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Nominator's rationale: I don't understand what this category is about. This is not
Category:ABS-CBN shows but some odd subset of shows that were "acquired" by ABS-CBN. Further, I can't find a source in any of these articles about how they were "acquired" by a particular network. It seems like it's listing broadcasts but that categorization would drive almost every television article into complete overcategorization chaos.
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Category:The Surreal Life participants
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Nominator's rationale: Like other categories on this page this category is not for people who became known through being on a reality show but for people who were already known before appearing in it. We should not categorize them in this manner.
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Category:Association of American Universities
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Nominator's rationale: Per previous precedent at CfD, university association categories have been renamed to clarify they are referring to membership, not a relationship to the topic in itself. Regards,
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15:56, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! contestants
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Category:The Only Way Is Essex cast members
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Question - it appears that the project does categorize people who are on reality shows who are not or were not otherwise famous before their participation and regardless of what other things they may additionally become known for. See for instance the contents of
Category:Participants in British reality television series which includes this category. Am I correct in thinking that such categories are acceptable for those whose primary reason for fame is the reality show but not acceptable when they were famous or known before their reality show participation?
Mars Felix (
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17:59, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Should it be upmerged to that category then? Appearance on a specific show is a performance, but if they are solely notable for being a reality show contestant, then the more general parent category would be the
WP:DEFINING category, in the same way that we categorise people as
Category:Actors but not by the films or shows they appeared in. --
Rob Sinden (
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08:02, 28 July 2016 (UTC)reply
The parent cat would include various people, including those who didn't become famous through reality TV because they were already famous for other things, such as an acting career. Every one of the people in this cat would be routinely described as TOWIE participants, not more vaguely as reality TV participants. People becoming famous through reality TV is a relatively new thing.
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17:57, 19 August 2016 (UTC)reply
It would not be defining for those who were notable or famous before their reality TV appearance, so they should not be included in the parent category.
anemoneprojectors09:20, 26 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Reality television is not "real people in real storylines", it is non-trained people acting in ways that are meant to have the aura of being more authentic, or competition that is just plain competition. Either way, it is form of casting, they are described as cast members, and so performance, and so we should not categorize by a particular show.
John Pack Lambert (
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05:05, 3 September 2016 (UTC)reply
I wouldn't say that TOWIE members are acting - there's no script and the storylines are real. The show is not a competition. The cat should be renamed, because they're not cast members or actors - they're real people who live in and around Brentwood.
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Category:Strictly Come Dancing participants
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Comment - this looks to be something of a hybrid category, containing people who were famous before going on the show and people who became famous through their appearance on it. Would it be advisable to change the category name to something that reflects that it should only be used for the people who gained their fame from the show?
Mars Felix (
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18:03, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
I think the suggestion regarding The Only Way Is Essex above is a really good one, therefore I say purge this of "celebrities" who were famous before appearing on the show, and upmerge the rest to
Category:Participants in British reality television series. Though I wonder if there's scope for a subcategory for just "celebrities" who have appeared in British reality TV series, keeping them separate from "civilians".anemoneprojectors17:50, 30 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete - changed my mind. I agree with Peterkingiron that the professional dancers should be categorised as dancers, not reality tv participants. However, post-deletion,
List of Strictly Come Dancing contestants should be moved to the parent categories. We still have "winners" categories to deal with as well.
anemoneprojectors12:13, 19 August 2016 (UTC)reply
DElete -- PERFCAT. The professional dancers should be in a dancer category. The celebs (if really such) will be notable for other reasons.
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Category:Nonexistent or unplayable musical instruments
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Delete An odd mixture of fictional animal instruments, bells that are not rung, and a historical instrument we don't have the design for. There may be a category in there somewhere (or not) but this
WP:OCMISC grab bag doesn't aid navigation.
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01:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Historical Figures from Kavajë
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Category:Wikipedia categories named after presidents
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Nominator's rationale: It would make sense to broaden this to cover all heads of states so that it can parallel ‹The
templateCat is being
considered for merging.›Category:Wikipedia categories named after heads of government. If renamed, it would need to be re-parented and populated with non-presidential heads of state, which I am happy to do. Yes, the proposed category could just be created and populated as a parent category of the nominated one, but frankly, I don't see the point of having both since these are administrative categories only.
Good Ol’factory(talk)03:24, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
If we made the change, categories like
Category:Elizabeth II and many other heads of state (kings, queens, sultans, emperors, party general secretaries, generalissimos, and what-have-you), would belong, which may not be a bad thing, since "president" is a shared name IMHO, but just wanted to point out the expansion likely.
Carlossuarez46 (
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18:41, 27 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Yup, I was anticipating the expansion to include non-presidential heads of state, which include some, but not all, of those in
Category:Wikipedia categories named after royalty. As you say, the presidential one is just kind of a categorization by shared name. Presidential heads of state vary greatly in their actual role and level of power. But the one thing that they do have in common is that they are heads of state. Renaming will also prevent non-head of state presidents from being added, such as presidents of corporations or associations.
Good Ol’factory(talk)02:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Rename the current name is a shared name one. The President of Israel and the President of the US do not really have a shared position. Arguably the current name is also ambiguous. On its face presidents of companies among other things could in theory be put here.
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02:36, 28 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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