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Nominator's rationale: None of the included articles are actually about fictional comets, just fictional works that take place on fictional comets. Therefore, a merge would be more accurate. ZXCVBNM (
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Merge. Most articles I have looked up did not take place on fictional comets, but were about events on Earth trigerred by the appearance of fictional comets. However this is even less defining than if it was their setting, and
Category:Fiction about comets is the right place for this.
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Category:Fictional asteroids
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Category:Fictional galaxies
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Category:Works set in fictional galaxies
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Nominator's rationale: Delete for the same reason as the fictional planets category. Per
WP:NONDEF and
WP:OVERCAT - it is not defining that a work is set in a galaxy, much less a fictional one. If a particular fictional galaxy is a notable setting, that can be mentioned in the parent category. ZXCVBNM (
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Delete This usually just means it's set in a planet far, far away. What made up name is used for the galaxy isn't defining since most stories take place in a smaller scale. -
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The setting of a fictional work is not unilaterally defining. Being set in a specific place like a hospital or police station can be defining. Simply being set on a planet, or being in a galaxy, is not a defining aspect of a work.ZXCVBNM (
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The reason it's delete and not merge is that being set in a fictional galaxy does not necessarily mean they are set in outer space. And merely being set in a fictional astronomical location of any kind is not defining enough, as opposed to outer space.ZXCVBNM (
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Well I don't think there can be galaxies, fictional or otherwise, inside the stratosphere of Planet Earth, and everything outside of it is outer space. This includes the ground of the Moon, Mars and any other celestial body. I also do believe that location of a fictional work is nearly always defining, these categories being part of a structured set. The "fictional galaxy" level, however, can be upmerged with other types of fictional astronomical locations as this combination of words is a bit awkward for reasons stated in my first reply.
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Category:Contemporary history of the United States
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Delete I do not think this is a justified article name. I would point out that the entire history of the US falls in the modern period by a lot of definitions. Having categories like this does not make sense.
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Category:WikiProject Law, Sport, And Science
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Category:Works set on fictional planets
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Nominator's rationale: Delete per
WP:NONDEF and
WP:OVERCAT - far too broad to be defining. Any work that doesn't directly specify it takes place on Earth can be on a fictional planet. There is therefore little use for this category. ZXCVBNM (
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Delete all virtually all sci fi works are on fictional planets (yes, some are on Mars, etc.) but is it defining that a work is based on Mars vs. on a Mars-like planet?
Carlossuarez46 (
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19:23, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep It's not at all true that "virtually all" scifi works are on fictional planets. Very many, perhaps most, are on Earth, past, present, future or alternate. Others are on planets or moons in known space or set on space ships or space stations. A fictional planet, with alien landscape and perhaps alien inhabitants, is a very particular type of primary location in scifi or fantasy.
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23:20, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
The issue is whether taking place on a fictional world is defining. It's not. A fictional world is typical for the genre and is almost never worthy of mention.ZXCVBNM (
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Keep. This hierarchy works well and is properly populated, with settings that are often defining for sci-fi works. E.g. one of my favorite sci-fi works,
comics series Aldebaran is so defined by the setting that it takes its name from it (the Aldebaran star is real, but the planet which is the setting of the series if fictional). As others have noted, it is not because it is sci-fi that the setting itself is fictional (there is plenty of sci-fi set on the Moon, Mars, the Earth, Pluto etc.) and there is also non-sci-fi work set on fictional outer-space locations, e.g. in utopian literature.
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14:36, 8 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep The primary setting of a fictional work is definitely a defining characteristic, and since there are categories for other locational settings for works of fiction, categories for works set on fictional planets are useful navigation tools to have. And not all works of sci-fi and fantasy take place on fictional planets, so the categories would not become overloaded.
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Category:Zero thermal expansion materials
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Category:Timeline of the War in Iraq (2013–2017)
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Basshunter music video categories
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The two Basshunter categories should be deleted because they only contain redirects to song articles. These are seemingly the only categories of their kind (music videos by artist) and the former sticks out like a sore thumb in
Category:Music videos. Additionally,
Category:Lyric videos exists only as a container for the Basshunter lyric videos category and seems unnecessary. —
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Category:One-thousanders
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Editors who are not sure whether a class of redirects should be reorganized or deleted are allowed to open a discussion about them rather than immediately nominating them for deletion.
All of this seems needlessly complicated and of little use to the reader.
Can we simplify this scheme? Perhaps a set of cats for mountains by height and another set of cats for mountains by country? There has to be a better way to do this.
"Categorization is a useful tool to group articles for ease of navigation, and correlating similar information. However, not every verifiable fact (or the intersection of two or more such facts) in an article requires an associated category. For lengthy articles, this could potentially result in hundreds of categories, most of which aren't particularly relevant. This may also make it more difficult to find any particular category for a specific article. Such overcategorization is also known as 'category clutter'."
Merge/Delete all per
WP:ARBITRARYCAT. Yes, the height of a mountain is defining (in the same way that the population or area of a city or country is), but we oughtn't categorize on arbitrary stepping stones. Moreover, using a meter rather than foot, or mile, or something else is also arbitrary. Why not a series of categories
Category:Fourteen thousand footers in Colorado or so? Certainly as defensible as these.
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19:27, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
I think we have a consensus, but the reason I posted this as a discussion and not a nomination is that I am unsure exactly what to do. Delete the X-thousanders cats and the country subcats? Or just the X-thousanders of [country] cats? Is there a cat I should insert as I remove them? Advice would be most helpful. --
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13:21, 7 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Three actions are required for a formal nomination: in the list above you need to mention in detail "propose deleting" or "propose merging" and in the latter case the merge target for that category has to be specified. Second, you need to tag all nominated category pages with {{subst:cfm||Category:One-thousanders}} or {{subst:cfd|Category:One-thousanders}}
in case of merging or deletion respectively. And finally this discussion should be relisted on the CfD page of today.
Marcocapelle (
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13:53, 7 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Right. I understand the mechanics. What I am asking is which pages to propose deleting, which pages to propose merging, which categories to propose renaming, and whether to add any categories as I do this. The comment below is a good example of helpful advice; advising against a general merger into "x-metre" categories without the "of county X" part. I can think of several way to reorg these cats, and haven't decided which scheme is best. --
Guy Macon (
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02:39, 8 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Rename to 7000-metre peaks of foo. There is no reason why we should not also have
Category:14000-foot peaks in Colorado. Since mountain ranges may be international boundaries, it may be better to focus on mountain ranges, rather than countries. I would not favour a general merger into 7000-metre peaks (save as a container for more specific categories), as this would produce unmanageably large categories.
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15:15, 7 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep in principal, selectively merge where need be, as some of the categories are quite small. After some searching (which I recommend everyone in this discussion do), it seems like in the technical field these terms are widely used, and not just some arbitrary cutoff made up on WP.--
Prisencolin (
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02:09, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment. Something I raised in the
2009 discussion, which I still don't have an answer to: This is categorization by arbitrary cut-offs, but they are apparently arbitrary cut-offs which are used outside of WP. Do we have other categories with arbitrary criteria that we keep only because the arbitrary criteria are in use outside of WP?
Good Ol’factory(talk)00:42, 11 February 2021 (UTC)reply
I don't see any widespread use of any of them except eight thousand, and even then ten highest and five highest or more commonly used arbitrary cutoffs. --
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01:09, 11 February 2021 (UTC)reply
I am not particularly familiar with the nuts and bolts of doing a cat reorg, so would someone with more experience in this area please evaluate the above discussion and turn it into actual nominations that match the consensus? Thanks! --
Guy Macon (
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15:46, 16 February 2021 (UTC)reply
I suggest using {{cfm-double}} for merging to both parents. It appears to me that it's the use of small intersection categories which may be undesirable. After that, the validity of e.g. ‹The
templateCat is being
considered for merging.›Category:One-thousanders could be more easily debated separately.
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Category:Rail stations in Taiwan by system
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@
Marcocapelle:I don't think it's a good idea. The similar categories("by company" in Commons, "by system" in Vietnamese wiki and Enwiki, "by operaters" in Japanese wiki, "by organization" in Chinese wiki) exist in several language of Wikipedia and Commons and I'm trying to make them the same. If we could get consensus here, I would go further to open another discussion to change the parent category
Category:Railway stations by company.--
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"by organization" sounds quite odd, "by operator" is preferable if any global change is implemented at all. Even so, "by company" should remain a subcategory of "by operator".
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Category:Unity (game engine) games
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The result of the discussion was:delete. This was relisted a couple of times in an effort to get a stronger consensus, but we had no takers. With what we have, there is a rough consensus to delete. Perhaps the other related categories could be nominated to overcome the procedural arguments that were made in favour of retention.
Good Ol’factory(talk)03:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:WP:NONDEF. The
Unity engine is so ubiquitous that roughly half of all new games are made with it (50% market share per
[1]), especially lower-end and mobile games. At any rate, a game engine is now almost never a defining (read: lead-worthy) aspect of a video game, because there are so many functionally very similar engines that do not really affect a game's use or reception. Sandstein 19:14, 3 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Procedural keepCategory:Video games by game engine, by your argument, should be deleted, so nominating a single subcategory will not address the larger problem. There is no sense deleting one game engine's category for arbitrary reasons when others still exist. Besides that, deleting this category while
List of Unity games still exists and is uncontested also does not make any sense.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)12:01, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Zxcvbnm, you are right; if consensus here is to delete this subcategory I will also nominate the parent category and other subcats. But the existence of a list does not imply the need for a category and vice versa. Sandstein 12:29, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Sandstein: Well, my vote remains keep. Unity games may encompass 50% of all new games, but the category/list only includes games that have articles. A game's engine is useful information that is not pointless to include, so deleting it seems to be an example of
WP:AINTBROKE in that there is no clear problem that needs to be fixed.ZXCVBNM (
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Zxcvbnm, I agree that it is useful information and should be in the article, and there is an infobox field for it. But is not a defining feature of a game and therefore not worth categorizing by according to our standards. (Otherwise we'd also categorize by packaging color, first name of the lead developer's dog, etc.). Sandstein 14:23, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Sandstein: I disagree that the engine is never a defining feature. In some games it's not but in other games it can be. In indie games, the engine is usually ignored by the game playing public, but could be defining from a development standpoint. For AAA games, "made in _insert new, pretty engine here_" can be a marketing tool and mentioned prominently about the game. Since it could be a defining feature, it should be kept.ZXCVBNM (
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Weak Keep - I created the cat. Wikidata could serve the same role, but I don't see harm in keeping the category. After all, the category is only for games with articles. This kind of attitude is why I don't want to participate in WPVG anymore. ➧datumizer ☎ 15:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete and set precedent for the rest — because it is only for games with articles, it is notably incomplete; not the best thing for a category. Lists are better, and verifiable. AAA games rarely have a new game engine, they are usually just improvements on a previous engine with a newish name. In my previous job, there was a lot of activity over the past few years in the film industry for standardizing on AR/VR engines. ILM was using Unity and Unreal, and is making its improvements widely available. IMnsHO, this is to the benefit of all of us. William Allen Simpson (
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15:14, 5 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep. A game is very much defined by the fundamental skeleton on which it runs. Something does not need to be in the lead of an article to be defining. A game engine is the underlying system of a game; it limits what the game can and cannot do, and they result in horrendous problems when misunderstood. Some games have horrendously troubled development because of their engines; see Anthem and developer problems with
Frostbite (game engine). In no way is a video game engine comparable to the colour of the game's cover or the "first name of the lead developer's dog". The list is
not useful or productive to discuss here, so let's leave the list out of it. Lastly, the nominator's rationale doesn't make much sense to me. They argue first that the category should be deleted because Unity is ubiquitous, but then argue that removing this will set a precedent to remove other video game engine categories? Those seem opposed: why argue against a category because has a 50% market share in order to remove the smaller categories (that are, thus, even more useful for quickly finding things)? — ImaginesTigers (
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13:35, 6 January 2021 (UTC)reply
ImaginesTigers, this view is at odds with our categorization guideline,
WP:CATDEF, which says: "A central concept used in categorizing articles is that of the defining characteristics of a subject of the article. A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently define the subject as having—such as nationality or notable profession (in the case of people), type of location or region (in the case of places), etc." A game engine is a technical aspect of a game that is of interest to specialists, but not so defining as to be commonly mentioned in reliable sources. For example, if newspapers write about the game Candy Crush, they write things like "the puzzle game Candy Crush", or "the mobile game Candy Crush", but they will not describe it as "the Unity engine game Candy Crush". This makes the game engine unsuited to categorization for our purposes. Sandstein 14:24, 6 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Sandstein: Thanks for that! I'm still pretty new, so having that definition for what defining means is really helpful. Thanks for being so diplomatic in telling me; I've struck my keep. I do still have a problem with the rest of the rationale, but
WP:NONDEF is clearly not met. To be honest, I don't really like categories in general. Readers don't know they exist and editors just argue about them. Delete. — ImaginesTigers (
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Category:Physician-politicians
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Keep -- When a medic becomes a politician, he (she) will almost inevitably continue to have an interest in medical topics and be able to speak authoritatively in a legislature on medicine-related topics, in a way that a non-medic cannot. Politicians by previous profession is accordingly a highly non-trivial intersection. The intersection with some professions will certainly be trivial, but not science and medicine related ones.
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15:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom, and previous discussions. There are so many physicians in politics that it is in no way defining, and their political interests are in no way limited to health-related topics. (Bashar are you there?)
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14:36, 8 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete I do not think this intersection is very defining. It used to be extremely common since medical doctors were one of the few well educated people in most communities. When we get into often part-time, local politicians like mayors I suspect it becomes even more common. Does
Willard Richards qualaify? He was very involved in medical endevors, even if his training as a Thomsonian physician was a bit different than modern medical practices (but considering the actions of main steam physicians in the 1840s, might mean he was better than the contemporary norm. In the Provisional State of Deseret he was secretary and president of the council. He served as territorial secretary once Utah became a territory. I suspect if we even did a bit fuller search through our existing limited number of articles on 19th-century members of state legislatures in the US we would find many more examples of physician-politician. In the grand scheme this does not seem to be a notable intersection. It only seems a little notable because we have way to Amerocentric and presentist a view of the issue.
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Category:Sokolov Prize recipients
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The city government of Tel Aviv, Isral gives out a journalism award called the
Sokolov Award. That article makes clear that the
Israel Prize in Communications is the top career award for journalists in Israel, not this award. The contrast could not be clearer with the
Nahum Barnea article: the Israel Prize in Communications is right in the lede while this award gets a passing reference with other honours. The category contents are already listified right
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Category:Freemen of the City of Gloucester
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The
Freedom of the City of Gloucester was originally automatically given to members of livery companies to conduct business while later it could be purchased by individuals like a business license. While most other cities converted these into awards for outsiders, Gloucester's current "Freemen and Women" seem more like a civic booster club. (Their
web site is down but
here is their Twitter feed to get the vibe.) All three of these phases seem non-defining because the Wikipedia articles we have are notable for other reasons and this status just seems to reflect that pre-existing prominence. The category contents are already listified right
here in the list article for any reader interested in the topic. (If this nomination passes, it will empty the parent category.) -
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