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The result of the discussion was: procedural keep. in light of the RM going on at Talk:Elena Paparizou. Renominate if necessary. bibliomaniac 1 5 19:06, 21 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Category:Elena Paparizou to Category:Helena Paparizou
  • Category:Elena Paparizou albums to Category:Helena Paparizou albums
  • Category:Elena Paparizou EPs to Category:Helena Paparizou EPs
  • Category:Elena Paparizou video albums to Category:Helena Paparizou video albums
  • Category:Elena Paparizou audio samples to Category:Helena Paparizou audio samples
  • Category:Elena Paparizou concert tours to Category:Helena Paparizou concert tours
  • Category:Images of Elena Paparizou to Category:Images of Helena Paparizou
  • Category:Elena Paparizou songs to Category:Helena Paparizou songs

Nominator's rationale: The main article about this artist and its other related pages have been moved, and so the categories about them need to be renamed as well. Keivan.f ^Talk 23:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Speedy Rename Per WP:C2D. Since the the name change was made by consensus in an RM at Talk:Helena Paparizou, the categories should blindly follow. RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Oppose (was Mild support but oppose speedy). The RM was not consensual, closed as no consensus after a single opinion expressed (an opposition), and the article boldly moved a year later. However it does seem that her work is indeed marketed as Helena Paparizou in the latin-script world, despite it not being how one would usually transcript her Greek name. I'd like the article to better explain why, but you can't always get what you want. Place Clichy ( talk) 13:02, 15 May 2020 (UTC) Changed to oppose on second thought. The renaming was not consensual and goes against consensus established on the talk page that Elena Paparizou is her name and that Helena is the name of her act. I have reverted it. Place Clichy ( talk) 23:10, 15 May 2020 (UTC) reply

I honestly was just checking if there was an RM at all and did't look at the outcome. Vote changed. RevelationDirect ( talk) 18:30, 15 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Which consensus are you talking about? There was a single vote on the talk page! I wouldn't call that consensus. Not to mention that there are no English references that call her Elena in an official capacity. But, since everyone's demanding a discussion I started a move request / discussion on the talk page. You're welcome to participate. Keivan.f ^Talk 16:15, 16 May 2020 (UTC) reply

See discussions here, here and here at least. Nobody contends that her legal name is Elena Paparizou, and that she started using Helena as an artist name ca. 2004 (not at the start of her career), and it is described as such in the article. Let's follow the RM, the categories should follow the name chosen for the article anyway. Place Clichy ( talk) 22:04, 16 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Defer @ Keivan.f: Thank you for starting an RM. The category should match whatever that outcome is, whether I agree with it or not. RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:48, 17 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 14:14, 23 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose merging Category:Númenóreans to Category:Middle-earth redirects

Nominator's rationale: Merge per WP:RCAT. This category is exclusively redirects, so the redirects should be in a redirect category, not an article category. Hog Farm ( talk) 18:37, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 04:51, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: Merge to Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II removing the three hereditaries Timrollpickering ( talk) 12:02, 9 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Paddy Ashdown to Category:Life peers nominated by Paddy Ashdown
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Tony Blair to Category:Life peers nominated by Tony Blair
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Gordon Brown to Category:Life peers nominated by Gordon Brown
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by David Cameron to Category:Life peers nominated by David Cameron
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Nick Clegg to Category:Life peers nominated by Nick Clegg
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Jeremy Corbyn to Category:Life peers nominated by Jeremy Corbyn
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by William Hague to Category:Life peers nominated by William Hague
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by John Major to Category:Life peers nominated by John Major
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Theresa May to Category:Life peers nominated by Theresa May
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Ed Miliband to Category:Life peers nominated by Ed Miliband
• Propose renaming Category:Peers nominated by Margaret Thatcher to Category:Life peers nominated by Margaret Thatcher

Nominator's rationale: Clarification; they are life peers, not hereditary peers. HandsomeFella ( talk) 19:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Oppose. Unnecessary disambiguation for most of them, and inaccurate in the case of Margaret Thatcher, who also nominated three hereditary peers. Opera hat ( talk) 10:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Cmt: Ok, I didn't see that. We can split that category then. HandsomeFella ( talk) 13:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Oppose per WP:SMALLCAT as the required split leads to an unnecessary small category while there is no apparent advantage. Marcocapelle ( talk) 15:11, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Cmt: it would lead to one category with 7 entries and one with 3 entries. The William Hague category has 5 entries ... HandsomeFella ( talk) 21:19, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Oppose -- No new patents of hereditary peerage have been granted by any of these, except William Whitelaw by Mrs Thatcher and she knew this would in effect be a life peerage, as he only had daughters who would not inherit. The other exception was Earl of Stockton to which Harold Macmillan was entitled (by precedent) as a past Prime Minister. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Was Denis Thatcher given a hereditary by one of these folks? Or may I don't get the concept being on the wrong side of the pond. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 23:56, 27 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• @ Carlossuarez46: Denis Thatcher given a baronetcy, which is a hereditary title but not a peerage. It's effectively a hereditary knighthood, so he was "Sir Denis", not "Lord Thatcher". -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:46, 28 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Thanks for the clarification. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• (new !vote is below) Oppose per Peterkingiron. I would also favour deletion or upmerger. The WP:DEFINING characteristic here is that the person got a peerage, thereby entitling them to sit in the House of Lords. The issue of who nominated them is a relatively trivial detail, which should be captured in lists. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:49, 28 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support merge to Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II (life peers only) per User:BrownHairedGirl. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Oppose renames per above. Would supporting merging after the lists are set up, not before. Johnbod ( talk) 01:46, 29 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  • @ Johnbod: I have listed the current contents of the categories on the talk page: WT:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 24#Subcats_of_Category:Life_peers_created_by_Elizabeth_II.
    That may be of help to anyone who wants to create lists in article space, tho since the category dumps are unsourced and appear to be incomplete, I doubt that they will be of much help. Anyway, now that the cat contents are listed, there is no reason ti delay the merge. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs)
• (changing my !vote) Merge all to Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II. I should have had the courage of my convictions first time, and gone for outright merger. As above: The WP:DEFINING characteristic here is that the person got a peerage, thereby entitling them to sit in the House of Lords. The issue of who nominated them is a relatively trivial detail, which should be captured in lists.
  Otherwise, rename per nominator. The parent is Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II, and the two hereditary peerages created by Thatcher ( Viscount Whitelaw and Viscount Tonypandy) are not included in Category:Peers nominated by Margaret Thatcher. I was therefore wrong to endorse the objections by Opera hat and Peterkingiron. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:25, 1 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Harold Macmillan (1st Earl of Stockton), William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw and George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy are all in Category:Peers nominated by Margaret Thatcher. Opera hat ( talk) 08:29, 4 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• The reason I started creating these categories was as a means of demonstrating which leaders have appointed the most/least peers. The House of Lords is often criticised as being one of the largest upper houses in the world, and I thought it would be interesting to know the extent to which different PMs contributed to its size; once fully populated these categories would provide this. Lists I've encountered previously only show total number of creations per prime ministerial term, and do not filter out peers nominated in a resignation honours list or by opposition leaders. Opera hat ( talk) 08:29, 4 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  • @ Opera hat, that's a case for making better lists, not for making WP:NONDEF categories. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:53, 4 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• @ HandsomeFella, Peterkingiron, and Carlossuarez46: please comment on the alternative proposal to merge. – Fayenatic London 10:06, 12 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  • I totally missed the fact that some of the peers that Thatcher nominated were hereditary peers, not life peers. I created the parent category Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II, and re-categorized these categories accordingly, as a result of that mistake. I propose that we just remove the intermediate level I created, upmerge the above categories to where they were before, and then close this discussion with no other action. There could be some value in keeping the current categorization by nominator. (But that's a weak keep, so I won't object if they are removed altogether.) HandsomeFella ( talk) 11:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC) reply
    • Ah, I see, you propose to upmerge your Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II, putting the nominated categories back into Category:Peers created by Elizabeth II (which is part of the hierarchy Category:Peers by monarch). That would do away with Category:Life peers by monarch, but the contents would presumably still be within Category:Life peers via Category:Life peers by party. – Fayenatic London 20:35, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply
      • (blushing) I'm embarrassed to admit that I created Category:Life peers by monarch too. It can be deleted as well. HandsomeFella ( talk) 21:13, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• I was asked to comment by Fayenatic london above; but I don't know which is the more notable association: the PM who nominates a peer or the monarch who creates one. So, nothing to add. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 00:03, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• I am also okay with the alternative merge to Category:Peers created by Elizabeth II, suggested May 12th, thus having another level of this category tree omitted. Marcocapelle ( talk) 13:23, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Oppose merge to either Category:Peers created by Elizabeth II or Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II. Elizabeth II is the UK's longest-reigning monarch and her reign has seen a marked increase in the annual rate of peerage creations. There have been about 100 creations of hereditary peers and about 1,300 of life peers during the current reign. This would mean that the merge target category would end up having more articles than several of those in Category:Overpopulated categories.

Also, I don't agree with User:BrownHairedGirl's description of these categories as trivial or non-defining. A nomination to a permanent seat in the legislature is about as significant a piece of political patronage as you can get, so I think the identity of that political patron is always going to be important to the biography of a peer. Who has nominated whom always causes comment in the media around the times the honours lists are published. Opera hat ( talk) 16:27, 16 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Opera hat, a comment or two at the moment of appointment is a long way from a WP:DEFINING characteristic. - BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:29, 16 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete/upmerge as non-defining. The people should still be in categories such as the subcats of Category:Life peers by party. DexDor ^(talk) 16:42, 16 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: merge/move per Fayenatic london. bibliomaniac 1 5 18:13, 2 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose merging Category:Letters by alphabet to Category:Letters by script

Nominator's rationale: Cover (more or less) the same topic. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 12:38, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support. Category:Letters by alphabet is the older one, and its page history should be moved over the target page. The same duplicate categories have been copied into Arabic and Vietnamese Wikipedias, see Wikidata items [1] & [2]; I volunteer to merge them if this is agreed in enwiki. – Fayenatic London 20:49, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support per nom, keeping into account Fayenatic's comments. Marcocapelle ( talk) 04:55, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete per G7 Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 12:21, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose deleting Category:Wikipedians who have the Dubious – discuss template imitated in their signatures ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  

Nominator's rationale: WP:UCAT's requires that

the purpose of user categories is to aid in facilitating coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement and development of the encyclopedia

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This category groups users who seek to disrupt discussions by using their signatures to mimick a cleanup tag, so it's an impediment to collaboration, and as such it's a clear no-no. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:47, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Note: the category's creator, Rebestalic posted [3] on their talk to say I don't mind if it's speedy-deleted.

Please can some admin speedy delete this per WP:G7? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:13, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

What a professional proposal, and yes, I don't mind at all Rebestalic ^{[dubious—discuss]} 12:18, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete while I'm not necessarily adverse to the template itself—I thought it rather clever the first time I saw it used by an editor who is well-known to be both highly dubious and much discussed 😏—a user category based upon its usage appears, frankly, as an exercise in self-indulgence and navel-gazing. Thanks to BHG for filing. serial ^# 12:27, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: rename/keep. to the singular "disambiguation". bibliomaniac 1 5 04:16, 29 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose renaming Category:Redirects from other disambiguation to Category:Redirects from other disambiguations
• Propose renaming Category:Redirects from predictable disambiguation to Category:Redirects from predictable disambiguations

Nominator's rationale: Fix grammar. Already correct with Category:Redirects from natural disambiguations. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 20:20, 2 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Oppose – "Disambiguation" is being used as an abstract noun not a singular noun. I've never seen the word "disambiguations" before. I think Category:Redirects from natural disambiguations should be renamed to match the others. M.Clay1 ( talk) 23:04, 2 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• ALT rename per MClay1:
  • Category:Redirects from incomplete disambiguations to Category:Redirects from incomplete disambiguation
  • Category:Redirects from natural disambiguations to Category:Redirects from natural disambiguation
• These are now also tagged. – Fayenatic London 11:07, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Move all to singular "disambiguation". BD2412 T 01:28, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• No objections from nom's side. I think the consensus is now clear to rename to singular. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 14:13, 23 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: rename and purge individual biographies bibliomaniac 1 5 04:19, 29 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose Renaming Category:Guggenheim Fellowships to Category:Lists of Guggenheim Fellowships

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME#Special conventions

In an earlier CFD nomination, we agreed not to categorize individual people as Guggenheim Fellows. However, in that nom I neglected to include a rename for the parent category, Category:Guggenheim Fellowships, and in good faith editors are already adding biography articles due to the vague title. The intent of that category is to hold annual lists like List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1976 so this new name will avoid confusion, especially in WP:HOTCAT. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:48, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support per nom, and purge individual biographies. Marcocapelle ( talk) 03:57, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Rename and purge per nominator and Marcocapelle. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 09:31, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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The result of the discussion was: delete, merge and purge as nominated. MER-C 09:48, 25 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Propose Purging Category:Evening Standard Awards of all individual biography articles

• Propose Upmerging Category:Evening Standard Theatre Awards‎ to Category:Evening Standard Awards
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Actor winners‎
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Actress winners
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy winners
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Director winners
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Musical winners‎
• Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Evening Standard Award for Best Play winners

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING ( WP:OCAWARD)

Evening Standard is a London newspaper whose critics give out awards for film and theater. In the biography articles, these awards get a passing mention (if any). In contrast the BAFTA Awards and Laurence Olivier Award do seem defining for British film and theatre actors, respectively, and are typically in the lede. All of these winners are already listified under either Evening Standard British Film Awards or Evening Standard Theatre Awards. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:48, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• Background We previously deleted similar film awards from Empire magazine here and an award from this newspaper for the best pubs in London here. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:48, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

• Support per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 03:59, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support as non-defining (e.g. for Sam Mendes whose article text makes no mention of this award). DexDor ^(talk) 05:57, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete and purge per nom. No objections in principle to listifying, provided that any such lists are fully sourced and meet the notability criteria at WP:NLIST. A bare dump in article space of a category's contents will be deleted at AFD, as I repeatedly found when making such lists after closing a CFD nomination like this one. I suggest that a listing of each category's contents dumped on the talk page of this CFD log may be some help to anyone who wants to create such lists … but actually making valid mainspace lists is a non-trivial task. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 10:32, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

I believe the contents are already all in Evening Standard British Film Awards or Evening Standard Theatre Awards. RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:06, 14 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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