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Category:Women Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery

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The result of the discussion was: Merge to . Timrollpickering (talk) 07:59, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting: Category:Women Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Non-notable intersection by gender, per
WP:OC#EGRS. Both parent categories (Women Computer Scientists and ACM Fellows) are notable, defining characteristics, individually well attested in reliable sources, and suitable for being categories. But the ACM Fellows program does not separate out women, nor would it be appropriate to make little segregated women-only subcategories for all the various computer scientist categories. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:08, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply
]
delete agree per nom - not notable intersection --KarlB (talk) 23:34, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Works by Agatha Christie

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 08:01, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – this groups together the 3 subcats: nothing is duplicated, there is no overlap and the category is well-populated with all the various works of AC - poems, plays, books. Has the nom not noticed
    Oculi (talk) 19:26, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply
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"there is no overlap and the category is well-populated " — say what?? There are but three entries in the category (Works) and they belong to the other specified categories (Plays, Books, Poetry). Quis separabit? 19:41, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
So remove them from the top level. Are you saying that
Oculi (talk) 19:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply
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And the Agatha Christie bibliography can and should be listified, if it has not been already, rather than kept in relative obscurity. Quis separabit? 19:52, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
?? What do you think 'listified' means?
Oculi (talk) 19:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply
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But that doesn't include Christie.
WP:IAR. Quis separabit? 20:18, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Doesn't matter. There's a scheme for Works by author with 712 subcategories, and Christie is a famous author with several works categories, so this should stay.--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:36, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Oculi and Mike Selinker. This category fits the convention of Category:Works by author, and serves a useful function as a container category for the three subcategories, as well as holding an an article on a short story by her, and and the bibliography. However, it should have been tagged with {{container category}}, so I will now add that template. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:57, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - container categories are important and useful parts of the category navigation scheme. When there are large numbers of works by an author, it is useful to split them up by genre. A parallel example to this one is Category:Works by P. G. Wodehouse. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:21, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- With an author as prominent as Agatha Christie, the full tree is appropriate. For a novelist who produced a few poems or other (non-novel) works, it might be appropriate to merge (say) the poetry cat into the works. Peterkingiron (talk) 10:56, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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South African Old Boys

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The result of the discussion was: Rename without prejudice to a wider nomination of the entire South African tree. Timrollpickering (talk) 08:02, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
Nominator's rationale: Per this nomination, we've changed the "Old Boys" name where it has appeared. The South African category format is "Alumni of (X)." For further discussion about why we're making this kind of change, see nominations like this one.-- Mike Selinker (talk) 14:53, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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