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Category:Atheist socialists

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. -- Black Falcon (talk) 07:45, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category violates WP:CAT/EGRS as subjects' irreligiosity is not relevant to their socialism. This is distinct from, e.g., Category:Christian socialists as that category is for subjects who are in the Christian socialist tradition (a particular type of socialism), not just for anyone who is both Christian and socialistic. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 22:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The various Jewish categories are a problem from the point of view of categorisation by religion, because they are also categorisation by ethnicity - as such they tend to stay in circumstances such as this. Grutness...wha? 23:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Mangoe: I'm afraid that I'm not familiar enough with Jewish socialism (see Jewish left) to have a fully formed opinion as to whether Jewish socialism can be viewed as a variety of socialism in the same way that Christian socialism is, but if not, surely that's a separate discussion, no? (Though if it is, Category:Jewish socialists probably oughtn't include just anyone who is both a Jew and a socialist.) 142.160.131.202 (talk) 01:08, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It's not that there is such a thing, indeed the point is that there isn't; but there is a trope of "international Jewish conspiracy" talk which specifically manifests itself in Jewish Bolshevism— blaming the communists on the Jews. I'm wary of a category which says "see how many Jews are involved in this?" Mangoe (talk) 15:02, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Mangoe: Fair argument (though bear in mind that socialism does not necessarily equal communism), but how is that pertinent to what should be done with Category:Atheist socialists? Is it fair to say that you support the proposal? 142.160.131.202 (talk) 20:14, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, delete this. Mangoe (talk) 17:13, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@CreativeName1: Bearing in mind that "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale", how is what you are describing in compliance with the central consensus described by WP:CAT/EGRS? 142.160.131.202 (talk) 05:04, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"In almost all cases, gendered/ethnic/sexuality/disability/religion-based categories should be non-diffusing".
I am OK with the category being non-diffusing--no controversy here.
"Do not create categories that are a cross-section of a topic with an ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation, unless these characteristics are relevant to the topic.
I do believe, that a persons religion is in fact relevant to their political beliefs and behaviour. I don't have any papers to back that up, but who would deny that this is true for many people? Politics are guidelines that are created according to ones personal philosophy/principles/morals or those of that persons community. Religion is very similar in that regard.
CN1 (talk) 14:25, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Films set in a fictional locations

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The result of the discussion was: rename, without prejudice to an immediate further nomination to discuss deletion or merger. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Gross and blatant grammatical error. However, the parent is Category:Works set in fictional locations while one subcategory is called Category:Films set in a fictional country. Which one is the right name, and would this require any more nominations? 165.91.12.97 (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into its parent. The "...in fiction locations" names are more inclusive and make more sense. Grutness...wha? 23:49, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment this tree should be heavily purged, the setting in "any" fictional location is not a defining characteristic of a film and "any" fictional places in different films have nothing in common with each other. Real places in films are defining, while fictional places is a matter of WP:OCMISC unless multiple films are set in the same fictional location. In the end only Category:Middle-earth films, Category:Films set in Atlantis, Category:Treasure Island films, and perhaps one or two other subcats, may be kept together in a container category. Other subcategories like Category:Films set in a fictional African country‎ should simply be merged to Category:Films set in Africa. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:25, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename to Category:Films set in fictional locations; this is a valid intersection of Category:Films by geographic setting and Category:Works set in fictional locations, and useful for navigation. – Fayenatic London 15:03, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I think this category assumes the line between fictional/real locations is easy to define. It is not. If a place is set in a fictional place (Smallville), in a real state (Kansas), is this fictional, or laziness? What about a film set half in Washington, DC or New York City, and the other half in a fictional small locality in Europe. I can think of five such films (although two in San Francisco), without even thinking very hard. Is it really defining if a few scenes of a film happen in a fictional small eastern European country, when most of the film is set in a real city in the US. Also, I challenge this as a logical way to group things. It ends up colliding films that are set in intended places, that get renamed to avoid too much offence (To Kill a Mocking Bird), films set in fictional places to avoid being too specific (Smallville, Kansas in Superman films), films set in made up places clearly in our earth, films set in made up places in earth with lots of fictitious elements, and films set in fictional planets, fantasy universes, etc. The problem is that we end up splitting up Superhero films, with some in here and some not, and in theory splitting a film like Avengers:Age of Ultron into here, while excluding Spiderman or Captain America Civil War, only because in AAOU they use a fictional name for an unspecificed eastern European country, and in Spiderman:Homecoming all the action happens in Queens, New York. It gets even more fun, a film like The Hitman's Bodyguard does not go here, because they were daring enough to name Belarus as the location of the main bad guy, but if they had decided to instead use a fictious, indistict Eastern European Country, changing the setting of about 3 minutes of a two hour film, it would be able to be put in this category. This just does not make any sense at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:29, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename and then take a look at the whole films-set-in categorization. We shouldn't categorize films for locations that are only a small part of the film as it can result in a large number of non-defining category tags on articles. If this categorization was restricted to where at least half the film was set then it would be more reasonable. DexDor (talk) 07:27, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think you still avoid the more complex issue of non-defining nature of "fictional location". This leads to the bizarreness that something set in Smallville, Kansas qualifies because they gave a fictional name for the location, but something set in a never defined part of Kansas does not qualify.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:49, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People banned from entering the European Union

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The result of the discussion was: delete all. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NON-DEFINING - e.g. that Steve Rosenberg was banned from Ukraine for 1 day. Note: Lists may be appropriate (e.g. List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom). Previous discussion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_November_27#Category:People_banned_from_entering_China DexDor (talk) 06:28, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Perpetual motion in fiction

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The result of the discussion was: WP:SOFTDELETE. I considered adding "see also" links between the pages, but the The Water Engine does not seem to be about perpetual motion; the article Cox (novel) does not mention it either, although the linked non-fiction article Cox's timepiece does. – Fayenatic London 15:07, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A very uncommon element in the fictional multiverse. Having only two articles, fails WP:SMALLCAT. 165.91.12.190 (talk) 04:26, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Subcategories of Category:Orgonomy

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:26, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These topics are a wee bit too close to their parent. The latter sounds more like something about the adult industry. 165.91.12.190 (talk) 03:54, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional characters with precognition

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 9#Category:Fictional_characters_with_precognition. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:33, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: As explicitly stated in the category description, it is not limited specifically to precognition–rather, it encompasses “Fictional characters who possess [any form of] extrasensory perception”. Specific types of ESP, several of which are named in the catdesc, could be redirected, though. 165.91.13.236 (talk) 02:58, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Health regions of Saskatchewan

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Former health regions of Saskatchewan. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 17:04, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is obsolete. As all health regions have been replaced by a single Saskatchewan Health Authority, there would only be one entry in the category. ViperSnake151  Talk  02:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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