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Category:Coptic-speaking people
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Nominator's rationale: This only holds a container sub-category by occupation, and is therefore an unnecessary layer. The sub-cat is suitably parented. –
FayenaticLondon23:10, 13 November 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Archived files for deletion discussions
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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful category, given how a page is put into this category. A page is put into this category when {{Ffd top}} or {{Puf top}} is transcluded or substituted; what this means is that since
WP:FFD has discussions listed on daily subpages, this category puts the entire daily subpage into the category, not just the discussion for the file. At this point, this category includes essentially every
WP:FFD daily subpage since April 2007 (and
WP:PUF since July 2007), making it difficult to understand how or why this is helpful or accurate. Also, renaming this category to something along the lines of "FFD daily subpages" wouldn't seem to resolve this issue either since the page archives are accessible through
Wikipedia:Files for discussion/Log (and
WP:PUF through
Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/Archive.)
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People by language and occupation
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Fayenatic london: My point is that the pair of names is ambiguous and imprecise, and that those who are unfamiliar with that seemingly-unwritten convention may easily be confused. I reiterate that I feel that the distinction between their scopes will be lost with this system. —
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02:28, 15 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Well, this convention is widely used in Wikipedia categories that analyse things two ways. If I was starting from scratch I'd probably try something longer but more specific, e.g. "People by occupation within nationality" or "People by nationality and then by occupation", but we may as well stick to the convention. If an editor clicks down into the one he didn't want, it's only one more click to go across to the other.
Interesting. The 2006 CfD discussion seemed to only attain that result because there simply wasn't a desire to examine the alternate proposals objectively, with frequent dismissals as "meh, nom says the same thing". I've watched your new discussion, but I don't think I can add much there that I haven't said here. —
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10:34, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment do they speak the language, or do they only read-and-write the language? What do we do with the ones that are literate but not verbally conversant? --
70.51.44.60 (
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07:55, 15 November 2015 (UTC)reply
I had thought of that but could not come up with a better name.
WP:SUBCAT does permit parenting in such cases where there could be a few exceptions. Oh, I see someone changed that in June;
[1] I will revert that and start a discussion on that too. –
FayenaticLondon09:24, 15 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Support. There is no such thing as a "x-language occupation" and this will make it much clearer. I do believe that, in this context, "speaking" a language is generally accepted as a synonym for "being fluent" in a language. Obviously, there can be nuances of meaning, but that is true of almost every word in the English language.
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14:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Early Modern linguists
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Category:Acehnese-language occupations
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Category:Prestigious boarding schools
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Category:People associated with the Whitewater controversy
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What's convenient here, is that these categories literally start with "People associated with..." and we have an over-categorization guideline discouraging
People associated with categories. Specifically,
WP:OCASSOC reads that "the problem with vaguely-named categories such as this is determining what degree or nature of 'association; is necessary to qualify a person for inclusion in the category." Not only that, but these are generally living people being "associated" with a controversy so there are
WP:BLPCAT issues. If you need to put a disclaimer at the top of the category saying "Inclusion in the category does not necessarily imply wrongdoing" to avoid libel issues, you're already over the edge. -
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Category:Hillary Clinton controversies
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. The broader complaints here carry little weight as an article titled "... controversy" is objectively categorised under "controversies" – not that this is a necessary requirement for categorising there. Disputes over categorising particular pages normally belong on each article's talk page. –
FayenaticLondon11:14, 18 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete category - not only is it a POV and BLP issue to attempt to group together all the controversies around a single current political candidate, it is unnecessary (the broader category can include all things, controversies or not), a COATRACK issue as originally created (it listed everything negative that involved her, not things sourced as controversies), and a meaninglessly small category of only several articles once the impertinent ones were removed. I really don't think Wikipedia wants to be a place where negative information about living people is grouped together into their own categories like this. -
Wikidemon (
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05:09, 13 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep per Staszek Lem. A controversy is not necessarily subjective, it's meant to be an objective indicator that people have different judgments about it. (If not kept, then upmerge.)
Marcocapelle (
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23:11, 13 November 2015 (UTC)reply
With that logic, everything becomes a controversy - as objectively people have different judgments about virtually everything, striking the word "virtually" when we enter the political world.
Carlossuarez46 (
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18:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Constantly Shifting Articles in this Category I don't think we're all voting on the same category here since four different editors are actively adding and removing articles. @
Jwkenn01,
Professor JR,
Wikidemon, and
70.215.89.172: There is an active discussion of this category, please hold off on further edits until it closes. And, as long as you're here, we'd love to hear your opinions on this category.
RevelationDirect (
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02:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete: Once we've gotten it down to a small and stable number, the remaining entries can be put in the Hillary Clinton category. pbp13:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)⊄reply
Delete A controversy category for a politician in election year is not encyclopedic—it's a campaign statement to accumulate opinions from opponents.
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21:55, 16 November 2015 (UTC)reply
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