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Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 19:00, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1920-1929)
Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1930-1939)
Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1940-1949)
Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1950-1959)
Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1960-1969)
Category:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers (1970-1979)
Category:U.S. Navy escort aircraft carriers

More pieces of the unofficial renameings mentioned way below. Not sure where these went. Category:Aircraft carriers of the United States certainly looks right for the first one, but I see no "by year" US aircraft carrier categories in current use. Putting these up for either validation of the rename, or repudiation of it, in which case we'll need to find the articles. TexasAndroid 18:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: Categories by decade for military equipment, and especially ships, are practically useless to most researchers. There may be value in listing ships by decade, but this would be better done as a list than a category. Generally, ships are notable by three things: their type, their era, and their nationality. Categorization by era is much more useful by recognizable period (i.e. World War II, etc.) than by arbitrary decade blocks. For example, most aircraft carriers built in the 1930s were used in (and historically notable for their use in) World War II, primarily during the 1940s. Joshbaumgartner 22:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Joshbaumgartner. Naval ships (and especially large ones, like carriers) are generally expected to operate for more than a single decade; if there is any value in these divisions, they would be better served by a list. siafu 18:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I was the one who made these categories. Originally it was to line up with the aircraft categorizations but I would rather see it done by the more relevant military eras (WWII, Cold War, etc.) Oberiko 03:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:World War II equipment by nation and Category:World War II military equipment to Category:World War II military equipment by nation

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:World War II military equipment --Kbdank71 18:57, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate categories. It's all Military equipment, and it's all by nation, so proposed new name reflects both of these facts. TexasAndroid 16:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II British equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Italian equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of Italy

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Soviet equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of the Soviet Union

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Japanese equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of Japan

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:49, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Patrol craft of the United States to Category:United States Navy patrol boats

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:46, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Frigates of the United States to Category:United States Navy frigates

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Frigates of the United States Navy --Kbdank71 18:44, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Destroyers of the United States and Category:U.S. Navy destroyers to Category:United States Navy destroyers

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Destroyers of the United States Navy --Kbdank71 18:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate categories, merging into new category to expand abbreviation. TexasAndroid 16:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Auxiliary ships of the United States to Category:United States Navy auxiliary ships

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The result of the debate was reverse merge --Kbdank71 18:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Battleships of the United States to Category:United States Navy battleships

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Battleships of the United States Navy --Kbdank71 18:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cruisers of the United States to Category:United States Navy cruisers

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The result of the debate was merge to Category:Cruisers of the United States Navy --Kbdank71 18:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Military equipment of Russia and Category:Soviet and Russian military equipment to Category:Military equipment of the Soviet Union

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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 20:39, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate categories, but neither struck me as the right name. So proposing a new name to merge both into. TexasAndroid 16:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Polish military equipment to Category:Military equipment of Poland

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:British military equipment to Category:Military equipment of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was no consensus --Kbdank71 18:20, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Finnish military equipment to Category:Military equipment of Finland

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Military equipment by nation to Category:Military equipment by country

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. This one is just my gut feeling of which direction this one should go. I'm persuadible that the other direction is proper. But one way or another, they need to merge, IMHO. TexasAndroid 15:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:German military equipment to Category:Military equipment of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:05, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II German equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:03, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Soviet submarines to Category:World War II submarines of the Soviet Union

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 18:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II British cruisers to Category:World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 16:00, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II British patrol vessels

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 21:13, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty Category. COvered by the category just below this one, I beleive. TexasAndroid 15:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II British patrol boats to Category:World War II patrol boats of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 15:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Move for consistency. TexasAndroid 15:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • If you're renaming things to "United States Navy" then this should be Category:World War II British Royal Navy patrol boats 132.205.45.110 16:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm actually trying to avoid pure renames, at this point. The thing is too much of a mess. I'm looking for duplicates to merge rather than renames. In general I wanted to use the merge votes to guage feelings of which direction things should go before I started trying to do pure renames to make everything more consistant. And there is a *lot* of inconsistency in all this stuff. "WWII Fooian things" ""WWII things of Foo", etc.
    • So, along those lines, right now the vast bulk of US Navy categories are already "United States Navy things". The British ones are not. For now, I'm trying to merge duplicates and guage opinions. I will definitely take your suggestion under consideration for the wave of renames I'm contemplating in a week or two, but for now I would prefer to stick with existing patterns. OTOH, there's nothing to prevent you from tagging the lot of British Navy categories and putting them up for rename yourself. I'm just not at that point myself yet. TexasAndroid 16:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree: Consistant with Era Type User format. Joshbaumgartner 23:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:World War II British aircraft carriers to Category:World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 21:16, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II British naval ships to Category:World War II ships of the United Kingdom

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 21:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. (None of the other WWII ship categories have separate categories for "ships" and "naval ships"") - TexasAndroid 15:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Japanese aircraft carriers to Category:World War II aircraft carriers of Japan

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 21:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Japanese ships to Category:World War II ships of Japan

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 21:00, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 15:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Polish ships to Category:World War II ships of Poland

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:59, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 14:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II Soviet ships to Category:World War II ships of the Soviet Union

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 14:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II American destroyers to Category:World War II destroyers of the United States

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:52, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate category. TexasAndroid 14:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II American cruisers to Category:World War II cruisers of the United States

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:49, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate categories. TexasAndroid 14:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II American equipment to Category:World War II military equipment of the United States

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See entry below for explanation of this CFR. TexasAndroid 15:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II American ships to Category:World War II ships of the United States

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:30, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See entry below for explanation of this CFR. TexasAndroid 14:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II German battlecruisers to Category:World War II cruisers of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See entry below for explanation of this CFR. TexasAndroid 14:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Agree: Consistant with Era Type User format. Battlecruisers are a unique situation, as they bridge the gap between battleships and cruisers. They are often desribed as one, both, or either, depending on who is talking about them, and in some cases their own navies have reclassified them multiple times during their service (see the German pocket battleships for example). Additionally, battlecruisers have never been made in the quantities that cruisers or battleships have, meaning that any battlecruiser category is bound to be very small relatively. Thus I recommend that battlecruiser articles be categorized as both cruisers and battleships instead of maintaining a seperate battlecruiser tree of categories. Joshbaumgartner 23:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • KEEP, though battlecruisers were not plentiful, they still existed, as a class of ships whose guns outweighed their armor (fast enough to run from ships that could sink them, outgun ships with the same armor or worse)... though AFAIK, pocket battleships are just that, battleships, with the heavy armor of battleships, not the light cruiser armor of battlecruisers. 132.205.45.148 20:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:World War II German battleships to Category:World War II battleships of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:11, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See entry below for explanation of this CFR. TexasAndroid 14:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II German ships to Category:World War II ships of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:10, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See entry below for explanation of this CFR. TexasAndroid 14:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World War II German submarines to Category:World War II submarines of Germany

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:08, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First of a number of situations where a user has been working through WWII military pages, and doing unofficial category renames. (Create new category, move articles, then orphan the old one.) I do not have a strong opinion on these myself, but they do need to go through official CFR, so I'm placing his moves up here. Please vote Merge if you agree with the move, or Reverse Merge if you think that the older naming is the proper one. TexasAndroid 14:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Agree: Consistant with Era Type User format. As the user in question, I have been enlightened to the CFD process and will be using it. I am interested in consolidating and clarifying the military equipment category tree under a simple format that is useable for all types of equipment. Seeing as most people look up an item by the era it was made/used, the type of item, and/or by the country which made/used it, those are the classifications I try and categorize each article by. Joshbaumgartner 23:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedia reference desk archive to Category:Wikipedia Reference Desk archive

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The result of the debate was merge as nominated --Kbdank71 20:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Only one cat needed, although Wikipedia:Reference_desk is capitalised thusly. MeltBanana 13:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:English screenwriters and Category:Scottish screenwriters

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The result of the debate was keep --Kbdank71 20:28, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It might be a forlorn hope to get these deleted, but the creation of sub-cats of Category:British screenwriters hasn't been that helpful. "Scottish screenwriters" contains only 3 articles, while English screenwriters are now divided between "English" and "British" (most of them are under "British screenwriters"). Using only Category:British screenwriters would bring this into line with Category:British film directors and Category:British film producers, otherwise its confusing, especially for non-British editors. JW 13:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was discussion moved to WP:SFD --Kbdank71 20:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Soft redirect and move existing content to the standard named Category:Scotland-related stubs. Both were created on the same day by the same user, and they were clearly aware of the standard "Foo-related stubs" naming convention, because they pointed the non-standard Category:Scotland stubs towards the standard Category:Scotland-related stubs (incidentally, I notice that Category:Belarus stubs, and one or two others, have the same problem). This new supercat (there are three subcats: Scotland-geo-stub, Scotland-bio-stub and Hebrides-geo-stub) was subsequently noticed by someone at WikiProject Stub sorting, the discussion to which is here: WikiProject - Scotland-stub / Cat:Scotland-related stubs, but the course of action decided on was to reverse the redirect to point at the non-standard "Foo stubs". I embarked on putting it back the way it had originally been set up, but due to my pathetic "newbieness" I could not comprehend why the articles in Category:Scotland stubs did not magically shift over to Category:Scotland-related stubs. It was only at that point that I discovered the Wikiproject stub sorting discussion. In short, it is a mess at the moment, admittedly partly due to my own inexperience. Please provide your wise counsel. Mais oui! 12:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Am I the only User that feels slightly uncomfortable with this "out-of-process" concept, cited by User:Alai above, which seems to be uniquely applied to the creation of stub categories? As far as I am aware, there is no application "process" for applying to create any other type of Wikipedia page: article or category. Who exactly authorised Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting to carry out this vetting procedure? Where is the discussion which led to this delegation of authority to an honoured group of Wikipedians? They have applied very un-Wikipedian notices to Category:Scotland-related stubs, and I presume many others, saying:
Can you imagine if Wikipedia:WikiProject History, for example, went around every history-related category and put up a big notice saying: This category is maintained by WikiProject History. If you wish to add a subcategory to it, please propose it here prior to creating the category or template. There would quite rightly be an outcry, so why this dispensation for Stub sorting?--Mais oui! 19:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is it because WP:WSS is a project for Wikipedia maintainence? — Instantnood 19:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • I am not sure what you mean User:Instantnood. That link you provide ("project for Wikipedia maintainence") simply leads to the main Wikipedia:WikiProject page. There is absolutely nothing there to indicate that Stub sorting carries a unique authority within the Wikiproject system. From whence does this authority to vet, approve and reject applications to create categories derive? Can you point me in the direction of the discussion where this authority was delegated to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting?--Mais oui! 20:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
        • Is this really the place to discuss all that? Since you're blithely talking past the actual issues I've raised, continuing to populate the "-related" category anyway, and undoing all my attempts to "fix" things, it's not clear to what I can but to list the "other" category at WP:SFD. Your objection to the notice {{WSS-cat}} is a little strange: you added it to that category, twice: after it was created, and again after I removed it (in the process of completely forgetting that redirects don't work in the category namespace). (Nor was it appropriate to add it, for the very reason it wasn't a WP:WSS creation.) Whether it's an "un-Wikipedian" template (again, pretty off-topic here) in some existential sense, you can hardly complain about its presence on that category... Alai 23:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DUPLICATE DELETION DISCUSSION UNDERWAY AT WP:SFDWhat on earth is going on here? I thought that this was a little bit of a mess, but now a new deletion discussion has been initiated here: WP:SFD#Cat:Scotland-related_stubs. I would like to point out that my actions, and the history of these categories, are being misrepresented on that page.--Mais oui! 23:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Then enter the debate there. After all, the debate here's irrelevant - it shouldn't be being debated here at all. What do you expect? That a stub type up for deletion wouldn't be discussed primatrily at stub types for deletion? Please read the note at the top of this page about stub categories (it's in Step 1 of "How to use this page"). Grutness...wha? 00:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay folks. Several things here.

  1. The standard naming is Category:Foo stubs, as explained at the Stub wikiproject's naming conventions page, so the proposed move shouldn't occur from that point of view. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of categories that were either created before that naming convention was pout in place, or created from outside the wikiproject, that still have to be converted over.
  2. All stub-related name changes and deletions are handled on a different page to this one, namely WP:SFD
  3. WP:SFD is not part of WikiProject Stub sorting, and is as independent of it as this page or TFD or AFD. However, understandably, the stub sorting wikiproject is that part of wikipedia most associated with stub-related matters, and as such, is most vocal on that page.
  4. The notice in the category is perfectly unnderstandable. It is to stop new categories being created out of process. A similar notice exists on other pages relating to stubs on Wikipedia. It doesn't always work - a lot of the time newbies will completely ignore these instructions and go ahead and make new stub categories anyway, but it is an attempt. An analogy is not with the history project having a notice in history categories, but more analogous to that project having invisible text in its templates saying "please do not alter this template without first checking with WikiProject History" - which would be perfectly understandable.

The main problem with anyone being able to create new stub categories is that, because stub typoes are an aid for the editor as much as, or more than, the reader, it is important to keep categories to maintainable sizes and in some maintainable order. It would be impossible to sort stubs into categories if new stub categories were able to be created willy-nilly without having some central record of what there was and where, and it would be completely pointless to have them created in such a way that one stub article could theoretically have any of twenty or thirty different stub templates. As such, one group of around 100 dedicated wikipedians spends an inordinate amount of time trying to maintain the stub categories in some semblance of clear and practical order. The wikiproject doesn't ghave any special authority, per se, but most people who have spent any great time here realise that the stub categories need to be kept in some form of order, and if WP:WSS is willing to devote a huge amount of energy to doing that then they should be allowed to do so. Before the WikiProject was created, all stub articles were simply marked with {{stub}} - 20,000+ articles in one category - and no-one could easily find anything. With the expansion of Wikipedia, there are now close to 100,000 stubs, but they have been sorted in ways that aid editors greatly. In other wirds, it isn't a right of the project, but it's seen as such an advantage by many wikipedians that it's l9ogical that it's handled in that way. Grutness...wha? 23:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cantonese-language films to Category:Cantonese films

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Films in Cantonese --Kbdank71 15:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Drop the unnecessary hyphen. Edit dropped "language" too to avoid contentious issues over the status of Chinese languages/dialects--Huaiwei 09:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Chinese-language films to Category:Chinese language films

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The result of the debate was Rename to Category:Films in Chinese --Kbdank71 15:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Drop the unnecessary hythen.--Huaiwei 08:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC) (dropping original nomination request in favour for a new suggestions as below)--Huaiwei 14:22, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Celebrities_mistaken_for_Combat_Veterans

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 19:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a legitimate category. It's one individual's poorly-written list of a few politicians and movie stars who aren't veterans but are sometimes cited as/mistaken as such. No references are given. It's also not organized as a category, and the only actual entry under "subcategories" is a mis-classification. Alsorises 02:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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