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For both nominations: they are not
WP:SMALLCAT, as there is potential for them to grow. For the first one, I have added two pages to it, so it can definetly be expanded, I simply cannot explore the whole WP, but WP is a community project so I believe others will add this category to the pages which need it. For the second one, see
here to see that there is still many manuscripts of the VL which are not on WP.
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Oppose "Vetus Latina" refers to Biblical and liturgical texts in Latin originating before the Vulgate. This is specific enough to warrant a category.
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Nominator's rationale: Aydın Central District, which seems to have somehow had two different categories before, has been renamed Efeler District.
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Category:Cultural depictions of dinosaurs
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It is not a matter of "good enough", rather a matter of sheer quantity. We have many more articles about humans than about dinosaurs (or any other type of animals) which allows us to build a more detailed category tree for humans.
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Nominator's rationale:WP:OVERCAT. There are three subcategories of
Category:Works by Dinesh D'Souza, and there are four articles, all of which are in two or more of those categories. They are virtually unviewed as the four articles (plus the article on D'Souza) all cross-link anyway. If these categories are useful at all, there should only be one of them. Guy (
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Support. I think it was that old name when I created it maybe over four years ago. I think this would fall under speedy C2D criteria anyways. --
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Delete as an
eponymous category for an event without the volume of spinoff content needed to warrant one. There are just four articles here besides the eponym itself: the street it occurred on, the perpetrator and two journalists. But the street isn't
defined by one event that took place on it, as note the fact that it already had a Wikipedia article a full decade before this event had even happened at all — and it's
performer by performance for the journalists, because a journalist is not defined by the stories he or she happened to cover. So the only entries that genuinely belong here are the event itself and the perpetrator, which is not enough articles to warrant a dedicated category — and both the street and the perpetrator are already mentioned and linked in the event article as it is, so deleting this category would not erase any navigational value.
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Category:Anniversary compilation albums
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Delete. Compilation albums are not defined by the question of whether they exist because of something's anniversary or for some other reason.
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Category:Alsatian
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Nominator's rationale: Two-item
WP:SMALLCAT for a linguistic dialect, at an ambiguous name. "Alsatian" can mean many different things, including the language, the people of Alsace, the culture of Alsace or a breed of dogs, so it isn't an appropriate name for a category in and of itself. If a category were warranted here, it would have to be either
Category:Alsatian language or
Category:Alsatian dialect, without a categoryredirect from this -- but with just two articles here, I'm not seeing the need for it. That said, I can be convinced to withdraw this if people more knowledgeable about this topic than I am can find other articles to populate a renamed category with -- but even if that can happen, the category has to be renamed for clarity.
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Category:Illustrators who write novels
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT for a non-defining intersection of two only tangentially related occupations. It is entirely possible for a person to be both an illustrator and a writer, either performing both roles on their own books or performing one role on some books and the other role on others, but art and writing are not intrinsically related skills. It also brings up the question of whether the person is primarily an illustrator and then wrote novels on the side, or primarily a novelist and then did some illustration on the side, and in fact the four entries here split right down the middle on that: two, including
Len Deighton, are far more notable for their writing than their illustration per se, while the other two appear to be more notable as illustrators than as writers. This simply isn't a defining intersection in its own right — and even if there were a case for categorizing people for the artist-writer combo in principle, it would still be far from clear that we would need separate categories for illustrators who also wrote novels, illustrators who also wrote poetry, illustrators who also wrote non-fiction and illustrators who also wrote short stories.
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Category:Historic electorates of New Zealand
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Nominator's rationale: The correct usage here is "historical" (of or concerning history or past events) not "historic" (famous in history).
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Keep -- I cannot see what is wrong with this. I do not think the phosphine discussion is a useful precedent, as the content there was a groups of related chemicals. Alloys are by their nature mixed materials.
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For both nominations: they are not
WP:SMALLCAT, as there is potential for them to grow. For the first one, I have added two pages to it, so it can definetly be expanded, I simply cannot explore the whole WP, but WP is a community project so I believe others will add this category to the pages which need it. For the second one, see
here to see that there is still many manuscripts of the VL which are not on WP.
Veverve (
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20:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose "Vetus Latina" refers to Biblical and liturgical texts in Latin originating before the Vulgate. This is specific enough to warrant a category.
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15:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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It is not a matter of "good enough", rather a matter of sheer quantity. We have many more articles about humans than about dinosaurs (or any other type of animals) which allows us to build a more detailed category tree for humans.
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Category:Films with screenplays by Dinesh D'Souza
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Nominator's rationale:WP:OVERCAT. There are three subcategories of
Category:Works by Dinesh D'Souza, and there are four articles, all of which are in two or more of those categories. They are virtually unviewed as the four articles (plus the article on D'Souza) all cross-link anyway. If these categories are useful at all, there should only be one of them. Guy (
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Support. I think it was that old name when I created it maybe over four years ago. I think this would fall under speedy C2D criteria anyways. --
Ricky81682 (
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08:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as an
eponymous category for an event without the volume of spinoff content needed to warrant one. There are just four articles here besides the eponym itself: the street it occurred on, the perpetrator and two journalists. But the street isn't
defined by one event that took place on it, as note the fact that it already had a Wikipedia article a full decade before this event had even happened at all — and it's
performer by performance for the journalists, because a journalist is not defined by the stories he or she happened to cover. So the only entries that genuinely belong here are the event itself and the perpetrator, which is not enough articles to warrant a dedicated category — and both the street and the perpetrator are already mentioned and linked in the event article as it is, so deleting this category would not erase any navigational value.
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12:51, 27 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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Delete. Compilation albums are not defined by the question of whether they exist because of something's anniversary or for some other reason.
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Nominator's rationale: Two-item
WP:SMALLCAT for a linguistic dialect, at an ambiguous name. "Alsatian" can mean many different things, including the language, the people of Alsace, the culture of Alsace or a breed of dogs, so it isn't an appropriate name for a category in and of itself. If a category were warranted here, it would have to be either
Category:Alsatian language or
Category:Alsatian dialect, without a categoryredirect from this -- but with just two articles here, I'm not seeing the need for it. That said, I can be convinced to withdraw this if people more knowledgeable about this topic than I am can find other articles to populate a renamed category with -- but even if that can happen, the category has to be renamed for clarity.
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT for a non-defining intersection of two only tangentially related occupations. It is entirely possible for a person to be both an illustrator and a writer, either performing both roles on their own books or performing one role on some books and the other role on others, but art and writing are not intrinsically related skills. It also brings up the question of whether the person is primarily an illustrator and then wrote novels on the side, or primarily a novelist and then did some illustration on the side, and in fact the four entries here split right down the middle on that: two, including
Len Deighton, are far more notable for their writing than their illustration per se, while the other two appear to be more notable as illustrators than as writers. This simply isn't a defining intersection in its own right — and even if there were a case for categorizing people for the artist-writer combo in principle, it would still be far from clear that we would need separate categories for illustrators who also wrote novels, illustrators who also wrote poetry, illustrators who also wrote non-fiction and illustrators who also wrote short stories.
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Keep -- I cannot see what is wrong with this. I do not think the phosphine discussion is a useful precedent, as the content there was a groups of related chemicals. Alloys are by their nature mixed materials.
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