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Category:People from Chapeltown, Leeds

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: This only contained one article ( Andrew Watts) and it wasn't clear from the article whether it was correctly in the category (a link was disambiguated to another Chapeltown and the reference doesn't say which). "People from Leeds" would be enough, at least for people born after 1904. Peter James ( talk) 19:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Delete -- The only article seems to have been removed. There is another Chapeltown on the edge of Sheffield, which seems at least as likely, short of evidence of actual right place. Both are in Yorkshire, as is Penistone, so that a Yorkshire category is appropriate. Peterkingiron ( talk) 21:49, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Australian sheep shearers

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The result of the discussion was: delete, merging two pages up to Category:Sheep shearers. – Fayenatic London 23:09, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF, most people in this category are defined as a trade unionist (especially as an official of the Australian Workers' Union) rather than as a sheep shearer. There are two exceptions: Jackie Howe and William Smith (shearer) who both are indeed clearly notable as a shearer, the best solution is to move these two to Category:Sheep shearers. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC) reply
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  • Sheep shearing is both a profession and a sporting activity in both Australia and New Zealand. Both of the people mentioned as worthy of inclusion are competitive sports shearers, as are those in the NZ category. I've restored the category links. Grutness... wha? 00:34, 6 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Reminds me of the old joke. Australian man sees another man in a close "embrace" with a sheep and says to him, "Are you shearing that sheep?". The man replies, "No. It's my sheep and I'm not sharing her with anyone!" (works best with an Australian accent). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:03, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Church of Ireland archbishops

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. xplicit 00:45, 26 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale IT's a description, not a title as it's in the usual plural form. There are no bishops of Armagh, only archbishops. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 15:04, 8 September 2017 (UTC) reply
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Comment The title "Archbishop of Cashel" works for an article. It does not work for a category which are usually in the plural form as they often are simply lists, as is the case with the current nominations. In which case, "Archbishops of Cashel" is capitalised because it happens to be the first word. Had the article name been "List of archbishops of Cashel", it would not have been capitalised. Having said that, I would not oppose your alt suggestion of Category:Archbishops of Cashel (Anglican) and Category:Archbishops of Cashel (Catholic). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 12:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply
My previous comment was misconceived. There were no Anglicans before the reformation, so the Bishops of Armagh were not Anglican bishops. I favour Category:Archbishops of Armagh (Anglican) etc. Verbcatcher ( talk) 19:45, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Oppose suggestion - post Reformation the Christian church in Ireland adopted Protestantism and all of its structures organisation and physical wise became part of the Church of Ireland. The Catholic church had to basically start anew with new churches and parochial structure etc. So the bishops and archbishops of the established church in Ireland which had turned Protestant technically are the direct successor but that is a matter of debate. So if you are to change one to have a bracketed distinguishing then the Catholic ones should also and the present page used as a disamb page. Mabuska (talk) 15:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - even if Archbishop is a title, does that mean archbishops is also a title? Seeing as there is only one archbishop for each area at a time there can't be a plural title surely? I think that's the crux of the issue. If archbishops is not a title then use the small a if not then capital A. Mabuska (talk) 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
FYI the Roman Catholic paralel structure uses lower case, nor caps (e.g. Category:Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:57, 19 October 2017 (UTC) reply
@ Peterkingiron: your counter-proposal, although not rejected by the nominator, was opposed by Mabuska as inconsistent with other categories, such as the Catholic siblings. Given the explanations above, are you able to withdraw your opposition to the nomination? – Fayenatic London 14:23, 4 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Personally I think Category:Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh is incorrect, since the title is Arcbbishop of Cashel. I draw analogy with "Duke of Buckingham", not "duke of Buckingham". However, it is time for this discussion to be closed in one direction or the other. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:48, 5 November 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Rename per nomination, as I find the nominator's arguments persuasive. – Fayenatic London 22:14, 7 November 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Rename to Anglican archbishops of X (1st choice), per nom, or to Archbishops of X (Anglican) (2nd choice), but not Anglican Archbishops of X. I think this is ultimately a question of style, since both the descriptive form Anglican archbishops of X and the titular form Archbishops of X (Anglican) are accurate. There is not currently a single convention, with 74 categories that use Anglican (arch)bishops of X ( here and here) and 45 categories that use Anglican (Arch)Bishops of X ( here and here). There are a few dozen categories named (Arch)Bishops of X (Fooian), but they form a small minority. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 04:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Kindergarten teachers

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Of the seven members, maybe one is known for teaching kindergarten, sort of. Two others also are actual educators (and are already categorized, one way or the other, as such); the others are famous for something else, but happened to have taught kindergarten at some point, so for them it is certainly not WP:DEFINING. Mangoe ( talk) 15:16, 16 September 2017 (UTC) reply
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Category:Media companies based in South Africa

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The result of the discussion was: merge. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Complete overlap with Category:Media companies of South Africa Rathfelder ( talk) 19:08, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Texts only found in the Septuagint

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Texts in the Septuagint and recategorize as proposed by User:Fayenatic london at 11:19, 27 October 2017 (UTC). -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:59, 12 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT because its content is identical to Category:Anagignoskomena (the extra canonical books of the Eastern Orthodox churches) including its subcategory Category:Deuterocanonical books (the extra canonical books of the Catholic Church). Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • @ Fayenatic london: Thanks for looking into this a little bit further. It occurs to me now also that the original nomination is flawed because it would unjustly remove the extra books of the Septuagint from the Septuagint tree. Your alternative would solve that problem too. Another solution could be to keep the category and instead nominate Category:Anagignoskomena to become a disambiguation page, that might also be more in line with the comment of RevelationDirect. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:23, 8 October 2017 (UTC) reply
1 the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint are books. It's known what is included in the Hebrew Bible, and the differences between the versions of the Septuagint are uncontested and minimal. It helps to be able to compare two books to each other. (as compared to a religious convention, for there are many differences between the denominational cannons).
2 I couldn't even easily find "Anagignoskomena" in the wiki universe; in Wikipedia it's a sub-sub chapter of Biblical apocrypha. The word doesn't exist in wikidata, so it doesn't exist in other wikis, in any language. In contrast to the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, which both have Wikipedia entries, in many languages.
3 As the purpose of Wikipedia is to be universally accessible, it's important to use the more common phrases. Therefore, if anything must be deleted, it should be: "Category:Anagignoskomena".
4 It should be realized that the Wikipedia in English serves as a basic international Wikipedia, and as a standard for the Wikipedias of other languages. Writers of this Wikipedia should be aware of this. Therefore, comparing the Hebrew Bible to the Septuagint is more appropriate for non-Christian readers.

Besides, I agree about " Letter of Aristeas", that it should be moved, as Fayenatic suggested. Shilonite 16:41, 9 October 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by שילוני ( talkcontribs)

  • I agree with these points and would like to stress that ALT2 (defined further up as keeping the category and instead nominating Category:Anagignoskomena to become a disambiguation page) would solve most issues addressed in this discussion. 20:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
I've heard "Anagignoskomena" to refer to books in the Eastern or African cannons but not found in the Catholic one. Clearly though, we would need a well sourced article to define this obscure term. RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:14, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Further to comment below I strongly object to this title. gidonb ( talk) 12:52, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. At the moment, this seems to be the, if slightly thin, consensus. If somebody wants to discuss possible diffusion/rediffusion at the WikiProject level, and come to a firm consensus for that, then these can be recreated or alternatively re-diffused at some point, with that consensus as justification, but for now, merge it is. The Bushranger One ping only 06:14, 4 November 2017 (UTC) reply
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge on the one hand per WP:SMALLCAT, this scheme leads to many very small categories; on the other hand the scheme is anachronistic, these administrative regions did not exist during the French Revolution. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Merge most, not all - Ile de France is well enough populated to keep, as is Burgundy. For the rest, I would prefer to be merging to pre-revolutionary provinces, rather than post-revolutionary departments, if that will create a category of at least 5 articles. However there is a quantity of undiffused articles: will any of these make the number up to 5? Peterkingiron ( talk) 21:22, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I see some problems here. Firstly, I have had a look at some of these undiffused articles, and in some cases the reason why they are undiffused is that it is not obvious which location they should be identified with. Secondly, the pre-revolutionary provinces and their exact borders are now rather obscure, even for Wikipedians who know a bit about France, making this task difficult. PatGallacher ( talk) 17:54, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply
As implied in my opinion, my concern was not so much with the population of the categories as it was with the exaggeration in the number of conditions to be included in the categories. In Wikipedian we sometimes speak of reaching a intersection that is no longer defining. So yes, Marco, I set out to solve another problem than the one you raised and no, Fayenatic, I do not think the detail at the level of Category:Executed people from Alsace is sufficient, although some spatial detail would be better than none at all.
Since I do like spatial detail also in combination with the French revolution killings I'm willing to forgo just a few cases of 1 member categories, included for consistency and a few other low population categories. Again not so much my concern, however the population per category and another concern that someone has raised before: that some of these geographies are not so well known anymore could both be resolved by using current geographies. Personally I'm fine also with the old ones, as long as it is one level higher than the current.
And yes, also the categories I suggested would be marginally better populated. Hardly a difference is still a difference. Yet I wasn't after the 1 member or so more per category. I was after organizing this once by execution method and once by region. gidonb ( talk) 02:28, 31 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Anime and manga ships

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Category is too small, per WP:NARROWCAT the ships don't need to be distinguished in their own subcategory as being from Anime/manga. It arguably only has one member, as the Space Battleship Yamato is not generally defined as a "ship" rather than a "spaceship". ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Universal Century

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at 2017 October 27 with sub-categories. – Fayenatic London 11:50, 27 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Title is not appropriate per MOS:INUNIVERSE, and should reflect that Universal Century is a Gundam term. This should also reflect in its subcategories. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:42, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Gundam weapons

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:09, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT this is an unnecessary category. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:38, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Anime and manga weapons

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT this is an unnecessary category. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:37, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional Japanese swords

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:34, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT the category is unnecessary. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 14:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • I support the merge in principle but I note that neither of the two member articles is really about fictional swords so there may be nothing to merge. Zanbatō is about a real type of sword although there is coverage of its use in fiction. Japanese swords in fiction is an essay article that needs some attention. It seems to be more about real sword types being used in fictional settings than about fictional swords or fictional types of swords. So I agree that the category is unnecessarily narrow, I just question whether any merge is necessary either? Maybe this is a delete instead? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 17:32, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Catalonian building and structure stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Catalan building and structure stubs. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 03:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Not sure which form is the correct one for Catalonia, but we don;t need both. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:51, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:American criminals by ethnic or national origin

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I will upmerge the Irish and Italian 'mobsters' subcategories to the appropriate American people of [X] descent by occupation category, so they are not completely removed from that category tree. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 21:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEGRS
There is certainly an ethnic component to criminal gangs and crime families, so we have Category:Organized crime in the United States by ethnicity tree. This category tree is different though: it categories individual biography articles by the intersection of ethnicity and criminal conviction. I'm certainly open to categories grouping sociological/criminology articles about ethnicity and crime but assuming these attributes are automatically linked fore each person is unfounded and prone to abuse. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: I notified Dwscomet as the creator for most subcategories and I added this discussion to WikiProject Ethnic groups. I'll also tag all participants (pro/con/other) from the earlier discussions: @ Black Falcon, BrownHairedGirl, Carlossuarez46, Cgingold, and Dimadick:, @ Good Olfactory, Johnpacklambert, Koavf, Liz, and Malik Shabazz:, @ Mitchumch, Philosopher, Prinsgezinde, Prisencolin, and SMcCandlish:, @ Y and Zagalejo:RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Yeah, we should follow up with most of Category:American mobsters by ethnic or national origin. RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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1 and 2 article categories named after composers

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The result of the discussion was: delete Category:Stanisław Moniuszko (contains only the main article and a "Compositions by" subcategory), no consensus on the rest (contain more than one article and/or multiple subcategories, or opposition to merge target) and recommend separate nominations unless the categories are directly related (e.g. Gilbert and Sullivan). -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:29, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEPON ( WP:SMALLCAT)
These categories are all underpopulated and the composers are already linked in every article so this isn't aiding navigation. A lot of these nominations have well populated subcategories for the works they created, but WP:OCEPON discourages us from creating eponymous categories on that basis alone. No objection to recreating any of the categories should we ever get up to 5 or so directly related articles. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:29, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: I added this discussion to WikiProject Composers. – RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:53, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been notified to WikiProject Classical music and WikiProject Opera. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:45, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Post Close Note @ Gidonb: My apologies for misunderstanding your point. RevelationDirect ( talk) 23:26, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional female military personnel by ethnicity or nationality

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:Fictional females in the United States Army to Category:Fictional female military personnel and Category:Fictional United States Army personnel and delete Category:Fictional female military personnel by ethnicity or nationality since that one will become empty. ( non-admin closure) Marcocapelle ( talk) 03:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary intermediate category layer; the parent category contains three subcats (this is one of them), and this category only contains one subcat. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:22, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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October 1

Category:People from Chapeltown, Leeds

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: This only contained one article ( Andrew Watts) and it wasn't clear from the article whether it was correctly in the category (a link was disambiguated to another Chapeltown and the reference doesn't say which). "People from Leeds" would be enough, at least for people born after 1904. Peter James ( talk) 19:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Delete -- The only article seems to have been removed. There is another Chapeltown on the edge of Sheffield, which seems at least as likely, short of evidence of actual right place. Both are in Yorkshire, as is Penistone, so that a Yorkshire category is appropriate. Peterkingiron ( talk) 21:49, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Australian sheep shearers

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The result of the discussion was: delete, merging two pages up to Category:Sheep shearers. – Fayenatic London 23:09, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF, most people in this category are defined as a trade unionist (especially as an official of the Australian Workers' Union) rather than as a sheep shearer. There are two exceptions: Jackie Howe and William Smith (shearer) who both are indeed clearly notable as a shearer, the best solution is to move these two to Category:Sheep shearers. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC) reply
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  • Sheep shearing is both a profession and a sporting activity in both Australia and New Zealand. Both of the people mentioned as worthy of inclusion are competitive sports shearers, as are those in the NZ category. I've restored the category links. Grutness... wha? 00:34, 6 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Reminds me of the old joke. Australian man sees another man in a close "embrace" with a sheep and says to him, "Are you shearing that sheep?". The man replies, "No. It's my sheep and I'm not sharing her with anyone!" (works best with an Australian accent). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:03, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Church of Ireland archbishops

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. xplicit 00:45, 26 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale IT's a description, not a title as it's in the usual plural form. There are no bishops of Armagh, only archbishops. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 15:04, 8 September 2017 (UTC) reply
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Comment The title "Archbishop of Cashel" works for an article. It does not work for a category which are usually in the plural form as they often are simply lists, as is the case with the current nominations. In which case, "Archbishops of Cashel" is capitalised because it happens to be the first word. Had the article name been "List of archbishops of Cashel", it would not have been capitalised. Having said that, I would not oppose your alt suggestion of Category:Archbishops of Cashel (Anglican) and Category:Archbishops of Cashel (Catholic). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 12:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply
My previous comment was misconceived. There were no Anglicans before the reformation, so the Bishops of Armagh were not Anglican bishops. I favour Category:Archbishops of Armagh (Anglican) etc. Verbcatcher ( talk) 19:45, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Oppose suggestion - post Reformation the Christian church in Ireland adopted Protestantism and all of its structures organisation and physical wise became part of the Church of Ireland. The Catholic church had to basically start anew with new churches and parochial structure etc. So the bishops and archbishops of the established church in Ireland which had turned Protestant technically are the direct successor but that is a matter of debate. So if you are to change one to have a bracketed distinguishing then the Catholic ones should also and the present page used as a disamb page. Mabuska (talk) 15:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - even if Archbishop is a title, does that mean archbishops is also a title? Seeing as there is only one archbishop for each area at a time there can't be a plural title surely? I think that's the crux of the issue. If archbishops is not a title then use the small a if not then capital A. Mabuska (talk) 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
FYI the Roman Catholic paralel structure uses lower case, nor caps (e.g. Category:Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh). Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:57, 19 October 2017 (UTC) reply
@ Peterkingiron: your counter-proposal, although not rejected by the nominator, was opposed by Mabuska as inconsistent with other categories, such as the Catholic siblings. Given the explanations above, are you able to withdraw your opposition to the nomination? – Fayenatic London 14:23, 4 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Personally I think Category:Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh is incorrect, since the title is Arcbbishop of Cashel. I draw analogy with "Duke of Buckingham", not "duke of Buckingham". However, it is time for this discussion to be closed in one direction or the other. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:48, 5 November 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Rename per nomination, as I find the nominator's arguments persuasive. – Fayenatic London 22:14, 7 November 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Rename to Anglican archbishops of X (1st choice), per nom, or to Archbishops of X (Anglican) (2nd choice), but not Anglican Archbishops of X. I think this is ultimately a question of style, since both the descriptive form Anglican archbishops of X and the titular form Archbishops of X (Anglican) are accurate. There is not currently a single convention, with 74 categories that use Anglican (arch)bishops of X ( here and here) and 45 categories that use Anglican (Arch)Bishops of X ( here and here). There are a few dozen categories named (Arch)Bishops of X (Fooian), but they form a small minority. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 04:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Kindergarten teachers

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Of the seven members, maybe one is known for teaching kindergarten, sort of. Two others also are actual educators (and are already categorized, one way or the other, as such); the others are famous for something else, but happened to have taught kindergarten at some point, so for them it is certainly not WP:DEFINING. Mangoe ( talk) 15:16, 16 September 2017 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:40, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Media companies based in South Africa

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The result of the discussion was: merge. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Complete overlap with Category:Media companies of South Africa Rathfelder ( talk) 19:08, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Texts only found in the Septuagint

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Texts in the Septuagint and recategorize as proposed by User:Fayenatic london at 11:19, 27 October 2017 (UTC). -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:59, 12 November 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT because its content is identical to Category:Anagignoskomena (the extra canonical books of the Eastern Orthodox churches) including its subcategory Category:Deuterocanonical books (the extra canonical books of the Catholic Church). Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • @ Fayenatic london: Thanks for looking into this a little bit further. It occurs to me now also that the original nomination is flawed because it would unjustly remove the extra books of the Septuagint from the Septuagint tree. Your alternative would solve that problem too. Another solution could be to keep the category and instead nominate Category:Anagignoskomena to become a disambiguation page, that might also be more in line with the comment of RevelationDirect. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:23, 8 October 2017 (UTC) reply
1 the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint are books. It's known what is included in the Hebrew Bible, and the differences between the versions of the Septuagint are uncontested and minimal. It helps to be able to compare two books to each other. (as compared to a religious convention, for there are many differences between the denominational cannons).
2 I couldn't even easily find "Anagignoskomena" in the wiki universe; in Wikipedia it's a sub-sub chapter of Biblical apocrypha. The word doesn't exist in wikidata, so it doesn't exist in other wikis, in any language. In contrast to the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, which both have Wikipedia entries, in many languages.
3 As the purpose of Wikipedia is to be universally accessible, it's important to use the more common phrases. Therefore, if anything must be deleted, it should be: "Category:Anagignoskomena".
4 It should be realized that the Wikipedia in English serves as a basic international Wikipedia, and as a standard for the Wikipedias of other languages. Writers of this Wikipedia should be aware of this. Therefore, comparing the Hebrew Bible to the Septuagint is more appropriate for non-Christian readers.

Besides, I agree about " Letter of Aristeas", that it should be moved, as Fayenatic suggested. Shilonite 16:41, 9 October 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by שילוני ( talkcontribs)

  • I agree with these points and would like to stress that ALT2 (defined further up as keeping the category and instead nominating Category:Anagignoskomena to become a disambiguation page) would solve most issues addressed in this discussion. 20:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
I've heard "Anagignoskomena" to refer to books in the Eastern or African cannons but not found in the Catholic one. Clearly though, we would need a well sourced article to define this obscure term. RevelationDirect ( talk) 01:14, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Further to comment below I strongly object to this title. gidonb ( talk) 12:52, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. At the moment, this seems to be the, if slightly thin, consensus. If somebody wants to discuss possible diffusion/rediffusion at the WikiProject level, and come to a firm consensus for that, then these can be recreated or alternatively re-diffused at some point, with that consensus as justification, but for now, merge it is. The Bushranger One ping only 06:14, 4 November 2017 (UTC) reply
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge on the one hand per WP:SMALLCAT, this scheme leads to many very small categories; on the other hand the scheme is anachronistic, these administrative regions did not exist during the French Revolution. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Merge most, not all - Ile de France is well enough populated to keep, as is Burgundy. For the rest, I would prefer to be merging to pre-revolutionary provinces, rather than post-revolutionary departments, if that will create a category of at least 5 articles. However there is a quantity of undiffused articles: will any of these make the number up to 5? Peterkingiron ( talk) 21:22, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I see some problems here. Firstly, I have had a look at some of these undiffused articles, and in some cases the reason why they are undiffused is that it is not obvious which location they should be identified with. Secondly, the pre-revolutionary provinces and their exact borders are now rather obscure, even for Wikipedians who know a bit about France, making this task difficult. PatGallacher ( talk) 17:54, 2 October 2017 (UTC) reply
As implied in my opinion, my concern was not so much with the population of the categories as it was with the exaggeration in the number of conditions to be included in the categories. In Wikipedian we sometimes speak of reaching a intersection that is no longer defining. So yes, Marco, I set out to solve another problem than the one you raised and no, Fayenatic, I do not think the detail at the level of Category:Executed people from Alsace is sufficient, although some spatial detail would be better than none at all.
Since I do like spatial detail also in combination with the French revolution killings I'm willing to forgo just a few cases of 1 member categories, included for consistency and a few other low population categories. Again not so much my concern, however the population per category and another concern that someone has raised before: that some of these geographies are not so well known anymore could both be resolved by using current geographies. Personally I'm fine also with the old ones, as long as it is one level higher than the current.
And yes, also the categories I suggested would be marginally better populated. Hardly a difference is still a difference. Yet I wasn't after the 1 member or so more per category. I was after organizing this once by execution method and once by region. gidonb ( talk) 02:28, 31 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Anime and manga ships

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Category is too small, per WP:NARROWCAT the ships don't need to be distinguished in their own subcategory as being from Anime/manga. It arguably only has one member, as the Space Battleship Yamato is not generally defined as a "ship" rather than a "spaceship". ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Universal Century

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at 2017 October 27 with sub-categories. – Fayenatic London 11:50, 27 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Title is not appropriate per MOS:INUNIVERSE, and should reflect that Universal Century is a Gundam term. This should also reflect in its subcategories. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:42, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Gundam weapons

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:09, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT this is an unnecessary category. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:38, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Anime and manga weapons

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT this is an unnecessary category. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 15:37, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional Japanese swords

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:34, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT the category is unnecessary. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 14:46, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
  • I support the merge in principle but I note that neither of the two member articles is really about fictional swords so there may be nothing to merge. Zanbatō is about a real type of sword although there is coverage of its use in fiction. Japanese swords in fiction is an essay article that needs some attention. It seems to be more about real sword types being used in fictional settings than about fictional swords or fictional types of swords. So I agree that the category is unnecessarily narrow, I just question whether any merge is necessary either? Maybe this is a delete instead? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 17:32, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Catalonian building and structure stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Catalan building and structure stubs. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 03:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Not sure which form is the correct one for Catalonia, but we don;t need both. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:51, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:American criminals by ethnic or national origin

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I will upmerge the Irish and Italian 'mobsters' subcategories to the appropriate American people of [X] descent by occupation category, so they are not completely removed from that category tree. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 21:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEGRS
There is certainly an ethnic component to criminal gangs and crime families, so we have Category:Organized crime in the United States by ethnicity tree. This category tree is different though: it categories individual biography articles by the intersection of ethnicity and criminal conviction. I'm certainly open to categories grouping sociological/criminology articles about ethnicity and crime but assuming these attributes are automatically linked fore each person is unfounded and prone to abuse. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: I notified Dwscomet as the creator for most subcategories and I added this discussion to WikiProject Ethnic groups. I'll also tag all participants (pro/con/other) from the earlier discussions: @ Black Falcon, BrownHairedGirl, Carlossuarez46, Cgingold, and Dimadick:, @ Good Olfactory, Johnpacklambert, Koavf, Liz, and Malik Shabazz:, @ Mitchumch, Philosopher, Prinsgezinde, Prisencolin, and SMcCandlish:, @ Y and Zagalejo:RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Yeah, we should follow up with most of Category:American mobsters by ethnic or national origin. RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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1 and 2 article categories named after composers

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The result of the discussion was: delete Category:Stanisław Moniuszko (contains only the main article and a "Compositions by" subcategory), no consensus on the rest (contain more than one article and/or multiple subcategories, or opposition to merge target) and recommend separate nominations unless the categories are directly related (e.g. Gilbert and Sullivan). -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:29, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEPON ( WP:SMALLCAT)
These categories are all underpopulated and the composers are already linked in every article so this isn't aiding navigation. A lot of these nominations have well populated subcategories for the works they created, but WP:OCEPON discourages us from creating eponymous categories on that basis alone. No objection to recreating any of the categories should we ever get up to 5 or so directly related articles. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:29, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: I added this discussion to WikiProject Composers. – RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:53, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been notified to WikiProject Classical music and WikiProject Opera. Voceditenore ( talk) 06:45, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Post Close Note @ Gidonb: My apologies for misunderstanding your point. RevelationDirect ( talk) 23:26, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional female military personnel by ethnicity or nationality

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:Fictional females in the United States Army to Category:Fictional female military personnel and Category:Fictional United States Army personnel and delete Category:Fictional female military personnel by ethnicity or nationality since that one will become empty. ( non-admin closure) Marcocapelle ( talk) 03:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary intermediate category layer; the parent category contains three subcats (this is one of them), and this category only contains one subcat. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon ( talk) 01:22, 1 October 2017 (UTC) reply

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