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July 22[edit]

Category:Jethou[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Limited contents and scope for growth. --Xdamr^talk 21:15, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete. OCAT. Small category for a private island that is not likely to be expanded. There is a List of tenants of Jethou which should provide ample navigation and currently provides significantly more information that is not available from a category. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. While I generally agree- the island is so small as to not really warrant its own category - I have managed to expand the number of articles in the category, so part of the justification above is misleading. Grutness...wha? 01:30, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Misleading only as much as the assumption that this is defining for the individuals who were added. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:49, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Let's keep it, and Vegaswikian will surely keep an eye on it. In the case of a geographic entity, I feel that even a small category has a right to exist. Debresser (talk) 23:12, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Surely you know I will not watch a category for maintenance purposes. Also if I follow your argument, any settlement with, let's say a building, should have a category. I think that is overkill. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:06, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom, and based on the contents the list of tenants serves much of the proposed purpose of the category, drawing together the island's tenants. Otto4711 (talk) 00:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a well-defined category for a geographic feature within the parent Category:Islands of the Channel Islands. There is no evidence that there will be no additional articles forthcoming and the excuse justifying deletion based on the fact that a list "serves much of the proposed purpose" is in direct conflict with WP:CLN's mandate that lists AND categories should work together in synergistic fashion, with absolutely nothing in WP:CLN stating that "the 'category camp' should not delete or dismantle Wikipedia's lists, and the 'list camp' shouldn't tear down Wikipedia's category system—doing so wastes valuable resources. Instead, each should be used to update the other." WP:CLN never states anywhere that a category should be deleted because a list is "better". Alansohn (talk) 19:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no evidence that there will ever be another article related to this island, so that argument cuts both ways. Should a sudden rush of Jethou-related articles suddenly materialize the category can be re-created. CLN is not a mandate, despite your mischaracterization of it as such. No category is mandated by CLN and CLN clearly states that there are times when a list is superior to a category. Otto4711 (talk) 19:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional articles have been created recently in this category and there is no reason other than your foot stamping insistence that it is unlikely there will never be any more. WP:CLN never mandates that a category be created or deleted, but does specify that they should co-exist. It does specifically reject the disruptive deletion of any category or list with the argument that the other is better, rather clearly stating that stating that "the 'category camp' should not delete or dismantle Wikipedia's lists, and the 'list camp' shouldn't tear down Wikipedia's category system—doing so wastes valuable resources." If this were only followed even in spirit, so much wasted time and effort would be freed up to build this encyclopedia rather than destroy what we don't like based on arbitrary preferences. Alansohn (talk) 19:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And clearly the articles that were added could be removed since they are not defining for that individual and are a brief mention in the articles and not of any significance for the individuals. So it is not clear that these inclusions meet the guidelines of WP:COP especially the caution to limit the number of categories in people categories. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(ec) There are currently four articles in the category. Compton Mackenzie was created in May 2004, Peter Ogden was created in April 2008, List of tenants of Jethou was also created in April 2008 and Jethou was created way back in 2002. Care to reconsider your claim of recently-created additional articles? Or perhaps you'd just care to stamp your foot at getting caught in another falsehood? As for CLN, it most assuredly does not "specify" that categories and lists "should co-exist". It states: "The grouping of articles by one method neither requires nor forbids the use of the other methods for the same informational grouping." The line you quoted obviously does not mean that categories with associated lists cannot be brought up for discussion. CLN obviously does not "specifically reject" arguing against a category by claiming that a list would work better because CLN explicitly includes reasons why one navigational tool works better than another under different circumstances. Perhaps if you spent less time mischaracterizing CLN, making the same tired bad-faith accusations of disruption, arbitrariness and "you don't like it" against fellow editors, making demonstrably false claims like the ones above and acting like you're some kind of Wiki-savior barring the door from the barbarian hordes bent on its destruction whenever anyone disagrees with you, we'd all have more free time to build the encyclopedia. Otto4711 (talk) 21:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Barack Obama presidential controversies[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete as empty. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Barack Obama presidential controversies to Category:Obama Administration controversies

Nominator's rationale: Merge. Duplicate categories. Only one of the two needs to exist. The proposed target is the older of the two, but I have no preference on which is kept. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The merge target matches the structure of the parent Category:United States presidential administration controversies. The lone article in Category:Barack Obama presidential controversies is not even a controversy, so deletion would probably be a better choice here. Alansohn (talk) 02:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The presence of the article in the nominated category is suspect, so doing what you suggest would be OK. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:12, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Alansohn. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:32, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And I've removed that sole category entry. Since nothing in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 offers any indication that this is an Obama administration "controversy", inclusion in this cat is unsubstantiated POV (the article simply states that the bill has "critics"). This category is now empty. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:40, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with both merge or deletion. Debresser (talk) 23:10, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Remixes[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete - there is no theoretical limit to the number of people who can remix a particular song. The typical CD single includes several mixes by several different producers. Categorizing songs by people who choose to remix it strikes me as overcategorization. Otto4711 (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with nominator. Debresser (talk) 23:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have notified WikiProject Electronic music and WikiProject Rave about this discussion. __meco (talk) 14:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People associated with Bedford College[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Rename. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:People associated with Bedford College to Category:People associated with Bedford College (London)

Propose renaming Category:Alumni of Bedford College to Category:Alumni of Bedford College (London)

Propose renaming Category:Academics of Bedford College to Category:Academics of Bedford College (London)

Nominator's rationale: Rename all Since these categories were created the institution article has been moved to Bedford College (London) due to the existence of other Bedford Colleges (including another in the UK). The categories should match this and avoid confusion. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree per nominator. Debresser (talk) 21:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Renames to match title of parent article. Alansohn (talk) 02:22, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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American river shipwrecks[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Rename. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging and renaming Category:Shipwrecks of the Mississippi and Category:Shipwrecks in the Mississippi River to Category:Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River

Propose renaming: Category:Shipwrecks of the Ohio to Category:Shipwrecks of the Ohio River

Nominator's rationale: New names reflect the full name of each river and are less likely to be confused with potential state-only shipwreck categories. Also, the "of the" styling matches styling of many other shipwrecks categories and avoids the implication that the wrecks remain in place. (A wreck that occurred in one of the rivers but was salvaged is no longer "in the river", for example.) Both Mississippi categories, however, should be merged regardless of the final name decided, because both cover the same topic. — Bellhalla (talk) 20:44, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The suggested names also match the style of the extant Category:Shipwrecks of the Missouri River — Bellhalla (talk) 20:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with all of the nominators nominations. Debresser (talk) 21:38, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Agree per Debresser. Plasma east (talk) 22:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Merge/Renames to match bulk of the parent Category:Shipwrecks of the United States. Alansohn (talk) 02:24, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support both suggestions. Maralia (talk) 19:44, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:XxxHolic characters[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: The category only has one article. TTN (talk) 19:13, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:VJs[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Rename to Category:VJs (media personalities). Vegaswikian (talk) 22:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:VJs to Category:Something

Nominator's rationale: VJ means nothing to me and besides it is a disamb page. Also I am sure these are not 'Music videos' (ie it is not a subcat of Category:Music videos). Occuli (talk) 17:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Category:VJs (media personalities) to match title of parent article VJ (media personality). Alansohn (talk) 18:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Category:VJs (media personalities) per parent article. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:35, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Taxes[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge per nom. While there were points made about keeping this as is, the significant amount of overlap and the lack of parent categories that were appropriate for the content really support the merge as nominated. If anyone really thinks that we need to leave a redirect, drop a note on my talk page after the bots move the articles and I'll create it. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Taxes to Category:Taxation

Nominator's rationale: Merge. Currently only contains articles that belong in Category:Taxation, there is already a Category:Taxes (biology) for the biological usage. --Explodicle (T/C) 14:08, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree and leave a redirect. Debresser (talk) 21:37, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and amend notes & parents to reflect repurposing. A sensible sub-cat for the Taxation category. Johnbod (talk) 15:43, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Note that until recently (and as the Category:Taxes page still says), the category was about taxes (plural of taxis) in biology. Someone has moved those articles to a new Category:Taxes (biology). I don't know if this is relevant, but it seemed worth noting. Shreevatsa (talk) 03:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jamba![edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete - discussed once previously under the name Category:Jamster ringtones, ended up renamed to the current name. Two years later I don't think a single article has been added to the category, not even Jamba! as a lead article. It's a small category with little or no growth potential. A template for the character Crazy Frog links all of this material and a link to Jamba! can certainly be added to that template. Otto4711 (talk) 06:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - the less evidence the better of Crazy Frog. Occuli (talk) 08:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Joke characters[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:37, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Delete - we deleted a category for fictional characters used for comic relief some time ago but I can't recall its exact name to find the old CFD. The reasons for deleting that apply to this similar category, specifically that fictional characters can serve a wide variety of roles within a given fictional narrative. Deadly serious characters sometimes crack the best jokes or are the butt of humor and one-note comedy characters are used to advance the dramatic narrative. Fictional characters frequently evolve over their history, starting out as "jokes" and later becoming integral to the dramatic story. Otto4711 (talk) 05:07, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Was it Fictional comic-relief characters? Anyway, delete, for the reasons given by nom and the same reasons given in that discussion. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:33, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it was. Forgot the hyphen. Otto4711 (talk) 06:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - seems to be a recreation of the unanimously deleted Category:Fictional comic-relief characters with a worse name (real people could feasibly be added). Occuli (talk) 13:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as undefined. Debresser (talk) 21:37, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Video albums[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename per nom. Very interesting discussion. The nomination points out that there was no standard for these categories. The one proposed did receive support and while there were some questions, nothing that I read was really an objection. So there was consensus for a rename. Having said that, there may well be a need for additional cleanup. If said cleanup affects some of these newly renamed categories, this decision should not be viewed as an impediment to renominating small subsets of these categories for rename as part of a larger consensus scheme. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:25, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Video albums by artist

Category:3LW DVDs to Category:3LW video albums
Category:A*Teens DVDs and videos to Category:A*Teens video albums
Category:Aerosmith videos to Category:Aerosmith video albums
Category:Alice in Chains videos to Category:Alice in Chains video albums
Category:Amon Amarth DVDs to Category:Amon Amarth video albums
Category:Alice Nine video releases to Category:Alice Nine video albums
Category:Amy Winehouse videos and DVDs to Category:Amy Winehouse video albums
Category:Ashanti (singer) DVDs and videos to Category:Ashanti (singer) video albums
Category:Ashley Tisdale music videos and DVDs to Category:Ashley Tisdale video albums
Category:Asian Kung-Fu Generation videos to Category:Asian Kung-Fu Generation video albums
Category:Atomic Kitten DVDs to Category:Atomic Kitten video albums
Category:Ayumi Hamasaki DVD releases to Category:Ayumi Hamasaki video albums
Category:B'z video releases to Category:B'z video albums
Category:Bananarama videos to Category:Bananarama video albums
Category:Björk DVDs to Category:Björk video albums
Category:Bon Jovi videos to Category:Bon Jovi video albums
Category:Bond (band) DVDs and videos to Category:Bond (band) video albums
Category:Brandy Norwood videos and DVDs to Category:Brandy Norwood video albums
Category:Britney Spears DVDs to Category:Britney Spears video albums
Category:Bruce Springsteen videos to Category:Bruce Springsteen video albums
Category:Celine Dion DVDs and videos to Category:Celine Dion video albums
Category:Cher videos to Category:Cher video albums
Category:Christina Aguilera videos to Category:Christina Aguilera video albums
Category:Dannii Minogue videos to Category:Dannii Minogue video albums
Category:David Bowie videos to Category:David Bowie video albums
Category:Delta Goodrem DVDs and videos to Category:Delta Goodrem video albums
Category:Depeche Mode videos to Category:Depeche Mode video albums
Category:Destiny's Child videos to Category:Destiny's Child video albums
Category:Duran Duran videos to Category:Duran Duran video albums
Category:Eagles videos and DVDs to Category:Eagles video albums
Category:Electric Light Orchestra music videos to Category:Electric Light Orchestra video albums
Category:Europe videos to Category:Europe video albums
Category:Franz Ferdinand videos and DVDs to Category:Franz Ferdinand video albums
Category:Garbage (band) videos and DVDs to Category:Garbage (band) video albums
Category:Girls Aloud DVDs to Category:Girls Aloud video albums
Category:Glen Campbell videos to Category:Glen Campbell video albums
Category:Godsmack DVDs to Category:Godsmack video albums
Category:Guns N' Roses videos to Category:Guns N' Roses video albums
Category:Hitomi Yaida video releases to Category:Hitomi Yaida video albums
Category:Incubus videos to Category:Incubus video albums
Category:James Taylor videos to Category:James Taylor video albums
Category:Jennifer Lopez DVDs to Category:Jennifer Lopez video albums
Category:Jimmy Buffett DVDs and videos to Category:Jimmy Buffett video albums
Category:Kalomoira DVDs to Category:Kalomoira video albums
Category:Kate Bush videos to Category:Kate Bush video albums
Category:Kiss DVDs and videos to Category:Kiss video albums
Category:Kisschasy DVDs to Category:Kisschasy video albums
Category:Linkin Park DVDs to Category:Linkin Park video albums
Category:Mad Season videos to Category:Mad Season video albums
Category:Madonna videos to Category:Madonna video albums
Category:Metallica videos to Category:Metallica video albums
Category:Mika DVDs to Category:Mika video albums
Category:Miyavi videos to Category:Miyavi video albums
Category:Mortification (band) DVDs to Category:Mortification (band) video albums
Category:Mother Love Bone videos to Category:Mother Love Bone video albums
Category:Mylène Farmer DVDs and videos to Category:Mylène Farmer video albums
Category:Namie Amuro videos to Category:Namie Amuro video albums
Category:Nana Mizuki DVDs to Category:Nana Mizuki video albums
Category:Nelly Furtado DVDs to Category:Nelly Furtado video albums
Category:Nirvana videos and DVDs to Category:Nirvana video albums
Category:Oasis music videos to Category:Oasis video albums
Category:Olivia Newton-John videos to Category:Olivia Newton-John video albums
Category:Pearl Jam videos to Category:Pearl Jam video albums
Category:Pet Shop Boys videos to Category:Pet Shop Boys video albums
Category:Phish videos to Category:Phish video albums
Category:Pink videos and DVDs to Category:Pink video albums
Category:Prince videos to Category:Prince video albums
Category:Queen (band) videos to Category:Queen (band) video albums
Category:R.E.M. videos to Category:R.E.M. video albums
Category:RBD DVDs to Category:RBD video albums
Category:Reuben videos to Category:Reuben video albums
Category:Ricky Martin Music Video to Category:Ricky Martin video albums
Category:Roy Orbison videos to Category:Roy Orbison video albums
Category:Rush (band) videos to Category:Rush (band) video albums
Category:Skid Row videos to Category:Skid Row video albums
Category:Slipknot DVDs to Category:Slipknot video albums
Category:Soundgarden videos to Category:Soundgarden video albums
Category:T.A.T.u. DVDs to Category:T.A.T.u. video albums
Category:Take That videos to Category:Take That video albums
Category:Tears For Fears videos to Category:Tears For Fears video albums
Category:The Human League DVDs and Videos to Category:The Human League video albums
Category:The Smashing Pumpkins videos to Category:The Smashing Pumpkins video albums
Category:Tiësto DVDs to Category:Tiësto video albums
Category:Tori Amos videos to Category:Tori Amos video albums
Category:U2 videos to Category:U2 video albums
Category:Van Morrison videos and DVDs to Category:Van Morrison video albums
Category:"Weird Al" Yankovic videos to Category:"Weird Al" Yankovic video albums
Category:Wet Wet Wet videos to Category:Wet Wet Wet video albums
Category:White Lion videos to Category:White Lion video albums
Category:Winger home videos to Category:Winger video albums
Category:X Japan video releases to Category:X Japan video albums
Category:Yanni videos to Category:Yanni video albums
Category:ZZ Top videos and DVDs to Category:ZZ Top video albums

Nominator's rationale: Rename - As Otto4711 points out here and here, the music video categories are a mess. I propose the phrasing "video albums" because it covers two things: collections of music videos and concert broadcasts. It specifically doesn't include individual music videos, and it makes no claim about what format (such as DVDs) these videos appear in. It seems like a good naming format to me, but other possibilities are welcome. (FYI, if this nomination passes, the video albums categories Category:AC/DC video albums, Category:Black Sabbath video albums, Category:Bruce Dickinson video albums, Category:Deep Purple video albums, Category:Faith No More video albums, Category:Foo Fighters video albums, Category:Hilary Duff video albums, Category:Iron Maiden video albums, Category:Katherine Jenkins video albums, Category:Led Zeppelin video albums, Category:Mariah Carey video albums, Category:Mike Oldfield video albums, Category:Alanis Morissette video albums, Category:Snoop Dogg video albums, Category:Joss Stone video albums, Category:Tenacious D video albums, and Category:The Rolling Stones video albums would all stay the same. If we go a different direction, these might change too.)--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I closed a single nomination for the Ricky Martin video category to join it here. My concern with "video albums" is that I'm uncertain that a concert video constitutes a "video album". We have no video album article and Album doesn't talk about the concept. "videos and DVDs" matches the category Category:Music videos and DVDs in which at least some of these are currently parented. I'm not going to weep bitter tears if his ends up at "video albums" though. Otto4711 (talk) 04:18, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "live album" suggests "video album" is reasonable for concert videos. To me, anyway.--Mike Selinker (talk) 04:49, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support all - 'video album' seems a reasonable shorthand for the material collected here (something with images in some format that would be called an album if recorded on an audio CD). This is assuming that all the listed ones are albums as opposed to 'video songs', which might be the best corresponding name for individual pieces such as Thriller: cf Category:Albums which disregards the medium (cylinder, 78, 45, cassette, 8-track, CD, ...) and Category:Songs. (There is however an interesting article Music video which relates to individual songs, and supports Category:Music videos.) Occuli (talk) 08:52, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- At 14 minutes in length, I'd argue that Thriller (music video) could make the leap to a video album category. I can think of no other articles that are solely about an individual hit song's video, though I haven't done much of a search.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:53, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - After a 10-minute search I too have not found any other articles solely about a video for a particular song, but there are plenty of substantial subsections (eg in Scream/Childhood) about videos which were notable for one reason or another (expensive, banned, controversial etc). Occuli (talk) 15:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - If such an article is in an "(artist) songs" category, then I don't think it needs an "(artist) videos" category. Seems redundant to me.--Mike Selinker (talk) 16:23, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - Well, just putting Scream/Childhood in the songs category is not entirely satisfactory as it is not one song (but 2) and ignores the fact that 2 music videos are comprehensively covered in the article. Putting Scream/Childhood in a 'music video' category is not satisfactory either as it is not a music video. The neatest solution is to create and categorise some redirects, one per song, one per music video; see WP:Categorizing redirects, subtopic categorization. I might do this. (I don't think a song should be put in a music video category unless the song article contains at least a stub, a sentence or 2, about the video.) Occuli (talk) 16:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        I suggest holding off on creating redirects for the videos section pending a discussion on the category talk page. Category:Music videos is currently swamped with song articles, causing the handful of legitimate articles to be lost in the morass. Starting in on redirects is just exchanging one problem for another. Otto4711 (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Except redirects are italicised in categories, and would be something like 'Scream (music video)'. However my appetite for creating redirects which might be promptly deleted or recategorised is limited, and I shall take this sage advice. Occuli (talk) 11:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. The term "video albums" doesn't make sense to me, but I'm tired at the moment. Take Category:Yanni videos, these are actually live concert films? I'm sure there are more that are concert videos. So where does something like this fit in? ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 23:33, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In my rationale above, I say that concert videos are video albums, in the same way that the audio recordings of the same concerts are called live albums. So concert videos would go in the video albums categories.--Mike Selinker (talk) 04:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would "Video releases" be a better term ? It would cover video compilations, concert videos and Michael Jackson's Thriller video. Cjc13 (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I like that term. Because what if all live concert videos weren't made into albums. And another example is that this one, Yanni One on One, is a video release, but neither a live concert nor album, more of a documentary, but a release nonetheless. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 13:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I considered that possibility, but it seemed to me that "video releases" covers individual song videos, which this nomination is trying to prevent.--Mike Selinker (talk) 19:03, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How does one tell whether a 'live concert video' is or is not an album? The Yanni template lists the concert videos under 'live albums' which I would accept without a second thought (until now). Occuli (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that eventually we would give all of these "video albums" (or whatever) categories. That would take a while, though.--Mike Selinker (talk) 02:45, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What about Category:Foo home videos? Otto4711 (talk) 23:00, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I have trouble picturing a collection of MTV-style videos as a home video. Some more possible names: long-form videos (per Grammy_Award_for_Best_Long_Form_Music_Video), full-length video (per "full-length album"). Let's find something we can agree on so that we don't end up with a "no consensus" result.--Mike Selinker (talk) 02:43, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Suggest use the term "Long-form Video releases". Cjc13 (talk) 12:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Video covers[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Images of video covers. Consensus was to rename. The target was open to discussion. Since the result is a rename, nothing is really lost by selecting among the options. This decision does not prevent someone from renominating if they feel that the chosen target is unacceptable. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Video covers to Category:Video cover images

Nominator's rationale: Rename - current name is ambiguous, as it could refer to music videos for cover songs. Otto4711 (talk) 02:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support – there is also Category:Album covers which could perhaps be considered at the same time. It would seem reasonable to include the word 'images' in any category comprising only images, regardless of ambiguity. Eg there is Category:Book covers which is less ambiguous but would still benefit from 'images'. Occuli (talk) 09:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Might I suggest Category:Images of video covers as an alternative? There are many such categories - see PrefixIndex page. Occuli (talk) 13:09, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Rename to more accurately reflect content of category. Alansohn (talk) 18:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Glossary of German terms[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Rename. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging Category:Glossary of German terms to Category:German words and phrases

Nominator's rationale: Merge. No way a category can be named "glossary". The inthention of the creator was to distinguish German loanwords from German words used in English texts, but still "alien" to English language. - Altenmann >t 00:11, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Merge to more accurately reflect the contents of the category. Alansohn (talk) 02:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Merge I made my point earlier at Talk:Gesamtkunstwerk#Loanword?. Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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