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Category:Folk Christianity

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:48, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no lead article Folk Christianity and no header in the category, therefore the purpose of the category is unclear and the category has become a mix of completely unrelated topics such as: the Shroud of Turin, Marian apparitions, Santa Claus, Voudou deities and the German word for blessing in a superstition context. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Northern Europe

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As an article it's fine to have Northern Europe in Wikipedia. But in my honest opinion, the article is not significant enough to build a category tree on. Basically this category tree is just a copy of a part of Category:Countries in Europe. This same reasoning applies of course also to the other four European regions, I've just taken this one as an example. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Generally it should be clear from the article that current Northern Europe merely exists by its (arbitrarily) defined list of countries, and the only thing that all these countries consistently have in common is that the average yearly temperature is lower than in the rest of Europe and that the countries developed later in history than countries in other parts of Europe.
The question is also - which is not clear from the article Northern Europe - who is responsible for this defining this list of countries and what was the motivation to group European countries this way and not in any other way. Once again, the article is not significant enough to justify a categorization like this. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Roper family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category with only one member. Safiel (talk) 19:07, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support nomination and this also counts for the categories below. It would be nice if there were a tool that automatically lists all categories that have contained less than two entries for a certain amount of time. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:14, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Culpeper family

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. – Fayenatic London 16:17, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category has only one member. Safiel (talk) 19:06, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Clifton family

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus, discounting the nominator's original rationale which no longer applies. – Fayenatic London 16:20, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category has only one member. Safiel (talk) 19:04, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Brereton family

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus, discounting the nominator's original rationale which no longer applies. – Fayenatic London 16:21, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category has only one member. Safiel (talk) 19:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Askew family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:45, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category with only one member. Safiel (talk) 19:01, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Dam controversies

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The result of the discussion was: add criteria, purge if necessary, and create sub-cat Category:Cancelled dams, rather than "Unbuilt dams", as "Cancelled..." is the naming format by type of structure within Category:Unbuilt buildings and structures. – Fayenatic London 16:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: discussion and possible action. I'm bringing this here for a discussion on what to do with this category. The current introduction says, Dam Controversies - can be about dams that were proposed, but never completed; or dams that were created despite objections. That is really ambiguous and the first part is assumes all dams that are not built are the result if objections rather then technical issues. Also note that the main article, which probably creates the real inclusion criteria, is Environmental impact of reservoirs. I'd argue that every dam built had objections, so every dam should be in the list. My first thought would be to limit inclusion here to articles about dam controversies and change the heading to indicate this. A cleanup of the contents would be needed. I guess a rename could work, but any I think of have pretty much the same inclusion criteria issues as the current category. Note that for items in the first part of the introduction, the name for that category would be Category:Unbuilt dams per our current naming consensus. So creating that category probably should be done no matter what the outcome of this discussion. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:29, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed the category was removed from many dam articles because the article is 'primarily about the dam'. The problem with this is that many notable dam controversies probably won't ever have their own split controversy article for a number of reasons to include POV and editorial 'man-power'. The category should apply to regular dam articles too; just as we describe a dam by type, we can describe a dam by whether is is very controversial or not. It is a disservice to readers when they can't navigate through dam controversies efficiently.
On the category for "Unbuilt dams", there is Category:Proposed dams which fits the bill. Although there are a lot of articles for proposed dams now, I believe they should only be created when the dam's construction has been suspended or stopped and/or when the dam is of great controversy and worth a scholarly article.
Lastly, I would appreciate it if notices for dam-related CfDs could be posted on the WP:DAMS and WP:ENERGY talk pages. Most users don't watch categories and I just came of vacation and appeared to have missed at least one other CfD.--NortyNort (Holla) 00:26, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I support User:Beagel's proposal with the criteria that an 'unbuilt dam' be one that's construction has been cancelled, permanently halted or 'shelved'.--NortyNort (Holla) 21:40, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I updated the criteria for Dam controversies within the category page.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:46, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Scottish Premier League football squad templates

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:44, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting:

Nominator's rationale: The Scottish Premier League no longer exists, as it was merged in 2013 with the Scottish Football League (which controlled Divisions One, Two and Three) to form the Scottish Professional Football League. These categories are redundant and Category:Scottish football squad navigational boxes serves the same function. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 16:33, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 12:11, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:6th-century Persian people

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:42, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistent naming with Category:5th-century Iranian people and earlier; consistent with Category:8th-century Iranian people and later. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • In my honest opinion, the content of Iranian peoples should be leading for the discussion of Iranian versus Persian, as well as the fact that in articles of individual people in this category most often the term Sassanian has been used, while the Sassanian Empire has been defined as the last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam. I must admit that the term Iranian people is slightly ambiguous because it may be bounded either by current borders of Iran or by contemporary borders of various Iranian empires. However, the same problem exists with Persian people as they may be bounded either by the current province of Pars or by contemporary borders of the two Persian empires. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:36, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:7th-century Persian people

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:42, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistent naming with Category:5th-century Iranian people and earlier; consistent with Category:8th-century Iranian people and later. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Films directed by Yasujiro Ozu

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:40, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. The latter is the spelling of the director's name used by the article on him. Gabbe (talk) 07:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:All City Chess Club members

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 20:05, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A loosely connected supergroup that released only a single song together five years ago. STATic message me! 07:04, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Moroccan dynasties

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The result of the discussion was: rename back to old name. I note that the category was created by user:Omar-toons moving the category page out of process on 8 June. – Fayenatic London 17:48, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The rename would be in line with some other countries in parentCategory:Dynasties by country and - more importantly - with the rename it would deliberately distinguish itself from descent-based dynasties, Category:Arab dynasties and Category:Berber dynasties.
Comment: Dynasties of Morocco currently redirects to Moroccan dynasties, therefore it's not redlinked. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:48, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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