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July 15

Category:Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA_members

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The result of the discussion was: delete, without prejudice to creating a new category as suggested by the nominator. I will move the sub-cat up. Here is a link to the diffs, to facilitate populating the replacement. – Fayenatic London 09:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: We shouldn't have a broad category of anyone who was a girl scout. Instead we should rescope this to cover people who worked for or were closely associated with the girl scouts. After renaming it will need to be purged accordingly. A similar category is at Category:People associated with the Boy Scouts of America--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 21:26, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Palestinianist groups

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The result of the discussion was: delete. They are all inat least one of the other categories mentioned, so no merge is needed. – Fayenatic London 09:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure what this category is for. This seems like a subset of Category:Palestinian militant groups (non-militant groups?). This is parallel to Category:Palestinian organizations and organizations is the naming convention, not groups. Ricky81682 (talk) 19:47, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional girl detectives

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional female detectives, also to the other parent Category:Fictional amateur detectives just in case. – Fayenatic London 17:34, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a needed split. JDDJS (talk) 17:16, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It all depends on how you define adult. Nancy Drew was re-written to be 18, and in later works she goes off to college. Any of the contents of this category will also need to be in the parent, so it's rather pointless just to separate out the ones who are sometimes written a bit younger. Is Daphne from scooby doo a girl, or a woman? We only rarely have age-specific categories, we only have a few in Category:Children by occupation, but here we're dealing with fictional characters, whose categories already blossom like crazy, so I see little value in separating further here.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 21:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The idea of the "girl detective" is the basis of many scholarly papers. Is that not enough to establish the validity of a category? Nigel Pap (talk) 22:34, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You didn't put the quotes in right. The actual results for "girl detective" is far fewer and almost half of those are about Nancy Drew, which as Obi-Wan said, is debatable whether or not to even include. JDDJS (talk) 23:39, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing the quotes. I think 1,160 results proves my point even if half of them were about Nancy Drew. And Obi-Wan Kenobi is very very wrong about Nancy Drew. (By the way, that series of books now goes by the title Girl Detective.) Nigel Pap (talk) 02:38, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Only 53 have girl detective in the title. If it's not in the title, it's probably not the basis of the paper. JDDJS (talk) 13:56, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that is a fair assumption, but if Google Scholar lists 53 papers with the phrase "girl detective" in the title, that demonstrates that it is a known and studied term. What else do you want? What is the harm that this category is causing? Nigel Pap (talk) 14:25, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I want evidence of a significant diference between women detectives and girl detectives that proves that we need separate them. JDDJS (talk) 23:17, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The trouble is that "girl detectives" are a distinct type of "amateur detective" not a special type of "women detective". Adult male and female detectives have much more in common than either does with girl detectives (or boy detectives). You do not seem to understand the genre differences, yet you wish to delete the category based on your ignorance. If the evidence already found is not convincing you, what would? Nigel Pap (talk) 03:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You mean like in Girl Detective? No, she is still a girl detective. Nigel Pap (talk) 04:05, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Girl detectives

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 19:12, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Only contains subcat. Makes no sense. JDDJS (talk) 17:07, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fictional women engineers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:26, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Not needed subcat. Most articles are already in parent category Category:Fictional engineers and it's not crowded, and there is no significant difference between a male and a female engineer. JDDJS (talk) 16:41, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Obi-Wan Kenobi, are you saying that the fictional women would be treated unfairly by being "segregated", but that women (real women) should be split off in the category that contains non-fictional people? Nigel Pap (talk) 14:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Characters that appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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The result of the discussion was: delete as re-creation of deleted category without change in consensus. – Fayenatic London 09:32, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Characters that appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Similar to deleted category: Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe characters TriiipleThreat (talk) 16:17, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Italian municipalities

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The result of the discussion was: relist at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 August 15, tagging the target as well. – Fayenatic London 21:14, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I propose merging:

and rename its subcats

The majority of Categories for Italian municipalities as well as Category:Communes of Italy uses the Italian term commune for the name of the category. A small number of municipalities however uses municipalities. I guess that this is just caused by the preference of the user who created the category. To avoid confusion about the difference of terminology the categories should be renamed to commune. Inwind (talk) 10:14, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  1. What translation of the Italian word "comune" is most commonly used in English-language reliable sources?
  2. Does the same terminology apply to all comuni? It occurs to me that there may a sub-type or variant of "comune" which is more appropriately labelled a "municipality".
FWIW, my suggestion is to start by improving the head article, and find the reliable sources which could answer these questions, before a followup CFD based on whatever answers arise these. There is a general consensus on the principle that categories should follow the head article, but the current head article is not robust enough to follow. And sorry, despite my suggestion I don't have the time or energy to do the necessary research myself :( --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:13, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks a lot for your problem analysis! By the way, I've been trying to involve Italian Wikipedians in this discussion but without any success so far. I'll try to think of other ways in the next week. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:24, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Reverse merge. The term "municipalities" is a term that is wider used in English than "communes", which is basically a verbatim translation of the Italian term. Gryffindor (talk) 18:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 10:04, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I propose renaming:

and its subcats

Rationalle: Per the main article, Milwaukee, which has been stable at that name since 2008. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:25, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about other countries, but here is a compilation of discussions about US cities. Kennethaw88talk 02:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
If no other Milwaukee is notable enough to challenge the one in Wisconsin for ownership of the article title, then no other Milwaukee is notable enough to challenge the one in Wisconsin for ownership of the category name either. Category names never require a higher level of disambiguation than their matching articles do. Bearcat (talk) 05:07, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Milwaukee County? Since that's also in Wisconsin, adding the ", Wisconsin" doesn't disambiguate the city from the county. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:56, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wikipedia is worldwide, not just about US. That's a very good reason. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:24, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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