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Category:Pub theatres

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The result of the discussion was: retain only lowest level categories. It is not clear that "pub" should change to "fringe," but everybody wants the clutter removed. There's no clear consensus on which level stays, but it seems like the well-populated Category:Pub theatres in London needs the England category to exist, so I'll keep those two and delete Category:Pub theatres in the United Kingdom and Category:Pub theatres. If anyone thinks I made the wrong choice, bring it up again.--Mike Selinker (talk) 11:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Pub theatres to Category:Fringe theatres
Propose deleting Category:Pub theatres in the United Kingdom
Propose merging Category:Pub theatres in England to Category:Fringe theatres or to Category:Pub theatres if the above rename is rejected
Nominator's rationale: Rename. The main article here seems to be fringe theatre. Also reduce the level of the category structure in this area which seems excessive for 20 articles. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:49, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I would say not as studio theatres are usually purpose built annexes to larger theatres. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Restaurant organisation

Category:Cultural Properties of Quebec

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The result of the discussion was: Rename/merge per proposal. If non-monument Cultural Properties pop up later an appropriate category can be created at that time. The Bushranger One ping only 00:11, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Cultural Properties of Quebec to Category:Historic monuments of Quebec
Propose renaming Category:Historic Monuments of Quebec to Category:Historic monuments of Quebec
Nominator's rationale: Merge to renamed target category I've studied the properties listed in both the source and target cats and according to their references they all seem to be called Monument historique classé per Quebec's Loi sur les biens culturels. Am I missing something? I don't see the need for this split.
talk) 19:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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There are several different types of Cultural Properties. The seond most prestigious (after National Mounuments [of which there is only one, the Hotel du Parliament]) is that of Historic Monument. Naturally as a premier category we have many more WP articles in the highest category, but eventually I'm sure we will have others. Compare to Class-I and Class-II
Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec
for more info.
I did. I didn't find the stub article very helpful on this point. Alright, but there are lots of buildings in
talk) 21:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
]
Support nominator's proposal. Without explanations of what these technical designations mean, it would be better to merge them both into a category which calls them by a generic term. If anyone later makes an article which distinguishes the two then the category can be forked again, but right now, the distinction has no basis in any given information. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:51, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Premier League Darts venues

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:32, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Premier League Darts venues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining. We don't cat venues based on what sporting events they host, or who played there. Lugnuts (talk) 19:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- This is far too similar to performance by performer categories. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:34, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The contents could be made into a list if there were citations, but it ought not be a category. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:South African alternative country singers

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:South African singers. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:South African alternative country singers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Only one article, no hope of expansion. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 19:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Members of the British Ornithologists' Union

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Per the final comment, Category:British Ornithologists' Union people can be created if deemed worthwhile or necessary. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Members of the British Ornithologists' Union (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Nothing remotely notable about membership of this charity. Unlike a learned society (fellowship of which is often notable), membership is open to anyone willing and able to stump up a few quid in annual membership fees ("Membership of the BOU is open to anyone interested in ornithology, birds and birdwatchers" currently from 20 GBP per annum). You don't need to know the difference between a long-tailed tit and a crested tit. What next? Category:Members of the YOC? Mais oui! (talk) 18:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, absurdly broad and not defining at all. Nyttend (talk) 05:51, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • DElete -- BOU is probably a notable organisation, but membership of it (any more than of National Trust, or RSPB) is not a notable characteristic. This contrasts with such memberships as FRS and perhaps FRHS, which are not open to all, and indicate that the holder is likely to be notable. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:37, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom, Nyttend, and Kingiron. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:58, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename and rescope to Category:British Ornithologists' Union people. While membership is not something to sort by for an organisation of this sort, no doubt there are people notable because of the BOU, and that would be a useful categorisation. - The Bushranger One ping only 03:22, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Grammy Award for Album of the Year

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Grammy Award for Album of the Year to Category:Grammy Award winners for Album of the Year
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Like Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners, it seems that this category should specify that it contains winners of the award in this category in its title. There are similarly named categories for other categories of the award that should follow suit, but I thought I'd bring up one for a test case in terms of what to rename it to. Could the suggested rename be confusing as whether to include U2 or The Joshua Tree? --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 18:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have no problem with the name as I've suggested. Further discussion can be brought to the Grammy Awards task force page on how they should be defined, but I think album awards such as this one should be populated with the winning albums, song awards with songs, and perfomance awards with performers. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 09:52, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That has already been established in my nomination, but those were all named by the same person based on this one category, and that convention is unsatisfactory. If we can agree on a convention with this one, I would request a similar name change for the rest. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 00:45, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cultural Cold War

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The result of the discussion was: delete this and Category:Cultural Cold War films.--Mike Selinker (talk) 11:32, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Cultural Cold War to Category:Cultural history of the Cold War
Nominator's rationale: Rename per sibling categories
talk) 16:19, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Wikipedia does not categorize based on current status.

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The result of the discussion was: Merge all. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:09, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Former Washington Nationals minor league affiliates to Category:Washington Nationals minor league affiliates
Category:Former Baltimore Orioles minor league affiliates to Category:Baltimore Orioles minor league affiliates
Category:Former Atlanta Braves minor league affiliates to Category:Atlanta Braves minor league affiliates
Category:Former Minnesota Twins minor league affiliates to Category:Minnesota Twins minor league affiliates
Category:Former Houston Astros minor league affiliates to Category:Houston Astros minor league affiliates
Category:Former Boston Red Sox minor league affiliates to Category:Boston Red Sox minor league affiliates
Category:Former Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates to Category:Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates
Category:Former Chicago White Sox minor league affiliates to Category:Chicago White Sox minor league affiliates
Category:Former Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates to Category:Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates
Category:Former Cleveland Indians minor league affiliates to Category:Cleveland Indians minor league affiliates
Category:Former Detroit Tigers minor league affiliates to Category:Detroit Tigers minor league affiliates
Category:Former Kansas City Royals minor league affiliates to Category:Kansas City Royals minor league affiliates
Category:Former Milwaukee Brewers minor league affiliates to Category:Milwaukee Brewers minor league affiliates
Category:Former New York Mets minor league affiliates to Category:New York Mets minor league affiliates
Category:Former New York Yankees minor league affiliates to Category:New York Yankees minor league affiliates
Category:Former Oakland Athletics minor league affiliates to Category:Oakland Athletics minor league affiliates
Category:Former Philadelphia Phillies minor league affiliates to Category:Philadelphia Phillies minor league affiliates
Category:Former San Diego Padres minor league affiliates to Category:San Diego Padres minor league affiliates
Category:Former San Francisco Giants minor league affiliates to Category:San Francisco Giants minor league affiliates
Category:Former Seattle Mariners minor league affiliates to Category:Seattle Mariners minor league affiliates
Category:Former St. Louis Cardinals minor league affiliates to Category:St. Louis Cardinals minor league affiliates
Category:Former Texas Rangers minor league affiliates to Category:Texas Rangers minor league affiliates
Category:Former Toronto Blue Jays minor league affiliates to Category:Toronto Blue Jays minor league affiliates
Nominator's rationale: Merge. per
WP:OC#TRIVIA. Minor leagues tend to shift affiliations on a semi-regular basis. Differentiating between former and current is discouraged on Wikipedia and trivial in this respect. TM 15:52, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Category:International Space Station Alpha Commanders

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Commanders of the International Space Station. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:24, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:International Space Station Alpha Commanders to Category:International Space Station Commanders
Nominator's rationale: "Alpha" is the callsign of the space station, but it is not part of its name, nor is it part of the commander's title, therefore its presence in the category title is unnecessary and confusing.
W 13:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Category:Kopimi images

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The result of the discussion was: Has been G6'd. The Bushranger One ping only 03:27, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Kopimi images (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Not even sure exactly what this empty category is supposed to contain. Kelly hi! 03:28, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Presumably it would contain images rlating to
    kopimi. Not likelt to attract many pages and not needed to the Great Scheme of Things. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:22, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
    ]
Speedy delete for an empty category of unknown use.--TM 00:38, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Global Education Program

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Global Education Program to Category:Wikipedia Global Education Program Category:Wikipedia Education Program.
Nominator's rationale: It seem that the convention is to preface projects cats with "Wikipedia". Same applies to the subcats. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Alan, thanks a lot for starting the renaming process. We're currently rebranding it as "Wikipedia Education Program" – so, I would suggest to change the category's name accordingly: "Category:Wikipedia Education Program". --Frank Schulenburg (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 09:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That makes sense. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 18:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename in accord with the de-facto naming convention for project categories. Nyttend (talk) 05:51, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Theatres

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. The Bushranger One ping only 00:16, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Propose restructuring Category:Theatres in some way to make clear the content of the categories
Nominator's rationale: We need a discussion on this entire tree and staring at the top may be the best way to go. Theaters are places were productions like plays are staged. They are also cinemas where movies are shown. We also drop in various places, theater companies (performing groups) into the category tree. So this is a mismash of topics. One easy solution would be to rename this to Category:Theatre (structures) to match the likely main article and then move out everything that does not belong. I'll note the existence of Category:Theatre and theatre which talks about live performers. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:29, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Form follows function". — Robert Greer (talk) 01:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, Category:Theatre (structures) makes clear the building part. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Not "Theatre (structures)" — we need to have category names in plural. Perhaps "Theatres (structures)"? We definitely need to split in the way the nominator suggests, and aside from the details of the name, I support the proposal. Nyttend (talk) 05:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- There is nothing wrong with the category, except that Americans spell it differently. The medium is theatre and the structure is a theatre, but they are too closely related to be able to separate better than is currently done. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:42, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Yes, I too don't see the need for a disambiguation in parentheses. I think Theatre for the genre, Theatres for the structures, and something like Theatre companies for performing groups would work fine.
    talk) 04:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Oppose. Used in the plural, "theatres" invariably refers to the buildings. There's no need for a qualifier. -- Necrothesp (talk) 23:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Perfectly clear as it is. I note that there is some confusion in the USA as "theater" is used for places where films are shown and sometimes for places where plays are performed, but frequently "theatre" is used for playhouses. In the UK, those films are shown in cinemas. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I've changed my mind - I'm persuaded by the discussion. --Northernhenge (talk) 00:55, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Kingdoms of ancient Bharat

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Jafeluv (talk) 23:32, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Eastern kingdoms in ancient Bharat to Category:Eastern kingdoms of ancient India
Propose renaming Category:North-western kingdoms in ancient Bharat to Category:North-western kingdoms of ancient India
Propose renaming Category:Northern kingdoms in ancient Bharat to Category:Northern kingdoms of ancient India
Propose renaming Category:Western kingdoms in ancient Bharat to Category:Western kingdoms of ancient India
Nominator's rationale: Rename. This is a follow-up to this discussion, where we decided to use "ancient India" for these categories rather than "ancient Bharat", since Bharat is ambiguous and in the context "ancient Bharat" essentially means "ancient India" (see Category:Ancient India). If renamed, these will match Category:Southern kingdoms of ancient India, which was selected in the previous discussion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:06, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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