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Nominator's rationale: The bacterial class Epsilonproteobacteria has been dismantled and a new phylum erected in its place (see
here). A new stub template has been created for this new phylum and placed in the appropriate articles. There is no longer any use for this stub and the expected associated category (
Category:Epsilonproteobacteria stubs) does not exist.
Ninjatacoshell (
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I'm confused. Are you nominating the template for deletion? If so, shouldn't you do that at
WP:TFD instead of here? --
ItMarki (
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Stub templates may be nominated here.
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Nominator's rationale:delete,
West Lusatia is not a real region and the category mainly contains populated places for which the term West Lusatia is not defining.
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose. I'm surprised that this has been nominated for deletion. The concept "West Lusatia" or Westlausitz has been around for 70 years and is testified, not just in the literature, but in culture. For example, there is a West Lusatian dialect and a West Lusatian Museum. What is a "real region"? West Lusatia may not be a formal administrative entity, but it appears to be geographically and linguistically quite well defined.
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Nominator's rationale: Not a defining category. Just a mix of people involved in two unrelated things
Unbh (
talk) 14:23, 10 May 2022 (UTC)reply
(strong) Delete "People who have been in an MCU movie and have also been nominated for/won an Oscar" is not a category, let alone a defining one. Even tightening the scope to "people who have been nominated for an Oscar for their work in an MCU movie" is dubious, as it isn't very defining and would presumably be child to Oscar winners/noms and MCU people (if such a category exists; and if it doesn't, indeed sounding too fan-centric as I write this, then a child category certainly shouldn't) - which would somewhat preclude inclusion on all three even though someone can be involved with many MCU films, some they will be nominated for and others not, and can be nominated for Oscars for things other than their MCU contributions, i.e. it would be too much unnecessary category overlap even making the scope more reasonable for a category. It's also limited to actors, it seems, which is oddly restrictive and also a massive indicator that it's fancruft created by someone who only knows/cares about the acting groups and how 'good' they are in hardware terms... like some MCU promotion for getting a bunch of Oscar winners? Weird. I would've CfD'd it myself, if it wasn't already.
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Nominator's rationale: By definition, if it's colonial it isn't "state". This is by analogy with rename of people category to Category:People of the Province of New York.
Peter Flass (
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Support and speedy consequential rename for all children and siblings. Province was the contemporary term.
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Nominator's rationale: The hyphen is awkward, but there is no article or real-world category with which we can uncontroversially compare. –
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Support. Seems to be the correct spelling.
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Nominator's rationale: This would match the rest of
Category:Clergy by nationality. But we do have
Category:Iranian Shia clerics. I'm not sure what distinction is intended, and my Oxford English Dictionary doesnt really help. I find it hard to see that both terms exist in Farsi, but perhaps I am mistaken.
Rathfelder (
talk) 12:35, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose, as far as I am aware, (a) "cleric" generally is an outdated term for an ordained religious person (e.g. a priest or imam), but strangely enough this term is still in use for Iranians and the nominated category is exactly about Iranians.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 22:50, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I dont think adapting to local usage is always helpful. In Scotland, for example, priests are often called "divines", but we havent renamed our categories in line.
Rathfelder (
talk) 16:56, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak support for consistency sake.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 18:12, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not suggesting any change to
Category:Iranian Shia clerics. There is a parent
Category:Shia clerics. The only explanation for the different uses that I can see is that "Clergy" has been thought to imply Christianity, although that is not how Wikipedia uses the term.
Rathfelder (
talk) 10:14, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Seems like the participants are split between merging to either
Category:Islamic religious leaders or
Category:Iranian religious leaders. Relisting in hopes this old discussion gets some better outcome than "no consensus". Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
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Nominator's rationale: The bacterial class Epsilonproteobacteria has been dismantled and a new phylum erected in its place (see
here). A new stub template has been created for this new phylum and placed in the appropriate articles. There is no longer any use for this stub and the expected associated category (
Category:Epsilonproteobacteria stubs) does not exist.
Ninjatacoshell (
talk) 20:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm confused. Are you nominating the template for deletion? If so, shouldn't you do that at
WP:TFD instead of here? --
ItMarki (
talk) 11:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)reply
Stub templates may be nominated here.
Marcocapelle (
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Qwerfjkltalk 19:19, 10 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:delete,
West Lusatia is not a real region and the category mainly contains populated places for which the term West Lusatia is not defining.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:34, 20 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I'm surprised that this has been nominated for deletion. The concept "West Lusatia" or Westlausitz has been around for 70 years and is testified, not just in the literature, but in culture. For example, there is a West Lusatian dialect and a West Lusatian Museum. What is a "real region"? West Lusatia may not be a formal administrative entity, but it appears to be geographically and linguistically quite well defined.
Bermicourt (
talk) 18:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Extraordinary Writ (
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Qwerfjkltalk 19:17, 10 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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Category:Professors of the University of Cambridge
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Nominator's rationale: Not a defining category. Just a mix of people involved in two unrelated things
Unbh (
talk) 14:23, 10 May 2022 (UTC)reply
(strong) Delete "People who have been in an MCU movie and have also been nominated for/won an Oscar" is not a category, let alone a defining one. Even tightening the scope to "people who have been nominated for an Oscar for their work in an MCU movie" is dubious, as it isn't very defining and would presumably be child to Oscar winners/noms and MCU people (if such a category exists; and if it doesn't, indeed sounding too fan-centric as I write this, then a child category certainly shouldn't) - which would somewhat preclude inclusion on all three even though someone can be involved with many MCU films, some they will be nominated for and others not, and can be nominated for Oscars for things other than their MCU contributions, i.e. it would be too much unnecessary category overlap even making the scope more reasonable for a category. It's also limited to actors, it seems, which is oddly restrictive and also a massive indicator that it's fancruft created by someone who only knows/cares about the acting groups and how 'good' they are in hardware terms... like some MCU promotion for getting a bunch of Oscar winners? Weird. I would've CfD'd it myself, if it wasn't already.
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Nominator's rationale: By definition, if it's colonial it isn't "state". This is by analogy with rename of people category to Category:People of the Province of New York.
Peter Flass (
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Support and speedy consequential rename for all children and siblings. Province was the contemporary term.
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Nominator's rationale: The hyphen is awkward, but there is no article or real-world category with which we can uncontroversially compare. –
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Support. Seems to be the correct spelling.
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Nominator's rationale: This would match the rest of
Category:Clergy by nationality. But we do have
Category:Iranian Shia clerics. I'm not sure what distinction is intended, and my Oxford English Dictionary doesnt really help. I find it hard to see that both terms exist in Farsi, but perhaps I am mistaken.
Rathfelder (
talk) 12:35, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose, as far as I am aware, (a) "cleric" generally is an outdated term for an ordained religious person (e.g. a priest or imam), but strangely enough this term is still in use for Iranians and the nominated category is exactly about Iranians.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 22:50, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I dont think adapting to local usage is always helpful. In Scotland, for example, priests are often called "divines", but we havent renamed our categories in line.
Rathfelder (
talk) 16:56, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak support for consistency sake.
Laurel Lodged (
talk) 18:12, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not suggesting any change to
Category:Iranian Shia clerics. There is a parent
Category:Shia clerics. The only explanation for the different uses that I can see is that "Clergy" has been thought to imply Christianity, although that is not how Wikipedia uses the term.
Rathfelder (
talk) 10:14, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Seems like the participants are split between merging to either
Category:Islamic religious leaders or
Category:Iranian religious leaders. Relisting in hopes this old discussion gets some better outcome than "no consensus". Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Steel1943 (
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