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Category:Shanghai skyscrapers to Category:Skyscrapers in Shanghai

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The result of the debate was Rename. Martin 21:11, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to the standard "in" form for man made objects, which will match the parent category Category:Skyscrapers in China. CalJW 23:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Horse racing venues

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In October an agreement was reached to rename all of these to a neutral form, ie. "venues", but it was only implemented for some of those which used British English. Either the agreement should be applied to North America as well, or local terms should be used everywhere. I suggest that the previous agreement should now be fully implemented.

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Category:Filipino movie directors to Category:Philippine film directors

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Film directors is the agreed standard form as per Category:Film directors by nationality. (The inconsistency of the Filipino/Philippine/of the Philippines categories should all be dealt with at once I think, and I'll try to get round to it one day.) CalJW 23:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)Okay merge into a new Category:Filipino film directors. I was trying to avoid the complications of raising two issues at once, which can lead to a no consensus outcome even when no-one supports the existing name, but it didn't work. CalJW 21:16, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Pharmaceutical companies by nationality to Category:Pharmaceutical companies by country

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:28, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Companies are categorised by country in Category:Companies by country and in various other specialist categories. Pharmaceutical companies are based in countries, but they can hardly be said to have nationality affinities. Rename Category:Pharmaceutical companies by country for consistency. CalJW 23:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Smokers

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:23, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Typecast Actors

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

POV and not very useful. JW 20:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or convert back to list. This is an inappropriate category. As a list it might have a discussion of what character each actor has been typecast into. I don't know why it was changed from a list to a category to begin with. -Willmcw 22:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity brothers to Category:Alpha Phi Alpha brothers

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be completely redundant. Proposal is to merge to category name more similar to others in Category:United States student societies Dystopos 15:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mongolian languages to Category:Mongolic languages

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Mongolic" refers unambiguously to the language family. "Mongolian languages" could mean "languages spoken in Mongolia". I've already renamed the article Mongolic languages, and the category should be renamed to match. Angr (t·c) 12:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. "Mongolian" is the more commonly established name for the language family, and is used by databases such as Ethnologue. Also, "-ian" is used in other language family names as well, including where they could appear to ambiguously refer to an established country, e.g. "Burman", "Iranian", "Armenian", etc. language families. - Gilgamesh 13:29, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
"Mongolic languages" actually gets more Google hits than "Mongolian languages" once you exclude Wikipedia from the search. What Ethnologue does is irrelevant. "Burman" and "Iranian" are unambiguous because the local languages are called "Burmese" and "Persian", and "Armenian" is only a language, not a family. Compare also The Mongolic Languages, a scholarly reference book. Searching for "Mongolian languages" on Amazon only turns up books about the Mongolian language. --Angr (t·c) 13:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose whether it has more google hits or not,mongolic doesn't sound right.--Jondel 10:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cities with significant Arab Israeli populations

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Category talk:Cities with significant Arab Israeli populations: "If this category must stay, it should be at least be better defined. What does a significant Arab population mean? For example, Nazerat Illit was just added to that category. On what basis? According to that page, this town has only 9% Arab pupulation, which while is not zero (of course), is certainly not "significant", and in fact is lower than the Arab-Israeli percentage in the whole of Israel (20%). The small number of Arab-Israelis in Nazerat Illit is particularly glaring when you compare it to the neighboring city of Nazareth (which is mostly populated by Arab-Israelis). So we need a better definition of a significant population. Are we talking "more than 1%"? "more than 10%"? More than their share in the general population (20%)? Nyh 10:19, 10 November 2005 (UTC)" In addition, the user who initiated this category inserted a description "Cities in Israel that are chiefly Arab Israeli cities or have significant Arab Israeli populations." [1] and has placed the sub-categories Category:Haifa; Category:Jerusalem; Category:Tel Aviv into this "super-category" which does not even mention "Israel" in its Category name, only "Arab Israeli" which is clearly POV. IZAK[reply]

Note: As of: 17:42, 4 December 2005, User:Gilgamesh emptied the category and placed an "empty" template on it [2] that officialy requests "speedy deletion" of this category. IZAK 03:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kyiv city to Category:Kiev city

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The result of the debate was rename as nominated --Kbdank71 16:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have no personal opinion on this controversial matter, but it is clear that after great discussion a preference was established to use Kiev for the timebeing. The main article and the two subcategories both do so. I have no objection to them all being changed one day, but for now I would like the category to agree to the article. Rhollenton 03:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Eagle Scout users

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 16:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I inadvertently created a category with the wrong name while making an edit.

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