User talk:Nonomy

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Sexist categories of peers

I have added to your nominaton all the all-male categories of peers: see Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006_November_8#Category:Female_life_peers.

I assume good faith and presume that your nomination was not sexist, and that you will therefore agree that if the only female category of peers is to be deleted, so should the male-only categories. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 15:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a male category of course it should go. I find your mock-courteous invocation of policy rather offensive. Nonomy 20:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No now I see just how cynical you are! You know perfectly well that those categories are not comparable. You are cynically using bad faith tactics. Nonomy 20:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nomony, not at all! I make the nomination in good faith, because these categories are very similar in effect.

Your entire nomination is contrary to existing guidelines: all this kerfuffle could have been avoided if you had read Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender,_race_and_sexuality#Other_considerations, and had not tried to abuse the CFD process to drive a hole through existing guidelines, in order to make a WP:POINT about female MPs.

These hereditary-peers-by-degree category are of course male categories, because except for a very few historical exceptions, women are debarred from inheriting them. Specially categorising them is effectively creating creating gendered categories, even if it doesn't say male on the label.

It's not that complicated: the hereditary system excluded women. You or I might think that a good thing or a bad thing, but that's not relevant here: what matters is that those categories record gender to to a very high degree of certainty.

I think that all these categories are of enclyclopedic relevance, though the peers-by-degree ones are much less relevant than the female ones, especially now that the hereditaries have a greatly dimininshed role in the House of Lords, and are likely to be removed in toto before long. But I'm content to let them stay as long as the more relevant female life peers category stays too. (Why on earth do you want several layers of graded categories for a class of peer which numbers only 92, but not for one which numbers 142?)

However, if the female category goes, then there is no case for retaining the other margial categories, categories which have no bearing on a peer's role in the Lords. They should also go, because those ranks are not relevant: we'd end up with a much simpler categorisation system, and restore the gender-blindness which you claim to seek. That's why they should be considered together.

I have that peers are rather intersting and worthy of more sophisticated categorisation than they currently have. But if you want to flatten the category hierarchy, let's do it properly. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 01:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is a bit too late for you to pretend to be a decent person. Your behaviour has been utterly contemptible. You are not a person that one can talk to constructively because to you it is all a game of power. It is shocking that you are an administrator and have not been dismissed. You have continued to attempt to deceive people on cfd that you are the innocent party and it is not tolerable. You are also pretty ignorant of the peerage as it did not always exclude women. Indeed another user pointed that out earlier, but like the politician I suspect you are you aren't going to let the truth interfere with your battle for victory. Nonomy 01:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category deletion

Sorry for removing your contributions, but it seems we have saved at the same time. I wanted only to fix my spelling. Greetings ~~ Phoe _talk 22:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC) ~~ [reply]

No problem. It didn't take long to redo them. Nonomy 22:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Abusive tone

Hi. Please do not direct personal attacks at other editors and try to observe civility during heated moments. Writing above that "it is a bit too late for you to pretend to be a decent person" crosses the line. Elsewhere, as well, I notice that your comments and edit summaries are in breach of these conduct policies. You need to place greater effort in communicating dispassionately and with moderation from now on. Thanks. El_C 04:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto above. [1] is not appropriate. This message is in leui of {{npa3}} - please read Wikipedia's no personal attacks and civility policies. Any future indiscretions of the like may result in a block of up to indefinite. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 05:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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