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Category:Icon albums

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Icon albums to Category:Icon (band) albums
Nominator's rationale: To disambiguate and match parent article, Icon (band). Current category name can confuse readers to believe these are iconic albums. — ξ xplicit 23:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Icon films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Icon films to Category:Icon Productions films
Nominator's rationale: To match parent article, Icon Productions. Current category name can confuse readers to believe these are iconic films. — ξ xplicit 23:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo footballers

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:54, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo footballers to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo volleyball players

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo volleyball players to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Unwarranted mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo basketball players

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo basketball players to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Unwarranted mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo players of American football

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The result of the discussion was: Merge denied.. My reasoning is this: although the category "Igbo Players of American Football" might at first blush seem very similar to (say) the category "Canadian Players of American Football", they actually are quite different and have different parentage. "Canadian Players of American Football" is a child of "Players of American Football by Nationality" which is part of the grouping of sports people by nationality. "Igbo Players of American Football" is not a part of this lineage, instead it traces to "Igbo Sportspeople" which is part of the grouping of people by ethnicity and occupation.

Think of it this way: If there were a category "Players of American Football Who Are Over Six Feet Tall", how would this affect the category "Canadian Players of American Football"? It wouldn't. Same thing here.

Now, it is true that the category "Players of American football by nationality" should therefore not include the category "Igbo Players of American Football", since Igbo is not a nationality. And it doesn't. If it ever did, someone has removed it.

To go further down this path: Nigeria is a political, not ethnic, entity. Properly, I suppose that "Nigerian Players of American Football" should really be "Players of American Football who are Nigerian Citizens", or something. (I'm not actually recommending this.) I would think that a person who was not born in Nigeria, has never held Nigerian citizenship, and perhaps has never even been to Nigeria cannot properly be termed "Nigerian". Yet that same person could certainly be termed Igbo if his parents are Igbo.

Now, to finish: Certainly many articles will presumably be included in both "Nigerian Players of American Football" and "Igbo Players of American Football". But of course many articles are in two or more categories. It is proper to include an article in both of these categories, as they are at the same "level" and drill up through entirely different paths.

As to the objection that "Igbo Players of American Football" is too fine a distinction and should just be upmerged to the next highest category ("Igbo Sportspeople"), that is a different issue and was not part of the rationale for the nom. If someone wants to nominate the category for upmerge based on this reason, they are free to do so. I do note that the category has 10 articles, so its not really that sparsely populated.

As a final note: it would be defensible to make that case that "Igbo Players of American Football" should (along with its other parentage) be a direct subcategory of "Players of American football" since 1) there is no "Players of American Football by Ethnicity" category to serve as a buffer between these two categories, and 2) it does seem a bit odd that "Igbo Players of American Football" does at no time devolve up to "Players of American Football". I am not making this case, as this would introduce non-parallelity to the category levels, which could be confusing to editors (although it would probably benefit readers). But if someone wants to make that case, they would have a reasonable argument. Herostratus ( talk) 17:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply

Propose merging Category:Igbo players of American football to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Category:Players of American football by nationality should only include nationalities, not ethnicities. We shouldn't be categorizing by ethnicity and sport. TM 23:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Chronic illness

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Chronic illness ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Similar to Category:Terminal illness ( Cfd), diseases are not categorized by whether they are acute or chronic. Many diseases are chronic, and categorization as such does not provide much utility. The 5 articles currently in this category are a random assortment, as this category does not have a clear purpose. Scott Alter ( talk) 20:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - in the majority of "illnesses" (diseases/disorders/conditions would be all be better words) the distinction of acute vs chronic is meaningless. For example, Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease, but some diabetics will present acutely with complications that may have an acute course ( DKA for example) while simultaneously suffering from chronic microvascular complications. Looking at a different example, chronic tonsillitis is the same thing as recurrent acute tonsillitis. This means that this category is not a useful way to categorise human disease. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 07:57, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Vascular disorders

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Vascular disorders ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Does not conform to the standard ICD-10 categorization schema, which is the basis for disease categorization within Category:Diseases and disorders. The only contents are Cluster headache and Cluster headache treatments, which already are also in correct categories by ICD-10 classification. Categories for vascular disorders already exist and are better categorized within Category:Cardiovascular diseases by arteries and veins. Scott Alter ( talk) 19:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:IntelliCAD based software

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:IntelliCAD based software to Category:Computer-aided design software
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization. There's no need for a cat with just two articles that has no room for expansion. Plus category:Computer-aided design software is the only parent for this cat. Wizard191 ( talk) 18:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Support I think that merging these two categories is fine. Time will tell if a category for IntelliCAD based CAD packages is needed. There are actually a really large number of CAD packages based on the IntelliCAD kernel, but they are almost all quite small players in the market. -- DuLithgow ( talk) 17:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Computer-aided manufacturing software

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The result of the discussion was: keep. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Computer-aided manufacturing software to Category:Computer-aided manufacturing
Nominator's rationale: While this category contains mostly CAM software packages, I think it makes sense to widen this to category:Computer-aided manufacturing so that CAM related articles that aren't software can be properly organized. Wizard191 ( talk) 18:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Internet radio in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: no change. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
User:Nopetro at 09:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC) seemed to want to move this category to Category:Internet radio stations in the United States. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 09:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe to Category:Rugby league governing bodies.
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Merge into its parent; Category:Rugby league governing bodies, which consists of only five pages and two subcategories; the aforementioned Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe as well as Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Oceania. Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe is an extra level of navigation and over-categorization of Category:Rugby league governing bodies. There are only 14 pages in Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe and several of those are not actual articles about the governing body. There seems no reason to maintain both categories, which only make article pages harder to find.
N.B. This discussion is linked to the WP:CFD Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 9. (Category creator and others involved in previous discussion notified using Template:Cfd-notify) Daicaregos ( talk) 08:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Concur -- Snowded TALK 12:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Nothing prevents the article Rugby League European Federation's inclusion in Category:Rugby league governing bodies. Pages in Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe are European sports governing bodies, rather than sports governing bodies that happen to be in Europe. Category:Rugby league in Europe does not contain pages relating to sports governing bodies. Its pages are made up of national teams. Neither, therefore, are parent categories of Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe. Categories exist to enable readers to navigate to similar articles. Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe does not assist this goal. Please reconsider. Daicaregos ( talk) 15:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Occuli is being disingenuous. Regarding Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe by country and Category:European Handball Federation, as you can quite clearly see, I said: “Pages in Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe are European sports governing bodies, rather than sports governing bodies that happen to be in Europe.“ not subcategories. So it is not quite simply false at all, is it? Including Category:Rugby league governing bodies as a subcategory of Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe is an anomaly, shared only with Handball, Ice Hockey and Football, none of which need to be included as subcategories there. As to Category:Rugby league in Europe: I was not aware it was common practice to include each sport's governing body's page along with the sport in Europe and I am not convinced that is the case. Nevertheless, if required all 14 pages on Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe could be added to Category:Rugby league in Europe and the subcategory deleted. Further, I don't think I misunderstood that 'Categories exist to enable readers to navigate to similar articles.' And the current categorization does not assist that goal. Daicaregos ( talk) 15:26, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:American Professors of English

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:American academics of English literature. After going through some of these, I'm not finding any linguists, but of course any that belong in Category:American linguists can be moved. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:American Professors of English to Category:???
Nominator's rationale: This is categorized under Category:American academics, but this is narrowly about professors specifically and not broader English academics. I'm not sure what the best name is, but it's certainly not this one (if for no other reason than its improper capitalization.) — Justin (koavf)TCM17:56, 19 April 2010 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ξ xplicit 06:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Accidental deaths

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming: (see drop-down box)
nominated categories

Nominator's rationale: Rename all. In categories, when "deaths" is used, it is usually understood that we mean "human deaths" unless otherwise specified: Category:2010 deaths, not Category:2010 human deaths; Category:Road accident deaths in New York, not Category:Road accident human deaths in New York. I see no reason for these categories to use "Accidental human deaths" rather than just "Accidental deaths". The parent categories are Category:Accidental deaths by location and Category:Accidental deaths. These were named as they were for the sake of conformity, since the first few that were created used the word "human". And if a notable chimpanzee happened to die in an accident somewhere, I see no reason it could not even be included in one of these categories. (Eventually, perhaps the subcategory contents of the Category:Death by country tree could also be renamed.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:29, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Members of ESM

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 19:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Members of ESM to Category:European Sports Magazines or Category:European Sports Magazines members or delete
Nominator's rationale: This is a category for members of European Sports Magazines, an "association of football-related publications". If it is kept, it should be renamed to expand the abbreviation; at the same time, it could be repurposed into a topic category ( Category:European Sports Magazines). However, as there is already a list in the main article and only 4 of the 8 magazine articles even mention ESM, perhaps deletion is the best option. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:People by borough

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus to delete. — ξ xplicit 20:03, 29 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:People by borough ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This single-entry container category does not appear to be a useful intermediate layer of categorization. An entire sub-tree for only one city seems unnecessary, and the sole entry can be reached from Category:People by place via the following path: People by placePeople by city / People by countryPeople by country and cityPeople by city in the United StatesPeople from New York City. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:16, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Major League Lacrosse weekly award winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:34, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Major League Lacrosse weekly award winners ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete: Weekly awards is over-categorization and this category could be added to myriad Major League Lacrosse players who happen to have one good week. It doesn't mean they've earned anything particularly special, like a major yearly award (e.g. Defensive POY). Jrcla2 ( talk) 00:44, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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May 6

Category:Icon albums

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Icon albums to Category:Icon (band) albums
Nominator's rationale: To disambiguate and match parent article, Icon (band). Current category name can confuse readers to believe these are iconic albums. — ξ xplicit 23:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Icon films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Icon films to Category:Icon Productions films
Nominator's rationale: To match parent article, Icon Productions. Current category name can confuse readers to believe these are iconic films. — ξ xplicit 23:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo footballers

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:54, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo footballers to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo volleyball players

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo volleyball players to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Unwarranted mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo basketball players

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The result of the discussion was: Keep, no merge. For rationale, see Category:Igbo Players of American football, below. Herostratus ( talk) 17:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Igbo basketball players to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Unwarranted mixture of ethnicity and occupation. TM 23:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Igbo players of American football

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The result of the discussion was: Merge denied.. My reasoning is this: although the category "Igbo Players of American Football" might at first blush seem very similar to (say) the category "Canadian Players of American Football", they actually are quite different and have different parentage. "Canadian Players of American Football" is a child of "Players of American Football by Nationality" which is part of the grouping of sports people by nationality. "Igbo Players of American Football" is not a part of this lineage, instead it traces to "Igbo Sportspeople" which is part of the grouping of people by ethnicity and occupation.

Think of it this way: If there were a category "Players of American Football Who Are Over Six Feet Tall", how would this affect the category "Canadian Players of American Football"? It wouldn't. Same thing here.

Now, it is true that the category "Players of American football by nationality" should therefore not include the category "Igbo Players of American Football", since Igbo is not a nationality. And it doesn't. If it ever did, someone has removed it.

To go further down this path: Nigeria is a political, not ethnic, entity. Properly, I suppose that "Nigerian Players of American Football" should really be "Players of American Football who are Nigerian Citizens", or something. (I'm not actually recommending this.) I would think that a person who was not born in Nigeria, has never held Nigerian citizenship, and perhaps has never even been to Nigeria cannot properly be termed "Nigerian". Yet that same person could certainly be termed Igbo if his parents are Igbo.

Now, to finish: Certainly many articles will presumably be included in both "Nigerian Players of American Football" and "Igbo Players of American Football". But of course many articles are in two or more categories. It is proper to include an article in both of these categories, as they are at the same "level" and drill up through entirely different paths.

As to the objection that "Igbo Players of American Football" is too fine a distinction and should just be upmerged to the next highest category ("Igbo Sportspeople"), that is a different issue and was not part of the rationale for the nom. If someone wants to nominate the category for upmerge based on this reason, they are free to do so. I do note that the category has 10 articles, so its not really that sparsely populated.

As a final note: it would be defensible to make that case that "Igbo Players of American Football" should (along with its other parentage) be a direct subcategory of "Players of American football" since 1) there is no "Players of American Football by Ethnicity" category to serve as a buffer between these two categories, and 2) it does seem a bit odd that "Igbo Players of American Football" does at no time devolve up to "Players of American Football". I am not making this case, as this would introduce non-parallelity to the category levels, which could be confusing to editors (although it would probably benefit readers). But if someone wants to make that case, they would have a reasonable argument. Herostratus ( talk) 17:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply

Propose merging Category:Igbo players of American football to Category:Igbo sportspeople
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Category:Players of American football by nationality should only include nationalities, not ethnicities. We shouldn't be categorizing by ethnicity and sport. TM 23:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Chronic illness

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Chronic illness ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Similar to Category:Terminal illness ( Cfd), diseases are not categorized by whether they are acute or chronic. Many diseases are chronic, and categorization as such does not provide much utility. The 5 articles currently in this category are a random assortment, as this category does not have a clear purpose. Scott Alter ( talk) 20:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - in the majority of "illnesses" (diseases/disorders/conditions would be all be better words) the distinction of acute vs chronic is meaningless. For example, Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease, but some diabetics will present acutely with complications that may have an acute course ( DKA for example) while simultaneously suffering from chronic microvascular complications. Looking at a different example, chronic tonsillitis is the same thing as recurrent acute tonsillitis. This means that this category is not a useful way to categorise human disease. Beeswaxcandle ( talk) 07:57, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Vascular disorders

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Vascular disorders ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete - Does not conform to the standard ICD-10 categorization schema, which is the basis for disease categorization within Category:Diseases and disorders. The only contents are Cluster headache and Cluster headache treatments, which already are also in correct categories by ICD-10 classification. Categories for vascular disorders already exist and are better categorized within Category:Cardiovascular diseases by arteries and veins. Scott Alter ( talk) 19:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:IntelliCAD based software

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The result of the discussion was: merge. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:IntelliCAD based software to Category:Computer-aided design software
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization. There's no need for a cat with just two articles that has no room for expansion. Plus category:Computer-aided design software is the only parent for this cat. Wizard191 ( talk) 18:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Support I think that merging these two categories is fine. Time will tell if a category for IntelliCAD based CAD packages is needed. There are actually a really large number of CAD packages based on the IntelliCAD kernel, but they are almost all quite small players in the market. -- DuLithgow ( talk) 17:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Computer-aided manufacturing software

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The result of the discussion was: keep. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Computer-aided manufacturing software to Category:Computer-aided manufacturing
Nominator's rationale: While this category contains mostly CAM software packages, I think it makes sense to widen this to category:Computer-aided manufacturing so that CAM related articles that aren't software can be properly organized. Wizard191 ( talk) 18:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Internet radio in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: no change. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
User:Nopetro at 09:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC) seemed to want to move this category to Category:Internet radio stations in the United States. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 09:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose merging Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe to Category:Rugby league governing bodies.
Nominator's rationale: Merge. Merge into its parent; Category:Rugby league governing bodies, which consists of only five pages and two subcategories; the aforementioned Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe as well as Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Oceania. Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe is an extra level of navigation and over-categorization of Category:Rugby league governing bodies. There are only 14 pages in Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe and several of those are not actual articles about the governing body. There seems no reason to maintain both categories, which only make article pages harder to find.
N.B. This discussion is linked to the WP:CFD Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 9. (Category creator and others involved in previous discussion notified using Template:Cfd-notify) Daicaregos ( talk) 08:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Concur -- Snowded TALK 12:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Nothing prevents the article Rugby League European Federation's inclusion in Category:Rugby league governing bodies. Pages in Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe are European sports governing bodies, rather than sports governing bodies that happen to be in Europe. Category:Rugby league in Europe does not contain pages relating to sports governing bodies. Its pages are made up of national teams. Neither, therefore, are parent categories of Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe. Categories exist to enable readers to navigate to similar articles. Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe does not assist this goal. Please reconsider. Daicaregos ( talk) 15:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Occuli is being disingenuous. Regarding Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe by country and Category:European Handball Federation, as you can quite clearly see, I said: “Pages in Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe are European sports governing bodies, rather than sports governing bodies that happen to be in Europe.“ not subcategories. So it is not quite simply false at all, is it? Including Category:Rugby league governing bodies as a subcategory of Category:Sports governing bodies in Europe is an anomaly, shared only with Handball, Ice Hockey and Football, none of which need to be included as subcategories there. As to Category:Rugby league in Europe: I was not aware it was common practice to include each sport's governing body's page along with the sport in Europe and I am not convinced that is the case. Nevertheless, if required all 14 pages on Category:Rugby league governing bodies in Europe could be added to Category:Rugby league in Europe and the subcategory deleted. Further, I don't think I misunderstood that 'Categories exist to enable readers to navigate to similar articles.' And the current categorization does not assist that goal. Daicaregos ( talk) 15:26, 7 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:American Professors of English

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:American academics of English literature. After going through some of these, I'm not finding any linguists, but of course any that belong in Category:American linguists can be moved. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:American Professors of English to Category:???
Nominator's rationale: This is categorized under Category:American academics, but this is narrowly about professors specifically and not broader English academics. I'm not sure what the best name is, but it's certainly not this one (if for no other reason than its improper capitalization.) — Justin (koavf)TCM17:56, 19 April 2010 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ξ xplicit 06:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Accidental deaths

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. — ξ xplicit 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming: (see drop-down box)
nominated categories

Nominator's rationale: Rename all. In categories, when "deaths" is used, it is usually understood that we mean "human deaths" unless otherwise specified: Category:2010 deaths, not Category:2010 human deaths; Category:Road accident deaths in New York, not Category:Road accident human deaths in New York. I see no reason for these categories to use "Accidental human deaths" rather than just "Accidental deaths". The parent categories are Category:Accidental deaths by location and Category:Accidental deaths. These were named as they were for the sake of conformity, since the first few that were created used the word "human". And if a notable chimpanzee happened to die in an accident somewhere, I see no reason it could not even be included in one of these categories. (Eventually, perhaps the subcategory contents of the Category:Death by country tree could also be renamed.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:29, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Members of ESM

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξ xplicit 19:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Propose renaming Category:Members of ESM to Category:European Sports Magazines or Category:European Sports Magazines members or delete
Nominator's rationale: This is a category for members of European Sports Magazines, an "association of football-related publications". If it is kept, it should be renamed to expand the abbreviation; at the same time, it could be repurposed into a topic category ( Category:European Sports Magazines). However, as there is already a list in the main article and only 4 of the 8 magazine articles even mention ESM, perhaps deletion is the best option. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:People by borough

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus to delete. — ξ xplicit 20:03, 29 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:People by borough ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This single-entry container category does not appear to be a useful intermediate layer of categorization. An entire sub-tree for only one city seems unnecessary, and the sole entry can be reached from Category:People by place via the following path: People by placePeople by city / People by countryPeople by country and cityPeople by city in the United StatesPeople from New York City. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:16, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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Category:Major League Lacrosse weekly award winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:34, 15 May 2010 (UTC) reply
Category:Major League Lacrosse weekly award winners ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete: Weekly awards is over-categorization and this category could be added to myriad Major League Lacrosse players who happen to have one good week. It doesn't mean they've earned anything particularly special, like a major yearly award (e.g. Defensive POY). Jrcla2 ( talk) 00:44, 6 May 2010 (UTC) reply

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