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November 16

Category:English-American Wikipedians

Empty category. If that wasn't enough, it's trumped by Category:Wikipedians in the United States. Snout 20:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Rename. Category:Anglo-American Wikipedians and fill category. Surely some of you've got British genes... 12.73.196.215 02:06, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:H2O forms

Redundant with Category:Forms of water. Created and being populated by an anon. Vsmith 19:57, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• KEEP it is not redundant with Forms of water. Forms of water is an unholy grabbag of things. Where would you keep physical chemistry articles anyways? 132.205.45.110 20:00, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• COMMENT "Created and being populated by an anon" - are you saying that anons should be banned, or that all anon contributions are vandalism? 132.205.45.110 20:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If "forms of water" is a mess, the proper action is to clean it up rather than to create a duplicate. We generally avoid abbreviations in category titles. As to banning anons, of course not. Vsmith made the factual and neutral statement that the cat was created by an anon. Any implications therein are in the eye of the beholder.

Radiant_>|< 00:20, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• • If you can't create subcategories, then how do you clean it up? 132.205.44.134 02:09, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
    • By removing anything from the category that doesn't belong there. And frankly I don't see that many that don't. Radiant_>|< 12:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
      • forms of water is used in a very generic way. So how do you create a specific physical chemistry category then. "Ice-IX" is like "Bay of Bengal", but both are under "forms of water". Having just cleaned up some of the forms of water into the proper subcategories, what's wrong with a physical chemistry subcat? IT is a more specific category, like the other subcats existing in "forms of water". 132.205.45.148 17:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
        • Well, you are entirely correct that it should be a category related to physics and chemistry. Hence, "Bay of Bengal" shouldn't be in there. I note that it has already been moved out; wouldn't you agree that the cat now looks a lot better? Radiant_>|<
• Delete. I disagree with this for the same reason I disagree with Water (molecule) being separate from Water. —Keenan Pepper 01:06, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. —Cleared as filed. 04:22, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Jewish chess players

Religion really has nothing to do with chess playing. There is a lot of discussion on the good faith status of some of these categories and lists, (Jewish Bankers, Jewish Criminals, etc.) While this may very well be in good faith, it's still a generally bad idea. Descendall 15:59, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - I declare an interest as the originator of this category. I cannot conceive how this could be interpreted as in bad faith; few people regard chess players as undesirables like criminals or even part of some international conspiracy, as some regard bankers. As has been said many times, these are ethnic lists, not religious ones (though quite a few chess players have been fairly orthodox Jews). It is quite a startling statistic that such a high proportion of great chess players (including I think a majority of world champions) are or were Jews, and this category is useful in illustrating this.
  RachelBrown 09:03, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I abhor the attitude that Jews aren't allowed the same self-identity as anyone else. Surely this is at least as meaningful as Category:Ukrainian chess players for people who lived before the break-up of the USSR. - Poetlister 12:53, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The category is an ethnic category, not a religious category. Compare to the close companion category Category:Jewish classical musicians. Jews have a unique place in the history of chess, and this is often noted and discussed. The first two chess world champions (Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker) were Jewish. In fact, 7 of the first 16 world champions (ending with Garry Kasparov) were Jewish. Many of the most important chess writers and theoreticians were Jewish (Siegbert Tarrasch, Ksawery Tartakower, Aaron Nimzowitsch, Reuben Fine, Fred Reinfeld, and dozens of others). The important early A History of Chess (1913) by H.J.R. Murray includes a section titled Chess among the Jews. Dutch psychologist and chess researcher Adriaan de Groot has considered the question of Jewish talent in chess. British journalist David Spanier includes a chapter on Jews in chess in his book Total Chess. The Jewish Encyclopedia includes bios of Jewish chess players. Jewish chess players have sometimes been attacked for their ethnicity. Steinitz faced anti-Semitic attacks. Alexander Alekhine and Bobby Fischer (ironically himself Jewish) were/are noted anti-Semitic chess players. I agree that the category should be given some descriptive text to make clear that it is an ethnic classification not a religious one. It should also give some indication of the importance of the contributions of Jewish chess players to the history of the game. Quale 15:59, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete There is already a list of Jewish Chess Players..either delete that or delete this. 72.144.139.115 20:29, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Quale. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Keep list as well and use it to show extra info. Honbicot 12:23, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep There's definitely something about Jews and chess - everyone I know who is a good chess player is Jewish. It's always difficult to know whether a list or category is better, so why not have both? There's any amount of redundancy on Misplaced Pages, anyway - it's good, makes things easier to find. - Londoneye 13:25, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Sub-categories of Category:Canadian professors to sub-cats of Category:Canadian academics

on the November 10 section below it looks as if a merge will occur as nominated. if it does then it is requested that the following cats be given mergers: (more will follow once these are voted on) -Mayumashu 02:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Category:Canadian music professors to Category:Canadian musicologists
• Category:Canadian anthropology professors to Category:Canadian anthropologists
• Category:Canadian art professors to Category:Canadian academics of fine arts
• Category:Canadian biology professors to Category:Canadian biologists
• Category:Canadian women's studies professors to Category:Canadian academics of women's studies
• Category:Canadian chemistry professors to Category:Canadian chemists
• Category:Canadian computer science professors to Category:Canadian computer scientists
• Category:Canadian economics professors to Category:Canadian economists
• Category:Canadian engineering professors to Category:Canadian academics in engineering
• Category:Canadian law professors to Category:Canadian legal academics
• Category:Canadian professors of literature to Category:Canadian literary academics
• Rename/merge all It isn't important whether an individual in these fields happens to have a professorial chair or not. All the people in each field who merit an article should be grouped together. CalJW 02:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I didn't nominate these. The nominator forgot to sign. CalJW 02:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

oops, that was me. now signed -Mayumashu 02:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Rename all per nominator. —Cleared as filed. 04:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Failed Nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court to Category:Failed nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court

Standard capitalization. jengod 02:42, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Of course (speedy), but you probably want to go with "nominees" rather than "mominees". Christopher Parham (talk) 04:41, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Since Miers had no children, I believe there have been no failed mominees. Descendall 16:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Hahahaa. Fixed.

• Actually, to do this up right, it should be changed to Category:Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court, as "failed" is somewhat POV, and we're at war with abbreviations. BDAbramson T 21:01, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Rename to Category:Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court per BDAbramson. —Cleared as filed. 04:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Multiracial people

Redundant with all the Category:Jewish American actors, etc. already around -- Perfecto  00:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Ambiguous (what is a "race"?) and redundant as per nom. Valiantis 12:37, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. 'race' is a poor word. even 'ethnicity' is problematic. the idea behind this cat seems to be that there are three basic ethnicities - African, Asian and European - but the trouble with this is that it is far more a categorical division of convenience (for a poorly done census return or something) than of fact - ethnicities do not divide up so clearly and conveniently -Mayumashu 14:43, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Dimension to Category:Dimensions

"Dimension" is not a topic, it is an object, so it should be plural. -- hike395 16:19, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Oppose. What we're discussing in most of these articles is not different dimensions, but different notions of dimension. Lebesgue covering dimension, Hausdorff dimension, and inductive dimension, are not usually treated as "objects"; more as "concepts". That's the mathematical side--from the physical side, I hardly think dimensional analysis can reasonably be called "a dimension" either. --Trovatore 16:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Agree, with Trov, that is. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. It's a topic, not an object. -- Dominus 20:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose per Trovatore. Blackcap | talk 21:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose per Trovatore. Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• dubitative: on the agree side, consider that the equality of some dimensions are still conjectures (for instance, equality of Kaplan-Yorke dimension and information dimension has been only partially settled). Consider also that the concept of dimension appeared in several contexts (topological spaces, algebra, statistics, partial orders). Hence a plural could mimetic the category Duality theories. On the oppose side, all these dimensions seems to be at least "cousin", and the singular is usually more natural than the plural when performing a search. Thus a singular would mimetic Geometry. pom 01:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

OK, if it is a topic, shouldn't it be called Category:Dimensionality ? -- hike395 02:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Dimension theory might make sense, but it might exclude too much. (Certainly it should exclude Dimensional analysis, which frankly I don't think belongs with the other articles, so that doesn't bother me. What might bother me a little is if it excluded things like VC dimension, which probably aren't dimension theory as usually conceived, but are conceptually similar enough to be included.) --Trovatore 02:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose. Dimension theory is a standard mathematical topic. The analogy is with something like Category:Symmetry. Charles Matthews 09:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose per Trovatore. However, there is also a need for Category:Dimension theory as a subcat of topology. linas 03:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I think we're getting ambiguous. Are the last 2 opposes voting against Category:Dimension theory, Category:Dimensionality, or both? -- hike395 06:14, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

NB Category:Dimension theory now exists as one of three subcategories, the others being Category:Dimensional analysis and Category:Fractals. It's a keep for me, now more than ever (I have voted above). Charles Matthews

Category:Korean cinema

Changed the name to Category:Cinema of Korea to be in line with every other country, so this one is empty. I moved the (4) articles from it already (sorry, I wasn't aware that they could be moved along with the category). - Bobet 17:21, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge/delete as proposed. Honbicot 12:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)