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Category:Children's alphabet books

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The result of the debate was rename to Category:Alphabet books. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Children's alphabet books to Category:Alphabet books
Nominator's rationale: Rename, Main article is alphabet book; most alphabet books are for children so it's probably not worth having a separate category for adult alphabet books, but this category could include the occasional one. (The one I encountered, and added perhaps inappropriately to this category, is Runa ABC). Rigadoun (talk) 21:49, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:NVSL Swim Teams

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The result of the debate was merge into Category:American swim teams. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NVSL Swim Teams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:American swim teams, or at least Rename to Category:Northern Virginia Swim League teams. -- Prove It (talk) 20:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Upmerge. Since there are no other articles in the American swim teams, I can't imagine this category will populate very fast. This team has a good record in its league, but what are the notability guidelines for regional swim teams? Rigadoun (talk) 21:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mathematicians with Silly Names

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The result of the debate was delete. Picaroon (t) 00:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mathematicians with Silly Names (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: "Silly Names" is a trivial, subjective criterion. Creation of this category is the only contribution by User:SillyNames. Joseph Myers 19:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I second this suggestion, but it needs to be listified first. And I agree with Oskar, Donald Knuth has to go. (unless, of course, "Knuth" means something funny in German) Cgingold 21:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't.--Oneiros 22:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Imperial Russian Navy generals

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete as requested by creator for empty cat. Vegaswikian 21:57, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Imperial Russian Navy generals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Meaningless category. Created in error by me. Empty. Greenshed 19:49, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ancient Roman proconsuls

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The result of the debate was reverse merge (ie Roman-->Ancient Roman); without prejudice however to any future determination on which form should be standardised on. --cjllw ʘ TALK 07:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Ancient Roman proconsuls to Category:Roman proconsuls
Nominator's rationale: Since there are two identical categories, the Roman consuls word combination seems to be unique: there is no title of consul related to the city of Rome itself so that the word "ancient" becomes redundant. Brand спойт 18:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reverse merge I don't follow the nom's argument as to why "ancient" is unecessary, but we now use the word for all ancient Roman caregories for clarity. Johnbod 20:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Otto4711 21:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well we are moving that way, and have converted dozens of categories. I hadn't lifted that particular stone. Johnbod 00:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In all cases this stuff IMO should be standartized one day. --Brand спойт 16:47, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Japanese instruments

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The result of the debate was rename to Category:Japanese musical instruments. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Japanese instruments to Category:Japanese musical instruments
Nominator's rationale: Rename, specific meaning of instrument, consistency with other members of Category:Musical instruments by nationality. Rigadoun (talk) 17:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Equity Broadcasting

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The result of the debate was rename to Category:Equity Media Holdings. – Black Falcon (Talk) 18:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Equity Broadcasting to Category:Equity Media Holdings
Nominator's rationale: Equity changed their name as of a few months ago, and hence this category should change with it. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Western Africa

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The result of the debate was rename to Category:West Africa. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:59, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Western Africa to Category:West Africa
Nominator's rationale: More widely-used name. Picaroon (t) 14:57, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Homophobia

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The result of the debate was Closed as keep WP:SNOW. Vegaswikian 22:02, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Homophobia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: There is a "proposed deletion" section at the category's talk page. If deletion is proposed, this is where that happens. Cheeser1 14:27, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep - this was nominated for deletion a month a go, and two weeks before that too. It was also nominated for a rename (for the same reasons we're talking about it again), and that failed. To repeat myself verbatim: We've been over this repeatedly, very recently. Homophobia is a well documented, reliably sourced, verifiable social phenomenon. Academic papers expound that it is more than a "fear of" or a slanderous accusation. Certain groups, people, institutions, etc are associated with homophobia. That's the point of a category. It's not an accusation, and it's not a statement that "the subject of this article is homophobic." It means "the subject of this article is associated with homophobia." I'll also point out that this article was first "proposed for deletion" by someone who objects to the categorization of the American Family Association as being associated with homophobia - why? Because he's using the AFA's website as a benchmark for article content[1]. --Cheeser1 14:27, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep - we've been over this before. I'll assume good faith on the nominator's part, but this has been done. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Satyr, I actually voted to speedy keep. Just so we're clear. There is a "proposed deletion" section on the category's talk page, in which editors are explicitly trying to avoid the CfD process - because they don't like what the outcome might be. I'm simply putting the discussion in its proper place, in order to appropriately build consensus one way or the other. --Cheeser1 14:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
They can't avoid the process, whatever they say on the talk page - this nom is not really necessary. Speedy Keep per all. Johnbod 20:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are absolutely right. Indeed, if you'll read the category's talk page, you will see that no one has suggested bypassing the CfD process at all. Cheeser1 is simply trying to make a WP:POINT as well as end discussion on how this category should be applied and whether or not applying this category to people is POV (per the two Category:Homophobes CfD discussions - both of which resulted in delete for POV reasons). Rklawton 21:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy WP:SNOW keep - how many times must we go through this? Otto4711 14:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep as very well put by Cheeser1, SatyrTN and Otto4711. I'll just add that the multiple repeats of unsuccessful nominations seems a bit pointy to me. Cheeser1 has acted in good faith by bringing it here from the talk page, so it can be dealt with properly. DuncanHill 14:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep per WP:SNOW I can't add anything that Cheeser1, SatyrTN, Otto4711, & DuncanHill haven't said, and I agree with them. Thank you Cheeser1 for bringing this here. It looks pointy to me also. And how many times? — Becksguy 15:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Proposal: i propose that this poll be summarily dismissed by appending a reference to the polling that ended on 5 september. it shouldn't be required to entertain every single challenge on the subject particularly since the previous outcome was resounding. --emerson7 17:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep - none of the articles in this category are remotely controversial or POV in relation to this category, and the proposals to delete it are quite obviously based on WP:IDONTLIKEIT. ELIMINATORJR 17:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per all the other reasons given. I couldn't add as it was all said by Cheeser1, SatyrTN, Becksguy, and others. Jeeny (talk) 17:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep per previous CfD. Personally I think this trouble magnet should be deleted. The term homophobia gets used in too many terribly defined ways that don't meet the criteria for a phobia. However, there's no reason for this to have been so promptly re-nominated for CfD when the previous CfD was recent and nearly unanimous in support for keeping it. There's no new reason to reevaluate. Don't put us through the same CfDs over and over. Wryspy 18:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Homophobia is not a phobia, but that doesn't mean it's "terribly defined." It's never been a phobia (a phobia would appear in the DSM). No, the term is essentially an academic/sociological one. There are dozens (at least?) of papers in the literature about homophobia, and many are about the term itself. --Cheeser1 18:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep - For reasons already stated above and on Category talk:Homophobia, June 18 2007 CfD, and August 30 2007 CfD. —Christopher Mann McKaytalk 18:29, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The problem here is that the consensus to keep is not being followed elsewhere in Wikipedia. Pages that are added to the category spark long and pointless discussions, with arguments that boil down to "The category itself is bad so let's remove it from this article". That, to me, seems to be deletion by the back door. Personally I'm in favour of keeping the category, but I would also support renaming it if that's necessary. The value in the category comes not so much from the term as from the link between the articles that are in it. I don't think it *needs* to be renamed, as homophobia is a term that can be used in a neutral way and it's also the most concise way of describing the category. However, if it's necessary, I think it's better to rename than to delete. Orpheus 18:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Incidentally, the discussion I'm referring to is on Talk:American Family Association. Just follow the sound of the database groaning. Orpheus 18:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep - but only because this is an obvious case of a WP:POINT violation. The nominator doesn't actually oppose this category and has posted this simply to kill of discussion on how the category should be applied. The category's talk page makes this point abundantly clear. Rklawton 18:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the only pointy behaviour is from those who are trying to open a deletion debate on a talk page, instead of bringing it here. The nominator brought it here to open the debate up to the broader community, which IMO is a good thing in keeping with the spirit of Wikipedia. DuncanHill 18:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Duncan, that's exactly it. --Cheeser1 20:21, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Speedy Keep Ridiculous that this is even being discussed again, and go so out of hand that someone had to nominate it for deletion just to calm the place down. Kudos to the nominator for bring it to delete. People need to understand that Wikipedia is not ran by Donald Wildmon. It's ran by its editors and when the consensus is to keep after several attempts to delete based on POV, people with an agenda should just deal with it. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 19:20, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep per all above. Isn't there a policy on how often these things should be voted on as this would probally be voted on in 2 weeks again. Sawblade05 (talk to me | my wiki life) 21:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • That's rather the point. Cheeser1 supports this category and only nominated it in order to end discussions about it on its talk page. That's disruptive and highly inappropriate. In reading the comments above I see two points on which just about everyone agrees: 1) keep the category, and 2) this nomination should not have been made. I recommend sanctions against Cheeser1 should he nominate this category for deletion again. None, on the other hand, is saying that we should not discuss how this category should be applied in the category's talk page. And, if you'll take a moment to read the talk page (it's not overly long), you'll see that's exactly what we were doing prior to Cheeser1's disruptions. Rklawton 21:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I wish to formally object to Rklawton's blatant misrepresentation of the debate at the talk page. The thread in question starts with an explicit call for the deletion of the category. I do not know why Rklawton is making these false statements here, or how he imagines anyone will be fooled as all they have to do is read the talk page. DuncanHill 21:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The link is here Category_talk:Homophobia#Proposed_deletion. The clue is in the heading - "Proposed deletion". DuncanHill 22:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Unsuccesful assassinated United States Presidents

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The result of the debate was delete. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Unsuccesful assassinated United States Presidents (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into Category:Presidents of the United States, non-defining, or at least Rename to Category:Unsuccessfully assassinated United States Presidents. -- Prove It (talk) 14:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - You may be reading the intent wrong, Prove It. Have you considered the possibility that perhaps the name of this category means exactly what it says: US presidents who were both "unsuccesful" and "assassinated". I'm pretty sure we need a category like that. Cgingold 14:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete There is a good list/article on this, which is enough. My first thoughts were as Cgiingold, but reality must prevail... One for the Dr Sub memorial list. Johnbod 14:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: doesn't an assassination 'require' a death? --emerson7 17:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I'm not sure what Cgingold means. Jackson and Reagan, the contents of this category right now, were both successful presidencies (in that they were fairly popular and re-elected), but were both victims of attempted (unsuccessful) assassination. ProveIt's rename thus makes sense to me, though a deletion is probably more appropriate (these people are surely already listed in the presidents category, so no merge would be necessary). Rigadoun (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Er, as the late, great Foghorn Leghorn was fond of saying, "That's a joke, son!" Oh, well -- I suppose my humor was entirely too subtle. :) Cgingold 04:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete misspelled, senseless category. "Unsuccessful", even if spelled correctly, is subjective. Even if it were objective, this would be overcategorization, unnecessary intersection of variables. Wryspy 18:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - regarding Cgingold's comment, there's few enough assassinated presidents that readers can make their own judgement of their success by looking at the articles. It doesn't need a category which is going to have, at most, one new article every few years. Orpheus 19:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
See my reply to Rigadoun above. Cgingold 04:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Delete - Basicly Every president that hasn't been assassinated would be in this list, becasue I am sure at one point or another that they had attempts. Basicly this would be a copy of the category of all US Presidents with out the ones assassinated on that list. Sawblade05 (talk to me | my wiki life) 21:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually even the ones that were assassinated no doubt had a few goes beforehand, so it would be an item-for-item copy. Orpheus 23:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As I mentioned above (without linking) List of United States Presidential assassination attempts is already pretty good. Johnbod 02:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional wealthy-first characters

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The result of the debate was delete. Kbdank71 16:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional wealthy-first characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - single-entry category (not counting redirects), possibly created as a work-around of the consensus against "fictional wealthy characters" and "fictional millionaires"-style categories. If a category requires the amount of explanatory text this one does, IMHO the category is too problematic. The sole actual category member is listed in two other occupation categories. This category really doesn't work. Otto4711 14:14, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Documentation subpages

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The result of the debate was relisted on oct 15. Kbdank71 16:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Documentation subpages to Category:Template documentation
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge the former into the latter, as they serve precisely the same purpose, and the latter is better named. There really isn't anything in the latter that does not qualify to be in the former, other than a few metapages sorted to the top, such as the template documentation templates themselves. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 12:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I created Category:Documentation subpages. It was created along with the {{documentation}} and {{documentation subpage}} templates, which merge several older templates and add new functionality; see my sandbox. The newer templates are replacing the myriad older methods described in my sandbox, and they use Documentation subpages to accommodate their compatibility with non-template pages (like userboxes in the user namespace).

I'd say merge Template documentation to Documentation subpages. —{admin} Pathoschild 03:52:40, 09 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Hubris

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The result of the debate was delete. Kbdank71 16:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

  • Comment - Well, yes, it is rather poorly named, isn't it? I think it's far better to delete this outright, and then start from scratch with a brand new category that might have a sound rationale, if you're so inclined. Cgingold 21:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • How about Category:Pride? It is more NPOV (it is used both positively and negatively), and thus better reflects the spectrum of these concepts, and seems less likely to be abused like Hubris might be. It is also probably the most common term here. The literary examples would have to be moved elsewhere. Rigadoun (talk) 22:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't believe that's appropriate. It has a particular meaning, relating to figures in literature and the classics (like the examples I gave). "Pride" is an oversimplifcation. --Cheeser1 23:29, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I specifically meant to exclude the examples you gave, as the literary examples that should be elsewhere, perhaps Literary hubris as you suggest. That leaves the conceptual ones, not instances of hubris per se, which I thought were "types" of pride. Rigadoun (talk) 06:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I use the King James Bible, so Category:An haughty spirit strikes me as appropriate (tongue just slightly in cheek:)). DuncanHill 23:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please note that the articles that the nom considered inappropriately cat'd as "Hubris" have all been removed - "delete per nom" doesn't seem to make much sense, unless I'm missing something? --Cheeser1 03:31, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just to be clear, as far as I'm concerned there are at most two articles that would rightly belong in this category if it were retained. All the rest are at best indirectly related to the concept of hubris. Cgingold 10:55, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly. Johnbod 02:15, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate (as in understand) your interest in the subject of "Literary Hubris", Cheeser -- I think that an article on that subject would be of real interest, and I sincerly encourage you to write that article. But I'm not persuaded that it makes sense as a Category. Cgingold 14:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Question: do you mean to say that verifiable literary analysis in reliable sources does not exist that associates the play Hamlet with hubris? I would beg to differ. Hubris is a literary device, not an insult. It's not even applied to any articles about (real) people. --Cheeser1 00:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If Hamlet were in a category for every quality attributed to him by "verifiable literary analysis in reliable sources" he would smash all records for numbers of categories held (current holder is - remind me, guys?). Personally I doubt hubris would come in the top twenty - remember it has to beat melancholy, scepticism, doubt, indecision, intellectual, rashness, playfulness, wit, agressiveness, confusion, uncertainty, Oedipal complex, impatience, hesitation, immaturity, emotional, depressive, arrogant, unconfident and horny. Johnbod 02:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:IPCC lead authors

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The result of the debate was keep. Kbdank71 16:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:IPCC lead authors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - categorizing people on the basis of being the lead author of a chapter of a reports feels like overcategorization by a somewhat trivial intersection. Otto4711 12:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong delete as performer-by-performance. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 13:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep. the analagy w. performers by performance is inappropriate. These are not actors. The four IPCC reports are arguably the most significant documents produced in the last 50 years. This category is a non-subjective, non-abritary way of identifying a cadre of the most important scientists in the climate change 'establishment'. Ephebi 17:20, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • See the Nascar sponsors CfD below; it's incredibly arbitrary, and if allowed to flourish would result in any notable scientist's article festooned with dozens or more "[Name of notable paper, study or report] lead authors" categories. The fact that the scientists in question have articles at all and that they are categorized by field is enough positively identify them as "the most important scientists in the climate change 'establishment', all without reverting to the highly-POV identification of IPCC as representative itself of that importance, I might add. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That 'doom & gloom' scenario you paint hasn't happened, there is no festooning of non-media 'performance' categories across WP, unless you count such major projects such as Category:People who have walked on the Moon (=astronaut's by performance?), Category:Nobel laureates by nationality (scientists classified by achievement, and by country too)... Even so, the category here has the clear benefit of being totally unambiguous. Your statement that WP should not give consideration to the IPCC as its opinion is 'POV', would appear to be a red herring and at odds with the plethora of articles that address IPCC issues within WP itself. Regardless of opinions of individuals like you and I, its here to stay and no significant government dissents from the IPCC's 4th report (The last dissenter, the USA, actually changed its position 2 weeks ago after Bush's senior scientist publically endorsed its findings, though US TV news channels ignored him, and chose to cover Bush's big Iraq announcement that day!) A minority of scientists disagree to a lesser or greater extent with the reports' methods and conclusions, and WP does credit them and their criticisms. Ephebi 13:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I presume you actually meant to say "over-categorization", rather than "over-generalization". Cgingold 12:33, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • keep useful category, no evidence of abuse, being an IPCC lead author is hard to see as trivial (unless you know nothing about the subject) William M. Connolley 16:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Convinced by Ephebi and Connolley. Note that the number of people in the category is expected to grow by adding scientists that were neglected and by future reports (if any). Brusegadi 04:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - There was already a good case for keeping this category per several arguments above. Now that the IPCC has won the Nobel Peace Prize, each of these scientists has, in a sense, won a sliver of that award as well -- so being one of the lead authors is now that much more noteworthy. Cgingold 12:30, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. I'm the one who started classifying authors this way. I was looking at which of the IPCC authors had articles, and found the IPCC's own specific role of 'lead author' significant and related to notability. It's not like "lead authors of journal papers in general"; it's rather more like having chaired a professional body for a term. Also, don't be too concerned with the term "chapter" - each such section is a quite substatial document embodying a broad review of the applicable scientific literature. Birdbrainscan 03:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Diplomatic incidents in Japan

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The result of the debate was merge into Category:Diplomatic incidents. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:NASCAR sponsors

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The result of the debate was delete. – Black Falcon (Talk) 17:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NASCAR sponsors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: The category seems to imply main NASCAR sponsors (The official Sponsors of NASCAR) rather than who sponsors who sponsor cars. This list has grown to be trivial and should 1. be cleaned to only list companies that are Sponsor NASCAR directly or 2. Delete this Category as it probably isn't really needed. Sawblade05 (talk to me | my wiki life) 06:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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