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Category:Winners of All-Ireland medals by count (hurling)

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners, and merge all proposed. (non-admin closure) sst✈discuss 05:12, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Winners of All-Ireland medals by count (hurling) to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of one All-Ireland medal (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of two All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of three All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of four All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of five All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of six All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of seven All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of eight All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
  • Propose merging Category:Winners of ten All-Ireland medals (hurling)‎] to Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medalists
Nominator's rationale: The frequency of the medal is mostly not a more defining element than having won a medal in general - more often than not, it is the team the athlete played for when winning the medal that is far more definitive and could improve navigation. I suggest we rename the parent and merge all to a general medalists category, as per usual style. Note that contextualised information about number of medals won/with what team/when is already present at List of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medal winners (and even List of hurlers with an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up medal!) SFB 23:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Universiade competitors by country

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The result of the discussion was: delete. No enthusiasm and no strong argument for keeping Category:Universiade competitors has been evident, so I'm not going to merge to it. If it's non-defining to have been a Universiade competitor for a particular country, it's most likely non-defining to have been a Universiade competitor at all. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

propose deleting all country child categories
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Australia
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Azerbaijan
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Belgium
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Brazil
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Canada
  • Category:Universiade competitors for China
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Chinese Taipei
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Czech Republic
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Denmark
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Dominican Republic
  • Category:Universiade competitors for France
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Germany
  • Category:Universiade competitors for India
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Iran
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Ireland
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Italy
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Ivory Coast
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Jamaica
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Japan
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Kazakhstan
  • Category:Universiade competitors for South Korea
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Latvia
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Lithuania
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Malaysia
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Mexico
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Moldova
  • Category:Universiade competitors for New Zealand
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Norway
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Poland
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Russia
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Slovenia
  • Category:Universiade competitors for South Africa
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Thailand
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Turkey
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Ukraine
  • Category:Universiade competitors for Uruguay
Nominator's rationale: Building on the failed nomination in July:

The act of competing for a given country at the Universiade is not defining aspect for an athlete. This competition is not a top level one for any sport, in that only students may take part. Participation in this competition is not sufficiently defining of a person that they warrant direct navigation to their countryfolk who have also appeared at the event. Appearances are almost always a small part of a professional athlete's career and being selected for the Universiade is neither a story of note, nor an overall career objective for any sportsperson.

I believe the tree under Category:Competitors at multi-sport events by country should be used for open-class global or continental Games only. To have two categories (year of appearance and country) for each and every competition that an athlete has taken part in is excessive. One could say the current arrangement without expanding it further is already excessive, for example see Michael Frater. SFB 16:49, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin, twelve times

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) sst✈discuss 08:07, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:SMALLCAT
These aren't different degrees or levels of the award, these are people who received the same award twice or a dozen times. In the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin was the highest decoration awarded except for 1944-1957 but, since this award is no longer issued, none of these categories have any room for growth.. I'm sympathetic that the parent category is large enough to need diffusion, but this breakdown isn't defining. - RevelationDirect (talk) 13:12, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Soviet Union. – RevelationDirect (talk) 13:12, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Given that a single category could become unwieldy, as others have, what "diffusion" criteria would you support? Ones that occur to me are: occupation (eg, political & Politburo, military, science, etc), nationality (eg, foreign & the various Soviet nationalities), time periods (eg, by date, conflict, etc). I still contend that the higher frequencies reflect those who are in political favour, therefore of interest and distinctive. I'll see how the discussion developes before deciding my view. Folks at 137 (talk) 08:32, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I share your concern about diffusion, although these subcategoriess are only diffusing a small percentage anyway. The obvious breakdown would be by SSR but I suspect a large majority would by Russian. If it is clear that awards were granted on non-subjective categories (military, science) etc that would work too and I'm inferring from the articles that this is the case but not all of them explicitly say why the award was given. Determining why the award was given in the 1944-1957 time frame is important because this award award served double duty during that time to recognize 25 years of military service which isn't defining. RevelationDirect (talk) 10:31, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:37, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution, twice
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
During the 24 years that the Soviet Union issued this award, 106,462 were handed out per the article so over 4,000 per year. Recent nominations have implied that there may be a consensus that top-level national awards are defining but this is only a second-level award--the highest being the Order of Lenin. Most telling though is the actual articles: most either don't mention the award at all or only include it in a list of other awards. - RevelationDirect (talk) 13:09, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Soviet Union. – RevelationDirect (talk) 13:09, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Necrothesp: The Purple Heart nomination was grouped with another award and ended in no consensus back in 2012. I was thinking of giving it another go. RevelationDirect (talk) 17:03, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't take away from the fact that the award currently under consideration is for merit, not being unlucky. How many Bronze Stars have been awarded by the USA? They're often handed out like sweets. How many long-serving American combat veterans haven't got one? Yet we have Category:Recipients of the Bronze Star Medal. I'd like to see you try to get that deleted! There would be outrage. That's what I mean about systemic bias. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:00, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Necrothesp: 17,498 Bronze Stars were issued as of 2004 and it started in 1944, so about 292 a year. So the Bronze Star is about 20 times rarer (per year issued) than this award. RevelationDirect (talk) 20:45, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Establishments in New Sweden

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as in modified nomination. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:46, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
propose deleting all container categories that become empty after the above merge
  • Propose deleting Category:1630s establishments in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1640s establishments in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1650s establishments in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:Establishments in New Sweden by decade
  • Propose deleting Category:History of New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:Centuries in New Sweden‎
  • Propose deleting Category:1630s in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1640s in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1637 in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1638 in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1641 in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1646 in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1653 in New Sweden
  • Propose deleting Category:1637 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire added per discussion below
  • Propose deleting Category:1638 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire added per discussion below
  • Propose deleting Category:1641 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire added per discussion below
  • Propose deleting Category:1646 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire added per discussion below
  • Propose deleting Category:1653 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire added per discussion below
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, only 5 establishment articles in this entire tree easily fit in a single category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:05, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • While not disagreeing, I would suggest to leave the discussion about "colonial empire" for another time, the proposed merge is complex enough. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:33, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Disestablishments in New Sweden

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:47, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:1655 disestablishments in New Sweden‎ to Category:1655 disestablishments in North America‎ and Category:1655 disestablishments in the Swedish colonial empire‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in New Sweden by year
  • Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in New Sweden by century‎
  • Propose deleting Category:17th-century disestablishments in New Sweden‎
  • Propose deleting Category:1650s disestablishments in New Sweden‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in New Sweden by decade‎
  • Propose deleting Category:1655 in New Sweden‎
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per the spirit of WP:C1, the only disestablishment article in this New Sweden tree is the disestablishment of New Sweden itself. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:05, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • The proposal is actually to not keep this in the New Sweden category. Based on your reaction I guess you won't disagree with that. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:35, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Public domain images ineligible for copyright in the United States but not in their source countries

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 10:12, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Public domain images ineligible for copyright in the United States but not in their source countries to Category:Images ineligible for copyright in the United States but not in their source countries
Nominator's rationale: "Public domain" is misleading. In fact, we should respect local laws that certain images may apply. For instance, the United Kingdom can consider less original logos copyrightable enough, like the logo of Edge (magazine). We can't consider them free just because the US says so in regards to non-US works. Georgie says "Happy Halloween!" (BOO!) 05:22, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
31 Songs is definitely non-free in the US. As for Anglia, it's not eligible for copyright in the US; it has blue and yellow triangles and a common quadrilateral forming a letter "A". Look at examples in commons:COM:TOO#United States. I'll find copyright laws of Ghana soon; no comment on AWA. --George Ho (talk) 14:34, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Stefan2: Rename the category or retain the current name? George Ho (talk) 07:59, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Whichever, as long as the category isn't deleted. These days, most categories tend to use the word 'file' instead of 'image', so it might be useful to change that word in the template. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:24, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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