Category talk:American male novelists

This category was nominated for Merge to Category:American novelists on 25 April 2013. The result of the discussion was No consensus to merge to American novelists, but rename to American male novelists.

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Equality[edit]

This category is currently under formal discussion. Closing this discussion to centralize discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_25#Category:American_men_novelists. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This category should not be merged into the general "American Novelists" category, unless "American Women Novelists" is similarly merged. Male and Female novelists should be treated equally Sonicsuns (talk) 03:48, 25 April 2013 (UTC) Should also create "American LGBT Novelists," or "American Novelists, Gender Other." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.41.229.62 (talk) 11:27, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are aware that there is currently a very lengthy discussion of this issue at Category talk:American novelists and on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 April 24? It seems like you're trying to short-circuit this discussion (which IMO seems to be moving toward a consensus of merging the names in Category: American Woman novelists back into Category: American novelists). I think you would do better to join the discussion there, rather than unilaterally making a new category Geoffrey.landis (talk) 18:59, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.