Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 July 30

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July 30

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom

Propose renaming Category:Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom to Category:Ethnic, national and immigrant groups in the United Kingdom

Nominator's rationale: Suggesting rename to more accurately reflect the contents of the category, as discussed here. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - it's one of many in Category:Ethnic groups in Europe by country, itself a subcat of Category:Ethnic groups. Occuli (talk) 20:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Port Technology

Suggest renaming Category:Port Technology to Category:Port infrastructure

Nominator's rationale: Rename per similar Category:Airport infrastructure. We could Upmerge to parent category, instead, but this would seem to be an area where the category has room for growth, if editors can shed some light on the mysterious inner working of ports and harbours, so I'd suggest a rename instead.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Web television

Suggest merging Category:Web television to Category:Internet television

Nominator's rationale: Duplication of category. AdamBMorgan (talk) 17:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Web television series

Suggest merging Category:Web television series to Category:Internet television series

Nominator's rationale: A related set of duplicated categories. AdamBMorgan (talk) 17:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Coloured South African people

Category:Coloured South African people - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Article has been around for over a year, and inn that time only three names have been listed (some have been removed). Article is questionable, possibly even racist in its categorisation. magnius (talk) 14:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the last discussion. There is a whole subcat of Cape Coloureds with 82 pages. What, recent South African history possibly racist? (Whether the category should be added to an article is a matter for the article.) Occuli (talk) 15:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That still doesn't solve the problem of there only being three people in this category, an issue that hasn't been resolved for over a year. magnius (talk) 15:33, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Simply being underpopulated is not a valid reason to delete. Better to add to Category:Underpopulated categories with a popcat tag, if you don't wish to help populate it.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The Coloureds are a clearly defined social group in South Africa, predominantly concentrated in the Cape (hence the subcategory having most of the articles). This is a natural part of the ethnic categorisation of South African people and should not be singled out. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:59, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gate news items

Category:Gate news items - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete. The category is confusingly named and is written more like an article. As such it is duplicative of the long-existing List of scandals with "-gate" suffix article. And the "-gate" practice is better handled with a list than a category, since in many cases the "-gate" form is not the primary means by which a scandal or controversy is known. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:OC#TRIVIAL and WP:OC#SHAREDNAMES Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Tagged for speedy deletion - as recreated content. Otherwise delete per Shawn and nom. Otto4711 (talk) 17:06, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American sportspeople by ethnic or national origin

suggest deleting

Category:American sportspeople by ethnic or national origin - Template:Lc1

suggest upmerging

Nominator's rationale: I think this is refining ethnicities by nationality one step too far, and would prefer if this is not the precedent. Have not listed for Mexican, German, Italian, Jewish, and Irish Americans as they help break up lists that are very long, but perhaps they should be upmerged too. The better way, I believe, to break up Category:Asian American sportspeople and Category:European American sportspeople is by individual sport, as has been done for Category:African American sportspeople Mayumashu (talk) 03:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chinese Canadian sportspeople

Suggest merging

Suggest deleting

Category:Chinese Canadians by occupation

Nominator's rationale: overcategorisation. If we subdivide ever ethnicity by nationality by occupation, then we will have a lot of thinly populated cat pages, and lacking much significance Mayumashu (talk) 02:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]