Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 27#Nintendo Wii categories
= April 27 =
==[[:Category:Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov]] to [[:Category:House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov]]==
==[[:Category:Deceased Cardinals]]==
==[[:Category:Gay icons]] to [[:Category:LGBT icons]]==
Several editors have stated over time that this category (which I'd rather be CfDing than CfRing, to be honest) should be renamed per Wikipedia's usage of LGBT over gay. The category isn't exclusively for 'gays', as there is no lesbian/bisexual/transgender equivalent, and there shouldn't be more similar categories as it's all one-and-the-same (or in many cases, one-and-why-are-they-in-this-category-anyway?). Anyway, it should be renamed per Wikipedia's conventions and per some sort of anti-sexism thing. I don't know; I'm not inparticularly interested in the topic, but enough people have brought it up to warrant a CfR.Esteffect 22:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- As this has become a deletion discussion, I vote delete. Esteffect 18:20, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose It's bad enough as it is and this makes it worse. It seems unlikely to be that the same people are icons to all these different groups. "Icons" is a lousy basis for a category anyway, no better than legends as in :category:Pop legends. Hawkestone 23:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete for reason explained above. —Doug Bell talk•contrib 10:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete is the best option as all the other times this category has come up. But failing that, oppose rename. Bhoeble 13:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - the name isn't the problem (infact, "gay icons" is arguably better defined than "LBGT icons"), it's the non-NPOV nature of the category. While some individuals are indisputably gay icons, other individuals are borderline candidates, and it becomes an issue of presenting evidence - something lists are good for but categories aren't.TheGrappler 20:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- delete utter POV; too trivial Mayumashu 02:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- Keep: See: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_8#Category:Gay_icons -- ProveIt (talk) 15:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete This category defines people on the basis of the characteristics of other people, not the characteristics of the subject, and that is inappropriate. Sumahoy 17:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. I've stated my reasons at great length in the previous discussion that ProveIt linked to above. However, I do wonder if this is not bordering on inadvertent abuse of process to retage this same cat on CFD so soon after it was last discussed. (I say inadvertent as the proposer took no part in the previous discussion as far as I'm aware). If delete is unsuccessful then I oppose rename as the cat links to an article gay icon. "LGBT icon" is a neologism. Valiantis 01:25, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose name change, as this is a made-up term. "Gay icon" is a real term. I have no vote on the settled issue of deletion. --Rob 07:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete: not all LGBT relate to the same "Icons" - always a matter of disputing and POV, plus it's a trivial information that can be included in the article of the "Icon" if necessary, plus what User:Sumahoy said, the "Icons" sometimes don't do anything intentionally to be an LGBT or Gay Icon and are choosen by LGBT for personal preferences. Bisco 07:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Delete It would be good to see the back of this. It's biased and vague. Golfcam 03:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Keep and Oppose rename; This is a rehash of a closed debate -- the debate is framed in the same way as the old debate and no new facts have been added to change people's minds, it's just a hope the other side doesn't show up kind of tally. "Gay icon" is correct usage rather than the politically-correct sounding but in this context just wrong LGBT... Carlossuarez46 19:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Delete any xxx icons. Arniep 22:08, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Delete People should not be categorised on the basis of other people's perceptions of them. Osomec 18:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
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