text, nor was his birth place <or birth year, which is how I found most of them, going through [[:Category:Year of birth missing (living people)>, but I digress) and so we should have more Soviet categories than we have. No other nationality needs a minimum for splitting. Soviet is an acceptable nationality identifier, calling people from 1918-1991 "Russian" is problematic because too many people incorrectly use that as a synonym of Soviet. What next, will people want to categorize all soldiers for the United Kingdom in World War II as "English soldiers"?
John Pack Lambert (
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17:36, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
I'm not seeing the problem here. One could be both Soviet (i.e. was a citizen of the Soviet Union) and Russian (i.e. came from the Russian Republic), just as one can be both British (i.e. is a citizen of the United Kingdom) and English (i.e. comes from England). Neither Russian nor English need imply nationality or ethnicity (although they can), but simply place of origin. Yes, there is certainly a problem with "Russian" and "Soviet" (and indeed "English" and "British") being seen as synonymous, but that's an issue of ignorance not of poor terminology here. People who came from the Russian Republic during the Soviet Union should be categorised as both Russian and Soviet. --
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Category:Wikipedia featured widescreen desktop backgrounds
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Delete: Doesn't seem to have any current use. Speedy was declined a year and a half ago because it was a featured topic category - is this still an issue? --
Qetuth (
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02:33, 17 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete; this isn't amazingly helpful as a redirect. Note that the speedy in question was on the grounds of the category being empty, but since it's being used as a redirect rather than as a category, C1 (empty category) really wasn't applicable.
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Category:Artemis Records albums
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Keep: The second deletion of the article was for a UK label which appeared to be non-notable. Before that, it was about an earlier US label; the deleted article lacked reliable sources, but claimed that Artemis was the #1 U.S. independent label in terms of market share from 2001 to 2003.
Artemis was the #1 U.S. independent label in terms of market share from 2001 to 2003. It released the last three albums of Warren Zevon's career including the
Grammy-winning The Wind[2], five albums by Steve Earle including his Grammy winner The Revolution Starts Now[3], as well as gold albums by Kittie, Kurupt and Khia. Artemis also released the triple-platinum album Who Let the Dogs Out by
The Baha Men, as well as albums by The Pretenders,
Rickie Lee Jones and
Jimmie Vaughan.
The essential statements claiming notability are also included in the userfied article on the label's founder, currently at
User:Tvgv25/Danny Goldberg, which includes corroborating evidence from better sources e.g.
LA Times search and
Bloomberg.
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Category:Chaplain General to the Forces
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. All the articles in this category are about individual Chaplains General to the Forces (the chief chaplain of the British Army). It is a similar category to
Category:Chaplains of the Fleet and
Category:RAF Chaplains-in-Chief, which cover the chief chaplains of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force respectively. This renaming seems logical and uncontroversial to me, but a speedy cfr was
opposed. I have to say I'm utterly confused as to what the opposer is arguing! --
Necrothesp (
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10:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Support; categories for "articles of type X" should be plural; only categories for "articles related to topic X", like the Enver Hoxha category being discussed down below, should be singular.
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05:04, 17 November 2012 (UTC)reply
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Category:Atheism in Uruguay
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Nominator's rationale: Only contains one subcategory which only contains one article--several of the sister members of that subcategory do not have a containing parent like this. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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Response I did in my nomination. There is a scheme like that, but the sibling categories are made up of more than just one subcategory with one article. Until/unless you can find more, there's no reason to take every child of
Category:Atheists by nationality and add a container category just to fit another scheme. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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If you are referring to a particular category or category tree, then provide a link to it so that it's a clear what you are referring to. You persistently refuse to take a few seconds to provide the links which clarify your intent, despite repeated requests, and despite the fact that most other nominators do so. So if other editors don't read your rationales in the way you hope they would, you can only blame your own deliberate lack of clarity, which at this stage is
tendentious. On the substantive issue, the important point here is that category schemes like this work through consistency, which is broken if we rip out parts of tree because someone wants yto apply an arbitrary threshold. The fact that some of other members of
Category:Atheists by nationality do not have a parent in
Category:Atheism by country is grounds for creating those missing
Category:Atheism in Foo categories, not for deleting this one. As JPL points out below, it would be quite possible to write a head article
atheism in Uruguay, so the lack of a head article is not an issue. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Response I'm honestly sorry that it seems like you can never understand what I'm saying here. As far as I can tell, you are the only one to whom my messages aren't communicated and I can't tell why or what I can do to remedy it. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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Please stop I feel like this last comment is not civil and you're being hostile to me. I do the best I can to do good work on this encyclopedia and the simple fact that you don't understand me sometimes isn't warrant for you berating me. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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Justin, please don't try to cast your refusal to clarify your intent as someone else's comprehension problem. I can guess what you may mean, but when you don't specify what you mean the result is often ambiguous. You wrote that you "can't tell why or what I can do to remedy it" ... which is why I ask you again which part of "take a few seconds to provide the links which clarify your intent" is so hard for you to understand? --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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18:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)reply
ResponseI understand myself and other users generally do as well. I've posted to CfD hundreds of times and I cannot recall a single instance where someone else didn't understand my nomination and I'm certain that there's not one where another user chronically doesn't. If you are the only person who finds me unintelligible over and over again, then I don't know how to remedy this issue. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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The remedy is very very very simple. If you refer to an article or a category or any other type of page, then include a link to it so that there is no room for doubt about what page you are referring to.
Delete but only because it is empty (the sub-cat is now empty). I support BHG's request to the nominator to be more specific about parent/sibling/sub categories by linking to them and to examples that support his point. I recently picked an example at random in a CfD, and it turned out to be an exception, so I was wrong about the point I was making, but at least it was traceable. –
FayenaticLondon09:35, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
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Luxembourgian
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Thank you; I have amended the nomination. I was wrongly thinking that demonym meant only the word used as a noun, but I see that it also means the adjective. –
FayenaticLondon14:09, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
It should not be "Luxembourger people", the denonym is indeed Luxembourger, but in this case the adjective should be used (it is describing the "people"). Alternatively, it could be called Category:Luxembourgers. This is quite a rare problem faced by our friends at WikiProject Philippines where the adj/den. are different (i.e. "Filipino" v "Philippine") - usually they should be the same (i.e. English). --
Brigade Piron (
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20:55, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
I've changed it back, then. "English" is not an example where the noun and adjective are the same; English is only an adjective, the noun is Englishman. British is an adjective, and the noun is Briton. Luxembourger is like Englishman and Briton, then. We don't use them in categories (except for Ancient Britons), so we won't use Luxembourger either. –
FayenaticLondon21:37, 12 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Sorry then, my mistake and withdrawn: I thought from my basic searching that Luxembourger was more like Filipino than Englishman in its use. As a more familiar sounding word (to me), I would definitely not want to be responsible for
Category:Englishman people --
Qetuth (
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11:49, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Please no adjectives for references to countries.
Category:People_by_nationality contains inconsistent/ambiguous categories. "Democratic Republic of the Congo people", "French Polynesian people" (Are there also Australian Polynesian people?), Frankish people? Are they part of German people? Can German people have Russian citizenship, like maybe the Dalmatian people have Croatian citizenship? The whole category could benefit from clarification by restructuring. Renaming w/o roadmap is waste of time.
ChemTerm (
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00:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
It's possible to have Australian Polynesians; if you're an American with Tahitian roots, some people will call you a "Pacific Islander American", and if Australians follow the same style of designating minorities (I have no clue whether or not they do), those descended from Nieueans and Nauruans might be "Australian Polynesians".
Nyttend (
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05:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Firstly, if we going to implement a change as widespread as this, we need a better source than Googlefight. Preferably lots of
reliable sources. The lack of sources was challenged in the
previous discussion, and it's very disappointing to see a new nomination without such proper sourcing. A Google Books search give
8,960 hits for "Luxembourgish", and
6,160 hits for "Luxembourgian". That's close enough to make either acceptable. I also support ChemTerm's opposition to the use of the adjectival form of country names in category titles. If we are going to do a renaming, we should rename to the noun format. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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10:15, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
The US government acknowleges both Luxembourgian and Luxembourgish
Link- HOWEVER - no-one from Luxembourg would ever say "Luxembourgian"
(see here). My evidence for this includes the websites of the national airline of Luxembourg (look which adjective they use in this random example
"Luxembourgish" tourists), the national tourist board (
i.e. "Luxembourgish" Moselle) and Embassy of Luxembourg in Washington (
"Luxembourgish" citizens). Given the etymology of the word (from the French "Luxembourgeois" or in the native language "Lëtzebuergesch" = both closest to the -ish form) and the preference of the project which after all is responsible all Luxembourg-related articles I think it can be take that (a) Luxembourgish is a valid alternative, and (b) this alternative is preferable to Luxembourgian, which is only ,if ever, seen in US English, particularly taking into account that the style guide states that British English is to be used in its articles. Were this discussion about Luxembourg (as an adjective) which is sometimes seen in British English, I think there might be more of a case. (
Languages) However, given the preferences for Luxembourgish on the wikiproject, I would be interested to know what objection you could have to this. --
Brigade Piron (
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12:30, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Sorry for submitting a disappointing nomination. I was only trying to help following the request from the WikiProject. I took it as read that
WP:LUX had done
due diligence already, and just tried Googlefight for a
Q&D confirmation, which seemed a clear enough result to me. –
FayenaticLondon17:43, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment and RFC - As BHG is supporting my opposition to the adjectival form, maybe it would now be good to work out how the naming could be. How about "people from Luxembourg" along the lines of "people from X Province" found in "
Category:People by province in Afghanistan" and many similar. So there could always be a match between the name of the article for geographic entity in question.
ChemTerm (
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12:48, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Luxembourgish definately refers to nationals. I would be very surprised indeed to see people from Luxembourg (Belgium) or (city) describe themselves as Luxembourgish (after all, think "Somersetish" or "Londonish" for a comparable example from the UK). --
Brigade Piron (
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18:31, 13 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Are "People from Luxembourg" really the same as "Luxembourgish people"? I think that the first category would exclude immigrants living in the country, particularly significant in Luxembourg which has one of the largest immigrant population (as a percentage) in the world. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on this.--
Brigade Piron (
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08:04, 14 November 2012 (UTC)reply
And a German citizen living in Luxembourg would fall into "Luxembourgish people"? "People from X" is widely established, only on a country level and above it does not exist. This is inconsistent.
ChemTerm (
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19:16, 14 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Rename as per nom. Evidence given here indicates that both adjective forms exist in English, and that both are used with about the same amount of frequency, but the one that would be more acceptable to people from Luxembourgh themselves should be preferred all other considerations being equal.
Mayumashu (
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01:17, 14 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment "People from X" is not limited to people born in a place. If you prefer we could do
Category:People of Luxembourg. I have always been told of=from, so I assume they have the same meaning. However people may feel that of implies a different qualify of connection. I would assume though for the case of "from" the people would at least have to be permanent residents for their connection with the place to be notable.
John Pack Lambert (
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19:51, 14 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment I was the original poster of the CFDS request; as a member of WP:LUX and as a Luxembourger/ian/ish/person from Luxembourg, I had never heard of Luxembourgian outside of Wikipedia. WP:LUX stated that Luxembourgish is the correct form, and I was simply trying to uniformise the format. The ensuing discussion striked me as odd, as there are numerous other categories with the adjective form of a country, such as German politicians or American film actors. In my mind, and per WP:LUX guidelines, Luxembourgish was the adjective for Luxembourg, and not Luxembourgian. The rest of the discussion focuses on the actual content of the category; as a Luxembourgish actor is not necessarily an Actor from/of Luxembourg. But after having done some research, I found an interesting source:
Inventing Luxembourg: Representations of the Past, Space and Language from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century by Péporté, Kmec, Majerus and Margue. Margue, in particular, is a very respected source, as he is dean of the University of Luxembourg. The book mentions:
Is it 'Luxembourgish' or 'Luxembourgian' or simply 'of/from Luxembourg'? Since linguistic studies consistently use 'Luxembourgish' to refer to the language, this term has been used throughout this book. The adjective 'Luxembourgian', however, is used to describe other things pertaining to Luxembourg. Thus, people are called 'Luxembourgian' (adjective) or 'Luxembourgers" (noun). In addition, the adjective 'Luxembourg' may be used when referring to official matters: the Luxembourg constitution, the Luxembourg state etc.
None of the authors are, I believe, native English speakers, but they do carry weight as a source, as there never has been any official position; I may actually be tempted to suggest reverting Luxembourgish to Luxembourgian. This was just my rational behind the CFDS and subsequent research findings;
Scotchorama (
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09:58, 22 November 2012 (UTC)reply
I would take the fact that people have to discuss the matter and explain their rationals in the book to mean that there is no consensus on the matter. I would thus say we should go to using
Category:People of Luxembourg since that way we avoid taking a side in what is an undecided dispute on the best form.
John Pack Lambert (
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19:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)reply
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