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August 4

Category:United States class aircraft carriers

Category:United States class aircraft carriers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Canary Islands categories


Category:Users involved with WikiProject Tropical cyclones

Category:Users involved with WikiProject Tropical cyclones to Category:WikiProject Tropical cyclones participants

Expanding [abbreviations] as usual. --Mereda 17:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians by Wikipedia status nominations

Anonymous Wikipedian categories

I'm not sure "Static" would be really true for all of them, what about "Established IP users" or something like that? 68.39.174.238 17:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This previously had military intelligence mixed in. I moved those things out, and now it seems to be redundant with Category:Cognitive intelligence, into which I think it should be merged to avoid future ambiguity. -- Beland 21:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Traditionalist Catholics

Category:Traditionalist Catholics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Luxembourg artists

Category:Luxembourg artists to Category:Luxembourgian artists
Category:Luxembourg politicians to Category:Luxembourgian politicians
Category:Luxembourg painters to Category:Luxembourgian painters
Category:Luxembourg art to Category:Luxembourgian art
Category:Luxembourg football clubs to Category:Luxembourgian football clubs

Comment. I'm all in favour of adopting the standard of 'People from Foo', but that isn't the standard currently adopted, and I don't think that anyone is seriously proposing that it be adopted in the near future. Currently, the categories for people by nationality use the adjectival form, and to create an exception for Luxembourg seems a tad off; cities are one thing, but countries are something else.
Furthermore, that list is simply wrong; 'Luxembourgian' is the standard in both British and American English. The only dictionary that I have found that gives 'Luxembourg' as an adjective also gives 'Luxembourgian': Cambridge bilingual. Furthermore, having read extensively on Luxembourg, I can't say that I've found one book or source that consistently uses 'Luxembourg' (some consistently use 'Luxembourgian', some 'Luxembourgish', but never 'Luxembourg'). The CIA has a lot to answer for. Bastin 12:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
People from Finland make a sharp distinction between "Finnish" (pertaining to the Finnish language) and "from Finland" (the country). The 6% Swedish-speaking minority in Finland refuse to call themselves Finnish. Extrapolating from this, "from COUNTRY" is the less problematic pattern. --LA2 12:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Generally, it would be. However, 'Luxembourgian' is not a language; the analogy explains only why 'Luxembourgish' should not be used as the national adjective. Bastin 12:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Central

Category:Central (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Glasgow Subway tube stations

Category:Glasgow Subway tube stations to Category:Glasgow Subway stations

Category:ABC 5

Category:ABC 5 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Associated Broadcasting Company (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

A notice of this discussion has been added to the Filipino Wikipedians notice board. --Howard the Duck 07:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bird Pokémon

Category:Bird Pokémon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Amalgam Comics supervillain teams

Category:Amalgam Comics supervillain teams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Pages containing IPA

Category:Pages containing IPA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • This category is metadata and should not be present in the article space without a compelling reason, and I can come up with none. There was a previous CFD in 2004 which kept the category, however I think a second look is worthwhile. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to the same category being populated with talk pages, but even that seems like a waste of time. As it stands it should be deleted. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep This is similar to Category:Templates using ParserFunctions. It may come in useful some day if for some reason some change needs to be made automatically to all IPA-using pages (for instance, if the official IPA standard changes and all the pages need to be updated accordingly, although this is quite unlikely), and it isn't doing any harm. --ais523 15:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
    • It has a substantial difference from the template you mention, in that it appears as part of the encyclopedic content. It disrupts the encyclopedic purpose of the category section, which is to "[list] all the categories to which the topic of the page belongs." (from WP:CAT) To achieve a professional, reliable appearance we should strive where possible to present a complete, clean encyclopedia article; this goal is disrupted to whatever extent our maintenance processes intrude onto the article. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Additionally, it appears that there is {{IPA}}; without knowing much about it, I would think that the "what links here" of that template could be used in the contingency you describe. Christopher Parham (talk) 20:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Based on that, conditional delete, conditional on an alternative being provided (like the IPA template). --ais523 12:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, self-referential and potentially limitless - ideally all articles will contain IPA. Just zis Guy you know? 19:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete self-referential and untidy. ReeseM 01:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or provide alternative, I've been going through this category last month or so from A toward Z seeing if I can edit any of the pages that contain IPA (I'm on W right now) and in the process found several pages worth my improvement and monitoring. If there's another way of going through such pages in a similar way, then the category is redundant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aeusoes1 (talkcontribs) .
  • Delete per nom. Aeusoes, I think that the list at Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Template:Infobox Language/IPA notice mentioned above should provide what you need. - EurekaLott 14:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Surname pairs

Category:Surname pairs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Bear vs. Shark

Category:Bear vs. Shark (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:British Colonial Flags

Category:British Colonial Flags to Category:Flags of British overseas territories
Relisted from July 25. Most flags in the category link to the Commons, so suggest straightforward rename as above. (Prefixing "Images of" seems unnecessary.)  David Kernow 00:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]