Knowledge (XXG):Categories for discussion/Log/2015 July 30

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the US elections by year tree is that the articles should be upmerged. Looking at other things in the tree, there seem to be a lot of redirects for e.g. elections in 1792 and 1793 and some of these lead back to a general article on the election, not to one on a specific contest. However, elections usually take place in one year, though the campaign may take longer and the new members only take office in the following year. The tree needs a significant amount of tidying up.

381:. Used to be defining when it was Indie Humble Bundles (but the category got renamed to this), covered in video game GNGs, each game with significant attention. Now it's basically another distribution method. The games no longer follow any strict criteria for inclusion (developer-specific bundles, mobile bundles, music, etc.). The list is still highly curated, but there are now so many games of different types, that it's not really defining. — 251:

the many years I became friends with Jeffrey Rosen, and also, because we'd written IMHO a pretty neat game which we were debuting, which was quite a coup for the Bundle (all the other games were rather old)." So sometimes they get a newer game, a rather simple tower defense game in this case, if they know someone.

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A developer from Revenge of the Titans explained how they got on Humble Bubble: "I have spent a lot of time in that 10 years networking heavily with others in the industry and making friends (what you are doing here is not making you friends in the industry). We were in the Humble Bundle because over

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The nomination reason is fair, but as I pointed out, at one point in the Humble Bundle past, when they were not regular events, being in a bundle was a thing of note for a game, since it would help boost sales and interest in the title. That aspect has clearly been diluted by the present approach to

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Am doubtful that adding a few "by decade" categories as the first part of a series tree otherwise entirely "by year" for all American elections (by State plus HR, Senate, and most Gubernatorial) and without (unlike country and US state categories by year) intermediate decade and century categories

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Elections for governors seem to come up in a variety of years. I suspect that a category would not be overburdened if we carried category merger forward at least until 1850, possibly later. I realise that with 50 states today, there must be a limit how far forward this is carried. My reaction to

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They'd bundle any game that the developers let them. I don't think it makes any game something of note. And if something is sold cheaper, then yeah, that can boost sales. News coverage is there in reliable sources whenever a classic game is sold cheap at Steam, GoG, or anywhere else. Do the games

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characteristic by any stretch of the term. However it was once used, the category now includes games that are largely unaffected (so far as secondary sources care) by their inclusion in Humble Bundles. It's like tagging for Steam or another distribution service.

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HB, in which there is a regular event with multiple different sales, though there is still the odd case of a title being recognized in secondary sources for being part of a bundle. I'd rather this be kept but not going to be losing sleep over its deletion. --

829:. These each contain a single article, either for New York or Pennsylvania, which might as well be held in the US by year category. Merger to the other parent is not necessary as each member is already in a sub-cat of that one. This is a follow-up to 229:

As best I understand, there is still curation going on by the Humble group, you can't just walk up to them and ask to have your game included in a bundle. (On their store, different matter, but that should not be what this category covers).

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or lumping them by decade eliminates this as an aid to navigation. Our job here is t make articles easier to find by readers navigating through related articles and this nomination only harms that objective.

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to merge to decades. Navigation merely becomes complex when you have to scroll up and down through the years, while with decades you have an immediate overview of a reasonable number of related articles.

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Currently, the earliest year with as many as 4 articles is 1848. I susepoct that at least as late as the 1840s, it would do little harm to merge them into decades.

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Look at what games they have. They toss in anything to their bundles just as filler, it not just games that were once popular years before. I looked and found this

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there is no need for this meaningless category. A lot of companies sell bundles of games. Listing that in a game article makes no sense at all.

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will actually simplify navigation to articles. But if adopted, the few "by decade" categories should be parented directly on the parent

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featured get sufficient coverages in the news announcement about the bundles, or just a brief mention of what all is in the bundle?

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my proposal would not remove these articles from either of those hierarchies. One-article cats are not an aid to navigation. –

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if merging to decades, should this stop at 1800s, in which case the 1810 category should be kept? How should they be named:

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into decades pages. Too many to add to a category with no time specifications, and too few to have categories by years.

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1) Agree with Peterkingiron that upmerging may be extended up to 1850, though that's actually not part of

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3) For the closer of the discussion it would probably be easiest to parent the new decade categories to

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While these categories are a bit small, they are part of the robustly populated structures of

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories.

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories.

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Tourism is the act of travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes

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is basically a limited time sale on a collection of video games. --

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Category:Gubernatorial elections in the United States by decade

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although I think the better solution would be to create a new

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