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*'''Delete''', One editor, ], has created two new categories, Hindu actors and Muslim actors, and is busily applying them to various ] actors -- and their families! (]'s wife ] is not an actor.) If you know anything about Indian politics, you know that this categorization is mischievous and politically inflammatory. It might make sense to note an actor's religion if that were part of his/her public persona. Mel Gibson, noted Roman Catholic, sure. But to apply this sort of thinking to all actors, even ones that never speak about their religion in public, is just plain wrong. ] 07:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC) *'''Delete''', One editor, ], has created two new categories, Hindu actors and Muslim actors, and is busily applying them to various ] actors -- and their families! (]'s wife ] is not an actor.) If you know anything about Indian politics, you know that this categorization is mischievous and politically inflammatory. It might make sense to note an actor's religion if that were part of his/her public persona. Mel Gibson, noted Roman Catholic, sure. But to apply this sort of thinking to all actors, even ones that never speak about their religion in public, is just plain wrong. ] 07:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
:This speaks to application rather than whether it should exist or not. If the category is added inappropriately you remove. ] survives. My effort to rename ] to ] even failed, see ]. Anyway that Hindus are not as well represented here should not cause an uneven standard.--] 15:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC) :This speaks to application rather than whether it should exist or not. If the category is added inappropriately you remove. ] survives. My effort to rename ] to ] even failed, see ]. Anyway that Hindus are not as well represented here should not cause an uneven standard.--] 15:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

:: I can understand tagging someone with a Hindu category if that person has put him or herself forward as a proponent or teacher of Hinduism. Tagging anyone who might possibly describe him or herself as Hindu on a census form with the category is just pointless. Setting up sub-categories for Hindu mathematicians or actors, when the religion has NOTHING to do with their occupation and when they haven't made any sort of public fuss about their religion, is singularly pointless. Just how well do you guys think it would work to busily categorize all Hollywood actors by religion? Or anyone notable enough to rate a Misplaced Pages article?

:: As for the political issues involved here -- just about all of the Indian editors' names I see here as clamoring to keep the categories are of editors who have been involved in disputes over ], an Indian communalist ideology that believes that India should be Hindu, and sees Muslims and Christians as representing dangerous outside forces. These editors certainly haven't been working on the Indian cinema articles. In fact, Bakasuprman, the editor who invented these categories, is on record as dismissing Bollywood as popular tripe unworthy of his attention (and me as showing low tastes by watching it). Trying to divide up Bollywood on a communal basis is particularly pernicious because cinema is one of the most integrated sectors of Indian society. Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs (or people who might be deemed such, by virtue of descent, even if they show no interest in religion) work together and intermarry. "Hindu" actors play Muslims in films and vice-versa. While there are certainly Hindu religious films ("mythologicals"), they are not currently the mainstream of Indian cinema, and they are not necessarily made by Hindu evangelists. They're a commercial proposition.

:: Bakasuprman seems to be concerned to sort out the sheep from the goats, the Hindus from the Muslims. I'm reminded of a story about a Northern Irish man who was asked if he were Catholic or Protestant. "Neither," he said, "I'm an atheist." Momentary silence and then the question, "But are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?" In Northern Ireland, you can (or could) be killed for being the wrong religion in the wrong place. That is unfortunately still true in India. See ]. Or watch '']''.

:: Frankly, all the tagging and listing of people on Misplaced Pages seems to me to be utterly pernicious. It's done by editors for self-serving reasons and it's not particularly useful for the encyclopedia users. It seems either to be boasting (I'm Arab and these cool people are Arabs and therefore I'm cool) or stigmatizing (watch out for those actors, they're Muslims, they're probably subsidizing terrorism). Hence the many utterly STUPID fights over what nationality gets to claim a famous historical personage for boasting rights. I know that this is a primate preoccupation (in the troupe or out? friend or enemy) and a natural human tendency, but dang it, I'd like WP to rise above that, not wallow in it. ] 00:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' per above. ] 08:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC) *'''Delete''' per above. ] 08:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' per nom. &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">]</span> 10:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC) *'''Delete''' per nom. &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">]</span> 10:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Revision as of 00:26, 11 September 2006

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September 10

Category:Fictional shapeshifters

Category:Fictional shapeshifters into Category:Shapeshifting in fiction

Category:WWE Alumni

Category:WWE Alumni to Category:World Wrestling Entertainment alumni

Category:AWA alumni

Category:AWA alumni to Category:American Wrestling Association alumni

Category:ECW alumni

Category:ECW alumni to Category:Extreme Championship Wrestling alumni

Category:Miss Virginia Teen USA

Category:Miss Virginia Teen USA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Miss Virginia USA

Category:Miss Virginia USA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete, Nominating this for deletion... category is for only a very small number of articles with little room for growth (only a small proportion of the winners will end up getting articles on WP). The role of this category is easily filled by the list of winners at Miss Virginia USA, and all are included in Category: Miss USA delegates which is the more suitable categorization. I've had a large role in editing these (and other related) articles and I do not believe this category is in any way necessary. -- PageantUpdatertalk | contribs | esperanza 21:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Misc. “Users” categories

Preparing to tackle the language and musical instrument categories, I cleaned out about 100 empty categories beginning with User or Users that replicated new Wikipedian ones, but these remained. The ones at the top I’m pretty confident about (though obviously if the food and drink categories go away, the drink ones here will too), but as it goes along I had to make up a few new names. Suggest alternatives.--Mike Selinker 21:04, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Cruisers of Austria-Hungary and Category:Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy

Category:Cruisers of Austria-Hungary (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Single ship in two identical categories. One of these categories should be removed. Pavel Vozenilek 20:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


Category:Fictional ruins

Category:Fictional ruins (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry

Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry to Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Londonderry


Category:Reggae by nationality

delete because there are only 2 entries, and likely this will not change.Spylab 17:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Spylab

Category:Jewish sportspeople

Delete, see Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_25#Category:Sportspeople_by_religion. -- ProveIt 14:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Confederations Cup

Category:Confederations Cup to Category:FIFA Confederations Cup

Wikipedians by diet

Not included, may need to be moved if the others are deleted, or nominated for deletion seperately:

Strong Delete all. Quite simply, these categories are unencyclopedic, trivial and useless.

The longer rationale: Whilst I have no strong objection to people placing userboxes on their pages about these things (although I prefer the GUS), categorising users by whether or not they like strawberries or drink coffee adds nothing to the encyclopedia and makes us look amateurish. This is not MySpace folks, it's an enyclopedia.

In general, we don't categorise user pages. There are exceptions to this, such as WikiProject memberships, hobbies and recreational interests which might genuinely aid with bonding or the formation of WikiProjects, whether a user is an admin or not, and so on. Categorising a user based on whether they like their steak rare or burnt just isn't one of those exceptions.

This nomination covers the entire Category:Wikipedians by diet, with the exception of the vegetarian and cooking categories which I feel are not at the same level - cooking is a hobby/occupation, vegetanariasm is a serious lifestyle choice unlike Pepsi v Coke or McD vs Burger King. --kingboyk 12:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete as per nom., but treat the Helal and Kosher ones in the same way as the Vegetarian ones. Fut.Perf. 13:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep, Silly, but "mostly harmless"; people are using them. -- ProveIt 13:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. I don't consider these less important than one's political beliefs, musical preferences, or video game habits. It seems harmless and rather likable to me.--Mike Selinker 13:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete the categories that are not excluded - I'm usually a big supporter of user categories, but I agree with kingboyk's reasoning on this. An editor's food preferences are not going to help with writing any articles. I do think it is good to keep the ones that were excluded since they refer to more general lifestyle choices that reflect knowledge about a variety of topics, and they don't tend to lend themselves to overcategorization like the individual food categories. However, I strongly agree with keeping Category:Wikipedians who keep Halal and Category:Wikipedians who keep kosher since those are also major lifestyle choices that can affect more articles than individual foods. I'm okay with keeping Category:Wikipedians by diet as the main category for the few categories that we are keeping (unless someone has a better suggestion for where to put them), but all of the individual food categories can go. You can see more of my reasoning behind this at WP:USERCAT. --Cswrye 14:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Sugarpine 15:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete The category namespace is for articles, not user trivia. Martin 16:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep qwm 17:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete all except the commercial ones (Pepsi, McDonald's, etc) - While my first inclination is to "Keep", since these are similar to other interests/preferences that help wikipedians know preference/interest/bias which I feel can generally be helpful in developing the encyclopedia, I don't think mundane food preference in this case is notable enough. Whether I eat apples or not isn't likely to make as much difference in editing the article on apples. (And I would not oppose the deletion of the associated userboxes, for the same reasons.) Keep the commercial ones however, for exactly the reverse of the reasoning. (That they are useful and helpful.) - jc37 18:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Rama's arrow 21:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Hindu mathematicians

Category:Hindu mathematicians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Hindu athletes

Category:Hindu athletes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete. As Zora pointed out below, Bakasuprman has created many categories that categorise people based on their religion, even when their profession has nothing to do with it. Such categories are unwarrented, and might be politically motivated too. thunderboltz 11:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
That sounds fine. Remember though lists are generally held to a higher standard as they're deletion targets. You'll need to source the names and show that they meet the rules of Misplaced Pages:Lists (stand-alone lists). The coverage of India/Hinduism topics is rather meagre at WP considering how important/numerous they are in the world, so you're heart might be in the right place here.--T. Anthony 14:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Didn't Carlos Mencia do that already? :-) OscarTheCat 23:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Hellenic languages and dialects

Category:Hellenic languages and dialects to Category:Varieties of Greek

Comment: actually, as I understand it, it is in fact intended to cover modern as well as historical varieties, and articles for the historical stages of the language too. We don't have many articles on modern dialects yet (except Misthiotica, Griko, Tsakonian and a few others), but those and any yet to be written should go here. I don't think it'll ever get crowded enough that we'd have to subcategorize for ancient and modern varieties.

Fut.Perf. 12:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I am not sure whether it is good to bring modern and ancient Greek (or other languages) so much close. Pavel Vozenilek 21:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Muslim actors

Category:Muslim actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Category:Hindu actors

Category:Hindu actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete, One editor, Bakasuprman, has created two new categories, Hindu actors and Muslim actors, and is busily applying them to various Bollywood actors -- and their families! (Shahrukh Khan's wife Gauri Khan is not an actor.) If you know anything about Indian politics, you know that this categorization is mischievous and politically inflammatory. It might make sense to note an actor's religion if that were part of his/her public persona. Mel Gibson, noted Roman Catholic, sure. But to apply this sort of thinking to all actors, even ones that never speak about their religion in public, is just plain wrong. Zora 07:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
This speaks to application rather than whether it should exist or not. If the category is added inappropriately you remove. Category:Christian actors survives. My effort to rename Category:Mormon actors to Category:Actors associated with LDS cinema even failed, see Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 22. Anyway that Hindus are not as well represented here should not cause an uneven standard.--T. Anthony 15:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
I can understand tagging someone with a Hindu category if that person has put him or herself forward as a proponent or teacher of Hinduism. Tagging anyone who might possibly describe him or herself as Hindu on a census form with the category is just pointless. Setting up sub-categories for Hindu mathematicians or actors, when the religion has NOTHING to do with their occupation and when they haven't made any sort of public fuss about their religion, is singularly pointless. Just how well do you guys think it would work to busily categorize all Hollywood actors by religion? Or anyone notable enough to rate a Misplaced Pages article?
As for the political issues involved here -- just about all of the Indian editors' names I see here as clamoring to keep the categories are of editors who have been involved in disputes over Hindutva, an Indian communalist ideology that believes that India should be Hindu, and sees Muslims and Christians as representing dangerous outside forces. These editors certainly haven't been working on the Indian cinema articles. In fact, Bakasuprman, the editor who invented these categories, is on record as dismissing Bollywood as popular tripe unworthy of his attention (and me as showing low tastes by watching it). Trying to divide up Bollywood on a communal basis is particularly pernicious because cinema is one of the most integrated sectors of Indian society. Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs (or people who might be deemed such, by virtue of descent, even if they show no interest in religion) work together and intermarry. "Hindu" actors play Muslims in films and vice-versa. While there are certainly Hindu religious films ("mythologicals"), they are not currently the mainstream of Indian cinema, and they are not necessarily made by Hindu evangelists. They're a commercial proposition.
Bakasuprman seems to be concerned to sort out the sheep from the goats, the Hindus from the Muslims. I'm reminded of a story about a Northern Irish man who was asked if he were Catholic or Protestant. "Neither," he said, "I'm an atheist." Momentary silence and then the question, "But are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?" In Northern Ireland, you can (or could) be killed for being the wrong religion in the wrong place. That is unfortunately still true in India. See 2002 Gujarat violence. Or watch Mr. and Mrs. Iyer.
Frankly, all the tagging and listing of people on Misplaced Pages seems to me to be utterly pernicious. It's done by editors for self-serving reasons and it's not particularly useful for the encyclopedia users. It seems either to be boasting (I'm Arab and these cool people are Arabs and therefore I'm cool) or stigmatizing (watch out for those actors, they're Muslims, they're probably subsidizing terrorism). Hence the many utterly STUPID fights over what nationality gets to claim a famous historical personage for boasting rights. I know that this is a primate preoccupation (in the troupe or out? friend or enemy) and a natural human tendency, but dang it, I'd like WP to rise above that, not wallow in it. Zora 00:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Believe the second phrase better expresses my pov in this regardTerryJ-Ho

Category:Military operations of Israel

Category:Military operations of Israel contains only one subtopic and nothing links there. -- Kendrick7 05:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:NCAA DI Men's Lacrosse Championship Venues

Category:NCAA DI Men's Lacrosse Championship Venues to Category:NCAA Men's Division I Lacrosse Championship venues

Rename. First, "DI" is not transparent to most people in the US who don't follow college sports, much less non-Americans. Second, the unofficial standard for most college championships, when split by sex and division, is "NCAA Sex Division Sport Championship" (this is followed by the basketball tournament articles). Finally, "Venues" should be in lower case. — Dale Arnett 03:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Nabisco brands

Category:Nabisco brands into Category:Kraft brands

Category:Israel Defense Forces

Category:Israel Defense Forces to Category:Military of Israel

Umbrella: Homosexual Wikipedians

The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Oppose/Keep. per WP:SNOW and I Know when to step down. DemosDemon 22:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge the listed categories into Category:Homosexual Wikipedians per Political Correctness and gender neutrality. DemosDemon 01:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.

Political scandals subcategories

Category:Political scandals

Following this individual renaming, a consensus over renaming all the " political scandals" categories would be good:

( A ) {Country demonym} political scandalsPolitical scandals of {Country}
( B ) {Country demonym} political scandalsPolitical scandals in {Country}

Category:Codename: Kids Next Door

Category:Codename: Kids Next Door (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

  • Delete, An enormous group of detailed lists (read: listcruft) of an unremarkable cartoon show (read: fancruft). I should say the whole thing should be reduced to a modest article; if anyone wants to keep the whole thing, I would recommend transwiki to another appropriate wiki, if one exists.Djcartwright 00:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't know what to say. The subject is notable. Tracker/TTV (myTalk|myWork|myInbox) 01:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
    • I don't propose to debate the worth of the TV show (by "unremarkable", I mean that it's no great innovation or a pioneer into some great new genre, anything like that). The point is, Misplaced Pages is Not a listing of random information, which is essentially what these articles are. I suggest they should be moved to a more appropriate wiki: there must be one about TV, or cartoons, or something; if one doesn't exist, one could be started. Djcartwright 02:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
      • Comment If you are wanting to delete a category for listing things... might as well delete every category on the wiki... that's all categories are for, to list similar articles. DemosDemon 02:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep, Reasons: It's in it's 6th season, it's on the cartoon network, it has it's own IMDB article, it is not cancled yet, it has a movie based on the cartoon's story line, it has notable voice actors. The Category links the numerous articles describing each character, episode, and actor. DemosDemon 02:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep I can't see how a show that has lasted for 6 seasons on a well known network can does not deserve a catagory on Wikipeida. Unremarkability in this case a very weak argument. --My old username 03:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per above. Michael 06:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. This category has forty-five articles feeding into it. I can't imagine deleting it.--Mike Selinker 09:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per norm.Hmrox 14:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep There seems to be a misunderstanding about the purpose of CFD here. Deleting the category wouldn't delete the articles, it would just leave them homeless. If there's crud in the category send it to AFD. --kingboyk 14:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Music; museums

Merge into Category:Music museums. -- ProveIt 00:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Spanish basketball leagues

The standard for Misplaced Pages is to spell out all initialisms in category names. However, I believe that these should remain as exceptions because these are Spanish abbreviations which would be less understandable for most English speakers if they were spelled out. That having been said, I believe that all of these categories should have "League" appended to them, if for no other reason to make it a little more clear that the categories deal with sports leagues. I wouldn't object if the consensus determines that "ACB basketball league" is a better destination. — Dale Arnett 00:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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