Category talk:IARC Group 2B carcinogens

Proposal to move the article/category to an alternative name

It is my opinion that the current names of the articles and categories

• List of IARC Group 1 carcinogens, Category:IARC Group 1 carcinogens
• List of IARC Group 2A carcinogens, Category:IARC Group 2A carcinogens
• List of IARC Group 2B carcinogens, Category:IARC Group 2B carcinogens
• List of IARC Group 3 carcinogens, Category:IARC Group 3 carcinogens
• List of IARC Group 4 carcinogens, Category:IARC Group 4 carcinogens

are misleading, since all agents (materials, compounds, environments) could and should be classified by IARC. The classification does not make them "carcinogens". The IARC itself mentions[1]:

In the following lists, the agents are classified as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans in accordance with the Preamble to the IARC Monographs.

According to this text, we should have articles named:

List of agents classified from IARC to Group xxx as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans. Instead, I propose the simpler title:

List of IARC Group xx agents.

Similarly for categories, my proposal is:

Category:IARC Group 4 agents

Any alternative proposals are welcome. The present proposal is duplicated is all articles and categories, but if you have any comment, please use the page:

Talk:International Agency for Research on Cancer#Proposal to move several articles/categories to alternative names

Do not leave a comment in any other page. --FocalPoint (talk) 13:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)