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Category:Countries involved in the Silk Road

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 20:35, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a defining category, per WP:DEFCAT. I found this on Italy, in which the text and even the sub-article History of Italy make no explicit mention of the Silk Road. I can't imagine a full article about any country having any more than a paragraph on the Silk Road. I won't check each article, but out of spot checks, there's no mention of the Silk Road on Brunei or Kenya. I am not a historian, but Wikipedia's map of the Silk Road shows many other countries than those in the category, and they could be just for transit or major hubs for all the category is worth. I was astonished that Uzbekistan, a country even I know grew rich off its Central Asian position in the Silk Road, is not so categorised. Wallachia Wallonia (talk) 18:32, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Clearer names of barony categories

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Timrollpickering (Talk) 20:36, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: While most realize what the year means, I think the names can be clearer. There are more similar categories, but I'm trying these as a test balloon to minimize editing. They will be added later if these go through. HandsomeFella (talk) 18:08, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scottish women scientists by field

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The result of the discussion was: merge both. – Fayenatic London 09:16, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only content is Category:Scottish women geologists. Unnecessary intermediate category - I dont see any similar. Rathfelder (talk) 16:30, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People educated at The Priory School, Shrewsbury

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 17#Category:People educated at The Priory School, Shrewsbury

Category:Magazines by interest

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 21:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, as it is difficult to see how the scope of every pair of categories differs from each other. For Wiki-historians it may be interesting to know that these categories were created by Stefanomione. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:56, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Books by interest

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 20:38, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, the two subcategories are already in Category:Books by genre and that seems to suffice. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:History of local government in London (early)

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:History of local government in London (pre-1855). – Fayenatic London 21:51, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:History of local government in London (early) to Category:Early history of local government in London
Nominator's rationale: This is simply an unusual name format. "Early" is a simple adjective, so it's fine at the start of the phrase, even though other categories in the tree wouldn't be good that way, e.g. Category:History of local government in London (1889–1965) should not become "1889–1965 history of local government in London". Another option is Category:Pre-1855 history of local government in London. This category says "Early history (before circa 1855) of local government in the current area of Greater London, England", and 19th-century London says that the 1855 creation of the Metropolitan Board of Works was London's first metropolitan government body, so I'm guessing that's why the 1855 date was chosen. Nyttend (talk) 11:08, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is that a normal name format for pre-XXXX categories? If it is, no objection; it just sounds rather odd, and I don't remember encountering such a form in category or article names. Nyttend (talk) 12:22, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A date is much more helpful than "early". Rathfelder (talk) 16:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Indian Soldiers with Shrines

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 19:40, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Medical outbreaks by country

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The result of the discussion was: Not merged Timrollpickering (Talk) 22:06, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
more countries and overseas territories
Nominator's rationale: merge, after renaming all Corona "outbreak" articles to Corona "pandemic", this outbreak tree has become redundant. Only the American and British categories have been excluded from the nomination, since they do contain a number of outbreak articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:30, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The categories should be emptied after all Corona "outbreak" articles have been renamed to Corona "pandemic", and the Corona pandemic articles do belong in the health disaster parent. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:59, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Outbreak is the more general term, in a pandemic the whole world (more or less) has outbreaks. How is it not a health disaster? This is a WP:SNOW candidate, but just to be clear: I oppose the proposal, too. --mfb (talk) 07:54, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wow! So we have one article of an outbreak of 12 years ago. So the next article may come perhaps in another 12 years. Yes this great potential for expansion... Marcocapelle (talk) 13:08, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ships built in Houghton, Washington

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The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated. – Fayenatic London 21:39, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCLOCATION
All 48 ship articles in these categories were built in the same shipyard in the same location. That location went from being an unincorporated area of King County, to Houghton being incorporated as a city (1948), to merging with the city of Kirkland (1968). (All 48 articles are from that early unincorporated period though.) Similarly the single shipyard was the "Anderson Shipyard" from the 1880s to 1923 (9 articles) and was renamed as the Lake Washington Shipyard from 1923 until closure (39 articles). We don't have any other ship or shipyard articles for either Houghton or Kirkland. I'm proposing the target category because Lake Washington Shipyard is the only main article here but, alternatively, if the consensus is for the Houghton or some new name, all three categories are tagged to give flexibility to the outcome. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:02, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I actually have no preference for the target name. In the spirit of WP:C2D, naming it after the main article (Lake Washington Shipyard) is probably the default. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:04, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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