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Category:Deprecated templates from January 2008

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The result of the discussion was: no action without technical discussion. -There is unanimous agreement in spirit that this would be a good idea for deprecated templates. However, the nominator @SmokeyJoe does not appear to have considered before nomination how these cates are populated, or how this impacts on wider of ((Monthly cleanup category)) system. As noted by Black Falcon, this is part of a much wider system of monthly tracking categories, in which the month parameter are added by a variety of tools and bots (e.g. AnomieBOT).
Any change such as this needs to be considered as part of that wider system. So I will untag the nominated categories, and suggest that @SmokeyJoe start a centralised discussion (e.g. at WP:VPT) about what technical changes would be needed to implement this, and whether the added complexity is justified. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
PS it turns out that Category:Deprecated templates from January 2008 was the only one of the 55 nominated categories to have been tagged. With such inadequate notification, there is no way that this discussion can be considered as remotely capable of reaching a consensus, so I have struck my closing summary above. This was simply an incomplete and invalid nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:16, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
:* Propose merging Category:Deprecated templates from January 2008 to Category:Deprecated templates from 2008
Nominator's rationale: These categories, Category:Deprecated templates from MMMM YYYY are all very small, many are empty. They are too finely slicing for efficient review of template deprecation. Upmerge all to Category:Deprecated templates from YYYY, categorise by year. This is intended to cover 2008–2017 and ongoing.

These categories are all in Category:Deprecated templates They are:

The targets are:

--SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:39, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Years and decades in Guatemala

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as nominated. -- Black Falcon (talk) 22:21, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, until around 1800 there is mostly just one article per category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Defence Forces (Ireland)

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The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated. – Fayenatic London 17:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In 2006 I proposed the merging "Military of the Republic of Ireland" into "Irish Defence Forces" (what is now "Defence Forces (Ireland)") and the consensus was "Kept, with delayed reverse merge", on the basis that (a) yes there was so much overlap that a merge was appropriate but (b) the category name "Military of <Country>" was standard and so should override WP:COMMONNAME. The "delayed reverse merge" never happened, so I'm proposing it again. (Personally, I still think commonname should override WP:LOCALCONSENSUS, but a single category with a suboptimal name is still far preferable to a pair of duplicate categories, so I'm willing to have "Military of the Republic of Ireland" as the target of the merge rather than the source.) jnestorius(talk) 18:22, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Family physicians

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The result of the discussion was: merge, without prejudice to any purging which editors feel is appropriate. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:52, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Complete overlap. "Family" is a little misleading, in that these people deal with single people, not just those with families. Primary Care is a more widely used term in the rest of the world. Both terms seem to be used in the USA, but without any clear distinction. Rathfelder (talk) 11:51, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:2016 Lahore suicide bombing

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The result of the discussion was: delete, no need to merge since the eponymous articles is in the parent categories already (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No other article to categorize. No need for such category. Störm (talk) 10:24, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Church music in Germany

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Black Falcon's alternative proposal. -- Tavix (talk) 18:08, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Church music in Germany to Category:Church music from Germany
  • Propose renaming Category:Church music in the United Kingdom to Category:Church music from the United Kingdom
  • Propose renaming Category:Church music in the United States to Category:Church music from the United States
Nominator's rationale: rename to clarify the scope of the categories. While the music in these categories comes from a certain country, it may well be performed in other countries, so it doesn't need to stay in the original country. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:32, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: For consideration of alternate proposal. Pinging Tim!, Peterkingiron, and ToThAc.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ℯxplicit 06:13, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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