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1 January 6  



1.1  Category:Oceania All Stars Players  





1.2  Category:Former Unificationists  





1.3  Category:Cal Poly Sport Hall of Fame  





1.4  Category:Criminal justice in Oregon  





1.5  Category:People who have recieved honorary degrees from Harvard University  





1.6  Category:Wilmington metropolitan area  





1.7  Washington  Washington (U.S. state)  





1.8  Category:German-American businesspeople  





1.9  Category:Lists of slums  





1.10  Category:Liberals  
















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January 6[edit]

Category:Oceania All Stars Players[edit]

The result of the discussion was: delete. (I'm going out on a limb here since this is a category someone at WP:FOOTY might be interested in, but seeing as how the nominator let them know, I guess I can assume that I have their permission to implement the consensus here.) </bitter-sarcasm> Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Oceania All Stars Players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete This category contains no explanation of what it is for or what articles should go in it. Who are the Oceania All Stars? Some of the players in this category aren't even Oceanian. Can someone explain that? – PeeJay 22:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Former Unificationists[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Roughly delete. I note that List of Unificationists also contains a section for former members. Kbdank71 20:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Former Unificationists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete This category is not very useful. Out of the thousands or even millions of former Unificationists (members of the Unification Church) in the world only four have been included in this category. The category was removed from Josette Sheeran, who left the Unification Church for a successful career as a diplomat. It seems like the category is only applied to "controversial" people. Successful people don't get it, and of course ordinary people don't have a WP bio at all. Steve Dufour (talk) 13:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Here are the 4 people with the category: Richard A. Cohen controversial "ex-gay" activist, Steven Hassan controversial "anti-cult" activist, Nansook Hong author of a controversial book criticising Rev and Mrs Moon, Jung Myung Seok controversial leader of a breakaway sect, convicted of rape. As I said there are many thousands of other former members, very few of whom are in any way controversial. Steve Dufour (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still not seeing what this proves. Sure, controversial people get more attention across the board than non-controversial people -- that's neither more nor less true here than elsewhere. But your comment suggested that the category was being used selectively -- only applied to "controversial people", and not applied to "non-controversial people". So far, you haven't addressed the second part of the equation. Cgingold (talk) 00:35, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Josette Sheeran is an example of a non-controversial former Unificationist. The category was removed from her article. Steve Dufour (talk) 03:14, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would question all of the the former religion categories. Once you get beyond Paul of Tarsus, ex-Jew, and Martin Luther. ex-Catholic, there are very few people who are defined by their leaving a religion.Steve Dufour (talk) 16:33, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There were other related cfd discussions around Jan 2007. I'm not sure that 'strong support' is a fair summary; some were 'delete' and others 'no consensus keep'. Occuli (talk) 18:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to calibrate my choice of words carefully ("pretty strong"), possibly not well enough -- so perhaps "fairly strong" is a better description. In any event, (some of) these categories have come up for review elsewhere (sorry, I don't have the links), and over time the result has been the construction of the category structure that you now see. Cgingold (talk) 00:48, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The only good religion article is Dogs in religion. :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 05:09, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly certain I have more surviving edits critical of the Unification Church than any other editor on Wikipedia. Nevertheless, I point out religious bigotry and hidden agendas when I see them. This category was created by an editor who was both [1] the most zealous (and unfair) anti-Unification Church crusader Wikipedia has ever seen, and [2] the most difficult, sneaky, and deceitful editor I've encountered in my nearly 3 years editing Wikipedia. Except for those former Unificationists who are now on the "right" side of the ingroup-outgroup divide ("anti-cult"), the purpose for having the category seems to be similar to the purpose for having a yellow star of David patch - to identify the person in a way that can discredit him or her. An ex-religion category for 3 people? This category, which was clearly born from religious bigotry, should not be subject to the principle of "keep because of no consensus to delete"! I have to conclude Strong Delete. -Exucmember (talk) 06:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Cal Poly Sport Hall of Fame[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. Kbdank71 15:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Cal Poly Sport Hall of Fame (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete A non-defining minor "award"/hall of fame induction. A list could be created, but right now only contains one article, so may not be worth it at this point unless someone can add some more to the list. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Criminal justice in Oregon[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Merge. Per the discussion this merge does not prevent recreation of the deleted category based on broader discussions on the topic. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:26, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Criminal justice in OregontoCategory:Penal system in Oregon
Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is the only by-jurisdiction category of its kind in Category:Criminal justice. (It's weird, but it's another Oregon one—the outliers always seem to be about Oregon even though there are different users that create them all.) Right now it contains articles about 3 ballot initiatives that dealt with criminal justice issues in the state. The contents and concept seem to fit well in the already existent penal system category. If kept this would represent significant duplication of concepts. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:41, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, I created this category and then realized that Category:Penal system in Oregon already existed, so I stopped populating it. Thank you for nominating here, I meant to bring it up myself.
I am no expert, but it seems that "criminal justice" is a more apt term than "penal system." I believe it's more inclusive, and will include articles that might not fit within "penal system." For instance, Oregon Attorney General, and Oregon Ballot Measure 57 (2008) are both highly relevant to criminal justice in the state, but neither is directly related to the penal system. The former may argue for certain punishments based on law, and the latter may outline penalties for certain crimes; but neither seems to belong in the category to me. So, I guess I'd lean toward the new name I used, but I'm interested to hear other perspectives. -Pete (talk) 21:20, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You do have some good points. Rather than assessing which term was more appropriate, my nomination was pretty much based on inter-category consistency in naming, but the issues you raise are points that could be considered in a proposal to change the now-existing category names or structure. In any case, I don't want this nomination to prevent future use of this name in a broader category system. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. What do you think is the best way to proceed? We've been doing a lot of work lately on Oregon government stuff (especially ballot measures), and it would be good to get articles categorized correctly as we go. -Pete (talk)
I'm unsure right now. I suppose "criminal justice" categories could be created for each state, with "penal system" as a subcategory, but that might be too much overlap between them. Alternatively, I suppose someone could propose changing all of the "penal system" categories to "criminal justice" ones, but I'm not sure about how I feel about that proposal myself. I'm kind of needing some input from others on this as I'm having a hard time deciding what the best course would be in that respect. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've been thinking it over too. I think it might be best to look for a more general topic to do "by state," and then let states do further breakdowns however it makes most sense to editors of those WikiProjects. (Not sure if this is how "by state" stuff is ordinarily handled in CFD, but it seems to me like it should be.) With that in mind, I wonder whether Category:Crime in Oregon might be the best pick. In Oregon, we might elect to have both Category:Criminal justice in Oregon and Category:Penal system in Oregon as subcategories, but another state might break things down differently. But the reader would be well served, in the sense that finding crime-related content across states would be pretty easy. -Pete (talk) 20:52, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People who have recieved honorary degrees from Harvard University[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: honorary delete. Kbdank71 15:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:People who have recieved honorary degrees from Harvard University (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. A non-defining "award" of sorts—information should be in a list, not a category. The people who receive these are defined by the reasons they are receiving the honorary degree, not by reception of the honorary degree itself. This is another instance where unchecked proliferation of categories like this for every possible university could potentially lead to category clutter on a massive scale, since those receiving these honors usually get them from multiple schools. Similar categories for other university honorary degrees have been deleted:
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_16#Category:Honorary_doctoral_degree_holders
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_June_15#Category:Honorary_Doctors_of_the_University_of_Chicago
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_November_10#Category:Honorary_doctors_of_Anglia_Ruskin_UniversityGood Ol’factory (talk) 09:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wilmington metropolitan area[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename; no opposition and will conform to new meta-article name. Good Ol’factory (talk) 20:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rename Category:Wilmington metropolitan areaCategory:Cape Fear region
Nominator's rationale: Proposed renaming to reflect the newly merged article of Wilmington metropolitan area and Southeastern North Carolina into a more notable and verifiable name: Cape Fear (region). "region" should be lower case, to differ from the actual Cape Fear (headland)orCape Fear River, but reflect that the word "region" is not always used. This is to fit in with the rest of the categories in Category:Regions of North Carolina. Will format like Category:Piedmont Triad and Category:The Triangle, North Carolina. Will include more articles into the category other than just cities (likely to put cities into county categories) like Cape Fear Wildcats, Cape Fear (headland), USS North Carolina, Green Swamp (North Carolina), etc. --Triadian (talk) 06:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Washington → Washington (U.S. state)[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Sportspeople can be fixed/changed upon the completion of the sportpeople CFD. Kbdank71 15:48, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming (see categories in drop-down box): (if you dare)
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  • Nominator's rationale: Rename all. This is the follow-up to the discussion where it was decided by consensus to use "Washington (U.S. state)" in category names when the state of Washington is referred to. This will work in the same way "Georgia (U.S. state)" is used. These are the categories that the new standard applies to in order to match Category:Washington (U.S. state). I've tried to be precise, but feel free to fix any typos you may find. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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    Category:German-American businesspeople[edit]

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    The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:35, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Merge all to Category:American businesspeople
    Nominator's rationale: I noticed that this category subject has been touched on before(Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_6#American_businesspeople_by_ethnicity.; however, this specific category (along with others) were not directly named. I think it follows along the lines of the original decision plus I think it is just fair to all the other categories that were deleted. Krushdiva (talk) 02:49, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    MergeIfCategory:Jewish-American businesspeople and the like have been merged, yes, these seem to have been forgotten and should follow suit. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 06:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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    Category:Lists of slums[edit]

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    The result of the discussion was: merge. Kbdank71 15:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Suggest merging Category:Lists of slumstoCategory:Slums
    Nominator's rationale: There doesn't appear to be any Lists of slums. The 2 articles in this category are not lists. Merge to main Slums category. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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    Category:Liberals[edit]

    The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
    The result of the discussion was: delete. The arguments here are mainly the same used for the deletion of Category:Conservatives; "liberal" means something different based upon who you are and what country you are speaking of. Kbdank71 15:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Category:Liberals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Nominator's rationale: Delete This category is very general and has definitions that vary globally. It would be better to have only categories that are country specific or otherwise geographically specific. THEFOUNDERSINTENT PRAISE 00:25, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    NOTE: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_May_13#Category:Liberals previous discussion Johnbod (talk) 16:43, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    • The definition varies globally, but the major divergence is really a US vs the world one. I wouldn't mind a note excluding American liberals entirely, but I don't see why the rest of the world should suffer just because Americans can't bring "left-wing" to cross their keyboards. On the other hand, the US definition is not utterly different to other global ones. No political category is going to contain very precisely conformed views. Deleters need to address what will happen to the sub-categories, which will be left unhelpfully separed. All this was gone into a year ago, in a much better attended & argued debate than (given current trends here) this is likely to be. Johnbod (talk) 16:43, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • No one and nothing is going to "suffer" if this category is deleted. If "liberal" is defined elsewhere based on being a member of a party that has the word "liberal" in its name, then categorize people by their party affiliation. As for the subcats, each of them has at least one additional parent so deleting this category will hardly cast them adrift 'pon the stormy seas. Otto4711 (talk) 20:03, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not sure I follow you. Just because Liberal is used as an attack word in the U.S., we can't have a category grouping all the Liberal party cats for the rest of the world? Wikipedia is not just for Americans. And I find the logic particularly twisted in that, because "Liberal" is the right-wing slur of the moment in the U.S. rather than "Socialist," a global Liberal party cat must go but the Socialist party cat can stay...? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:35, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not sure I follow your interpretation of what I said. Where did I say "socialists" should stay? Where did I suggest WP was for Americans only? I said nothing of the sort. Please re-read my complete comment (above and below) and don't impute your own meanings to it. You asked for a possible explanation of why "liberals" had been nominated but not "socialists". I provided a possible reason. You may not like the reason, but if you pursue the comparison line of reasoning it will be, as you said, of the WP:OTHERCRAP variety. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    I did read your argument, I assure you. To delete a global Liberal category because the term is used derogatively in the U.S. And that Socialist can stay because, you surmise, it's not as much a hot button term in the U.S. these days. I think that's a fair summary of what you've stated above. Regardless, on this one you have not persuaded me at all and this is getting needlessly belligerent. My Keep vote remains. Goodbye, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    No, it's not a fair summary at all. You may have read it but you're sure not understanding it. You're reading way too much into a passing comment—somehow twisting it into a "rationale" for deletion, which it is not. I made no suggestion that the socialist one "can stay". I simply gave you a possible reason that [possibly American] WP users have nominated the "liberals" category and not the "socialists" category. It has nothing to do with my rationale for deletion, which is below. Americans may be touchy about the word more than "socialist". Thus, an American may tend to nominate this category but not the other one. That's all. Frankly, I'm disappointed but not surprised that a user can't respond to a query in a WP discussion with a possible or hypothetical rationale without having the rationale wrapped around his neck as his personal opinion. Not exactly a hotbed of nuance here. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    That's very kind of you to say and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I'll let someone else step in and answer questions now. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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