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Category:Fictional gymnasts

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:38, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Top icon templates

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so this is to clean up the top icon template categories.

For one thing, long standing policy is that categories for userspace should have User prepended, and that categories of templates have templates appended.

Per other subcats of Category:Wikipedia templates by namespace, it appears that having templates in the name means we don't need to further disambiguate by pre-pending Wikipedia.

Rename:

And Category:Protection templates should have the top icons subcatted, so:

Split:

- jc37 21:19, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_January_8#Category:Membership_top_icons (I keep a log of my CFD noms - 130 so far this year). DexDor (talk) 20:42, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:United States military awards

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 11:56, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The current contents (apart from one article, which should be removed from this category if the rename goes ahead), parent category and category text all indicate that this is a category for images - so the name of the category should match that. DexDor (talk) 21:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Migrant boat incidents

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. The last suggestion has merit and I will create Category:Migrant boat disasters as a sub-category, but keep the nominated category to hold articles such as Tampa affair. – Fayenatic London 07:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Migrant boat incidents to Category:Disasters involving illegal immigrants
Nominator's rationale: Merge. WP:OVERLAPCAT. Category:Disasters involving illegal immigrants consists almost entirely of boat incidents. Brandmeistertalk 15:15, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cricket in the United Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: keep as part of an established tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:13, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. A pointless and utterly misleading category which is based on a concept that does not exist, as the category note itself emphasises. The idea is even more stupid as it puts Northern Ireland in the UK for cricket purposes when in fact Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are a united cricket team. If an attempt is being made to inform people about "British cricket", it is a WP:FICTION. We have English and Welsh cricket, we have Scottish cricket and we have Irish cricket. And the latter consists of one country not in the UK at all. We already have adequate categorisation for the relevant countries, including the combined Anglo-Welsh and combined Irish aspects. This category is a classic example of WP:OVER-CATEGORISATION and should be removed. What is the point of telling readers that there are UK cricket competitions when there are not; or UK grounds; or that "British cricket" has a history; or that there are UK cricket teams. In addition, the following sub-categories, all equally fictitious and pointless should be removed:
Category:Cricket competitions in the United Kingdom‎
Category:Cricket grounds in the United Kingdom‎
Category:History of British cricket‎
Category:Student cricket in the United Kingdom‎
Category:Cricket teams in the United Kingdom
Category:Women's cricket in the United Kingdom‎

The site should provide editorial accuracy. The existence of these categories suggests a view that England, Scotland and Wales must always be explained in UK terms and that is a completely misguided approach. Jack | talk page 08:46, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. If it is integral, then where is it? Not there, so hardly "integral". Integral parts of Category:Sport in the United Kingdom are Category:Cricket in England, Category:Cricket in Scotland and Category:Cricket in Wales and these should all be added to that category (assuming it has some relevance to any other sports; certainly not football or rugby). You need to understand the structure and administration of international cricket. There is NO UK aspect to it whatsoever and you will not find any source anywhere that says there is, so it is a non-subject and therefore a WP:FICTION as described above. Jack | talk page 03:51, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Navigation using the correct categories is so much easier. Jack | talk page 14:49, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This is incorrect. You have got your facts wrong. Cricket in Scotland is administered by Cricket Scotland which has nothing to do with the England and Wales Cricket Board. What has the population of the Welsh and Scottish categories to do with anything being discussed here? The UK cricket categories are a fiction, concerning something outside the real world. If you delete Category:Cricket in England, Category:Cricket in Scotland and Category:Cricket in Wales you create an entirely artificial structure. Your "upmerge" suggestion is frankly idiotic and pedantic. The previous view expressed by User:IgnorantArmies is sensible and would be an acceptable compromise if deletion might somehow disrupt the categorisation structure. If it is only a container category we could just ignore it. I might point out that Category:Football in the United Kingdom is not being used as a container category: it has several articles. Jack | talk page 06:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cowboy

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The result of the discussion was: keep (no splitting) with support to renaming category to Category:Cowboys. There's no consensus to support a split but instead a number of views supporting renaming the category, specifically to the plural. Ricky81682 (talk) 00:10, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Split biography articles to American cattlemen, and the rest to Cowboy culture. The latter should be restructured to become the head category of the others with "Cowboy" in the name. – Fayenatic London 06:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that was what I was thinking above. I've looked into Category:Cowboy and there were cattlemen and cattle barons who were listed, but they have to have a history working as a cowboy to make sure that they did worked on a range. And I strongly oppose of relating this category to other categories specific to purist cattle businessmen. 112.198.64.40 (talk) 05:05, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
And there are also rodeo performers, generally also called "cowboys."
But it is grammatically incorrect; i.e. shouldn't it be Category:Cowboys? What about Category:Cowboy culture? And what about those Cowgirls? Quis separabit? 16:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
On the plural, I don't really have strong feelings, arguments both ways, solved by a simple move if needed, meh. As for the gender issue, it's quite tricky because women in the industry today pretty much work equally with men and the term "cowgirl" has acquired some unfortunate alternative meanings to the point that we made a conscious choice to merge the cowgirl article with cowboy in order to avoid "ghettoizing" women, to avoid duplicative material, and to cut down on the vandalism. "Cowboy culture" already exists as a category, with articles about museums and such, so I guess I am wondering why this is even being raised - no need to depopulate the category "cowboy"... Montanabw(talk) 02:48, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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