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December 30

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Category:Civic and political organizations of China

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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: rename as suggested. ~ Rob13Talk 10:37, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: None of these organisations are "civic" Rathfelder (talk) 21:47, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Draft dodgers

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 18:38, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Article and main category is Draft evasion, which is less pejorative Rathfelder (talk) 21:46, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Research organisations in Qatar

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 11:21, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category in much more in line with the well established category of Research institutes in Foo than the much smaller one of Research organisations in Foo Rathfelder (talk) 21:44, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Religion in Austin, Texas

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ~ Rob13Talk 10:45, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:SMALLCAT, there are only one article and one subcategory in here. The article does not need to be merged as it is already in Category:Catholic Church in Texas and Category:Organizations based in Austin, Texas. The subcategory does not need to be merged as it is already in Category:Places of worship in Texas and Category:Buildings and structures in Austin, Texas. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:18, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mahamaya Technical University

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. ~ Rob13Talk 16:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This university has been merged with Gautam Buddha Technical University reforming the erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Technical University which is now named Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. The article has been merged but the category seems to have been missed. Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 19:03, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Indian fantasy comedy films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. ~ Rob13Talk 16:21, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Be consistent with the parent category Fantasy-comedy films. Kailash29792 (talk) 17:10, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Boconnoc

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 11:29, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge as per WP:SMALLCAT - only has three members, all from the same family. GrahamHardy (talk) 16:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recreational sublabial drugs

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_January_12#Category:Recreational_sublabial_drugs. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 11:34, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Various similar categories have been deleted in the past on the grounds that "recreational" is hard to define, and we generally don't classify drugs by how they are taken. Le Deluge (talk) 11:02, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I made this specifically because I couldn't find the information in any logical way. I was researching and trying to find exactly this across multiple cultures: "What things across time/place cultures did people 'chew'?" The argument falls flat that "we generally don't" when users come looking for a useful organization and we've deleted the information they want. Both recreational and sub-labial are easy to define by the same inclusion criteria the rest of the project uses: by citable sources. If the article text can cite that a drug is used recreationally, and article text can cite methods of use, then it seems very obvious that users should be able to organize and navigate by those criteria. A secondary argument that these criteria are trivial, but since the classifications and methods of use are essential as defined by NGOs, medically and legally. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 03:05, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jews and Judaism in Athens

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Jews and Judaism in Greece. ~ Rob13Talk 16:23, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, there are only one article and one subcategory in here. Only the article needs to be merged, because the subcategory is already in Category:Places of worship in Athens and Category:Synagogues in Greece. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:35, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 11:37, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No longer warrants an WP:EPONYMOUS category now that most members have been moved into child Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat piers‎. Paul_012 (talk) 03:36, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It seems like the merge should have taken place in the opposite direction; i.e the piers articles should be listed under Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat, and the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat piers be deleted. A really paranoid android (talk) 14:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Marvin The Paranoid, why? The subcategory is also categorised under Category:Buildings and structures on the Chao Phraya River and Category:Piers in Thailand. How would you suggest handling the memberships? --Paul_012 (talk) 10:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Paul 012: - to me, the primary entity is the Boat article (where "Boat" is being used in the sense of "regular, scheduled, boat route" rather than any individual boat that makes the route), rather than the piers that are part of the Boat route. The categorization should reflect that. So, if a category were essential, then one would keep the Boat category, and list the Boat and all the pier articles under it. And delete the pier category for the boat. I'd keep the Category:Buildings and structures on the Chao Phraya River and Category:Piers in Thailand as they are. That being said, I don't think that the categories are essential. I'm changing my opinion (and vote, I guess): neither the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat nor the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat piers‎ serve any useful purpose, since the article for the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat already links to the pier articles. So, the categorization is redundant. Both the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat and the Category:Chao Phraya Express Boat piers‎ categories should be removed IMHO. A really paranoid android (talk) 12:23, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Power Linux distributions

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_23#Category:Power_Linux_distributions. ~ Rob13Talk 03:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The name of the architecture the Linux distributions supports is called the Power ISA, not Power. 99Electrons (talk) 03:01, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • It isn't claimed that these Linux distributions have "Power ISA" in their name. This category is for Linux distributions that run on computers that implement the Power ISA. It contains, as it did when it was nominated: Debian, Fedora (operating system), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. None of these distributions have Power in their name. And what has "Linux on Power" or "Power Linux" got to do with this discussion? These are not the names of any Linux distribution (AFAIK); they are IBM phrases/terms that describe Linux running on Power-related things, and the former is also just a partial match for "Linux on Power Systems", which means what it says: Linux running on IBM Power Systems. 99Electrons (talk) 21:09, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • If I understand you correctly, you are saying that given that the Power architecture is now open, any implementing vendor could run Linux for the Power architecture on their hardware, and therefore, the name should change to reflect that neutrality? Are there any real world examples of this? If not, I'm still opposed. A really paranoid android (talk) 12:42, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Power operating systems

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_23#Category:Power_operating_systems. ~ Rob13Talk 03:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The name of the architecture the OSes in this category support is called the Power ISA, not Power. 99Electrons (talk) 03:00, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is the key reason, I'm on the "oppose" side of things. If common usage doesn't use the ISA term, who does it benefit if the category name is changed? It seems like this would be a very pedantic way to handle this topic, which is not going to be followed by the majority of readers. It may be imprecise as it stands, but IMHO, changing things to be more precise, will make things less usable. A really paranoid android (talk) 00:09, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't state that the common name for "Power ISA" is "Power", I stated the reason why a person wouldn't find many mentions of "Power ISA" among Linux distributions. This reason is because for some architectures, the convention amongst free software, which Linux distributions are subject to, is to refer the port name instead of that of the architecture. This can be due to a number of reasons: for brevity, or because the same architecture is used by multiple incompatible platforms, necessitating a separate port to each, thus rendering the architecture irrelevant. Another reason is because of history: the architecture was called something else in the past, and instead of introducing a new port name to reflect the new architecture name, the existing port name is reused with some qualifier. As a final example, the port may require additional commonalities other than architecture: endianess, ABI, etc.
Free software or Linux distributions doesn't refer to the Power ISA frequently for some of the reasons outlined previously. The Power ISA is an evolution of the PowerPC architecture. Linux was ported to PowerPC first, so all ports to the PowerPC and subsequent architectures are called "ppc". Power ISA is also used in either big or little endian mode, so ports must choose one. Finally, Power ISA software uses an ABI specified by the OpenPOWER foundation that's different from the ones used by PowerPC.
These reasons have caused all the four Linux distributions in Category:Power Linux distributions to refer the architecture by some name other than that of the architecture:
  • Debian has a ppc64el port, which targets Power ISA 2.07 and 3.0 in the little endian mode using the 64-bit OpenPOWER ELFv2 ABI.
  • Fedora also has a ppc64el port, which supports IBM Power Systems and industry standard OpenPOWER computers (which use IBM POWER7/8/9 processors, all of which are Power ISA processors).
  • Red Hat refers to "architectures", but consistently refuses to refer to any architecture by name, using other names instead, and for the Power ISA, it names the specific processors supported and the endianess supported.
  • SUSE refers to the POWER processor series, and mentions that it's actually a ppc64el port.
Can we put the arguments pertaining to usage to bed now? There never was such an argument, because every argument for usage that has been put forward was based in an incorrect understanding of the situation, and has added nothing to the consensus process other than confusion.
Finally, for a category that's part of the Category:Linux distributions by processor architecture hierarchy, the only acceptable name for an architecture is the name of the architecture, not a partial match that's never been shown to be in use, let alone in common use. A user of this hierarchy would expect all its subcategories to refer to the architecture by its name. This signifies the relationship between the subcategories and their parent. This is especially important in the case of the Power ISA, because there are other things with similar names that differ by only capitalization, suffixes, and the inclusion of other words. Thus, it's the omission of "ISA" from "Power ISA" that's confusing and obstructive towards easy navigation. 99Electrons (talk) 01:55, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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