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Category:Timelines of recent events

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at 2013 OCT 26 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:21, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Recommend deletion/upmerging to Category:Modern history timelines. What exactly constitutes a "recent" event? I guess it would be cliché to call this recentism, but I'll do it anyway. BDD (talk) 21:54, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Muslim comedians

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:47, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Science fiction genres

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The result of the discussion was: do not merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category:Science fiction genres and Category:Science fiction by genre‎ are the same and it's better to merge them. Taranet (talk) 18:16, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Actors from Detroit, Michigan

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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nominator. Euryalus (talk) 04:17, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If these nominations are withdrawn, I undertake to open an RFC on the issue. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:56, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Turkish communities in the United Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All the articles currently in this category are about parts of London (mostly boroughs). There may currently be a Turkish community in these places, but these places aren't exclusively (or AFAIK even predominantly) Turkish communities (hence this is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic) now and certainly wasn't in the past. This is an example of categorization being mis-used where a list might have been appropriate (but if a list is ever created it would be better generated from a RS with some dates than from the current contents of this category). If this type of categorization was extended many London boroughs could be in dozens/hundreds of such categories. Note: it's likely that many other categories under Category:Turkish communities outside Turkey should also be purged/deleted, but I thought I'd start by nominating this one where I can see from the names that these are just articles about places and to establish the principle. DexDor (talk) 05:15, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
New Britain, Connecticut where in 2010 17% of the Population was Polish, was up until now for some reason in that category. How can a community where less than 1 in every 6 are Polish be called "Polish"?John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Memorial highways

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The result of the discussion was: delete the remaining two. The Bushranger One ping only 13:34, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Memorial highways (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Veterans Memorial highways
  • Propose deleting Category:Veterans Memorial highways in the United States
  • Propose deleting Category:Memorial highways in the United States
  • Propose deleting Category:Blue Star Memorial Highways
Nominator's rationale: This is an example of WP:OC#SHAREDNAME - these highways are primarily for transport not as memorials. For info: There are already lists at Veterans_Memorial_Highway and Blue_Star_Memorial_Highway. For info: A similar category for "memorial bridges" was recently deleted. The Blue_Star_Memorial_Highway article should be upmerged to Category:Roads in the United States. See also related discussion here. DexDor (talk) 04:58, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've moved BSMH to a separate section below and removed the parent categories from this nomination. DexDor (talk) 05:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not sure that being a Blue Star Memorial Highway (BSMH) is the same sort of thing as being on the NRHP as (I presume) that the NRHP has some criteria and any building etc that is found to meet those criteria goes on the register. The BSMH category is a bit more like categorizing a road by which organization maintains it (e.g. in the UK local councils vs Highways Agency) (or a section of the road?) and I don't think that's a good characteristic to categorize by. However, as the BSMH category is a bit different to the others here I might be persuaded to withdraw it (and hence also the parent cat) from this CFD. DexDor (talk) 06:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's clear that the BSMH category is not a grouping of items by shared name, so I think it should be withdrawn from this nomination. It's clearly different to the others.
    I am not persuaded yet that this really is a WP:DEFINING characteristic of those highways, but I do think that question should be addressed in a separate discussion. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:00, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've now split BSMH to a separate discussion. DexDor (talk) 05:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good work DexDor, though it would have been much better to have listed at the current day rather than on a week-old page.
    But there was no need to strike out the other 2 categories. Please could you reinstate them? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:16, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I considered doing the BSMH CFD on the current day's page, but thought it was neater to do it here (the category had been CFD tagged at the same time as the other categories). Re the parent cats: if the subcats are all deleted (i.e. both the CFDs are closed as delete) then the parent cats can be deleted/upmerged by a separate CFD (and it's a bit late to put them back into this CFD now). DexDor (talk) 21:08, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Blue Star Memorial Highways

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The result of the discussion was: Procedural close. This may well need to be deleted, however it was "split off" from the nom above on 4 October - which means it should have gone on that CfD log page, not tacked onto this one. No prejudice against an immediate proper renomination. The Bushranger One ping only 13:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Blue Star Memorial Highways
Nominator's rationale: That a highway has markers placed by a non-government organization (which I note doesn't itself have a WP article) is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of a highway - especially when only a small part a route (e.g. U.S. Route 77) is so marked. This categorization is also partly WP:OC#SHAREDNAMES (e.g. see U.S._Route_50_in_Maryland#Blue_Star_Memorial_Highway). The Blue Star Memorial Highway article (which includes lists) should be upmerged to Category:Memorial highways in the United States and Category:Military monuments and memorials in the United States. Note: This nomination has been split off from the "Memorial Highways" CFD above. DexDor (talk) 05:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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