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The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Keep. There seem to be good reasons for keeping this category--Peterdownunder (talk) 12:21, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Supernatural horror movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request

Auntof6 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: On enwiki, supernatural films are under paranormal films, which are under horror films. Therefore I think "supernatural horror" may be redundant and could be merged to horror movies here. Even if not redundant, categories such as Category:1990s supernatural horror movies may intersect too many variables and could be upmerged. Auntof6 (talk) 05:14, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this request below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't vote on everything and that there may be options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging.

• Keep. On en, Category:Supernatural horror films is under Category:Horror films by genre and Category:Supernatural films. It's a valid and relevant intersection. Jim Michael (talk) 15:56, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I'm mostly indifferent as to keeping the base category. Auntof6 and Jim Michael both have good points. Naturally, if the base category is deleted, its subcategories can be deleted, too.

That said, if the base category is retained, then delete all its subcategories, and upmerge to the base category at least with respect to "supernatural horror movies". Every movie in each of the subcategories—the date ones and the "American one"—appears in two or more subcategories that cover the overlapping ground. We don't need quite that much explicit "intersection" coverage here. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:48, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Not all horror movies are supernatural and not all supernatural movies are horror. As for en, it looks like en:Category:Paranormal films is under horror, and fantasy, and science-fiction. As for number of intersections we already have some with several variables, like Category:American action comedy movies and those under Category:American romance movies. (Unfortunately I think all these intersections leads to articles with undiffused categories. Or things like the mess of categories at en:The Dark Tower (2017 film).)--Tbennert (talk) 00:03, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• I think in general, this category is keepable; I do think that removing, rearranging subcategories would probably be a good thing; we do not need the classification by decade for 3-4 pages/articles/movies that go there. The classification by origin might be more interesting though, as different filmmakers/cultures have different ideas. I remember that one movie, en:Dead Snow, where a group of teenagers find/awaken a horde of Nazi zombies, and en:Smilla's Sense of Snow (film) which were both European, and both very interesting from the ideas they raised. I know that the second probably does not fit the category. All I want to say: Less US-made/Hollywood/Mainstream, and perhaps a more varied view. In that context en:Adam's Apples (not horror), and en:Iron Sky are other examples of good alternative movies. Problem though: can we come up with stubs for 3-4 non-us-made supernatural horror movies? --Eptalon (talk) 19:58, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the articles about films on Simple are American, so we don't have many subcats for other countries' films. Jim Michael (talk) 23:40, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In that case: keep this category, and remove all subcategories (which will leave us with a category with 20-30 entries) --Eptalon (talk) 08:34, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This request is due to close on 05:14, 25 August 2017 (UTC), seven days after it was filed, although it may be closed earlier at the discretion of an administrator.

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