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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. There are some reasonable suggestions in the discussion, may be they should be explored.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:30, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This really is a random category that links many articles which don't obviously warrant links by their connection to the World Digital Library. Maybe there is something here, but this is a bad title and content is beyond repair. SFB17:40, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Category:WikiProject World Digital Library articles This appears to be a project worklist but the naming completely fails to indicate this. Categories should be move to the talk page accordingly. @Djembayz: Can you give the category a short description? My initial assessment was prejudiced by the lack of information for what the category was trying to achieve. SFB00:35, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Proposed name sounds fine to me. Would like to defer to the expertise of User:Pigsonthewing regarding expanding the description, category vs. talkpage bot, etc., as he has more experience, and can keep things consistent across GLAM projects. --Djembayz (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, or please help upgrade it! This category has been extremely useful for tracking the results of a GLAM partnership. I may be one of the last people currently updating pages from this GLAM source, and I'd like to be able to continue to track how much has been done to date. How else can these results be tracked? If you can provide some other means of generating this data, that would be great. Does someone here know how to set up the [[Category:World Digital Library articles by quality]] and the associated table display, like the Smithsonian has? That would be much better. -- Djembayz (talk) 22:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
delete as not defining, and being utterly useless as a category, grouping unrelated articles into a far too large to make sense of (the first page e.g. is 1/3 seemingly random years). I can't see how it could be useful for tracking them for GLAM. An actual list, which could be sortable, manually grouped, viewable all at once, and far more easily maintained and kept track of as a single page with a history, would be far more useful.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds00:07, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Someone would have to explain first how the existing category is helpful. E.g. 1309 is in there. How is the year 1309 at all "World Digital Library related" ? The library is used as a reference, for this "Konrad of Megenberg (d. 1374)", the page is actually on the Book of Nature. It seems the category has been added simply because the WDL is used as a reference, but we don't as a rule use categories like that, otherwise well referenced articles would be flooded with categories that are of no interest to the vast majority of readers. Anyone wanting to know if something is used as a reference can use 'What links here' and/or a search to find all references.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds04:32, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of the categories is tracking all articles where references to GLAM partner materials have been added, including articles such as the ones you mentioned. These tracking categories are designed to be hidden so that they do not show for a wiki readerm unless they go into the code for the page. The GLAMs need this tracking data to show how their materials get used, so they can demonstrate the value that a Wiki partnership provides. With no value added for the GLAM, it's tough to sell a partnership; and a partnership makes things much smoother, more systematic, and yields better metadata for search than what you get from simply grabbing stuff off the Web. The GLAMs want to be able to pull the complete data set, not search references one at a time. Sometimes people access your GLAM materials through unexpected articles and links, and this can tell you a lot about what your user base is interested in, and how to expand your audience. (Even a seemingly random article like 1304 can see sudden spikes in traffic if it is referenced somehow in mass media, social media, or becomes some sort of topic of local or subcultural interest; and it is useful to get as much data as possible on the historical time periods of interest to audiences.) If we are already at the point where we are flooded with GLAM partnerships providing source materials, could you fill me in with a little more info about this, and give a few examples of where the tracking categories are a problem? I'm not opposed to tracking GLAM articles some other way than categories, I just don't know how to make that happen myself, so I need one of the more experienced people here to put something in place and show how it works. My concern is that if the category gets wiped out, we could lose the data. So if User:Pigsonthewing or one of the other GLAM folks can roll the data in the categories over to the talk pages, great, then we're good to go. --Djembayz (talk) 23:38, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An article like 1914 is not a "GLAM article"; it is a Wikipedia article in which one fact (of hundreds) is sourced to the WDL. If this type of categorization grew then we could have dozens of these category tags (which hinder category intersection) on an article - and note that if the reference is removed from the article (e.g. if the information is removed or split off to a different page or a better reference is found) then the category tag will remain which makes it even more meaningless. Again, why not do this as a list (which IMO would be more appropriate than a talk page category) ?— Preceding unsigned comment added by DexDor (talk • contribs) 07:34, 3 February 2015
Yes, per DexDor in every article I've looked at the WDL is just a source, often just one of many. Further every example I've looked at is not sourced to the actual contents of the library but to the blurb by it, which has no indication of authorship or what is based on – it could even be based on WP. Nowhere have 'GLAM partner materials been added', the materials in the library haven't even been used. It seems like this has little to do with the partnership described. Using it like this as a reference is unremarkable, especially as it's just being used as a source for facts for which many other sources exist. If WDL tomorrow decided to take down their site because they could not see the value in it then we would not need to change any article contents, just change the references to another source. The valule in the library is more in the actual content, which as primary sources make poor references. It is much more like Wikisource or Commons, and a template like (and used like) {{commonscat}} or {{wikisource}} would be far more appropriate.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds18:29, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Go right ahead and make a template, and add a list. I don't know how to do this, but if you do, sounds like a good idea to me. The content provided on the summaries is written by scholars on contract, and the cultural institutions represented have an interest in seeing that it is accurate, so it should be as reliable source as you will find on these materials. More recent summaries contain citations. --Djembayz (talk) 13:36, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was:delete. I'm not sure if all those who commented correctly read the nomination and/or examined the contents of the categories, but a straight merge to the corresponding "FOOs of Europe" categories would not be appropriate given that these all contain articles and subcategories about the things in French colonies around the world.Good Ol’factory(talk)01:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Listify and Upmerge to the Europe parents. Animals frequently transcend political boundaries so doesn't make sense to categorise this way (particularly given the fact that "France" is not limited to Europe). Perfectly fine as a list and I'm pretty sure that our readers will benefit from such a listing. When it comes to categorisation, though, the example of the Brown rat shows the inherent problems of the animal categorisation by nation idea. Much better to subdivide at continental level by animal type instead. SFB17:44, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom and SFB. Animals are not confined by political boundaries, but by geophysical constraints — so flora and fauna should be categorized by continent, not individual country (which just leads to extreme category bloat as most "animal species of France" are also animal species of Germany and Belgium and the Netherlands and Switzerland and Italy and Andorra and Spain and Liechtenstein.) Bearcat (talk) 23:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: These two categories appear to have much the same scope and currently form a loop (each is parent/child of the other) which can't be correct categorization. Note: After the merge it may be necessary to edit Category:Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II to avoid it categorizing itself. DexDor (talk) 21:09, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into one category for Asia and Pacific. This is about allied warfare against Japan. British operations took place in the north of the Indian Ocean. Other actions may have taken place in seas that are not clearly part of it or Pacific. Little happened west of the meridian on which India lies. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:40, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Rename -- Little happened there in WWI. Coronel (in this category is off Chile, not in Far East. The category is about allied forces mopping up German naval vessels in distant waters at the beginning of the war. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Canadian football teams in Shreveport, Louisiana
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Nominator's rationale:Upmerge Created by the same editor almost two full years apart. As other editors know, I'm all for making exceptions to WP:SMALLCAT where needed, in the case of a necessary category branch, but this ain't one. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:10, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge. Unnecessary SMALLCAT for a single team that's adequately served by existing categories without needing the dedicated intersection. Bearcat (talk) 23:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Islamist terrorist incidents - 20th century
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Support per usual format, although I'm not really sure if the category is warranted either, given the emptiness of the parent now. SFB19:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale:Merge or delete. We don't generally categorize by attributes or characteristics that are "suspected" or "alleged". We could either upmerge the contents to Category:Islamist insurgents if we are comfortable saying that those in the category are Islamist insurgents, or we could just delete the category without upmerging the contents if we're not comfortable with that. Good Ol’factory(talk)02:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Merge Appear to be about former members, but is actually about a dead member. Not serving any purpose here as a dead member was still a member. SFB19:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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