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Category:Guamanian musical instruments

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Dana boomer (talk) 17:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Guamanian musical instruments to Category:Guam musical instruments
Nominator's rationale: "Guam" is used rather than "Guamanian." Cf. Category:Guam society or Category:Guam priests. Possible speedy? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:42, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Uttar Pradesh portal categories

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. Courcelles 19:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
35 Uttar Pradesh portal categories
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/April to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal April anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/August to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal August anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/December to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal December anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/February to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal February anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/January to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal January anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/July to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal July anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/June to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal June anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/March to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal March anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/May to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal May anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/No Event to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal anniversaries with no event listings
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/November to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal November anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/October to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal October anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Anniversaries/September to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal September anniversaries
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Did you know to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal did you know
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected article to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected articles
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected article/2007 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected articles for 2007
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected article/2008 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected articles for 2008
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected article/2009 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected articles for 2009
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected article/2010 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected articles for 2010
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected biography to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected biographies
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected biography/2007 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected biographies for 2007
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected biography/2008 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected biographies for 2008
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected biography/2009 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected biographies for 2009
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected biography/2010 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected biographies for 2010
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected picture to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected pictures
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected picture/2007 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected pictures for 2007
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected picture/2008 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected pictures for 2008
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected picture/2009 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected pictures for 2009
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Selected picture/2010 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal selected pictures for 2010
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Uttar Pradesh news to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal news
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Uttar Pradesh news/2007 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal news for 2007
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Uttar Pradesh news/2008 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal news for 2008
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Uttar Pradesh news/2009 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal news for 2009
Propose renaming Category:Uttar Pradesh portal/Uttar Pradesh news/2010 to Category:Uttar Pradesh portal news for 2010
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Matching all other portal categories in format.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I made all these categories(no ownership calims, just an info). If the change is for standardization, I have no problem. --Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haidertcs 06:31, 25 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Belarusian American Jews

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Dana boomer (talk) 17:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Belarusian American Jews (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete. My impression is that this category is largely unnecessary and to the extent it is used at all, it is used incorrectly. Most pages tagged under this category, e.g. Ralph Asher Alpher, refer to people some of whose ancestors were ethic Jews who at some point in their lives lived in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the part of it that now is the country of Belarus. These people typically do not have any Belarussian ethic ancestry at all, and their Jewish ancestors would have typically, or at least very often, lived in various other parts of Russia during their lifetime. To categorize them as "Belarusian American Jews" seems quite incorrect and arbitrary to me. Nsk92 (talk) 12:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete or rename. Before reading the above, I had just removed Alpher from this category because he was born in Washington DC. If American-born persons are to be included, the category should be renamed "Americans of Belarusian-Jewish descent" as in the explanatory note on the category page. If a note is needed to explain what the title really means, then perhaps the note should be used as the title. Alternatively if the name "Belarusian American Jews" is maintained, then only persons born in what is now Belarus should be included. Dirac66 (talk) 13:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am not a fan of ethnic overcategorization in general, but in this case the category, whatever it is called, seems particularly problematic to me in terms of setting any kind of clear inclusion criteria. For example, if someone was born in Minsk around 1910 and whose family immigrated to the U.S. around 1914, would it be appropriate to categorize such a person as a "Belarusian American Jew"? My feeling is that it would not be. Unlike, say, Poland and Lithuania, Belarus had not ever existed as an independent country prior to 1991. During the pre-revolutionary (Russian Empire) period, people self-identified in two main ways: in terms of their ethnic origin (e.g. Jewish) and nationality/citizenship (Russian). It seems artificial to me to apply the modern label "Belarusian" to an ethincally Jewish person who lived in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire and likely moved around quite a lot and for whom the distinction between Belarus/Russia/Ukraine/Lithuania at the time was often largely an administrative rather than national issue. I could understand applying the label "Belarusian American Jew" to someone who was born in Belarus post 1991 and immigrated to the U.S. after that. But there are very few, if any, WP articles about such people. Nsk92 (talk) 15:15, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Soviet Union censuses

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Soviet Union censuses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Rename Category:Censuses in the Soviet Union per standard in Category:National censuses♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:United Kingdom censuses

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:United Kingdom censuses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Rename Category:Censuses in the United Kingdom per standard in Category:National censuses♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Billboard Award winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 07:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Billboard Award winners (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Removal per Wikipedia:OC#Award recipients, an award list is preferable because it shows date and citation, compare Dove Award winners and MTV Video Music Awards winners. Hekerui (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:American Music Award winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. — ξxplicit 07:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:American Music Award winners (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Removal per Wikipedia:OC#Award recipients, an award list is preferable because it shows date and citation, compare Dove Award winners and MTV Video Music Awards winners. Hekerui (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Web documentary film production companies

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Dana boomer (talk) 17:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose merging Category:Web documentary film production companies to Category:Documentary film production companies
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OC#SMALL, category is unlikely to grow. Diffusion is not needed at the moment, as the proposed target, Category:Documentary film production companies, isn't very large. — ξxplicit 02:09, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Honorary citizens of Berlin

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Dana boomer (talk) 17:22, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category:Honorary citizens of Berlin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Listify and delete per precedent (1, 2, 3. 4), categorization of people by honorary citizenship is trivial per WP:OC#AWARDS and contributes to category clutter. — ξxplicit 02:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Category:Upscale steakhouses

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:47, 1 November 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Propose merging Category:Upscale steakhouses to Category:Steakhouses
Nominator's rationale: Merge to parent per WP:NPOV: "upscale" is an entirely subjective and unverifiable term. Top Jim (talk) 01:17, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Aha, yes you're right, I missed that. Sorry: have now reverted the change on all four articles. Top Jim (talk) 02:43, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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