Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 March 16

March 16 edit

Category:George W. Bush administration scandals to Category:George W. Bush administration controversies edit

Category:Clinton Administration scandals to Category:Clinton Administration controversies edit

Category:Regions in Germany to Category:Regions of Germany edit

Category:Radio DJs to Category:Radio personalities edit

Category:Cop Out of Water edit

Category:Towns in Merseyside edit

Category:Qatar sport to Category:Sport in Qatar edit

Ancient (India, Pakistan) cats edit

Disambiguation subcategories

this section doesn't need a closing block, since it itself isnt a delete discussion... just prefaces the ones below

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) strongly suggests that subcategories of Category:Disambiguation be discussed on the MoS's talk page before creation. Despite this, quite a few sparely populated disambiguation categories of questionable utility have built up over the last few months. Most, if not all, of these should be deleted and their contents tagged with {{disambig}}. Since Category:Disambiguation isn't really intended to be browsed, these subcategories are really just a waste of space and time: why subcategorize a category whose contents aren't supposed to be found except via searches and accidental links? Furthermore, many articles in these subcategories aren't limited to the topic of the subcategory, making these even less useful as a navigational tool (if anyone ever actually uses them as such). -Sean Curtin 10:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination is based on a misunderstanding of the utility of these cats. Over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics we track changes to mathematical pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity. These are generated with automatic tools that, among other things, walk all pages that are underneath the Category:Mathematics. Without having this subcat, it is impossible to tell if some random disambig page is mathematical or not. These tools are presumably useful to other projects, so if some project wants to track thier articles, they would need a cat like this. linas 02:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, Merge, and/or Rename: these issues have been endlessly rehashed.
  1. Some folks don't want subcategories of disambiguation (usually the same folks that don't bother maintaining the existing lists already described at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links to disambiguation pages). Arguably, categories are preferable to lists in this case. There's no annotation. The only list actually needed for lonelypages prevention is Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages.
  2. Some folks note the pages are both in Category:Disambiguation and these subcategories, generally not a good idea. That's because certain rampant disambiguators want them all to have {{disambig}} and that puts them in the main category. I've previously proposed keeping these "lists of" under Category:Wikipedia administration adjacent to Disambiguation.
  3. Many of the names don't conform to the usual conventions. Renaming would be appropriate. These are pages with lists. The correct form is "Lists of ...."
  4. For example, after a TfD in January, the existing:
    1. Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title,
    2. Category:Lists of Interstate Highways sharing the same title, and
    3. Category:Lists of U.S. Routes sharing the same title.
  5. Other existing forms are:
    1. Category:Lists of ambiguous human names, and
    2. Category:Lists of ambiguous place names.
--William Allen Simpson 22:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As the comments below indicate, there is more support for the shorter version. Therefore, I've striken the renames, leaving the necessary merges.
--William Allen Simpson 15:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Human name disambiguation edit

Category:Geographical locations sharing the same title edit

Category:Star name disambiguations edit

Category:Subway station disambiguations edit

Category:Number disambiguations edit

Category:Mathematical disambiguation edit

Category:Towns in Italy (disambiguation) edit

Category:Tropical cyclone disambiguation edit

Category:Galaxy name disambiguations edit

Category:Economics dabs edit

Category:Acronyms that may need to be disambiguated edit

Category:County disambiguation edit

Category:Disambiguation pages referring to their homonyms edit

Category:Mausoleum in Malaysia to Category:Mausoleums in Malaysia edit

Category:Character-video game disambiguation edit

Multiple hip hop categories move edit

Category:Papua New Guinean ODI cricketers to Category:Papua New Guinean cricketers edit

Category:Music from Liverpool, England to Category:Music from Liverpool edit

Category:Segrave Trophy winner to Category:Winners of the Segrave Trophy edit

Category:Segrave Trophy edit

Category:Eck Masters to Category:Eckankar edit

Category:Healthcare in Uganda edit

Category:Canadian Heroes and Heroines edit

Category:Academics of Queen's University, Belfast to Category:Academics of the Queen's University of Belfast edit