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Category:Explorers by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 16:54, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming:
50 more categories
Nominator's rationale: While these categories group people by nationality, current wording is way too ambiguous. Do these refer to fooians who are explorers or to explorers of foo?
Nominated for a full discussion following a 2015 CfD renaming Category:Venetian explorers, and a contested CfD/S nomination (see below). --PanchoS (talk) 23:36, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Is this more of problem than, say, Category:French scientists? Personally I think the ambiguities will always be there. If you set off from Portugal, are you an "Explorer from Portugal" even if you have French nationality and German ancestry? At some point we need to accept that categorisation of any sort cannot be 100% precise. —Brigade Piron (talk) 11:38, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Philippine films based on Wattpad

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:42, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I think this works best as a list and it so happens that we do have a list: List of Philippine films based on Wattpad stories. I don't think that this is a sufficiently defining characteristic to use for classification. If kept, it should at least be renamed to something like Category:Philippine films based on Wattpad stories or Category:Philippine films based on Wattpad novels. Pichpich (talk) 22:02, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:10,000 Lakes Festival by year

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:12, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging:
Nominator's rationale: Disestablished festivals with limited room for expansion. PanchoS (talk) 17:51, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
hi, I built the page to be compatible with Category:Music_festivals_by_year, but not end of world if deleted. Earflaps (talk) 18:15, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Earflaps: Note that I added a few more discontinued festivals with a limited period of existence. I think even in Category:Music festivals by year, we don't want dozens of subcategories per individual event. IMHO, we should rather ensure the articles about the individual year are correctly and sufficiently categorized. But neither is it "end of world" for me, if these are not merged back into the festival's main category. :) Let's just see how others weigh in. --PanchoS (talk) 21:29, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Funimation voice actors

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:41, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Seems a rather arbitary topic to base a category off of, with a completely arbitrary set of rules for what qualifies someone as a "Funimation voice actor." Have seen no evidence that such people are ever referred to in the press and wider world as "Funimation voice actors." Brustopher (talk) 15:16, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Funimation does not have an in-house voice acting staff. Practically all of the voice actors are contractors, as with others in the voice acting community. In Japan, the voice actors can be categorized by their talent agency but they are not categorized with certain production companies. On the flip side, producers and staff could be grouped with their production companies. Voice directors and writers are a gray area as it's not clear whether they are full-fledged employees or contractors by project. This also raised a lot of problems with actors that were not based in Funimation creeping onto the list because of their mere association on less than a handful of licensed or acquired shows, even though their dub recording company was not Funimation. A lot of those actors would not qualify per WP:CATDEF which says it should be a defining characteristic of the subject. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename: Instead of outright deleting the category, I think it should be renamed to "Actors who have worked for Funimation", due to this fact being essential for the majority of their careers. However, the criteria is very arbitrary, and thus should be removed, meaning the previous actors who were listed as examples for actors that had not yet been deemed Funimation voice actors under the criteria will be included in the category.Mumbai0618 (talk) 16:17, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Mumbai0618[reply]
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Category:2008 awards in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: keep, without prejudice to a re-nomination to rename it, as proposed in mid-discussion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:15, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: the category exists only for one year (2008) and the contents should be included in existing category series such as Category:2008 film awards and Category:2008 in American cinema. NB: the category was created by a blocked user. Hugo999 (talk) 10:37, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The intersection is just as valid as awards per year and subject, and often more helpful than that one. Quite a number of awards aren't confined to literature, music, film, television, theater, or performing arts, but embrace a number of these. The category is also helpful to find out about some of the more relevant cultural events that year in the country. RevelationDirect, we seriously can't complain categories per year and location don't contain anything but sports events, and then deny other fields any kind of categorization per year and location. Not saying this will ever go down below country-level – given our current coverage of these, we would start with per-continent categories, and would only create per-country categories if there's enough content, or (for countries on two continents) at least some substantial content. All in all, we really need to strengthen our categorization per year and location in order to strengthen our international coverage of events beyond sports and a limited number of other well-established areas. That's at least my humble perspective on this. --PanchoS (talk) 00:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:2014 in Southern California

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:NARROWCAT, it's over the top to split the year categories of California each in two subcats. (By the way, we might also upmerge to Category:History of Southern California but I'm not sure if we really want to have general history categories populated by sports articles.) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There might possibly be better ways subdividing the U.S. state, an alternative being the metropolitan area‎s. But the nominated ones are clearly no WP:NARROWCATs, just see Category:2015 in Southern California or Category:2016 in Southern California. --PanchoS (talk) 09:36, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Exactly. The problem is not with the categories, but with the content. I mean, it's nice that our coverage in sports, television, horror films and video games is almost complete, but it's a shame we don't even have an equal number of articles on other aspects of culture, politics and society. --PanchoS (talk) 21:33, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I couldn't agree more, actually! I see the burden as on this sub-state category though since the California year categories don't seem too large to navigate. What's the benefit of a Southern California or Upstate New York or UP year category? (That's a sincere question.)RevelationDirect (talk)
  • @RevelationDirect: Indeed I'm not sure dividing a state into exactly two regions is the best approach. But counties are too small, and metropolitan areas categories have been recently deleted, so Northern and Southern California is all we have. At least, Southern California includes the whole LA metropolitan area, and Northern California the whole San Francisco Bay Area, so we have a scope that doesn't tear apart major cities from their metropolitan area. Why do we need a subdivision, if Category:California isn't too large to navigate? Counterquestion: Since when do we only subdivide if the situation is intolerable? People relate to their city, and then they relate to their region. California is large, actually larger than quite some countries of the world. Now if someone wants to know what happened in 2015 around LA, then they don't want to know what happened in SF or Northern Sacramento. Of course, people have different approaches and interests, so all too fine-grained categories are just as well problematic. But we can support different approaches, with regional subdivisions and subdivisions by topic, such as Category:2015 sports events in California, thereby saving all other topics from being overwhelmed by sporting events. Both is fine, and can coexist. --PanchoS (talk) 00:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is more beneficial to divide the history of a state by topic instead of by a further geographical divide. "People relate to their city, and then they relate to their region" isn't always the case, and especially unlikely in a case like this in which there is no administrative region involved. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm giving in, having already said that I'm not 100% convinced of this division. I'm gonna focus on the division by topic, as there seems to be consensus on that approach. --PanchoS (talk) 13:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Why even subdivide by the state level at all then when we could just have every event of each year in the whole country can be contained in the Category:2016 in the United States? The point that at the very least, Southern and Northern California are relevant geographic divisions that are commonly discussed as such.--Prisencolin (talk) 22:01, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Republican actors

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:38, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Irrelevant intersection between occupation and political allegiance.
If kept, it should be renamed to clarify that this relates to members or supporters of the USA's Republican Party, rather than to anti-monarchists or Irish Republicans or any of the many other meanings of the phrase "Republican politician". BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:17, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
They also use their fame to advocate for charities, heavy cocaine use, and designer jeans since their celebrity status automatically brings them attention. I'm not sure if political advocacy is any different. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Heavy cocaine use, LOL… OK, you got me. If the decision is not used as a precedent for a similar, but better conceived category, that someone might come up with in the future, then I'm okay with deletion. --PanchoS (talk) 20:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is there any reason to not include them in the subcategories of Category:Republicans (United States) by state? It currently has 55 subcategories and the criterion is association with the Party, not being elected as a party representative. It seems inclusive enough. Dimadick (talk) 21:03, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Alaska Airlines

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The result of the discussion was: renamed. (non-admin closure) SSTflyer 06:41, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Alaska Airlines is merely a subsidiary of the larger conglomerate organization, the Alaska Air Group, which includes several airlines, such as Horizon Air. As it stands, there are hardly enough relevant pages to include under the category of Alaska Airlines. If we change the name to reflect the larger corporation, we can include the aforementioned airlines, and soon enough, Virgin America. DARTHBOTTO talk•cont 02:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Sounds reasonable. We might however want to keep Category:Alaska Airlines accidents and incidents as is. --PanchoS (talk) 21:55, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I could not agree more on the account of Alaska Airlines accidents and incidents. In the case that we get pages for Horizon or Virgin America accidents and incidents, we can have them categorized under this new renamed category. DARTHBOTTO talk•cont 05:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

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The result of the discussion was: delete. WP:REFUND applies.(non-admin closure) SSTflyer 06:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame consists of a web site and an exhibit in the lobby of a building in downtown London, Ontario (source). It's hard to see how people who died in 1919, in 1940 and in 1976 are defined by an award created in 1994. Even for people who lived to see it, the award receives only a passing reference in the articles. These recipients are already in the Category:Canadian physicians or similar categories and the list of winners is located here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified YUL89YYZ as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Medicine. – RevelationDirect (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Berlin International Film Festival winners

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:17, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in 1951 when the people of West Berlin needed some fun, and it does look like fun. The festival has given awards to The People vs. Larry Flynt, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Oliver Stone along with some European winners who are less known to me, a few of whom are even German. In contrast, the top German award for German films is either the Deutscher Filmpreis or Bambi Award and this festival lacks the cultural influence of Cannes Film Festival so I don't think it's defining for the winners. Fortunately, the content of these categories is already listed here, here, here and here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified And we drown as the primary category creator and this discussion has been included in the German cinema task force. – RevelationDirect (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you on Cannes. RevelationDirect (talk) 10:38, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The People vs. Larry Flynt example is interesting, as this film won a lot of awards, certainly more than the standard European/non-US/UK films that screen at Berlin. It's also in the category for Category:Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Globe. Would this warrant deletion based on the same rationale? The arguement of having lists (and deleting the category) would fail WP:NOTDUP. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:39, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Lugnuts: 1.) We're not too far off: out of the hundreds of festivals in Category:Film festivals in Europe you think we should categorize by three and I think one. 2) There are some awards that are notable enough for an article but not defining for individual biography articles and, in that case, a list is the best outcome. I'm not claiming the presence of a list means the category should be deleted. 3.) The Golden Globe award category is problematic for different reasons: it's categorizing films based on awards won by people not the film. // We still disagree here but hopefully that makes my perspective clearer! RevelationDirect (talk) 01:54, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The category for film festivals in Europe is a bit of a red-herring. The Berlin IFF is one of the top level of film festivals and is accredited by the governing body of film festivals to award prizes in its competition section. In other words, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of other festivals that aren't on the FIAPF's list, and I would agree that categories for them would be non-defining. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 06:47, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all per nom. I checked a sample of the articles in the Golden Bear category and the only mention of this award was in a list of awards received (i.e. not in the lead of the article). DexDor (talk) 06:24, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree here. I checked four (films) at random; Larks on a String, Child's Pose, Taxi and Honey. All of them mention the film won the Golden Bear in the lead. For the films that don't mention it, these can easily be fixed through normal editing (which I'm happy to do), as this is one of the premier film festival awards. I'm indifferent to the awards given to individuals. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well I just looked at the 3 "M" films and only one mentioned it in the lead. I don't think copying facts into the leads of articles to bolster an argument at CFD is a good idea. Even if it is argued that having the award is defining for/some all of the films I still think that the lists are sufficient and the films are in plenty of categories that form comprehensive categorization schemes. It may be "one of the premier film festival awards", but this discussion is not about deleting an article about the festival/award; it's about the most appropriate way to categorize films. DexDor (talk) 20:48, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well I just fixed the 3 "M" films so they mention it in the lead. I think copying facts into the leads of articles bolsters an argument at CfD. The lists are not sufficient, as they go hand-in-hand with categories. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:05, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There's a balance to be struck with award categories, even though we disagree on this particular one. Here is an extreme example. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:24, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS frustration is getting weaker as one non-defining award category after another is being deleted through CFD discussions. (That reply is directed at only part of your comment; that obviously wasn't your only argument.) RevelationDirect (talk) 04:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Any thoughts on the actors/actresses? RevelationDirect (talk) 03:17, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mixed pattern again, varying from a mere listing within a long table of awards (in case of the most famous actors), to being the primary reason for notability (in stub articles). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Chowder

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename. – Fayenatic London 12:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: C2C, to match article Chowder (TV series) Trivialist (talk) 00:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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