Contents
- 1 Request for mediation rejected
- 2 Saints
- 3 Explanation of "unncessary diffusion"
- 4 Female religious leaders
- 5 Speedy deletion nomination of Eastern Orthodoxy-related controversies
- 6 Removal of categories
- 7 Talk pages in categories
- 8 Merge
- 9 German words and phrases
- 10 Merge
- 11 Category:Christian law
- 12 Category tree
- 13 Easter & History category
- 14 Wōden
- 15 Italian municipalities CFD
- 16 large tree exception
- 17 CfD closure
- 18 Paganism
- 19 Category:Black Hebrew Israelite religious leaders
- 20 Searching past CfD discussions
- 21 Female clergy
- 22 Thanks for the help with tagging for deletion the Category:Condensed phase
- 23 Church CfD
- 24 Liege
- 25 "Islamist"
- 26 Shi'a Muslim monarchs
- 27 Need help before I can close an old one.
- 28 Tagging category
- 29 Apologists
- 30 Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide
- 31 Bishops of Jamaica, Bishops of Egypt
- 32 FYI
- 33 Zinzendorf as theologian
- 34 (American) People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian Descent
- 35 Pascal as theologian
- 36 Seasonal Greets!
- 37 Merry Christmas & ooo message
- 38 Cilicia
- 39 Explanation of "not a defining characteristic of this article"
- 40 Saints categories
- 41 Film writers
- 42 Please note
- 43 Merger discussion for Space Goth
- 44 Your edit on Sybaris on the Traeis
- 45 Greek city-states
- 46 Category:Religious leaders in the United States
- 47 Speedy deletion nomination of Ancient Slovakia
- 48 Please engage in discussion about mass cat removals and changes
- 49 Talkback
- 50 Category
- 51 Template:Infobox holiday: Revision history
- 52 Orthodox bishops
- 53 Ancient Greek sites
- 54 CFD implementation
- 55 Category:Protestant denominational families
Request for mediation rejected
Saints
HI, I recall looking at the saints tree and decided it was a mess - hence my suggestion to start a slower conversation vs. at CFD where people feel pressured to !vote. Take a look at the whole tree and see what other inconsistencies you find - we should never have a female category as a subset of a male one, for example - I did a lot of clean up in the royalty tree since princesses were often children of princes, instead of sibling categories. But then once you start that broader discussion we can take our time to figure out best solution, and then if anything needs to be killed or renamed we can bring to CFD, pointing to previous pseudo-consensus from the other page. Let me know if this makes sense.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 04:05, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Explanation of "unncessary diffusion"
When I undid St. Timothy I hadn't realised that the parent category had been sub-divided. I don't believe that Category:New Testament people as a whole needs diffusion. I just don't have the energy to continually fight these misguided attempts to do so. While sorting people by the bit of the New Testament they get a mention in sounds like a good idea initially, maturer reflection shows that it leads to an unhelpful proliferation of categories. Taking Timothy as an example, he's mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, several Pauline epistles, and Hebrews. A category for each of these on the bottom of his article, in addition to the 14 other categories he's already in, is too many. And under the current scheme what does one do with Jesus? Add another 27 categories to his article? I'm cross-posting this to Laurel's talk page as well. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
- Dear Beeswaxcandle, I realize that occasionally people fall in two categories, but I created the categories such that it doesn't happen very often. To add on your 27 number, I agree that it's definitely not meaningful to subdivide any further than these three categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:40, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Female religious leaders
Hi, I'm sorry I didn't notice your proposals at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 June 2 about women clergy earlier; I'm glad it's still open! Thanks for making these proposals. I have suggested using "Religious leaders" rather than "clergy"; please comment. – Fayenatic London 10:19, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
- Dear Fayenatic, thanks for letting me know! This was indeed quite some time ago. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Marcocapelle,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Eastern Orthodoxy-related controversies for deletion in response to your request.
If you didn't intend to make such a request and don't want the article to be deleted, you can , but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Removal of categories
Hi, thanks for your edits but removal of these categories was ill advised, I've restored them. You may want to note on Talk pages before or after removing any similar. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:28, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Talk pages in categories
Hi. I've looked at Talk:Christian views on the Old Covenant too and don't see how it has been added to any categories. I would think that no talk pages (including user talks) should be in categories. I also saw your reverted edit that implied my own talk page is in a number of categories. If that is true, and if you find out how to remove them, I would appreciate it if you could pass that technique along to me. It is definitely not my intention, and I'd be happy to know how to rid the categories of such things also. Evensteven (talk) 16:03, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Don't worry about the latter, I thought I was still on your personal talk page but I was actually the article's talk page when I noticed the categorizations. So that was initially just a wrong insert from my side. As for the first point, you'll have understood that I have no idea how to remove them. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
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- [edit conflict] Thanks, regarding my talk page. On second thought though, do some special categories exist specifically for article talk pages? I'm thinking of project classifications (importance, article quality ratings, etc) of articles specifically. Talk:Christian views on the Old Covenant includes use of three templates for three projects that the article belongs to, and perhaps those templates create (transclude) automatic entries for such special-purpose categories. In that case, I would guess that they shouldn't be touched except through the controlling templates, as automation would be responsible for providing accuracy and consistency. Evensteven (talk) 16:17, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Dear Evensteven, I removed the links to the categories from Talk:Christian views on the Old Covenant and this resulted in removal of the categories that were in this particular discussion. So at least that's part of the deal! Still, the talk page is classified in a number of other categories that aren't mentioned on the talk page. I don't have any idea why. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- [edit conflict] Thanks, regarding my talk page. On second thought though, do some special categories exist specifically for article talk pages? I'm thinking of project classifications (importance, article quality ratings, etc) of articles specifically. Talk:Christian views on the Old Covenant includes use of three templates for three projects that the article belongs to, and perhaps those templates create (transclude) automatic entries for such special-purpose categories. In that case, I would guess that they shouldn't be touched except through the controlling templates, as automation would be responsible for providing accuracy and consistency. Evensteven (talk) 16:17, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Marcocapelle, cc User:Evensteven, As previous request, could you please stop deleting categories, discuss first on Talk pages, thank you. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- In ictu oculi, I have not been involved in deleting categories. This communication is about talk pages themselves being in categories, and I was asking questions only. In particular, I was interested in removing my own user talk page from any categories it might have been in, as this did not seem right. I'd be glad to know if I'm off track about that, as this is not a subject I know much about at present. Evensteven (talk) 20:38, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Merge
Don't you think that Christian views on Hades should be merged into Christian views on Hell? Editor2020 04:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
- I completely agree. However, trying to get articles merged is not a priority for me personally. Meanwhile I've come to the finding that it's even more difficult to have an article edited, merged or deleted than have a category merged or deleted, because people really feel as if they're the owner of an article (especially so with articles that have a very limited audience of readers and editors, like this one will undoubtedly have). Having said that, if you would be willing to nominate this page to be merged/deleted and you would update me about it then I'll definitely support you. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:15, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
German words and phrases
Hi Marcocapelle,
I think I disagree with your removal of Fach from Category:German_words_and_phrases. If you look at the article it discusses terminology of various Fächer at length. But you're removing many other articles and it's hard to tell what your criteria are. Isn't Category_talk:German_words_and_phrases the obvious place to outline your project? Sparafucil (talk) 21:36, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
- It is definitely the right place, but so far I've experienced that nobody ever replies when I post something as a category talk. It seems like this is just not a place where anyone would ever look into. Which I think is very unfortunate. As for your disagreement, I think generally I've been quite conservative, but occasionally I may have acted too quickly, like the one you mention. For further info please check Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_June_12#Category:French_words_and_phrases (which was posted merely as an example language). Marcocapelle (talk) 21:50, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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- Well, you could assume if no one replies there that it's not that controversial. I don't understand your rational though; can't you explain it? I didn't quite understand what you were getting at before withdrawing the Fr. deletion proposal either. Sparafucil (talk) 23:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Merge
I'm thinking about renaming Category:Christian politics to Christianity and politics, as a subcategory of Religion and politics. Thoughts or input? Editor2020 18:50, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
- Definitely agree, not only for consistency, but also because it would additionally allow to classify controversies between Christianity and politics in here. Funny detail, two articles are already classified in Category:Christianity and politics while it doesn't even exist yet. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:27, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Editor2020: Wait, there's also a Category:Church and state law which is almost all (but not entirely) about Christianity and hence has a substantial overlap with Category:Christian politics. I think, ideally, the highest level should become:
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- Category:Christianity and state as a sort of container category
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- Category:Christian denominations and state (containing most of current Category:Church and state law insofar related to Christianity)
- Category:Christianity and political ideologies
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Marcocapelle (talk) 20:15, 20 July 2014 (UTC) Marcocapelle (talk) 20:22, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
- I'm reluctant to add even more categories to the multitude we have now. Editor2020 20:12, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- ps. I'm not sure, but I think that Category:Church and state law is supposed to be about Separation (or non-separation) of Church and State, i.e "church and state" law. Editor2020 20:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Really? I hadn't even considered this. The current content of the category is also much broader than just that and I don't see an urgent reason to limit the contents to just separation issues. About what I wrote above, let's just forget it for now. If you propose the rename, I'll support it. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:27, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- ps. I'm not sure, but I think that Category:Church and state law is supposed to be about Separation (or non-separation) of Church and State, i.e "church and state" law. Editor2020 20:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Category:Christian law
You seem to be changing the scope of Category:Christian law, as the articles you are adding do not fit the main article template, which is a link to Church order? Editor2020 03:11, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Editor2020: Yes, I know, this can't be the final solution. The previous main article used to be Canon law which did not make sense because Canon law is a category on its own. And there is no article about Christian law because it redirects to Canon law! So my bet is that the original intention has been to have this category for Canon law/Church order related topics. But currently the category has become a strange mix of Church order, the two new "Law" child cats and some single articles of which I'd say they are more about ethics or beliefs than about law.
- I have deliberately not moved out anything from this category as I haven't figured out a solution yet. Though I did add Canon law as a child category. And I grouped the two "Law" child cats so that they can easily be transferred somewhere else if anyone would know good solution for this. Now I'm thinking of it again, maybe the best solution is to just split the Christian law category in two, so Christian law and Church Order? What's your opinion? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:20, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Category tree
Do you know if it is possible to display a graphical representation of a category and all of its subcategories, up to X levels deep? Editor2020 21:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- It has been possible for sure, and I don't think the option was hard to find. Since I can't find it back now, I'm afraid the option has been removed. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:18, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
I found one, it's at Special:CategoryTree, mysteriously enough. Editor2020 16:39, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
@Editor2020: Okay but that's just a list, not a real tree. In fact I found what I meant previously, it's namely in Dutch wikipedia, there it shows real trees. Every category page has a line in small font that says:
- Hulpmiddelen: Alle categorieën - Toon bovenliggende categorieboom (png/svg) - Toon onderliggende categorieboom (png/svg) - Zoek artikelen met CatScan.
If you click the second from left (bovenliggend, either png or svg) you see all categories above and if you click the third (onderliggend, either png or svg) you see all categories below, including their interconnections. That is really cool! Marcocapelle (talk) 20:03, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Easter & History category
I don't understand the purpose of Category:Easter and history, which you created and stuck some articles into. What kind of articles should this category have? What related to Easter *isn't* also related to history? In particular, I don't see the merit in sticking the various alternate theories of the resurrection of Jesus into this article. "Easter" usually includes the holiday & the Christian theology thereof; these aren't exactly related to that, and the original Category:Resurrection of Jesus seems much more on point. But maybe I'm missing something? SnowFire (talk) 23:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- Dear SnowFire, I've pointed out the scope of the category more clearly by indicating the lead article. In addition, please note that I created the category originally as a childcat of "Christianity and history", that's also how I got inspiration for this category name. If you feel the category should be named differently (most likely in accordance with the lead article), feel free to propose and I won't object. Also, if you think it is more appropriate to have this category as a child of Category:Resurrection of Jesus rather than of Category:Easter, I won't object either. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:55, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Wōden
I added Category:Anglo-Saxon gods, but it displays as Category:English gods. Editor2020 03:48, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- Just checked, apparently Category:Anglo-Saxon gods is being redirected to Category:English gods. It might be a good idea to reverse this redirection, or not? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Italian municipalities CFD
Please see my response at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_July_15, which explains the rationale for "Communes" rather than municipalities.
Oh, and see also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_July_13#Category:Proposed_public_transport_in_Brazil which I think will be to your liking, as it allows most of one layer to be removed. – Fayenatic London 14:14, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your notification! Marcocapelle (talk) 14:32, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
large tree exception
The main reason for this exception is that it would create large categories if we upmerged a whole lot of small categories into a larger one. Another reason for the exception is that in some places we are categorizing by a basic trait of the articles involved. Nationality and occupation are both well established traits. I think in general as long as there are enough articles to justify having a particular occupation category split by nationality, we should split by all nationalities we can find.
CfD closure
Hi, thanks for your interest in closing CfD discussions, especially during the current backlog.
You asked here about withdrawing a nomination. It's fine to do this early on if you see it as a mistake. Please either just record "withdrawn", or do both the following:
- close the discussion with {{cfd top}} and -bottom templates. See WP:CFDAI for where they go.
- then, remove the template from the category page(s).
However, once there has been substantial discussion, I don't think you should do this. It's fine to record "withdrawn", but an independent closer might judge that there has been sufficient discussion to close it as a "keep" outcome, which has some value as a precedent and should be recorded on the category talk page.
Incidentally, if you feel like closing any discussions in which you have not participated, that would be very welcome. Please read WP:Non-admin closure and WP:Consensus if you have not done closures before. Any that you judge have a consensus of "Keep" or "No consensus", you could implement yourself. The instructions are at WP:CFDAI.
If you would like to do Non-Admin Closures of any of the early ones outstanding on the list at WP:CFDAC, I'll be willing to implement any of your closures that need admin rights (i.e. deleting, merging or renaming). Let me know on or off-wiki if you would like any more guidance! – Fayenatic London 12:28, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Paganism
If classical religions are no longer regarded as paganism, then what is? There is 3000+ years of sources referring to it as paganism. Isn't it verging on OR to say that it's no longer used? Laurel Lodged (talk) 18:03, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- There was no OR, it was based on WP articles titles, e.g. Ancient Roman religion and Ancient Greek religion as opposed to e.g. Germanic paganism and Slavic paganism. By the way, it's a good question to ask what paganism really is. The article Paganism is highly unclear about that. Or maybe it is clear just in the sense that paganism isn't really a clear concept at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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- You need to be very careful about using Wikipedia's naming of articles to determine status and should use the definition of Paganism provided in the article,
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"a broad group of indigenous and historical polytheistic religious traditions—primarily those of cultures known to the classical world. In a wider sense, paganism has also been understood to include any non-Abrahamic, folk, or ethnic religion."
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- If it's polytheistic, indigenous, non-Abrahamic and old, it's paganism. If it's not old, it's neopaganism. Editor2020 02:10, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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- "indigenous religions" redirects to ethnic religion, so this part of the definition excludes Hellenism and Ancient Roman religion
- "of cultures known to the classical world": is by this part of the definition paganism including or excluding classical religions? I would say the latter.
- The next line says: "Modern ethnologists often avoid referring to non-classical and non-European, traditional and historical faiths as pagan". Which again says "non-classical" and besides the whole sentence seems to imply that Paganism shouldn't really be used as a category on Wikipedia at all.
- Also the further text of the article is far from fluent, apparently edited by different people with different views on paganism. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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Category:Black Hebrew Israelite religious leaders
Delete per WP:SMALLCAT? Editor2020 02:00, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- It seems like opinions diverge a bit when a category is small enough for WP:SMALLCAT. Personally I only take the initiative for a SMALLCAT nomination for categories of size 1 or 2. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:06, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Searching past CfD discussions
The easiest is to try the search box on the CfD page. For this one, as an admin, I went to the deleted page information and found out when the old page there was nominated and then pointed to that discussion. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:05, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 17:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Female clergy
I have closed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 June 2#Category:Several categories related to women clergy. DO you want to now implement the changes or do you need assistance? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- At the moment i'm on vacation and have only mobile access which makes it very cumbersome to implement. Is there a deadline for implementation? Marcocapelle (talk) 18:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- OK, I have progressed this by implementing the decisions supported so far. – Fayenatic London 21:33, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 05:34, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- OK, I have progressed this by implementing the decisions supported so far. – Fayenatic London 21:33, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with tagging for deletion the Category:Condensed phase
I looked at your and User:DexDor comments, and you two summed it up correctly what I wanted to do. I have never tagged a category for deletion, therefore, thanks for pointing out how to do it. Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 22:58, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Church CfD
@Fayenatic london: @Laurel Lodged: @Sillyfolkboy: The content of Category:Church has been completely changed since the CfD started. Please consider joining the discussion again after this new development. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:08, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Liege
Re Category:Prince-Bishops of the Netherlands. According to the map, the bishopric extended into modern day Netherlands. Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:50, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
- I know, but it's for such a limited part that I would suggest that "Netherlands" is not a defining characteristic of "Prince-Bishopric of Liege". Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
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- Is it wise to cherry pick which bits of the truth we like? Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:53, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- It's not a matter of like or dislike, it's a matter of judgment what Wikipedia community would still consider to be a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:59, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- Is it wise to cherry pick which bits of the truth we like? Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:53, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
"Islamist"
The word "Islamist" is a neologism and zero Muslims self-describe as such. Nonetheless Wikipedia has propelled this word for usgae at least hundreds of times; (See Category:Islamism and its subcategories). I would appreciate if you would rename them as i'm not sure how to do that. Thanks a lot. 80.43.198.182 (talk) 19:55, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- @80.43.198.182: I'd be happy to teach how to nominate categories for renaming. However, you need to have a good motivation to begin with - and your claim that a word is a neologism is just not good enough. Since the word is being used already (in google you get 23 million hits), you should show written sources, e.g. academic papers or newspaper articles, that explain that this is really not a good word. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Shi'a Muslim monarchs
Sorry for missing that conversation (pinging me is a good way of making sure I'm still reading). I think you've read my comments correctly - i.e. Category:Shi'a Muslim monarchs should directly contain biographical monarch articles, and not serve as a container for the dynasty parent categories, as it is now. SFB 14:07, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
- That's okay, I'll have another look some time, because this CfD is from so long time ago that I've forgotten what it is about. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:04, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Need help before I can close an old one.
I'm ready to close this old discussion. I'm just not sure of what the second target is for many of these. So can you sum it up for me? BTW, this is going to fall into a very large work queue for manual double upmerges. Drop a note on the talk page to get me to follow up on this. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:40, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Tagging category
Re this: I would just tag it with Template:Cfd. The important thing is that it's tagged and that it directs to the discussion. It's not so important that it explain exactly what is being proposed—that's what your nomination is for. Alternatively, you could use Template:Cfm, since per the proposal the articles in the category may have to be merged to some other category. Either template would be fine, I would think. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:33, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 21:37, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Apologists
I'm really not sure what you're doing in pruning the Christian apologists category, but I fear that you are doing so in an indiscriminate manner. To remove Thomas Aquinas is simply over the top, as Summa contra Gentiles clearly attests. Please make sure to read the articles carefully - if they mention apologetics in the lead, it should be kept in the category. StAnselm (talk) 11:50, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
- @StAnselm: Thomas Aquinas doesn't mention apologetics in the lead and presumably quite right so, because his theology was much broader than just apologetics. It seems like currently nearly every theologian and Christian writer is being classified as apologist which merely turns it into an indiscriminate category. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:58, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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- Yes, most of the removals I can't contest - I've only reverted a few. StAnselm (talk) 12:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
- I agree with StAnselm that Aquinas should remain in the Christian apologists category, as a major figure in classical apologetics. – Fayenatic London 16:39, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- Sure, I didn't mean I was going to contest StAnselm's revert, it was just to explain my initial edit. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- I agree with StAnselm that Aquinas should remain in the Christian apologists category, as a major figure in classical apologetics. – Fayenatic London 16:39, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, most of the removals I can't contest - I've only reverted a few. StAnselm (talk) 12:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide
I did a quick change to the nomination at Category:Monks and nuns who committed suicide. I think you intended the split to be into one or the other and not both. Vegaswikian1 (talk) 00:27, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Bishops of Jamaica, Bishops of Egypt
@Kelapstick:, @Laurel Lodged: In this discussion you supported the rename of Category:Bishops of Jamaica to Category:Anglican bishops in Jamaica. Could you perhaps join this new discussion about Bishops of Egypt, which is very similar to the Jamaican situation, in order to indicate if they should also be renamed to Anglican bishops of Egypt or, alternatively, if we should reconsider Jamaica? Marcocapelle (talk) 20:06, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
FYI
[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 December 10 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |I suggest that the original name of the category should be restored]]. Borsoka (talk) 04:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Zinzendorf as theologian
Hi, I noticed the category deletion. While the Wikipedia article may not touch on it much, he was a theologian that seriously affected the Moravian Church, if not even others. His "blood and wounds" theology left a serious mark, for example. He was also the innovator of such theological speculations such as the Holy Spirit being female. I just thought I would see what you were thinking before I undid your revision. Thanks, Mikeatnip (talk) 20:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
- The article in its current state does not mention much of theological work, only hymns and sermons. If you know more about it, then please expand the article.Marcocapelle (talk) 20:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
(American) People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian Descent
Hi, FYI that category was ALREADY considered for deletion two years ago. After in-depth consideration & contributions from experts in Byzantine history, cultural anthropology...etc. it was decided BY CONSENSUS to keep the category in question =>> I invite you to really read the corresponding Wikipedia archives before opening unnecessary CfD debates . . . B.Andersohn (talk) 18:16, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- There's no harm in bringing it up again. Two years is more than enough of a gap between discussions on the same topic. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Marco. Just read your reply. In a nutshell, FYI there are already FIVE other “ethnic” or “religious” (I don’t like the terms as we’re talking about a nuanced ethno-cultural group here) categorizations in Wikipedia + these are (highly) overlapping categories : the more general but v. old-fashioned “Melkite” (“…said to have been a mixed one made up of individuals who were originally Greek, Roman, Syriac, and Jewish…” = more “ethnic” definition + lost most of its significance circa 1730 CE… but still in use) and also “Greek Orthodox of Antioch” (more religious, but with distinct ethno-cultural shades), “Greek Orthodox of Jerusalem” (purely religious/geographic), “Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch and Jerusalem” (an offshoot of the GOA = religious, but with distinct ethno-cultural shades ), “Rûm” (can be construed as “ethnic” or “ethno-cultural”, but rather vague as it also encompasses Western/Central Anatolian and Constantinoplean “Karaman” European Greeks with no connection whatsoever to Antioch/Cilicia/Syria or Jerusalem) and also “Antiochian Greeks” (either too narrowly restrictive = “ethnic Greeks of Cilicia and Aleppo” (that v. old definition tends to disappear) or too vague/too broad = simply synonymous of “Greek Orthodox of Antioch” but diluting the religious/cultural aspects of GOA and MGCCA with a mostly ethnic classification … ==> “People of Greek Orthodox-Levantine Descent” is more modern, clearer, sharper - yet broader and more nuanced. B.Andersohn (talk) 13:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Request
@B.Andersohn: @Good Olfactory: In the CfD discussion, would you both be willing to change the font color from black into grey for all texts that are related to the process of the discussion but not related to the content of the discussion? I'm just trying to think of a way to make the reading of the discussion a bit easier. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- "would you ... be willing to change the font color from black into grey for all texts that are related to the process" = fine with me. As long as it's done the right way: I trust you & GOF on that front. B.Andersohn (talk) 17:27, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Pascal as theologian
Please be careful with existing categories. Unless you have some special knowledge of the subject, it's probably worth assuming these are valid. Pascal was definitely a theologian, as well. HGilbert (talk) 02:18, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- With categories, the question is not whether Pascal was a theologian. The question is whether his status as a theologian is a defining characteristic. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:23, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'd argue that's true in this case, but it's also worth mentioning that the "defining" test is flakily applied at best, hence the presence of things like Category:Burials at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (and the whole Category:Burials by place tree), which suggests thousands of people are commonly and consistently defined as being a burial at a certain place. SFB 11:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- yes, and biographies consistently mention this aspect of his life and work, which is what WP:DEFINING spells out as the test. HGilbert (talk) 12:17, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, a number of biographical entries mention Pascal as a theologian in the heading or first sentence: [1][2][3] StAnselm (talk) 19:44, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Although personally I don't agree, I will respect the consensus on Pascal being categorized as a theologian. Btw I have deleted the contribution of B.Andersohn as we had a bit of an argument about a completely different subject, I don't believe his contribution here adds any value. 20:11, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- @Sillyfolkboy: The main reason the "defining" guideline on categories is applied "flakily" is because it's very easy to create a category and a categorization system, and doing so requires zero knowledge of the guidelines on categorization. When categories are nominated for discussion, the guidelines are generally applied, but almost literally any category can exist from creation to nomination largely unmolested and untouched by the guidelines that apply to it. So I think that the "flakiness" of application is a pretty bad reason for those who do know about the guidelines to say that they are going to ignore them or give them short shrift. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:39, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
- Although personally I don't agree, I will respect the consensus on Pascal being categorized as a theologian. Btw I have deleted the contribution of B.Andersohn as we had a bit of an argument about a completely different subject, I don't believe his contribution here adds any value. 20:11, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'd argue that's true in this case, but it's also worth mentioning that the "defining" test is flakily applied at best, hence the presence of things like Category:Burials at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (and the whole Category:Burials by place tree), which suggests thousands of people are commonly and consistently defined as being a burial at a certain place. SFB 11:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas & ooo message
Merry Christmas to everyone who visits my talk page these days. Please note that, until December 31st, I will probably respond less frequently and less elaborate to anything that happens in Wikipedia. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:23, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Cilicia
Hello, Marcocapelle -- I believe you are watching the article Cilicia and will review this latest edit [4]. I can't judge the appropriateness of the added material, but I just wanted to point out that it broke up the word "Byzantine", so that only "zantine" appears after the newly added material. CorinneSD (talk) 18:02, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
- It's actually not on my watchlist, but I corrected it anyway. Thanks for spotting! Marcocapelle (talk) 19:58, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Explanation of "not a defining characteristic of this article"
What do you mean by removing people from the Greek Orthodox categories with the above explanation? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 22:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- See WP:NONDEF. Nearly all people of Greek and Russian nationality are a member of the Orthodox Church and will have been married and have had a funeral in an Orthodox Church so those are not defining criteria for a person. An article should give specific personal info on their being a member of the Orthodox Church. The category becomes of much more value to users of the category if the articles in the category do so. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:19, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Saints categories
These are pretty messy, but your edits often do not help. It is NOT a good idea to remove one from an RC/EO category merely because there is nothing specific in the article (there often is in an external link). Being "Byzantine saints" does NOT mean an RC category is not needed. Equally before a certain date RC & EO categories are inappropriate - the late-Roman one does for both. And so on.... Frankly I wish you you would leave these alone. Johnbod (talk) 00:26, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- I already gave up after I realized it was too messy. Happy to discuss how to improve at some point of time. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Film writers
Just wanted to ask a favour. In the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 February 27#Category:Film writers, you registered support for my renaming proposal — but after you posted your comment, another user offered an alternative wording, "Writers on film" instead of "Writers about film", which I'm also comfortable with. (Category:Writers by non-fiction subject area has some subcategories named in both formats, although "on" does seem to be used more frequently than "about" is.) So I wanted to ask if you could look at the discussion again for a moment — if you have no strong opinion either way regarding the on vs. about question, that's completely cool, but if you do have a preference it would be helpful if you could add that to the discussion as an update to your original post. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 23:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Please note
my recent comments (with very recent edits) in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 February 21#Category:Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus'.Axxxion (talk) 16:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
- perhaps you could sort out the problem with the List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kiev#Notes bungled reference. The current problem was caused by my edit, but there had already been a similar problem. I just cannot get to the bottom of it there.Axxxion (talk) 15:02, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
- It looks like it's solved now, I changed UOC-MP2 to UOC-MP1. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:12, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Merger discussion for Space Goth
An article that you have been involved in editing, Space Goth, has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 173.48.81.211 (talk) 23:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Your edit on Sybaris on the Traeis
Can you please take a look at this edit you made to Sybaris on the Traeis? I see that you removed Category:Archaeological sites in Calabria from Medma with the same edit summary, but here you removed Category:Ancient Greek sites in Italy? Assuming that you are removing Category:Archaeological sites in Calabria because these cities haven't been discovered, I agree with your change. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 10:05, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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- Indirectly yes, because the cities haven't been discovered there can't be an archaeological site. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:21, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Greek city-states
Well, Troy is currently a subcat, and it's not in Greece. More generally, while Greek city-states in Magna Graecia would generally be considered Greek colonies, many Ionian cities such as Phocaea definitely are Greek city-states. Phocaea is a subcat of Ionian League, itself a sebcat of Greek city-state federations. Place Clichy (talk) 19:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, fair enough! Marcocapelle (talk) 19:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Category:Religious leaders in the United States
Hi, I should have told you sooner that I've nominated Category:Religious leaders in the United States for speedy merger. – Fayenatic London 08:44, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: No worries, you did tell it earlier, I've seen your message in the CfD discussion. I have no objection at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Ancient Slovakia
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Please engage in discussion about mass cat removals and changes
I pinged you on my talk page a couple of days ago in order to establish what you are doing with categories, and what you intend to establish as an alternative structure.
You've not responded as yet, and are still removing categories and going straight to the categories to be moved board without engaging with the regular editors of the articles it is affecting.
I would be extremely grateful if you would engage as your logic is being lost on myself and at least one other editor who has noticed this activity. Thank you, in advance, for your attention to this matter of collaborative editing. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 22:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 06:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC). You can at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Category
Maybe I do not know procedure, but I explained why I do it in edit summary. You should not create categories which refer to two so distinct time periods, one medieval another Habsburg. There are lot of issues involved here. Firstly medieval Kingdom of Hungary was very different from Habsburg one. Secondly, there was Ottoman period, which separated two periods. Thirdly, Habsburg period includes several separate Habsburg lands, which were not part of Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, etc. Redbluelighting (talk) 07:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Redbluelighting: Although the Habsburg administration of the Kingdom of Hungary may have been different in some respects, it was also a continuation of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in many respects. It's not a coincidence that we have a large Category:Kingdom of Hungary with many subcategories and articles that are applicable to the whole or a large part of the 1000-1918 history of Hungary. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
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- Wikipedia have separate articles about each period of the Kingdom of Hungary. Categorization should follow that. Therefore, category "Kingdom of Hungary" should be rather divided into several subcategories like "Kingdom of Hungary (medieval)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1526-1699)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1699-1867)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1867-1918)", as all of these are very distinct time periods in the history of that Kingdom. Redbluelighting (talk) 07:52, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Redbluelighting: That's fair enough but beside the point of our discussion, if I'm correct. The point being there is a more or less continuous history of the Kingdom of Hungary. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:01, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- Wikipedia have separate articles about each period of the Kingdom of Hungary. Categorization should follow that. Therefore, category "Kingdom of Hungary" should be rather divided into several subcategories like "Kingdom of Hungary (medieval)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1526-1699)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1699-1867)", "Kingdom of Hungary (1867-1918)", as all of these are very distinct time periods in the history of that Kingdom. Redbluelighting (talk) 07:52, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Continuation of the Kingdom of Hungary in all these time periods was rather nominal than factual. Besides that, this continuation did not covered all territories during the history. For example, the territory of Slovakia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary during all these periods, but it is not case with some other territories like Transylvania or Vojvodina, which had periods of Ottoman history and Habsburg history outside of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. For example, some parts of modern Vojvodina were within Habsburg Military Frontier until year 1882 and were not part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary before that year. I also started discussion about these topics on several talk pages:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Habsburg_period_in_the_history_of_Hungary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Kingdom_of_Hungary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Habsburg_Transylvania
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Slovakia_in_the_Kingdom_of_Hungary Redbluelighting (talk) 08:25, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- You also removed article "Budin eyalet" from history categories of several countries. Why? If you look part of that article about administrative divisions, you will see that some of these administrative divisions were located in Kosovo, Croatia, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budin_Eyalet#Administrative_divisions When you recategorizing articles you should not assume that these categories were placed there wrongly. Instead, please try to read article text to see why one article is placed in all these categories. Redbluelighting (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 08:35, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- Do you have any suggestions as to how best to break down the periods into smaller and more intuitive categories, Redbluelighting? Naturally, there would probably still be overlaps but, ultimately, the existence of such categories is to provide the reader with a good method of cross-referencing and further exploring the content of related articles. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:07, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Template:Infobox holiday: Revision history
Marcocapelle, You mentioned that there were implications with our holiday nominations to Template:Infobox holiday. Now that those categories are being deleted, I'm not exactly clear on what needs to be done here. Is this something I can help with? RevelationDirect (talk) 03:22, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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- @RevelationDirect: I hope you can! I've opened the syntax of the template once and it apparently assigns categories automatically, based on the contents in the Infobox in the article. If certain categories are deleted I would expect that the categorization rules in the template need to be adapted accordingly. User:Fayenatic london has also mentioned this. I would prefer not to do this myself as I'm not at all acquainted with template syntax. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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- As you noticed from my comments at CFD, the template does already test for the existence of the categories that are populated via the infobox. For the "to be determined" ones, simply comment-out that line within the infobox, as I have done for one. Presumably the other two "to be determined" could likewise be nominated at CFD now. – Fayenatic London 17:17, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Orthodox bishops
There was sufficient consensus at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_21#Category:Albanian_Orthodox_bishops to close it per the nomination. Please purge afterwards as required.
Also, please would you add a note on the category pages stating the date/century from which each category is effective, and that bishops before that date should be categorised in Category:Bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (or whatever else might apply)? – Fayenatic London 17:20, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
@Fayenatic london: Done. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:15, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Ancient Greek sites
Hi, pinging as requested – I just closed Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_24#Category:Ancient_Greek_sites_by_country. – Fayenatic London 18:07, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
CFD implementation
Hi, I'm really glad you're helping with closing CFDs. Please remember to remove the CFD templates from category pages after a keep or "no consensus" close, e.g. this one. WP:CFDWR is not protected, so you can use that as a non-admin; just list the category links, as a bulleted list (see the page history for examples). Ideally, you'd add an {{old cfd}} template (or, in a simple case, {{cfd end}}) to at least the top category's talk page; see WP:CFDAI for the full instructions for admins. Thanks again! – Fayenatic London 23:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: You're right, I have added this template when I closed a couple of discussions a few weeks earlier but I forgot to add it yesterday. I'll check them again.
- By the way, the backlog has grown enormously during the last couple of months and although I still feel quite junior I thought it would not harm to do the less risky types of closures like keep, no consensus, administrative closure, delete empty category. In one case I closed the discussion as deleted whereas the category still contained only one member, in that case I just emptied the category and inserted a speedy deletion template. The latter might not have been entirely official procedure but it was effective anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:41, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- Oh yes, that's a fine way to do it. {{Db-xfd|votepage=link to closed discussion}} is probably the best template to use (it's listed under G6 at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion). – Fayenatic London 07:26, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Category:Protestant denominational families
Hi, I noticed this category and think that it's a good idea. However another editor has placed a "non-diffusing" banner on it. Was that your intention? I think that the banner isd a bad idea. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:06, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Laurel Lodged: That was not my intention. I'll revert it and see what happens. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:24, 10 May 2015 (UTC)