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Nominator's rationale: Small category (only one article), unlikely (even in the case of a coup) to become large. The present article is already listed in appropriate categories. — Arthur Rubin(talk) 21:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please report to appropriate WikiProjects. I don't know enough about the area to determine. — Arthur Rubin(talk) 21:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete one event does not justify a category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:59, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Struggled to even understand this one, see "Encounter killings by police. With only one, seems best to delete it. Nigej (talk) 14:14, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies research fellow
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Alt merge to Category:Ukrainian academics, a similar case as the Potebna Institute nomination further down. The parent category is an otherwise empty category and can be deleted as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Happy with that proposal. Rathfelder (talk) 13:02, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies research fellows
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The result of the discussion was:merge to Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies people. Mz7 (talk) 01:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies research fellows to Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies people
Nominator's rationale: Only one article Rathfelder (talk) 20:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. The sibling category can also be upmerged. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:44, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Category:Ukrainian academics. We do not need this or the parent category. The one person in the directors category should be merged to the category on the institute if it exists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:34, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Potebnia Institute of Linguistics research fellow
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Support per nom, implying that the parent Category:Potebnia Institute of Linguistics people can be deleted as empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:09, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:University of Kharkiv researchers
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The result of the discussion was:delete. Mz7 (talk) 01:58, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging Category:University of Kharkiv researchers to Category:University of Kharkiv faculty
Nominator's rationale: Only one article, which doesnt mention University of Kharkiv. Rathfelder (talk) 20:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I removed the sole article in this category because the article doesn't mention the university at all. Natureium (talk) 01:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Institute of History of Ukraine research fellow
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The result of the discussion was:merge. The category looks empty to me, so I just deleted it. Mz7 (talk) 02:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. We od not need to categorize people by every organization they have worked with.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:35, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Bakul Institute of Superhard Materials research fellow
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Support per nom, implying that the parent Category:Bakul Institute of Superhard Materials people can be deleted as empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:20, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Palestinian researchers
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The result of the discussion was:procedural close, the category has been deleted by User:Liz and no longer exists. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 18:56, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I removed John_H._Sununu from the category as he is not actually a Palestinian. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:33, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment With the removal of its contents, this is now an empty category. Any likelihood of repopulation? LizRead!Talk! 21:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:MTV Award winners
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Category:Ivy League academics
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The result of the discussion was:Delete. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:31, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This already exists for each of the individual schools. If for some reason this is deemed to be a necessary category, it should be only as a container category. Natureium (talk) 16:16, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete we do not categorize academics by the sports league their university belongs to.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:00, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per JPL; we categorize academics by school, not by the sports conference the school belongs to. We don't have a "Big South academics" category. The sports league is not relevant to the academics part. This seems like an "elite academics" category, which of course is too subjective. Levivich (talk) 21:16, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:African-American football quarterbacks
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Propose deletingCategory:African-American football quarterbacks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Not a defining characteristic per WP:CATDEF; non-notable intersection of race and football position Natureium (talk) 16:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Category:African-American players of American football per comment below. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the ERGS rules say avoid the lowest level intersection. This is especially true of ethnicity categories often applied more as race categories. Unless you can convince me that men like Ezekiel Ansah who never set foot in the US before college are being excluded from African-American categories I am unconvinced they are anything other than race categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:02, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and make it a sub-category of Category:African-American players of American football. Aside from that category, we also have similar categories (e.g., Category:Jewish golfers, Category:Female bullfighters). I know, WP:OSE, but the quarterback position in the NFL has historically (and to this day) had very few AA players. AA QBs, and their rarity, are often discussed by reliable sources, and cited as an example of systemic racism. When an individual AA QB is written about in the media, it's often noted that they are one of the few AA QBs. I think in this case, AA QB is a notable sub-category of AA football players, per RSes. For example: [1][2][3][4]Levivich (talk) 21:28, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and listify. Per WP:OCEGRS, there needs to be potential for a substantial article (not just a list) for the topic to be made an ethnic-based subcategory. I don't think it is the case here, however a list would be admissible IMHO. Place Clichy (talk) 19:36, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:India political party color templates
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Propose deletingCategory:India political party color templates (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Empty: redundant to Category:India political party colour templates, which should be used on all such pages in any case per ENGVAR. Vanamonde (talk) 07:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as above. Nigej (talk) 10:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Jews and Judaism in Ankara
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The result of the discussion was:delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:34, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting Category:Jews and Judaism in Ankara
Delete I am not fully convinced the one article is even notable. It clearly needs more and better sourcing if it is.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Nigej (talk) 10:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Churches by city (France)
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The result of the discussion was:merge all per this concurrent CfD with similar arguments. ~ Rob13Talk 05:35, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, all the above categories only contain 1 article and/or 1 (Roman Catholic) subcategory. See also this earlier nomination which is still open. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. WP:SMALLCAT does not apply to all categories which are currently small. It is for cats which "by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme".
I checked the first five categories nominated. All one of those has a subcat for churches of RC denomination. Whatever your intention here, the effect of this merger is that non-Catholic churches in those cities will not be categorised as churches within the same area. That is not an NPOV outcome. (If your aim was to promote the hardline Catholic view that non-Catholic churches are not "real" churches, this would be a good way of doing it).
This whole process of trying to rip out layers of container categories is fundamentally mistaken, because it pointlessly disrupts the consistency of the category system. That makes it harder to maintain and to navigate.
By removing this layer from cities where we do already have a reasonable number of articles per city, a reader looking at the set of churches-by-city categories would get the false impression that there are few or no articles on churches in that city.
The category system is a directional lattice based on consistency. Removing intermediate parts of that lattice because the article structure is underdeveloped undermines one of the pillars of that consistency principle, with no advantage to readers or editors. It is a pointless, disruptive make-work, both now and in the future when those categories are needed. See WP:DEMOLISH. --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 02:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Most/Neutral on Lille, Nice, Reims, and Versailles 12 of the 16 categories have no non-Catholic churches so it's hard to see what the categories provide. RevelationDirect (talk) 19:19, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge categories should be based on articles we have, not some mythic hope for future articles. The fact is most non-Catholic Church buildings are not notable, so the population of these categories seems unlikely.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Stateless people from Thailand
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Nominator's rationale: No need to diffuse parent. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)nati[reply]
Support per nom - but also merge to Category:Thai people which by the way should be renamed to Category:People from Thailand. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the suggested renaming, that would conflict with all the members of Category:People by nationality. Upmerging the nominated category to Category:Thai people would be inaccurate, since, as explained on the category page, "Although these persons do not hold Thai nationality, the category is included as a subcategory of Category:Thai people for convenience." At any rate, we need a better way to categorise the category members under the Thailand tree. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative suggestion: let us create Category:People from Thailand as a parent of Category:Thai people and merge Category:Stateless people from Thailand also to Category:People from Thailand. Of course the format of Category:People from Thailand differs from the usual format but that is needed to avoid ambiguity. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On the other hand, Mong and Ekkaphon have since been granted citizenship, so they can now be accurately listed under Category:Thai people, and the distinction probably isn't as important now. I would still prefer to have an option for categorising articles (including such people) related to Thai nationality issues though. --Paul_012 (talk) 01:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but also open to other options. Being a stateless person from Thailand is a DEFINING characteristic at least for Mong Thongdee, whose notability mostly stems from the fact, so I would rather we avoided simply discarding the category. An alternative would be to recategorise the members to something that also covers Thai nationality law (There are many by-country cats under Category:Nationality law, but placing individual persons directly under Category:Thai nationality law doesn't seem optimal either.) --Paul_012 (talk) 09:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think stateless people is just a too small group of people for diffusing by country in any way. Or at least coverage of this group of people by Wikipedia is too limited to do that. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:31, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've thought a bit more about this, and the nationality law category is probably the best choice here; revoking my opposition. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:00, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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