Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:People by status

Category:People by status
"By status" is a fairly meaningless categorization. The corresponding Wikipedia category is a grab bag of totally unrelated classifications. To quote Borges:
 * These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiences recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
 * — Jorge Luis Borges, "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", in Otras Inquisiciones (1937–1952) (1952)

~ Ningauble (talk) 18:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 19:00, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble (talk) 18:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment—What would we do with Category:Refugees and Category:Unidentified people? Would we just move them to Category:People?  As long as those categories have a place to go, that's my only real concern.  allixpeeke (talk) 23:52, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Addendum—I am indifferent as to whether or not Category:People by status is deleted, provided Category:Refugees and Category:Unidentified people have a place to go. In that event, I abstain.  Otherwise, keep.  allixpeeke (talk) 23:56, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Second addendum—I recently created Category:Slaves and initially put it into Category:People by status. Doing so, however, reminded me that this is up for deletion.  Subsequently, I took the initiative and moved all three categories into Category:People.  I therefore officially declare my vote to be abstain.  That said, if the consensus turns out to be "keep," I will recommend that the three categories be moved back to Category:People by status.  allixpeeke (talk) 17:05, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per above points and relocate Category:Refugees and Category:Unidentified people. --Rubbish computer (talk) 16:23, 26 September 2015 (UTC)