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Category:Mosques in Worcester, Massachusetts

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:17, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:SMALLCAT, just one article in this category. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:01, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Crewed Soyuz missions

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 11:12, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: More consistent name with all the "Soyuz" categories. — JFG talk 20:33, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Political positions by person

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_22#Category:Political_positions_by_person. ~ Rob13Talk 10:16, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Ambiguous title. Political positions is not what this is about. Rathfelder (talk) 19:20, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I just used AWB to check Category:Political positions by person and all its subcats, and I found 60 articles whose title includes "political positions", but only 11 "political views". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:02, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I just looked at the nominated category, here most articles have "view" in the title. Oddly, all articles in the subcategories have "position" in the title. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:02, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Politology

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge to relevant categories, as needed. ~ Rob13Talk 10:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category note says "The mostly European/Eurasian field of Politology is different in orientation from American-defined Political Science, to which it is related". But there is no article about politology. And speaking as a fairly assiduous follower of politics I've never heard of it. There is a section in the article Clermont County, Ohio but it doesn't shed much light on the subject. The Politics article says: "The academic study focusing on just politics, which is therefore more targeted than all Political science, is sometimes referred to as Politology (not to be confused with Politicology)." Perhaps someone cleverer than me can explain what that means. But until someone does I cant see what is supposed to go in this category. Rathfelder (talk) 16:05, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A Google search for university "department of political science" returns 2000 times as many hits as a search for university "department of politology"
Similarly a JSTOR search for "political science" returns 235,937 hits, versus only 151 hits for politology.
So I don't think there is any question of which variant to keep. However, most of the contents of Category:Politology belong in one of the many subcats of Category:Political science, not in the base category. So a manual merge is needed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:30, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Bollywood war films

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 13:11, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: We don't categorise war films on the basis of language, but country. That's why there is Category:War films by country, but not Category:War films by language. Kailash29792 (talk) 15:29, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Reptiles of Ivory Coast

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 11:14, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per previous CFD discussions - in particular, Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_January_13#Category:Fish_of_Burkina_Faso. DexDor (talk) 14:43, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree with the nominator's rationale. A really paranoid android (talk) 14:59, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Légion d'honneur recipients

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The result of the discussion was: rename. -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To match parent article, which exists at Legion of Honour Joseph2302 (talk) 12:11, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Birds of the Congo Basin

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_22#Category:Birds_of_the_Congo_Basin. ~ Rob13Talk 10:21, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Afaics no other flora/fauna is categorized for the Congo Basin region.  We have other categories that do a better job of providing comprehensive non-overlapping categorization (and the other categories are generally defined by countries so can be more easily matched to article text). Example previous similar CFD: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_23#Category:Birds_of_Equatorial_Africa. Note: Few, if any, of the articles in the category (e.g. Western citril) mention the Congo Basin. Note: The creator of this category has been blocked. DexDor (talk) 07:18, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I can be convinced to change my vote, but as it stands, this seems like a valid and useful category. The Congo Basin is a major geographical feature around which a certain set of unique flora and fauna would be expected to thrive. Central Africa seems like a larger, more general categorization. A really paranoid android (talk) 15:03, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Few, if any, articles in this category mention the Congo Basin; they mostly list the countries in which in the bird is found (e.g. see Blue-headed sunbird). So how should we decide whether or not an article belongs in the category rather than just being in the Central Africa parent (i.e. what would the inclusion criteria for this category be)?  In other words, even if this category might be useful to readers we don't have sufficient information (in articles) to support the category (unless we define Congo Basin by national boundaries - which wouldn't fit geographic reality).
For info: I'm trying to simplify and explain the organisms-of-place categorization scheme (see User:DexDor/BioGeoCat) with the aim to produce some guidelines; categories such as this (which don't mesh with the rest of the categorization) add to the complexity of the scheme.
For info, I've removed Kandt's waxbill from the category. DexDor (talk) 08:02, 1 January 2019 (UTC) Pinging User:Marvin The Paranoid. DexDor (talk) 13:30, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) cathedrals

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Killiondude (talk) 02:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, currently only 1 article in the category. Besides the article is not about a cathedral in the usual sense of the word (namely a bishop's church). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • This comment suggests that deletion is a better option than merging. I am also fine with that. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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