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Category:Scientific institutions

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 23#Category:Scientific institutions

Category:Survivors of COVID-19

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The result of the discussion was: speedy deleted per WP:CSD#G4. ƏXPLICIT 10:06, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a WP:NONDEFINING characteristic that will encompass many of the biographies on Wikipedia. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Students from Robert Randall Elementary School

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete, meanwhile the only article no longer exists. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 16:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I believe that categorizing people by the elementary school they attended is considered overcategorization. Not only that, the one article currently in this category is up for speedy deletion as I write this. Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Former Radio-Canada affiliates

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The result of the discussion was: delete. bibliomaniac15 21:19, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per longstanding consensus, we do not categorize radio or television stations by former network affiliations that they no longer still hold. A broadcast station can drop an old network affiliation and/or pick up a new one almost literally at will, meaning it can be associated with several different networks over the course of its history, and thus causing extreme category bloat as stations get categorized for former network after former network. We also don't categorize radio or television stations for former owners or dropped formats, but categorize them only for their current characteristics -- so by the same token, we shouldn't be categorizing them for former network affiliations either. Lists of the former affiliates are already present in both of the network articles, so no information will be lost -- but this type of information is more appropriately presented as a list than as a category, because broadcast stations are not permanently defined by what they aired 50 years ago. Bearcat (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Years of the 20th century in video gaming

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The result of the discussion was: merge. bibliomaniac15 21:16, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging:
Nominator's rationale: We have only 67 by-year categories on video gaming. Splitting that set by century does not help navigation, because it just creates two sets of similar size. The existing by-decade categories (see Category:Video gaming by decade) are a more useful and more conventional division. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
[[Category:Years of the ((Century name from title year)) in video gaming|((Title year))]] → [[Category:Video gaming by year|((Title year))]].
Hope this helps. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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