Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27#Society by country
= March 27 =
== Category:2010s rock song stubs ==
: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: no consensus, but at least the category meets the content thresholds for stub categories now. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:33, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose deleting {{Lc|2010s rock song stubs}}
:Nominator's rationale: Delete. Doesn't meet threshhold for new stub categories and was not created following procedures per Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 18:38, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Delete Per nom. I'm baffled that proposals process still exists. Be bold people, and if you make a mistake, someone will spot it and it will end up here. Like this one. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:52, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Keep - I sincerely apologize for not following proper procedure, which I will try to do in the future. I have filed a request here to create such a category. That being said, if rock song stubs are not divided into separate decades, there could end up being several thousand stubs in this category by the end of the century. People may put {{tl|2000s-rock-song-stub}} in the article thinking that "2000s" means the 21st century. --Jax 0677 (talk) 23:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
- Keep as part of :Category:Rock song stubs, which has subcats for preceding decades. – Fayenatic London 15:57, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Note: I took it upon myself to diffuse :Category:Rock song stubs and was able to up the number of stub articles in the nominated category to 70. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 02:55, 3 April 2014 (UTC)----
:The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
== Society by country ==
: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: Keep DavidLeighEllis (talk) 20:06, 4 April 2014 (UTC) (non-admin closure)
:* Propose renaming :Category:Afghan society to :Category:Society of Afghanistan
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- Propose renaming :Category:Afghan society to :Category:Society of Afghanistan
- Propose renaming :Category:Albanian society to :Category:Society of Albania
- Propose renaming :Category:Algerian society to :Category:Society of Algeria
- Propose renaming :Category:American Samoan society to :Category:Society of American Samoa
- Propose renaming :Category:American society to :Category:Society of the United States
- Propose renaming :Category:Andorran society to :Category:Society of Andorra
- Propose renaming :Category:Angolan society to :Category:Society of Angola
- Propose renaming :Category:Anguillan society to :Category:Society of Anguilla
- Propose renaming :Category:Antigua and Barbuda society to :Category:Society of Antigua and Barbuda
- Propose renaming :Category:Argentine society to :Category:Society of Argentina
- Propose renaming :Category:Armenian society to :Category:Society of Armenia
- Propose renaming :Category:Aruban society to :Category:Society of Aruba
- Propose renaming :Category:Australian society to :Category:Society of Australia
- Propose renaming :Category:Austrian society to :Category:Society of Austria
- Propose renaming :Category:Azerbaijani society to :Category:Society of Azerbaijan
- Propose renaming :Category:Bahamian society to :Category:Society of the Bahamas
- Propose renaming :Category:Bahraini society to :Category:Society of Bahrain
- Propose renaming :Category:Bangladeshi society to :Category:Society of Bangladesh
- Propose renaming :Category:Barbadian society to :Category:Society of Barbados
- Propose renaming :Category:Belarusian society to :Category:Society of Belarus
- Propose renaming :Category:Belgian society to :Category:Society of Belgium
- Propose renaming :Category:Belizean society to :Category:Society of Belize
- Propose renaming :Category:Beninese society to :Category:Society of Benin
- Propose renaming :Category:Bermudian society to :Category:Society of Bermuda
- Propose renaming :Category:Bhutanese society to :Category:Society of Bhutan
- Propose renaming :Category:Bolivian society to :Category:Society of Bolivia
- Propose renaming :Category:Bonaire society to :Category:Society of Bonaire
- Propose renaming :Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina society to :Category:Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Propose renaming :Category:Botswana society to :Category:Society of Botswana
- Propose renaming :Category:Brazilian society to :Category:Society of Brazil
- Propose renaming :Category:British society to :Category:Society of the United Kingdom
- Propose renaming :Category:British Overseas Territories society to :Category:Society of the British Overseas Territories
- Propose renaming :Category:British Virgin Islands society to :Category:Society of the British Virgin Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Bruneian society to :Category:Society of Brunei
- Propose renaming :Category:Bulgarian society to :Category:Society of Bulgaria
- Propose renaming :Category:Burkinabé society to :Category:Society of Burkina Faso
- Propose renaming :Category:Burmese society to :Category:Society of Burma
- Propose renaming :Category:Burundian society to :Category:Society of Burundi
- Propose renaming :Category:Byzantine society to :Category:Society of the Byzantine Empire
- Propose renaming :Category:Cambodian society to :Category:Society of Cambodia
- Propose renaming :Category:Cameroonian society to :Category:Society of Cameroon
- Propose renaming :Category:Canadian society to :Category:Society of Canada
- Propose renaming :Category:Cape Verdean society to :Category:Society of Cape Verde
- Propose renaming :Category:Carniolan society to :Category:Society of Carniola
- Propose renaming :Category:Caymanian society to :Category:Society of the Cayman Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Central African society to :Category:Society of the Central African Republic
- Propose renaming :Category:Chadian society to :Category:Society of Chad
- Propose renaming :Category:Chilean society to :Category:Society of Chile
- Propose renaming :Category:Chinese society to :Category:Society of China
- Propose renaming :Category:Colombian society to :Category:Society of Colombia
- Propose renaming :Category:Comorian society to :Category:Society of Comoros
- Propose renaming :Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo society to :Category:Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Propose renaming :Category:Republic of the Congo society to :Category:Society of the Republic of the Congo
- Propose renaming :Category:Cook Islands society to :Category:Society of the Cook Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Costa Rican society to :Category:Society of Costa Rica
- Propose renaming :Category:Croatian society to :Category:Society of Croatia
- Propose renaming :Category:Cuban society to :Category:Society of Cuba
- Propose renaming :Category:Curaçao society to :Category:Society of Curaçao
- Propose renaming :Category:Cypriot society to :Category:Society of Cyprus
- Propose renaming :Category:Czech society to :Category:Society of the Czech Republic
- Propose renaming :Category:Czechoslovak society to :Category:Society of Czechoslovakia
- Propose renaming :Category:Danish society to :Category:Society of Denmark
- Propose renaming :Category:Djiboutian society to :Category:Society of Djibouti
- Propose renaming :Category:Dominica society to :Category:Society of Dominica
- Propose renaming :Category:Dominican Republic society to :Category:Society of the Dominican Republic
- Propose renaming :Category:Dutch society to :Category:Society of the Netherlands
- Propose renaming :Category:East Timorese society to :Category:Society of East Timor
- Propose renaming :Category:Ecuadorian society to :Category:Society of Ecuador
- Propose renaming :Category:Egyptian society to :Category:Society of Egypt
- Propose renaming :Category:Emirati society to :Category:Society of the United Arab Emirates
- Propose renaming :Category:English society to :Category:Society of England
- Propose renaming :Category:Equatoguinean society to :Category:Society of Equatorial Guinea
- Propose renaming :Category:Eritrean society to :Category:Society of Eritrea
- Propose renaming :Category:Estonian society to :Category:Society of Estonia
- Propose renaming :Category:Ethiopian society to :Category:Society of Ethiopia
- Propose renaming :Category:Falkland Islands society to :Category:Society of the Falkland Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Faroese society to :Category:Society of the Faroe Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Fijian society to :Category:Society of Fiji
- Propose renaming :Category:Finnish society to :Category:Society of Finland
- Propose renaming :Category:French society to :Category:Society of France
- Propose renaming :Category:French Guianan society to :Category:Society of French Guiana
- Propose renaming :Category:French Polynesian society to :Category:Society of French Polynesia
- Propose renaming :Category:Gabonese society to :Category:Society of Gabon
- Propose renaming :Category:Gambian society to :Category:Society of the Gambia
- Propose renaming :Category:German society to :Category:Society of Germany
- Propose renaming :Category:Ghanaian society to :Category:Society of Ghana
- Propose renaming :Category:Gibraltarian society to :Category:Society of Gibraltar
- Propose renaming :Category:Greek society to :Category:Society of Greece
- Propose renaming :Category:Ancient Greek society to :Category:Society of ancient Greece
- Propose renaming :Category:Greenlandic society to :Category:Society of Greenland
- Propose renaming :Category:Grenadian society to :Category:Society of Grenada
- Propose renaming :Category:Guadeloupean society to :Category:Society of Guadeloupe
- Propose renaming :Category:Guam society to :Category:Society of Guam
- Propose renaming :Category:Guatemalan society to :Category:Society of Guatemala
- Propose renaming :Category:Guernsey society to :Category:Society of Guernsey
- Propose renaming :Category:Guinean society to :Category:Society of Guinea
- Propose renaming :Category:Guinea-Bissauan society to :Category:Society of Guinea-Bissau
- Propose renaming :Category:Guyanese society to :Category:Society of Guyana
- Propose renaming :Category:Haitian society to :Category:Society of Haiti
- Propose renaming :Category:Honduran society to :Category:Society of Honduras
- Propose renaming :Category:Hungarian society to :Category:Society of Hungary
- Propose renaming :Category:Icelandic society to :Category:Society of Iceland
- Propose renaming :Category:Indian society to :Category:Society of India
- Propose renaming :Category:Indonesian society to :Category:Society of Indonesia
- Propose renaming :Category:Iranian society to :Category:Society of Iran
- Propose renaming :Category:Iraqi society to :Category:Society of Iraq
- Propose renaming :Category:Irish society to :Category:Society of Ireland
- Propose renaming :Category:Israeli society to :Category:Society of Israel
- Propose renaming :Category:Italian society to :Category:Society of Italy
- Propose renaming :Category:Ivorian society to :Category:Society of Ivory Coast
- Propose renaming :Category:Jamaican society to :Category:Society of Jamaica
- Propose renaming :Category:Japanese society to :Category:Society of Japan
- Propose renaming :Category:Jersey society to :Category:Society of Jersey
- Propose renaming :Category:Jordanian society to :Category:Society of Jordan
- Propose renaming :Category:Kazakhstani society to :Category:Society of Kazakhstan
- Propose renaming :Category:Kenyan society to :Category:Society of Kenya
- Propose renaming :Category:Kiribati society to :Category:Society of Kiribati
- Propose renaming :Category:North Korean society to :Category:Society of North Korea
- Propose renaming :Category:South Korean society to :Category:Society of South Korea
- Propose renaming :Category:Korean society to :Category:Society of Korea
- Propose renaming :Category:Kosovar society to :Category:Society of Kosovo
- Propose renaming :Category:Kuwaiti society to :Category:Society of Kuwait
- Propose renaming :Category:Kyrgyzstani society to :Category:Society of Kyrgyzstan
- Propose renaming :Category:Laotian society to :Category:Society of Laos
- Propose renaming :Category:Latvian society to :Category:Society of Latvia
- Propose renaming :Category:Lebanese society to :Category:Society of Lebanon
- Propose renaming :Category:Lesotho society to :Category:Society of Lesotho
- Propose renaming :Category:Liberian society to :Category:Society of Liberia
- Propose renaming :Category:Libyan society to :Category:Society of Libya
- Propose renaming :Category:Liechtenstein society to :Category:Society of Liechtenstein
- Propose renaming :Category:Lithuanian society to :Category:Society of Lithuania
- Propose renaming :Category:Luxembourgian society to :Category:Society of Luxembourg
- Propose renaming :Category:Macedonian society to :Category:Society of the Republic of Macedonia
- Propose renaming :Category:Malagasy society to :Category:Society of Madagascar
- Propose renaming :Category:Malawian society to :Category:Society of Malawi
- Propose renaming :Category:Malaysian society to :Category:Society of Malaysia
- Propose renaming :Category:Maldivian society to :Category:Society of the Maldives
- Propose renaming :Category:Malian society to :Category:Society of Mali
- Propose renaming :Category:Maltese society to :Category:Society of Malta
- Propose renaming :Category:Manx society to :Category:Society of the Isle of Man
- Propose renaming :Category:Marshallese society to :Category:Society of the Marshall Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Martiniquan society to :Category:Society of Martinique
- Propose renaming :Category:Mauritanian society to :Category:Society of Mauritania
- Propose renaming :Category:Mauritian society to :Category:Society of Mauritius
- Propose renaming :Category:Mexican society to :Category:Society of Mexico
- Propose renaming :Category:Federated States of Micronesia society to :Category:Society of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Propose renaming :Category:Moldovan society to :Category:Society of Moldova
- Propose renaming :Category:Monegasque society to :Category:Society of Monaco
- Propose renaming :Category:Mongolian society to :Category:Society of Mongolia
- Propose renaming :Category:Montenegrin society to :Category:Society of Montenegro
- Propose renaming :Category:Montserratian society to :Category:Society of Montserrat
- Propose renaming :Category:Moroccan society to :Category:Society of Morocco
- Propose renaming :Category:Mozambican society to :Category:Society of Mozambique
- Propose renaming :Category:Namibian society to :Category:Society of Namibia
- Propose renaming :Category:Nauruan society to :Category:Society of Nauru
- Propose renaming :Category:Nepalese society to :Category:Society of Nepal
- Propose renaming :Category:New Caledonian society to :Category:Society of New Caledonia
- Propose renaming :Category:New Zealand society to :Category:Society of New Zealand
- Propose renaming :Category:Nicaraguan society to :Category:Society of Nicaragua
- Propose renaming :Category:Nigerian society to :Category:Society of Nigeria
- Propose renaming :Category:Nigerien society to :Category:Society of Niger
- Propose renaming :Category:Niuean society to :Category:Society of Niue
- Propose renaming :Category:Norwegian society to :Category:Society of Norway
- Propose renaming :Category:Omani society to :Category:Society of Oman
- Propose renaming :Category:Ottoman society to :Category:Society of the Ottoman Empire
- Propose renaming :Category:Pakistani society to :Category:Society of Pakistan
- Propose renaming :Category:Palauan society to :Category:Society of Palau
- Propose renaming :Category:Palestinian society to :Category:Society of the Palestinian territories
- Propose renaming :Category:Panamanian society to :Category:Society of Panama
- Propose renaming :Category:Papua New Guinean society to :Category:Society of Papua New Guinea
- Propose renaming :Category:Paraguayan society to :Category:Society of Paraguay
- Propose renaming :Category:Peruvian society to :Category:Society of Peru
- Propose renaming :Category:Philippine society to :Category:Society of Philippine
- Propose renaming :Category:Pitcairn Islands society to :Category:Society of the Pitcairn Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Polish society to :Category:Society of Poland
- Propose renaming :Category:Portuguese society to :Category:Society of Portugal
- Propose renaming :Category:Puerto Rican society to :Category:Society of Puerto Rico
- Propose renaming :Category:Qatari society to :Category:Society of Qatar
- Propose renaming :Category:Republic of Ireland society to :Category:Society of the Republic of Ireland
- Propose renaming :Category:Ancient Roman society to :Category:Society of Ancient Rome
- Propose renaming :Category:Romanian society to :Category:Society of Romania
- Propose renaming :Category:Russian society to :Category:Society of Russia
- Propose renaming :Category:Rwandan society to :Category:Society of Rwanda
- Propose renaming :Category:Saba society to :Category:Society of Saba
- Propose renaming :Category:Sahrawi society to :Category:Society of Western Sahara
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Barthélemy society to :Category:Society of Saint Barthélemy
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Helenian society to :Category:Society of Saint Helena
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis society to :Category:Society of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Lucian society to :Category:Society of Saint Lucia
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon society to :Category:Society of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Propose renaming :Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines society to :Category:Society of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Propose renaming :Category:Salvadoran society to :Category:Society of El Salvador
- Propose renaming :Category:Samoan society to :Category:Society of Samoa
- Propose renaming :Category:Sammarinese society to :Category:Society of San Marino
- Propose renaming :Category:Saudi Arabian society to :Category:Society of Saudi Arabia
- Propose renaming :Category:Scottish society to :Category:Society of Scotland
- Propose renaming :Category:Senegalese society to :Category:Society of Senegal
- Propose renaming :Category:Serbian society to :Category:Society of Serbia
- Propose renaming :Category:Seychellois society to :Category:Society of Seychelles
- Propose renaming :Category:Sierra Leonean society to :Category:Society of Sierra Leone
- Propose renaming :Category:Singaporean society to :Category:Society of Singapore
- Propose renaming :Category:Sint Eustatius society to :Category:Society of Sint Eustatius
- Propose renaming :Category:Sint Maarten society to :Category:Society of Sint Maarten
- Propose renaming :Category:Slovak society to :Category:Society of Slovakia
- Propose renaming :Category:Slovenian society to :Category:Society of Slovenia
- Propose renaming :Category:Solomon Islands society to :Category:Society of the Solomon Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Somalian society to :Category:Society of Somalia
- Propose renaming :Category:South African society to :Category:Society of South Africa
- Propose renaming :Category:South Sudanese society to :Category:Society of South Sudan
- Propose renaming :Category:Soviet society to :Category:Society of the Soviet Union
- Propose renaming :Category:Spanish society to :Category:Society of Spain
- Propose renaming :Category:Sri Lankan society to :Category:Society of Sri Lanka
- Propose renaming :Category:Sudanese society to :Category:Society of Sudan
- Propose renaming :Category:Surinamese society to :Category:Society of Suriname
- Propose renaming :Category:Swazi society to :Category:Society of Swaziland
- Propose renaming :Category:Swedish society to :Category:Society of Sweden
- Propose renaming :Category:Swiss society to :Category:Society of Switzerland
- Propose renaming :Category:Syrian society to :Category:Society of Syria
- Propose renaming :Category:São Tomé and Príncipe society to :Category:Society of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Propose renaming :Category:Taiwanese society to :Category:Society of Taiwan
- Propose renaming :Category:Tajikistani society to :Category:Society of Tajikistan
- Propose renaming :Category:Tanzanian society to :Category:Society of Tanzania
- Propose renaming :Category:Thai society to :Category:Society of Thailand
- Propose renaming :Category:Togolese society to :Category:Society of Togo
- Propose renaming :Category:Tongan society to :Category:Society of Tonga
- Propose renaming :Category:Trinidad and Tobago society to :Category:Society of Trinidad and Tobago
- Propose renaming :Category:Tunisian society to :Category:Society of Tunisia
- Propose renaming :Category:Turkish Cypriot society to :Category:Society of Northern Cyprus
- Propose renaming :Category:Turkish society to :Category:Society of Turkey
- Propose renaming :Category:Turkmenistan society to :Category:Society of Turkmenistan
- Propose renaming :Category:Turks and Caicos Islands society to :Category:Society of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Tuvaluan society to :Category:Society of Tuvalu
- Propose renaming :Category:Ugandan society to :Category:Society of Uganda
- Propose renaming :Category:Ukrainian society to :Category:Society of Ukraine
- Propose renaming :Category:United States Virgin Islands society to :Category:Society of United States Virgin Islands
- Propose renaming :Category:Uruguayan society to :Category:Society of Uruguay
- Propose renaming :Category:Uzbekistani society to :Category:Society of Uzbekistan
- Propose renaming :Category:Vanuatuan society to :Category:Society of Vanuatu
- Propose renaming :Category:Vatican City society to :Category:Society of Vatican City
- Propose renaming :Category:Venezuelan society to :Category:Society of Venezuela
- Propose renaming :Category:Vietnamese society to :Category:Society of Vietnam
- Propose renaming :Category:Wallis and Futuna society to :Category:Society of Wallis and Futuna
- Propose renaming :Category:Welsh society to :Category:Society of Wales
- Propose renaming :Category:Yemeni society to :Category:Society of Yemen
- Propose renaming :Category:Yugoslav society to :Category:Society of Yugoslavia
- Propose renaming :Category:Zambian society to :Category:Society of Zambia
- Propose renaming :Category:Zimbabwean society to :Category:Society of Zimbabwe
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:*ALTERNATIVE: Propose renaming :Category:Society by country back to :Category:Society by nationality
:Nominator's rationale: Rename. These are logically required following the change of the parent from "by nationality" to "by country" at CFD March 12. The contents are about countries rather than diasporas. Most of the contents are named by country rather than nationality. – Fayenatic London 18:21, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- I have now tagged all the nominated categories. – Fayenatic London 14:00, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- oppose While I agree these are *generally* about the country, they sometimes bleed over - for example, {{cl|Irish culture}} is in {{cl|Irish society}}. I think the shorter forms are cleaner and more in line with how reliable sources talk about these things, even if the culture bleeds into other places.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- All of the corresponding Culture categories are in the Society categories; I checked that last week. For Ireland, there are corresponding sub-cats for the Republic of Ireland and for Northern Ireland. It all makes sense. – Fayenatic London 19:05, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
:::Yes, but {{cl|Chinese culture}} goes far beyond the borders of whatever entity you define as China in a given point in time.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
::::That's not a problem. If :Chinese society covers culture and other matters in the diaspora, do we have to remove it from the parent :Category:China? Not at all. WP:SUBCAT allows flexibility in parenting where there is a close enough match. In the same way, the intervening society category :Category:Chinese society can still stay as the parent of :Category:Chinese culture even if it is renamed to [ :Category:Culture of China (oops)] :Category:Society of China. If people disagree and think this is a barrier to the renaming, then I am prepared to move all the national culture categories back out of the national Society categories, although that strikes me as wrong given that :Category:Culture is within :Category:Society. – Fayenatic London 23:00, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::I think on balance - Chinese culture vs Culture of China - or Chinese society vs Society of China - leads me to prefer the former rather than the latter, since it just seems a bit broader and representative of the contents.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::Sorry, that was a typo about culture. The culture categories are not to be renamed; they reach the diasporas, and so must stay named by nationality (e.g. Chinese). However, the Society category contents are mostly just in-country matters, e.g. {{cl|health in China}}, {{cl|crime in China}}, {{cl|education in China}}. – Fayenatic London 23:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose I don't see a good rationale for making such sweeping change. The culture or society of a country is not limited by political boundaries (that is Welsh society or Welsh culture is not limited to Wales). There is also the assumption that there is a unified society when cultures and societies are mixtures and contain many subcultures. If this proposal goes through, it definitely should be discussed on a variety of political, international relations, sociological and anthropological WikiProjects or, at the least, they should receive talk page notifications. Liz Read! Talk! 23:55, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose I'd agree that adjectives are more forgiving and cover the subleties better than trying to force into "countries" - for instance Ireland isn't a country, one of its subcategories is and one isn't, yet that's meant to fit what is mostly a "country" category. Adjectives also cope better with historical societies - Norman culture generally implies you're in the Middle Ages and roaming from Scandinavia to Sicily, whereas culture of Normandy implies you're talking about the modern day region of France. Inherently "culture" is something that reflects ethnic and cultural "fuzz" rather than modern political boundaries, in contrast to something like "Law of ..." or "Government of ..." Le Deluge (talk) 00:42, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Obiwankenobi, Liz, Le Deluge: there is no change to the Culture categories, just Society. Most of the contents of the "Society" categories are Law, Government, etc, which are limited to the national borders.
- {{cl|Norman society}} is not part of this nomination, and is covered at CFD March 28. I can see a case for treating former countries/empires differently. That does not stop us having a more consistent set of names for current countries. – Fayenatic London 14:54, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Comment I think a split should be done to the proposed titles, so that society in Country X can contain information about ethnic Group Y from country Y in country X and not be confused with ethnic group X from country X in country Z. -- 70.24.250.235 (talk) 05:58, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- {{ping|70.24.250.235}} Please would you give an example of a split that you want to see? I'm not clear what you mean. It sounds as if you want, e.g. {{Cl|Bangladeshi society in Britain}} and {{cl|Bangladeshi society in Malaysia}}. However, this nomination is not about splitting categories for diaspora, but just clearer more consistent naming for categories which mainly cover the "home" country. – Fayenatic London 15:39, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- Bangladeshi society would have subcategories of your examples, while having a sibling category for Society in Bangladesh. Society of Bangladesh would cover all aspects of the society in the country including minority groups and non-Bangladeshi diaspora populations in Bangladesh, while Bangladeshi society would cover the diaspora of Bangladesh, and the majority Bangladeshi society of Bangladesh. -- 70.24.250.235 (talk) 09:10, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- I see, thank you. This could be done quite easily. :Category:Bangladeshi society could hold :Category:Bangladeshi culture, :Category:Bangladeshi diaspora, :Category:Bangladeshi people, and :Category:Society in Bangladesh which would hold the rest of the current sub-cats that are just about the country. For other nations it could also hold refugees as pointed out below by user:Uyvsdi. Do any others support this suggested split? If so it might be clearest for me to withdraw and relist this, as it would be a significantly different proposal. - Fayenatic london 11:38, 1 April 2014
::::*No, I think this is excessive subcategorization. We try to make subcats really subcats, but culture and society and many other things simply bleed over the borders, but I don't think it means we should split them somehow.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:44, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
:::::*On the one hand, this alternate proposal does have a certain logic to it. On the other hand, it leads to a very complex and, I think, unwieldy arrangement that would probably be overly confusing for readers to be able to navigate. Cgingold (talk) 23:40, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
::::::*OK, I agree with you both. For countries that have only a few sub-categories under Society, it would clearly be unhelpful. So we are just back to the alternative outcome below, i.e. renaming the parent. – Fayenatic London 10:44, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
:::::::*Whatever the outcome for this proposal -- and I have very mixed feelings about the whole thing -- the decision to rename the head category should not be reversed. Imperfect though it may be, :Category:Society by country is surely far less problematic than :Category:Society by nationality. Cgingold (talk) 21:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
::::::::*{{ping|Cgingold}} I only supported the rename of the head category at CFD March 12 because I have long thought that these national categories were mis-named. If they are to be kept, e.g. "Afghan", well, that is a nationality; only if they were renamed to e.g. "of Afghanistan" would "by country" match the contents. "By country" or "by nationality" should be used according to the naming of the national sub-cats, not according to one's view of the nature of the contents. – Fayenatic London 13:12, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose per previous comments that the current naming is more flexible to cover more potential topics. For instance, the first cat in the first example :Category:Afghan society is :Category:Afghan refugee camps, many of which are in Iran and Pakistan, not within the borders of Afghanistan. -Uyvsdi (talk) 16:54, 29 March 2014 (UTC)Uyvsdi
- Oh bother, this nomination took me hours! If it is rejected, please can the alternative outcome be to reverse the renaming of the parent :Category:Society by country back to :Category:Society by nationality, to match the contents again? – Fayenatic London 17:00, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose - With sincere apologies to Fayenatic for the time put into this proposal, there is no inherent contradiction in organizing by country at the top level the discussions of culture and cultural diasporas. Some geographically bounded "countries" may contain more than one culture and be the origin of more than one diaspora, but such situations are easily addressable within a text covering that country. If there is no inherent contradiction, it seems like a wasteful expenditure of time to do all this re-naming. Meclee (talk) 14:25, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- {{ping|Meclee}} Yes, yes, and that's why Culture will remain "by nationality". The question is at what level to make the switch from "by country" to "by nationality". IMHO, the Society categories – which are between the main country level and the culture categories – should be "by country", following the nature of most (by far) of the other contents. – Fayenatic London 20:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- support alternative proposal though I fear it may be better to hit the reset button. 'Country' or 'nationality' are Both wrong actually, it should really be {{cl|Society by national origin and myth in the imaginary of citizens of said nation}} - in that for many of these things we can't firmly establish whether tradition or food or practice as is 'Italian' when the nation state of Italy was a relatively recent creation, so a lot of this is related to the historical imagining and revisionist continuous histories that people use to link them to the past, even if their present state conquered and perhaps destroyed what was previously there. I can't think of a better shorter term, either one is actually fine, so I will throw my support behind whichever one others like - society by country or society by nationality, both are slightly wrong but close enough indeed.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:58, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Comment: I agree with the above comment from Obi-Wan Kenobi, but only if he's the Alec Guinness and not the new guy. I'm not sure I understand using the lesser/greater of two ill-defined terms, when "Society by national origin and myth in the imaginary of citizens of said nation" actually works best. I do see Fayenatic's point as such and appreciate the time he put into this. Mvblair (talk) 17:21, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Favor. "Society" first. More objective. I would prefer country, but that is really a separate change from what the discussion first started out to be. "Society of Abenaki" instead of "Society of North American Natives" or "Society of the United States" or whatever. These are simply three competing articles calling for a different solution. Society first. That is the decision that needs to be made. Student7 (talk) 21:36, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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==== Category:Women Egyptologists ====
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:The result of the discussion was: merge to {{cat|Egyptologists}} and {{Cat|Women archaeologists}}. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:30, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose merging :Category:Women Egyptologists to both parents
:Nominator's rationale: Merge. This is a follow on to this discussion. The possibility of upmerging this to :Category:Egyptologists was proposed as an add on to nomination being discussed. With only 3 articles, the idea probably should get a full discussion. I'm still neutral but thinking abut it. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:07, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- support We dont need to genderize every single academic subfield.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 18:57, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Upmerge No one has demonstrated that this specific form of archeology is more gendered than any other form. Anyway, :Category:Women archaeologists is not big enough to need splitting.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:36, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Support proposal. I don't see a compelling reason to go further than :Category:Women archaeologists. Cgingold (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- Upmerge obviously. Archaeology is not a profession where there has been a significant gender divide in many years (if ever). There is thus no need for a gender split. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:41, 6 April 2014 (UTC)----
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==== Category:Cross-dressing in media ====
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:The result of the discussion was: reverse merge to :Category:Cross-dressing in media. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose merging :Category:Cross-dressing in media to :Category:Cross-dressing in fiction
:Nominator's rationale: Merge or reverse merge. These seem to be two overlapping categories. In fact the vast majority of the content is the same and one could argue that the :Category:Cross-dressing in literature could be move to fiction without a discussion. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:54, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- reverse merge, just put it all in media, that way if we have non-fiction it could fit there as well, I don't see a need to separate out fiction at this point.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)----
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==== Shades of Colors====
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:The result of the discussion was: wrong place to discuss page moves, see Requested Move at Talk:Variations of brown. – Fayenatic London 23:42, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose rename:
- Variations of gray to Shades of gray
- Variations of brown to Shades of brown
- Variations of pink to Shades of pink
- Variations of cyan to Shades of cyan
:Nominator's rationale: Consistent with :Category:Shades of color and respective parent categories. --172.251.77.75 (talk) 17:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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==== Category:Death of women ====
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:The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:27, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose merging :Category:Death of women to :Category:Women and death
:Nominator's rationale: Excessive sub categorization. We already have a parent which covers the topic of women and death, and all of these articles would work fine in the parent. Additionally, this category actually suggests a wider scope, meaning people may start to place articles that mention a woman dying within, which is not the intent here. Merging up will help tighten the scope so it remains for articles on the topic of intersection of women and death. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Keep. This category and the parent category are not particularly small (total 9 subcats and 43 pages) so it's not excessive sub categorization. It's useful to separate articles about deaths of women from articles about other things (e.g. female murderers, female mourning). If anything, it's :Category:Women and death which should be purged/deleted (along with many other "Foo and bar" categories). If necessary, the scope can be clarified/tightened using inclusion criteria. (category creator) DexDor (talk) 22:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
::But we don't want to have articles about deaths of women - I already removed one article about a woman who died - this is silly to gather these together in this way - e.g. "Here is a person who died" + "she was a woman" - I see no need to collect such articles together. I proposed deletion of {{cl|Women and death}} earlier but people liked it, so consensus is to keep, I just don't think we need to divide further, these are all on the topic of women and death, that's close enough...--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
:::The Women_and_death CFD closed as no consensus and the argument to delete/upmerge that category is stronger now that a chunk of that category is in the the Death_of_women category. Women_and_death isn't really one topic; it's a collection of topics that are separate intersections of the topic of women with the topic of death. DexDor (talk) 21:18, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
::::Hey, I'm all with you, but I wasn't able to get that one deleted, people seemed to like "random mishmash of something to do with death and something to do with women". The problem with this cat is it may start collecting articles about women who died, which is a bad idea. Sadly, death takes us all, women and men and boys and girls, and I don't see the value in genderizing, but if we do, let's keep it to a single cat.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 17:27, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
- Upmerge The current name is too likely to lead to miscategorization and misuse.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:38, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- Keep useful sub categorisation. e.g. Medea and death goddesses are plainly in a different category to dead women. I have notified :WP:Death where there may be more insight into this grouping. Ephebi (talk) 15:05, 31 March 2014 (UTC)----
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== Category:Law enforcement museums and memorials in Canada ==
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:The result of the discussion was: split into :Category:Law enforcement museums in Canada and :Category:Law enforcement memorials in Canada. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:24, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
::Note: only implemented in part, as only one article on a memorial does not justify a category. – Fayenatic L'ondon 23:39, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose deleting {{Lc|Law enforcement museums and memorials in Canada}}
:Nominator's rationale: Split, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 15#Category:Law enforcement museums and memorials Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:15, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Split, museums and memorials should be separate. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:14, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
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== Category:Single-deck solitaire card games ==
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:The result of the discussion was: reverse merge. The Bushranger One ping only 05:07, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
:* Propose merging :Category:Single-deck solitaire card games to :Category:52-card deck solitaire card games
:Nominator's rationale: Same as :Category:52-card deck solitaire card games TheChampionMan1234 04:16, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- reverse merge not all solitaire is played with 52 cards. In Italy most decks have 40 cards.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 13:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- No merge. Both are decent sized categories. :Category:52-card deck solitaire card games can exist just fine as a subcat of :Category:Single-deck solitaire card games. This retains clarity in categorisation, and yet also helps navigation (the purpose of categories) - jc37 18:14, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
:::I think a merge is better, since we have {{cl|Double deck solitaire card games}}, I don't feel like there's value in separating out solitaire played with 52 card deck vs spanish deck (50 cards), or italian deck (40 cards), or German skat deck (36 cards), or austrian schnapsen deck (24 cards), or tarot deck (78 cards). Single deck is close enough.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
::::This is simple category diffusion, common practice on Wikipedia. If you have a large category, it can help navigation if you diffuse it into smaller subcats. So in this case, the parent is :Category:Single-deck solitaire card games, and so :Category:52-card deck solitaire card games is a subcat of that. no need for a merge, which then makes a large voluminous category. And besides, as this is the english Wikipedia, I don't think it's beyond the pale to think that readers are likely going to be looking for 52-card deck related solitaires, as 52 cards is a common deck in primarily english-speaking countries, such as US, UK, Australia and elsewhere.
::::So this is a simple subcat choice, which helps navigation and helps readers find what they want/need. What's the converse arguement? They all need to be dumped in a pile together, forcing readers to try to sift through all those pages to try to figure out which articles involved 52-card decks? Which do you think helps navigation? - jc37 18:29, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::most games with fewer than 52 cards can be played with a stripped 52-card deck. Yes subcats can work here but I think it's an unneeded level of specification and the cat wouldn't be that big anyway and would probably fit on one page nonetheless.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- reverse merge—the key difference between single deck and double deck patience is that in a single deck there are no duplicate cards. The number of cards in the single deck doesn't change that fact that it's a single deck. See David Partlett's encyclopaedic work on patience games for more details. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:02, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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== Category:Zabytki ==
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:The result of the discussion was: rename as proposed. There's definitely a consensus here to use an English-language name. In the absence of a consensus for any alternative name, I'm defaulting so it matches the name of the article. It may be possible to reach a consensus on a different name through WP:RM. If so, the category name can then be changed speedily to match the new name. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:20, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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:* Propose renaming :Category:Zabytki to :Category:Objects of cultural heritage in Poland
:Nominator's rationale: Rename. Let's use an English name. The main article was moved by User:Staszek Lem already two years back; although there was no discussion, there were no objections. I have raised this at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland#Category:Zabytki_probably_should_be_renamed, where the category creator expressed no objections to renaming the category. My only concern would be that the English name is a bit ORish (as in, I haven't found any other English widespread translation of zabytek), see my analysis at Talk:Objects of cultural heritage in Poland for details. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- speedy rename - further discussions about the appropriate English title should be had at the article; then the category should simply follow suit if it's decided to change.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- Question to {{ping|Piotrus}} If the Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa (National Heritage Board of Poland) is not using this term, as you stated on the article talk page, is there a definable scope for the contents of the category? – Fayenatic London 17:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|Fayenatic london}} Yes, for objects in the official catalogues at :Objects of cultural heritage in Poland, maintained by NID itself. NID is not using the Polish term in English, but they certainly do it in Polish, and such a category can be defined.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:13, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Comment - I am all in favor of using English terms in category names whenever possible. However, it seems to me that we can do better than the current proposal. In particular, I think we should use the term "artifacts" rather than "objects". What about "Cultural artifacts in Poland" (wherein "heritage" is implicit)? Cgingold (talk) 03:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Comment: Good point. How about using the term Cultural property, i.e. :Category:Cultural properties in Poland? This covers both moveable and immoveable objects. I have suggested at the main article talk page that it could be renamed following this discussion. – Fayenatic London 08:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
::"Property" would be a good term, except that it is ambiguous: besides "a thing... owned" and the like, it has a couple of other meanings, including a "trait or attribute... [a] peculiarity... any of the principal characteristics of a substance... an essential quality common to all members of... a class." Nihil novi (talk) 20:12, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Support an English-language rendering of the Polish "zabytki" (in the singular, "zabytek"). Nihil novi (talk) 09:49, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
::Perhaps "Polish cultural monuments"? "Monument", derived ultimately from the Latin "monere", "to remind", is used in many senses, all of which are applicable in this context. For example, literary works may be classed as monuments, as in the title of [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25778517?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103579589491] Bogdana Carpenter's Monumenta Polonica: the First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry: a Bilingual Anthology. I would use the wording "Polish cultural monuments" rather than "Cultural monuments in Poland", because a Polish cultural monument such as a painting or book might be found outside Poland, in another country. Nihil novi (talk) 20:41, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Rename to :Category:Cultural properties of Poland. I think it should follow the main article cultural property, and that this has the right breadth for the reasons above. – Fayenatic London 11:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- {{replyto|Fayenatic london}} Please reconsider. "Cultural property are the physical constituents of the cultural heritage of a group or society." But the term zabytek, as noted, refers to more than that; for example it also encompasses Cultural_heritage#Natural_heritage. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:19, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
- {{ping|Piotrus}} But the main article states that zabytek is defined as "creation of man or its byproduct". Natural monuments are only mentioned where they form part of a park, as the park can be a zabytek because it is manmade. If the Wikipedia article is wrong on this, please correct it. – Fayenatic London 13:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
- Rename to :Category:Objects of cultural heritage in Poland per parent article Objects of cultural heritage in Poland. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- As the article name has never been discussed until now, we should start from scratch rather than treat it as a precedent. It can be renamed alongside the category. – Fayenatic London 22:22, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- REname somehow. The article indicates that the term convers both buildings and objects. I would tentatively suggest something like :Category:Registered cultural heritage in Poland, but I am not fundamentally opposed to some of the other suggested targets. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:48, 6 April 2014 (UTC)----
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