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*'''Delete'''. Following this logic, Johan Bäckman should be also considered under ]. Generally, I do not understand these Russian-Estonian information wars. ] (]) 11:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC) *'''Delete'''. Following this logic, Johan Bäckman should be also considered under ]. Generally, I do not understand these Russian-Estonian information wars. ] (]) 11:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
*'''Comment'''. The dispute above illustrates rather well why I think that most of these categories are too ] to be viable. Some states are crude enough to charge people with some form of thought crime, but in many cases like this the charges and arrests are mired in a dispute as to whether the state is prosecuting some form of ordinary criminality ''or'' using such charges as a cloak for political repression, ''or'' indeed criminalising the activities of political dissent. These shades of grey are highly POV, so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a POV argument such as the one above, and the only reason I don't immediately say "strong delete as hopelessly vague and subjective" is that there are plenty of other examples of equally hopelessly vague and subjective "political repression" categories. That a ] argument, but many other such categories have been retained at CFD, so I dunno what to recommend here. I have no problem at all with an ''article'' on "political repression in foo", where the different POVs and nuances can be discussed and referenced, but since categories require a binary choice between inclusion or exclusion, they are a flawed tool for this sort of topic. --] <small>] • (])</small> 15:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


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December 31

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

Category:Committee on Capital Markets Regulation - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation appears to be just one of the many hundreds (or maybe thousands) of lobby groups in Washington DC. Like many other such groups it has formal-sounding name, but it's a private organisation rather than a govt or congress-sponsored body. I am in no position to judge whether this is a particularly influential example of thsi sort of organisation, but it does seem to have signed up a lot of bug names from business and academia. However, that's what most such organisations try to do, and at this stage I don't think that membership of the Committee is a defining attribute of the academics and financiers in this category. In any case, they are already listed in the head article. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Bentley College alumni

Suggest merging Category:Bentley College alumni to Category:Bentley University alumni
Nominator's rationale: Merge.I created Category:Bentley University alumni without realising that this category already existed, but since the institution is at Bentley University I think that "Bentley University alumni" is a more appropriate name for the category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:43, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Multichannel Marketing

Category:Multichannel marketing - Template:Lc1
Category:Cross channel marketing - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete both. Two single-article categories both containing only the one article Multichannel Marketing, which is a stub. No objection to re-creating one or other of these categories at some point in the future if there are sufficient articles to populate them. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:57, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Victims of Estonian political repression

Category:Victims of Estonian political repression - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Complete WP:POV and WP:SYNTH. None of the three (BLP) articles currently listed under the category have no sources whatsoever about being a "victim of Estonian political repression" - and claiming that those people were such victims is demeaning to all actual victims of political repressions.
I am almost obligated to say that both creator of the category, Offliner, and I were involved in a recent ArbCom case. Neither of us is covered by any remedies or enforcements. I am sure the case will be brought up in a discussion.
Sander Säde 08:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Keep. This is a category for people who have been victims of political repression in Estonia. It is in line with other similar categories. Mark Sirők, Dmitri Linter and Johan Bäckman have each been detained because of their political views and activities. There are probably more people that can be added later. Bäckman was arrested and expelled from Estonia because he accused the government of apartheid policies against the country's Russian-speaking minority. The Estonian secret police, Kaitsepolitsei specifically mentioned this as the reason for Bäckman's expulsion. This is interesting because according to International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, this fulfills the definition of a crime of apartheid. Section F, Article II: Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid. Offliner (talk) 09:44, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Please come up with a single source where it is claimed that Mark Sirők, Dmitri Linter and Johan Bäckman have been detained for their political views and not for stirring up trouble - i.e. Sirõk and Linter were arrested for organizing an demonstration (and paying to the people to participate), which became a looting and rioting. The court acquitted them of the charge, as they were not responsible for the demonstration's becoming a riot - and peaceful demonstrations obviously are not forbidden, even if the participants are paid. Sounds like they were repressed for their views alright...
As for Bäckman, I don't see such source - or reason - in his article, where is it? And he wasn't arrested like you claim - he was briefly detained, as he didn't have any travel documents (WP article doesn't mention that, I wonder why?) and then expelled. As far as I recall, the reason for not allowing him to Estonia were repeated invitations to use violence to overthrow Estonian government. Poor Bäckman, called for violence and all he got was couple of hours of sitting in a room until he was identified and sent back for Finland. If only all victims of political repressions were treated like that...
In conclusion, there are no sources claiming that those three were victims of political repressions, unless you include Bäckman's personal blog again. Accusations like these are very serious, inserting such categories unsourced is not acceptable. Such accusations would require highest quality sources, i.e. not blogs or newspaper articles, but articles in scientific journals, resolutions of court cases and such.
--Sander Säde 10:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete. Following this logic, Johan Bäckman should be also considered under Category:Victims of Finnish political repression. Generally, I do not understand these Russian-Estonian information wars. Peltimikko (talk) 11:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment. The dispute above illustrates rather well why I think that most of these categories are too subjective to be viable. Some states are crude enough to charge people with some form of thought crime, but in many cases like this the charges and arrests are mired in a dispute as to whether the state is prosecuting some form of ordinary criminality or using such charges as a cloak for political repression, or indeed criminalising the activities of political dissent. These shades of grey are highly POV, so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a POV argument such as the one above, and the only reason I don't immediately say "strong delete as hopelessly vague and subjective" is that there are plenty of other examples of equally hopelessly vague and subjective "political repression" categories. That a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, but many other such categories have been retained at CFD, so I dunno what to recommend here. I have no problem at all with an article on "political repression in foo", where the different POVs and nuances can be discussed and referenced, but since categories require a binary choice between inclusion or exclusion, they are a flawed tool for this sort of topic. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Americans of Taiwanese descent

Suggest merging Category:Americans of Taiwanese descent to Category:Taiwanese Americans
Nominator's rationale: There may be some distinction between the two of these, but they have the same main article, and I do not see any other "Xian-American" and "Americans of X descent" categories. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:34, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Strong keep We have a lot more of these double categories, and they are in distinct category trees. And the simple reason is because they are not the same thing. Debresser (talk) 16:13, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
  • 'Comment If a merger is to take place it should be a reverse merge. A lot of work was done on sorting out these dual nationality categories some time back, but possibly excluding American ones as too difficult. The problem is that a Taiwanese American could also be a Taiwanese of American descent. No view on the merits of merger. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:33, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Reverse merge. Preferable to use naming that is more understandable to all Mayumashu (talk) 06:18, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep as-is. Not the same. There being only one article (right now) isn't an issue; even if the article confused the two, that would simply be an argument for improving the article. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ  Contribs. 07:15, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
  • merge per nom. Both have the same main article, and the same important same parent categories. There is no separate category tree here. The naming convention found in the chief parent Category:American people by ethnic or national origin is that of Category:Taiwanese Americans, the POV pushing of trying to make American articles conform to the articles of other countries, notwithstanding before and not withstanding now. Not one editor has expained the difference supposedly provided by the two categories. Hmains (talk) 05:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Gin Wigmore images

Propose renaming Category:Gin Wigmore images to Category:Gin Wigmore album covers
Nominator's rationale: To more accurately describe the category's content. — ξ 07:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Category:Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Unless populated, only creates an extra level of categorization before Category:Works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is reached. Either populate with non-works articles or delete. I'm not sure what it could be populated with, otherwise I would do it. Good Ol’factory 06:11, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


Colleges, schools, and departments by university

Suggest merging Category:Colleges and schools by university to Category:Colleges, schools, and departments by university
Suggest merging most of Category:University and college departments to Category:Colleges, schools, and departments by university
Nominator's rationale: Merge I created the former category without realizing there was a category for the latter. I think the new category combining the two should be under the new name Category:Colleges, schools, and departments by university. (More general categories should be left in "University and college departments" though.) Eastlaw  ⁄ contribs 03:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Sorry! I think this is mostly good, but not quite right. I have just been looking through these categories, and I find at least four types of academic entity in these categories: 1) Colleges, 2) Schools or faculties, 2a) Departments, 3) Laboratories, 3a) Research Institutes and Centres. I think a lot more consideration is needed of how to organise these. Here's my preliminary suggestions:
  1. Colleges should be categorised separately to the rest, because colleges usually have non-academic functions (such as accommodation) in addition to their academic facilities
  2. Schools, fcaulties and departments should be grouped together. Different universities take different approaches to structures, but in general the approach I am most familiar with is that a "department" is the lowest-level grouping of academics (e.g. "history", "medieval history", "archaeology" etc), whereas a "school" or "faculty" is a grouping of departments (my former university used to have departments of modern history, medieval history, and archaeology within a "school of history", which in turn was part of a "faculty of humanities" comprising history, social sciences etc). However, some universities seem to favour larger departments, which are more akin to the "schools" or faculties of other universities, and may only have a two-level structure. In other cases, most subjects may have a department while a few have a specialist school (possibly in a special building, maybe with special funding). Because of all these differences in structural design, it seems to me to be a bad idea to separate them
  3. Research institutes and centres are specialist units within a university, or in some sort of semi-detached relationship to it. Few of them have any role in teaching undergraduates, but their status varies from research complete separation from the undergrad teaching to hybrid structures involving some staff also engaged elsewhere in undergrad teaching. I don't know structures in science so well, but it seems to me that laboratories are usually a similar entity to research institutes or centres in the humanities.
Anyway, that's just my first thoughts ... but I really think that this needs a lot of input from WikiProject Universities. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Salad Bowl

Propose renaming Category:Salad Bowl to Category:Salad Bowl (game)
Nominator's rationale: Rename. With only two articles, I'm not sure this is worth having, but if it does exist, it should be renamed for reasons of clarity to match the main article Salad Bowl (game). The potential confusion is with Salad bowl (cultural idea) (and I suppose salad bowls on your dinner table). Good Ol’factory 03:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
  • If kept, then Rename per nominator to match the main article. However, I don't see much point in keeping a two-article category, so Delete without prejudice to re-creation if and when articles are written on the other 4 games. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Composers from APM Music

Category:Composers from APM Music - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Composers categorized by a particular music licensing company that has made use of their compositions — I don't see how this can be seen as anything but "performer by performance" OCAT. Especially given that the company in question doesn't even have its own article (which is not to say that this would become keepable if it did.) Bearcat (talk) 02:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Military history of Asia

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: speedy keep, nomination withdrawn. non-admin closure Bradjamesbrown (talk) 04:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

:Category:Military history of Asia - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Asia as a combining 'cover-all' for military history is anomalous - Asia has many divisions - no one nation necessarily has had military contact with others in the same oversized category - it requires breaking down into subsets - southeast, southwest - to be a viable and practical category SatuSuro 02:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Withdrwan by nom - it would appear MILHIST are going through some re-organisation which may or may not sort out their rubbish SatuSuro 03:28, 31 December 2009 (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.

Category:Biblical figures portrayed in Jesus Christ Superstar

Category:Biblical figures portrayed in Jesus Christ Superstar - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: Is being portrayed in a musical really a defining characteristic for Jesus, Saint Peter, and the like? Categories for every fictional appearance of figures such as these could get very, very long. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 00:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Arts disambiguation pages

Category:Arts disambiguation pages - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: -- Delete. Disambiguation pages do not need, and generally cannot be categorised. All dab pages are categorised in Category:Disambiguation pages. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Performing arts disambiguation pages

Category:Performing arts disambiguation pages - Template:Lc1
Nominator's rationale: -- Delete. Disambiguation pages do not need, and generally cannot be categorised. All dab pages are categorised in Category:Disambiguation pages. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


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