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Category:Adventurer

Nominator's rationale: Very subjective category. Only 9 actual articles, mostly about people better categorised as climbers, rowers, explorers etc. Rathfelder (talk) 22:35, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles with images not understandable by color blind users

Nominator's rationale: There are several problems with this category:
  1. Articles must be added directly to this category, so it is impossible to tell which image is claimed to have the accessibility problem.
  2. This is more of a problem with the files themselves, rather than the articles that use those images. Category:Images with accessibility problems attempts to address this.
  3. Many of the images on these pages are hosted at Commons, a project that is outside of our scope.

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:01, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. The problem is with the images, not the articles, and there's already a category to identify images which pose accessibility problems. Bearcat (talk) 22:04, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep for now until an alternative strategy is put forward. While I take the proposer's point that the problem is the images rather than the articles, the fact is editors fix articles rather than images. There are several reasons for retaining the category:
    1. Highlighting the article can lead to a more effective solution because it gives editors the option to either fix the image or perhaps find an alternative solution for the article. This is especially useful if the images are hosted on the Commons and thus outside of Wikipedia's jurisdiction.
    2. The category has the potential to be far more embracing than it currently is. For example, the biggest offender is actually tables that use background highlighting. You can't categorize a table but you can categorize an article containing a table. I would actually take this opportunity to generalize the category to Category:Articles with color schemes not understandable by color blind users. Perhaps a tag could be created to complement this approach.
    3. The category actually contains an extremely useful bit of advice that I have referred editors to in the past. That is the color combinations that are typically accessible: Category:Articles_with_images_not_understandable_by_color_blind_users#Tips_for_editors. Admittedly this could be just transferred to the MOS, but it needs to be somewhere.
IMO simply deleting this category without putting something else in its place would be a step backwards for Wikipedia's accessibility ambitions. Betty Logan (talk) 22:24, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question @Betty Logan: How does this category help when you have to manually tag the page with the file that has an image? In other words, wouldn't the person that found this issue be the most likely to fix it rather than tagging it and moving on? (I'm not being rhetorical; I really want to understand how this would help. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:35, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that the category exists and contains articles suggests this is not always the case. It may not always be possible to fix the problem straight away if another image has to be created or sourced. If there was never any use for the category then it would be perpetually empty. Color blindness is a fairly common affliction and we need a coherent strategy for tackling the issue. As I said I am not opposed to replacing the category with an alternative system but I think simply removing a mechanism that helps us deal with the issue is a step backwards. Betty Logan (talk) 00:58, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:04, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep for now, same reasons as Betty Logan. —T.E.A. (Talk•Edits) 01:20, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete unless changes are made so that this category is populated by a template (which would be placed in the article code next to the offending image). This category should work in the same way as other maintenance categories. DexDor (talk) 06:47, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • REQUEST If this discussion results in deleting the category could the closing admin first please copy over the "Tips for Editors" and "Useful utilities" sections over to Help:Using colours. Persuading editors to use color schemes compatible with color-blindness will be far more difficult if there is no advice to guide this process. Betty Logan (talk) 21:42, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Prison governors

Nominator's rationale: Only 4 actual articles, sub categorised as Gulag governors‎. The Prison officials‎ hierarchy is better populated, and there doesnt seem a good reason to separate prison governors from other prison officials. Rathfelder (talk) 21:57, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Businesspeople in advertising by nationality

Nominator's rationale: Only 2 sub categories: American advertising businesspeople‎ and Indian advertising people. There are a couple of hundred articles about advertising people and they could do with being sorted by nationality, but it seems more sensible to sort all of them, not just those subcategorised as businesspeople. Rathfelder (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American ethnicity pornographers

Nominator's rationale: Classic WP:OCEGRS. These combinations of nationality, occupation and ethnicity are not recognized as a distinct and unique cultural topic in its own right, and substantial and encyclopedic head articles cannot be written for these categories. As far as I know only two categories of this type exist, both created on the same day by the same editor. Jayjg (talk) 18:01, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We don't have to know a damn thing. Reliable sources have to show us that there's a difference. Bearcat (talk) 22:02, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ambazonia stubs

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary and unproposed. Previous discussion is at WPSS. Her Pegship (speak) 16:17, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: First of all, I proposed it after I created it in good faith - not doing so in advance was an honest mistake. Second, I would argue that this category is necessary; I created it because I saw no other fitting stub category for the articles in question. Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 23:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I recognize that it was created in good faith. The issue is not whether Ambazonia as an entity merits a specific stub type. The issue is that the threshold for a stub type being necessary is 60+ articles: "at the moment the issue is quantity. As the Category:Ambazonia and its sub-cats currently hold only 10 articles, it doesn't seem as though it will reach the usual threshold of 60+ articles to merit a stub category, and indeed I don't think that's anough to merit an upmerged stub template either." (from the WPSS discussion) Reasons for this threshold are described on the project page. Her Pegship (speak) 03:02, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My main issue here isn't keeping the stub category at all cost, but rather the lack of a NPOV alternative. If someone can come up with another option, I have zero problems with this category getting deleted. Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 10:57, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Africa stubs is the parent category and sounds like a good target. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:32, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
See, I thought about that before I created the category, but reckoned it was too general. But if there's a consensus that Africa stubs is the most suitable category, I won't make a stink about it. Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 13:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge with equivalent Southern Cameroons category. Ambazonia is an unrecognised secessionist state. The rebel government members are currently under arrest and being tried, so that I presume that the secessionist government is not in control of its territory. It is probably appropriate to have one category on Ambazonia, but the tree we currently have would be more appropriate to a whole country than a rebel province. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:32, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a Southern Cameroons stub category? Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 17:19, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There isn't, though the Category:Cameroon geography stubs is oversized at 421 articles. Her Pegship (speak) 21:58, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if this is a good idea, it is quite a stretch to combine Southern Cameroons (existing until 1961) and Ambazonia (existing since 2017). Then you would need Category:Southern Cameroons and Ambazonia stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Marcocapelle (talk) 19:50, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fashion executives

Nominator's rationale: Small and unnecessary sub category. Not well differentiated from the parent category. Most of the Businesspeople are executives. Rathfelder (talk) 14:37, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Identity theft reporters

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:37, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry WP:SMALLCAT for a non-defining characteristic. The one person filed here is certainly a technology reporter, which means that identity-theft stories will sometimes come up on his beat, but "identity theft" is not his exclusive specialty -- and, in fact, "identity theft journalism" is not even its own unique species of journalism specialty at all, but is just regular news reported by regular journalists rather than by a dedicated "identity theft reporter". So just having reported an identity theft story is not a defining characteristic of a journalist per se, because he's reported lots of other kinds of stories too, and even if it were its own dedicated journalism beat there would still have to be a lot more than just one person to file in it before a category for it was justified. Bearcat (talk) 14:34, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:State University of New York reporters

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is not a category for journalists who report about the State University of New York as a topic, it is a category for journalists who attended the State University of New York as an alma mater (and not even necessarily in an actual journalism program at all, but sometimes just people who got a BA from SUNY in some other field before going on to graduate studies in journalism at some other university.) Which means this is not a defining intersection for the purposes of justifying a dedicated category for them. Upmerging not needed, as everybody here is already appropriately subcategorized as an alum of their specific SUNY campus. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Buildings and structures in Ebebiyín

Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, only two articles in this category. Ebebiyín is a town in Equatorial Guinea of some 37.000 people. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Parishes of Daugavpils Municipality

Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, only 1-4 articles per category, and on average only some 1500 people living in each of these parishes. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:18, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:UCUM units

Nominator's rationale: These categories are inherently nondefining, since UCUM is "a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business."[1] None of the listed units are "defined" as UCUM units. The set of "UCUM Units" is the set of all units in current use. The set of "UCUM derived units" is the set of all units in current use, except for the seven UCUM base units. WP:NONDEFINING, WP:OVERLAPCAT
Category:UCUM derived units should be deleted without merging. The contents of Category:UCUM units could be merged into Category:Unified Code for Units of Measure.
Category:UCUM base quantities should also be deleted. It's nondefining, and also pointless because UCUM is a system for coding units, not physical quantities.
Srleffler (talk) 04:07, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hypericum species named after a person

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
Hypercium (aka "St. John's wort") is a widespread plant with many varieties: Hypericum canariense is named for the Canary Islands, Hypericum perforatum is named because small clear spots give it a perforated appearance, and this category groups varieties named after people, mostly botanists who didn't have any clear connection to the plants. We do have a whole tree of Category:Botanical taxa by author for the botanists who identified the plant but no similar sibling categories for plants named after people. All 4 articles are already in the Category:Hypericum parent category so no upmerge is needed. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:15, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures named after companies

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:SHAREDNAME
I've created some subcategories of Category:Buildings and structures by company like Category:Coca-Cola buildings and structures to group related articles, in that case mostly bottling plants. But this category groups any building named after any company. While it only has 8 articles now it certainly doesn't suffer from WP:SMALLCAT and could grow dramatically. I'm trying to imagine a reader who would want a direct navigation path between an insurance building in London (Lloyd's building) and hockey stadium hosting a college team in Minnesota that Verizon previously had naming rights to (Mankato Civic Center, formerly Verizon Arena). - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:14, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]



Category:Greta Garbo

Nominator's rationale: WP:PERFCAT; WP:OCEPON --woodensuperman 15:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sheldybett (talk) 00:43, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Such categories are useful containers. How else can one navigate from article about GG to Category:Cultural depictions of Greta Garbo? Or right now, this category lists movies she played in, until a category for such movies is created, there's no place to upmerge them. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The real question is whether there should be a subcat for "Films starring Greta Garbo". AFAIK there are no such categories; there is a long-standing concensus against categories of that general sort. But perhaps a case can be made that some super-stars are so exceptional that their presence is defining for any movie they appear in. Just throwin' that out for possible discussion. In the likely event that we don't move in that direction, all of the films should be removed from this category. (Note: the bio article does include a complete filmography.) Anomalous+0 (talk) 10:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:PERFCAT, there should be no category for films she starred in. --woodensuperman 16:33, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am aware of WP:PERFCAT, which seems to contradict the fact that some films are defined by their star(s). Oculi (talk) 17:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The question that comes up with actor's defining films/TV is who counts as a star? For instance, Humphrey Bogart defined the Maltese Falcon but not the Caine Mutiny according to me but others might have other perspectives. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:20, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 02:07, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:CEOs of General Electric

Nominator's rationale: Per the Foo people convention of evident in Category:General Electric people, Category:CBS executives, and Category:NBC executives. In the case of CBS and NBC, I defer to others whether it is useful to separate CEOs from other executives. (Pinging the categories' creators, User:BornonJune8 and User:Domesticenginerd) -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:38, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename GE/Lean Toward Merge for CBS & NBC GE is clearly defining to the articles, and "chief executive" seems the most common. The articles in the two network categories seems to be acting, or also President so a general executive category seems best. No objection to the other options laid out by the nominator; all the options here are better than the status quo. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:22, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted from CFD:2019 March 3 to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 02:07, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Buildings and structures by city

Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, only one article in each of the nominated categories and in most cases also very few articles in the parent category. Category:Mysłowice is the best populated parent category with 13 articles. For reference, this is about the following places with numbers of people: Kovel (69.000), Leek, Netherlands (20.000), Leszno (64.000), Mariana, Minas Gerais (58.000), Meycauayan (209.000), Miño de Medinaceli (99), Myslowice (75.000), Piekary Śląskie (58.000), Pinsk (138.000), Quba (38.000), Rason (197.000), San Fernando de Apure (165.000), Siedlce (76.500), Sonsón (39.000). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Something similar applies to Quba, by the way. I have striken the second merge target. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DannyS712 (talk) 02:05, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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