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September 1

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:American people executed by decapitation

• Propose renaming Category:American people executed by decapitation to Category:American people killed by decapitation

Nominator's rationale: This category is a bit tricky. Of the twelve articles currently in the category, four relate to people were kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in one-or-another Middle Eastern war zone. I know media tend to use the word "execution" to refer to these murders, but including them in the same category as people who were found guilty of a crime and subjected to capital punishment seems problematic. Four more were apparently murdered, not "executed", in the United States. One was apparently murdered in the 1850s under circumstances I don't fully understand and I'm not sure if the word "execution" is appropriate or not. Two more were executed by hanging, but accidentally decapitated in the process -- this means they were technically both "executed" and "decapitated", but the implication of "executed by decapitation" is still wrong. Only one (Mildred Harnack) was indisputably "executed by hanging". If the category exists to use the common wording of "execution" for the first of these groups, then we can theoretically keep the title, but the other articles need to be removed... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:08, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

• Comment -- This is an aberrant category. England executed its nobles (and Charles I) by decapitation with with an axe. France used the guillotine for the death penalty. We need to distinguish judicial execution from murder and from death in battle. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units

• Propose deleting Category:List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: Not a good way to categorize scientists. Could be listified. If kept, should be renamed to something like "Scientists whose names are used as non SI units". DexDor (talk) 06:08, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:Works by Ravindra Prabhat

• Propose deleting Category:Works by Ravindra Prabhat - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: Empty category many entries deleted post Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Hindi Blogging ka Itihas. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 05:33, 1 September 2014 (UTC)