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Category:NBL Philippines

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 15:01, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To be concurrent with National Basketball League (Philippines) Howard the Duck (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Per WP:C2D, consistency with main article's name which was created in 2018 with this name. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Phang Nga F.C.

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 09:36, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Completely unnecessary. (One of Rathfelder's) Oculi (talk) 17:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would assume that those with 1 subcat and 1 eponymous article were created by inexperienced editors who had no knowledge of cfd. Oculi (talk) 18:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is an interesting suggestion but only viable if many football club categories are as poorly populated as this one. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:39, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Most of them only have a couple of subcategories, but there are thousands of such categories. Similarly universities, most of which have subcategories for alumni and faculty. Rathfelder (talk) 10:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia concepts

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 09:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: a non-defining category with a single page, which is already categorized into Category:Wikipedia essays about building the encyclopedia and Category:Wikipedia edit-a-thons. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:47, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There are several other pages I intend to create in this category, De-bloat-athon and Source-a-thon. These are concepts related to developing Wikipedia NOT contests or editathons. You are the one who added "Wikipedia edit-a-thons". Concepts describes them perfectly.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:51, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Blofeld, could you please clarify: is CfD a Wikipedia concept? Is One revert rule? A WikiDragon? A Userbox? To me, all of these are Wikipedia concepts, i.e. concepts related to Wikipedia. However, inclusion of them in such a category would be a meaningless grouping. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:30, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In main space there is Category:Concepts by field and even Category:Wiki concepts. But such a project administration category is too broad to be useful. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:57, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How about Category:Wikipedia development concepts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:41, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia template management

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Timrollpickering (Talk) 15:10, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: For consistency with Category:Wikipedia administration, Category:Wikipedia portal administration, Category:Wikipedia citation administration. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:02, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Shrines by country

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete per nomination. – Fayenatic London 08:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete for other countries
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Colombia
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Croatia
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Cuba
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Ecuador
  • Delete Category:Shrines in El Salvador
  • Delete Category:Shrines in France
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Germany
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Guatemala
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Italy
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Japan
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Latvia
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Lithuania
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Malta
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Mexico
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Poland
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Portugal
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Romania
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Spain
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Sri Lanka
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Switzerland
  • Delete Category:Shrines in the Czech Republic
  • Delete Category:Shrines in the Netherlands
  • Delete Category:Shrines in the Republic of Ireland
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Uruguay
  • Delete Category:Shrines in Venezuela
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, this is a redundant intermittent category layer in by far most countries, where they only contain a single subcategory. In a few countries, on top of this nomination, there is some more content, but in most cases the religious subcategories can be excluded from the merge and only in exceptional cases the articles are not in the religious buildings tree yet. It will lead to at most 20 extra articles directly in Category:Shrines. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:53, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The contents are irrelevant to my argument. My point is that you're attempting to delete an intermediate category under too-small grounds when there's a lower-level category, and that doesn't make sense. If it's appropriate to have a subtype-of-concept category (in this case, Catholic shrines), you need a concept category (in this case, shrines). If either one's too small, you should get rid of the lower level, because the upper level necessarily has more potential for size: it obviously can contain everything from the lower, and it can also contain examples of the broader topic (in this case, shrines in Argentina) that don't fit into the narrower topic. Either the lower-level category should be deleted on too-small grounds and the contents moved up (it could hold both the Catholic shrines and any hypothetical Shinto shrines), or the current setup is fine. Nyttend (talk) 17:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • PS, think of it this way. Imagine that we had a bunch of articles about French archaeological museums, but no articles about other French museums, so we deleted the French museums category on too-small grounds. Someone comes along and is looking for articles on museums in France, so he looks at museums-by-country and sees no France category. He's not going to go through the archaeological museums category tree, so won't he assume that we don't have any categories about museums in France? Same here. Someone's looking at the shrines category and wants to find Argentine shrines, so when he sees that Shrines by country has no Argentine contents, he assumes that there aren't any categories for Argentine shrines, and Category:Shrines shouldn't have any Argentine shrines, so he concludes that there aren't any articles about Argentine shrines. Now...if you delete the Catholic shrines in Argentina category and move them into Catholic shrines and Argentine shrines, they'll still be findable through the normal route, but if you delete only the Argentine shrines, the Catholic shrines won't end up in Category:Shrines because it's a multi-levels-up parent category where they don't belong. They won't be findable by anyone who's not looking at the Catholic shrines tree. When the only problem is that something's too small, deleting an intermediate level of the category tree almost never makes sense because it interrupts relationships between upper and lower levels. Keep the intermediate level and move the low-level items up, or keep everything. Nyttend (talk) 17:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Someone's looking at the shrines category and wants to find Argentine shrines, so when he sees that Shrines by country has no Argentine contents, he assumes that there aren't any categories for Argentine shrines, and Category:Shrines shouldn't have any Argentine shrines, so he concludes that there aren't any articles about Argentine shrines." That is incorrect in two respects. First, the proposal is to delete Category:Shrines by country so there is no way that anyone would see that Shrines by country has no Argentine contents. Second, the conclusion that there aren't any articles about Argentine shrines is wrong, the right conclusion is that Argentine shrines may be found in the Roman Catholic or Shinto subcategory. Anyone with a little bit of knowledge of Argentina will know that Roman Catholic is the place to find them. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • (as nom) So, basically you support the nomination and additionally propose to create a new Category:Secular shrines category, right? That is fine with me. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scripts encoded in Unicode

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The result of the discussion was: delete subject to checking that all member pages will remain within Category:Writing systems. – Fayenatic London 06:20, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I added a few. PetScan now shows that the following member pages are not currently within Writing systems:
  1. Kokborok, represented by Kokborok script
  2. Parthian language, represented by Pahlavi script
  3. Isotype (picture language)
  4. Sindhi script – this language has used various scripts
  5. Litumol script – no information except that it's a script of Nepal
  6. SolReSol script – a constructed musical language
@DePiep: you may wish to do further checking from the list that you made, as some pages are only within Writing systems via Category:Writing system stubs. – Fayenatic London 07:02, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Nominator's rationale: delete as Unicode is a non-defining characteristic of these scripts. Illustrative is the fact that the information about Unicode is usually mentioned somewhere at the bottom of the articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:45, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Actually, Unicode details are provided prominently in the info box at the top of the page in most cases, along with ISO 15924 script codes (which add Category:Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes to the article, which is no more defining as Unicode inclusion is). From the perspective of a user of the script, whether it supported by the Unicode Standard or not is very much a defining feature, because if it is included in Unicode they can read and write it on the internet, but not if it is not yet included in Unicode. BabelStone (talk) 13:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for this comment, I have added this other category to the nomination. It is even more evident that not being encoded in Unicode is not a defining characteristic, the script articles do not even mention this. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Available: Script (Unicode)#List of scripts in Unicode. -DePiep (talk) 17:43, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Also, the navbox ((Unicode navigation)) has the Unicode list, but as a navbox it is not true content (and absent in mobile view). -DePiep (talk) 06:53, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The condition I want to add is: all script articles categorised (currently: 154+87=241P) must be present in Category:Writing systems (possibly through a script subcategory). Otherwise, a removal would remove the article from the parent category altogether.
My reluctance stems from an other aspect of these two categories: a fine, useful list of eponymous script articles they make. Were there a some category 'Category:Script articles only' we could find them easily, there would be no issue. However:
  • Category:Writing systems is titled with a synonym for Scripts (which is used elsewhere). Category:Scripts is a redirect. This is confusing (I had to do a research to check that they are synonyms). Throughout our topic of WS/scripts, this fails WP:COMMONNAME and does not nicely apply WP:ELEGANT. For now & here, we must leave this problem.
  • Script articles now may be buried one or more subs deep in this parent WS category, if at all (example in case: subsubcat Category:Arabic writing system‎ does not list Arabic script; in fact Arabic script is hard to find if at all).
  • Meanwhile, subcategory like Category:ISO 15924 might fit the same non-defining issue (let's not mind this for now), and anyway it is not an natural search-route for a specific script(-article).
  • All in all: the cat:WS tree may be incomplete, incorrectly implemented, and too diffused (into subn-categories) to be useful as a reader's navigation aide.
A solution could be to have all straight script articles (say, those 241P) in one category. I thought there was a rational guideline for this ('repeat article in parent catgory'), but cannot find it. That parent could be existing cat:WS, or a dedicated new subcategory.
Asking User:Marcocapelle for advice on how to handle this request, i.e., the part from 'reluctance' onward. Do we discuss elewhere/outside, ask Project WP:WPWR, or put this deletion in a holding pen?
-DePiep (talk) 09:00, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle this might have escaped your attention, but I'd still be interested in your view re this issue. My view is that all scripts must be in the Category:Writing systems in a script-related subcategory (max 2 deep?). So not ISO-id based etc. This before removal. Reasonable? -DePiep (talk) 16:40, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Completely agree that the articles should remain in the tree of Category:Writing systems. Do you have examples of articles that would be removed from this tree when the proposed deletion goes ahead? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
One example, there may be harder ones. Checking how Category:Arabic script is categorised: not through any defining "Foo family of scripts" that helps searching/finding it from top down. Should this CfD be in a holding pen (when accepted to delete)? Or start a talk at WP:WPWR? -DePiep (talk) 11:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Current content list (240P) saved at Talk WP Writing systems. -DePiep (talk) 11:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@DePiep: normally the closer of this discussion will list this at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Working/Manual for us to do the manual checking. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:48, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
To Closing admin, @Marcocapelle:: So not an argument to prevent deletion then. Clear. -DePiep (talk) 11:53, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Pontianak, Indonesia

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 15:01, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: asked in User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Cat Moved Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:24, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Buildings and structures in Pontianak, Indonesia

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 15:01, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: asked in User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Cat Moved Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:24, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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