Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 7

November 7

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Category:Bosnian emigrants

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Category:Wars of the NATO

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Category:Dominican Honours System

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Category:Alumni of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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Category:People from Tottenham

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Polish families

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Category:Clarinet music

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Category:Non-African American inventors

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Films by Title

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Films with'From Outer Space' in the title

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Category:Author templates

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Category:Treasurer

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Category:British American numismatics

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Category:Airlines of Australasia and the Pacific

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Category:NASA people

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Category:Flight controllers

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'Horseracing' → 'Horse racing' cats

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Category:African American soldiers

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Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament (2)

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This CFD relates to the subcategories by nation and replaces an earlier CFD at WP:CFD#Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_Irish_constituencies_.281801-1922.29

It is one of two proposals which were originally made by me on 4 November 2006 at Category_talk:British_MPs#Renaming_subcategories_after_restructuring. I had hoped to leave that discussion to run for longer, in order to involve more people in exploring the issues, before hopefully reaching some sort of consensus on a proposal or set of proposals to bring to CFD.

However, the CFD above by Smerus brought the issue to a head more quickly, with a different proposal. Rather than have to separate CFDs relating to the same categories, it seemed better to start a new CFD, and Smerus has kindly agreed to withdraw the existing nomination to allow a new one to proceed.

The background to both these nominations is that all MPs elected to Westminster were originally categorised under the single ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:British MPs. This was both unwieldy and innacurate, because there have been three parliaments at Westminster:

Despite continuities of procedure and membership etc, these are legally separate institutions. So Westminster MPs are now categorised according to which parliament they are (or were) members of:

This CFD relates solely to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, i.e. MPs since 1801.

National sub-categories of Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament

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