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Category:1st millennium in Ukraine

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 October 31#Category:1st millennium in Ukraine

Category:Tunisian Maliki scholars

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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: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 14:01, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Maliki scholars existed during the Middle Ages in Ifriqiya region of Islamic Empires, nothing to do with modern Tunisia. GreyShark (dibra) 19:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure whether Malikis (Maliki followers?) and Maliki scholars is the same thing. Category:Maliki scholars from Ifriqiya sounds good.GreyShark (dibra) 13:15, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am actually withdrawing the rename alternative. Further inspection reveals that both this category and the parent category contain a mix of medieval and modern scholars. The categorization by country can better be abandoned altogether and replaced by a by-century diffusion. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose for now. There are other national Maliki scholar categories (namely Moorish, Moroccan, Lybian and Egyptian). The intersection of Islamic madhhabs and geography is certainly a topic of knowledge and a defining characteristic. I would not see an anachronism in gathering Maliki scholars attached to a certain geography regardless of historical era (or political regime), and I guess that Moroccans, Egyptians and Tunisians certainly consider their history in this way. Place Clichy (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1st millennium BC in Tunisia

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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: delete the millennium category, rename 3rd century as nominated, and rename the rest using Ifriqiya, as follows:
– Fayenatic London 09:48, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Nominator's rationale: The category is grossly anachronistic; Tunisia is a modern country. In 3rd century it's geographic area was Roman Ifriqiya. In 9th century it was Abbasid Ifriqiya and in early 10th century became part of the Fatimid Caliphate.GreyShark (dibra) 18:09, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed in 9th century Ifriqiya was an Aghlabid Emirate, though under nominal rule of the Abbasid Caliphate. In early 10th century it was so, until arrival of Berber Zirids, under the banner of Fatimids who turned Ifriqiya into Zirid Emirate under Fatimid nominal rule. In 1048 Zirids became independent. 11th century categories after 1048 already categorized under Zirid category tree.GreyShark (dibra) 13:18, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Please provide links in future. It appears that you are referring to Category:Zirid dynasty. – Fayenatic London 20:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You are correct - it is Zirids, my bad. Corrected in the text.GreyShark (dibra) 20:48, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Slum Village songs

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 18:58, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Contains 3 redirects only. No additional navigational help. Richhoncho (talk) 15:21, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Periods after Crusades

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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 for now, subject to future tweaks which could be proposed. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:44, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Although these are within Category:Aftermath of wars, renaming with "aftermath" was opposed on the Speedy page as the periods are up to 47 years, which was seen as too long. I have therefore nominated them using a longer name that was suggested by Johnbod. – Fayenatic London 12:19, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of Speedy discussion
Well they are long names, but these are small, obscure and very precise categories, so I think that matters less. The only point to these categories is that they are military history. Isn't all of it military? If not, stuff should be removed. Johnbod (talk) 14:03, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Generally support -- but I would prefer to use dates. The fact that the periods are defined by crusades can be addressed by a headnote. Some of the crusades (e.g. 2nd) had little long term effect, so that their use as boundaries is insignificant. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Period post Ninth Crusade

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 November 13#Category:Period post Ninth Crusade

Category:English reserve football teams

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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: merge. MER-C 18:34, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All articles in the category Category:English reserve football teams are articles also about academy teams, as reserve or youth teams don't need separate articles. As such, these categories are duplicate, and so should be merged. Note that many articles in this category are not reserve teams (they are youth teams and academy), and there are some academies that are not reserve teams, which is why I suggested merge into Category:Football academies in England (and not the other way round) Joseph2302 (talk) 11:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 11:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - the two categories nominated are basically about the same thing. As such, I support a merge and then suggest a rename to Category:English reserve and academy football teams or similar. GiantSnowman 11:45, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support merge - Thanks for setting this up! Agree about the merge, agnostic about the name. "Academy" can be used both for both the overall development structure within a club and specifically the under-18s and below set-up. Meanwhile, "reserves" is increasingly an antiquated term with most clubs using "under-23s". BUT, the EFL takes under-21 teams, the continental trophy is under-19s and teams like Southampton and Brentford are calling their team a B side. I probably err to using academies in the all encompassing sense, but as I said, I'm not overly fussed. HornetMike (talk) 13:25, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Ottoman Egypt

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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/merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Reversing Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_31#Category:17th_century_in_Egypt, which had little participation and did not include the many sub-categories for years, establishments etc. A speedy nomination of some of those was strongly opposed, see below. – Fayenatic London 11:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of discussion on Speedy page
BrownHairedGirl - you are obviously not familiar with the structure of the US category tree - please see previous cases and the most recent discussion on this page regarding category:1750s in the United States. The fact that some users create anachronistic categories en-masse is not implying that there is a community agreement for such errors. There is not. The solution to your dilemma of continuity is however very simple - we keep "Egypt" categories as redirects (as for cases of Syria Israel and Turkey categories]]), which would keep navigation trees cross-linked.GreyShark (dibra) 21:06, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Greyshark09:, I am very familiar with that category structure, thank you. You have chosen to ignore my point that the geogrpaphical extent of the entity known as the "United States" has varied massively over the years. The basis of your nomination is variable geography, and you ignore my point that variable geography doesn't stop us using a consistent name for the USA.
Your suggestion to use redirects is an utterly perverse way of retaining the worst of both worlds. Redirects don't resolve the nightmare created for the structure of the category tree by the repeated re-branding ... but they do mean that an editor can categorise an article in "YYYY in Egypt" at a time when you claim that "Egypt" is an inappropriate term ... and it will be recategorized by the bots into "YYYY in Ottoman Egypt". If you genuinely believe that this is acceptable, then you undernine the whole basis for your desire to call the categories "Ottoman Egypt". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:11, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You are falling into mixing up Misr Republic and Egypt region. Those are very different things.GreyShark (dibra) 19:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How about "YYYY in Turkey" for pre-1922? You can say that many use "Turkey" for the past (or pre-modern Turkey), even though it is a purely colonial name following Turkification of Anatolia.GreyShark (dibra) 09:36, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Books by G. I. Gurdjieff

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Timrollpickering (talk) 09:20, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of speedy discussion:

Nominator's rationale: I proposed at speedy renaming to rename this article to match the main article George Gurdjieff. It was opposed; see the discussion above. I'm not sure what utility there is in using a different form of this person's name, especially since we also have the head category Category:George Gurdjieff and Category:Students of George Gurdjieff. The opposer may have misinterpreted the nomination as involving some sort of disambiguation issue. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:39, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Paintings of the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple

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The result of the discussion was: do not rename. MER-C 20:04, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy nomination:
Nominator's rationale: I proposed this change at speedy renaming to match the reference in the category name to the article Presentation of Mary. It was opposed; see discussion above. Whatever is decided, "at the Temple" is not really necessary. Query also whether "Presentation" should be capitalized. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:27, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's small, but it is highly likely to grow, since this is a standard subject in medieval church art. I've added one, so it now 4. What is odd is that we have far more paintings of the different event the Presentation of Jesus with articles, but no category. Johnbod (talk) 03:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Entombment of Christ

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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 Category:Entombment of Christ to Category:Burial of Jesus, but do not rename the art-related subcategories, for which the existing wording and capitalisation is traditionally used. – Fayenatic London 21:07, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy discussion:
Bullshit, in art these are proper names subjects, which need the caps. Johnbod (talk) 17:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I proposed renaming the head category to match Entombment of Jesus; I also nominated the subcategories to follow. All were opposed; see discussion copied above. I'm not entirely clear why the Johnbod has couched opposition to the head category in terms of art: it is more than an art category. Query also wither "burial" should be capitalized. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:20, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Johnbod made a fair point that the article titles consistently contain "Christ" and capitalization. This may well be considered as an analogy of WP:ENGVAR where local terminology (in this case in art) overrules the consistency of the category tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, but I would say that in cases like this some inconsistency of the category tree is inevitable (unless all the articles are renamed, which would be plain wrong here). It is also pretty harmless. The decision here is whether consistency should always look up the tree to main articles, or whether it should look down to the far more numerous articles actually in the category. It seems obvious to me that in such cases it is far better for the category name to be consistent with the articles it contains than with a main article that isn't even an actual member. But the prevailing theology here holds otherwise. This should be covered in the policy. Johnbod (talk) 15:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle, the lead category Category:Entombment of Christ covers more than just art. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:43, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, perhaps I should not have opposed that, & I don't really mind about it. But I'm firm about the art categories, and perhaps it is as important a category is consistent with its sub-categories as with its main article. Johnbod (talk) 01:59, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, what are you saying here? There are four categories here, for one thing. Johnbod (talk) 03:24, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support renaming Category:Entombment of Christ to Category:Burial of Jesus only - Oppose the others per above. That leaves a clear choice whether paintings etc are consistent upwards or downwards on the tree. They can't be both. Johnbod (talk) 13:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Apart from categories in Category:Christian art, an you point to any other category tree (preferably but not necessarily one that has been subject to a discussion) that has opted for consistency downward rather than upwards? Upwards consistency is so prevalent there is a speedy rename criterion for it. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:32, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • I'm not a category generalist; I'm mainly familiar with art categories. But I'm sure there are thousands. Many categories have no "main article", and in many more downwards consistency is so obvious even the most obsessive category re-arranger leaves them alone. Indeed "there is a speedy rename criterion for it", but that is still subject to the general sppedy constraints, in particular, for WP:C2D, that it is "uncontroversial": "uncontroversial, either because of longstanding stability at that particular name, or because the page was just moved (i) after a page move discussion resulted in explicit consensus to rename, or (ii) unilaterally to reflect an official renaming which is verified by one or more citations (provided in the nomination). C2D does not apply if there is any ongoing discussion about the name of the page or category, or there has been a recent discussion concerning any of the pages that resulted in a no consensus result, or it is controversial in some other way." In many categories in various sections of this page, you are not only failing to register that the moves would be controversial when doing the speedy, but after that has proved not to be the case, you are still arguing the toss, and defending your putting them to speedy! No! Johnbod (talk) 15:34, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • I would have liked to see even one example, rather than a lecture on the use of CFDS. Whatever, though. Thanks. The very fact that the nominated categories are nominated here is an acknowledgement by me that these are "controversial" (at least in the view of one editor). I'm not proposing any longer that they be speedied. But I don't apologise for nominating them using the speedy process: I had no way to know—despite what you may feel and express with all-caps—that one editor would object. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:50, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • Well if all your years of experience haven't taught you that, then perhaps you should go more cautiously in nominating speedies. You can always ask someone first. This comment does nothing at all to allay my fears that the very powerful speedy process is increasingly being, let's just say, over-used. Johnbod (talk) 03:25, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
            • I'm often amazed at what is and is not "controversial" on WP. Even if just one user objects, it's considered "controversial", so one does seem some fairly petty issues elevated to that status. Asking around will often not be helpful, because unless you happen to hit on the one person who does deem it controversial, users will largely shrug their shoulders and probably not care. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:25, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per discussion, and I just came across this mass of nominations which should all be closed due to 'bludgeon' and WP:WEAREMDWN with way too many noms to go through one by one. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:34, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Randy Kryn: what's WP:WEAREMDWN? Place Clichy (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per discussion. There seems to be a confusion between the historiographical character and the artistic theme, and the name used for the former in a neutrally-worded scientific discussion would not automatically extend to the latter. Place Clichy (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scams

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The result of the discussion was: merge. If some of the articles are better placed in Category:Fraud or Category:Deception, they can be moved. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These terms mean exactly the same thing. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:17, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Art of mythology

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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: keep. I will amend the criteria for WP:C2D to state that adding disambiguators to the subjects of art works is not uncontroversial. – Fayenatic London 17:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I incorporated the consensus from discussions on this page into WP:CATNAME, and amended C2D to refer to CATNAME rather than specific cases. – Fayenatic London 22:01, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Copy of speedy discussion:
Nominator's rationale: I proposed these changes at speedy rename to conform the name of the subject of the art to the subject's Wikipedia article name. Opposition statements can be seen in speedy discussion copied above. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:11, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Venus (mythology) has that title because there's also a Category:Venus about planet-related topics. There are no corresponding categories for sculptures of, paintings of, or temples of the planet to require disambiguation from, and there are unlikely to be at any point in the foreseeable future. Fayenatic London was distinguishing this case from the discussion he mentioned, because they involve different facts and considerations. He wasn't saying that this discussion ought to have the same result. P Aculeius (talk) 12:54, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think we should probably let him speak for himself, but my interpretation was that he was pointing out that we keep disambiguating the category tree as we drill down into it, as with Category:Terminator (franchise) films matching Category:Terminator (franchise), but this case was different in that it was a nomination to match the down categories to the article Venus (mythology). I was simply pointing out that there is a disambiguated Category:Venus (mythology), which brings the instance more in line with the Terminator case, for which there was an RFC. I understand your general point about disambiguation, and I think that it's fine for article space, but inappropriate for category space. Do you want to comment further, Fayenatic london? I don't think it's wise for anyone to put words in your mouth. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:56, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Before accusing others of putting words in people's mouths, you might want to consider the possibility that you're the one misinterpreting what's been said. Fayenetic London himself said that his comments above were distinguishing this case from another. Just look down at the following discussion, based on roughly the same set of circumstances. But even without his own explanation, it's clear what he was saying—you just chose to interpret it differently. P Aculeius (talk) 12:52, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As I said, I think we should let him speak for himself. His comment may be open to more than one interpretation, but I don't think I'm interpreting it any differently than you. I don't doubt that he was drawing a distinction. I did not interpret it otherwise, even if you seem to think I did. My point was that my comment gave reason to believe that this case and the RFC case are not as far apart as we might have supposed. They both involve matching the naming format of a subcategory to the parent category: Category:Terminator (franchise) films to Category:Terminator (franchise) and Category:Venus (mythology) in art to Category:Venus (mythology). The distinction that I believe was referred to thus disappears. This is my view, not necessarily his, and I'm not putting words in his mouth—I explicitly invited him to clarify in light of my comment. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:43, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As there is clearly a consensus here which goes in a different direction from the RFC, I was attempting to identify some kind of distinction that might be useful as a precedent. Thank you Good Olfactory for pointing out that the distinction which I suggested (consistency with head categories/ articles) was incorrect. OK, here are a couple of other possibilities:
  1. disambiguators are not needed where there is no ambiguity about the subject depicted in categories about art or architecture; or
  2. disambiguators must be used consistently in categories about popular culture, but need not be used where there is no ambiguity in category names related to mythological topics.
I think the first of these is the key, not the second. The first fits with others on this page that say the naming of art categories should follow the usual naming of the topic in the context of art (e.g. Category:Paintings depicting the Entombment of Christ does not need to match Burial of Jesus). Indeed, a combined exception derived from the discussions on this page could be that categories for art do not have to be consistent with naming of other categories/articles for that topic. – Fayenatic London 12:22, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In general, I'm opposed to the doctrinaire imposing of a downward consistency from article to category, without any possibility of allowing for upward consistency from category members to category name. This is key in the Christian cases of the Entombment/Burial type. I often support a more explicit category name than the article has, as articles explain themselves the moment a reader arrives at them, but categories rarely do. In these mythology cases, I apply the same principle in the other direction. Indeed, I'd say Category:Temples of Venus (mythology) is more likely to confuse readers than Category:Temples of Venus. That Venus belongs to mythology rather than religion is a rather questionable modern idea, & applied to temples it might well mean post-Renaissance garden structures, rather than ancient religious ones. So the proposed move introduces potential confusion for no reason at all. Johnbod (talk) 16:51, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose -- If anything the Greek gods and goddesses are the primary topic, with planets, etc. being named after them. We are unlikely to get articles on paintings of astronomical subjects, so that there is no ambiguity. If there is any doubt it can be resolved through a headnote. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:16, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • There are many paintings of astronomical topics. Many of them are subjects of archaeological research, when they are found in caves. So, I would think there should be articles for such. Artwork of the stars abound in historical astrology (not the modern 1-900 number astrologers), some of which are famous works. -- 67.70.32.97 (talk) 05:30, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Do you have a single example of one with an article? I think you are unfamiliar with what sort of works of art have their own articles here (very largely famous works by famous artists), and what ones don't (just about everything else). Johnbod (talk) 15:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all. Per points already made in the discussion. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:40, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Not really ambigous, fine the way it is. The proposed names are not an improvement. Place Clichy (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support All Wikipedia has a lot of non-expert readers and categories are meant to aid navigation for readers of different knowledge levels on a topic. Matchign the main article per WP:C2D makes the encyclopedia clearer. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:45, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"Non-expert readers" aren't likely to search for a category, particularly a category that doesn't exist and isn't likely to exist at any point in the foreseeable future. The only reason such a reader would click on these categories is because they're shown at the bottom of the articles about paintings, sculptures, or temples of their corresponding mythological topics. But unless there's at least one non-mythological example of these topic names that has enough notable paintings, sculptures, or temples to justify the existence of a corresponding category, then none of them will ever have such a link for a "non-expert reader" to stumble across. Can it seriously be contended that there are at least three paintings of the constellation Andromeda notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles? Three articles about notable sculptures of the planet Venus? Three notable temples devoted to the worship of the planet Neptune? If these categories are never likely to exist, then "non-expert readers" are likely to remain completely ignorant of them, and should only wind up looking at the categories proposed for renaming because they were already looking for information about what's actually contained in them—in which case renaming the categories confers precisely no benefit on "non-expert readers". P Aculeius (talk) 13:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly; this is another case where it is proposed that downwards consistency is ignored, in favour of upwards consistency, with results that would be just stupid. Johnbod (talk) 02:24, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Paintings of the Judgement of Solomon

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 21:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy discussion:
Nominator's rationale: I proposed this change at speedy rename to match the category name to the article name Judgment of Solomon. The speedy discussion is copied above. I'm not exercised by the ENVAR issue, but maybe some are. (Language warning in the speedy discussion.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Various author and painter categories

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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: no consensus on paintings categories, where many consider that (i) the disambiguator on the article would be redundant on the category, and (ii) as in other nominations on this page, the category name should follow usage in the articles on the paintings within the category, rather than the disambiguated name of the article about the artist. Rename the others, where objections are less strong, and following the consensus at the recent RFC on disambiguation. Although Category:Comics by Frank Miller (comics) is also considered redundant, the arguments for consistency with its parent Category:Works by Frank Miller (comics) and its siblings outweigh the redundancy. – Fayenatic London 18:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming:
List of nominated categories
Nominator's rationale: Each of these categories was nominated at speedy rename to match the name of the person referred to in the category to the article name about the person. Each nomination was opposed by Johnbod with a comment identical or similar to this one: "Oppose all these completely unnecessary changes. Disam is needed for the NAME, but not for works, unless there are two creatives with the name. The 'novels by (novelist)' etc ones are especially silly and unhelpful." My rationale is that it can be confusing to have the category use a different name format than that of the main article, and one of the purposes of C2D is to avoid a full discussion about each instance. This issue has been discussed many times, and we do disambiguate category names even when the name without the disambiguation would appear to be unambiguous: eg, Category:U.S. Highways in Georgia (U.S. state), Category:Washington (state) state courts, Category:Jordan Davis (singer) songs, and many others. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok Support Category:Films with screenplays by Frank Miller, and the "characters created by...", but not the "Comics by" one. Johnbod (talk) 02:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Why not rename the existing one to (comics), then create a new one for the (screenwriter)? And Category:Characters created by Frank Miller should identify the comic creator as well. Argento Surfer (talk) 11:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. There are a bunch of cases in the nomination that are similar to the Frank Miller case above:
We could litigate each one of these individually, or just adopt a rule-of-thumb that can be easily applied and understood. The latter is the goal of C2D and why these qualified as speedy nominations. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:23, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, so you become aware there is a Category:Works by Joe Kelly, which as you point out could refer to Joe Kelly (writer) or Joe Kelly (author). Rather than thinking "ok here are two supposedly disamed titles that in fact fail to disam their subjects at all, I'd better sort that out", you think "oh here's a category that doesn't agree with its main article, let's do a category speedy rename", perhaps adding to yourself "hmm those article names aren't great, but that's not my department". That's unless there is some difference between "writer" and "author", known only to the senior degrees of the Holy Order of Categorizers. This is why the excessive number of speedies we're seeing these days are so dangerous. I'll return to the others later, but obviously something needs to be done to the article titles here, so I still oppose the category rename pending that. Johnbod (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Even if (writer) was moved to (comics), the categories would still need to be renamed. Argento Surfer (talk) 12:49, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but very likely not as proposed in this nom. Johnbod (talk) 11:37, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Joe Kelly writers articles have now been properly disambiguated by RMs, and the nomination updated per Joe Kelly (comics writer). – Fayenatic London 16:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There's nothing wrong with incremental changes that creep towards an ideal; that's kind of the nature of WP. Imperfection is not "dangerous", it's just the way this project works. Just because a user did not go as far as you would have liked is a poor reason to oppose an incremental improvement. But now we've gone from "these are all completely unnecessary" to "some of these do not go far enough". So some progress is evident. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:47, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • support but not necessarily in all cases. Brian Moore (scientist) is also an author, but such changes should not be a matter of course, where the undisambiguated name is not that of an author. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:09, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all, per discussion, during which opened up the hidden list of categories, took a look, and closed the list. A lot of work has gone into making all these nominations, so in good faith must admire that, yet there is no overriding need for any of the changes and plenty of reasons to leave them as they are. Were any of the original authors of the categories notified of these discussions? I checked a couple and didn't see a talk page notice. Standard practice and Wikipedia courtesy is for the nominator to notify the page creators when discussed changes take place. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:45, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose the redundant ones, e.g. Category:Comics by Frank Miller (comics) clearly is overkill. I could support a nomination for a shortened list. Place Clichy (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support All Categories are to aid navigation and clearly following the main article does that most clearly to someone new to a topic. And I know I'm spending my time commenting here, but having WP:C2D means we have a clear naming convention so we don't need to spend time discussing every scenario. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:39, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (talk) 18:17, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary and very few members. There already exists Teen-related LGBT films, and small children are rarely part of the LGBT community, fictional or not. Very imprecise definition of childhood as well - most of the films either deal with a notable event in a character's life forming their sexuality, or children exhibiting traits contrary to their assigned gender, which is not enough evidence to form a 'transgender' basis. That's a word most little kids wouldn't even know how to use. Meetertound (talk) 03:58, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks - the collapse did actually say "Copy of speedy discussion". Johnbod (talk) 18:17, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete another "films about" masquerading as a, ugh, a "related" category. So, what objectively merits inclusion. and reliable sources tell us that a particular film meets those objective criteria??? Alas, these questions are never answered. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:00, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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