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September 15

Category:People from Calderdale (district)

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The result of the discussion was: keep. This matches the naming convention of most members of the parent category.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:32, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:People from Calderdale (district) to Category:People from Calderdale

Nominator's rationale: There is no need for the dsiambiguator because there isn't another Calderdale that this could be confused with. Also it is technically incorrect because it is a Borough and not a District.

talk) 22:17, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Rename – there have been several of these at cfd, eg
Oculi (talk) 23:13, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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The
Peak District National Park.
For example, the decision there to merge Category:People from Stocksbridge to Category:People from Sheffield appears to have been based on the false assumption that Stocksbridge
was a part of the contiguous urban area of the city, rather than being 11 miles from the city centre, with 5 miles of open countryside between the two.

One bad decision should not be used as a precedent for another. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no
Oculi (talk) 12:57, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Umm, Sheffield is the name of is a local govt district, so the term is not meaningless.
If you dislike the wider practice of categorising people by local govt district, then you should make a group nomination to upmerge the first-level subcats of Category:People by district in England. In the meantime, Sheffield is an anomaly. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The glaring and blatant anomaly is to have a category
Oculi (talk) 23:46, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Keep. In some cases, the disambiguator is needed to distinguish between people from a town and those from the wider local government district named after the town. For example, the
Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, because the technical meaning of "Calderale" as the "dale of the River Calder" is less widely used than other similar yorkshire terms such as Wharfedale, Swaledale or Airedale ... but the distinction ois worth retaining to avoid confusion, because the Calder extends far beyond the area of the borough. In any case, the convention of Category:People by district in England is to use the disambiguator "district", and the convention offers clarity and consistency to both readers and editors.
The nominator's secondary point (that Calderdale is not a district) is mistaken. Calderdale is a Metropolitan borough, which is one of four subtypes of local government district in England. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:29, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Your first point doesn't really apply to Calderdale, there isn't a town called Calderdale to confuse with. Secondly the term "dale" usually refers to the upper reaches of the rivers, so anyone living further down the valley such as Dewsbury or Wakefield is not likely to consider themselves as living in the "dale". Thirdly I should have been clearer about boroughs and dsitricts but your assertion about Calderdale being a metropolitan borough chimes with my assertion that it should not be mixed in with (non-metropolitan) districts.
talk) 04:04, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Rename Category:People from Calderdale (borough). Calderdale is more extentive than the borough that takes its name from being on the headwaters of the river Calder. The difference from some of the other cases is that Barnsley toown is only part of the district. Conversely, the ancient parish of Sheffield covered the majoirty of the present city. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:55, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The convention of Category:People by district in England is to use the "district" disambiguator even for the districts which have borough status. The convention is not universally applied, but surely it should be standardised one way or the other rather than making piecemeal changes? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:24, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What is the source of this convention about using (district), because I can see at least 40 categories in
talk) 04:04, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Conventions can arise either by explicit decisions or by established usage. In this case, it's established usage. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:31, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Mercer Island, Washington

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 20:42, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:People from Mercer Island, Washington to Category:People from King County, Washington

Nominator's rationale: Per

WP:SMALLCAT Has only two entries ...William 22:10, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Keep now has ten or more.
talk) 05:15, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Withdrawal Can an administrator please close this CFD as keep?...William 19:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Single occurrence literary awards

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Category is now empty.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:33, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Single occurrence literary awards (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Simply existing for one year only is neither a "genre" nor "type."

talk) 19:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply

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~~Keep~~ (see below). I'm going through all 1000+ literary award articles on Wikipedia and properly categorizing. There is a type of literary award that is only presented once, ever. They need a category to distinguish. It is a "type" of award, as opposed to an annual award. There are not many of them, so it's no an issue of being too broadly defined, but there are enough to keep track of as distinct from awards given out on a regular basis.
talk) 20:22, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Keep for now - give the editor a chance to populate the category; nominating a category within three hours of creation is a little hasty. Review in a fortnight and nominate again if still underpopulated.
talk) 22:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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My nomination was not based on its size. I do agree now that one-time-only awards could be a distinct type. I'm prepared to withdraw this one.
talk) 22:58, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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'Keep for now. Being a one-off seems to me to be a defining characteristic of these awards, and so long as there are sufficient articles to populate the category, it should stay. It currently contains only 3 articles and a redirect, but the category is only a few hours old. Give it a little more time :) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Although I initially created this cat and voted keep above, I have since discovered another existing category
talk) 06:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Delete per the logic provide by the creator of this category. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as empty.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:13, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Ontario city awards

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Note that the categories were emptied out of process during the deletion discussion. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:21, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose upmerging Category:Ottawa awards
Propose upmerging Category:Toronto awards

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge per

talk) 19:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply

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I just noticed a Toronto category has been created as well, and have added it to this nom. Though a much larger city with a greater catchment of awards, I'm sure, the same logic applies, I believe. If kept, we'd set a precedent for awards by city around the world, and there would I think be inevitable problems with national or international awards presented in a city being added to these categories.
talk) 19:38, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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~~Keep~~ DELETE (changed vote, see reason in new vote below). It's not for "awards by a city", but awards defined by a region. There are many such awards in every major city on the planet. We need a place and way to distinguish and track regional awards beyond the state or provincial level. For example, how many literature awards are there for New York City authors/books? I bet quite a few, though no one has yet categorized them. Is there no place on Wikipedia for such a categorization? New York City is bigger than many US states, and culturally more significant. Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Toronto is Canada's largest city. They are not small defined regions.
talk) 20:40, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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It isn't just a question of "categorizing them." It's a question of how many municipal awards are going to be notable enough by our standards, especially if we drill down to cities as small as Ottawa (and perhaps beyond). I appreciate your zeal but I am not sold on the assertion that we need awards categories to go down to city-defined levels, esp. given what this would mean globally in terms of overcategorization.
talk) 22:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Well, just going through the literary awards, there are two for Ottawa. If we looked at all the Canadian awards, not just literary, how many are specific to Ottawa? Don't know how to check, but I bet a bunch more. I agree not every city on the planet should have its own awards category! But Ottawa is the capital of Canada and serves many official functions. Toronto is the largest city of Canada. Montreal and some other big Canadian cities that are cultural centers likewise would benefit. If you rejected all such city level awards categories, there would be no place on Wikipedia for "New York City awards" (of any type!), which seems odd, NYC is a global cultural center. If you want to limit it with some rules of thumb about capitals and city sizes or size of category.
talk) 01:33, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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So would
talk) 13:34, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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I see your point for every award we would have to create a ton of city-level categories which would be overcategorization. My thinking was these categories wouldn't be used that way, but for regional awards,
talk) 07:19, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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As long as there are category descriptions indicating that this a tree for awards that are for people/things that are from/about to the city, as opposed to just simply handed out there, I think your idea could work. It just threw me a little when I saw Ottawa singled out 1st, I guess. But major urban centres are centres of culture and what you're proposing could work. I'm ready withdraw this nomination, as well.
talk) 12:40, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Delete I agree with Shawn. For the most part, even prizes awarded locally have a non-local scope and city-level categories would probably end up ghettoizing awards in subcategories where readers can't find them. For exceptions like the Toronto Book Awards, there's nothing wrong with categorizing them directly in Category:Culture of Toronto (in addition to the awards-related categories). Actually, I think this solution addresses at least partially the concerns raised by Green Cardamom. Pichpich (talk) 14:23, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I have decided to go with using the "Culture of .." category and forgo making separate regional Award's categories. I may yet create some for large cities like NYC if I see there are 5+ existing articles that could populate it. However for these Ontario cities there are not enough to justify. Thanks to Shawn in Montreal for seeing the problem and stepping through the logic. I think this CfD can be speedy closed now.
talk) 18:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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European election result templates

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:22, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed renaming:

Nominator's rationale: The word "results" should be changed to "result" in these categories, to conform with the standard format. Gabbe (talk) 11:39, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rename all per nominator. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Academic buildings

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Educational buildings. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:23, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Academic buildings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: I don't see any purpose for this largely neglected category. University and college buildings have their own tree, as do school buildings by year of completion, and even educational buildings. How is an "academic building" distinct?

talk) 04:11, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Tentative keep. I think that it might be useful to keep this as a {{~~container category}}, functioning as a parent for school buildings, university/college buildings etc.~~ However, I am not sure what else could go in there apart from those two category trees ... and if there is nothing else, it'd be a bit pointless. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:29, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see. So it could go between
talk) 16:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Ooops!
Thanks, Shawn. I hadn't spotted the existence of Category:Educational buildings, and have just placed the Category:Academic buildings to it.
I think that the distinction between the two is too fine to be useful, and in any case Category:Educational buildings doesn't seem to be in need of splitting. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:22, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Category:Educational buildings, but some of the contents need distributing to other cats. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:47, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Category:Educational buildings. (Changing my !vote per discussion above). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:27, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Category:Educational buildings.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:09, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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