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**Closure was endorsed on deletion review: ]. This nomination is spurious. ] 16:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC) **Closure was endorsed on deletion review: ]. This nomination is spurious. ] 16:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
**Bhoeble has also acted to vote stack this: see ] 16:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC) **Bhoeble has also acted to vote stack this: see ] 16:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
***There would not have been a review if Tim hadn't made a dreadful decision in the first place. Deletion review is not visited by many people who frequent this page, and even counting what took place there there is a substantially prevalence of delete votes. I only drew this to the attention of the originally nominator, not to the many other delete voters and I was in a state of shock when I did so. Tim is not a fit person to close votes and should be banned from doing so. He should also be dismissed as an administrator. ] 17:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


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Category:Nicktoon Movie to Category:Nicktoon films

For capitalization, plural, etc. -- ProveIt 16:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wold Newton family members

There was a previous vote to delete this by the overwhelming majority of fourteen to four. User:Tim! declared this to be "no consensus" on the spurious grounds of the strength of feeling of the keep voters. This is a slippery slope and is not acceptable. It is perfectly normal for people who value cruft to feel strongly about it, but if that was accepted as a reason to keep, why bother with cleanup in Misplaced Pages at all? Also, Tim's suggestion of just removing Sherlock Holmes is not at appropriate. Any category which exists should be properly populated, but this one should not exist. As Scranchuse put it last time, categorising very well known characters by their relationship to something much less well known is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Bhoeble 15:52, 31 May 2006 (UTC).

Category:Islamophobia to Category:Anti-Muslim sentiment

There was no consensus for deletion of this category with the majority (approximately 2/3rds of editors) voting for deletion. A common theme on both sides of the debate in that discussion though was for renaming the category. Even the category's creator agreed to the idea of renaming. Netscott 15:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC).

Category:Greek Football Clubs

Merge into Category:Greek football clubs. -- ProveIt 15:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Chicago Sports

Merge into Category:Sports in Chicago. -- ProveIt 15:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Northern Areas, Pakistan and Category:Northern Areas (Pakistan)

Unilateral rename by Spasage... should be merged -- ProveIt 14:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:High Schools in Turkey

Merge into Category:High schools in Turkey, listify text -- ProveIt 14:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Arethusa class cruisers to Category:Arethusa class cruisers (1913)

There were two Arethusa classes. I have separated the later class out into Category:Arethusa class cruisers (1934) but I believe this one should be renamed Category:Arethusa class cruisers (1913) for clarity. TomTheHand 14:05, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who opposes racism to Category:Wikipedians who oppose racism

This category should be renamed. (Reason:Bad english grammar. Sorry for that) Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 13:52, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Political parties of Russian Revolution to Category:Political parties of the Russian Revolution

To add missing "the". (Not a speedy?) David Kernow 11:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:October Revolution to Category:Russian Revolution

Superfluous categorisation per scope of Category:Russian Revolution. (Cf discussion here.) David Kernow 11:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Dead rappers

A number of prominent rap artists have died prematurely, but this category is POV and unnecessary. Its effect is to perpetuate stereotypes of hip-hop musicians and ethnic minorities. We don't have categories like "Dead rock musicians", "Dead novelists" or "Dead politicians". szyslak (t, c, e) 06:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Neutral - It's not POV, they're simply dead. We do have other dead categories, I'm sure. Anyways, I wouldn't really miss this category, but I don't agree with you that it's POV.--Urthogie 08:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Leaning toward delete. There's something I just don't like about this category (maybe it is POV), can't put my finger on it, though. --Merovingian {T C @} 08:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
It's not POV, but it's a slippery-slope category. If we do dead rappers, then why not dead pop singers, then dead singers, then dead people. (As bad as Category:Living people is, that'd be worse, because dead people already have death-year categories.) Now if we rename it to Category:Murdered rappers and prune it, that I could see. If that's what the creator of the category was trying to document, that's a notable enough trend.--Mike Selinker 13:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete We shouldn't divide categories between the living and the dead. Bhoeble 13:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Certainly not POV, and can't see how it could be construed as such. I like Mike's idea of a re-categorisation, but certainly going to take a lot of effort, as where do you stop if you go down that path. --Wisden17 14:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Wait, you like that idea? The "dead people" chain was my attempt to show what a bad idea I think this is. Gotta be more careful in my wording, I guess.--Mike Selinker 15:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Bhoeble. I might also be receptive to Mike S's idea of narrowing it to Category:Murdered rappers if someone wants to argue that that is a cohesive and noteworthy set. Incidentally, I think the POV claim was not about the cat's own criteria, but simply based on the observation that we have this category for rappers, but not for most other professions. ×Meegs 15:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Systemic bias would probably be a more accurate description of there being no category:Dead singers.--Urthogie 16:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:New Deal Agency to Category:New Deal agencies

Fix plural and capitalization Paul 05:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:USHL to Category:United States Hockey League

Expand acronym that isn't self-evident. BoojiBoy 02:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:OPJHL to Category:Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League

Expand acronym that isn't self-evident. BoojiBoy 02:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Conservation areas of Swaziland to Category:Protected areas of Swaziland

This category doesn't seem to be named for a specific designation used in Swaziland, so it will be tidy and consistent to rename it to match category:Protected areas by country. CalJW 00:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC).