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Category:Wikipedians with iPhones

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The result of the debate was delete. bibliomaniac15 BUY NOW! 00:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians with iPhones (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Phenomenally a vanity category, somewhat élitist and utterly useless to the project. Sorry! Alison 02:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC) (and I know my iPhones)[reply]
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The result of the debate was keep. bibliomaniac15 BUY NOW! 00:18, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete per precedent. ^

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Looks like someone didn't get the memo that 0-level categories were all deleted before. All should probably be speedied, listing for another admin to verify. VegaDark (talk) 09:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was merge both to

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It would seem that a large majority of users under "interested" are also under the other two categories. That mixed with Dmcdevit's comments leads me to believe that deletion would be the best option. -- Jelly Soup 01:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 15:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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  • Horologium - I'm just trying to balance things out here. There are at least 3 Deletionists leaving these bot-like votes, so we need a little Inclusionist action here. User:Bduke left me a rather snitty message to the effect I was doing more harm than good. That message prompted me to peek back to this page and, lo, while there were almost no Keep votes in any of these subcats when I was wearing out my ctrl - v keys the other day, now there are plenty. I feel like Johnny Appleseed. JDG 15:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep While it is true that everyone should be in this category, the vast majority could not be. Have a look through recent changes if you don't believe me. The collaborative purpose is to improve observation of
    Manual of Style, if that isn't a valid reason for a user category/template, I don't know what is. Adam McCormick 01:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • Comment How does this category improve observation of
    WP:MoS? I agree with you that far too many people don't use edit summaries correctly (or at all), but this category does nothing to correct the problem. It's fundamentally a supercilious and somewhat sanctimonious "I'm better than the unwashed masses" category that does nothing to further collaboration. If you want to increase usage of edit summaries, push for a change that would require all editors to include an edit summary with each edit. This category is not going to accomplish that goal, however. Horologium t-c 02:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • You do understand that we are not discussing the userbox, which would remain after the category is deleted, don't you? (Userbox deletion would be discussed at
    WP:MFD.) The category itself is not useful for collaboration, because nobody is going to look for people who use the edit summary block to work together on an article, especially since there are only two people in the category. Horologium t-c 12:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Thanks for pandering to me. Yes, I thouroughly understand that this is a category being deleted, but as I created the box and category in tandem, it's a bit hard for me to seperate them. Under the argument that there just aren't enough people in the category, I'm fine with this being deleted, but "Previous Deletion" is a CSD category and so I would not want to be kept from recreating the category should (significantly) more users add the box to their pages. Adam McCormick 18:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There was no attempt to pander on my part; when you started discussing the userbox, an alarm went off in my head; there are a lot of people who don't realize that deleting the category does not delete the userbox as well. As to the category being recreated, I think my position on the category should be manifestly obvious from my earlier response, but if some 50 or more users were to add the userbox, that might be sufficient justification to bring the subject up for discussion; if you were to recreate it, I would strongly suggest that you add something on the talk page addressing the issue, so that if an editor adds a speedy tag, he will see the note in place. I still believe that the category does not have a place, regardless of the number of users in the category, but I am not the be-all and end-all of what does and does not belong here. Horologium t-c 19:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Edit summaries should be a given, everyone should use them. --wpktsfs 01:24, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. The stated purpose of this category is "community recognition" of those who always use edit summaries. While that is certainly a good goal, I do not believe that the category system is the appropriate venue. Barnstars are (or should be) a rather informal system of recognition where one editor commends another. In this case, an editor would have to add him or herself to the category and there is no interaction between users. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 03:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop copying vote. AW 14:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. The sole member is already in the parent category, so a merge is not necessary. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 28

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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Strong Keep: Many members of the Wiki-community are Trans and do not want to be Male. This people find it painful. --

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • comment-shall we start categories for people who eat very popular brands of pickles? How about people who use very popular brands of toothpaste? If we keep this, it should be merged into Category:Wikipedians who use Windows Vista, as it is a subset of that group. Windows Live Mail only runs on Vista systems. Horologium t-c
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The result of the debate was Delete ^

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The result of the debate was keep (with a nod to Booyabazooka's idea for reorganization). – Luna Santin (talk) 03:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And subcategories: Category:Wikipedians who use Adobe Flash, Category:Wikipedians who use Adobe Illustrator, Category:Wikipedians who use Adobe InDesign, Category:Wikipedians who use Adobe Photoshop

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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Procedural question: any reason why this category is named three times?--Ramdrake 12:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing other than my error. Thank you for cleaning it up for me. ]
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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. Although there are few comments, the extremely narrow focus of this category is an important consideration as well. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:42, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 27

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The result of the debate was delete. Category is already empty. — Carl (

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Rename to Category:Wikipedian Hanuman devotees, or just delete. -- Prove It (talk) 13:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I, the creator of the category, give full Support to rename this category.

ARUNKUMAR P.R 08:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per the deletion of Category:Wikipedians by religion. Being a member of a religion does not endow one with the ability to contribute encyclopedic content about that religion. Also, religious categories are potentially divisive. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 01:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename perhaps to Wikipedians interested in Hanuman. It still may be a little specific but I hoping to find more people to collaborate on Hanuman-related (ie. The Hindu epic Ramayana related) articles. GizzaDiscuss © 04:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Are we seriously going to have a "Category:X devotees" for all 33 million forms of God in Hinduism? Bakaman 04:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Broaden or delete If the creator wants to keep the userbox as it is, I prefer deletion of the category. If the text in the userbox changes to User interested in the Ramayana I would like to keep the category as a useful tool for finding users to improve Ramayana (which includes Hanuman and more) articles. GizzaDiscuss © 05:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment My knowledge of Hinduism is practically nil, but I noticed a large number of very thinly populated Hindu categories when I went through and untagged all of the religion cats that were tagged during the big CFD. Would it be out of line to suggest merging all of them into a single Hindu category? This is not intended to be snide or to disparage anyone's beliefs, but a polytheistic religion like this can end up very fractured (and thus an obvious target for deletion) but a single unified category might work. It might also facilitate a degree of collaboration that currently does not exist. I realize that it may require some alterations to the userboxen, but that is an easy fix. Horologium t-c 03:14, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This one is a no-brainer (pun intended). Joke categories are not helpful to Wikipedia. VegaDark (talk) 08:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong naming convention, not to mention useless. VegaDark (talk) 08:24, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:01, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • That is not such a good idea. While the concepts are similar, the religious beliefs behind them are quite different, and moving a muslim who observes Halal into a category describing Jewish dietary restrictions might be seen as insulting or needlessly provocative. My suggestion for this is Keep. I would recommend a delete before a merge for this cat. Horologium t-c 17:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You misunderstand. I only wanted to centralize the discussion. Obviously the categories are not identical. --Eliyak T·C 19:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was keep Category:Wikipedians who keep kosher and merge Category:Wikipedians who keep Kosher (capitalised) into it. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:55, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:24, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:40, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. Belated signature, — Carl (

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An subcategories: Category:Wikipedians who love cats, Category:Wikipedians who love horses, Category:Wikipedians who own Tamagotchis, Category:Wikipedians who own birds, Category:Wikipedians who own cats, Category:Wikipedians who own cockroaches, Category:Wikipedians who love dogs, Category:Wikipedians who own dogs, Category:Wikipedians who own fish, Category:Wikipedians who own guinea pigs

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:44, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • The pages in Category:Alternate reality games can get out of hand when a particular game is active and people want to spread every minor clue or speculative material that exists. Any users in it may be consulted as potentially familiar with the notability of individual ARGs at AfD. There's only one user because s/he has not listed it on userbox pages for others to see. –Pomte 22:33, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 23:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Actually, DGG, it *is* divisive; I, for one, do not support many of the aims of Amnesty International, nor do I appreciate their criticism of my country for its application of the death penalty, something which is supported by a sizable majority. I don't advoate deleting the userbox (I find it irritating, like many, but what people put on their personal page is their business), but this spills over into the rest of the project, when it should be confined to user pages (and only user pages). Horologium t-c 23:24, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - supporting an organization is a very general thing, and belies no special expertise or incentive to contribute to articles about it, or anything else. Has no collaborative merit -- I also feel that preventing Wikipedia from becoming a social networking site is a very good thing to be doing. --Haemo 09:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WP has had to some extent the role of a social networking site since the day it began; you are of course completely right that it should be much more than a social networking site, and appropriately this element is a very small portion of WP. I don't think these categories put it into danger. DGG 19:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:44, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:43, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And subcategories:

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The result of the debate was delete all. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And subcategories: Category:Wikipedians who contribute in cybercafés, Category:Wikipedians who use AOL, Category:Wikipedians who use COX High Speed Internet, Category:Wikipedians who use Rogers Internet, Category:Wikipedians who use Sprint Mobile Broadband, Category:Wikipedians who use WightCableNorth Internet

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The result of the debate was delete all. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And subcategories: Category:Wikipedians who use BitTorrent, Category:Wikipedians who use Gizmo Project, Category:Wikipedians who use Soulseek

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a fun category, for sure, but it's not one that helps the encyclopædia.

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Comment: Pyromania isn't illegal. --Xiaphias 15:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Well arson is, which this usual leads to, hence the disorder. This isn't talking about candle burners.--Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 21:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was merge into Category:User cs. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 00:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User cz (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge / Redirect into
List of ISO 639-1 codes. -- Prove It (talk) 23:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:34, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 21:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:42, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. Owen 21:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Have you found this category useful in finding other editors interested in demonscene articles, such as those in Category:Demoscene? How many of them have you collaborated with, and to what extent? It would be really informative for this discussion. –Pomte 08:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If so you can create a Wikiproject with it's own non-social networking category. Either way, we shouldn't have social networking categories like this. Delete. MER-C 09:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • WikiProjects often go inactive, and one can do more productive things than to create one. The user category serves as a more direct way for communication. Of all places, I don't see why demosceners would use Wikipedia for social networking. Why would another category called Category:Wikipedians in WikiProject Demoscene suddenly eliminate any potential social networking? –Pomte 09:37, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If I want to network, then I go to Pouët, Scene.org or do it via Facebook and not Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the latest place I would choose for networking of any kind that goes beyond finding and identifying other editors who are knowledgable about a subject and can help with related articles. My to-do list is already long and the best way to get a subject covered in a new article is to ask for help from somebody who can help and also has probably some interest to actually get his hands dirty and contribute to the article. --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 10:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, for reasons that Gargaj stated. I see absolutely no reason to delete this category. It's one of the very few user categories that actually make sense. DiamonDie 09:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep this is a specialized type of media,and we need to know where the experts are. DGG 00:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep The subject is niche and even more so in the English speaking parts of the world. As DGG already pointed out, this is an important means to find other editors that are familiar with the subject to be able to coordinate efforts to cover this vast but still specialized and niche topic properly in Wikipedia. The category might gets replaced by a full blown project and make the category obsolete, but until then is it everything we have. It is hard enough to get people motivated to contribute to Wikipedia and to coordinate efforts. Don't make it harder by removing the bit structure and organization that exists today --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 10:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep as useful as any other user category. Not used for spamming or afd vote gathering, and the rationale of not myspace doesnt apply in this case any more than it applies for Category:User violinists.  ALKIVAR 15:12, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was that the duplicate nomination led to little participation. I'll ask Dmcdevit to nominate it again. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:55, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NOT#MYSPACE. This category serves no collaborative purpose. E&M(talk) 23:29, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:00, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 00:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:56, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:56, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete all.Luna Santin (talk) 23:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And all subcategories: Category:Wikipedians who like base thirteen, Category:Wikipedians who like binary, Category:Wikipedians who like decimal, Category:Wikipedians who like duodecimal, Category:Wikipedians who like hexadecimal, Category:Wikipedians who like octal, Category:Wikipedians who like quinary, Category:Wikipedians who like senary, Category:Wikipedians who like sexagesimal, Category:Wikipedians who like ternary, Category:Wikipedians who like vigesimal

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 17:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:22, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:21, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 23:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:10, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was deleted by Black Falcon. MER-C 12:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was deleted by Black Falcon. MER-C 12:54, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:09, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. The category has
no collaborative purpose. Wikipedia is not and is not suited to be an help website. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 02:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was delete'. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is possibly the ultimate

AOL Instant Messenger article. Not encyclopedic in any way, shape or form. Horologium t-c 00:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was delete all. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This category has

no collaborative merit
. The ability to drive a car is irrelevant to the ability to contribute encyclopedic content about cars. Category for professionals – mechanics, automotive engineers, stunt drivers – might be useful, but this generic category is not. In addition, the ability to operate a vehicle is a sufficiently broad property that I don't expect it to have any meaningful connection with a desire to edit articles about cars. This nomination also includes:

not the place
for supporting or opposing social issues
Category:Wikipedians who drive Land Rovers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Wikipedians who like Mercedes-Benz (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – this category does not even suggest ownership of or knowledge about Mercedes-Benz, but only a positive feeling toward the brand
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The result of the debate was that this is a duplicate nomination. I'll renominate it so that it gets a proper hearing. — Carl (

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Suggest merging Category:Punk Wikipedians to Category:Wikipedians who listen to punk
Nominator's rationale: The two categories are essentially redundant. However, whereas a weak argument for collaborative potential could be made for the second, the title of the first implies a social networking purpose that goes against ]
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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 23:09, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a group of seven interrelated categories, all of which are tied to User:The Thadman/Userbox/PolCompass. There are six political categories and one that relates specifically to the Political Compass test. Political categories were supposed to be nuked, but these were missed. The final category doesn't facilitate collaboration.

(Note that I have this userbox on my page, and will be affected by the category deletion as well. That's fine with me; I am happy with the userbox alone.) Horologium t-c 19:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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This is a user category used by only one user. Since the concept of height does not exist in an electronic world, it is not relevant to acrophobes' ability or inability to contribute to the encyclopedia. It also serves

no collaborative purpose, not in small part due to its broadness. A lot of people have a fear of heights, but there is no reason to assume that they have an inherent propensity or improved ability to edit articles related to acrophobia
, except perhaps by recounting their personal experiences (which is not encyclopedic).

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The result of the debate was delete. After Midnight 0001 22:49, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This category is either pointless or divisive. Interpreted simply as a harmless expression of one's lack of desire to be a sysop, the category is unnecessary as it is possible to express that position through the userbox. I can understand the existence of a category for administrator hopefuls seeking advice or nominations, but why would anyone look through a category of people who don't want to be admins? The userbox may be a quick way of preempting nomination offers, but the category itself has no value. The category can also be interpreted as a divisive statement against the role of admins and/or against administrators themselves.

I think the former (innocent but useless) is the more likely of the two, especially since most (if not all) editors in the category were placed there automatically by a template. However, in either case, I think the category ought to be deleted.

  • Delete as nom. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 18:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per nom. Another "not" category. A pox on all UBX creators who add categories to every creation. Horologium t-c 18:38, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I honestly can't see any specific encyclopedia-building insight particular to this user cat. Makes a nice userbox, though; just not a proper usercat. :)--Ramdrake 19:15, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - "not" categories are very rarely collaborative. This is not one of the rare exceptions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haemo (talkcontribs) 03:20, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per above. Very little (if any) redeeming value. The statement on the top of my talk page would do just fine. MER-C 09:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep, has a specific purpose, and certainly isn't simply a "not" category. It exists so that others don't waste their time planning to nominate the people in this category. Since there are some users who go around habitually attempting to find good potential candidates, this category is a helpful way for those who don't wish to be asked about adminship to avoid it, and save the would-be nominators trouble as well. (I suppose they could do this even without the category, but do you really want them breaking 3RR repeatedly just so that people won't nominate them?) As for the argument that the userbox works just as well, some people don't like userboxes. As such, the category is serving a purpose beyond that of the userbox, is helpful to collaboration on RfA by providing an opt-out list for nominations, and deleting it would have no benefit. --]
  • Delete as per nom. I also think that persons who do not want to become administrator may indicate so on their user page. No one is going to nominate anyone without at least reading the user page. --Bhadani (talk) 09:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - It is useful to know who does not want to become an administrator. However, people can write this on their userpage. The purpose of categories is to seek out people in a group - There will be no purpose to ever go looking through this category. VegaDark (talk) 20:19, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep For convenience as it'd presumably be quicker than searching random user pages for this information.--T. Anthony 02:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • But why would you be looking for people who don't wish to become administrators? The reason this would be useful is if you wanted to nominate someone, but then saw they did not want to be an admin-Info you can get by looking on their userpage, we don't need a category. Having a category would imply there would be some value to specifically seeking out those who do not wish to become admins, and I can't think of what that value would be. VegaDark (talk) 03:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep There are 246 user pages (and subpages) that transclude the userbox. There are 272 user pages (and subpages) in the category. Some may be substituted, but I'm not going to check because it's a waste of time. We know there exist people who prefer categories to userboxes, so it's definitely possible.. If you want to delete this category, please identify and alert all users who are using this category as the only means of informing others that they do not wish to be nominated. –Pomte 22:43, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is

. The desire to learn more languages is commendable, but it does not aid encyclopedic collaboration in any way. It does not imply any knowledge of any non-English languages nor does it specify an interest in any particular language. Furthermore, the category is basically redundant to existing low-level (i.e., level 0 or 1) Babel categories.

The subcategories were recently considered for deletion (but not the parent category) and the discussion ended with a decision to "merge" (see

here
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Category:Wikipedians who visit countries and child cats

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The result of the debate was delete category and child categories. — Carl (

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Nominator's rationale: Delete - Parent category was discussed at
WP:UCFD#Category:Wikipedians who visit countries with a decision of delete. The child categories were not nominated, although 2 comments did advocate their deletion as well (no objection was noted), and as a result the parent cat was emptied, but not deleted. After discussion with the closing admin, I've agreed to nominate the children here for clarity. Suggest that the children be deleted now, which should also allow the parent cat to be eliminated completely. After Midnight 0001 13:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Category:Wikipedians who visit countries
Category:Wikipedians who have travelled to France
Category:Wikipedians who have travelled to Greece
Category:Wikipedians who have travelled to Italy
Category:Wikipedians who have travelled to the UK
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The result of the debate was Delete ^

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:01, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete ^

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The result of the debate was Delete ^

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:59, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment. The two editors currently in the category, User:Hotspot and User:Lanky are both aware of each other and both are currently active on the Kya: Dark Lineage article. I do not know what role, if any, the category played in their collaboration, but I do think that this fact is relevant to this discussion. Perhaps the "collaborative potential" of the category has already been exhausted; perhaps it served no such purpose in the first place. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:32, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep- How dare you try to get rid of it, its not a category for an article, its for wikipedias who like kya dark lineage, there are other categories just like this and they aren't in question for deletion!!! it will grow you know, i made this category becuase i love kya dark lineage and i want to know who else plays it! and why does it say myspace in the beginning? i hate myspace i would never go there!-hotspot
  • Delete - no redeeming encyclopedic value.
    Wikipedia is not a social networking site, all categories must somehow contribute to the encyclopedia. MER-C 03:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • Comment- its not fair other games get a category!-hotspot
  • Organizing users by genre of game may be more useful -- if we keep up one category for every game released, we'll quickly drown in a sea of categories that won't tell us anything more than a quick glance at the article's history page. I would favor deleting this category, on those grounds, but it's far from being the only one. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. We have lots of categories on game preference, so there's no reason to delete this.--Mike Selinker 19:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per my first comment. Any collaborative potential that this category may have had has already been exhausted. Also,
    the existence of other categories does not validate the existence of this one. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was only one page to merge, and already in upper category, so delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. The lack of users (two at the moment) significantly weakens the claim that this category encourages encyclopedic collaboration. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was merge to

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. VegaDark (talk) 07:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is

current policy
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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 16:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • So what's the point? Less than 160 userpages have the userbox, whereas ~182 unique users are in the category. The userbox is optional. The category is more inclusive and easier to use. –Pomte 09:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The point is that categories aren't used for collaboration, WikiProjects are. Feel free to save a list of the users in the category to your userspace prior to deletion to save for future WikiProject creation. --After Midnight 0001 16:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: while I've closed the below three categories as delete (Protoss, Terran, and Zerh players), I don't feel it would be appropriate to delete this particular category without a wee bit more discussion. As I've involved myself with the discussions below, I'll avoid commenting beyond that. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom & After Midnight. Pepsidrinka 21:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. As mentioned by After Midnight, a WikiProject might be useful here; there was a lot of interest in this game when it first appeared. Horologium t-c 21:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - The mere fact that a number of Wikipedians feel it is meaningful to list themselves this way is its own justification. Non-encyc pages should be almost purely unregulated; encyc pages should be tightly controlled. Any Delete votes on this page are from people trying to pass edicts in the wrong space. JDG 22:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. We have lots of categories on game preference, so there's no reason to delete this.--Mike Selinker 19:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete, the pylons to support this many Wikipedians are too expensive. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was kekekekekekekekekekeke (also, delete). – Luna Santin (talk) 01:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was no consensus or keep depending on how you call it -- either defaults to keep. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

CBM · talk
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The result of the debate was delete. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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The result of the debate was Merge to

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Single Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This nomination also includes: Category:Married Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Per

current policy
, all non-article pages should be targeted toward the organisation or improvement of articles or to the provision of "a foundation for effective collaboration". Pages in userspace are (rightly) given significant leeway on this matter, but these pages are in the category namespace. These categories are so broad as to render them useless for the purpose of furthering collaboration. There is no subject that single people can inherently contribute about that married people can't, and vice versa.

Both articles were nominated for deletion in June 2006; the nominations were closed as "no consensus": see here and here.

Note: Most of the users in these categories are there because they use one of at least six userboxes. The userboxes are NOT the subject of this deletion nomination.

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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is

WP:NOT
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tghat doesnt apply here--the users define themselves in. This is not article space.DGG 00:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The category does not conceivably facilitate cooperation. I can only see it helping
nearsightedness
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Delete as nom.
improve me
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The result of the debate was merge Category:User Shona into Category:User sn per category conventions.Luna Santin (talk) 01:23, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into
List of ISO 639-1 codes. -- Prove It (talk) 21:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Merge as per nom. Non-ISO cats should be merged or deleted whenever possible. Horologium t-c 22:12, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was merge Category:User Ndebele into Category:User nd per category conventions.Luna Santin (talk) 01:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User Ndebele (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Merge into
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June 19

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete - per author, below. - jc37 07:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Socks of Icewedge - Presumably an eponymous, vanity category. - jc37 02:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - as nominator. - jc37 02:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Confused speedy delete - I am in a bit of a fuddle here. It is true I placed "[[Category:Socks of Icewedge]]" on the pages of all accounts I have ever created in an attempt to show their non abuse nature but it was not me that created the actual category it was the nominator [1]. I see two possible courses of action he could have taken instead: 1. Leave it be, having a link to a page does not make it exist, or 2. he could have removed the category links since he seems to find them offending. Regardless delete it I do not want it. -ĬŴΣĐĝё 04:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Responded to your confusion on your talk page. - jc37 07:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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June 18

Category:Dadaist Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was Delete. ^

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Relisted due to: not enough contributors to qualify for speedy closing per ]

*Delete. Empty cat created from rename after another CFD on 2 September 2006. See above. Horologium t-c 17:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete. Empty.No opinion on this one.--Mike Selinker 01:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • So when you start a WikiProject, how are you going to find people to invite? Going through talk pages and histories for non-trivial edits is tedious, and complements this method. What's the point of user categories anyway? –Pomte 21:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Transformation Fetishist Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was delete (already deleted). VegaDark (talk) 19:39, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted due to: not enough contributors to qualify for speedy closing per ]

Delete this as well as Category:Wikipedians with a transformation fetish and Category:Kinky Wikipedians. --After Midnight 0001 20:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:BBW Wikipedians

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The result of the debate was already deleted. MER-C 03:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted due to: not enough contributors to qualify for speedy closing per ]

*Delete Unpopulated category. See above. Horologium t-c 17:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete. Wizardman 13:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This category does not provide a foundation for constructive collaboration and thus violates the "

Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site" provision of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. The only basis for collaboration that it provides is the playing of practical jokes, which hardly serves an encyclopedic end. In short, the user category presents no benefits and may instead be harmful. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 00:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the discussion was: Delete (a) no encyclopedic purpose; (b) violation of
WP:NOT. For collaboration., users can categorize themselves as "Wikipedians interested in XXXX". Note that many other similar categories have been recently deleted on this basis. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 16:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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This nomination includes Category:Wikipedians by religion and its approximately 150 subcategories.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
. Any page that is not may be deleted. Of course, the criteria above are and should be interpreted rather loosely as Wikipedia's editors are volunteers and not employees.

Many user categories meet the criteria outlined above. For instance, Category:Wikipedians by access to sources and references and Category:Wikipedians by language aid article improvement via sourcing and translation, respectively. Category:Wikipedians by religion and its approximately 150 subcategories do not. The categories group users by religion, often because a user added one or another userbox to their userpage. However, grouping users by religious identification does not in any way aid article improvement, since identifying with a religious philosophy does not necessarily mean that one has an interest in it. Users can express their religious views via a userbox without having to be classified into a category.

To empty the categories, one would need to:

  1. Edit all religion userboxes so that they no longer categorise pages on which they are transcluded, and
  2. Edit any userpages that were categorised manually (i.e., not by a userbox) and remove the categorisation (either manually or by a bot) to discourage recreation of the categories.

Please note that I am not advocating the deletion of religion userboxes (per my point about volunteers versus employees). Removing a userbox from someone's userpage is quite invasive and may irritate a lot of people; removing their userpage from a category is a minor edit that may even go unnoticed. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:22, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete as nom. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Obviously these stupid things should go. They have no encyclopedic purpose and their only uses are to abuse Wikipedia. --Tony Sidaway 19:27, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove from userboxes-People who do manually add the category are doing it for a reason. Lumping that together with accidentally categorization is inappropriate. And tony, please try to AGF. Making such (clearly unprovable) accusations is absolutely unacceptable Bladestorm 19:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    By AGF I assume you mean "assume good faith", and the following response is written upon that presumption:
    I hold that the only use for these categories is to abuse Wikipedia, and yes I can substantiate that they have been used for the purpose. This isn't to say that those who put them into their user pages intend them to be abused, but that is their only possible use. If you're of a particular religious persuasion, and you think it's in any way relevant to your editing of Wikipedia, you should of course write that fact into your user page. You don't need a category for that. A category is required, however to make abusing Wikipedia easy. This is why we must delete them. --Tony Sidaway 22:59, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Tony, you've made an allegation here and I challenge you to support it. First, how does putting oneself in this category cause anything to be abused--what exact abuse do you have in mind? Second, you claim it has occurred. Prove it. DGG 00:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You're right that I meant 'assume good faith'. (I don't know why I keep using acronyms. I bloody hate it when other people do it) But it's absurd to say that abuse is the only possible use. What's more, it's an accusation against everyone who lists themselves by religion (incidentally, I am not listed. So this isn't just me taking it personally). But there are countless reasons that it could be useful. The first one that comes to me off the top of my head is the 'Kosher foods' article. The article mentions that hares are not kosher. This is true. However, it's outright wrong in that it states that hares chew their cud, but don't have cloven hooves. Now, that is the supplied reason in leviticus. However, it isn't true. Hares don't chew their cud. So, what do you do? Obviously they still aren't kosher. Obviously it wouldn't be appropriate to just start editing the article to start criticizing leviticus. Some sort of rewording needs to be worked out that retains the fact that hares aren't kosher, but that doesn't make it look like Wikipedia is asserting that hares chew their cud. There are a couple possible ways to do it, but I'd rather let someone a bit closer to the subject choose the most sensitive alternative. Is this necessary? Of course not. But it seems more cooperative. That means having an article that neither supports a religious view, nor mocks it. As it stands, there's at least one editor involved in the conversation that's either jewish or interested in jewish topics (I don't know which; nor does it matter to me), so there isn't a problem. However, if that weren't the case, then being able to find a jewish editor could actually be a very valuable resource. Even if you disagree, you would surely have to concede that it wouldn't be abuse. Bladestorm 14:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all - I tend to agree with this. Just because someone belongs to x religion, it does not mean they are more likely to collaborate on articles relating to that religion. Such people can create or join existing "Wikipedians interested in religion x" categories if that is the case. User categories are used to seek out others in the category, and I don't see what encyclopedic use there would be to seek out users in these categories that "Wikipedians interested in religion x" categories wouldn't accomplish better. VegaDark (talk) 19:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Keep per above--SefringleTalk 00:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. Three reasons: 1, Not everyone who wants to be identified with a religion wants to clutter their user page with user boxes. If you delete the category, there will be no way for them to identify themselves. 2, The categories are useful to identify potential POV in contributions. 3, There’s no reason to assume that people are being divisive by having a limited number of categories. Last time I checked, anyone can create a category. If one doesn’t exist for your religion, nobody’s forcing you to use an existing one. This isn’t Wikipedians “being categorized” it’s Wikipedians “categorizing themselves.” Final thought: it isn’t “poisonous trash” to know someone else’s religion. Jaksmata 03:37, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. I can't see any reason to delete. If someone decides to spam all Muslim users with hate messages, it's that user who is being divisive and inflammatory and should be banned. You can't claim that the Muslim users themselves were being divisive and inflammatory by merely expressing their religious preference. We must remember that all contributors to Wikipedia are doing this for purely unselfish reasons, they have nothing to gain by contributing except a feeling of having done a good thing. We must encourage contributors and try to keep them interested. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, but it is an encyclopedia written by a community of volunteers and that means the community aspect is at least as important as the encyclopedia aspect. If cultivating that means becoming a little of MySpace, I certainly see no problem with it. Loom91 07:57, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


  • Keep I believe that user categories and userboxes although not encyclopaedic in nature, may serve a purpose. First of all we are persons, not bots. This means that we have a personality and we try to distinguish ourselves from others. This info can be used to identify bias in posts without references. Having user categories may be used to locate other users with same interests and discuss before posting an article. This could be useful especially for controversial subjects such as religion.

Note that I don't claim they are all the same (as they are not), but some of those should probably be merged. And then we have the following:

(the last two of which are subcats of Category:Psuedoreligionist Wikipedians, which is MISSPELLED.)

...whose inclusion tends to support the assertions by the Delete !voters that the entire category is filled with junk. We also have Category:Wikipedians who wear the Hijab, which sounds more like a political category than a religious one, but that's debatable.

Those who wish to keep this category should start policing it and deleting the junk. Horologium t-c 05:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that a DRV of this CfD debate has been requested at: [2]--Ramdrake 17:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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User categories deleted out of process

Contested speedy deletions, restored as procedural nomination. These categories were all deleted out of process by

WP:ENC
is not even flagged as an essay, let alone a guideline.

Please note that this is not a matter for

deletion review
is the wrong place.

I have restored these categories and listed them for discussion so that a decision can be made on their merits. Since this is a procedural nomination, I remain neutral. (If any editors feel that any category raises different issues to the generality of these categories, feel free to split this nomination). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:42, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As requested, I've split the group nom into sections. I've also restored (relisting) my previous listing of the individual categories. - jc37 10:25, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are literally hundreds of categories that this user has deleted in this way (looking at his history) and it seems that only some have been restored. What is the explanation for this? Oren0 10:33, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's because I listed only those deleted since June 4. Some of those deleted up to that point were the subject of a rather strange deletion review, where the categories concerned were not listed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I will add here that if we restore the categories under consideration, including Category:Masculist Wikipedians, then as a matter of plain consistency this should also be done for Category:Feminist Wikipedians which was deleted by User:Zscout370 using an identical deletion log entry to Dmcdevit's. Possibly other deletions by this user should also be looked at. Gnostrat 02:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm putting Category:Feminist Wikipedians back.--Mike Selinker 14:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To the commenters below, the category being empty is not a reason for deletion. You do realize they have been systematically removed from user pages since their initial deletion. –Pomte 08:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • No, I did not, and this makes me even less happy with the person who removed the categories. I will remove those votes of mine.--Mike Selinker 14:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I also was not entirely sure (misunderstood the nature of some of the nominations; the only one I thought was a re-list was the group of political cats), although it doesn't make much of a difference for most of my votes. I have refactored a couple of !votes where my primary contention was that they were empty; the rest of my !votes remain due to other factors. Horologium t-c 17:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedians by political ideology
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The result of the debate was delete. The major concerns were that the categories are (1) not encyclopedic, violating WP:NOT; and (2) serve mainly to promote POV, with a potential to be divisive. Few of the keep rationales addressed point (1), while many seemed to ignore it outright. Several keep rationales addressed point (2), but did not refute it. — Carl (

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  • Comment - Split the group nominations as requested by User:BrownHairedGirl. - jc37 10:25, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all, because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not Usenet, Myspace, Free Republic, or Democratic Underground. (Anyone who disagrees with the preceding statement can click here.) User categorization should only be used to the extent that it aids in writing an encyclopedia. These, however, help and may even encourage POV-pushing. Picaroon (Talk) 18:34, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I rather think that showing these categories does entirely the reverse of POV-pushing. They show the POV of the individual in a clear and concise way and allow other edits to take that into account. There is nothing messianic or even proselytizing about any of these cats, just a simple statement of where the user is coming from. Galloglass 11:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. Wikipedia is
    not a political discussion forum. Individual editors can still express their views without having to be classified in categories. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 20:47, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep all. Qualifies as a major user preference.--Mike Selinker 01:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all or else rename all. It's a big leap of logic from categories to either POV pushing or political discussion forums, they're not about that. And if there's a perception of POV advocacy (which would apply equally to philosophical and religious categories by the way), we could exclude that by renaming them as "Wikipedians interested in...[Zog-ism/whatever]", which would allow the categories to promote coordination between people with similar interests, without in any way implying that people in those categories need actually be Zog-ists and so on. This might be a compromise that both sides could find acceptable. Gnostrat 01:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • But that's precisely the issue. These aren't people who are interested in Zog-ism, but rather people who identify with Zog-ism. For instance, I'm an atheist, but I've never edited any article related to atheism. The same is true of political categories. Identifying with an ideology is not the same as having an interest in it. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 02:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Right, which could be an argument for broadening categories, but not for deleting them. Interest doesn't exclude a statement of identification. Users who declare an interest in Zogism might also advocate it, or might not. Whatever it says on the userboxes, whether outright Zogist or just interested, they would all place people into the 'interested' category regardless. If people are determined to search out specifically pro-Zog userboxes, they're going to find them whether the categories are there or not. And I can't see how it's relevant which articles you edit in. I'm a Gnostic Pagan libertarian nationalist, but I edit articles in those areas because that's what I'm knowledgeable in. I know the difference between holding a point of view and being able to write about it neutrally. And if people know where I stand, they can compensate for me if I do inadvertently let anything slip through. (They can also get that information from userboxes; it doesn't affect the case for categories either one way or the other. There are other reasons for having categories, such as facilitating cooperation.) Gnostrat 17:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep - I can definitely see this playing a legitimate encyclopedic role in some respects; say you're editing an article about Minarchism, and someone brings up a topic that you're not sure about. It would then make sense to contact other Minarchist editors to try and solve your dispute. I don't feel it's being used in that way by most, but the case is there and it's not doing any harm otherwise. --Haemo 08:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep Stuff like this helps to build a community and the community helps to build the project. This is hardly divisive anyways and people will never be soulless automatons. --MichaelLinnear 08:46, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep These categories are at the heart of wikipedia. In a perfect world we would all be POV free and produce perfect POV free articles. However I have to break the news to you, we don't live in a POV free world and every one of us has a POV. The above categories enable people to show what their own POV is and lets other editors take account of this and amend or change articles accordingly. That is all these categories are, a way of showing the views of the individual editors in a very important area of life: politics. Having spent the last two days browsing all the relevant policies on wikipedia I can find no valid policy reason for their deletion. Galloglass 10:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Editors can show what their opinions are without categories; it's called your userpage. Picaroon (Talk) 21:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep I agree these categories should be kept. Brain40 20:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay. Do you have anything to contribute to the discussion? Picaroon (Talk) 21:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes. I think these categories should be kept. Why? Well, why is it just these that are being deleted? Why not all the others? My point is, people claim these are divisive, that's politics! Anything political can be considered divisive from a certain point-of-view! What I'm trying to say is, in my opinion either all categories should be kept, or none at all, as they are all the same, religious, political, sexuality, language, computer and educational categories are all the same and can be considered divisive, but that doesn't mean that the categories are bad, it just means that there are users across Wikipedia that have many different beliefs. Brain40 16:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Don't mistake what I'm saying for wanting to keep all categories, I do support the deletions of a few in the past... Brain40 23:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - no need to categorize users in a divisive manner. --After Midnight 0001 21:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bilge. Delete. --Tony Sidaway 23:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all, this is beyond obvious. The only conceivable purpose of any of these is to inflame or push a POV. ]
  • Keep all it is userspace, and users are entitled to their userspace.--SefringleTalk 00:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all Next, someone's going to want to delete the religion categories and the Wikipedian by country categories and Category:Gay Wikipedians... where will it end? Divisive? I guess if you want to be offended by something, you could complain. But the divisiveness is pure hypothetical here – "I'm offended because that user is in the United States category... I'm offended because User X is in the Buddhist category... I'm offended because User X is in the centrist category..." Seriously, who says those kinds of things? Who actually has a problem with these types of categories because they themselves find them polemic? And why are the categories an issue, but not the userboxes (or userpages) that can convey this same type of information? It all sounds silly to me, especially considering the "World Citizenship", "Independent", and "Centrist" categories are somehow being portrayed as divisive. These categories are voluntary; if someone does not want to make public their views, that's their prerogative. -- tariqabjotu 15:30, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I didn't realize the religion categories were actually up for deletion. Wow. For the most part, divisive can be used to delete just about every user category here (except for maybe "admin/bureaucrat/..." and the language categories). We need to draw the "divisive line" somewhere, but these categories are not across it. -- tariqabjotu 15:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A comment has been deleted from here by Picaroon as a personal attack on them. Now reading the comment although the language was strong, in no place did it refer to the person who deleted it. Picaroon please be good enough to re-instate it. Galloglass 01:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't care who he was referring to, although I believe I know. I warned Voievod (talk · contribs) about it on his talk page and explained to him that he could make a new comment if he wished. He has yet to do so. Picaroon (Talk) 01:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just re-read it another two times. Still no personal attack in it. Please re-read it yourself again as I think you are reading things into it that are not there. Galloglass 02:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Please take note that this deletion is the subject of a Deletion Review at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_June_21#Category:Wikipedians_by_political_ideology.--Ramdrake 13:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Monarchist Wikipedians
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*Delete. Another empty cat. Unclear if anyone was ever in the group. See above. Horologium t-c 17:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete — Carl (

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Please note that a deletion review has been requested at: [[3]]--Ramdrake 17:54, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 15

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The result of the debate was Delete all - jc37 09:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination also includes the following:

Category:Childfree Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Childless Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Father Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs
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Category:Grandfather Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Great-grandfather Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Mother Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Grandmother Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Great-grandmother Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

These user categories fail the requirement of "provid[ing] a foundation for effective collaboration" set forth in

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Most of the pages placed in the categories are there due to transclusions of various userboxes. I have no issue with the userboxes (Wikipedia editors are volunteers and thus deserve a lot of leeway as to what appears in their userspace), but the categories seem entirely unnecessary. The categories are too broad and non-specific to leave open the possibility of a likely correspondence between identity and interests. I think it's fair to say that biologist are more likely than others to be interested in editing articles related to biology, but I doubt a good case can be made that mothers are more likely than others to be interested in editing articles related to maternity. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 22:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Category:Wikipedians by language

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The result of the debate was speedy keep per this being a

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Newspeak categories

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The result of the debate was Merge all to Category:Wikipedians who read Orwell. Based on the discussion below, This at least shouldn't be a sub-category of Wikipedians by language. (and has little to do with linguistics overall). If merged, it should then become a sub-cat of Category:Wikipedians who read Orwell. However, that category doesn't exist! So anticipating a future nom to rename/upmerge by merging all to the Orwell-related category now. - jc37 09:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Newspeak"; another joke category whose inclusion in the Language section is doubleplusungood. I'd like to see a consensus where any language that does not have an ISO 639 categorization does not get a Wikipedia category. Articles about the language or dialect are fine, but we don't need six user cats for something that appeared in one book. Horologium t-c 20:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 09:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians by gender and its three subcategories organise users by gender: male, female, and transgender. The categorisation of users seems to be almost exclusively the result of various userboxes, listed at the top of each subcategory's page. I think users should be allowed to identify their sex or gender via a userbox, especially since it can aid communication, prevent confusion in comments, and allow the avoidance of "he or she", "she or he", "s/he", "s(he)", and the like. However, I see no purpose to categorising users based on gender. It serves no encyclopedic end and deleting the categories (unlike deleting the userboxes) is not invasive. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 19:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Merge Category:User ipa-N to Category:User ipa-5. The rest weren't tagged, so the question of whether this should be babelised is open for future discussion. - jc37 10:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This category, by its Babel convention, is nonsensical, since nobody can claim to be a "native speaker" of a universal phonetics guide. However, considering the other cats on orthography, a strong case can be made for merging this into the already-existing Category:User ipa-5, which identifies the user as being able to contribute at an advanced level. The userboxen associated with both have the similar verbiage ("This user has a complete understanding of IPA" for the -5 cat; "These users fully understand the IPA" for the -N cat). Horologium t-c 18:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete Category:User fr-ca (the other cat wasn't tagged). No prejudice against recreation, if it has a broader membership. - jc37 10:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The two categories are duplicative, and only two users are listed in fr-ca, which, despite its more general categorization, specifically refers to Quebec French, not a general Canadian French, which could include Acadian French. Recommend merging Category:User fr-ca to Category:User fr-qc. (The question of whether we need fr-qc's six subcats is something that will be addressed in the future.) Horologium t-c 16:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Merge as nom. Horologium t-c 16:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete both assuming there are no significant differences between this and French the rest of the world speaks, which I don't think there is. Merge if no consensus for this. VegaDark (talk) 19:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The fate of these should be ruled by any precedent existing regarding local variants of a given language, like say, American English and British English. These variants differ from idiomatic French by a similar scope, even though they are for the most part mutually intelligible. To answer VegaDark, there is at least as much if not more difference between either Canadian French or Quebec French and idiomatic French than there is between British (idiomatic English) and American English--Ramdrake 23:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't think we should even have "British English" and "American English" cats - they are both English, one category is good enough. It's rediculous to think someone would need to translate between the two, or any other regional dialect of English, which would be the purpose of the categories. The rule of thumb on these should be "Does the average speaker of language A need a translator to be able to understand a person speaking language B? If yes, then it deserves a category. If no, then it doesn't. Get rid of all these "Australian English", "Southern English", etc. categories. VegaDark (talk) 03:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • See the rationale which has been discussed below at
      Wikipedia:User categories for discussion#Category:User en-us-ca and subcats. Some browsing through the ISO 639-3 data indicates that there are only 5 "recognized" variants of French (French, Cajun French, Picard, Walloon, and the extinct Zarphatic; no Quebecois, although it is noted as a dialect) and three of English (English, Scots, and Yinglish, which is by definition a secondary language). Part of the issue is that Wikipedia is written, not spoken, and while there may be notable differences between spoken American English and British English, the differences are relatively minor when using the more formal written form one is expected to use in Wikipedia. Horologium t-c 04:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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    Actually, there are many notable differences between different written forms of English. - jc37 09:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Well there are two members of Category:User fr-ca. One uses Template:User fr-ca-1, and the other uses User:Laverick Phoenix/fr-ca. The former, then, is in the wrong category (which I'll fix in a moment), and the latter then becomes the only member of the category. How about we sidestep the possibly controversial debate, and just Delete, due to a single member, with no prejudice against it being recreated in the future if it gains 4 or more members? - jc37 09:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was merge to

CBM · talk
) 04:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC) "Users" instead of "Wikipedians", redundant to the correctly named Category:Wikipedians who like King of the Hill. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was merge to

CBM · talk
) 04:46, 21 June 2007 (UTC) Babel categories are supposed to be for languages, not stuff like this. Also redundant to Category:Albanian Wikipedians. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 09:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not exactly sure what these categories are for, but the only pages in them are user subpages of User:A.M.R.. Does not look useful at all. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete all - jc37 10:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"These users speak internet slang" - Don't need babel categories for this. There will never be a Wikipedia written in internet slang. Not useful. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete all. I think my feelings are clear on this topic (although see above comment). Horologium t-c 13:28, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all - I think this category is mostly a joke. It's not a language, and I'm pretty sure most of the editors using this are not, in fact, interested in Linguistics. --Haemo 08:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • More bilge. Stuff like this should just be speedied. --Tony Sidaway 00:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Actually, I disagree for two reasons. First, speedy deleting any category may leave a lot of redlinks, making recreation of the category very likely. Second, "not useful" is a deletion criterion when it comes to categories, templates, and redirects, but I'm wary of it being a speedy deletion criterion, given the inherent subjectiveness of the term. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 00:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was delete. — Carl (

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"This user listens to Katamari Fortissimo Damacy" - Unsuitable babel category.

Katamari Fortissimo Damacy is a soundtrack and not even a band, so even if this were named properly I don't think this would be a suitable category, due to members only being able to collaborate on a single article. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 09:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone should be in this category by default, as this is Wikipedia policy. Not useful as all-inclusive. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who worked at WEGL

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The result of the debate was speedy delete per author request (

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"Wikipedians who currently work at or have worked in the past at WEGL 91 FM, the campus radio station at Auburn University" - We don't need to categorize based on previous employment, let alone something as non-notable as this. Would set precedent for thousands of other useless categories if kept. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Keep, but should not be considered a precedent for other categories. - The main debate seemed to be between what they (and others) call themselves - cancer survivors - and the concern about setting a "survivor" precedent. And there was no consensus to rename. - jc37 10:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's great these people survived cancer, but we don't need a category for it. Sets precedent for other "survived" categories such as "Wikipedians who survived falling out of an airplane", which I don't think we want. Can't see how this category helps build Wikipedia, a userbox seems sufficient. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete as nom. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak delete as per nomNeutral, as per Bladestorm's comment below. This one seems to be a bit more justifiable, but I don't want to see some of its potential progeny. Horologium t-c 02:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - I think "survived" is besides the point. They've had cancer, and, I would presume, may have a bit of an interest, and may know a bit about it. In terms of collaboration possibilities, experiencing cancer is absolutely no different than experiencing a specific location or alma mater or a sport, or a video game or whatever. - jc37 05:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Delete: If we allow this, pretty soon we are going to have a whole bunch of disease categories... (Wikipedians with HIV, Tuberculoses, etc.) --Hdt83 Chat 05:33, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Actually, we already do. See Category:Wikipedians by physiological condition. Also, perhaps the answer is to figure out a name to merge this and Category:Wikipedians with Cancer, besides the generic "interested in"... ("Wikipedians who have had cancer", similar to the "from location" categories?) - jc37 05:52, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Standardize, keep for now - Yes, this one was strongly modeled after similar boxes for other user boxes like psychological conditions. Some of those are downright scary. Ok, I'm all for having a consistent policy but you cannot vote cancer survivors out without getting rid of all medical condition boxes. It may also lend to the credentials of some authors in editing related articles. Besides, let's look at some others like Wikipedians who have Poodles and other fluff. I'd pick cancer as more important than pets or speaking California English any time. Mikebar 10:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Also the category meets 2 of the VegaDark principles for a good category: Categories relating to an editor's areas of expertise - Including occupation, education, skills, known languages, and experience. These categories are helpful because they show that the editor already has some "real life" knowledge on certain topics, and other editors may need that expertise to help them edit other articles on Wikipedia. Categories relating to interests that a user may want to edit, same reasoning. Mikebar 10:22, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Finally, you say just because you survive a disease it doesn't make you an expert. There is alot of expertise if you've come to learn a condition, as I have and have helped others so if the strong disagree look into it, it could be pruned to conditional "experts" but that may be as subjective as all expertise in the wikipedia editing realm. Done. Mikebar 10:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The difference between this and the other categories is that this is for people who survived (and implies recovery) of a ailment, wheras the others are for a current condition. As for your other points, yes, this is a personal experience, but writing based on that experience would be original research. Also the stuff in my sandbox is just a copy of the current UCFD proposed guideline page, I haven't had time yet to modify it to what I think the guidelines should actually be. They may be more likely to collaborate on cancer-related articles, however, so I could see a rename. I don't like the "Survived" part of this mostly, for the reason I brought up in the nom statement - We could start seeing "survived" categories for anything- Car accidents, being shot, any number of the hundreds of diseases out there. VegaDark (talk) 10:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I support any logical change but consider this: if you 'have cancer then you are a survivor and if you are in remission (or "cured") you are also a survivor but a survivor does not "have" cancer (it's gone) so you'd be reducing the group for no good reason, hence the inclusive "survived" encompasses stricken and cured both and that builds the enclucivity such a category would want to embrace. Mikebar 11:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Presuming you meant inclusivity? Anyway, "survivor" is, of course, welcome in the userbox text. The problem here is that there are category structures, and several editors are concerned that this may be considered "precedent", rather than an exception. This is why I suggested "...have had...", since I presume it would result in the same "inclusivity" that you'd like to see? - jc37 10:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. There's strength in numbers, and if people want to come together like this, how does it damage the project? -N 11:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This is just silly. How does it hurt the project? If you're worried about other possible future categories, rather than this actual one, then wait for those categories to show up and address them when the time comes. But arguements to the tune of, "well, this one isn't so bad, but one in the future might be, so let's delete this one" don't hold any water. Bladestorm 14:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 09:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"I like X better than Y" categories are generally not useful. This isn't an exception. Sets precedent for any number of "prefer x over y" categories if kept. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was depopulated and speedy deletedRyūlóng (竜龍) 08:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All other political wikipedian categories have been speedy deleted and endorsed by deletion review, the only reason this got by was because it was uncategorized. Additionally, this category doesn't help Wikipedia at all. Let me also point out that this refers to instant run-off voting in the real world, not Wikipedia. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was speedy delete, author request Sean William @ 15:20, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category for someone's userpages. Numerous similar categories have been deleted in the past, not useful, would set precedent for 4,640,333 other similar categories, one for each user. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Merge to Category:Wikipedians who use HD DVD. There was no consensus for the merge target, so I picked current naming convention at Category:Wikipedians by technology. Someone can tag/nominate the other one if they wish. - jc37 10:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another "prefer" category. Category:Wikipedians who support HD DVD already exists, and we certainly don't need both categories. VegaDark (talk) 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 14

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 07:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Merge all to Category:User en-us-ca. - jc37 07:53, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User en-us-ca (Wikipedians who speak Californian English). Has six subcats, including one that is not formatted like the others. Do we really need this many cats/subcats for what is, at most, a regional dialect? The userbox is fine, but the Babel-style cats are more needless splintering. Recommend Delete All. I will see what we get for consensus here before submitting the next batch; the English language cats are a fine source of fussy categorizations and bizarre subcats. Horologium t-c 16:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - I've been a proponent of deleting most of these regional dialect categories for a while now. The purpose of the babel category system is to find others who speak a language, you will never need to do this for something such as "Californian English". We should only keep dialect babel categories if the dialect is significantly different from the main language, enough so that seeking out someone who is familiar with that dialect would actually be worthwhile. VegaDark (talk) 19:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dude, keep. Helps me bond with other, like, people from my state on the project, man. -N 22:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is what {{User California}} is for. It sorts people who are in or from California for collaboration purposes, and it even has its own nifty little userbox, if that's your sort of thing. Babel categorization is unwieldy even without irrelevant categories; adding more is just throwing chaff in the radar. I have no problem with sorting by location (check my user page and you'll see that), but this is not, IMO, the appropriate way. YMMV. Horologium t-c 22:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge all to Category:User en-us-ca. I don't think we need a babel breakdown for regional dialects, but I do think that a single cat for such dialects is "useful and appropriate". There's a difference between living in a location, and speaking the dialect. Ask any Scotsman who's moved to London : ) - And I will "Weak oppose" spelling out the cat name. It's a language (or at least a language dialect), so no reason to not use the babel formatting convention. - jc37 23:03, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • In what scenerio would a user actually seek out someone in this category for any purpose that would help the encyclopedia, that seeking out someone in any of the regular en categories wouldn't accomplish? VegaDark (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • This speaks to the next round of deletions I was planning to propose. The Category: user en cat has a huge number of sub-cats that deal with regionalization, by country (Ireland and its two subcats, US and its six subcats, Canada and its four subcats, Australia and its eight subcats, Great Britain, which is tucked into EN-3), by parts of countries (California and its six subcats, New York and its recursive subcat, New England and its recursive subcat, Liverpool/Merseyside) and by other factors ("Lazy English" and its six subcats, "Mixed English"). For those keeping track, that is 51 subcats for one language, and nobody has yet created English language cats for India, New Zealand, South Africa, or any of the other former crown colonies, not to mention Scotland and Wales. All of these might make interesting userboxes, and a case can be made for country cat (one for each) for the nations, but the regional categories have no useful function; people are not going to search through the "I speak New England" category when looking for someone with whom to work on an article. I chose the California one because I (mistakenly) believed that it was not a particularly controversial category with which to start. Horologium t-c 02:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge Totally fer sure Mikebar 10:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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June 13

Category:Wikipedians who visit countries

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 00:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who visit countries - Well, I suppose it could be more vague (Category:Wikipedians who visit places), but not much. - jc37 06:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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The result of the debate was rename. — Carl (

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Moved here, as correct forum for discussion, from

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Propose renaming

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Random Babbling Cats

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 00:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"This user is a native speaker of Random Babbling." - This should be self-explanatory : ) - jc37 16:48, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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June 6

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The result of the debate was delete. VegaDark (talk) 19:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lennonist Wikipedians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

We have no article on Lennonism; this category is, therefore, not useful for collaboration purposes. So, it should be deleted. Picaroon (Talk)
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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Wikipedians requesting help improving their user pages since it will take almost no additional work than deleting it would. VegaDark (talk) 19:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:User Pages Cleanup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Delete, somehow I just don't see this as useful. -- Prove It (talk) 17:33, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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June 5

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The result of the debate was Delete

this userbox, and this userbox; and noting that they (or some such userbox) have also been subst: to userpages with one of the three categories, leading to the current confusion. When removing the category from userpages, the edit summary should probably note one or both of the other two as alternatives. - jc37 10:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Category:Wikipedians from the European UnionCategory:Wikipedians in the European Union
Category:European Union WikipediansCategory:Wikipedians interested in the European Union

I listed these in the "speedy nominations" section earlier, but an editor pointed out that Category:European Union Wikipedians maintains a category for those who "support" the European Union. This is an inappropriate category, as it promotes diviseness (a category for those who "do not support" the European Union would also have to be created) and does not follow the "Wikipedians" naming convention. Thus I recommend moving it to Category:Wikipedians interested in the European Union (c.f. Category:Wikipedians interested in a region), as both Wikipedians who support and do not support the European Union are, by default, interested in it. --Iamunknown 20:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 4

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The result of the debate was delete. VegaDark (talk) 05:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Not" category. Does not help Wikipedians create the encyclopedia. --Iamunknown 20:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted by Ryulong. VegaDark (talk) 06:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Not" category. It does not help Wikipedia to know who does not like something. All similar categories have been deleted in the past, we have set enough precedent so stuff like this should be speedyable. VegaDark (talk) 06:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 3

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The result of the debate was Delete - jc37 10:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cat description is "Understand AIM talk but don't like it anyway? You're at home here". We don't need a category for people who "understand AIM talk but don't like it". This is useless and also a "not" category. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete all - jc37 08:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Useless babel categories. There will never be a Wikipedia written in Leet, and users will never have a legitimate reason to go looking for others in these categories. Hence, having categories for this is pointless. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Marksmanship Ribbon. All the others are redlinks which don't have a deletion history, so, if nothing else, I couldn't determine if they had been tagged. - I'll be happy to modify this closure if someone would like to provide links : ) - jc37 10:02, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would set precedent for a category for every award/medal given out by every country's army, which we definitely don't need. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Afghanistan Campaign Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Iraq Campaign Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Korea Defense Service Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: Kosovo Campaign Medal
Category:Wikipedian award recipients: United States: National Defense Service Medal
  • These medals have one article each, which do not themselves list the notable recipients, and there are quite a lot more of them, so I think they are better merged into Category:Wikipedian military people or appropriately named new subcategories.
  • Delete. I could seriously get behind a category called Category:Wikipedian decorated veterans, including a judicious number of subcategories for highly notable decorations, but not a category for every specific decoration. Even then, I would reject it if it focussed specifically on U.S. military veterans. --7Kim 22:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. I personally qualify for more than one of these, and some of these are not really awards, per se. Everyone who was in the US armed forces since 11 September 2001 received the NDSM and GWOT service medal (except for those who received the GWOT expeditionary medal), and several others are not difficult to get. Additionally, as pointed out above, it opens the door to a flood of other potential cats, from all countries. Better to keep the more general "served in the army/navy..." categories, and save the awards for userboxen. Horologium t-c 21:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the debate was speedy deleted, only populated by deleted template. Christopher Parham (talk) 15:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One of the least useful user categories I have ever seen. And that's saying something. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Delete - as empty, per creator's action. - jc37 21:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another useless category. We don't need to categorize users based on previous ownership of items. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted, only populated by deleted template. Christopher Parham (talk) 15:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We already have Category:Wikipedians who like Codename: Kids Next Door. Categorizing "Operatives" is nonsense. Only user in the category is already in the latter, so no need to merge. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was No consensus to delete. Rename to Category:Wikipedians who own Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers. - jc37 09:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category name speaks for itself. No joke categories. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 17:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Similar to the recently deleted "Wikipedians interested in general knowledge" category, this is potentially speedyable. Potentially all-inclusive and not useful. VegaDark (talk) 09:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was speedy rename, uncontroversial. VegaDark (talk) 17:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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June 1

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The result of the debate was delete xbox live, rename xbox 360. VegaDark (talk) 06:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per such discussions as the one below.--Mike Selinker 14:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose rename of Xbox Live, support rename of Xbox 360. Xbox live is an online service, and therefore there are not exactly "games" for the feature, as would be expected.--WaltCip 17:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Xbox live category, rename 360 category. Don't need a category for those who play Xbox live, a category for that would only facilitate collaboration on 1 more article than its parent category, so it is unnecessary. Don't upmerge, since both regular Xbox and Xbox 360 use Xbox live and there isn't any way to know which applies to each user. VegaDark (talk) 23:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Nintendo

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The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated. VegaDark (talk) 18:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per such discussions as the one below.--Mike Selinker 14:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Unlike the other consoles, "Nintendo" does not appear to be part of the name "Wii". I think "play the Wii" is more correct than "play Wii", as in the article. –Pomte 01:19, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • "Games" isn't really necessary. Some PS2 games are also Xbox games are also GameCube games. It's the console that's in the spotlight here. However, without "games" they'd need the article "the". Either way, go with the article name. –Pomte 02:32, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unless you're juggling the joysticks or something, you're not playing with the console. It's merely a means to an end, ie. playing games. It's just shorter to say "...who play <console> games", than to say "...who play games on the <console>". (and we also avoid the "on" vs "using" debate : ) - Oh, and support using the
    most common name, which, presumably, should be the same as the article. - jc37 09:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Category:Wikipedians by number of edits

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The result of the debate was nuke from high orbit --Kbdank71 17:18, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Relisted due to additional tagging 2 days into the discussion) - jc37 19:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: "...5,000 edits" has already been deleted as empty by User:Anthony Appleyard. - jc37 22:48, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note 2: Now all target categories listed, as well as Category:Wikipedians with over 5000 edits, Category:Wikipedians with fewer than 5000 edits, Category:Wikipedians with more than 5000 edits, and Category:Wikipedians by edit count have been tagged with the proposition to delete all edit count categories being brought up. VegaDark (talk) 19:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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