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Nominator's rationale:Rename. This is another in a series of similar proposals. Propose changing "Finns" to "Finnish people" and changing the format of some categories in order to standardize them and conform them with the parents Category:Finnish people and Category:Finnish people by ethnic or national origin. Not all nationalities have an appropriate "noun-form" that can be used, so using "Fooian people" is able to bring cross-category and cross-nationality consistency in these categories. I realise "Finns" is shorter than "Finnish people", but in my opinion this benefit is outweighed by the greater benefit brought by inter-category constistencies. See Polish, Swedish, and Swiss discussions for more information. Good Ol’factory(talk)23:36, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: The namespace is no longer called "Image", but "File", so the category should be named like this as well. With a bot, this shouldn't be too complicated to rename it. The Evil IP address (talk) 14:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale:Rename. The term "America" can be understood as the whole American continent. This category should be renamed "Operas set in NORTH America" or include those set in Central and South America.--Karljoos (talk) 11:17, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. America is accepted to mean the US. However in this case the introduction clearly shows that this category intended to cover North America and not the US. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:16, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Rename. I don't think it matters that iron is an element; so are nickel, gold and uranium, and no-one has any objection to "nickel mine", "gold mine" and "uranium mine". But the fact remains that usage greatly favours "iron ore mine" over "iron mine", just as it favours "bauxite mine" over "aluminium mine". I don't know why this is so—perhaps it has something to do with the relative reactivity of these elements, or perhaps it is just a quirk of English vernacular. Hesperian05:40, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
REname gold mines are different because gold occurs as a native metal (as well as having ores). However we talk of a "copper mine" though its product with be copper ores. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rename Category:Iron mines in Australia (only). Google trends indicates that common usage differs markedly between places like Australia and India (which favour "iron ore mining") and South Africa, North America and other countries (which favour "Iron mining"). I was unaware of this previously. Note that the world's largest producers are China, Australia, Brazil and India, all of which favour the term "iron ore". Note also that the Wikipedia article is named "iron ore". But given the regional preference, I propose that we only rename the Australian category. –Moondyne01:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Iron mining includes both iron ore mining and ironsand mining. A\if this is renamed, any ironsand mining operations will become categoryless, and I doubt there are sufficient of them to be considered for their own "by nation" split. Grutness...wha?22:47, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Google gets 129,000 hits for "iron ore mine", so clearly this is used. While the category might be an issue for ironsand mining, that is not a reason to misname the category for everything else. The comments above point out that we may need to better cover ironsand mining and taconite mining, which is not related to this discussion. There may be mining operations for these, but they are not 'iron ore mines'. Vegaswikian (talk) 04:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Grutness. "Iron mine" is a more general term, and while "iron ore mining" may be the most common term for a subset of iron mining, it doesn't cover all of it. Making a separate subcategory for iron ore mining could be considered. Jafeluv (talk) 10:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So why not rename per nom and allow the recreation of Category:Iron mining if needed? The fact that the current contents are iron ore mines calls for a rename. At present we have no articles, that I know of, on the other types of mining operation for material to make iron. As to Category:Iron mines in Australia, that one could remain at that name, but only if the parent is renamed to indicate that it is iron ore mines. We do bend to local naming considerations. However if the parent is not changed that it should be renamed to make clear what is being mined. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:00, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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