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February 22

Years and decades in Moldavia

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The full list of nominated categories can be found here.
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, mostly just one article per category. This is follow-up on a previous nomination that was supported in principle but considered to be too broad so that country specific details could not be discussed. So here is another separate nomination by country. By the way, in the previous nomination there was no mention (yet) of specific issues regarding Moldavia. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Category:First Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago

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: keep for now. There has been insufficient discussion about User:SMcCandlish's alternative decapitalization proposal, this proposal be well be renominated on a short term together with many other First Ladies categories. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 09:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: To use an unambiguous, simple descriptive title per WP:NDESC.

This arises out of a speedy nomination to rename to Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Trinidad and Tobago, following the election of Paula-Mae Weekes as President of Trinidad and Tobago. She is due to take office in March 2018, and the speedy nom was based on the unevidenced assumption that her husband would be called "First Gentleman".

I see no evidence that either title has any formal status in Trinidad and Tobago; "First Lady" may be customary usage, but the only evidence I see of that is usage by the 5th and current President. In any case, en.wp is not bound to use official names, and Category:Spouses of national leaders contains plenty of other "spouse" categories.

Plus, the descriptive title "Spouses of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago" removes any ambiguity with spouses of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:11, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Link to the discussion on the speedy nomination: . --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:21, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Rename to Spouses. I just ran a Google check and apparently Paula-Mae Weekes is actually unmarried, so for the moment the "first gentleman" thing is a purely theoretical issue that will only become relevant if she gets married while in office. But nevertheless, if we can't confirm that "first lady" is actually the formal and official title of a male president's wife, then we should indeed use a purely descriptive title rather than an unofficial and non-standard one imported from somewhere else that we will eventually have to regender regardless. Bearcat (talk) 04:55, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Keep category name - Keep the present category title of First Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago for the reasons listed below. Let me preface everything by saying I hate opposing moves by other editors on here. It's the part of Misplaced Pages I like the least. I don't oppose a move/rename to be stubborn, disagreeable, or impose some kind of weird American title or cultural import on other countries. However, I will oppose moves/renames if an existing category name is factually accurate and, in the case of Trinidad, the usage of "First Lady" for this category is correct.
    • I do have to acknowledge that I was wrong to propose a speedy renaming of this category before President-elect Weekes had taken office. Based on naming conventions, I still think "First Gentleman" would have been correct, but obviously we won't 100% know for sure without someone in that position. Bearcat is correct that the President-elect is unmarried, something I missed, and this article from Newsday confirms it. (Newsday: Paula Mae Weekes in a nutshell) I prematurely overstepped with the original speedy move proposal in this case. Since there is no "First Gentleman", the original category name of "First Lady" should be retained.
    • I can see the ambiguity concern, but there's little chance of confusion with the wife or husband of the Prime Minister, particularly now that the container category, Category:Spouses of leaders of Trinidad and Tobago, has been created to hold both. It's acknowledged in the article and simple disclaimer on the top of the "First Lady" category page would suffice instead of a move, while retaining the titke. The position of First Lady is far more defined in Trinidad, compared to the husband/wife/spouse of the prime minister.
    • The term First Lady has been used in Trinidad since at least the 1980s and probably earlier. Zalayhar Hassanali, the country's second First Lady (who needs her own article), uses the term herself, including during this with Aramco World. And past Presidents and First Ladies of Trinidad have used the term both officially and customarily as well, as shown by sources below. To use the U.S. as a comparison, it's similar to Martha Washington or Dolly Madison. It's highly unlikely that Washington or Madison would have used the term during their lifetimes, as the "First Lady" title wasn't coined until the late 1800s, but the unofficial title of "First Lady" applies retroactively to them as well.
    • The usage of "First Lady" is accepted and commonplace in Trinidad. (It's iffier in certain other countries, notably Ireland, where wife of the President is still far more accepted than "First Lady or Gentleman", so "spouse" probably works better for a category containing the husbands or wives of Irish presidents.) The category name "First Lady of Trinidad of Tobago" acknowledges the more official and unofficial customary roles of this specific position and its holder (as shown by government sources), rather just a broad, vaguer term like "spouses" in Trinidad's case. The category name should reflect this with "First Lady".
    • The use of "First Lady" is widespread in Trinidad and Tobago's government and media. And again, not to sound repetitive, but the category name should reflect this.

Cheers! Scanlan (talk) 02:58, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Use "First ladies ...." per MOS:JOBTITLES, MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS. Such titles are not capitalized except when they directly adhere to a subject's name. When used in the plural like this, they are common-noun phrases by definition (France and the UK have had lots of kings and queens, not Kings and Queens). I support the proposed move in principle and in the future, if we need to add a first gentleman; but until that time, there is no point. Moving it early to a more obscure "spouses" descriptive title is a form of over-disambiguation.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Star World Championships in the United States

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: keep (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:38, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorisation Smartskaft (talk) 10:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Transdev Group companies

Nominator's rationale: This was a WP:C2D speedy nomination to rename to Category:Transdev. It's not a bad idea, even tho it doesn't strictly fit C2D ... but given the company history (see Transdev/Transdev (historic)), I wonder if it might be better to more clearly distinguish the two incarnations. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:32, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Copy of discussion at speedy
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Category:China famous tea

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: merge to Category:Chinese tea. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 14:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: There are no criteria for what belongs in this category out of everything else in Category:Chinese tea. The article China's Famous Teas was merged into the list of Chinese teas after the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/China's Famous Teas, and this category was left behind. Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
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Category:China tea factories

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: delete empty category (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 20:07, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Fix pidgin English title. Not sure either of the two articles in this category would survive AfD; both have only a single source, one a blogspot post and the other a livejournal. But for now the grammar can be fixed. I have no idea why this decision was made in May 2011: Category:Chinese Tea Factories "03:37, 31 May 2011 Cydebot (talk | contribs) deleted page Category:Chinese Tea Factories (Robot - Speedily moving category Chinese Tea Factories to Category:China tea factories per CFDS.)" I can't find the CFDS discussion in the archives. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Weak support. Nom is correct that current name is awkward, but I would prefer Tea factories in China, since this is about physical location not association or origin (i.e., it's different from "Politics of China", "Mammals of China", etc. We're not being very programmatic about this distinction, but should start.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:19, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Question @Dennis Bratland: the category is currently empty, was there anything in it when you nominated the category? Marcocapelle (talk) 09:41, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Menghai tea factory and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Xiaguan tea factory. I guess I should have predicted they would both be deleted before bothering with the category. But I’m no China expert and I didn’t want to railroad these topics out of my own ignorance, so more process was better than less. —Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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Amherst Mammoths

Nominator's rationale: The intercollegiate athletics teams of Amherst College were renamed "Mammoths" from "Lord Jeffs" in 2017; cf. Jweiss11 (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Yes, our edit conflict just blew that up. :( Jweiss11 (talk) 18:02, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Can we close this slam dunk? @BrownHairedGirl: how about you do the honors? Jweiss11 (talk) 02:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@Jweiss11: after the vicious personal abuse which you heaped on me when you tried misusing WP:CFDS to do this renaming, the answer is "no way".
Some other admin will close this discussion in due course. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
@BrownHairedGirl: nice to see that were are moving forward and putting the improvement of the encyclopedia first. Other admins, can we get some closure on this long overdue and unnecessarily laborious slam dunk move? Jweiss11 (talk) 02:19, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Jweiss11, editors can and do disagree about substance and procedure. When that happens, we discuss it to try to reach a WP:consensus, and policy is to discuss disagreements WP:CIVILly and without personal attacks.
You chose to ignore both those policies. You ignored another editor's warning to you. You ignored my request that you retract. Two weeks later have done nothing to retract your personal attacks, and you still show no sign of grasping either why your proposal was ineligible for speedy renaming or of recognising that WP:CFDS#Admin_instructions_for_handling_listed_entries says clearly "When handling the listings: 1. Make sure that the listing meets one of the above criteria.".
Like every other editor, my time is contributed on a voluntary basis. I do not volunteer my time for the assistance of editors who abuse Misplaced Pages by making personal attacks.
No matter how much a requested action might improve Misplaced Pages, I will step aside and leave others to make their own choices about whether to volunteer their time to assist an editor who ignores basic en.wp policies on user conduct, and who abuses admins for following consensus on process. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Category:Basketball teams in Orlando, Florida

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Only three articles on basketball teams in the city. TM 15:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Members of the Prague linguistic circle

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:People of the Prague linguistic circle (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: There's no need to separate the members from the main topic category given that the vast majority the current and future contents are likely to be biographies. For comparison, see Category:Vienna Circle. -- Black Falcon 06:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Male dogs

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. Sorting by dog sex serves no encyclopedic purpose.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:04, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete. There are certainly ways in which gender can be connected with notability in the case of humans, but that really doesn't pertain to dogs at all — for example, I can't really see any discernible reason why Gabi being female has any sort of WP:DEFINING relationship with the reasons why she has an encyclopedia article. Grutness is correct, if we want to diffuse the overall dogs category, it would be more appropriate to do so based on role than on gender. Bearcat (talk) 19:13, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Question, if merged, why wouldn't we merge it also to Category:Male mammals and Category:Female mammals respectively? Or should those categories be nominated as well? Marcocapelle (talk) 22:01, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
    • Because for some species, dividing it into male and female makes more sense. Humans are in those categories, for instance, as are stud bulls and dairy cattle, and as are racehorses, which compete in specific events according to their sex. With animals like dogs, though, there's rarely a need for such separation (let's face it, the most famous fictional dog is arguably Lassie - a female who was regularly portrayed in screen by a male, with no-one taking any notice of the fact). Grutness...wha? 01:31, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Support merge per nom and Grutness. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:52, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Category:Glossaries of medical terms

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:55, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; the categories are for the same thing. Prefer the more WP:CONCISE name. PS: This appears to be an accidental fork that was later categorized in a parent/child relationship (the later probably by me, though I won't bother looking).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:53, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
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