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January 15

Category:Euryhaline fish genera

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. Timrollpickering (Talk) 23:16, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Euryhaline fish genera (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Created by blocked user Caftaric. Subcategorization of euryhaline fish by taxonomic rank and by edibility seems excessive. I am not sure whether being euryhaline is "defining enough" itself for categorization (see its parent category Category:Euryhaline fish), and so would like to discuss what should be done with the 33 articles currently categorized within Category:Euryhaline fish genera if it is deleted. Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 21:29, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It is not a taxonomic rank, just an observation that these fishes can adapt to different environmental conditions. Adding "genera" seems misleading. Dimadick (talk) 14:39, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Category:Euryhaline fish, Category:Euryhaline edible fish and Category:Euryhaline fish genera - upmerging/listifying if necessary. We already categorize fish in the following ways (and others):
- <Genus etc> (e.g. Category:Lates)
- Fish of <ocean(s)> (if applicable)
- Freshwater fish of <continent(s) etc> (if applicable) (e.g. Category:Freshwater fish of South Asia)
- Edible fish (if applicable)
- Endemic fauna of <country etc> (if applicable)
- Fish described in <year>
- Taxa named by <person>
- various combinations of the above (e.g. Category:Catfish of Asia)

Having too many ways in which an article can be categorized tends to lead to incomplete categorization (and a cost of categorization that probably exceeds its benefit). DexDor^(talk) 06:59, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Category:Euryhaline edible fish and Category:Euryhaline fish genera for sure. We don't need intersections of euryhaline and edibility/taxonomic rank. I don't think Category:Euryhaline fish is really a DEFINING quality, so I'm inclined to delete that as well, but it is less problematic than the intersectional categories. Category:Euryhaline fish is however, severely underpopulated given the number of articles on euryhaline fish on Wikipedia. With the current limited contents, it's pretty misleading, and given the lack of enthusiastic volunteers wanting to fill the category properly, it should be deleted. Plantdrew (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note I've tagged Category:Euryhaline fish and Category:Euryhaline edible fish for this CFD. DexDor^(talk) 23:00, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Corporatism task force articles

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: no consensus (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Corporatism task force articles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Category of defunct task force that never really got off the ground. This topic was too specific begin with. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 20:11, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as nominated.

This appears to arise from WP:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Corporatism, which was proposed by @Mr. Guye and closed as "archive". It makes sense to delete the categories.

However, Category:Corporatism task force articles has 31 subcategories. It would make no sense to delete this parent category, while leaving the subcategories in place.

That could be changed by amending the nom .... but the categories are populated by {{WikiProject Politics|corporatism=yes}.

So all these categories would be emptied only by disabling the corporatism flag in the {{WikiProject Politics}}. However, that would require a consensus at WT:POLITICS, and I see no discussion of this there.

I suggest that the nom take this issue to WT:POLITICS. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per BrownHairedGirl's concerns. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Oligarchy task force articles

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: no consensus (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Oligarchy task force articles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Category for defunct WikiProject task force that never really got off the ground. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 19:08, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as nominated.

Category:Oligarchy task force articles has 31 subcategories. It would make no sense to delete this parent category, while leaving the subcategories in place.

That could be changed by amending the nom .... but the categories are populated by {{WikiProject Politics|oligarchy=yes}.

So all these categories would be emptied only by disabling the oligarchy flag in the {{WikiProject Politics}}. However, that would require a consensus at WT:POLITICS, and I see no discussion of this there.

I suggest that the nom take this issue to WT:POLITICS. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:26, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per BrownHairedGirl's concerns. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.