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Category:Fishguard and Goodwick

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:52, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Fishguard and Goodwick are separate places (Goodwick is nearby but much smaller) and this category only serves as an unnecessary extra step in the category tree. Fishguard is the major town by a long stretch and already has its own category. Fishguard and Goodwick share a community council, a rugby team and (maybe muddying the waters slightly) the main railway station for Fishguard (the ferry terminal is reached via Goodwick). However, Fishguard and Goodwick is a redirect to the railway station and I can't see the benefit of having a category named after a community council. Evidently the Goodwick article would need merging back to Category:Towns in Pembrokeshire if this deletion takes place. Sionk (talk) 14:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Eastern Orthodoxy and far-left politics

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:54, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Following on from the Catholicism and Far-left politics nomination, i propose this category be deleted on the same basis. Same problem with categorising a part of the political spectrum as a "scandal". The only contents about spies could happily exist without this container. Also note the absence of potential to populate other Christian denomination sets of Category:Far-left politics. Starting Category:Far-left politics and religion first and seeing where that goes is a much better way forward (and I doubt much diffusion would be warranted). SFB 23:58, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cefnmeiriadog

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:52, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting

Category:Betws Gwerfil Goch (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Bodffordd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Cefnmeiriadog (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Clocaenog (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Cyffylliog (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Derwen (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Efenechtyd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Erbistock (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Gresford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Henryd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanddewi Brefi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llandyrnog (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanegryn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanfaethlu (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanfair-ar-y-bryn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanfair Talhaiarn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llangeitho (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanbrynmair (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llangors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llangynfelyn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llangynog (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llannefydd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Llysfaen (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Mawr (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Mochdre, Conwy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Nantglyn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Penmynydd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Pentrefoelas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Rhigos (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Trefnant (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Tregaron (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Trewalchmai (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Y Felinheli (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete. These are all, I'm pretty sure, categories created by a serial over-categoriser in 2013, for tiny rural communities (< 2000) in Wales. Some of these contain only the village article, all of these nominated contain only 3 or less articles (apart from the village itself). Often these categorised articles shouldn't be there anyway (for example rivers that pass through the village). These are simply category clutter that needs removing. They have no chance of further population, per WP:SMALLCAT. Sionk (talk) 22:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Point taken. I've gone through each one and added back the "Villages in..", "Communities in..." or "Towns in..." categories. Sionk (talk) 00:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Films distributed by Paramount/Disney

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:45, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete per consensus at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_May_20#Category:Films_by_studio_or_distributor and subsequent Cfds. I believe we have a clear consensus not to categorize by distributor -- as films have multiple distributors across the world, and via different distribution channels (theatrical, TV, VOD, etc.). Is there a reason to make an exception for these two major studios? That's not a rhetorical question. I don't see a reason as yet, though maybe this is a distinct case, for some reason. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:16th century in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 08:34, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:16th century in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Category:16th century in the Kingdom of Kongo
Nominator's rationale: I'm not an expert on Congolese history but I think that the relevant geographic entity was the Kingdom of Kongo at the time. —Justin (koavf)TCM 19:27, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Hetrosexual Wikipedians

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Per the discussion below and the discussion for the previous version of this category Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 November 29#Category:Straight Wikipedians, I am closing this as a "snow delete", i.e. on the merits. I could also have speedily deleted it as G5 but that might have given rise to a discussion in the future about whether recreations under this or similar names would be eligible for speedy deletion under G4. BencherliteTalk 11:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Category created by a new user who has few edits outside of user space and who created this category solely to populate it with his user page. Safiel (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Identifying oneself as L, G, B or T specifically flags an interest in collaboration on LGBT topics, so no, the argument against "heterosexual" doesn't wash against them too. (I know of several Wikipedians who happen to be LGBT but aren't all that active on LGBT topics in particular — those people generally don't include themselves in the categories.) But we don't have any specific set of heterosexuality articles for which labelling oneself as heterosexual flags any particular collaborative purpose — it effectively just serves as a "because I want to" marker, not a tool for collaboration on anything specific. Bearcat (talk) 21:26, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
While there is not currently a LGBT type series of topics for Heterosexuality (possibly due for a lack of need for one), it could still be potentially beneficial for certain topics. Lightgodsy(TALKCONT) 21:50, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Re "we don't have any specific set of heterosexuality articles..." there is, for example, Category:Birth control. DexDor (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Those should go, too; someone care to be bold? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:42, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Deaths by city in England

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The result of the discussion was: Delete - I'm also deleting the then empty parent Category:Deaths by city in the United Kingdom. And upmerged the remaining 2 categories of its parent Category:Deaths by city and making that a category redirect to Category:Death by city. No prejudice against nominating Category:Death by city and its subcats. - jc37 02:32, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Deaths by city in England (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Also propose deleting- Category:Deaths in London, Category:Deaths in Aldershot, Category:Deaths in Bath, Somerset
Nominator's rationale: We categorize by where somebody is from. As to where they died, its not defining of a person. People die at a location because they're in the hospital. That might be their only connection to there. ...William 16:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I get that, but the mere serendipity of being born somewhere satisfies being "from" there -see the descriptions at innumerable "People from XXX" category pages... I think that for the most part mere association with a death place may or may not be defining, but since it is a vital statistic (like is dying in a particular year defining of one's life? Is one's life fundamentally changed if one dies on 12/31/14 vs. 1/1/15? hardly), but it is one of the few absolutes of one's lifes on which categorization makes some sense. Theoretically, we could remove all places/dates of birth/death categories and refer readers to lists, but I think this is better. Just MHO.... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:58, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not sure that being born somewhere necessarily means that someone is "from" there, regardless of how many category descriptions like to claim that. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:33, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, being born somewhere can be described as "being from there". Many people are categorized here by birthplace (apparently contrary to the pertaining guideline, but supported by almost universal consensus) because many people stay where they were born and become closely associated with that place. Other people leave their bithplace but are always some way or the other connected with their birthplace throughout their lives (for example "Scottish-born American soccer player" etc.), be it only that it's written in their passports, or that you need to write it in forms every time they go to some public department. So, it is quite defining where someone was born. The birth year and death year categories serve to identify bios, especially BLPs, which is important for some questions of policy here on Wikipedia. So, although it doesn't make much difference to somebody whether he died on December 31, 2014, or on January 1, 2015, there must be necessarily a year stated in the category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kraxler (talkcontribs)

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Category:Quantified human groups

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The result of the discussion was: Delete per WP:OC#SHAREDNAME. - jc37 02:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category groups together a vast array of groups based on an incidental feature: that they are named the "Five Foos" or the "Three Bars" etc. The Three Musketeers have nothing in common with the Gang of Four and as such this category is not definitive of the subjects or useful to categorisation. SFB 15:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think Marcocapelle makes a good point below. Let's credit the reader with the intelligence to sort cats by order of triviality. After all, one of the most commonly used cats for biographical articles is date of death, pretty useless and uninteresting as a criterion in most cases.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 11:11, 22 January 2015 (UTC))[reply]
A very generous offer, please consider such request made by me, if this cat survives the current discussion process!(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 11:11, 22 January 2015 (UTC))[reply]
SFB 22:49, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Coming back to this, I think preserving something like this serves a community purpose, even if it's one that seems a little trivial. I'd be happy to listify this in some form. The name would surely have to change though as it's more abstract that you would expect. SFB 23:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'd also be content with an outcome to "userify" this as a list for User:Lobsterthermidor who has found some value in it. SFB 23:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be happy for the category name to be changed to something better if anyone has a suggestion.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 15:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC))[reply]

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Category:Artist collectives

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The result of the discussion was: merge/rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:50, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category type is not distinctive of the parent as "groups" and "collectives" are synonymous terms. The majority of the category tree is along the lines of "groups and collectives" so these should take the line of the rest of the tree (e.g. Category:European artist groups and collectives). I would like to address these singly as outliers, rather than debate the benefits of just "collectives" or "groups" over "groups and collectives" (which would be a wider nomination involved categories not mentioned above. SFB 15:07, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like that! A 'collaboration' isn't necessarily the same thing. Artists may organise or assocoiate together simply because they are in the same location, or have similar objectives. I've never come across a group that describes itself as a 'Collaboration'. 'Cooperatives' have some sort of legal 'business' definition, so are different enough to warrant a separate category. Sionk (talk) 16:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Sionk here in that a cooperative is quite a distinct economic unit that is easy to define and distinguish from non-cooperative groups. I think you are on to something though: perhaps "collaborative artist groups" would better summate the concept than the current title? I'm happy to support that if others are. SFB 23:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I originally suggested Category:Artist collaborations because it'd fit nicely as a child of Category:Collaboration. The current situation in which Category:Artist cooperatives is a member of Category:Artist groups and collectives is very much unacceptable. We only have to come up with a wide general name for the new parent category, in a way that it doesn't prescribe how tight or loose is the level of interaction. How about then simply Category:Artist interactions, for short? (Or if you prefer a longer name: Category:Artist miscellany aggregations -- just kidding about this last one...). Now looking for new parents, Category:Social groups might work as well -- how about then Category:Artists as a social group, or Category:Artists in society (not unline Category:Women in society)? Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 05:48, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
So you're suggesting Category:Artist collaborations would be a subcategory of Category:Collaboration, so that Category:Artist groups and collectives and Category:Artist cooperatives have a common parent category, am I right? Sionk (talk) 10:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Sionk and Fgnievinski: That would be a useful title, but one that would be far broader from the nominated category as to be something completely different. I would expect to find works in that category tree. Hence my alternative, descriptive suggestion Category:Collaborative artist groups. That said, I'm not opposed to the creation of the collaborations category, just that it's entirely different concept. Also note that my nomination does not include any "cooperatives" category so I've no idea why it is featuring so prominently in the discussion. SFB 19:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe this should instead be raised at Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts. Without a strong justification it seems an unnecessary additional layer of navigation. Groups and collectives are 'collaborations' by their nature. I'm surprised the original renaming proposal is so problematic. Sionk (talk) 19:45, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK, all has been cleared now, please proceed with the merger. I've taken the liberty of moving some subcats out of Category:Artist groups and collectives, now that I've found an existing suitable parent category, simply Category:Artists. This arrangement mimics that of Category:Musicians (which seems very well organized). I'll leave it up to you guys/gals to decide if articles Art collective, Art colony, Art commune, Artist cooperative (and respective categories) should remain at the base of Category:Artists or put in a new Category:Artistis interactions. Fgnievinski (talk) 04:44, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jewish group structuring

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The concept of "group structuring" is quite nebulous and it's not really clear in what way this is a subset of Jewish organizations. The parent "Articles about multiple people" is even more misleading and an indication of how confusing the definition of the category is. SFB 14:55, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Warhol superstars

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:49, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is not a defining characteristic for most of the subjects. For example, Jack Smith (film director) and Barbara Rubin would rarely be described by this descriptor. This broadly aligns with "people who hung about with Andy Warhol". This content is best grouped together in a list (as already done at Warhol superstars and is not suitable for a category. SFB 14:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Second City alumni

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. For Category:Second City alumni the decision was to listify, but two lists already exist. S0 even this one can be deleted without loss of information. I'll leave it to the users on how best to combine or redo the existing lists. @Bearcat: maybe you would like to get involved? Vegaswikian (talk) 17:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This grouping is not a defining characteristic of the comedians it contains. Mostly, it is a group they were associated with briefly or associated with at a time when they had not risen to notability. This isn't a well-defined group: it numbers into thousands and the people brought together otherwise don't really have that much in common to warrant a category. This category should be listified to List of Second City Chicago alumni (which is a reasonable presentation of the info) and the category deleted. The other categories all have the same issue, and I suggest the same solution, including listify. SFB 14:35, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't object to the rationale, but must express the caution that not all of the people in Category:Second City alumni are alumni of the Second City's Chicago company — some of them are alumni of the offshoot companies in Toronto, Detroit, Las Vegas or Cleveland. So the listify target is not necessarily List of Second City Chicago alumni for everybody in that category; rather, it's List of alumni of the Second City, with the separate Chicago list being appropriate only for people who were specifically in the Chicago branch. (The Toronto branch has enough history and enough notable alumni that it could also potentially support a spinoff list of its own, but until a standalone list actually does exist they should at least be in the Toronto section of the non-exclusive list. The other three cities probably don't meet either of those two qualifications yet, and should be kept solely in the main list for the time being. But then again, we probably don't actually need a separate list for Chicago either, if List of alumni of the Second City is also keeping a Chicago section that's directly listing people.) Listify and delete per nom and WP:PERFCAT, but be careful with the Second City: listify it to List of alumni of the Second City rather than the Chicago-specific list, and take care to ensure that people are actually being listified under the correct city's section. Bearcat (talk) 19:44, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, I meant to link the main alumni one not, the Chicago one. Cheers for picking this up. SFB 23:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Western Australia uncategorised by location

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is essentially a clean up list that has been set as a content category. Where we don't have a more specific location to go off for the "people from" tree, we place the person in the parent location category. SFB 12:25, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia media files with subtitles

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:45, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with Category:Wikipedia files and other subcats of that category. See also related discussion Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_January_7#Category:Wikipedia_media_files. DexDor (talk) 08:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Academic journals published by the government

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. "By governments" is probably better in this context than "by the government", which implies a monolithic body. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:52, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Decentralized Software

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: While we do have an article on the generic concept of decentralization which contains a few words about decentralization in the context of software development, it contains nothing that would suggest any reason why being "decentralized" would be a WP:DEFINING characteristic of the resulting software — and we categorize on defining characteristics, not on every individual trait that a given topic happens to possess. If a genuine reason can be provided why this should be kept, it would still need to be renamed to Category:Decentralized software per WP:C2A — though I still believe it's a delete, which is why I'm bringing it here rather than CFR. Bearcat (talk) 02:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Presidents of Biafra

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The result of the discussion was: keep. MER-C 08:35, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This country had only one president, and it's no more. This category would never be populated. Jamie Tubers (talk) 01:09, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Military installations in Bedfordshire

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:52, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Military installations in Bedfordshire
Nominator's rationale: There is no category for Military installations in England by county and the only content (RAF stations) is already in the appropriate categories, including Category: Military history of Bedfordshire Hugo999 (talk) 12:11, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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