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Category:Populated places in Posen (Prussian province)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering (Talk) 19:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose either
  • DELETE Category:Populated places in Posen (Prussian province)
or
  • RENAME Category:Populated places in Posen (Prussian province) to Category:Populated places in the Province of Posen
Nominator's rationale: The Province of Posen was abolished in 1919. We don't usually categorise populated places by former administrative divisions. I see no reason to do so here, so I recommend deletion.
If it is kept, then it should be renamed to match its parent Category:Province of Posen. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:07, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Now, to the substance:
  1. Yes, there are indeed categories for places that are not even states. It's called sub-categorisation, a process by which we divide up bigger categories. It's great that you have discovered this process of sub-categorisation, but those are currently-existing entities, so the observation adds nothing to this discussion.
  2. Category:Populated places of the Byzantine Empire is not part of any wider scheme of categorising places by former country. We have a Category:Populated places by country, but no there is no Category:Populated places by country. So I dunno whether the Byzantine category should exist.
  3. The head article is at Province of Posen, and the parent category Category:Province of Posen correctly follows that name. Any proposal to change that naming should be made at a WP:RM discussion on the head article, and the categories speedily-renamed to suit.
So that leaves solely with the question of whether to categorise by former administrative division, which has not been done so far other than in the two anomalies which LL mentions.
I can see a case for wanting this, as an aid to historical geography, but I don't think it is feasible under the current crude categorisation system. Doing so would place many populated places in continental Europe in five or ten different administrative subdivisions, for the different eras.
This is particularly problematic in the low countries and in this case in the area from Germany to Russia, where for several centuries states have been created and dissolved, and their boundaries have frequently been radically changed. If we start down this path, we will create a mass of geographical categories for each place which will bewilder readers and be a maintenance nightmare for editors.
It wouldn't even be a matter of adding the pages to a single category for each administrative division. We'd have to chop most of them up by time slice, because a place will often have been a given admin division for only part of that division's existence.
Even London, which has been consistently part of England for 1000 years, has undergone two major changes of administrative boundary in the last 150 years.
Categories cannot do everything, and this is one task that's beyond them. Them info would be better presented some other device, such as historical map overlays or lists. Why not convert this cat to a list? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:42, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Darlington (borough)

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering (Talk) 19:06, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with the consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 10#Metropolitan boroughs and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 20#Districts of England. Note that in some cases like Category:Suburbs of Darlington and Category:People from Darlington there are separate categories for the town and district. Per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 September 8#Category:Darlington Borough there was consensus to just have 1 category, however recently we have been splitting categories for district and town such as Category:Hartlepool and Category:Borough of Hartlepool by User:Mhockey so we could split here and have separate categories for town and district. Alternatively we could move back to Darlington and specify that they are for both town and district. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:25, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree that the renaming will improve the consistency of naming as per previous consensus. A really paranoid android (talk) 15:21, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hexapods of Europe

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering (Talk) 19:05, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary layer in this category structure and is inconsistent with other continents etc. Example similar CFD: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_March_26#Category:Deuterostomes_of_Asia. For info: The creator of the category is now blocked. Note: No upmerge to Category:Hexapods is needed because all 6 articles are in categories such as Category:Collembola. DexDor (talk) 10:48, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Roman Catholic churches by city and Churches by city (France)

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Delete. Timrollpickering (Talk) 19:04, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, the Roman Catholic churches categories contain only 2 articles, while the parent Churches categories do not contain any article at all, apart from the Roman Catholic subcat. So this is a double merge nomination, for the Churches and the Roman Catholic churches simultaneously. This nomination and the one below are a continuation of two earlier nominations. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Roman Catholic churches by city and Churches by city (United States)

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Delete. Timrollpickering (Talk) 19:02, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
more categories nominated for merging
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Bardstown, Kentucky
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Biddeford, Maine
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Brookfield, Connecticut
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Clinton, Iowa
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Georgetown, Connecticut
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Kula, Hawaii
more categories nominated for deleting
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Maria Stein, Ohio
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Monroe, Michigan
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Nashua, New Hampshire
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Norwalk, Ohio
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Paterson, New Jersey
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Rockville, Connecticut
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Southington, Connecticut
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Starkenburg, Missouri
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Waterbury, Connecticut
  • Propose deleting Category:Churches in Winona, Minnesota
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, the Roman Catholic churches categories contain only 1 or 2 articles, while the parent Churches categories do not contain any article at all, apart from the Roman Catholic subcat. So this is a double merge nomination, for the Churches and the Roman Catholic churches simultaneously. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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