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Merge per nom. –
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Category:East German sailors
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Nominator's rationale: There's only one category in here, which is about the sport. There's no need to have this redudant layer.
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Category:Tongan women sailors
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one person in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. If not merged, the category should be repurposed/parented to be Tongan sailors.
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Merge for now, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:12th-century Danish sailors
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's no need to have an underpopulated category for this occupation. The category creator has the habit of creating the category and then not populating it. (If kept, I think the category should be broadened to all 12th-century sailors)
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Just delete, the article is already in a subcategory of each of the targets.
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Category:Solomon Islands women poets
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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's really not a large enough content to support this subcategory of Solomon Islands women writers
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Merge per nom, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:Mali-Canada relations
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Nominator's rationale: A Canada-Mali relations category already exists that follows the naming pattern for these types of cats. I moved the one category in this one to the correct one already (apologies if doing this incorrectly, first time)
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Category:English triplets
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Nominator's rationale:merge, only one article left in this category after implementation of
this earlier discussion, which is not helpful for navigation.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I have added
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Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge per nom. –
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Category:Hebrew gods
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Nominator's rationale:merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory.
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Delete - mainly because Hebrew is a language, thus it is unclear what this means - all gods written about in Hebrew? But Marcoapelle, you know this and are also arguing for the deletion of Cat:Hebrews. As for the merge, you are trying to merge that at the moment so what happens if that succeeds? I note that
El (deity) is is a term used in the
Hebrew Bible.
Israelites is relevant but as
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Hebrews, ": "Historians mostly consider the Hebrews as synonymous with the Israelites, with the term "Hebrew" denoting an Israelite from the nomadic era that preceded the establishment of the united Kingdom of Israel. However, in some instances, the designation "Hebrews" may also be used historically in a wider sense, referring to the Phoenicians or other ancient civilizations, such as the Shasu on the eve of the Late Bronze Age collapse.""
Doug Wellertalk 14:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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Category:Philipsidae
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Category:Things named after Tolkien works
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Thank you. Support all, of course.
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Comment: I created "Category:Things named after Tolkien works" in August 2022 after seeing "Category:Things named after Shakespearean works", so that should go too, if this is bad. I wasn't aware that these categories seem to be frowned upon, i see multiples discussions in the past where they have been deleted.--Milowent • hasspoken 17:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, the Shakespeare one should definitely go too. --
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Category:IBM Stubs
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Nominator's rationale: Unused stub template and category. As always, it's not helpful to have an endless profusion of virtually unused stub templates and categories specially dedicated to every possible topic under the sun, so stub categories aren't free for just any user to create on a whim -- there have to be at least 60 articles to use a template on before it can legitimately have its own dedicated category. This template hasn't been applied to anything at all, however, so I have to presume that it was meant for
IBM the computer company and not some other
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Category:Computing stubs), meaning that this template would add nothing but unnecessary duplicate parent-and-child categorization. Further, both the template and the category have actually been misspelled -- note both the capitalization of "Stubs" in the category and the non-capitalization of "bm" in the template name. So the category isn't warranted if the template isn't already on 60 articles, and even the template isn't necessary at all if a dedicated category isn't viable.
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Support per nom and the template should be deleted too.
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Category:Big League World Series Regions
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I did see that, and disagree the set cannot be a proper noun. CfD for r/R consistency then?
Hyphenation Expert (
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Support, these are regions (small r) of the Big League World Series.
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Merge per nom. –
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Category:East German sailors
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Nominator's rationale: There's only one category in here, which is about the sport. There's no need to have this redudant layer.
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Category:Tongan women sailors
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one person in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. If not merged, the category should be repurposed/parented to be Tongan sailors.
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Merge for now, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:12th-century Danish sailors
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's no need to have an underpopulated category for this occupation. The category creator has the habit of creating the category and then not populating it. (If kept, I think the category should be broadened to all 12th-century sailors)
Mason (
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Just delete, the article is already in a subcategory of each of the targets.
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Category:Solomon Islands women poets
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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's really not a large enough content to support this subcategory of Solomon Islands women writers
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Merge per nom, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:Mali-Canada relations
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Nominator's rationale: A Canada-Mali relations category already exists that follows the naming pattern for these types of cats. I moved the one category in this one to the correct one already (apologies if doing this incorrectly, first time)
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Category:English triplets
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Nominator's rationale:merge, only one article left in this category after implementation of
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Marcocapelle (
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I have added
Category:British triplets to the nomination because it would be emptied as a result of merging. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge per nom. –
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Category:Hebrew gods
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Nominator's rationale:merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete - mainly because Hebrew is a language, thus it is unclear what this means - all gods written about in Hebrew? But Marcoapelle, you know this and are also arguing for the deletion of Cat:Hebrews. As for the merge, you are trying to merge that at the moment so what happens if that succeeds? I note that
El (deity) is is a term used in the
Hebrew Bible.
Israelites is relevant but as
User:Dimadick in that deletion discussion, quoting
Hebrews, ": "Historians mostly consider the Hebrews as synonymous with the Israelites, with the term "Hebrew" denoting an Israelite from the nomadic era that preceded the establishment of the united Kingdom of Israel. However, in some instances, the designation "Hebrews" may also be used historically in a wider sense, referring to the Phoenicians or other ancient civilizations, such as the Shasu on the eve of the Late Bronze Age collapse.""
Doug Wellertalk 14:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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Qwerfjkltalk 17:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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Category:Philipsidae
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Category:Things named after Tolkien works
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Thank you. Support all, of course.
Marcocapelle (
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Comment: I created "Category:Things named after Tolkien works" in August 2022 after seeing "Category:Things named after Shakespearean works", so that should go too, if this is bad. I wasn't aware that these categories seem to be frowned upon, i see multiples discussions in the past where they have been deleted.--Milowent • hasspoken 17:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, the Shakespeare one should definitely go too. --
woodensuperman 22:06, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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Category:IBM Stubs
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Nominator's rationale: Unused stub template and category. As always, it's not helpful to have an endless profusion of virtually unused stub templates and categories specially dedicated to every possible topic under the sun, so stub categories aren't free for just any user to create on a whim -- there have to be at least 60 articles to use a template on before it can legitimately have its own dedicated category. This template hasn't been applied to anything at all, however, so I have to presume that it was meant for
IBM the computer company and not some other
unrelated use of that initialism, but a quick scan of
Category:IBM failed to find more than a tiny handful of articles that could legitimately be tagged as stubs -- and the very few I did find are all already tagged as {{compu-network-stub}} or something else that's already a subcategory of the only possible alternative place for this to upfile any entries to (i.e.
Category:Computing stubs), meaning that this template would add nothing but unnecessary duplicate parent-and-child categorization. Further, both the template and the category have actually been misspelled -- note both the capitalization of "Stubs" in the category and the non-capitalization of "bm" in the template name. So the category isn't warranted if the template isn't already on 60 articles, and even the template isn't necessary at all if a dedicated category isn't viable.
Bearcat (
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Support per nom and the template should be deleted too.
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Category:Big League World Series Regions
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I did see that, and disagree the set cannot be a proper noun. CfD for r/R consistency then?
Hyphenation Expert (
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Support, these are regions (small r) of the Big League World Series.
Marcocapelle (
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