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Dharmadhyaksha should indeed have tagged these other categories if they intended to add them to the discussion here, but I've already done so on their behalf now.
Bearcat (
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16:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Wanna know what celebrity he or she appeared in a music video? Look up an article about a celebrity and you will see info on the music video they appeared in. Easy. No need for any categories like these.
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Category:Oxford UCCE cricketers / Loughborough University cricketers
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Category:Sydney Film Festival
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Nominator's rationale:Eponymous category for a film festival without the volume of spinoff content needed to warrant an eponymous category. Other than the festival's head article itself, the only other things we actually have are a poorly written boilerplate article, which is up for AFD as it consists entirely of section headers without any actual content, about a single year's running of the festival, and a BLP of one past artistic director of the festival (which could be considered analogous to
WP:PERFCAT.) Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when there are actually more articles related to this film festival to file in it, but the amount of content we have today isn't even close to enough to justify it yet.
Bearcat (
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17:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment - At present the content is a person and the 2016 festival. How often if is this festival held? If there is an annual one, the answer should be "populate". I have not investigated why the individual is there.
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Category:Olympic yachts
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Nominator's rationale: Only contains one page. There are various categories for specific yacht classes, and this page is in one of those already. –
FayenaticLondon14:59, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete A yacht that's now 100+ years old participating in one Olympics feels like
WP:PERFCAT. If yachts are built specifically for a competition or are known for winning one, that would likely be defining but the one article doesn't make either claim.
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17:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Soling Sailors
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As has been already explained to you, that's not how things work here. Category renames should be done through the process at
WP:CFD. Category renames are done by bot and should conform to the guidelines for category names, i.e. be written in sentence case.
DrKay (
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14:44, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I understand now and I will follow that process during a next situation. I have learned! However it is done now. So please lets keep it this way. Or if you want I can change to lowercase if you like me to do that.
Dragon Genoa (
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15:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I've restored the pages to the former category for now – and only afterwards read the instruction not to empty this category until the discussion is closed, my mistake! If anyone wants to revert that's OK with me. Oh, and delete, "Soling Sailors" is not a proper name and the previous title was fine.
Justlettersandnumbers (
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17:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I understand that you are the experts and I will follow. However adding the word class is in my opinion wrong. Not only for the Soling but also for the other classes. When you read the categories name it gives the impression that it is a special class of sailors. e.g. Sailors of Soling class. This is specially thu with the category: Star class sailors. Please review your decision and correct the other categories and correct the convention.
Dragon Genoa (
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20:15, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Dragon Genoa, the intention is to make it clear that these are sailors of a particular class of boat. The Star, Soling, 12-metre etc are all classes. The current convention of
Category:Sailors (sport) by class is Classname class sailors. The only alternative format I can see is Sailors in the Classname class (e.g.
Category:Sailors in the Soling class), which doesn't seem to me to change much.
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Category:Olympic Soling Sailors
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Category:World Champions Soling
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Category:North America templates
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Nominator's rationale: in Wikipedia categories Central America and Caribbean are within North America. The proposed name will match the sub-cats, whereas the existing name partly corresponds to the member pages for CONCACAF. –
FayenaticLondon11:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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Railway stations by opening/closing
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Good idea -- I have long thought that "establishment" was a clumsy term, used too much in WP. Furthermore, the important issue is when it opened, not when the foundation stone was laid.
Peterkingiron (
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16:40, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Yes please. Can we reserve the term established for entities where it fits? Schools, universities, organisations. Not buildings and structures.
Rathfelder (
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22:25, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
My thinking too,
Rathfelder. I think we kinda got here by accident, due to the organisations categories developing faster than the others, and the ternmiology for them became the form of the national container categories. Time to fix that, but it is too big to do it at RFC. I will open an RFC. --
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Category:GPS navigation devices
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Nominator's rationale: This was
opened at the wrong venue in a November 2019 nomination for the category's talk page, when the category itself should have been nominated. The rationale, by
User:UKER, read: Almost 100% of the articles in this category aren't primarily GPS navigation devices, but smartphones. The trend of adding smartphones into it originated when smartphones including GPS were a novelty, but nowadays it's so commonplace that the category has fallen into obsolescence. At some point it would probably be suitable for recreation, but seeing to add only devices that are actually GPS devices. –
LaundryPizza03 (
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05:55, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. In 2008, when I created this category (completely forgot about it :-) ), most devices currently in it didn't exist. Since membership of smartphones in this category is trivial, delete and upmerge where appropriate (dedicated GPS navigation devices, probably).
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Category:Presbyterian churches in Northern Ireland
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Nominator's rationale: In the rest of the category tree, "X churches in Y" is synonymous with "X church buildings in Y".
Wikiacc (
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00:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Note out-of-process moves. It seems that the "churches in" categories have been emptied, and their contents moved to newly-created "church buildings in" categories. As far as I can see, this was done by
Laurel Lodged (
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series of edits on 2 Feb 2020.
In effect, LL did a stealth renaming of the categories, bypassing CFD and disruptively leaving the old categories in place as duplicates. I had hoped that LL would have long since gotten past such antics.
--
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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01:17, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
For completeness, I should note that the categories were not empty when I first found them: they contained articles for Presbyterian denominations. After moving the denominations to what I thought was a more appropriate place, I noticed these categories were empty and nominated them here. (I should've said this in the nomination!) As best as I can reconstruct it, the timeline is as follows:
Keep I see no mess. I see a tree structure for church buildings. I see a different tree structures for "churches" or "congregations". It seems convenient for the "buildings" to be a child of the "churches" category but am open to the creation of an overarching category to contain both tree structures. Presbyterian denominations are different from Christian denominations that have an episcopal polity; they have a propensity to conflate the building used for worship with the worshipers (congregation / parishoners / elect / saved) in that building. The "First Church of Foo" often means the building in Foo and the people who attend services in that building. This problem has received extensive coverage in CFD over the years, particularly from editors in America. The solution that I have implemented was recommended in at least one of those decisions (will dig it out later). In carefully selecting those articles that referred exclusively, or almost exclusively to the building, I placed them in
Category:Presbyterian church buildings in Northern Ireland; the remainder, a co-mingling of both streams, I left in
Category:Presbyterian churches in Northern Ireland. ( insert "you're welcome" smiley).
Laurel Lodged (
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11:18, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
LL, I agree with your observation that they have a propensity to conflate the building used for worship with the worshipers (congregation / parishoners / elect / saved) in that building. Which is one of many reasons why your out-of-process moves to "church buildings" categories was wrong. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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18:36, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep and repopulate Disciplinary action is needed against the perpetrators who emptied these out of process. It is very difficult to know what ought to be there when a category is empty. The problem which WP has long wrestled with is the multiple senses of the word church, including the church universal (all Christians); denominations; local churches (congregations + the building they worship in); the building. Recently the tendency has been to encourage local church articles to be in "church buildings", because the articles are usually more about the building than the congregation, their worship, and the ministry based in it. "church" categories are perhaps best used for container categories covering all the different uses.
Peterkingiron (
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16:50, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I don't think that that is at all what PeterK means. I think that he means that the current structure is fine (i.e. a tree for buildings and a tree for congregations) but that recent edits have moved articles out of their categories in order to "fix" them. Since they were already in their correct categories after my edits, I propose that we look at the contents article by article and decide which category they ought to be in (i.e. to restore the status quo ante Wikiacc). There are not too many. It's achievable.
Laurel Lodged (
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08:50, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
By the way, I've now done the same for the Republic. I changed only one article -
St. Andrew's, Blackrock - which on reflection had quite a lot of content about the parish so it was probably prudent to move it to "churches" out of "buildings". So Ireland is now fixed I believe.
Laurel Lodged (
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13:36, 16 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Clearly consensus in this CfD is very shallow, and many other CfDs have gone in the opposite direction (i.e. preferring 'church buildings' to 'churches') for different specific contexts. I wouldn't say that there is any rule carved in stone, especially not according to this CfD. Precisely, the trouble we're going through here demonstrates, if needed, the ambiguity or naming categories for 'churches' which are understood by some as church organizations and by others as church buildings. If these categories are for organizations such as the
Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, then they should probably be named differently. If they are for local church buildings/congregations such as
First Kilrea Presbyterian Church, then they should probably be named differently.
Place Clichy (
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02:10, 23 April 2020 (UTC)reply
The tragedy with this churches tree is, while
WP:ENGVAR allows different vocabulary based on locality, we do not have a similar rule that allows vocabulary differences by domination. If we would be more flexible in this respect, we could use "church buildings" for all denominations in which the primary meaning of "church" is denomination (such as Anglican Church, Catholic Church).
Marcocapelle (
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21:04, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle, I don't think that any such distinction is needed. For all denominations, "FooTown Church", "St FooBar's Church" "Foo Street Church" etc all means an individual building and its congregation. The reason that the renaming was proposed at CFD was that some editors felt that since many of the current articles on churches were most about the buildings (esp in the United States, where much of the content is
NRHP-related), the categories should reflect that content. This reasoning was rejected at CFD, because the unbalanced state of many articles is not a good reason to restrict their scope. --
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00:33, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Split between Category:Presbyterian denominations in X and Category:Presbyterian church buildings in X. 'Churches' has always been ambiguous between church organizations with multiple congregations and local church buildings, despite the role of the local congregation being much different among the various branches of Christianity.
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Category:European Museum of the Year Award winners
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Category:Guggenheim Fellows
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This humongous category contains 7,729 biographies even though many of the winners don't have a Wikipedia article. The
Guggenheim Fellowship is given to mid-career academics to take a sabbatical and a couple hundred are given out every year. The award is very competitive, would definitely be on their CV and most articles here mention it in passing in a list with other honors. However, it doesn't seem defining because it reflects the pre-existing prominence of these people in their field more than it amplifies their notability. We already have the winners listified
here by year. -
RevelationDirect (
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00:13, 13 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. My usual criterion for whether a characteristic of academics should be thought of as defining is something like "would you use it when introducing this person as a speaker" or, since we can't check that so easily, "would you use it in a one-paragraph biography of an invited speaker as part of a conference announcement?" By this standard, being a Guggenheim fellow is clearly defining: See for example the speaker biographies of
Herbert Clark (also a named professor and fellow of selective societies, so it's not like there's nothing else to say about him),
Philip Pincus,
Rennan Barkana,
Raymond Schmitt,
Anne Feldhaus,
Fiorenzo Omenetto, etc. (These are just the first ones I found in a Google search; I didn't check whether they have Wikipedia articles and I don't think it matters whether they do.) In contrast, the nomination rationale, that the category is big, has nothing to do with whether it is defining. (
Category:1950 births is bigger and has far more non-notable people associated with it.) And the nominator's call-out to OCAWARD is uninformative: it merely says that categories of non-defining awards should be made into lists, but does not say anything about what might make an award defining or non-defining. —
David Eppstein (
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01:09, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately, Google isn't helpful to identify which of the 10,000 or so winners don't include this award in their online bios (or, for the earlier ones, obituaries). There is a strong consistency here with your links and the Wikipedia articles though: the award is mentioned in a block with other honors. We just disagree on whether that's defining.
RevelationDirect (
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02:18, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Of those 21 GAs, only one mentions a Guggenheim Fellowship in the lead:
Robert C. Stebbins. So it seem that David's view of the significance of a Guggenheim Fellowship is shared by very few other Wikipedia editors.
Now to David's test: Would you use it in a one-paragraph biography of an invited speaker as part of a conference announcement?. I think it's an inappropriate test.
A speaker at an academic conference may be at any stage of their career, from newly-minted PhD to Prof Emeritus. Given that breadth of set, and an academic audience who would like such an award, then it probably is right to give it a slot in your allotted 150 words (or whatever the limit is). Especially for those early in their career, a Guggenhiem is huge; but for someone more established, it probably wouldn't make the cut for the 150 words. For someone like
Diarmaid Ferriter or
Kevin O'Rourke, let alone
Roy Foster, it would be squeezed out by other more significant achievements.
So the GF is most significant amongst the group of recipients least likely to have an article on Wikipedia. If
WP:NPROF was as lax as
WP:NSPORTS, and anyone with a lecturership or research fellowship in university got an automatic bypass of
WP:GNG, then a GF would be
WP:DEFINING for a much larger set of en.wp topics. But since academic biogs on en.wp are subject to a non-trivial quality threshold, we have few articles on people for whom it is DEFINING.
When you say that this information is only relevant to junior researchers, it makes me feel that you didn't actually read my comment, and particularly my remarks about the first link I linked. —
David Eppstein (
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05:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Sorry, @
David Eppstein. I meant to reply to that, but forgot.
The relevance of that info is hard to assess without seeing the search terms used. All you have demonstrated so far is that for some people, a GF gets non-zero mentions ... which tells us little.
Since you haven't explained your search, it seems likely that your search was for something like "Guggenheim Fellow", which of course you will get you some mentions; but selecting those hits would be just cherrypicking, without giving any indication of incidence. Please set out your search methodology, so that others can assess it.
If you want to make a meaningful assessment, then I suggest something like "Name" "Guggeneheim" -Wikipedia to find the mentions, and "Name" -"Guggeneheim" -Wikipedia to find the non-mentions. If you try that on a random sample from the category, and actually find a non-trivial incidence, then I'd be interested. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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06:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
BrownHairedGirl, That PetScan search of only Good Articles is a great tool I'll use again! That's real-world measure of defining-ness for most categories.
RevelationDirect (
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11:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete (but I have a narrow, uninformed view): Coming here curious, from
Daniel_Robbins_(computer_programmer) where I see no no mention of the fellowship, no info' establishing him as either an academic or a Guggenheim fellow, and yet the article has the category. --
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Canals by century
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However, I didn't include that as an "option B", because in the case of canals that would have a different meaning. For those other types of infrastructure, the point of opening and of completion are usually roughly simultaneous. There is no benefit in opening a half-completed bridge, because it won't take anyone to the other side. No point in opening a half-built lighthouse, because the light won't yet be on it, and the location of current construction is always exactly where any temporary light would need to be placed. And a half-completed dam would be about as much use as a chocolate teapot, as well as hard to build with some of the scaffolding underwater.
By contrast, canals are often opened in stages. For example: the
Oxford Canal in England, and the
Grand Canal (Ireland) were both opened as an initial stretch and then extended.
So a shift to categorising by completion date would need to built afresh as a new set of categories using the new criteria. That may or may not be a good idea, but in the meantime let's make this set consistent.
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