Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 June 6
June 6
NEW NOMINATIONS
Category:Zimbabwean billionaires
- Category:Zimbabwean billionaires - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: This category does not mean anything.
Zimbabwean billionaires? In what currency? In Zim$ then everybody in that country is a billionaire. In South African Rands? Maybe In US$, probably not. In Euro, probably not. FFMG (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Delete as the only occupant was Mugabe, whose wealth is not mentioned in his article. (Category:Billionaires has rather bizarre inclusion criteria; the currency seems to be whatever you prefer.) Occuli (talk) 13:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Category:Jewish fraudsters
- Category:Jewish fraudsters - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Without opining on the legitimacy of the other Category:Fraudsters by nationality, I would point out that this one is not a nationality, and is fundamentally racist. There is no category for other races or religions, nor ought there to be. Someone WP:BOLDer than me could nominate this for speedy as an attack page. Bongomatic 12:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Category:Surnames by country
Categories
- Category:Surnames by country - Template:Lc1
- Category:Afghan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Albanian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Algerian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:American surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Angolan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Argentine surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Armenian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Australian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Austrian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Azerbaijani surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Bahamian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Bangladeshi surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Belgian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Brazilian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:British surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Cameroonian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Canadian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Chadian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Chilean surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Chinese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Comorian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Croatian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Danish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Dominican Republic surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Dutch surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Ethiopian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Filipino surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Finnish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:French surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Gabonese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Georgian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:German surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Ghanaian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Greek surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Guatemalan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Haitian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Honduran surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Hungarian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Indian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Indonesian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Iranian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Iraqi surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Irish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Israeli surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Italian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Ivorian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Jamaican surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Japanese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Jordanian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Kazakh surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Kenyan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Kyrgyz surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Lebanese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Libyan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Lithuanian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Malaysian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Maltese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Mauritanian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Mexican surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Moroccan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Mozambican surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:New Zealand surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Nigerian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Pakistani surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Palestinian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Papua New Guinean surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Paraguayan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Peruvian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Polish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Portuguese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Prussian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Puerto Rican surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Russian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Slovenian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Somali surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:South African surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Spanish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Sri Lankan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Sudanese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Swiss surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Tajikistani surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Tanzanian surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Togolese surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Turkish surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:United Arab Emirati surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Uruguayan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Uzbekistani surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Yemeni surnames - Template:Lc1
- Category:Afghan surnames - Template:Lc1
- Nominator's rationale: Delete. Another recent creation. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 28#Category:Fooian names for related debate.
- Many were created during the debate, often after it became obvious the Fooian names were being deleted. In effect, many are a recreation of deleted material.
- --William Allen Simpson (talk) 08:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- It takes a long time to tag this many by hand....
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:05, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- It takes a long time to tag this many by hand....
- Keep These are informative lists based on a logically way to break up Category:Surnames (And this tree in fact is not a recreation of any kind as about half of this list has been around long before last week.) Mayumashu (talk) 09:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Delete all - names are not and cannot be bounded by language, ethnicity, culture or heritage in any meaningful way. As soon as one Fooian person is given or adopts a name, it becomes a "Fooian name". This simply doesn't work as a categorization scheme. Otto4711 (talk) 11:32, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Delete all, agree that this is totally unworkable and undefinable. How to classify surnames I don't know but this is an impossible way of doing it. Drawn Some (talk) 12:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Delete all – I doubt if there is any useful way of subcatting Category:Surnames. It is not of interest to know whether a Smith (say) has ever been resident in Luxemborg (say). Category:English surnames - "This page lists surnames found amongst English people, both traditionally and contemporarily"; and yet there are only 900 of them. It's an impossible task. Occuli (talk) 13:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Comment I have been thinking about this. The only reasonable way to subcategorize all surnames is by alphabetical order.Drawn Some (talk) 14:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Category:People in the history of Worcestershire
- Propose renaming Category:People in the history of Worcestershire to Category:People in Worcestershire history
- Nominator's rationale: Rename. Match others in Category:People in English history by location.
- --William Allen Simpson (talk) 05:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
- Probably merge to Category:People from Worcestershire. I am not sure we need this category. The general category 'People fom xxx' will include these, and maybe a list to give a brief bio to help find who you want. The cat also includes 'People from xxx (before 1974)' which is a completely different group (Pre-1974 local government reorganisation) - see Category:People from Northumberland (before 1974) which I don't consider to be 'history'. Twiceuponatime (talk) 08:23, 6 June 2009 (UTC)