Category: Boarding schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Nominator's rationale: All of the other "boarding schools in STATE" do not have the extra (U.S. state) attached to it. I do not think, in this case, that people will be mistaking the state of Georgia from the country of Georgia because they will see the parent category is
Category:Boarding schools in the United States by state. — Preceding
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69.125.134.86 (
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Oppose Georgis is the only place we ever append (U.S. state) to, and we do so in every possible case, because we always need to disambiguate from the country.
John Pack Lambert (
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14:43, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose Georgia needs the disambiguator, because there is a country of the same name in the Caucasus. — Preceding
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Peterkingiron (
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That is apparent when one is looking at the category page, but not necessarily so when one is looking at an article or adding a category tag to an article. -- Black Falcon(
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Category:Cat superheroes
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Merge per nom. There does not appear to be sufficient material about cat superheroes to justify a separate category within
Category:Animal superheroes, and the target category is not so overpopulated as to require subdivision. I removed two misplaced articles that were about TV series rather than fictional characters. -- Black Falcon(
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Merge per nom. There aren's that many notable characters that fit the description of the category. I don's see much scope for expansion.
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Category:Fictional heirs apparent who never acceded
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Delete I had to go to the category page to find out what this means: "These are fictional individuals who were legally heirs apparent, but never acceded to the throne or title to which they were entitled." This seems like a small category that could be better covered by less specific categories.
69.125.134.86 (
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20:19, 1 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Delete Among other problems, not all literature gives us a full history of the people involved. So what do we do with a fictional figure who is within the body of work always an heir apparent, but the body of work does not cover the whole life of the individual, so it is possible that they will at some point assume the throne, but that fact is not actually covered within the work.
John Pack Lambert (
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14:46, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
delete trivial, not defining, and the whole thing is about a fictional character who didn't do something! What if someone writes a new book when they do accede? Delete--
Obi-Wan Kenobi (
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23:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Keep -- This is an interesting subject. The fact that a certain monarch may not have had an obvious heir apparent does not affect the validity of the category.
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Category:People from Whitefield, New Hampshire
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Category:Samarinda International Airport
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It has potential to growth, from the airport's operator page, its service company page, its rail station page and KalTim Airlines page.--
Mazta2012 (
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08:43, 1 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Delete Even if the 4 other listed articles were all created, I would not be fully convinced this category was worth having. Since none of those other pages exist, we clearly do not need the category now.
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Category:Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure why this category structure uses the more wordy
past perfect form. We don't have, say,
Category:Companies that were established in 2007. I don't think the current form presents a benefit in terms of precision or anything. (P.S. I'd like to have the subcats renamed as well. Please don't make me tag them all (or at least point me towards an automated tool for doing so).)
BDD (
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21:34, 10 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Let's go with that then. I'll tag them as C2C, unless someone wants to earn a minor barnstar by tagging them all now. --
BDD (
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22:15, 10 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Fair point. If the company went defunct after bankruptcy, we have specific categories for that. If Chapter 11 was just part of a radical restructuring, that doesn't seem very defining. We'd never have, say,
Category:Companies that changed headquarters. I wouldn't oppose deletion. --
BDD (
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18:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose - changing just one part of this category's structure will only serve to create inconsistencies. Look at a (small) part of the category tree:
▼ Companies that have filed for bankruptcy in the United States (3 C, 4 P)
► Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (87 P)
▼ Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (1 C, 231 P)
▼ Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by year (29 C)
► Companies that have filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy (1 P)
CommentBDD, this is at least the third time this category has been discussed at
wp:CFD - why is this not mentioned? And for the record, as the creator of most (if not all) of the subcats I resent not receiving a notice of this discussion. X
Ottawahitech (
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20:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment Is this a private conversation or a public area of Wikipedia where all editors are invited to participate? I just noticed that
Category:Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by year has also been tagged, but not by the nominator but rather by another participant. This category Is not mentioned AT ALL in the nomination and was added as an afterthought in the discussion by
Hugo999, who did not notify the creator(me) about this discussion. X
Ottawahitech (
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16:23, 25 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Is there an obligation to discuss previous CfDs? From what I can see, the first dealt with companies only in Chapter 11, and the second was an unsuccessful nomination for deletion. I'm asking for a rename here. As for the tagging, you can see discussion about that above. Twinkle notified the creator of the main category under discussion here; perhaps you should watch it if you're interested in updates. --
BDD (
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18:18, 25 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Keep -- We do have establishment by year categories. I do not understand the differences between the various US bankruptcies, but filing for it is clearly significant.
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Category:1781 establishments in Mexico
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The result of the discussion was:Rename with no objection to dual parenting near the top of the tree. No one else seems willing to close these, so I'm closing this one. I will note that I have expressed support in a previous discussion for Alta California over New Spain, but that does not appear to be an issue here. While consensus may be fuzzy here, this is consistent with other closes of this type.
Vegaswikian (
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00:22, 20 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale This is anachronistic in most senses. There was not a domain named "Mexico" in 1781. If people had been foced to designate some area Mexcio, it would have been much smaller than modern Mexcio, only the central part of the country. That is why it worked perfectly well to have a New Mexico also under the domain of New Spain. Some people seem to be trying to impose lines from 1848 on Mexico in 1781, which makes no sense since many of those lines cut across state boundaries of the time. This is an ahisotrical impostion, and also leads to needless category fragmentation. We should treat all new Spain as one body, and not have any pre-1821 establishments in Mexico categories.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment but popular history do treat things this way, with things "in the modern jurisdiction" going back before its establishment, and being "in" the jurisdiction even before that piece of territory was attached to the jurisdiction. Look at titles "History of X" and you'll see stuff on that. (such as the pre-Celtic peoples in modern jurisdiction X) --
65.94.76.126 (
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05:39, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose, why would you want to lose aspects of the history of what is now Mexico in such a way? What is of more interest to most of the readers: what happened in what is now Mexico (or Italy, or Germany, or ...) in a distant past, or what happened in some entity that no longer exists and is only of interest to a much smaller subgroup of our readers? We also have
Category:16th-century Mexican people (and 17th and 18th century) as subcats of
Category:People of New Spain, so it is not as if this is a sole exception to some general rule. What is the advantage of losing the link between what happened in 1781 and where it is located now? I see no benefit at all from this upmerge proposal, no information is gained, but information is actually lost. We have e.g.
Category:18th century in Mexico: this info would no longer be accessible through that category if this upmerge is done.
Fram (
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06:35, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Mexico did not exist in 1781. The attempts to to impose post-1848 boundaries on this category are ahistorical and misrepresent how things were organized at the time.
John Pack Lambert (
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18:02, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Yea, I know your position by now. I have not claimed that Mexico existed in 1781. But things that happened in 1781 have an influence now on Mexico, not on New Spain. They are important for Mexico. The history of current countries doesn't start at the date of their creation or independence, it starts much earlier. Your reply doesn't indicate what the benefit is of losing that aspect. What is gained by removing the Mexico aspect?
Fram (
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08:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Merge as nom. Precedent indicates that we categorise things according to their contemporary polity, not their present one. We have a school in Mexico, whose status can be recorded by a city category and a subcat for
Pueblo de Los Angeles, which is in modern California and already categorised for pre-state history of California. That covers the problem. These establishment categories (except in recent times) tend to be miniscule and probably need merging by decade.
Peterkingiron (
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11:52, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Personally I feel that the by year categories are useful and the by decade ones are of little to no value. By century is useful for collection of by year in large groups.
Vegaswikian (
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21:17, 6 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose; keep and use both. Examine
Category:Years in Mexico: this proposal would take one category out and thereby eliminate one part of what is a fairly consistent and broad naming scheme. I do not think there is anything terribly wrong with using a broad framework that uses curent terminology to help organise historical information. The reasoning 65.94.76.126 and Fram use is convincing—it is very helpful to maintain the link between what happened in a place in a particular year and where that place is located now. It also makes obvious sense to point out that the place was part of New Spain at the time. I see no problem with the articles being in both a Mexico and a New Spain tree. I don't think we need to choose one particular way of approaching this over the other. What I find most problematic about this nomination is that it takes one category out of dozens and dozens that exhibit the exact same issue and attempts to rename it in isolation.
Good Ol’factory(talk)09:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Split - These categories are just historically incorrect, and lead to massively strange situations. Split to
Category:1871 establishments and
Category:Establishments in New Spain, and
Category:Establishments in Mexico would make more sense. This categorisation scheme should be thoroughly discussed with history WikiProjects and made more correct throughout. The rigid application of this scheme, which needs to be progressed because of the grand scheme of it is leading to single-article categories, or categories which by no means make any reasonable sense (there are categories in the scheme dating to far before Christ, when the concept of countries did not even exist, there are categories containing establishments in countries which were even disestablished before the country existed, etc. etc.). --
Dirk BeetstraTC08:06, 15 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Upmerge per nom, as we shouldn't be applying anachonistic names that didn't exist at the time of the events being categorised. Would not be opposed to dual-categorisation if that is preferred. -
The BushrangerOne ping only06:41, 1 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment I still hold that claiming we can refer to Mexico in 1781 is to impose post-1820 reality on earlier times. The idea of Mexico as we understand it is not how the term was understood earlier. New Mexico was so named because at the time Mexico referred to a much smaller area centered around Mexico City, not the larger area we think of today.
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Category:Rajasthan media
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Category:People active in Lille
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Nominator's rationale: This is a very unusual form of categorization in WP (it's the only "People active in <place>" category) with unusual inclusion criteria ("...but not born in Lille."). Propose upmerge to the (only) parent category. Some articles might then be moved down to a relevant politics/culture etc in Lille category.
DexDor (
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05:01, 1 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Category:People from Lille. We do not categorize people by place of birth, but by where they are from, that is where they spent significant portions of their life. People can be categorized as from multiple cities. This category was created by someone who does not understand how people from place categories work.
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Category:Specialized firearms
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delete but upmerge subcats The rationale makes sense, but this is a mixture of firearm types (e.g.
starter pistol) and specific firearms.
Category:Firearms by type is by its nature a container category and so, except for the couple of subcats, the pages don't belong in the parent.
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Category:Current members of the Cabinet of Puerto Rico
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Nominator's rationale: Categorization should be by permanent characteristics (so if it isn't updated it doesn't become incorrect) - being a "current member" isn't a permanent characteristic. The correct way to separate current and former members is to have a sub-category for former members that articles can be moved down into.
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Category:Comics with cover art by Steve Ditko
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Delete We should categorize comics by artist. If a person is considered the artist the comic can be categorized as by that person, if they are not, we should not categorize it just because they did a little work on the thing.
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