I find it intriguing that the category, Category:Recipients of the Padma Vibhushanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan[1] has been nominated for deletion herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_May_3#Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan[2] and that the primary rationale that has been give by the nominator is
"*Nominator's rationale* award categories are generally discoraged. This is India's second highest civilian award, meaning there is a higher ranking award of the same type. This seems to just be asking for having people in multiple award categories. We should generally categorize people by what they did, not what awards they got because they did what they did."
While Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipientshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipients[3] remains steadfast. I mean, if you plan to delete categories of a country's second highest civilian honour, should you not start with your own? Or I am out of line here in assuming the age old saying, "Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself"?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_Ma... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipients
I think we should refrain from posting this kind of stuff on the mailing list. While probably not a blatant violation of WP:CANVASS, it comes pretty damn close.
Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debastein@gmail.com
wrote:
I find it intriguing that the category, Category:Recipients of the Padma Vibhushanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan[1] has been nominated for deletion herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_May_3#Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan[2] and that the primary rationale that has been give by the nominator is
"*Nominator's rationale* award categories are generally discoraged. This is India's second highest civilian award, meaning there is a higher ranking award of the same type. This seems to just be asking for having people in multiple award categories. We should generally categorize people by what they did, not what awards they got because they did what they did."
While Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipientshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipients[3] remains steadfast. I mean, if you plan to delete categories of a country's second highest civilian honour, should you not start with your own? Or I am out of line here in assuming the age old saying, "Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself"?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recipients_of_the_Padma_Vibhushan [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_Ma... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidential_Citizens_Medal_recipients -- Regards, Debanjan*
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debastein@gmail.com
wrote:
Or I am out of line here in assuming the age old saying, "Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself"?
On Wikipedia, issues are judged around policy and precedent. It's got nothing to do with treating others well.
If you do wish to bring notice of any deletion dispute/RFC to the community, it needs to be done with a bare-bones single-sentence statement informing people of the existence of the issue and asking people to participate without giving any kind of indication as to which side to favour. It is also better if such notification is done at INB rather than the mailing list.
Ashwin
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debastein@gmail.com wrote:
Or I am out of line here in assuming the age old saying, "Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself"?
On Wikipedia, issues are judged around policy and precedent. It's got nothing to do with treating others well.
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