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Category: Kopitar family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deletion Category:Kopitar family
Nominator's rationale: -- WP:SMALLCAT. There are only three notable members of this Slovenian family, each known for their contributions to hockey. Anze Kopitar has two very young children who won't be notable anytime soon. Is a category really needed here? -- Gmatsuda (talk) 13:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election

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The result of the discussion was: do not rename. MER-C 09:13, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:PARENDIS. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 11:59, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The parent category (and other similar ones) should be moved as well, but one has to start somewhere. Opera hat (talk) 08:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I started moving some of these articles because I thought the old title was misleading. Unnaturally putting (UK) in the middle suggests that the name of the party is Labour Party (UK), which it is not. Opera hat (talk) 08:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It suggests that the disambiguator refers to the Labour Party rather than to the election. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:52, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
WP:Category names#General conventions says that normal policy on article titles should apply. And policy on parenthetical disambiguation is to put it at the end. Opera hat (talk) 08:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The main article for Category:2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election is 2016 Labour Party leadership election (UK). Matching the category to the article is the reason for this requested move. Opera hat (talk) 08:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election

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The result of the discussion was: do not rename. MER-C 09:14, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:PARENDIS. Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 11:58, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Food studies journals

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 09:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The term 'Food Science' would be better/more accurate for this category than 'Food Studies', also to be consistent with the main article.Youllneverwalkalone2019 (talk) 13:02, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Laureates of the Prince Claus Award

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:09, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCAWARD, the people in this category are not specifically notable for this award, in the articles the receipt of the award is mentioned merely in passing. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 09:44, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Buildings and structures in Manassas Park, Virginia

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Manassas Park, Virginia. MER-C 09:12, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Buildings and structures in Manassas Park, Virginia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Category and its subcategory contains only 1 article. TM 13:02, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not every populated place needs its own buildings subcategory, that really depends on the amount of content. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Harmon prize winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:09, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEF, some articles like Benjamin Griffith Brawley do not even mention the award at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:40, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The reasons I created this cat are because 1) it is of significant historical value, and 2) many sources that mention this award, and thus (at least formerly; I cleaned them years ago) some Wikipedia articles, report winners incorrectly. [That is, they say "Person A" won it, when he or she actually did not.] One such error was in a book by Cornel West IIRC. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 22:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neither of these keep arguments is policy-based. Historical value and sourcing apply to every award in wp, but it does not imply we should create categories for them. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea about category policy. The category is useful. It helps prevent misinformation.  ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 16:46, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's the wrong way to think about categorization. An article might contain, for example, 100 facts about the subject and maybe there's another 100 facts that could be added, but that doesn't mean the article should be in 100-200 categories. See WP:NONDEFINING. DexDor (talk) 09:08, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The articles in this category are of substantial length, definitely not just covering the prize. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:34, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:JVP insurrections in film

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 September 8#Category:JVP insurrections in film

Category:Genting Hong Kong

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:Star Cruises to Category:Genting Hong Kong. MER-C 14:48, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one eponymous article Rathfelder (talk) 07:10, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Aldehydic acids

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The result of the discussion was: keep. MER-C 09:15, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category only has one member, which is already separately categorized under Category:Benzoic acids and Category:Benzaldehydes. Also, the category has no main article, and there is no page with the name Aldehydic acid. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 01:55, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment creating a 1-article category does not really help in reducing the size of otherwise huge categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:08, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well categories always have to start with one entry. There is also the category:keto acids with comparable scope. I am not in a position to find and add more entries though. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:24, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:2019 Conservative Party (UK) leadership election

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 September 1#Category:2019 Conservative Party (UK) leadership election

Category:Tribal societies that have practiced cannibalism

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Tribal societies that have practiced cannibalism to Category:Societies that have practiced cannibalism
Nominator's rationale: This category seems to collect together exclusively non-European, mostly indigenous societies that have practiced cannibalism (or allegedly practiced cannibalism) at some point in their history. I think the term "tribal" carries a loaded, pejorative, stigmatizing connotation in this context and thus the word should be removed. Personally, I think the category should be deleted altogether and turned into an article or list, but that suggestion was voted down in 2008, so that's a debate for another time. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 06:20, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scientific racism

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) WBGconverse 16:25, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a biased, pejorative term that serves no purpose in this encyclopedia except Marxist-Lysenkoist far-left POV pushing. Science is and has always been a detached and objective pursuit and does not and has never included any component of racial hatred that would ratify its putative status as "racism". I find particularly perturbing the category's characterization as "pseudoscience" (always a term to use with caution) and "obsolete theories". Clearly, the category is populated with enough "scientific racists" who believe in "scientific racism" as to render their enterprise as something other than "obsolete". Delete. HRKent444 (talk) 02:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yep. XOR'easter (talk) 16:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agreed. And although I usually AgF and often far longer than I should, looking at the OP's edits I don't think they are here for the good of the project. Doug Weller talk 16:17, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of reliable, academic sources directly linking The Bell Curve to scientific racism as a simple defining trait. Grayfell (talk) 07:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Transgender women

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This recently created category is redundant to Category:Transgender and transsexual women and/or Category:Trans women. (Please note that it contains only two items at present, both of which are also in the "transgender and transsexual women" category.) Cheers, gnu57 01:33, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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