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August 11

Category:Antisemitism in Palestine

• Propose deleting Category:Antisemitism in Palestine - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: POV category. Category:Islamophobia in Israel was just deleted, and then so should this category. Otherwise we will have a striking example of racist and POV double standard. JonFlaune (talk) 21:26, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• Comment - While I agree that the deletion of the Islamophobia categories was wrong and did not reflect a policy-based discussion, tit-for-tat won't get us anywhere. The Israel category was deleted because the closing admin read the consensus as deleting all categories called "Islamophobia," not because there was a problem categorizing incidents in Israel, so perhaps you can create "Opposition to Islam in Israel" and populate it with the contents of the former category. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:52, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a much stronger category than the "Islam and antisemitism" category below, since it focuses on a geographic region. It's possible that the whole Category:Antisemitism by country or region tree could be deleted, but not this one by itself. As per the Israel category, there was an empty category called Category:Islamophobia in Israel. I deleted it because it was empty, but if anyone knows that it was emptied preemptively, let's create Category:Opposition to Islam in Israel and populate that.--Mike Selinker (talk) 23:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
  • Thank you for demonstrating why you cannot "close" a discussion on an issue on which you hold a strong POV. Er, the category wasn't "empty". It was the ones systematically sabotaging the islamophobia categories who deleted it from various articles. If we are to have Category:Opposition to Islam in Israel instead of Category:Islamophobia in Israel, then we are going to move Category:Antisemitism in Palestine to Category:Opposition to Judaism in Palestine (or perhaps Category:Opposition to Zionism in Palestine) JonFlaune (talk) 23:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
    • Because I deleted a category that was empty, I hold a strong POV on the subject? Wow, that is a bizarre claim. I said specifically that if there were articles that should be in a Category:Opposition to Islam in Israel, they should be in there. I just don't know which ones those are. If you have information on that, create Category:Opposition to Islam in Israel and put articles in there.--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:51, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
      • It wasn't empty, that's a made up claim. If it was technically empty at the time, it was only because you people had sabotaged it. You can't first empty a category, then claim it "was empty". You are the one who deleted a perfectly adequately populated category on "Islamophobia in Israel", while voting to keep "Antisemitism in Palestine", hence demonstrating a striking double standard and a strong POV on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and the broader topic of Islam/Islamophobia/Zionism (both Islamophobia and Antisemitism are equally recognised terms, e.g. by the UN and EU). Now you also want to have extremist groups like Kach in a category with the extremist POV title "Opposition to Islam in Israel". It's extremely hard to interpret such a category title as anything else than an endorsement of the extremist views of the groups in question, e.g. Kach, by portraying their racist views as legitimate "criticism of Islam" (a fringe view) instead of prejudice/hatred against Muslims (the mainstream view). Which is why mainstream Norwegian newspapers recently reported on Breivik sympathizers waging a war on the Islamophobia related articles in the English Misplaced Pages (specifically mentioning attempt to portray islamophobia as "legitimate cricism of Islam"), and Wikimedia Norway's President encouraging people to counter such Islamophobic POV pushing. More news coverage can be the outcome if this unacceptable situation isn't resolved quickly. Labelling islamophobia "opposition to Islam" is racist, politically extreme and WP:FRINGE. JonFlaune (talk) 12:35, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
• Leaning delete As my father says, "the problem with the Promised Land is that it has been promised to too many people." It's impossible to distinguish in most, maybe all of these articles between anti-religious prejudice and political conflict over who gets the land. Mangoe (talk) 12:49, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Scholars of antisemitism

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Nominator's rationale: Apparently a discussion on this category is needed per . These two categories must be considered together. JonFlaune (talk) 21:23, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• Comment. As the nominator of the category below, I don't think they need to be considered together. But I do agree that the Scholars of Islamophobia discussion might give us some reason to rename this one, since it's a very wide-ranging subject.--Mike Selinker (talk) 23:36, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
  • For your information, I am the nominator, and I as the nominator think we are going to have a discussion on this category. JonFlaune (talk) 23:49, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
    • By "the category below," I meant the "Scholars of Islamophobia" category.--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:49, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
• keep. Well-defined category (both per see and per wikipedia category structure) for a well-established subject. Nomination without merit. Islamophobia irrelevant. A category must be discussed in terms of its own pros and cons. - Altenmann >t 04:37, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
• Speedy keep .There is clearly WP:POINT nomination.No real rationale for deletion was presented--Shrike (talk)/WP:RX 09:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Islam and antisemitism

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Nominator's rationale: Islamophobic POV category that must be deleted per previous precedent. It seems to exist only to imply a relationship between Islam and what is now known in Misplaced Pages as "opposition to Judaism". JonFlaune (talk) 21:19, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• No need to delete on principle (see also Category:Christianity and antisemitism), but heavily prune contents. The category must not be used to link all antisemitic incidents in which Muslims were involved in order to suggest that they were motivated by Islam (rather than nationalism issues or less contemporary political struggles, or the "he's just a troubled loner" that you get whenever the shooter's white). For instance, country categories must be removed; articles where an incident involving a Jew and a Muslim is labeled antisemitic without any real indication of it being so (Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf for instance); and articles on very general topics in which antisemitism is not a significant part of the article (eg. Nation of Islam - we have a spinoff article on NoI and antisemitism, which would belong) and thus unsuitable (and for that matter, where Islam is not! eg. International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust). As well, if I recall correctly, the last big discussion on bias-related categories said that we must remove BLPs who are in the category because they are perceived to hold that bias. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree that this is an unmaintainable category, because it groups political attacks with hate crimes and possibly some actions unrelated to bias. Regardless of my Islamophobia decision, this is an extremely shaky category.--Mike Selinker (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Scholars of Islamophobia

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion, I wasn't sure what to do with this category. It contains only two articles, so it could be merged into Category:Islamic studies scholars or something else.-- Mike Selinker (talk) 19:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• The category was kept in the previous discussion where the consensus, counting policy-based arguments, was to keep the categories. Scholars of Islamophobia are not Islamic studies scholars, that's something else entirely. JonFlaune (talk) 20:52, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose deletion-on-principle, but I'm not sure how many articles would go into it. We should try to populate it and see - I added an article myself. I agree with JonFlaune that an upmerge to Islamic studies is incorrect - Islamic studies is about Islam and Muslims, while scholars of Islamophobia study non-Muslims! –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
  • If the Islamophobia decision is upheld on WP:DRV, what would you call this category?--Mike Selinker (talk) 23:28, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
    • Ooh there is a DRV, thanks for the link. I don't know what it should be called - you see, there's a nice snappy word for hatred of Muslims and Islam, what could it be... –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:33, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
      • Sorry if I troubled you with my question, Roscelese.--Mike Selinker (talk) 23:38, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
        • I was being a bit snarky, but in all honesty any phrasing for this category that used the whitewash-y non-standard "opposition to Islam" would be very clunky. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:54, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
          • I agree that in this case, it comes up short.--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:48, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships

• Propose renaming Category:Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships to Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Nominator's rationale: As World Gymnastics Championships states, there are five separate World Gymnastics Championships events, and this category says it is only for those who win medals at the Artistic championships. Courcelles 18:48, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• Note: This likely qualifies for speedy renaming under C2B. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:35, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Airship-related lists

• Propose renaming Category:Airship-related lists to Category:Lists of airships

Nominator's rationale: Contested speedy as it contains a list of airship accidents currently. Reasoning same as for the speedy: consistency with other categories of this sort, including Category:Lists of aircraft, Category:Lists of aircraft engines, Category:Lists of airports, Category:Lists of pilots, etc. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 16:38, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• comment subcat of Category:Aviation-related lists, sibling of Category:Airline-related lists. Look further for consistency/not. Hmains (talk) 17:10, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Years in Cameroon

• Propose renaming Category:1907 in Cameroon to Category:1907 in Kamerun

Nominator's rationale: Rename. Following the approach used at Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_29#Years_in_Benin, the name Kamerun should be used for 1884–1919, and French Cameroons for the years 1920–1960. This is a slightly more complicated situation because of British Cameroons which became divided between Cameroon and Nigeria, but I have created the relevant years in Category:Years of the 20th century in British Cameroons so what remains should all be French Cameroons. Tim! (talk) 08:14, 11 August 2012 (UTC)