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Category:Deaths due to monkey attacks

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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: upmerge to Category:Deaths due to animal attacks. I note that the corresponding "non-human primate" category was deleted in a separate discussion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:41, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Deaths due to monkey attacks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Category renamed to include all non-human primates (Category:Deaths due to non-human primate attacks) so similar categories don't start popping up. – VisionHolder (talk) 23:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose "non-human primates" as "monkeys" is simpler. Support merging all sub-categories into "Deaths due to animal attacks". DrKiernan (talk) 08:19, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete that would be non-human animal attacks, no? You forget apes in your keep rationale. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 19:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are only two articles currently in the category. One was killed by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and the other (Alexander of Greece) by unspecified monkeys, according to the current article. However, this page (which may fail WP:RS) suggests a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) killed him. So I suppose we could also rename it to Category:Deaths due to macaque attacks. Ucucha 20:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If either category has to be kept (which I'd prefer neither), I'd rather keep the category broad so if people start creating articles where someone was killed by an ape, loris (they're toxic), lemur (sepsis from a bite, for instance), etc., then new categories would not be needed. As you pointed out, there are very few articles that even belong in this category so far, so if someone noteworthy is killed by a chimpanzee, I'd hate to see a new category pop up when it could just go into Category:Deaths due to non-human primate attacks. – VisionHolder « talk » 05:04, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm inclined to think that any category with just one or two items in it should be merged with another category: in this case the parent one. Renaming it to something that is unnecessarily more complicated doesn't address the key issue, which is that the category is absurdly small and not particularly useful. If there is a sudden massacre of humans by apes then the category will be large enough to resurrect, but there is no point in creating categories for events which might never occur. DrKiernan (talk) 09:41, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As I have said before, I favor eliminating both categories. However, this seems like more of an issue with Category:Deaths due to animal attacks rather than just these two categories. Category:Deaths due to animal attacks clearly suffers from overcategorization (WP:OC) (see Category:Deaths due to buffalo attacks, Category:Deaths due to rhinoceros attacks, etc., etc.) so maybe an umbrella nomination for upmerge needs to be submitted for that category instead. Personally, I was just focusing the clean-up on Category:Primates. I never thought to see what other problems linked in from outside the project scope. – VisionHolder « talk » 18:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Monkeys

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Jafeluv (talk) 09:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Monkeys (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Overhauling categorization scheme for primates, see WT:PRIMATE#Scheme. This category does not reflect a true taxon and as such is just a useless extra step between Category:Primates and the categories for New and Old World monkeys. Ucucha 23:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The categories you mentioned are slated to be renamed so that "non-human primates" replaces "monkeys" in both cases. Please check the 2 proposed schemes linked above. – VisionHolder « talk » 06:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose Wikipedia is written for a general audience, rather than a specialist one, and when that general audience looks for a category on this sort of primate, it will expect it to be called "monkeys", just like the head article monkey. Whether or not the term reflects a taxon is irrelevant: plenty of readers will not concern themselves with taxons (and probably think a taxon is a means for the govt to take more money from them). By all means, let's have taxonomic labels too, but please do not make an obstacle course for readers by removing Category:Monkeys. If anyone is worried about the extra step between Category:Primates and Category:New World monkeys/Category:Old World monkeys, just put articles in both. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:23, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't strongly object to leaving Category:Monkeys with Category:New World monkeys and Category:Old World monkeys contained within. In fact, with the scheme I've been working on for Category:Primates I have taken great pains to give priority to common names over taxonomic names, so I know where you're coming from. We were just trying to be consistent with our project stance that the group is paraphyletic. Keeping the category for non-technical readers only adds one level to the category tree. P.S. - my apologizes for my out-of-process handling of this has been posted here. – VisionHolder « talk » 18:49, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:United States political party election color templates

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:United States political party election color templates to Category:United States political party color templates
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There is no purpose or distinction between this and its meta-category. Over-categorization, perhaps? —Markles 19:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Anomalous phenomena

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Anomalous phenomena (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Misleading category, implies scientific legitimacy/inexplicable status to alleged supernatural "mysteries" and urban legends. LuckyLouie (talk) 18:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kongsvinger IL players

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Kongsvinger IL players to Category:KIL Toppfotball players
Nominator's rationale: To comply with main category (Category:KIL Toppfotball) and main article (KIL Toppfotball). lil2mas (talk) 12:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Musical artist logos licensed under Creative Commons

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Can be a delete as empty under speedy criteria. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Musical artist logos licensed under Creative Commons (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Empty category. Seems like any appropriate images should be on Commons and the category should be there too. Prezbo (talk) 00:39, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:50, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Male canoeists

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Male canoeists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Canadian male canoeists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CAT/GRS, "categories should not be gendered unless the gender has a specific relation to the topic". To my knowledge, there is no particular relation between the male gender and canoeing (if anything, I would assume that it is a male-dominated sport). A category for female canoeists may be warranted, but its existence would not necessitate the existence of a category for males.
There is no need to upmerge any of the articles, since they are all already present in Category:Olympic canoeists of Canada. –Black Falcon (talk) 06:54, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Canoeists by century

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The result of the discussion was: Delete per discussion and other closed discussions in this area. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:19, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Proposed deleting
Nominator's rationale: While Category:People by occupation and century has become an established category scheme, its existence by no means requires us to create an intersection for every occupation and century. I believe that the intersection of this particular occupation with these particular centuries ought to be deleted for the following reasons:
  1. The intersections do not appear to reflect a distinct and significant subject of academic or popular interest. While categories (and topics) such as Category:5th-century historians (5th-century history), Category:8th-century philosophers (8th-century philosophy), and Category:19th-century painters (19th-century art) meet that criterion, canoeing does not appear to meet it. There appears to be academic interest in the topic of canoeing in certain cultures (e.g., The canoe in Canadian cultures) and in the topic of sports in certain centuries (e.g., Sports and games of the 18th and 19th centuries), but no equivalent interest in the topics of 20th-century and 21st-century canoeing.
  2. The parent category, Category:Canoeists, is already subdivided into Olympic and non-Olympic canoeists and by nationality. The articles in "Canoeists by century" category tree are, on average, in 4.2 other categories, not counting stub categories, that identify their subjects as canoeists.
    Creating and properly populating by-century categories would result in two or three very large categories, leaning heavily toward recent times, and sparsely- or barely-populated categories for other centuries. Although the practice of canoeing has been around for millennia, canoeing as a professional sport is a relatively recent development. Subdividing the large categories would result in numerous trivial triple- or quadruple-intersection subcategories (e.g., Category:21st-century Canadian male canoeists). Overall, a proliferation of by-century categories seems to hinder navigation more than it helps when it comes to topics that relate primarily to recent times. (This argument—not the wording, but the idea—is stolen from User:BrownHairedGirl. I'm shameless, but at least I'm honest (some of the time).)
The only category that gives me pause is Category:20th-century female canoeists, which perhaps should be merged to Category:Female caneoists. –Black Falcon (talk) 06:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Home Living

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:Home Living to Category:WikiProject Home Living article by quality. --Xdamrtalk 04:35, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Home Living to Category:WikiProject Home Living article by quality
Nominator's rationale: A more descriptive title and will not make it sound like an article namespace category. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:49, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah. Yeah. There is some redundancy. Yp. Needs sorting out. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:44, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Eastern culture

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:20, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Eastern culture to Category:Asian culture
Nominator's rationale: Merge. No apparent distinction. Goustien (talk) 04:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Turkish mythology

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Turkish mythology to Category:Turkic mythology
Nominator's rationale: Merge. All pages in this category are covered by Category:Turkic mythology. Goustien (talk) 04:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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NASCAR race categories

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The result of the discussion was: Merge per nom. Yes, I commented in the discussion, but not about this proposal. As I read the discussion, there is support for this merger and also for a cleanup of categories in this area. So approving this merge clears the table for a possible larger discussion. I'll note that there are some issues with the first one, but that can be cleared up by a separate rename discussion if needed. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:12, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging Category:Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen to Category:Watkins Glen 220
Suggest merging Category:Subway Fresh Fit 500 to Category:Subway Fresh Fit 600
Suggest merging Category:Pepsi 500 to Category:Pepsi Max 400
Suggest merging Category:Chevy Rock & Roll 400 to Category:One Last Race to Make the Chase
Suggest merging Category:Crown Royal 400 to Category:Crown Royal Presents the Your Name Here 400
Nominator's rationale: Merge. The new category names reflect updated names for the races. The old categories should probably have been moved to the new names. DH85868993 (talk) 03:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge all. Yeah, this should have been done here. (Though these races seem to change names so often, I wonder if we could find a more permanent name for these. Something like "Fall Phoenix Nascar Race". Nah. That'd be useless.) Bradjamesbrown (talk) 08:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think not!!! I am double checking all of mmy work and all of these how they are now are correct.Ask and NASCAR personell and see if I was doing write.I am just saying the race name changed and changed again so I had to movew it back to Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen at first they were saying that it was the Watkins Glen 220,but they at that time did not know what the name for the race would be so in m opinion Category:Watkins Glen 220 should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nascar1996 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rethink – this is an encyclopedia, not an advertising hoarding, and names should reflect this. Most of the above suggestions are incomprehensible outside a very small circle. Something like "Fall Phoenix Nascar Race" would be a vast improvement, as at least it suggests that this is race of some sort, and I have heard of Nascar. (Barclays Premier League redirects to Premier League, as it should.) Occuli (talk) 21:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Support a rethink. Either delete all the categories as blatant advertising, or rename them to some neutral term, or merge them to a neutrally-named common category, because these categories are all quite small.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)(NASCAR1996)-These are names for the races held it the highest division of NASCAR the race names have a chance to change every year its upv to the sponsors of the racetrack.And most of them are new and some pages do not exist!!!!!!!!-(nascar1996)[reply]
  • Comment. One point that I have made in the past is that renaming categories like these is a bad idea. The category name might match the name of the article, but not all of the contents are about the race under the current name. The also happens for tennis tournaments and golf and who knows what else. I think that we need to have a discussion about leaving the races and tournaments under the name that existed when the competition occurred, or under the generic name for the event and not the marketing name. By making changes like this we are effectively rewriting history! That is not what an encyclopedia should be doing. I'll also add that if the proposed speedy rename guideline was in place, this would not even be here for discussion! Vegaswikian (talk) 00:01, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge; we can always rethink, but there's no reason to retain the current category names which are incorrect as well as boosterish. I'd expect names evoke a visceral WP:IHATEIT response, but the analogy to the Premier League, or tennis tournaments, or conversely Chrysler Building (shouldn't that be 405 Lexington Avenue, New York?), is inapt. Many of these events and competitions have never been known by any generic/unsponsored name, or such a name is so disused as to be forgotten, or the obvious "generic" name is actually incorrect and misleading (e.g. the Nationwide Series was formerly known as the Busch Grand National Series, but the Grand National Series (sans Busch) is a completely different competition now known as the Sprint Cup Series and colloquially as the "Sprint Cup"). Please read the articles when discussing categories. One glance at Toyota/Save Mart 350 or Subway Fresh Fit 600 or Lenox Industrial Tools 301 demonstrates that for many of these events, the ghastly official name is actually the simplest, least ambiguous, and most neutral name to use— not in every case, but often enough. As an encyclopedia, WP reflects the real world, and sometimes the reflection will thus be tacky. It's not WP's job to make real life seem more tasteful than it is by allowing Pocono 500 but denying UAW-GM Teamwork 500.- choster (talk) 00:50, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Possible "rethink" framework. I'd suggest that we rename all of these by racetrack, rebuilding the categories in the style of Category:NASCAR races at Watkins Glen International, Category:NASCAR races at Richmond International Raceway, and so on. None of these categories are so big that the two annual events in Phoenix couldn't be in the same category, and still be meaningfully segregated from those in Detroit. Racetrack names are essentially stable, and there's only a couple dozen of them. Does anyone like that idea?--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's a really good idea: it will create stable and comprehensible categories. I'll support that unless someone has a better idea. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:11, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I disagree. I agree with choster that "the ghastly official name is actually the simplest, least ambiguous, and most neutral name to use", even if it means we sometimes have to rename categories every few years. DH85868993 (talk) 07:53, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • Unfortunately, I don't agree that using the latest name is the most neutral, because if we do that we tag an event named after the current sponsor with a category named after a previous sponsor. Placing the "Coca Cola 500" in a "Category:Pepsi 501" doesn't seem right. (OK, I made up those examples, but I hope the point is clear) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:48, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • OK, we'll have to agree to disagree. One point to note is that the lead articles are currently also renamed whenever the race changes name, so you wouldn't have (lead article) "Coca Cola 500" in "Category:Pepsi 501", but you might have (individual race reports) "2007 Coca Cola 500", "2008 Coca Cola 500" and "2009 Coca Cola 500" in "Category:Pepsi 501" together with (renamed lead article) "Pepsi 501" and "2010 Pepsi 501". DH85868993 (talk) 14:19, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment These races are a complete mess and ghastly is the right word. I don't know how anyone can keep up with the name changes. I know I can't -- I'm a fan and arguably the senior member of WikiProject NASCAR. On one hand, having the current name as the category makes sense for neutrality reasons - but I agree that it's blatant corporate sponsorship at its finest. I hate how we'd have to rename these categories for whatever sponsor shells out the money each year. So I think we should lump all of the articles at the track level and stop this corporate madness. Then the (up to) two events at a track stay together, so it doesn't get overwhelming. Royalbroil 03:30, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Propose this and I'll support it. We need to do something and suggestions from the involved project should help drive consensus. I think a trial rename proposal for one or two tracks to see if there is consensus would be the way to approach the larger rename question. Vegaswikian (talk) 08:37, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Works for me too, but again, reorganizing the category structure is a parallel process to updating these category names.- choster (talk) 16:42, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I certainly don't want to take over this nomination, especially since the nominator disagrees with my suggestion. It seems like there's no objection to a merge, but enough impetus behind a more global rename that either way this is closed, there will be a quick renomination of the whole scheme.--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • My suggestion is to proceed with the merge (to fix the problem that currently most articles in the nominated categories are included in both the "old" and "new" categories), and then devise/propose a new categorisation scheme. DH85868993 (talk) 02:04, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- If these changes are made, each category page will need to list the previous race names. In alumni categories we treat alumni of institutions that merge or change name as alumni of successors. I do not see why the like ahould not be done in other fields, but clarity is needed, or readers will be confused. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- the editor who created the new categories has apparently had a change of heart about the "Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen" --> "Watkins Glen 220" change, and emptied Category:Watkins Glen 220. So my recommendation is now to just delete Category:Watkins Glen 220 but merge the other four [and then devise/propose/discuss a revised categorisation scheme]. DH85868993 (talk) 14:02, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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