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Category:Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band songs

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Those in favour of keep have the guidelines on their side. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:36, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:SMALLCAT. In the end, there can be only one. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:52, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Bouloussou family of Yanam

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Bouloussou family of Yanam to Category:Bouloussou family
Nominator's rationale: No need for the "of Yanam" part. Consistency with other cats in Category:Hindu_families. Kj cheetham (talk) 23:06, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Vehicle categories containing only redirects

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The result of the discussion was: delete all. bibliomaniac15 06:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Category:ChangJiang vehicles[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Contains only ChangJiang and redirects that redirect to it. It does not aid in navigation. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Qingyuan vehicles[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Contains only Qingyuan Auto and redirects that redirect to it. It does not aid in navigation. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:59, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Suda vehicles[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Contains only Suda (marque) and redirects that redirect to it. It does not aid navigation. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People with dementia

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The result of the discussion was: containerize. Remove the bio articles and keep the subcategories (Category:People with Alzheimer's disease, Category:Deaths from dementia, Category:Fictional characters with dementia, and Category:Sportspeople with chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in it. Tag with Template:Container category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete or at least purge the biographies (containerize in Wikispeak). Although this doesn't have instructions explicitly calling this category as being temporary, this seems to be a temporary category and probably not what makes a person notable (e.g., not-defining) - in a quick sampling it seemed these folks are notable first and have dementia later. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Places named after Slave Owners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. bibliomaniac15 05:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization of unrelated subjects by shared naming characteristic. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Categorizing places named after slave owners is factual and useful info LevitatePalantir (talk) 04:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • It may not be different at all, but that it is not a question for this discussion. Feel free to nominate that category in a fresh discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • @LevitatePalantir: When I first started editing in Wikipedia, I naturally just copied what other people were doing which generally worked but, in same cases, that meant I was inadvertantly violating editing guidelines and then I would proceed to make WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS arguments. I wish I would have taken a quick read of WP:OC sooner. - RevelationDirect (talk) 10:11, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not copying other people. Y'all can cite whatever examples that make you feel like you're doing the right thing. There's clear bias on this site. Have fun! LevitatePalantir (talk) 16:26, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Broadcast station categories

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:ABC low-power network affiliates and Category:ABC subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:ABC network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:CBS low-power network affiliates and Category:CBS subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:CBS network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:Fox low-power network affiliates and Category:Fox subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:Fox network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:NBC low-power network affiliates and Category:NBC subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:NBC network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:The CW low-power network affiliates and Category:The CW subchannel-only affiliates to Category:The CW affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:MyNetworkTV low-power affiliates and Category:MyNetworkTV subchannel-only affiliates to Category:MyNetworkTV affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:Telemundo low-power network affiliates and Category:Telemundo subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:Telemundo network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:Univision low-power network affiliates and Category:Univision subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:Univision network affiliates
  • Propose merging Category:UniMás low-power network affiliates and Category:UniMás subchannel-only network affiliates to Category:UniMás network affiliates
Nominator's rationale: Eliminate redundant categories to reduce overcategorization. Duplicate entries can be purged. Need help with tagging. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 23:47, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting because the categories were tagged late.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:30, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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People from Arcadia, Peloponnese

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The result of the discussion was: option A. If there ever are more articles to place in Category:People from Megalopoli, Greece, it could be re-created. (At the time of close, it contained three articles and Category:Ancient Megalopolitans.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OPTION A
OPTION B: as option A plus the following:
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT. This concerns categorization by 3rd and 4th level administrative divisions of Greece, leading to a endless series of single-article or few-article categories. Proposal B is to merge all to 2nd level administrative division, except cities and larger towns, so in this case we keep subcategories for: Tripoli, Greece (31,000 people) and Leonidio (4,000 people). Proposal A is to leave some places alone that used to have a larger population and for which we now have 9 (the first one) or 5 articles (the other three categories), although meanwhile they turned into tiny villages. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:26, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Administrative territorial entities by language

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Countries and territories by language for now. If we want to change it to some sort of official languages category, let's do that in a new nomination. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:21, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Administrative territorial entities by language to Category:Languages by countries and territories
Nominator's rationale: The contents are all named language-speaking countries and territories‎.
with Category:Lists of countries by language to be deleted after manually merging. Most of the articles in this subcategory have "countries and territories" in both name and content, and are specifically "official language".
Administrative territorial entities (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been deleted WP:CSD#G5, WP:NEO, WP:NOR, and WP:DENY.
Previously nominated for deletion or renaming:
@Fayenatic london, Peterkingiron, Marcocapelle, and BrownHairedGirl: to continue focused discussion.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Adding "official" is not exactly what the category is currently about, to a large amount it is used for ethno-linguistic minorities territories. Implementing "official" by purging would probably result in many smallcats. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:58, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • About 1/3 are already smallcat. So I'm inclined to "official", but I've posted both for discussion.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:17, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I prefer keeping the lists and categories and probably deleting these because of the impossibility of defining them objectively short of by official language - which, of course, some countries like the USA don't have although some states (AZ, I think) do. And these change from time to time (Rwanda) making them less defining. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:01, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:Lists of countries by language should become a subcategory of the nominated category. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:50, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've taken those two ideas and posted an alternative proposal for action. OK?
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:17, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • This isn't nominated for deletion. Likewise, purging isn't what we are discussing, and won't be known until choosing whether these should be "languages" or "official languages". Category:Lists of countries by language is proposed for upmerging, so this response must be agreement. Other subcategories are not up for discussion here.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Marcocapelle: given this request to purge, and that Category:Lists of countries by language only has "official language" subcategories, I've settled upon "official language" for the renaming. Any further objections?
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:32, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • @William Allen Simpson: two different issues are mixed up now. One issue is a broad versus a narrow (official) categorization. This is an issue of consistency, as the subcategories are currently not restricted to official language. The other issue that User:Peterkingiron raises is a smallcat issue, but that would require a fresh nomination to propose deletion of the involved subcategories (e.g. of the Afrikaans, Slovak and Vietnamese subcategories). Marcocapelle (talk) 13:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agreed, hate it when the discussion goes off topic. As I'd mentioned in response, only 1 related sub-category is up for discussion now, raised earlier (and tagged). We'd need further nominations later, once we figured out the scope. I'm interpreting the request for pruning to be a narrow scope. That matches Carlos, and my general inclination for narrow well-defined scopes. Editors don't read restrictions written into category text, often don't even see them (using any of the cat scripts).
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 13:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians who use Flow on Metawiki

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:26, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The title of this category is un-satisfiable, since StructuredDiscussions (previously known as "Flow") is not installed on Metawiki. The body of the category implies that it is actually "Wikipedians who support Flow", which is not a permissible user category per Wikipedia:User categories#Advocacy. Either way, this single-user category is not useful. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:11, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Armenians of Romania

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To make it clear that this is a topic category about the Armenian diaspora in the country, while individual biographies are at Category:Romanian people of Armenian descent (per WP:COPSEP). Note that neighbouring countries also use Armenian diaspora: Category:Armenian diaspora in Cyprus, Category:Armenian diaspora in Egypt, Category:Armenian diaspora in Georgia (country), Category:Armenian diaspora in Lebanon, Category:Armenian diaspora in Russia etc. Place Clichy (talk) 16:21, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Abandoned amusement parks in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:23, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "Defunct amusement parks in the United States" is the preferred category as it is inclusive of all former amusement parks. How does one determine how long a park is "abandoned" for? Therefore, it is tough to gauge what articles belong under this category. Additionally, it is not used as often as "Defunct amusement parks in the United States". Astros4477 (Talk) 14:43, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedia categories named after subdivisions of the United Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: No Consensus to delete. That said, there doesn't seem like much of a strong policy-related arguement to keep these either. So no prejudice against a follow-up nom, which takes the concerns in this discussion in consideration. - jc37 01:51, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a maintenance category populated by template. Duplicates parent's sub-categories and list categories.
Followup to:
@RevelationDirect: as requested.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Once upon a time, I heard some editors made claims like The Eiffel Tower is somewhere under Category:France (true), the Eiffel Tower is not a country (also true), therefore Category:France can't be under any country categories without miscategorizing the Eiffel Tower (Ummm...) and preceeded to orphan categories left and right. That argument missed that we often categorize by the main article and it obviously lost the day since Category:France is currently under 6 country cats. Even if you disagree with my opinon though, let's work it out and come to a consensus instead of creating (non-administrative) adminsitrative categories that are really alternative navigational categories (that are hidden so readers can't navigate by them). - RevelationDirect (talk) 10:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
WP:EPON gives the example of both New York City and Category:New York City in Category:Cities in New York (state) so putting Category:County Down in Category:Counties of Northern Ireland is correct on ENWP. The Category:Counties of Northern Ireland defines the content of Category:County Down that is to say it says that the content of that topic category should be for the county not that all of its content is of counties in Northern Ireland. I think this rule is to make it easier to fine such categories for example some topic categories lowe down such as Port Charlotte you will likely know its a village on Islay but on the German Wikipedia the category is under Rhinns of Islay and people might not know its there or expect that topic category to exist. With the English Wikipedia's method I think it does make things easier in general but since as noted not all the things in a topic category belong to its parent set category this may cause problems when using tools to scan the tree but this doesn't seem like a major issue. Another issue that sometimes arises is that Renwick, Cumbria is in Category:Kirkoswald, Cumbria since its part of the parish but not village but Category:Kirkoswald, Cumbria is also in Category:Villages in Cumbria so it may show up as redundant categorization. The 3rd issue is when you have a topic category that applies to a set category but the topic category is also sub divided by that set for example there is Category:Kirklees>Category:Geography of Kirklees>Category:Geography of Batley but Category:Batley also is geographical so should the "Batley" topic category be in the "Kirkees" category of the "Geography of Kirklees" category and if it is in the latter should "Geography of Batley" be in both "Geography of Kirklees" and "Batley" or just "Batley"? Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:07, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
These are hidden categories though so they're not for reader navigation, but for editor maintenance. All the examples in WP:EPON are visible categories for navigation. - RevelationDirect (talk) 06:24, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Place Clichy: Thank your for a different perspective. Can you share how this type of category is helpful to you? - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:53, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Incorrect. WP:EPONYMOUS explicitly states: "An eponymous category should have only the categories of its article that are relevant to the category's content." None of these categories would ever be on its main article, so they must not be on an eponymous category.
  2. CfD is the Wikipedia:Centralized discussion. All changes are discussed here, before recording in the guidelines. This centralized discussion prevents missing those that otherwise would take place on Talk pages of subpages of what was (at the time) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) with many subpages.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure how much we need such categories on the English Wikipedia since the categories are normally put in set categories that define their scope such as the fact that Category:Crawley is in Category:Towns in West Sussex, Category:Non-metropolitan districts of West Sussex, Category:New towns in England and Category:Unparished areas in West Sussex so there's not a huge benefit here to have the category but I suppose it does have some utility in that people doing maintenance work can easily find all district categories. On the German Wikipedia (which has lots of "named after"/"X by") categories since topic categories are only put in other topic categories so these are needed to define them since without it people may think Category:Stanhope, County Durham and Category:Rothwell, West Yorkshire are only for the settlements rather than the far wider parish/unparished area. We could also have Category:Wikipedia categories named after civil parishes in England and Category:Wikipedia categories named after Unparished areas for example but most can already be found under the sub categories of Category:Civil parishes in England and Category:Unparished areas. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:40, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:16th-century executions by Germany

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Note that Category:17th-century executions by Germany also exists. It was not nominated in this discussion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:16th-century executions by Germany to Category:16th-century executions by German states
Nominator's rationale: Per precedent of "16th-century execution by Italian states". No state of Germany existed in the 16th century. Executions within the Holy Roman Empire were carried out by states within that Empire, not by the Empire per se. Would also be OK with "in German states". Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:19, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People executed by Italy

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The result of the discussion was: split to Category:People executed by Italian states. – Fayenatic London 17:45, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per precedent of "16th-century executions by Italian states". Most of the contents are various Italian states. The exception is the current state of Italy, although that's still an Italian state. Would also be OK with "by Italian states". Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Splitting is a better idea than renaming, in order to keep Italy in the tree by country. I can even imagine we keep the other one as a subcategory of Italy as Category:People executed by former Italian states. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Airlines in Alaska

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Airlines based in Alaska. bibliomaniac15 06:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Opposed speedy, because apparently this category should include airlines operating in Alaska regardless of where they were based. I do not see how it would be DEFINING for airlines to be categorized along not only to the place they are based in, but also all the places they serve (good luck for some airlines), or why airlines landing planes in Alaska should be treated differently than other Airlines of the United States by state (WP:C2C in principle applies). I know how aviation is important to Alaska, but the nuances of Alaskan airlines from Alaska serving Alaska from elsewhere will probably be better covered in article List of airlines of Alaska than in a hotchpotch category. @RadioKAOS, Good Olfactory, Hugo999, and Funandtrvl: pinging contributors in speedy discussions. Place Clichy (talk) 11:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
copy of speedy discussion
  • Category:Airlines in Alaska to Category:Airlines based in Alaska – C2D in Category:Airlines of the United States by state. Place Clichy (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Oppose — This is a repeat of a previously unsuccessful speedy nomination and should have been taken to full discussion instead of being brought back here. The nominator spends all their time on Wikipedia working on categorization matters and appears to desire "one size fits all" under their myopic view of the encyclopedia. OTOH, this shows that the category as created was intended to include airlines operating in Alaska regardless of where they were based. Editors with topical knowledge were not invited to participate in the first discussion, as if it were an attempt to game consensus. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 23:00, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • RadioKAOS, let's yes–assume good faith and no–attack users personally. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:42, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • Watchlists, revision histories and Special:Contributions exist for a reason, namely transparency. I'm tired of seeing one editor's choice of narrow specialization proving detrimental to the contributions of other editors or the project as a whole over and over again, inevitably followed by the knee-jerk invocation of WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA and similar as a shield to excuse it away. Forum shopping to avoid a larger community consensus epitomizes bad faith. United States topics especially suffer from this mentality by categorization specialists, where the 50 states are merely venues to push one size fits all and any context unique to those states is treated as irrelevant. Why are people so hellbent on sidestepping the purpose given when this category was created, especially when I pointed it out again? It's yet another attempt at an WP:OWN hijacking of this entire namespace. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 04:43, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Russian Empire people of Moldovan descent

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:30, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is wrong on 2 accounts. 1°) It was created for Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose article informs us that "the family name can be traced back to the 1400s when Yelena, the daughter of Stephen IV of Moldavia, married the eldest son of Ivan III Vasilyevich, Grand Prince of Moscow. A son named Vasily was nicknamed "Rachmanin", meaning "lazy" in Old Russian." A single 15th-century ancestor and last name etymology are not defining in terms of descent. 2°) In English, the terms Moldova and Moldovan are used only for the modern country and its predecessor the Moldovan SSR, created in 1940 on a part only of the larger region of Moldavia (adj. Moldavian). Any use of Moldova/Moldovan for events or people before 1940 is therefore anachronistic and incorrect. Place Clichy (talk) 09:36, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mayors of Berbera

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The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated and to appropriate "People from FOO" categories. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:17, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCATs with just one or two entries. As always, every city in existence does not automatically get one of these the moment it has just one or two mayors to categorize; mayors do not get an automatic notability freebie just for existing as mayors, so there's no guarantee that a mayors category is actually expandable to the minimum size. So a city needs to have four or five mayors with Wikipedia articles, not just one or two, before a dedicated "mayors of city" category is warranted. Bearcat (talk) 06:18, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mayors of Jever

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The result of the discussion was: merge as nominated and to Category:People from Jever. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:15, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT for just two mayors of a small city. Jever (pop 14K) is not large enough to guarantee the "inherent" notability of all of its mayors under WP:NPOL #2 (even one of the two mayors who is here now has been flagged for basic notability issues), so it's far from certain that this category is readily expandable. As always, every town and city does not automatically get one of these the moment it has one or two mayors with articles -- it needs to have at least five, and a city this size has no guarantee of being able to get there. Bearcat (talk) 06:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Victims of domestic abuse

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining, subjective, and potentially libelous. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 05:24, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yet we find Victims of human rights abuses‎ and Victims of police brutality‎ to be OK? Both are also somewhat subjective. I believe the word domestic is intended to mean "in the home" and of one adult by another, not punishment of children for not doing household chores. Philafrenzy (talk) 09:48, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Practical aesthetics actors

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry WP:SMALLCAT for a non-defining characteristic. While practical aesthetics does exist as an acting style, it's far from clear that an audience can readily pick out "practical aesthetics acting" as a distinctive type of acting that changes the finished product; it's not, for example, as though you could watch a film or TV show and tick off which actors were trained in "practical aesthetics" and which ones weren't just from observing their acting itself. So it's just not a good basis for a category, because it doesn't define the acting in a visible-to-the-viewer sort of way. Bearcat (talk) 04:19, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sleepy Wikipedians

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:04, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not meaningfully different from Category:Lazy Wikipedians, which was deleted per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/User/Archive/April 2008#Category:Lazy Wikipedians in 2008. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 February 19#Category:Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism

Category:Extinct insect families

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:32, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As far as I am aware, no extinctions of insect families have been happened in the modern age, and therefore the scope of this category completely overlaps with that of Category:Extinct insect families, I therefore propose a merge. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:43, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:05, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:07, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Similarity and distance measures

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The result of the discussion was: rename. This seems to be about all the discussion we are going to squeeze out of this. The distance measures have been upmerged to Category:Distance. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:02, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category focuses on metrics used to measure the similarity between two things, i.e. similarity measures. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:51, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The "distance measures" are part of Metric geometry, the similarity measures stem from different fields. I agree that Category:Distance measures is ambiguous. Perhaps the distance articles should just be merged manually to Category:Distance. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:07, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Films directed by Fred Allen (editor)

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The result of the discussion was: rename done. We'll count this as a C2D speedy rename. Good Olfactory 22:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: After the page move of Fred Allen (editor) to Fred Allen (film editor), the category should hold the same name as the article. All films that were in this category already have the new name as red link. Therefore please delete this page after the move, so it does not get used accidentally anymore. Sprachraum (talk) 00:13, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much Lugnuts – but when does the old category get deleted? Once this request is closed? Or do I have to request that separately? No articles were linked to the old category anymore, and there are not going to be any external links to a category like this (which is the stated rationale for leaving redirects from article moves in place). But if it left in existence, future links to it would appear blue to the linking user, who might not even realize that he/she should be linking to a different category. --Sprachraum (talk) 21:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(post-close comment). The old cat has been nuked. But if it had remained, and an article was placed into it, then a bot would eventually move it to the correct category. Compare with Category:People from Los Angeles, California, for example. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Mehr

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Recipients of the Order of Mehr
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Mehr is an award to "to honor the status and the position of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran". The category only contains one article on Monireh Gorji, who was the only women elected to Assembly of Experts for Constitution right after the 1979 revolution, which is remarkable accomplishment. Getting this award decades later just reflects that prominence though and the article doesn't even mention winning it. (I'm not going to argue WP:SMALLCAT here though since there are other winners who hopefully won't stay redlinks.) There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Order of the Croatian Cross recipients

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Order of the Croatian Cross recipients
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Croatian Cross is a combination campaign medal and wound decoration for soldiers injured in the Croatian War of Independence. Unfortunately, non-fatal injury in war is far too common to be defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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