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Category:Ice Skating
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Delete - The category is populated (3 members) by
User:Penyulap/UBX/PenSkate. (I've removed the category from the userbox per
WP:USERBOX/
WP:USERCAT.) And the userbox clearly has zero reference to collaboration. So while no problem with the userbox for userpages, no category grouping should be used for this. - jc3719:16, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
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Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus, defaulting to keep. The discussion has clarified that the purpose of this category is to group categories which are not strictly maintenance categories, but which do have by-month sub-categories which are processed by a bot. There is no consensus to delete this category, but only one editor had any enthusiasm for keeping it. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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08:51, 3 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Delete - per
WP:OC#ARBITRARY. Why per month vs per week or per day? : ) - Semi-humour aside, there doesn't seem any reason to keep this. But let's please make sure there are no bots that will suddenly break because (as we later find out) this was some sort of tracking category : ) - jc3719:05, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
I've tried to find a definition of what we consider a "maintenance category". Best I could find was
this how-to guide by Anomie : ) - From what I gather, it seems that they are to help facilitate mantenance of the encyclopedia.
With that in mind, I think we could put current events there, maybe. (Though I agree that it's somewhat stretching things.) And then, it would just be a matter of altering the bot to not look in the nommed cat, and to look at the adoption one directly.
That said, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to just keep both container cats. Though I think that perhaps some clearer inclusion criteria for each may be helpful? - jc3721:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
The criteria for inclusion in one or the other of the two cats is clear, that being "it needs a bot to create dated subcategories". All that would be needed is a clearer definition of "maintenance" versus "non-maintenance" to decide which of the two something should go in. Personally, I'd rather keep the container category so the bot code doesn't have to be updated any time someone wants to create or delete a dated non-mainenance category. And yes, I wouldn't think
Category:Current events is a maintenance category.
Anomie⚔17:15, 26 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Then I'm fine with Keep, but update category page. If you'd please add what you did here about the inclusion criteria and that a bot is involved, etc. That way someone in the future doesn't unknowingly delete it as C1, for example. - jc3719:32, 26 September 2012 (UTC)reply
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Elections templates
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Category:Monthly clean up category (Articles needing chemical formulas) counter
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The result of the discussion was:delete all. The consensus is that these maintenance categories serve no purpose. Note Anomie's comment that that some templates may also be superfluous. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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12:22, 2 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: A number of categories from
Category:Counter categories no longer have (or never had?) a maintenance category that feeds them, making them permanently empty. Since they are tagged as "Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!", tagging them for speedy deletion isn't the best solution, so a mass CfD it is. Nominated are:
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Category:World Junior Badminton Championships
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Oppose. Contains both IBF and BWF championships. And includes the sport what it is talking about. Nobody knows what is IBF, BWF, WBF. Badminton is the most useful title. --
Florentyna (
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06:20, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I agree that 'Badminton' is the key word and that BWF is not a well-known abbreviation (I would guess, given that it is sports related, that it would be wrestling).
Category:World Badminton Championships was renamed speedily - I would say that categories should never be renamed speedily to an acronym.
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Category:World Badminton Grand Prix
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