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Merge or reverse merge, the two categories have an identical purpose.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 08:42, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Combine I'll defer to others for the best name but these clearly overlap. -
RevelationDirect (
talk) 19:28, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Combine / merge, Seem to serve the same purpose. No strong feelings over which should be the preferred name.
Eagleash (
talk) 20:12, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge Same scope.
Dimadick (
talk) 22:55, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge No objections to merging, they have the same scope. I would suggest keeping the name "Automotive Businesspeople" as it makes the category much easier to find, as there are dozens of categories named "Businesspeople in __" to scroll through, which is how a duplicate category was accidentally created. — Preceding
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Wildwillmor (
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Reverse merge Automotive businesspeople is just as clear, and less wordy.
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Category:Water Polo players at the 1955 Pan American Games
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Mayors in Utrecht (province)
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Nominator's rationale: merge per
WP:SMALLCAT, just one, two or three articles in each of these categories and they are not part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme.
Marcocapelle (
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Merge All For Now These places obviously had more than 5 mayors but most are likely non-notable. No objection to recreating any if they get up to 5+ articles. -
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Upmerge all. These are all too small to be justified.
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Category:Suburbs in Colombo District
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:delete, redundant category layer, Colombo District mainly consists of the city of Colombo, so this category can't contain anything else but
Category:Suburbs of Colombo.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete it overlaps with the other suburbs category.
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Category:Politicians by regional unit of Greece
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Nominator's rationale: contains only 2 sub categories. Not enough articles about Greek politicians to populate many more. The rest of
Category:People by administrative region in Greece contains only geographical categories.
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Category:Clans of Hao
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The result of the discussion was:delete. —
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Nominator's rationale: Newly created category with sinigle entry. The linked article does not mention Hao in the text so unclear what is about. No
Clans of Hao article.
Hao is a dab page with no entry for a clan
noq (
talk) 11:38, 12 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep hao is a term mainly used by Meitei to mean the various tribes.But in fact many research finding shows Meitei community itself included among the term hao.
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Zeke, the Mad Horrorist(Speak quickly)(Follow my trail) 20:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Heterocyclic compounds according to element
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Comment A stray comment has been moved to the body. –
LaundryPizza03 (
dc̄) 01:23, 15 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose how about we delete that
WP:SMALLCAT instead to avoid all this busy work! For each of these categories there could be many more entries, it is just that no one has got around to writing them yet. Remember that categories always start with a small number of entries and grow from there. Any way there is potential for growth so SMALLCAT is inapplicable.
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 02:36, 15 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Zeke, the Mad Horrorist(Speak quickly)(Follow my trail) 20:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose —
Category:Heterocyclic compounds by element was just CfD last month, and it instead became a Speedy CfR, so there is support for it. Removing half its subcategories seems counterproductive. I'm not an organic chemist, but it seems there is ample room for future expansion. William Allen Simpson (
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Category:Destroyed landmarks in Croatia
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: A pure container category, per other recent CSDs "landmark" is subjective and shouldn't be used, and the sub-cats are already properly sub-catted elsewhere.
SportingFlyerT·C 20:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Formerly missing people found dead
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete not defining, someone missing for a few minutes as in "where are you honey?" and then discovered deceased seems to fit the bill but is probably a common occurrence for those who died unattended.
Carlossuarez46 (
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Delete A temporary status that is not defining. -
RevelationDirect (
talk) 02:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete, once people are found dead they are no longer missing, so it is very unlikely they will be remembered as missing as a primary characteristic.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete We do not need to classify people by everything that happens. This is sadly far too common, and not long ter defining.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 15:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete. There are lots of categories relating to death which are completely superfluous. Very few people are defined by the circumstances of their death.
Rathfelder (
talk) 19:34, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep In many of the articles covered, people were missing for years or decades, until their remains were covered. They should not be removed from categories concerning missing people.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:21, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Can you give some examples of articles where you think it's a defining characteristic? In the sample of articles I looked at (e.g.
Etika) it isn't. DexDor(talk) 06:30, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Agree that it may be defining in case people were missing for an exceptionally long period. But where would we draw the line? We will run in an
WP:ARBITRARYCAT issue with this. A list is a better solution.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Well to pick at random one case
Murder of Rashawn Brazell (so not technically an article on a person at all) shows that Mr. Brazell's dismembered body was found the same month he went missing. So it seems like we have used the guideline that you were officially reported missing and then found dead. Since you can be officially reported missing after only 24-hours in some cases, many of these cases will mainly be thought of as murders, not as missing person cases turned to murders.
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Category:Animated television series featuring female protagonists
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Nominator's rationale:Listify or Delete: As discussed
at this CfD, the use of terms such as protagonist and antagonist has been contentious in the past, to the point that
WP:PROTAGONIST was created as a way of addressing original research concerns. Converting this category into a list will allow sources to be provided clearly establishing that the television series belongs as a member of the list.
DonIago (
talk) 19:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete no objection to listification is reliable sources tell us this is a notable characteristic.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 20:56, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and I wonder if a list would not run into the same problem.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 08:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as not a defining characteristic. "Featuring" and "protagonist" are original research editor judgment calls and seldom actually sourced or mentioned in the articles. Female characters in principal cast is fairly universal so pointless to use that as criteria. Female character as lead character is generally sourced in credits as first listed and that is likely what was desired for inclusion here. Still so common as to be pointless to categorize.
Geraldo Perez (
talk) 19:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this is merging all sorts of unlike things. A list would not be helpful either.
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Category:Yakuza films
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Nominator's rationale:Rename per current convention, to make more clear that this category is for films where the yakuza play a significant role, versus incidental appearances.
DonIago (
talk) 19:27, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Withdrawing per Dimadick's argument below.
DonIago (
talk) 02:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete another "films about" category without objectively-defined inclusion criteria much less any inkling of what reliable sources tell us that each film merits inclusion. If this is a notable genre, listify it and source it.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 20:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose The main article is called
Yakuza film, and defines it a specific genre.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
That is a reasonable oppose. I have struck my earlier support.
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Whether something is poisonous (can be fatal or extreme irritant to humans) depends upon how it is prepared, the amount consumed, how vulnerable the human is etc. Hence, it's not a good characteristic to categorize by. In some if the articles in the category (e.g.
Agave) there is little/no mention of the plant being poisonous. Note: there is
List of poisonous plants. See previous CFDs e.g.
minerals and
fish. DexDor(talk) 18:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and precedent. Even plants on our everyday table may have toxins that may harm susceptible people. Potatoes come to mind.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 21:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Almost everything is poisonous if taken in sufficient quantity. It's just that the sufficient quantity varies between things.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 03:18, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete. Poisonous is subjective, dependent on dose and potentially negated by preparation techiques. Nicotiana tabacum is in the category and is consumed daily by around 1 billion people with essentially no deaths due to acute toxicity (cancer deaths from chronic use are common, but that doesn't seem to be what the category is about). Many culinary herbs could be toxic if consumed in far larger quantities than is typical. Other plants in the category that are commonly consumed with no problems at normal doses (and leaving cancer aside) include: Areca catechu,
Boldo, Lablab, Mentha pulegium, Phytolacca americanaPimenta racemosa, Ruta graveolens, Sambucus, Silybum marianum, and Solanum nigrum.
Plantdrew (
talk) 16:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is too species-dependent. Some plants that are relatively safe for humans, such as
chocolate, are poisonous to other animals. (The list is specific to humans and domestic animals.) –
LaundryPizza03 (
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Delete this is not really defining to plants, especially because as pointed out in the nomination lots of factors can effect this.
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Category:Korea Image Awards Winners
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:WP:OCAWARD, no corresponding article for
Korea Image Award or similar, no indication of notability and there's no mention of the award in the main text of several of the included articles.
Le Deluge (
talk) 18:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is an overcategorization by award.
John Pack Lambert (
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Comment I copied the current category contents
right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start a list article. -
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The result of the discussion was:rename to
Category:People of the Russian Empire, etc, but using "from" rather than "of" for historians, geographers, geologists and emigrants per siblings. –
FayenaticLondon 13:42, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
The following were added as
speedy housekeeping by admin action; most were originally created by the nominator, some during the course of this discussion:
The following were also processed in error, as they were separately listed above, or on other log pages, but are now all relisted on the January 26 log:
Note this category was created by the obstructionist after this nomination was made, with no other justification than to make the work to create this nomination even bigger than it was otherwise — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Johnpacklambert (
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That is untrue. I created it to serve as a container category for the many sportspeople categories that you were creating. I named it as I did because I thought it best to wait for the outcome of this discussion before changing it to "Russian Empire". Which is more than can be said for your decision to name all of the subcategories using "Russian Empire".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:10, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Added renameCategory:Imperial Russian schoolteachers to
Category:Russian Empire schoolteachers (why do we have this category and educators as well. I would try to solve that issue, but to make any headway I would have to nominate every category, and that would just plain be a mess. This one is taking long enough.)
Comment I know I put in more yesterday, but I guess I lost the edit. This is very frustrating. Here goes more additions.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:30, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment This is taking a long time. I probably will need manage to add any more entries until Monday.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
That should be it. I think all categories using the Imperial Russian formaition have been nominated.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:31, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose unless all of the subcategories are nominated; they have not yet been.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:36, 5 December 2020 (UTC)reply
This is par for the course obstructionism. There are an insanely high number of categories, probably in excess of 100 all told. It is a tedious process to nominate even one category for renaming. I am trying to nominate everything but there is a huge amount of stuff here.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 14:11, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I'm not obstructing anything. You are free to nominate as many as you choose, but I am stating my opinion that they should not be changed unless all of them are changed. This is a fairly common opinion that is often expressed in big nominations. Making big changes sometimes requires a large amount of work.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
You are being obstructionist. You are intentially making this category bigger so that you can ide behind your proceduralism to enforce the existing system and make it too hard for any editor to actually change things to the way they ought to be. That is the very definition of obstructionism.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I have no idea what you are talking about. You're certainly not assuming good faith.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 07:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Johnpacklambert: I suppose you would not have been satisfied with leaving half of these categories in the old format, would you? So that's basically the same thing that GOF aims for.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 12:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
And to be clear, I support the proposal if all of the categories are nominated. So I'm hardly being "obstructionist".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 00:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support Clearer scope.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:35, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support As long as whole tree is nominated.
SFB 04:52, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment I am not nominating any of the military related subsections. That is because the force categories seem to have articles like
Imperial Russian Navy. I think that particular set of issues needs to be considered seperately.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:25, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Most if not all of those categories had 1 or 2 entries. I really do not see the point in preserving such small categories.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:27, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Johnpacklambert, if you disagree with the existence of a category, you should nominate it for deletion, not empty it. And you certainly should not be emptying out "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories and replacing them with "Russian Empire FOOs".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Which is not at all what I was doing. I was emptying the people to parent categories because I makes no sense to have 1 or 2 entry by occupation categories for a given nationality. Obstructionists who assume bad faith on the part of others would not at all realize this.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Well, I found and redirected a number of new "Russian Empire FOOs" categories to the corresponding "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories. You created the new ones and populated them after nominating the "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories, so you can't exactly claim you weren't aware of them.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 07:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support, now that JPL has completed the necessary nominations.
Good Olfactory is correct, please respect the process. If there were too many, it might have been better to nominate the parent, then work your way down the tree.
I would suggest waiting to make a decision on the two Armenian related categories for a seperate discussion. There is a broader discussion on the issue in progress, and it is clear that some feel in some countries the Citizen of country x+Armenain form works (Lebanon is probably the modern country where there is the strongest argument for it. Likewise the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union all have strong reason for us to use this form. With historical Armenian areas under the control of the Russian Empire (more so than either the Soviet Union or modern Armenia, some of what was the Russian Empire and mainly Armenian is now in Turkey), even if an Armenian was living in St. Petersburg, Moscow or Kiev, they would still be able to travel home to ancestral areas of pure Armenianess at will. So I think it is the
Category:Russian Empire people of Armenian descent we don't need.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:21, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Great, please remove all the "descent" categories that should not be currently under consideration here. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 15:55, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Jewishness is an ethno-religious category, so comparing it to Russian Orthodoxy is just not accurate. Also keep in mind that ERGS rules say that we do not categorize by something that is overwhelmingly common. Thus we would never make a category
Category:English people of English descent. I have reservations about Jewish descent, especially applied pre-1900. Pre-1900 the idea people could cease to be religious Jews and still in some sense be Jews was not really accepted. So having a Jewish parent or once Jewish parent while not in any way yourself being Jewish was not really defining at the time. The think is
Category:People of Jewish descent is a multi-national category. I think at one time I managed to get it deleted, arguing that for these people the fact that they are just of this descent, and do not in any way fit the designation "Jewish", meant that it was inherently non-defining. However others felt such a need to categorize by it the category came back.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:34, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Russian Orthodoxy is also an ethno-religious category. The main body would normally be Orthodox Catholic, but the Russian Orthodox split themselves. Around here, the Russian Orthodox community actually send their children to a Russian-only speaking school. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 16:00, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I'm glad there is something we agree upon.
Category:People of Jewish descent was deleted in 2007, 2009, and 2011. But let's start here. There is nothing notable about having Jewish ancestors in the Russian Empire. As opposed to actually being a Jewish rabbi. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 16:07, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I don't question that as a justified move. However I think to do it you would need to create a seperate nomination to get it done. If I recall correctly there is only one person in that category.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:56, 18 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support It's an improvement in my book (better scope and wording). Sadkσ(talk is cheap) 05:14, 8 January 2021 (UTC)reply
As far as I can tell the scope is not meant to be changed at all, although the scope is more clear from the new name.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 14:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Support clearer scope overall and consistency with other categories. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 02:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Admin question: there is consensus now to change from using "Imperial" to "Empire", but as so much work has gone into this nomination, can we first check whether to use "Russian Empire people" which is like 7 "Empire" siblings in
People by former country (ignoring one newly-created duplicate), or "People of the Russian Empire" which is like 34 "Empire" siblings? –
FayenaticLondon 10:53, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I think "X of the Russian Empire" is the more idiomatic phrasing for these categories, but either outcome is an improvement so happy to support either.
SFB 11:08, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Russian Empire people is much better. It is more concise. Plus it is way better when we get to sub-cats. For example "Russian Empire historians" is going to work much better than "Historians of the Russian Empire". The later will make people think this is about what they study instead of the polity they are subjects of.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:40, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I would not object to either of the toe variants. With historians both are tricky, we might better use "from" in that case.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 15:24, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
With current polities we generally use the demonym "Fooian people"; but with former polities former empires we generally use "People of Foo". –
FayenaticLondon 10:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Aha, I mis-remembered the point that I was making. 123 out of 211 use "People of", which is only a little over half, but "People of" is predominant where the former country does not have a single adjective but uses a compound name, e.g. Fooian Empire/ Kingdom/ Republic. –
FayenaticLondon 10:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)reply
"People of the Russian Empire" seems to be the standard to match other categories for former states. I would support this.
Dimadick (
talk) 19:07, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Also support "People of the Russian Empire" as the most idiomatic phrasing.
SFB 19:22, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
People of the Russian Empire, and record guideline for compound names of former polities. (My watch on this page had expired, this has taken so bloody long.) William Allen Simpson (
talk) 19:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I am okay with either of the two.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 21:59, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Both seems okay, but "People of the Russian Empire" sounds more right. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 23:23, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I would leave this issue to another day – perhaps a broader nomination to address all of the siblings. But either seems to be OK.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:43, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Category:Diseases in the trenches
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Comment -- While both are identified with WWI, neither is specific to it. The fever is a lice-born disease, while the foot was first identified in 1812. If kept, rename to
Category:Diseases of trench warfare.
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
CommentTrench fever became notable during World War I, but the main article indicates that it was not a new disease. It has been found in the remains of people who lived between the 1st and the 19th century. Would World War I be defining for it?
Dimadick (
talk) 23:42, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete. Although possibly best known for WWI these diseases aren't specifically about WW1. Thus, the relationship between the diseases and WW1 should be (just) by normal text/links.
Category:Foot diseases etc are sufficient categorization. DexDor(talk) 07:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this connection is not defining to the diseases in question in a way that they are worth categorizing by. Nor does it make them a distinct group.
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Category:Politicians by second-level administrative country subdivision
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Nominator's rationale: This intermediate category appears only to work for the USA. I cant see why we need to keep
Category:County officers in the United States in a third level subcategory. In other places administrative levels dont seem to be used in the same way.
Rathfelder (
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Plain deletion fine by me.
Rathfelder (
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Delete – in the USA, a "subdivision" refers to a plat of land, usually the division of a section into lots. There are no "country subdivisions"; in political science (or mapping) they'd be called "
administrative divisions". And this was done by a subsequently banned user. I'm surprised it wasn't cleaned up years ago. William Allen Simpson (
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Category:Banijay Group
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
MER-C 15:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Since the completion of Endemol Shine Group in July 2020, Banijay Group has been simplified its name as Banijay.
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Category:Hydroelectric power plants in the United States by state
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Nominator's rationale: Every other type of similar category is "stations" i.e. "Geothermal power stations", "Natural gas-fired power stations", "Oil-fired power stations", master category "Power stations" etc. jp×g 00:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
could each of the U.S. state sub-categories also be nominated at this time?
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Yeah, that seems condign to me. jp×g 21:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Hunter Marine
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
MER-C 15:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire)
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is an overcategorization by award.
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Category:Recipients of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:55, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this is a case of overcategorization by award.
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Merge or reverse merge, the two categories have an identical purpose.
Marcocapelle (
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Combine I'll defer to others for the best name but these clearly overlap. -
RevelationDirect (
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Combine / merge, Seem to serve the same purpose. No strong feelings over which should be the preferred name.
Eagleash (
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Merge Same scope.
Dimadick (
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Merge No objections to merging, they have the same scope. I would suggest keeping the name "Automotive Businesspeople" as it makes the category much easier to find, as there are dozens of categories named "Businesspeople in __" to scroll through, which is how a duplicate category was accidentally created. — Preceding
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Wildwillmor (
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Reverse merge Automotive businesspeople is just as clear, and less wordy.
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Category:Water Polo players at the 1955 Pan American Games
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Mayors in Utrecht (province)
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Nominator's rationale: merge per
WP:SMALLCAT, just one, two or three articles in each of these categories and they are not part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme.
Marcocapelle (
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Merge All For Now These places obviously had more than 5 mayors but most are likely non-notable. No objection to recreating any if they get up to 5+ articles. -
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Upmerge all. These are all too small to be justified.
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Category:Suburbs in Colombo District
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:delete, redundant category layer, Colombo District mainly consists of the city of Colombo, so this category can't contain anything else but
Category:Suburbs of Colombo.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete it overlaps with the other suburbs category.
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Category:Politicians by regional unit of Greece
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Nominator's rationale: contains only 2 sub categories. Not enough articles about Greek politicians to populate many more. The rest of
Category:People by administrative region in Greece contains only geographical categories.
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Category:Clans of Hao
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The result of the discussion was:delete. —
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Nominator's rationale: Newly created category with sinigle entry. The linked article does not mention Hao in the text so unclear what is about. No
Clans of Hao article.
Hao is a dab page with no entry for a clan
noq (
talk) 11:38, 12 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep hao is a term mainly used by Meitei to mean the various tribes.But in fact many research finding shows Meitei community itself included among the term hao.
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Zeke, the Mad Horrorist(Speak quickly)(Follow my trail) 20:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Heterocyclic compounds according to element
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Comment A stray comment has been moved to the body. –
LaundryPizza03 (
dc̄) 01:23, 15 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose how about we delete that
WP:SMALLCAT instead to avoid all this busy work! For each of these categories there could be many more entries, it is just that no one has got around to writing them yet. Remember that categories always start with a small number of entries and grow from there. Any way there is potential for growth so SMALLCAT is inapplicable.
Graeme Bartlett (
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Zeke, the Mad Horrorist(Speak quickly)(Follow my trail) 20:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose —
Category:Heterocyclic compounds by element was just CfD last month, and it instead became a Speedy CfR, so there is support for it. Removing half its subcategories seems counterproductive. I'm not an organic chemist, but it seems there is ample room for future expansion. William Allen Simpson (
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Category:Destroyed landmarks in Croatia
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: A pure container category, per other recent CSDs "landmark" is subjective and shouldn't be used, and the sub-cats are already properly sub-catted elsewhere.
SportingFlyerT·C 20:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Formerly missing people found dead
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete not defining, someone missing for a few minutes as in "where are you honey?" and then discovered deceased seems to fit the bill but is probably a common occurrence for those who died unattended.
Carlossuarez46 (
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Delete A temporary status that is not defining. -
RevelationDirect (
talk) 02:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete, once people are found dead they are no longer missing, so it is very unlikely they will be remembered as missing as a primary characteristic.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete We do not need to classify people by everything that happens. This is sadly far too common, and not long ter defining.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 15:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete. There are lots of categories relating to death which are completely superfluous. Very few people are defined by the circumstances of their death.
Rathfelder (
talk) 19:34, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep In many of the articles covered, people were missing for years or decades, until their remains were covered. They should not be removed from categories concerning missing people.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:21, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Can you give some examples of articles where you think it's a defining characteristic? In the sample of articles I looked at (e.g.
Etika) it isn't. DexDor(talk) 06:30, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Agree that it may be defining in case people were missing for an exceptionally long period. But where would we draw the line? We will run in an
WP:ARBITRARYCAT issue with this. A list is a better solution.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Well to pick at random one case
Murder of Rashawn Brazell (so not technically an article on a person at all) shows that Mr. Brazell's dismembered body was found the same month he went missing. So it seems like we have used the guideline that you were officially reported missing and then found dead. Since you can be officially reported missing after only 24-hours in some cases, many of these cases will mainly be thought of as murders, not as missing person cases turned to murders.
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Category:Animated television series featuring female protagonists
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Nominator's rationale:Listify or Delete: As discussed
at this CfD, the use of terms such as protagonist and antagonist has been contentious in the past, to the point that
WP:PROTAGONIST was created as a way of addressing original research concerns. Converting this category into a list will allow sources to be provided clearly establishing that the television series belongs as a member of the list.
DonIago (
talk) 19:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete no objection to listification is reliable sources tell us this is a notable characteristic.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 20:56, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and I wonder if a list would not run into the same problem.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 08:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete as not a defining characteristic. "Featuring" and "protagonist" are original research editor judgment calls and seldom actually sourced or mentioned in the articles. Female characters in principal cast is fairly universal so pointless to use that as criteria. Female character as lead character is generally sourced in credits as first listed and that is likely what was desired for inclusion here. Still so common as to be pointless to categorize.
Geraldo Perez (
talk) 19:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this is merging all sorts of unlike things. A list would not be helpful either.
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Category:Yakuza films
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Nominator's rationale:Rename per current convention, to make more clear that this category is for films where the yakuza play a significant role, versus incidental appearances.
DonIago (
talk) 19:27, 3 December 2020 (UTC) Withdrawing per Dimadick's argument below.
DonIago (
talk) 02:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete another "films about" category without objectively-defined inclusion criteria much less any inkling of what reliable sources tell us that each film merits inclusion. If this is a notable genre, listify it and source it.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 20:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose The main article is called
Yakuza film, and defines it a specific genre.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
That is a reasonable oppose. I have struck my earlier support.
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Whether something is poisonous (can be fatal or extreme irritant to humans) depends upon how it is prepared, the amount consumed, how vulnerable the human is etc. Hence, it's not a good characteristic to categorize by. In some if the articles in the category (e.g.
Agave) there is little/no mention of the plant being poisonous. Note: there is
List of poisonous plants. See previous CFDs e.g.
minerals and
fish. DexDor(talk) 18:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and precedent. Even plants on our everyday table may have toxins that may harm susceptible people. Potatoes come to mind.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk) 21:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Almost everything is poisonous if taken in sufficient quantity. It's just that the sufficient quantity varies between things.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 03:18, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete. Poisonous is subjective, dependent on dose and potentially negated by preparation techiques. Nicotiana tabacum is in the category and is consumed daily by around 1 billion people with essentially no deaths due to acute toxicity (cancer deaths from chronic use are common, but that doesn't seem to be what the category is about). Many culinary herbs could be toxic if consumed in far larger quantities than is typical. Other plants in the category that are commonly consumed with no problems at normal doses (and leaving cancer aside) include: Areca catechu,
Boldo, Lablab, Mentha pulegium, Phytolacca americanaPimenta racemosa, Ruta graveolens, Sambucus, Silybum marianum, and Solanum nigrum.
Plantdrew (
talk) 16:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is too species-dependent. Some plants that are relatively safe for humans, such as
chocolate, are poisonous to other animals. (The list is specific to humans and domestic animals.) –
LaundryPizza03 (
dc̄) 04:29, 5 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this is not really defining to plants, especially because as pointed out in the nomination lots of factors can effect this.
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Category:Korea Image Awards Winners
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:WP:OCAWARD, no corresponding article for
Korea Image Award or similar, no indication of notability and there's no mention of the award in the main text of several of the included articles.
Le Deluge (
talk) 18:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is an overcategorization by award.
John Pack Lambert (
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Comment I copied the current category contents
right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start a list article. -
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The result of the discussion was:rename to
Category:People of the Russian Empire, etc, but using "from" rather than "of" for historians, geographers, geologists and emigrants per siblings. –
FayenaticLondon 13:42, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
The following were added as
speedy housekeeping by admin action; most were originally created by the nominator, some during the course of this discussion:
The following were also processed in error, as they were separately listed above, or on other log pages, but are now all relisted on the January 26 log:
Note this category was created by the obstructionist after this nomination was made, with no other justification than to make the work to create this nomination even bigger than it was otherwise — Preceding
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That is untrue. I created it to serve as a container category for the many sportspeople categories that you were creating. I named it as I did because I thought it best to wait for the outcome of this discussion before changing it to "Russian Empire". Which is more than can be said for your decision to name all of the subcategories using "Russian Empire".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:10, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Added renameCategory:Imperial Russian schoolteachers to
Category:Russian Empire schoolteachers (why do we have this category and educators as well. I would try to solve that issue, but to make any headway I would have to nominate every category, and that would just plain be a mess. This one is taking long enough.)
Comment I know I put in more yesterday, but I guess I lost the edit. This is very frustrating. Here goes more additions.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:30, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment This is taking a long time. I probably will need manage to add any more entries until Monday.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
That should be it. I think all categories using the Imperial Russian formaition have been nominated.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:31, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Oppose unless all of the subcategories are nominated; they have not yet been.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 08:36, 5 December 2020 (UTC)reply
This is par for the course obstructionism. There are an insanely high number of categories, probably in excess of 100 all told. It is a tedious process to nominate even one category for renaming. I am trying to nominate everything but there is a huge amount of stuff here.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 14:11, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I'm not obstructing anything. You are free to nominate as many as you choose, but I am stating my opinion that they should not be changed unless all of them are changed. This is a fairly common opinion that is often expressed in big nominations. Making big changes sometimes requires a large amount of work.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
You are being obstructionist. You are intentially making this category bigger so that you can ide behind your proceduralism to enforce the existing system and make it too hard for any editor to actually change things to the way they ought to be. That is the very definition of obstructionism.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I have no idea what you are talking about. You're certainly not assuming good faith.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 07:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Johnpacklambert: I suppose you would not have been satisfied with leaving half of these categories in the old format, would you? So that's basically the same thing that GOF aims for.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 12:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
And to be clear, I support the proposal if all of the categories are nominated. So I'm hardly being "obstructionist".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 00:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support Clearer scope.
Dimadick (
talk) 23:35, 6 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support As long as whole tree is nominated.
SFB 04:52, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment I am not nominating any of the military related subsections. That is because the force categories seem to have articles like
Imperial Russian Navy. I think that particular set of issues needs to be considered seperately.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:25, 7 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Most if not all of those categories had 1 or 2 entries. I really do not see the point in preserving such small categories.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:27, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Johnpacklambert, if you disagree with the existence of a category, you should nominate it for deletion, not empty it. And you certainly should not be emptying out "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories and replacing them with "Russian Empire FOOs".
Good Ol’factory(talk) 01:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Which is not at all what I was doing. I was emptying the people to parent categories because I makes no sense to have 1 or 2 entry by occupation categories for a given nationality. Obstructionists who assume bad faith on the part of others would not at all realize this.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 17:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Well, I found and redirected a number of new "Russian Empire FOOs" categories to the corresponding "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories. You created the new ones and populated them after nominating the "Imperial Russian FOOs" categories, so you can't exactly claim you weren't aware of them.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 07:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Support, now that JPL has completed the necessary nominations.
Good Olfactory is correct, please respect the process. If there were too many, it might have been better to nominate the parent, then work your way down the tree.
I would suggest waiting to make a decision on the two Armenian related categories for a seperate discussion. There is a broader discussion on the issue in progress, and it is clear that some feel in some countries the Citizen of country x+Armenain form works (Lebanon is probably the modern country where there is the strongest argument for it. Likewise the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union all have strong reason for us to use this form. With historical Armenian areas under the control of the Russian Empire (more so than either the Soviet Union or modern Armenia, some of what was the Russian Empire and mainly Armenian is now in Turkey), even if an Armenian was living in St. Petersburg, Moscow or Kiev, they would still be able to travel home to ancestral areas of pure Armenianess at will. So I think it is the
Category:Russian Empire people of Armenian descent we don't need.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 13:21, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Great, please remove all the "descent" categories that should not be currently under consideration here. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 15:55, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Jewishness is an ethno-religious category, so comparing it to Russian Orthodoxy is just not accurate. Also keep in mind that ERGS rules say that we do not categorize by something that is overwhelmingly common. Thus we would never make a category
Category:English people of English descent. I have reservations about Jewish descent, especially applied pre-1900. Pre-1900 the idea people could cease to be religious Jews and still in some sense be Jews was not really accepted. So having a Jewish parent or once Jewish parent while not in any way yourself being Jewish was not really defining at the time. The think is
Category:People of Jewish descent is a multi-national category. I think at one time I managed to get it deleted, arguing that for these people the fact that they are just of this descent, and do not in any way fit the designation "Jewish", meant that it was inherently non-defining. However others felt such a need to categorize by it the category came back.
John Pack Lambert (
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Russian Orthodoxy is also an ethno-religious category. The main body would normally be Orthodox Catholic, but the Russian Orthodox split themselves. Around here, the Russian Orthodox community actually send their children to a Russian-only speaking school. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 16:00, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I'm glad there is something we agree upon.
Category:People of Jewish descent was deleted in 2007, 2009, and 2011. But let's start here. There is nothing notable about having Jewish ancestors in the Russian Empire. As opposed to actually being a Jewish rabbi. William Allen Simpson (
talk) 16:07, 14 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I don't question that as a justified move. However I think to do it you would need to create a seperate nomination to get it done. If I recall correctly there is only one person in that category.
John Pack Lambert (
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Support It's an improvement in my book (better scope and wording). Sadkσ(talk is cheap) 05:14, 8 January 2021 (UTC)reply
As far as I can tell the scope is not meant to be changed at all, although the scope is more clear from the new name.
John Pack Lambert (
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Support clearer scope overall and consistency with other categories. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 02:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Admin question: there is consensus now to change from using "Imperial" to "Empire", but as so much work has gone into this nomination, can we first check whether to use "Russian Empire people" which is like 7 "Empire" siblings in
People by former country (ignoring one newly-created duplicate), or "People of the Russian Empire" which is like 34 "Empire" siblings? –
FayenaticLondon 10:53, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I think "X of the Russian Empire" is the more idiomatic phrasing for these categories, but either outcome is an improvement so happy to support either.
SFB 11:08, 20 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Russian Empire people is much better. It is more concise. Plus it is way better when we get to sub-cats. For example "Russian Empire historians" is going to work much better than "Historians of the Russian Empire". The later will make people think this is about what they study instead of the polity they are subjects of.
John Pack Lambert (
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I would not object to either of the toe variants. With historians both are tricky, we might better use "from" in that case.
Marcocapelle (
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With current polities we generally use the demonym "Fooian people"; but with former polities former empires we generally use "People of Foo". –
FayenaticLondon 10:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Aha, I mis-remembered the point that I was making. 123 out of 211 use "People of", which is only a little over half, but "People of" is predominant where the former country does not have a single adjective but uses a compound name, e.g. Fooian Empire/ Kingdom/ Republic. –
FayenaticLondon 10:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)reply
"People of the Russian Empire" seems to be the standard to match other categories for former states. I would support this.
Dimadick (
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Also support "People of the Russian Empire" as the most idiomatic phrasing.
SFB 19:22, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
People of the Russian Empire, and record guideline for compound names of former polities. (My watch on this page had expired, this has taken so bloody long.) William Allen Simpson (
talk) 19:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I am okay with either of the two.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 21:59, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Both seems okay, but "People of the Russian Empire" sounds more right. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 23:23, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I would leave this issue to another day – perhaps a broader nomination to address all of the siblings. But either seems to be OK.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 23:43, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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Category:Diseases in the trenches
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Comment -- While both are identified with WWI, neither is specific to it. The fever is a lice-born disease, while the foot was first identified in 1812. If kept, rename to
Category:Diseases of trench warfare.
Peterkingiron (
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CommentTrench fever became notable during World War I, but the main article indicates that it was not a new disease. It has been found in the remains of people who lived between the 1st and the 19th century. Would World War I be defining for it?
Dimadick (
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Delete. Although possibly best known for WWI these diseases aren't specifically about WW1. Thus, the relationship between the diseases and WW1 should be (just) by normal text/links.
Category:Foot diseases etc are sufficient categorization. DexDor(talk) 07:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this connection is not defining to the diseases in question in a way that they are worth categorizing by. Nor does it make them a distinct group.
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Category:Politicians by second-level administrative country subdivision
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Nominator's rationale: This intermediate category appears only to work for the USA. I cant see why we need to keep
Category:County officers in the United States in a third level subcategory. In other places administrative levels dont seem to be used in the same way.
Rathfelder (
talk) 13:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Plain deletion fine by me.
Rathfelder (
talk) 19:35, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete – in the USA, a "subdivision" refers to a plat of land, usually the division of a section into lots. There are no "country subdivisions"; in political science (or mapping) they'd be called "
administrative divisions". And this was done by a subsequently banned user. I'm surprised it wasn't cleaned up years ago. William Allen Simpson (
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Category:Banijay Group
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
MER-C 15:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Since the completion of Endemol Shine Group in July 2020, Banijay Group has been simplified its name as Banijay.
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Category:Hydroelectric power plants in the United States by state
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Nominator's rationale: Every other type of similar category is "stations" i.e. "Geothermal power stations", "Natural gas-fired power stations", "Oil-fired power stations", master category "Power stations" etc. jp×g 00:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)reply
could each of the U.S. state sub-categories also be nominated at this time?
Hmains (
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Yeah, that seems condign to me. jp×g 21:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Hunter Marine
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The result of the discussion was:rename.
MER-C 15:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire)
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is an overcategorization by award.
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Category:Recipients of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
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The result of the discussion was:delete.
MER-C 19:55, 12 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete this is a case of overcategorization by award.
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