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The undeletion discussion in the following section is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. Category:Mayors from New Orleans I wish to state my objection to today's move of "Category:Mayors of New Orleans" and its contents to "Category:Mayors from New Orleans". The new name IMO sounds absurd (what does it refer to-- perhaps a mayor of some city in another state who was born in New Orleans?) and some of the parent categories now seem non-existant. There was no discussion about renaming this category on the talk page nor immediate parent categories before the move. I request a reversal of this move. -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC) There was no need for a DRCFD. It's being changed back. Simple mistake. Rocket000 (talk) 17:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Leave this open a bit in case there's any similar ones. It will give us a place to discuss the "from/of" issue in general. Rocket000 (talk) 18:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC) I just had a look through the related categories. I agree all or most "politicians by place" categories should use "of" and not "from". It makes more sense and avoids confusion about whether they are (for example) the a cities' mayor or simply some mayor that happens to live(d) in that city. We have things like Category:Senators of the United States from New York which show how it can be both. Rocket000 (talk) 18:26, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Agree. I think "(Office) of (Place)" rather than "from" is probably better for most elective offices (eg, "Governors of Missouri" rather than "Governors from Missouri". "People from (place)" may be a good overall convention, but exceptions should be alllowed when other wording makes more sense. IMO conventions are good guidelines, but shouldn't be pushed to absolute uniformity if it comes at the expense of clear language and logical description. -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Closing for the archive. Rocket000(talk) 18:02, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

"Mayors from New Orleans"?

I wish to state my objection to the move of "Category:Mayors of New Orleans" to "Category:Mayors from New Orleans". The new name IMO sounds absurd (what does it refer to-- perhaps a mayor of some city in another state who was born in New Orleans?) and some of the parent categories now seem non-existant. There was no discussion about renaming this category on the talk page nor immediate parent categories before the move. I request a reversal of this move. -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

A note on my talk page was all that was needed... Rocket000 (talk) 18:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)