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Nominator's rationale: These are all small categories (3 articles or fewer) that are unlikely to grow. TM 22:19, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. What harm does it do to have these categories?Zigzig20s (talk) 00:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:SMALLCAT, these are categories with little potential for reaching the standard of 5 or more articles. I've not included categories with 4 articles within them as they are close to meeting the standard.--TM 01:16, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Beverly Hills has a Church of Christ, Scientist...Zigzig20s (talk) 02:07, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- The general rule is that most local churches are NN. The fact that a town may have more churches apart from those with articles is thus not a reason for keeping categories that are too small. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:59, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Small categories like these hinder navigation by introducing multiple levels of categorization for few articles. -- Black Falcon(talk) 02:13, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Birds of Iraq
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The result of the discussion was:upmerge and salt. -- Black Falcon(talk) 02:15, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't object to an upmerge, but it's probably unnecessary as these categories have previously been upmerged. DexDor(talk) 06:19, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge Iraq, weak upmerge on Socotra - as a fairly isolated island, it's easier to separate out from the other areas of the region. Grutness...wha? 01:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge Iraq, Oppose Socotra (which was not tagged for CfD, I have fixed that for you). Socotra should not have been included in that previous AfD, as, unlike all of the other nominations there, which were in fact perfectly cromulent, it is not a by-nationality category, but a by-geography category. Islands often have distinct faunas, and by-geography cats are entirely reasonable, particarly as at a glance there are 5 species endemic to the island - WP:DEFINING in its most literal sense as they are found nowhere else - and another that is only found there and on two tiny neighboring islands. - The BushrangerOne ping only 09:25, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge Iraq. Socotra consists of an endemic category, a sparrow endemic to one of its islands and a non-endemic bird. The sparrow probably needs to be moved to the endemic category and the whole then upmerged, so that the endemic one comes directly under Middle East. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:05, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge both, the occurance of endemic species in Socotra is not a reason not to merge because Category:Endemic birds of Socotra is kept (not nominated) anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:19, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Amphibians of Jordan
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The result of the discussion was:merge all to [X] of the Middle East. -- Black Falcon(talk) 00:50, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge all to Middle East categories, creating Category:Amphibians of Middle East. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:06, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Manufacturers
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The result of the discussion was:delete. I will create a category disambiguation page per User:Marcocapelle's suggestion, but this should be considered an editorial action separate from the consensus in this discussion. -- Black Falcon(talk) 02:44, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Ambiguous title, and the lone entry can be better categorized in one or more subcats of Category:People by occupation —swpbTgo beyond 16:31, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
delete The parent of the "X manufacturers" categories is Category:Manufacturing companies, not this. One presumes that there is already a category of people who are notable for making things, or businessmen who may or may not have owned manufacturing companies, and the one member of this category now surely ought to already have a home somewhere in those structures. Mangoe (talk) 18:29, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Category disambiguation page to Category:Manufacturing companies and Category:Manufacturing businesspeople. Manufacturers may refer either to companies or to people. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:32, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Psychiatric specialities
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The result of the discussion was:keep. Removal of direct placement of the subcategories in Category:Psychiatry is left to editorial judgment. -- Black Falcon(talk) 02:58, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: most of the subcategories are also in Psychiatry. Not a useful category. Rathfelder (talk) 08:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"most of the subcategories are also in Psychiatry" So a better solution would be to remove them from Category:Psychiatry? Apokrif (talk) 16:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I can't see what is gained by listing them as a subcategory of subspecialities. Other subspecialities are not listed there, and it's not obvious what exactly constitutes a subspeciality, as opposed to a field of interest or research. Rathfelder (talk) 20:03, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Marcocapelle and especially Apokrif CN1 (talk) 05:44, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Prison medicine
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Nominator's rationale: No useful distinction between the two categories. Many of the entries in prison medicine are to fictional characters Rathfelder (talk) 08:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films based on the Old Testament apocrypha
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The result of the discussion was:rename. -- Black Falcon(talk) 00:54, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Films based on the Old Testament apocrypha to Category:Films based on the Deuterocanonical books
Support / Rename per nom. The new title is also more WP:NPOV, since people who consider these books to be canon might have been offended by the current title but approve of the proposed name. —Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 07:34, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support For NPOV reasons. Not considered apocrypha by all Christians. Dimadick (talk) 16:47, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Non-rabbinic Jewish texts
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The result of the discussion was:merge after manually purging the Essene and Kabbalah categories, which are already in Category:Jewish mystical texts. -- Black Falcon(talk) 03:01, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:upmerge per WP:OCMISC, we usually don't classify things by what they are not. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
support with caveat I agree with the reason for upmerge, but part of the issue here is one could question whether some of the categories and texts involved do concern Jewish texts. Are the Samaritans Jews? Are Josephus's writings "Jewish" simply because he was? This seems to be a category of somewhat marginal texts as much as anything else. Mangoe (talk) 15:20, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge but Kabbalah and Essene categories are already in one of its subcategories and may need to be purged first. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:13, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Galaxy Express 999
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Nominator's rationale: With only four articles, all of which are already interlinked, this is too few members for categorization (WP:SMALLCAT) —Farix (t | c) 09:57, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Comment: The category now contains 5 articles, not sure though if the fifth article belongs there. -- Black Falcon(talk) 00:53, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kaleido Star
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The result of the discussion was:delete. -- Black Falcon(talk) 00:47, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: With only four articles, all of which are already interlinked, this is too few members for categorization (WP:SMALLCAT) —Farix (t | c) 09:55, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Strong delete. This is a disappointingly useless category. It's almost fancruft. —Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 08:00, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Insects of the Palestinian territories
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The result of the discussion was:merge. -- Black Falcon(talk) 00:46, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
delete Animals do not respect disputed Middle Eastern political boundaries. Mangoe (talk) 15:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mangoe I assume you mean 'upmerge' as deletion would leave their contents uncategorzed? - The BushrangerOne ping only 09:29, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as for other similar noms. The fauna of the territories will differ little from that of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria. Having a category like this for every country is a gross case of overcategorisation, leading to category clutter. As this is a re-creation, it needs to be salted. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:16, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There are a few differences. For example the category includes the Be'er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard, an endangered species whose habitat range only consists of the Negev desert and neighboring areas in the Palestinian territories. Dimadick (talk) 08:32, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Medieval and early modern elections by year
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The result of the discussion was:merge as nominated. ℯxplicit 00:42, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, most categories only have one or two articles. Note that the 18th-century categories don't require a second merge target since all articles are in an 18th-century by continent subcategory already. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:37, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose in part -- No problem with the early cases, but after (say) 1500, I would prefer to see us merging to decades, not centuries, at least initially. There is more to populate these with. For example England had two general elections in 1640, which does not appear in the list. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:06, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge all as nominated to XXth century elections and XXXX in politics, and consider splits by decade later. With regard to Peterkingiron's comment above, Category:16th-century elections has 27 member articles in total and Category:17th-century elections has 31 member articles in total, which on average is 2.7 and 3.1 articles per decade, respectively. I don't think that's quite sufficient to warrant implementing a decade-level scheme. @Marcocapelle: In your nomination, why do you not propose merging categories for 1701 and later to Category:18th-century elections? -- Black Falcon(talk) 03:04, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers, -- Black Falcon(talk) 21:30, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Merge some, or merge all? Further opinions needed.
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Merge all per nom and split excessively large century categories by decade per Black Falcon. I really don't like tiny content categories, and I think this merge would help significantly. —Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 07:31, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
With the proposed merge, all centuries will contain less than 30 direct articles per category, that is probably not excessively large. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge no justification for such small categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:26, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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