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Category:Films set in the Hyborian Age

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Note that all articles are also represented in Category:Films based on works by Robert E. Howard. bibliomaniac15 03:26, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: We do not typically create categories for specific fictional settings. Consistency with the other subcategories of Category:Conan the Barbarian. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
+ Or alt merge to Category:Films set in prehistory, since prehistory seems to be the real-world concept that is closest to the fictional Hyborian Age. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:46, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films set in Genosha

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 18:47, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Same reason as below, except that neither film is in Category:Films set in a fictional country (or Category:Films set on fictional islands, which is not applicable for Wakanda). See also Genosha, which is a fictional African country from the X-Men franchise. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:39, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films set in Wakanda

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 18:48, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Wakanda is a fictional African country in Marvel Comics. We don't normally create categories for specific fictional settings, per WP:SMALLCAT. All members except the redirect are already in Category:Films set in Africa and Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe films. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional sycophants

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 17:06, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Vague and subjective what belongs in there JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 21:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films set in the Thurian Age

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 17:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: SMALLCAT. The Thurian Age is a fictional period and as such this should not be merged into the "Films set in pre-history" category. ★Trekker (talk) 19:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scottish Gaelic language

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The result of the discussion was: do not rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:19, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per Talk:Scottish Gaelic#Requested move 15 August 2020, everyone else agreed that Scottish Gaelic is not ambiguous. Therefore, I am reopening the CfD. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 18:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nearly every language category contains "language" in the title. It would be helpful to keep some consistency. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Consistency is the point. The article and the category are inconsistent. Are there many cases where the article doesn't have "language" and the category does? Largoplazo (talk) 11:23, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Substantively, this proposed rename creates avoidable ambiguity and breaks consistency with other categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:46, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @BrownHairedGirl: I've asked you before to explain where any ambiguity lies, and I don't believe I've seen any response from you. Here you again claim ambiguity without indicating alternative meanings. What else do you believe "Scottish Gaelic" means?
In addition, why don't you think the consistency should be with the article name? If language article names expressly don't need to be consistent on this score, why is it more important for language categories? That question is really for everybody here who keep citing "consistency" as a reason. Largoplazo (talk) 22:52, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Consistency and non-ambiguity is much more important with category names than with article names, for multiple reasons:
  1. A wide variety of tools rely on that consistency
  2. Ambiguous category names lead to miscategorisation which is hard to detect. Hatnotes in categories don't solve the problem, because they are not displayed to editors when adding categories, nor by any means other than visiting the category page. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:18, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for your response. Regarding Scottish Gaelic culture, we are told that disambiguation doesn't apply to phrases that begin with the term in question. Scottish Gaelic culture isn't called, elliptically, "Scottish Gaelic"—in other words, "I enjoy Scottish Gaelic" won't be interpreted as "I enjoy Scottish Gaelic culture". However, your explanation regarding the difference between categories and articles does clarify that for categories there are technical factors not applicable to articles, and I consider myself informed. Largoplazo (talk) 02:36, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American people of Iraqi-Arab descent

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 November 2#Category:American people of Iraqi-Arab descent

Category:Pride parades in Poland

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 16#Category:Pride parades in Poland

Category:Musical characters

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 17:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant to its subcat Category:Fictional musicians, and ambiguously titled to boot. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 05:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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