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Category:Competitors at the 2015 Summer Universiade

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:44, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Adding to the nomination at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_July_13#Category:Universiade_competitors_for_Barbados:
The act of competing at a specific edition of the Universiade is not defining aspect for an athlete. This competition is not a top level of any sport, in that only students may take part. Participation in this competition is not sufficiently defining of a person that they warrant direct navigation to other people who competed at the games that year. Navigation within the sports result/medallist pages is sufficient. Appearances are almost always a small part of a professional athlete's career and being selected for the Universiade is neither a story of note, nor an overall career objective for any sportsperson.
I believe the tree under Category:Competitors at multi-sport events by country should be used for open-class global or continental Games only. To have two categories (year of appearance and country) for each and every competition that an athlete has taken part in is excessive. One could say the current arrangement without expanding it further is already excessive, for example see Michael Frater. SFB 22:48, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An article about the 2015 Summer Universiade exists since 22 June 2009. Doma-w (talk) 07:45, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Black Mormons

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:18, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Convert Category:Black Mormons to article List of Black Mormons
Nominator's rationale: The combination of a person's race and religion is not a distinguishing feature enough to merit direct navigation between the people with that feature. The ways in which these people are both black and Mormon are profoundly different (example: Malian Yeah Samake who converted after discussing the religion with an American couple, and Helvécio Martins a Brazilian of African descent several generations back who joined a local church). SFB 21:44, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Peterkingiron: Note that this is used for non-African-American black people. SFB 22:50, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I stand corrected. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:26, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films featuring Batman

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The result of the discussion was: speedy merge WP:C2C. – Fayenatic London 20:24, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Duplicative of Category:Batman films. AldezD (talk) 20:57, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:TED speakers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:10, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: That, for example, Gordon Brown or David Byrne has been a TED speaker is WP:NON-DEFINING of the person. For info: there is List of TED speakers. DexDor (talk) 20:25, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Even some of your examples don't mention TED in the text of the articles. DexDor (talk) 22:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't matter, because TED users find the biographies in Google searches then they come to the speakers' wiki bio. That's how the readers relate the bio with with TED. Since the bios are work in progress, it is not wise to assume the importance of TED association is static. One can always edit and mention the TED speaking.--Chanaka L (talk) 08:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It may be "an exclusive invitation" - but that does not make it a WP:DEFINING characteristic of (all) its members. Your last point is incorrect - see the deletion discussion. DexDor (talk) 22:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Re 1) if persons are missing in the list, please add them.
Re 2) This is not related to the particular nomination. As an argument it could be used in every other CfD discussion (in theory) and would therefore be equally meaningless in every other CfD discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:54, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An activist (e.g. Heather Brooke) should be categorized as an activist (e.g. in Category:Freedom of information activists) - that way the article is grouped with similar articles (people notable for a similar reason).
Regarding "There is no requirement that an individual has to be in every single category that is valid for them": that is actually the way that Wikipedia categorization works; if the inclusion criteria of a category is "people who have characteristic X" then every article about a person who has characteristic X belongs in that category. Adding categories of the form "people who have characteristic X, but don't have characteristic Y" (e.g. "Category:TED speakers who have not (yet) won a Nobel prize") would open a huge can of worms. DexDor (talk) 21:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Event in India

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:20, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category Events in India exists, don't know why this was created CutOffTies (talk) 11:50, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:100% renewable energy

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The result of the discussion was: delete. List is at 100% renewable energy. MER-C 12:22, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: How much of a country's energy is renewable is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of the country (e.g. Albania). If kept this should be renamed to something more meaningful - e.g. "Places that produce ...". DexDor (talk) 05:46, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Thanksgiving food

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The result of the discussion was: listify to Thanksgiving dinner. MER-C 11:56, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: That some Americans eat, for example, mashed potato, roast beef, ham or leftovers at Thanksgiving is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of those foods. If this category isn't deleted then should things like cheese, celery and carrot be added (they are all mentioned at Thanksgiving dinner) ? DexDor (talk) 05:16, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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