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February 22

Years and decades in Moldavia

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge e.g. Category:1562 establishments in Moldavia to Category:1562 establishments in Europe, Category:1562 establishments in the Ottoman Empire and Category:16th-century establishments in Moldavia. As the Ottoman Empire spanned more than one continent, it is necessary to add it as a target rather than use it instead of Europe. Note on possible follow-up: Some century categories for Moldavia could be nominated for renaming to "Moldavian Principality" if this appears helpful and likely to gain consensus. – Fayenatic London 10:33, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The full list of nominated categories can be found here.
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, mostly just one article per category. This is follow-up on a previous nomination that was supported in principle but considered to be too broad so that country specific details could not be discussed. So here is another separate nomination by country. By the way, in the previous nomination there was no mention (yet) of specific issues regarding Moldavia. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:First Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago

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The result of the discussion was: keep for now. There has been insufficient discussion about User:SMcCandlish's alternative decapitalization proposal, this proposal be well be renominated on a short term together with many other First Ladies categories. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 09:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:First Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago to Category:Spouses of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago
Nominator's rationale: To use an unambiguous, simple descriptive title per WP:NDESC.

This arises out of a speedy nomination to rename to Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Trinidad and Tobago, following the election of Paula-Mae Weekes as President of Trinidad and Tobago. She is due to take office in March 2018, and the speedy nom was based on the unevidenced assumption that her husband would be called "First Gentleman".

I see no evidence that either title has any formal status in Trinidad and Tobago; "First Lady" may be customary usage, but the only evidence I see of that is usage by the 5th and current President.[1] In any case, en.wp is not bound to use official names, and Category:Spouses of national leaders contains plenty of other "spouse" categories.

Plus, the descriptive title "Spouses of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago" removes any ambiguity with spouses of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:11, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Link to the discussion on the speedy nomination: [2]. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:21, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers! Scanlan (talk) 02:58, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2018 (UTC) [reply]

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Category:Star World Championships in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: keep (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:38, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorisation Smartskaft (talk) 10:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC) [reply]

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Category:Transdev Group companies

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The result of the discussion was: rename. xplicit 04:03, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Transdev Group companies to [[:Category:]]
Nominator's rationale: This was a WP:C2D speedy nomination to rename to Category:Transdev. It's not a bad idea, even tho it doesn't strictly fit C2D ... but given the company history (see Transdev/Transdev (historic)), I wonder if it might be better to more clearly distinguish the two incarnations. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:32, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of discussion at speedy
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 22 February 2018 (UTC) [reply]

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Category:China famous tea

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Chinese tea. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 14:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There are no criteria for what belongs in this category out of everything else in Category:Chinese tea. The article China's Famous Teas was merged into the list of Chinese teas after the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/China's Famous Teas, and this category was left behind. Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:China tea factories

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The result of the discussion was: delete empty category (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 20:07, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:China tea factories to Category:Tea factories of China
Nominator's rationale: Fix pidgin English title. Not sure either of the two articles in this category would survive AfD; both have only a single source, one a blogspot post and the other a livejournal. But for now the grammar can be fixed. I have no idea why this decision was made in May 2011: Category:Chinese Tea Factories "03:37, 31 May 2011 Cydebot (talk | contribs) deleted page Category:Chinese Tea Factories (Robot - Speedily moving category Chinese Tea Factories to Category:China tea factories per CFDS.)" I can't find the CFDS discussion in the archives. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Menghai tea factory and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xiaguan tea factory. I guess I should have predicted they would both be deleted before bothering with the category. But I’m no China expert and I didn’t want to railroad these topics out of my own ignorance, so more process was better than less. —Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Amherst Mammoths

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The result of the discussion was: Rename (WP:NAC). --DexDor (talk) 17:59, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

further subcategories
Nominator's rationale: The intercollegiate athletics teams of Amherst College were renamed "Mammoths" from "Lord Jeffs" in 2017; cf. [3] Jweiss11 (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, our edit conflict just blew that up. :( Jweiss11 (talk) 18:02, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can we close this slam dunk? @BrownHairedGirl: how about you do the honors? Jweiss11 (talk) 02:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jweiss11: after the vicious personal abuse which you heaped on me when you tried misusing WP:CFDS to do this renaming, the answer is "no way".
Some other admin will close this discussion in due course. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@BrownHairedGirl: nice to see that were are moving forward and putting the improvement of the encyclopedia first. Other admins, can we get some closure on this long overdue and unnecessarily laborious slam dunk move? Jweiss11 (talk) 02:19, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jweiss11, editors can and do disagree about substance and procedure. When that happens, we discuss it to try to reach a WP:consensus, and policy is to discuss disagreements WP:CIVILly and without personal attacks.
You chose to ignore both those policies.[4] You ignored another editor's warning to you.[5] You ignored my request that you retract.[6] Two weeks later have done nothing to retract your personal attacks, and you still show no sign of grasping either why your proposal was ineligible for speedy renaming or of recognising that WP:CFDS#Admin_instructions_for_handling_listed_entries says clearly "When handling the listings: 1. Make sure that the listing meets one of the above criteria.".
Like every other editor, my time is contributed on a voluntary basis. I do not volunteer my time for the assistance of editors who abuse Wikipedia by making personal attacks.
No matter how much a requested action might improve Wikipedia, I will step aside and leave others to make their own choices about whether to volunteer their time to assist an editor who ignores basic en.wp policies on user conduct, and who abuses admins for following consensus on process. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: this one is long overdue for closure. Can we close it? Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 21:44, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Marcocapelle, it's not exaggerated at all, as there is unanimous support for the move—it's a simple slam dunk—and it should have been pushed through as speedy. Perhaps you can ping an admin who specializes in this topic? Jweiss11 (talk) 22:07, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Basketball teams in Orlando, Florida

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The result of the discussion was: merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Only three articles on basketball teams in the city. TM 15:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Members of the Prague linguistic circle

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:People of the Prague linguistic circle (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There's no need to separate the members from the main topic category given that the vast majority the current and future contents are likely to be biographies. For comparison, see Category:Vienna Circle. -- Black Falcon (talk) 06:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Male dogs

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The result of the discussion was: merge. xplicit 04:03, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. Sorting by dog sex serves no encyclopedic purpose.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  05:04, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Glossaries of medical terms

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:55, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; the categories are for the same thing. Prefer the more WP:CONCISE name. PS: This appears to be an accidental fork that was later categorized in a parent/child relationship (the later probably by me, though I won't bother looking).  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  04:53, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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