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Nominator's rationale: An opposed speedy. Suggest changing "on" to "in" to correspond with (1) the article
List of festivals in the Isle of Man, (2) the parent categories,
Entertainment events in the Isle of Man and
Tourist attractions in the Isle of Man, (3) every other subcategory of
Festivals in Europe by country. I understand that some users have a tendency to want to use "on" for certain islands, but the convention is overwhelmingly to use "in" in all cases, even for those that relate to islands. (Strangely, the tendency to want to use "on" seems to apply to an extra degree when the name of the place includes the word "Isle". We have
Festivals in Jersey and
Festivals in Taiwan, not "on".) Cf. to
this old similar Isle of Man discussion; I thought this issue was settled there, but it has been awhile. I think this differs from the Isle of Wight case because the Isle of Man is a geographical place as well as a country, whereas the Isle of Wight is not.
Good Ol’factory(talk)23:19, 22 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Rename/Upmerge all 3 Subcategories I agree that the rename clearly follows the rest of the tree. As long as we're here though, I don' think the three 1 article subcategories are aiding navigation. I'm fine with giving each national-esque entity a pass on getting a small "festivals" category, but do we really need underpopulated "folk festival" categories, for instance?
RevelationDirect (
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08:53, 23 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Rob Ford
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Category:Turkish airstrikes during the Syrian Civil War
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Nominator's rationale: The categories of Turkish and Israeli airstrikes in the Syrian Civil War have no parallel articles and contain only one page in first case and two pages in the second (both of which are not confirmed airstrikes to be involving Israel). Considering that tens of thousands of airstrikes have been carried in Syria by the air forces of US and Russia and an additional significant number by Jordan, Canada and others, but except
Syrian Ba'athist government category (with 4 articles) we have only
Syrian Civil War airstrikes categories for Turkey and Israel which had marginal role in the war in first case and unconfirmed role in the second, i find it to be a result of extreme POV - trying to promote the WP:FRINGE idea that Turkish and Israeli airstrikes are much more notable that US and Russian airstrikes. The current situation is making it look that the main airforce players in the war in Syria are Ba'ath government, Turkey and Israel (which is ridiculous, considering US and Russian air domination). Until US and Russian airstrike articles and categories are sufficiently created to make a balanced presentation of airstrikes in this conflict (list of Russian airstrikes at least?), there is no justification to create categories for marginal or unconfirmed actors.
GreyShark (
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18:31, 22 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Since you created the above afd-proposed categories, but missed to create categories for Russian and US airstrikes, it implies
WP:FALSEBALANCE - trying to emphasize non-notable one or two Turkish airstrikes in Syria and unconfirmed events possibly involving IAF, but dismissing the US-led 2-year long air campaign and 200 days of Russian air hammering in Syria (altogether tens of thousands of airstrikes). This creates a severe distortion of reality (
false balance), which should be avoided in Wikipedia per
WP:WEIGHT and
WP:N.
GreyShark (
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10:12, 24 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep. No doubt these air strikes have happened so having articles on them (and hence categories) is fine. It is true that the Russians/Syrian government/US have engaged in far more air strikes than Israel or Turkey. But, I agree with Stefanomione, the way to restore balance is to write more about Russian/Syrian/US/etc strikes, not less about Israeli and Turkish ones.
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06:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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Category:Kentucky colonels
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The
Kentucky colonel is a non-military award issued by the Governor of Kentucky, and they give them out a lot. How often?: it's hard to say since I can't find anyone whose even tried to tabulate all the winners into a central list. According to an official of the organization, there are perhaps 100,000 living recipients (
source), which means over 2% of the state's entire population has received the award.
Delete per nom. This category is probably #1 on my list of categories that should have been deleted a long time ago, but somehow have survived repeated no consensus discussions. It's not defining for the vast majority of recipients—perhaps it might be only for The Colonel himself, and even in that case I'm not sure. The only reason this hasn't been treated like most other categories for minorish awards given by a sub-national level of government is that it comes with a title that makes it sound more important, prestigious, and life-changing than it actually is. Either that, or overwhelming support from proud Kentuckians.
Good Ol’factory(talk)02:36, 22 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Listify to
List of Kentucky colonels. While I think my
2009 CfD reasoning remains mostly sound, I have since realized how common this award is, even while remaining a high honor in the state. It deserves a list, but categorization isn't necessary. But since the list could be extraordinarily long, it should be confined to entries with articles or citations to reliable sources. I will also expect to see a "See also" link to this list from the articles that mention that the person is a colonel.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
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