User talk:Slivicon

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Thank you, Jeraphine Slivicon (talk) 14:38, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Vine copula

Hello.

I've done some edits on the article titled Vine copula to bring it closer to the norms of WP:MOS. In particular:

• Vine Copulas is an inappropriate title for two reason: the capitalization of the initial C, and the use of the plural. Wikipedia articles don't do that. I changed the title accordingly.
• Similarly one does not capitalize initial letters merely because they are in a section heading.
• The introductory section should not have a section heading.
• Usually the title phrase should appear in the first sentence. I haven't changed that. Perhaps after pondering it a bit, I will rewrite it in a way that does that and explains at the outset to the lay reader that mathematics is what it is about.

Michael Hardy (talk) 05:01, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

@Michael Hardy: I was just doing some Wikignoming on that page, so whatever you feel is appropriate :) --Slivicon (talk) 16:03, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Church Building categories

Hi, I've noticed from my watch list that you have changed several articles from Category:13th-century religious buildings to Category:13th-century church buildings. I note the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1#Churches/Church buildings has not yet been resolved and wonder if there is much point in making these changes until the naming issue is resolved?— Rod ^talk 19:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw: Category:13th-century religious buildings is a container cat for categories only, not articles. They must be moved to a subcat. If you have a more appropriate subcat in mind, your assistance is appreciated. --Slivicon (talk) 19:51, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

I would just wait until that debate is resolved otherwise they may need to be done again.— Rod ^talk 19:55, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

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Actors from Louisville, Kentucky move

I'm not sure why this category was moved. Its new naming is nothing like all the other similar categories, so why is this one being singled out? I hope this wasn't done for disruptive purposes to prove some point about containers (which isn't true, by the way). Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:14, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Stevietheman: It wasn't singled out or to disrupt, I'm working on container categories A-Z. There are too many categories which are tagged as containers but either should not be containers or do not clearly indicate what they contain and leave room for articles to be categorized within as a result. The move is to improve the clarity of the container definition. --Slivicon (talk) 22:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

OK, if you want to be insistent about this, at least change (or plan to change soon) all the other actor from city categories to match because they generally have the same subcategories. Otherwise, this one will stick out like a sore thumb, and then another editor will toy with it. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:23, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Stevietheman: Actually, if you're insistent about "all the others", "all the others" are not set as container categories, for example, Category:Actors_from_Waukegan,_Illinois. If you like the old name, remove the container tag. I am working on container categories, so no other "Actors from ..." categories showed up in my list. In effect, your category stuck out like a sore thumb in my container categories list. I wouldn't rename the others, because they are not container categories. They make sense as is, categories with articles related to the category. --Slivicon (talk) 22:27, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Effectively, many of them are containers. A container tag is to notify people about that fact. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Stevietheman: What about doing something like using {{catdiffuse}} instead of {{container}} with the old cat name? --Slivicon (talk) 22:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

It's a container and no articles would naturally go into it. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Stevietheman: Someone left me a message that I'm supposed to use CFD for category moves, I thought that was only if it was controversial. So, I'm going to revert as I wasn't aware of this. --Slivicon (talk) 23:15, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

It is controversial (for I disagree with it), and I was going to have to start a CfD or move discussion for the community to help decide it if this wasn't ameliorated one way or the other. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Stevietheman: Well you don't need to worry about that, now, as I would not put it up on CFD, because I think the actual issue is that this cat is the only one out of all of the other cats by similar name that has {{container}} in it, so it's inconsistent. Changing it's name so that it can continue to have container in it (wrongly in my opinion based on all the dozens of others of its kind) is not really the way to go, and the community would probably agree the name should stay. I see you feel strongly that it should have container in it, even though no other like it does, but that's what is so great about a wiki, everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's not something I care about enough to argue about, though. I made an attempt to improve, it was resisted and found not to be improving, I move on. Someone else who cares more can take it on if they so choose. :) --Slivicon (talk) 23:44, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Categories for discussion

Hi, I can see that the move you made to Category:American speculative fiction writers by genre is sensible, and probably has no ill effects in this case, but please use the process at WP:CFD for moving categories in future. – Fayenatic London 23:04, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london:I wasn't aware that category moves had to go to CFD, so I'll keep that in mind now, thank you. --Slivicon (talk) 23:15, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Cheers! – Fayenatic London 23:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Actually, the rename does have some (small) ill effects. If you look at Category:American fiction writers or Category:Speculative fiction writers you'll see that this category now has a name that's inconsistent with, for example, Category:British speculative fiction writers. The British category also contains an article that shows there can be writers that don't neatly fit into a particular genre. Hence, IMO, it would be best to put the category back to its original name. I think the Container tag should be removed from this category (a Container tag may be appropriate for a category like US-senators-by-state, but categorizing writers by genre is much "messier").

P.S. Please don't be put off working to improve the category structure. DexDor ^(talk) 20:25, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

@DexDor: Would you be interested to please help facilitate that revert, as I have noticed that I could not move back a category, since it appears the soft redirect left behind is not considered by the system when it checks to see if I can move it back (as in if I could move back a page if it is only a "normal" redirect and no edit history). It says I don't have permission. I could manually move the content back, but then that doesn't move the edit history back. --Slivicon (talk) 22:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

It looks like an administrator (FL?) has already moved it back to Category:American speculative fiction writers. I was about to remove the Container tag, but then I found that it was added as a result of this discussion so it'd be best to discuss it on the talk page before removing the Container tag. DexDor ^(talk) 05:14, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@DexDor: Thanks for your time and efforts :) --Slivicon (talk) 14:26, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

I think you're doing a great job. Just one comment on your edit summaries: you say "Removed Category:X using HotCat = container cat, already in subcat Y", but I don't think it's necessary to refer to the category being a container category. The relevant guideline, WP:SUBCAT, applies whether the parent category is a container or not. DexDor ^(talk) 20:29, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@DexDor: Thank you for the encouragement. I was unsure, as I know some people seem to want articles in both the subcat and the parent cat. Does that only apply if the parent cat has been tagged as "non-diffusing"? I'll go read that WP:SUBCAT you mentioned again. --Slivicon (talk) 20:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Argentine female high jumpers

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Container

The container tag in australian cats, and various states that do not have a clean empty cat - does not mean the removal of the tag! the logic is reversed when you do that. The container tag is to specifically address the people who do go to the cat that there is an article that needs to be taken out and re-catted, not the tag!!! JarrahTree 00:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Feel free to reinstate where you want it, as nobody seems to have consensus on this topic from what I've seen so far in talking about it - mainly I'm finding container categories where articles will not fit in existing subcats, and many categories would need to be created with few articles, rather than going with that it's not a container cat by "definition". I actually tried that approach as well (creating the missing subcats and putting the articles in), and the categories got swiftly called up for deletion by people. So far, I've found people very inconsistent in their definition of what is a container and what is not and when it should be removed and when it should not. I've already had several people telling me to "obviously remove it as it is obviously not a container", when I have not seen what makes it "obvious". Then people like you saying never to remove a container tag. So, I just make a judgement call as I go along, since nobody seems to have a clear, agreed upon definition. --Slivicon (talk) 01:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Also, feel free to weigh in your $0.02 at this discussion --Slivicon (talk) 01:12, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Also, might I suggest for the ones you feel should be put back, that you put in a comment tag and possibly talk page, something to the effect that "there are articles here which should not be here, they need to be taken out of the category and re-categorized, and this is a container category that should not have any articles in it because blah blah blah", or something along those lines, to avoid a future repeat and bring clarity to the cat. --Slivicon (talk) 01:16, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

thank you for going to the time to explain. Inconsistencies abound. One has to be very philiosophical, and also be aware that some policies and precedents may have been established years ago, but practice is different from the actual rules. In the very early days there was a mantra 'ignore all rules' in more recent years people will fight to the death over some established practices that have no clear policy or practice to follow.

It all goes back to category trees, and where some enthusiastic editors create parallel trees, and also forget to check alternatives when creating new trees or bunches or whatever. Just remember the real world is full of paradoxes, contradictions and counter intuitive behaviours, wikipedia is no different  :( JarrahTree 01:37, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Indigenous peoples of the Americas by century

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Category:Navigational boxes

This one really is a genuine container category - fairly obvious really.

I cleared out something like 130 templates from this cat some time ago, and regularly remove the odd one or two new ones that creep in. We're basically left with {{Navbox}} and its siblings, which should indeed be recategorized I left them for a while, as there are one or two other subcats there that are not quite right, and it is best to consider the whole lot together. Quite likely that some discussion will be required to decide the best approach.

It is importaant that {{Container category}} should remain, so that editors don't inadvertently add templates to this cat, and so that any new ones are promptly removed.

--NSH002 (talk) 07:16, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

@NSH002: Speaking of "obvious", how can Category:Navigational boxes be a container with articles? By definition it says right on it, only subcats. Are you planning to create subcats for the remaining articles, otherwise catdiffuse is the appropriate choice if and until you get around to subcategorizing as you mentioned. --Slivicon (talk) 13:07, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Simple, it's the top-level cat for all navboxes, so it can hardly be anything other than a container cat. The handful of templates (not articles) remaining there can and should be removed from the cat; the reason they haven't (yet) been recategorized is that it will take a bit of work to do so, which might entail some discussion first. And yes, that might (or might not) mean creating one or two additional subcats. If I were to do this, I would want to spend some time thinking it through first, time which (for now) I would rather spend on other matters; meanwhile a handful of templates that are slightly miscategorized don't bother me that much. --NSH002 (talk) 17:59, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

@NSH002:Well, semantics aside, it's still a category that has a big banner that says "contain only categories" and it does not, case and point. Still, I've made my suggestion as part of my effort to clean up container category misuse/misrepresentation, it is now in the edit history and explained here; it was undone and I've no desire to press the issue further, I leave it to someone who cares more about the category in particular to be more aggressively interested in correcting the category so it actually reflects the statement it includes in its banner. --Slivicon (talk) 20:10, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Discussion continued at Category talk:Navigational boxes. --NSH002 (talk) 07:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Sort keys

I don't think these sort keys make sense[1][2] as they're books known by their full name – czar 23:59, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

@Czar: OK, undone. Slivicon (talk) 00:00, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

US mil user cats

I saw your message on Buaidh's talk. If users wish to associate themselves with the US Military in general rather than (or as well as - I don't think the corresponding violation of WP:SUBCAT is a problem) with a particular branch then that's fine (like I have a UK userbox rather than an England userbox). Thus, the template (and the similar User:UBX/US military veteran which populates another category that's currently tagged as a container category) is fine. The solution in this case is to remove the container tag from these categories. A subcat "Wikipedians in the United States Armed Forces by branch" could be created with a container tag, but I don't see a need for such a category. DexDor ^(talk) 02:41, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

@DexDor: Sounds good to me. --Slivicon (talk) 03:03, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Categorization of Crime in US States articles

Hi Slivicon,

I noticed you just removed all of the "Crime in state" articles from Category:Crime in the United States by state. I don't think I agree with that change. Those articles all seem like they should be peers of each other in a categorical hierarchy, so I think it would be best for all of those articles to be in a category together. I think those should be placed back in Category:Crime in the United States by state and the category page should be modified to not use the "container category" template. Instead, I think it should use the "allincluded" template and state that those categories summarizing crime in the state as a whole are all in both the crime by state category and one of the subcategories. I think that would be best both in terms of aiding navigation and in having articles that are peers be in a category together. Calathan (talk) 20:58, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@Calathan: I respectfully disagree on all counts. It's a clear issue of WP:SUBCAT (articles should be in the most specific subcategory). Each article is already a member of the state subcategory in Category:Crime in the United States by state, there is no need for them to also be in the parent category Category:Crime in the United States by state. On top of that, Category:Crime in the United States by state is a container category, and a valid one. It is grouping articles by state subcategory, the container tag should not be removed (and as such, additionally, no articles should be directly categorized in a container category). If you really feel strongly about it, go ahead and do what you wish, as I do not engage in edit warring, but I stand by my reasoning. Slivicon (talk) 21:13, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

There are many situations where it is appropriate to have pages be in a category and a subcategory of that category. The template Template:All included exists specially to be used in such cases. Basically, whenever it is logical and convenient (in terms of aiding navigation), pages should appear in both a category and a subcategory. Take for example Category:Bridges in New York City, one of the examples listed at Template:All included. Of course all bridges in Queens or Manhattan are also in New York City, yet they are listed in both Category:Bridges in New York City and categories like Category:Bridges in Manhattan because that way of categorizing the pages is more convenient for navigation. There are many thousands of articles that are in both a category and a subcategory, and where that is accepted usage, so just referring to WP:SUBCAT isn't a good enough explanation of why you think an exception shouldn't be made for these articles. To me this seems like exactly the right place for an exception to be made, as it aids navigation and groups articles that are peers together into a category. About the category being a container catgory, I'm saying it shouldn't be one, because again I think it would aid navigation to have the category include some articles. Calathan (talk) 21:36, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@Calathan: Yes, I'm aware of {{allincluded}} and those situations. I simply don't agree that this is the same. A more similar category would be Category:Bridges by country, where there is a clear subcat scheme in place grouping articles by country subcategory. There are countless other "x by state" categories similarly constructed. I would agree with your navigation reason if there weren't already state subcats created, illustrating a very well defined use of {{container category}} and a clear situation of WP:SUBCAT. I simply don't find this is a situation where {{allincluded}} and removing the container tag is anything but destructive to what the editors who started this were working towards. Slivicon (talk) 21:49, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

About "what the editors who started this were working towards", the same editor who made the first edit to Category:Crime in the United States by state ia the one who added a lot of the individual articles to that category, so he or she apparently didn't intend for it to be a container category. Calathan (talk) 22:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@Calathan: I would recommend you take your argument to Project:WikiProject United States where you may be able to get consensus or perhaps better feedback than from me, as there should be people there with a strong interest in the subject matter. I've been working very closely with container categories for a while now exclusively, as well as WP:SUBCAT, and from the hundreds of categories and thousands of edits so far, this is something I've seen a great many times already - a very clear case of WP:SUBCAT and proper use of container, so if you don't simply want to proceed on your own with the changes you're interested in making, you'll need to go elsewhere (such as that wikiproject) to discuss. (I doubt I would be trying to stop you, as that's not how I operate - my work is in the edit history, I leave it at that - if someone else comes along and wants to do something different, that's up to them) Best of luck. Slivicon (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Alright, I'll ask for opinions there. Calathan (talk) 22:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Robert Byrne (author)

More of a general cue sports history writer, and also a pool-specific instructional writer. The HTML comment at the article about how to categorize him was inaccurate.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: Alright, that means the cat needs to be non-container. Slivicon (talk) 01:29, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, fixed it the other day.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:35, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: I meant Category:Cue_sports_writers_and_broadcasters - I just removed container, due to Robert Byrne and the others being directly in the cat. Slivicon (talk) 01:38, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I must be thinking of another one. I rm'd container cat tag from another of these the other day (another one where we're not likely to ever have enough entries to justify a separate carom subcat).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Categories for discussion

Hi, thanks for adding a CFD template to Category:Wikipedians who like Boondocks. When you do this, you also have to start a discussion, following the instructions that appear within the template. I've changed the template to a speedy version and done this now. Drop me a note if you ever need help with CFD. – Fayenatic London 22:57, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london: Thanks very much for the help and guidance. Slivicon (talk) 23:31, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to rename categories

Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:16th-century Irish physicians and Category:17th-century Irish physicians Hugo999 (talk) 11:44, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Businesspeople by century also men by century

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Proposed deletion of categories

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Category:19th-century businessmen (upmerge)

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Proposed renaming of category

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Merge of Categories

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Happy New Year Slivicon!

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@Pdebee: Thank you, and to you as well :) --Slivicon (talk) 18:23, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Category:Family law by religion

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Proposal to rename category Ukrainian medical doctors

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Categorization of Japanese Weekend School of New York

Hi, Slivicon! I noticed back in 2016 that Japanese Weekend School of New York was categorized as "Private elementary school", "Private middle school", and "private high school".

I understand that this is a weekend school and not a full-time day school, and I'm wondering whether those categories should have weekend schools or not. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:38, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Cratstats/doc

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Category:19th-century Albanian military personnel has been nominated for splitting

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Category:20th-century Albanian sportspeople has been nominated for merging

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Category:20th-century Albanian sports coaches has been nominated for merging

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Category:21st-century Albanian sports coaches has been nominated for splitting

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Category:20th-century Dahomeyan people has been nominated for merging

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Category:20th-century Spanish Guinean people has been nominated for merging

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Category:19th-century Spanish Guinean people has been nominated for merging

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Category:Lists of fictional superhuman characters has been nominated for renaming

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Category:21st-century Albanian sports coaches has been nominated for splitting

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Category:20th-century Albanian sports coaches has been nominated for splitting

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Category:21st-century Albanian models has been nominated for splitting

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Category:20th-century Albanian models has been nominated for splitting

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Category:15th-century Soninke people has been nominated for merging

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User pli

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User sou-3

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Category:16th-century Malay people has been nominated for splitting

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Category:18th-century Xhosa people has been nominated for merging

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