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Category:Cities in the New York metropolitan area

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Keep. Follow on comment. As I was closing this I noticed that the contents here are not the city articles, but rather the city categories. Someone probably needs to go through this and include the city articles and remove the city categories. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:22, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unneeded Category. Somewhat duplicate entries within parent Category:Populated places in the New York metropolitan area, which is only a container. Tinton5 (talk) 22:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Catholic Church organizations

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The result of the discussion was: Keep/withdrawn. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Target is only member of this cat. Unnecessary level of categorization. JFH (talk) 14:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support "Old Catholic" etc do not have many articles about organisation so there is, at present, no need to include them here. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Guided missiles by operator

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Guided missiles by operator (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Royal Canadian Air Force & Canadian Forces Air Command guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:French Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht) guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Guided missiles of the United States Air Force
  • Propose deleting Category:Cruise missiles of the United States Air Force
  • Propose deleting Category:Nuclear cruise missiles of the United States Air Force
  • Propose deleting Category:Aeronautica Militare guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:People's Liberation Army guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:People's Liberation Army Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:People's Liberation Army Navy guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Royal Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Russian Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Russian Navy guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Russian Navy nuclear cruise missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Strategic Rocket Forces guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Soviet Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Swedish Air Force guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Royal Navy guided missiles
  • Propose deleting Category:Nuclear cruise missiles by operator
Note: Bundeswehr and SAN cats are also in this tree, but are already at CSD as empty. Note: A Norwegian category was recently deleted.
Nominator's rationale: Some missiles have been operated by dozens of countries (e.g. see Sidewinder missile#Operators) so for missiles usage by a particular organization is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic. That there isn't an "Objects by operator" category for Category:Guided missiles by operator to fit under is an indication that this isn't the way we normally categorize articles about mass-produced objects. Upmerge List of missiles of the RAF to Category:Royal Air Force. DexDor (talk) 05:25, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A "Guided missiles operated by Russia/USSR" category (which I think is an example of what you're suggesting) would be almost an exact duplicate of Category:Guided missiles of Russia+Category:Guided missiles of the Soviet Union (which contain hundreds of articles). That is not good as it wouldn't be very useful and it's likely (IMO) that many articles would be placed in one or the other category when they should be in both. DexDor (talk) 21:31, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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