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Category:Manocan bridge players

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. From misspelling (?) to correct demonym for Monaco Yngvadottir (talk) 21:38, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Questions: Is Monagesque a French language word? If so, does it have an English language counterpart? Interestingly, Monacan people is already a Wiki article. I would support a correction to the category naming provided it is of the English language. Newwhist (talk) 11:38, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Scenic routes

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The result of the discussion was: Rename/Merge. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:20, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename and merge. The main article is Scenic route, and Tourist highway redirects to it. I do not think that all roads called "tourist highways" are limited-access roads (see nomination below), but even if they were I do not see any benefit from subdividing this category according to access. – Fayenatic London 20:47, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Highways

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. – Fayenatic London 19:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. The page Highway says the word just means road, as opposed to waterway. Connecting the categories in different countries is overcategorisation by shared name. – Fayenatic London 17:59, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry that we Americans use these terms in so many different ways and not logically, of course. There are roads that are called highways that are really roads, so there is a lot of confusion. What I would suggest:
  1. Leave the above categories as they were. Create a "Expressways by country" category, and make it a sub-category of "limited access roads by country". I really think you need to leave the category names as is, because in the U.S., one does not hear the term "limited access" used that often. It may be more a UK or European term. This is the same problem that I've found in sorting out the "Hospitality companies" and "Hotel and leisure companies" categories. So we just have to find a way for them to exist together. --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:25, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Also, add a "State highways by country" category. --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:26, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you're saying with the above type of categorization, and I'm fine with it; however, I think if you delete the Highways, Expressways or State Highways categories and change them to "Limited Access", I think someone in the future (an American) will probably re-create those categories, because the average person never calls them "limited access" or "controlled access". Those types of terms would only be used by civil engineers in the various federal, state and local Depts. of Transportation. --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:50, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:De la Pole family

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at 2013 MAY 27 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:32, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is not about a single family, but at least two. I had a great deal of difficulty in removing genealogical rubbish that made a Hull merchant a descendant of the Princes of Powys (the equivalent of WP:OR). De la Pole means of the Pole (or pool). For the family descended from the Princes of Powys, this refers to Welshpool; for the Hull merchants, an insignificant place near there. These family categories are a potential menace: they are bringing people together by shared surname, which is a variety of overcategorisation. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:45, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Candidates in British Columbia provincial elections (2013)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:14, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Candidates in British Columbia provincial elections (2013) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category is being used to group everybody who has a Wikipedia article and is a candidate in the British Columbia general election, 2013, even though the vast majority of them are incumbent MLAs running for re-election. This type of categorization is simply not done on Wikipedia — "candidate" categories are only for people who were not elected to the legislature and thus aren't already filed in an appropriate MLAs category, and any candidate who isn't already a sitting member of the legislature still has to meet another notability guideline anyway, meaning that the vast majority of unelected candidates don't get articles at all. In this case, that would leave just six people in this category once the sitting MLAs are removed, and five of those six outliers are still in the more general Category:Candidates in British Columbia provincial elections (which isn't large enough to need a size splitout) alongside this one. And since British Columbia general election, 2013 already contains a table of the candidates for all parties which will be updated with vote totals and winner tags once the election is over, all of the people in question are already linked from that article and thus the category isn't needed anyway.
For the record, the exact same thing was tried in 2011 for both the Yukon election and the Ontario election and was deleted in both cases for the same reasons detailed here, yet the exact same user who started those started this one too. Delete (but make sure Suzanne Anton is added to Category:Candidates in British Columbia provincial elections in the process.) Bearcat (talk) 15:33, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question:What is the rationale for this deletion nomination? All I can gather from the above is:
  • "This type of categorization is simply not done on Wikipedia"
  • "all of the people in question are already linked from that article and thus the category isn't needed anyway"
  • "the exact same thing was tried in 2011 for both the Yukon election and the Ontario election and was deleted in both cases for the same reasons" Ottawahitech (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Science fiction Westerns

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The result of the discussion was: No rename. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. To be in line with all the other sub-categories of Category:Western films by genre and Category:Science fiction films by genre. Fortdj33 (talk) 13:20, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Manchester, Kentucky

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Small town with only 2 entries ...William 12:13, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Needles, California

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Only has 3 entries ...William 12:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:New Zealand House of Representatives accredited news organisations

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:18, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:New Zealand House of Representatives accredited news organisations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Listify and Delete. Seems like the sort of thing better handled by a list article - this is categorisation by an obscure common feature. I can't see any other categories for news agencies by accreditation anywhere. Grutness...wha? 10:46, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as per nominator's rationale. Schwede66 22:36, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Populated places in Chilcotin (region)

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The result of the discussion was: rename.--Mike Selinker (talk) 01:20, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Populated places in Chilcotin (region) to Category:Populated places in the Chilcotin
copy of speedy discussion
  • Category:Populated places in Chilcotin (region) to Category:Populated places in the Chilcotin - I know this was recently speedied because of parent cat speedy, but the proper usage is "the Chilcotin" as in "the Okanagan" and "the Cariboo" (which have equivalent populated places cats); "(region)" dab kinda unnecessary despite current title of main article Chilcotin (region).Skookum1 (talk) 05:19, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:Populated places in Chilcotin (region) to Category:Populated places in the Chilcotin - I know this was recently speedied because of parent cat speedy, but the proper usage is "the Chilcotin" as in "the Okanagan" and "the Cariboo" (which have equivalent populated places cats); "(region)" dab kinda unnecessary despite current title of main article Chilcotin (region). Skookum1 (talk) 05:19, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cleveland Cuisine

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. This was at speedy for a rename, but I question the need for this. After removing those that did not mention Cleveland or why it is defining for the city's cuisine, we are left with 3 articles. If we look at one of those, City chicken it is mentioned as being eaten in at least 8 cities, so do we categorize this in each of those cities? I think that deletion is the better direction here. I'll also point out that this has Category:Cuisine of the Midwestern United States and Category:Cuisine of the Northeastern United States as parents. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:19, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

From speedy nomination.


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