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Category:Stingray Digital radio stations

Nominator's rationale: reflect current company name ViperSnake151  Talk  22:59, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Amusement rides introduced in 2020

Propose deleting:
Nominator's rationale: It can't have been introduced in 2020, we're not there yet! Ditto Category:Amusement rides introduced in 2021. Proposed to open in... might work. Doug Weller talk 18:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]

NAIA Men's Basketball Tournaments

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 17:05, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bosnian dynasties

Nominator's rationale: merge, overlapping scope, this dynasties category contains noble families just like the noble families category does. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am OK with whatever decisions you reach here. Like all other English wikipedia instances of this small country history, Cat's too are often messy and disorganized, so following points could influence how you are going to think about the issue: category "Bosnian noble families" refer to dynasties of medieval Bosnia, which exclusively covers articles on subjects associated to particular era and particular culture. It doesn't include any other period in country's history - Bosnian nobility of the Ottoman period, period of Austria-Hungary, 20th century period families without noble pedigree, etc. Cat above this one, "Bosnian nobility", is still too specific and it includes only "noble" pedigree families. There are few separate categories at "Bosnian noble families" level, such as "Ottoman nobility" and "Medieval Bosnian nobility", both from different era and culture, and these are subcat's of "Bosnian nobility" and "Bosnia and Herzegovina nobility". It's a mess, so the idea was to sort things out and turn "Bosnian dynasties" into very top Cat in the hierarchy of Bosnian families regardless of era and/or culture - this should cover different periods, culture, and different political systems context; pedigree based on inherited "noble" status, or economic and political position, or acquired by mean of wealth; prominent family lines stretching into present times, with or without "noble" pedigree, and so on.---౪ Santa ౪99° 18:59, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As the top level we have Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina families and with the current content of that category I cannot envisage how Category:Bosnian dynasties would fit in between. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I should refer you to article Dynasty - Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina families is the top Cat for family in general, but in context of multi-generational exert of power and influence dynasty is the best description and could stand as top category for that context. I checked families included into category "Bosnia and Herzegovina families" and at least three of four families are dynastic and still around (not extinct). I understand that entire string is a bit messy and disorganized, like almost all other dealing with country's history articles (I know now that you nominated "medieval state institution" as well), but it seemed to me as a good idea to differentiate medieval, contemporary, multi-generational, noble, genteel, surviving, extinct, and so on, from one another.--౪ Santa ౪99° 18:16, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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  • I am confused about the use of the terms Dynasty, Family and House in this context. I think I'm not the only one, because it's hard to discern any clear pattern in the articles in those categories. I was thinking of trying to standardise them, but before I do I'd like some discussion and perhaps some guidance. The Dynasty article says "Alternative terms for "dynasty" may include "house", "family" and "clan"", which isnt very helpful. Maybe standardisation isnt possible. Rathfelder (talk) 18:12, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The terms are overlapping indeed. We'd better follow the articles on a case by case basis, e.g. in ancient Egypt it is obviously "dynasties" but in most cases "families" (royal families, noble families) is used. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Portals with titles not starting with a proper noun

Nominator's rationale: A useless category. Applied to mainspace this would be a huge collection. The inverse of this category "subjects starting with a proper noun" would help us indetify inappropriately narrow topics. I can't see any tracking benefit to this category though. Legacypac (talk) 21:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 17:05, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Men's history

Nominator's rationale: Pointy trolling. Gamaliel (talk) 16:55, 16 May 2019 (UTC) Gamaliel[reply]
Yeah, and those results kind of bear out the point: the very first item on that list is a book about feminist men by Michael Kimmel, a distinguished professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at SUNY. The second nonfiction book is by Mark E. Kann, a specialist in early American political thought and gender studies. The third (skipping over a book about Mad Men) is a work by Mary P. Ryan, which she describes as an analysis of "the way women’s and gender analysis has changed the big picture of U.S. history". Point being: these works are all part of gender-studies/feminist historical analysis cats that already exist. They do not represent a mirror image of "women's history", they're a part of it. You might be able to stretch a bit and justify adding these all together under a "History of Masculinity" cat, but the stuff you're adding here, and here, are just works with the word "men" in the title, which is a ludicrous category. Nblund talk 16:24, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how it matters if its a feminist writing about men's history - it's still men's history. One could say even that neither "men's history" nor "women's history" exist in a vacuum separate from the context of the other sex, so really history is just history, and a gendered history split of categories really makes no sense. Perhaps it all should just go under Category:History. You didn't address my Category:Gay history point, and yes, in trying to locate appropriate topics and subcategories to populate this category, the low-hanging fruit is finding things like those pages with "men" in the title, but those do not represent the full extent this category serves and you'll see I've added several other topics which don't. -- Netoholic @ 16:56, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let me separate out two issues:

  1. A category composed to include a bunch of what you call "low-hanging fruits" would be trivial to the point of being useless. Despite their titles, reliable sources don't classify things like The Men Who Built America as works that study men qua men, so they fail WP:CATDEF. The use of "man" in the title is often a product of thoughtlessness on the part of the writer rather than an actual indicator of their focus. As Kimmel himself has pointed out, pretty much any history that doesn't have the word "women" in the title is a history is likely to be "about men" in this trivial sense.
  2. A category composed of works that are consciously and explicitly about the construction of manhood through history, such as Kimmel's History of Men might be defensible as a subcat in Men's studies/Gender studies. However, it would probably be more appropriate to give it a name like "history of masculinity" in order to avoid the mistake in #1. Nblund talk 18:12, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"History of masculinity" would even less sense than this category, as masculinity is a diverse set of attributes and behaviors of men that exist externally to any trackable "history". "Men's history" is also much easier to remember and has obvious applicability (again, still no comment on Category:Gay history?). Had this request been presented as a desire to combine Category:Men in history and Category:Men's history as well as Category:Women in history and Category:Women's history (reducing the levels of the subcategories by one on both sides), I'd not as strongly object because the distinctions are lacking and they are both sets largely redundant. As it is, the Men's categories there are lacking a number of topics, and the Women's categories seem over-stuffed (for example, I don't see how Category:Women in film is right for placement in a "historical" category... unless one assumes that every film was made in the past and so is part of "history"?). -- Netoholic @ 18:56, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish Danish businesspeople

Nominator's rationale: This category would only make sense to exist as a subcat of Category:Jewish businesspeople, which was deleted per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 July 8#Category:Jewish businesspeople. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:58, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:20th century in Santa Barbara, California

Nominator's rationale: This only contains one member, Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, which only mentions that the troupe's training base moved to Santa Barbara in 1980; this does not appear to have been WP:DEFINING. – Fayenatic London 10:59, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Stefanos Tsitsipas

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary eponymous category for what amounts to one article. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 02:55, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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