Knowledge (XXG):Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 18

1238:- "A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier." Not helpful to categorize, essentially the same as a category for users who read "magazines" or "books" or "newspapers". None of these general terms are capable of supporting collaboration, and I'd guess the vast majority of zines are non-notable. 805:

The nom, by lumping all these numerous cats together, is not giving each one a fair chance to be examined individually. When it comes to a musician, there is often good reason to have a category, even and especially for those with a few albums and/or songs. Many times, it is a good way to put all

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should probably go, or more content found. Most of the above have 2 subcats (songs and albums): the nom is correct in thinking these would have been deleted last year. Those with 3 or more subcats have been no-consensus keeps for some years.

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I also agree with that standard. If it has one subcat and no other non-head articles, it should probably go. Other than that, I'm cool with it. (Per the precedents, most of the drum-banging against eponymous musician categories came from

177:. As creator of the category, I have no objections. I was not aware that it is necessary to disambiguate a category when there is no contenders to the name. But, looking at an equivalent example, indeed the category for 1105: 1378:. Not likely to be populated and it can easily be covered by the Australian category. Also, it is the only sub-cat of its type and one of a much lesser importance than categories about 2010 by state. -- 718:

Some are small and others are not small (articles in subcats automatically belong to the parent). Some have 1 subcat (in which case I might well agree), others have 3 or 4 (in which case I do not agree).

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I chose these particular eponymous categories because these are the ones with too few articles in them. After all, a bunch of small, eponymous categories like these were

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I wouldn't say it's required, but it's helpful when we are dealing with categories to make the name of the category the same as the name of the lead article.

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all these categories are populated: they have entries and more than one. Better justification must be advanced for deletion.

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per nom. It's all well and good having a userbox saying you like this person, but to have a category is a step too far! –

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per nom. So who cares what sort of media Wikipedians read! Lets build WP and not set up a social network!. --

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If a category contains "songs" and "albums" subcategories, that's justifies it enough for me.--

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and deleted. Keeping these categories would contradict the outcome of those discussions.

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I am adding them here rather than as a separate matter, as the issue is the same.

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their works together in a single place and make them easy for others to find.

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