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Category:Cultural depictions of people

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:  Relisted at 2018 OCT 6 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:45, 6 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category which needs a purge due to extreme misuse. While it's valid in principle as a container for the subcategories that it contains, and the usage note states that "This category is for categories and lists of cultural and other works (including film, TV and literature) that feature depictions of people", the problem here is that it's often directly applied to random individual films and television series and characters — but virtually every single film or television series or play or novel that exists at all, and every single character within any of them, is by definition a "cultural depiction of people", making this an WP:INDISCRIMINATE category. (For example, The Nanny and Everybody Loves Raymond and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, which have been filed here, are not somehow more defined by being "cultural depictions of people" than, say, The Big Bang Theory or Kim's Convenience or The West Wing, which have not.) And further to that, I've also already caught at least one example of a real person being filed here, on the trivial basis that somebody once played him in a film — but since a lot of notable people have been portrayed on film, filing real people here on that basis is also a recipe for extreme indiscriminacy. This is not a good basis for a content category, because it doesn't represent a point of distinction between the things that have been filed here and similar things that haven't — it's a valid parent for the subcategories, but it should not contain a random and arbitrary selection of individual works or characters. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
An awful lot of the problems would be solved by renaming to Category:Cultural depictions of real individual people. I don't see a problem with say Rubens (film) being in a subcat, but clearly dramas about fictional characters don't belong, nor social/anthropological documentaries etc etc. Plus a clearer category note, & repeating for the subcats. Is this old discussion partly to blame? The current category note is certainly part of the problem:
This category is for categories and lists of cultural and other works (including film, TV and literature) that feature depictions of people.
For works which are essentially based on real people, see Category:Works based on real people.
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Category:Syrian territories

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. Good Ol’factory (talk) 14:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Vague concept with no clear definition. The Syrian territories article was recently deleted following AfD. The place for any territory in Syria would be Category:Geography of Syria. Place Clichy (talk) 15:50, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Vicenza Calcio

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: Rename. Timrollpickering 19:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The original club "Vicenza Calcio" (historically "L.R. Vicenza") was folded. But at the same time L.R. Vicenza Virtus was founded (relocated from another city) as a legitimate successor (by acquiring the assets of the original club) which covered on the same article. The category name should follow the change of the WP:article title in this case Matthew_hk tc 12:46, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People associated with death

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 19:03, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCASSOC and the subcategories are entirely unrelated. All three subcategories are already somewhere else in the tree of Category:Death so there is no need to merge. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:25, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:George P. Shultz

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 19:03, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category with only four members, including the main article. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:47, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Alabama State Senators

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: Rename to "state senators". Timrollpickering 19:06, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Capitalizing "State Senator" here is incorrect. An alternative option would be a move to a Members of the Alabama State Senate.

Most of the other states should be similar; New York, Georgia, and Washington may have disambiguation issues, Nebraska has a unicameral legislature (with state senators), and some states may have "State" in the official name. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:36, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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