Knowledge (XXG):Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 28

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is used in a non-pejorative sense. But in the sense of "raising controversy", practically every work of non-fiction that is widely read does so. Maybe a limited class, like certain biographies, can be non-controversial in simply listing some usefully grouped facts. But all the books that advance

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I must admit that when I last proposed (successfully) to have "Emperors of Wei" renamed to "Emperors of Cao Wei," I forgot to check analogies with other Chinese states' emperors, and the categories now look out of compliance with analogous states. I am requesting that these be renamed so that the

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and all of its subs should go. Still, it should be noted, when someone chooses to declare their political beliefs it can help in disproving POV bias in settling disputes on politically related articles. Having a grouping may not affect that, but an editor may choose to ask someone else of a

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with First Nations which is just a Canadian/USAian usage difference, for some of the same people). "First Nations people" is required by the grammatical form, but "Finnish people" would be better as "Finns", and "German people" as "Germans". Avoid needless verbosity.

699:. The companies that were listed here are not airlines. Listing these companies as an airline is not correct. Since some of the companies removed are holding companies, they could be listed there, but that group is was also suggeted for deletion. 541:

not all weapons companies are defense companies, not all defense companies are weapons companies. An avionics manufacturer may be a defense contractor, whereas the manufacturer of hunting knives could have nothing to do with defense

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From the article, 'A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses.' Holding companies do not always meet that definition. Many of the ones I'm aware of, are in tightly related

246:, this category is now redundant. Natives are standardised on administrative counties in Wales. (P.S. Sloman was not the author of this category and has never touched it, but anyway, thanks for nominating it for deletion 1025:- Knowledge (XXG) is not a grand social experiment, it is an effort to write an encyclopedia. I firmly hold that such categorizations are likely to do more harm than good to that effort. 49: 44: 1363:

controversial. Those books that "fall stillborn from the press" (to quote Hume) may not achieve controversy, but neither are they thereby notable (and probably don't have articles).

1082:, although this category type seems prone to be devisive, it can be a way for users to find others with similar interests for collaborative purposes. Perhaps it should be renamed 956:. Another stupid pair of vanity categories. You want to delete all the Jewish-oriented categories and keep all the Wikipedian categories; what a bunch of muffins you people are. 1375:. Agree with Lulu here, and moreover, this shows the need to categorize these books by actual topic; most of these books really fit in in one or another "controversial" genre.-- 337:

Not a meaningful category. Most major business have a holding company at the top of their corporate structure. I have moved one article to the more meaningful

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That said, a closer look shows most (but not all) other categories include the ugly extra word "people", so I guess I won't try to swim upstream on this.

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Serves no real pupose. If one wants to declare his or her political affiliation, he or she can mention it on his or her user page.

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