Category talk:Iowa Stars

Category move

This was first discussed at the Speedy page WP:CFDS as follows.

Copy of Speedy discussion

Category:Iowa Chops to Category:Iowa Stars (AHL) – C2D. BDD (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC) Oppose as proposed. The main article of the category is Iowa Stars, thus the category should be renamed to Category:Iowa Stars. Armbrust The Homunculus 05:40, 23 July 2013 (UTC) Ha. Sensible, but I thought that was how it was done around here. The proposed name is C2C with Category:Iowa Stars (AHL) players, but I'd be plenty happy with that being renamed as well. --BDD (talk) 16:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC) Oppose short name Category:Iowa Stars as ambiguous; categories should be unambiguous even where there is an article at the "main topic", because articles can have a disambiguation hatnote. IMHO the acceptable category names are the later name Category:Iowa Chops or the unambiguous Category:Iowa Stars (AHL). Note that the page was recently moved from Iowa Chops to Iowa Stars because the team had that name for longer. I would therefore be inclined to support the original nomination if it were at a full CfD. How about a WP:BOLD move of the page Iowa Stars to Iowa Stars (AHL)? if there is no objection to that, then this can come back again as a valid C2D. As for the sub-cat, note that there are two: Category:Iowa Stars (AHL) players and Category:Iowa Chops players, presumably covering different periods; I do not know whether the usual practice would be to merge them. – Fayenatic London 21:44, 24 July 2013 (UTC) I'd oppose a move of the article without an RM. There's no need to impose CfD requirements in mainspace. Looks like inertia is going to win out here. --BDD (talk) 16:48, 26 July 2013 (UTC) We could start a full CfD, but is the status quo a bad result? The current name is C2C with Category:Iowa Chops players. – Fayenatic London 11:42, 27 July 2013 (UTC) Comment Moved to full discussion. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:47, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Then a full discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_July_28#Category:Iowa_Chops ended with merging the 2 categories for players into the earlier name, apparently under a mistaken impression about which name came first.

I am documenting this only for the record. It is probably satisfactory to end up at this name "Iowa Stars" as it was used longest. – Fayenatic London 17:57, 5 August 2013 (UTC)