Category:Medieval Iraqi astrologers
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- The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (Talk) 10:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Propose merging Category:Medieval Iraqi astrologers to Category:Medieval Iraqi people
- Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Also merge to Category:Medieval Arab astrologers. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:36, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Support this merger for the rationale given, but I also want to raise the question whether we should have "medieval Iraqi" at all. During the medieval period, there was a region called ʿIrāq ʿArabī ("Arabian Iraq") for Lower Mesopotamia, and ʿIrāq ʿAjamī ("Persian Iraq") for the region now situated in Central and Western Iran, but how many editors would know that? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Water physics controversies
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- The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 18:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Nominator's rationale: According to the only article (Masaru Emoto), he
said that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water
. I think this falls under chemistry rather than physics. This category is WP:SMALLCAT anyway. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:41, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Masaru Emoto is a person, not a controversy of any sort. Some subcat of Category:Advocates of pseudoscience might be appropriate for him. Oculi (talk) 07:49, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge -- The article on Masaru Emoto describes his (now discredited) theory, which is cognate with the two articles in the target (which also relate to water). BTW, I was taught about the structure of water in the final year of my BSc in Chemistry, so that that seems an appropriate subject. Since all three articles concern water, an alternative might be to merge both to Category:Scientific controversies concerning water. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:27, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Category:Pseudoscientific physicists per Oculi. The first in-line quotation in the article about Emoto's ideas regards the physical structure of water, so I'm assuming this is about pseudo-physics rather than pseudo-chemistry. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:57, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Oculi. If Emoto's theory were notable, it would have its own article. It doesn't. If and when it does (and survives the deletion discussion that will no doubt follow), we can revisit whether physics or chemistry or pseudoscience is the best place to put such an article. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:07, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @LaundryPizza03, Oculi, Peterkingiron, Marcocapelle, and Carlossuarez46: The category now also contains a new article on Emoto's book The Hidden Messages in Water, which looks as if it will survive AfD. – Fayenatic London 09:51, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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