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Category:Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 11:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: That a university/college is a member of this organization is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of the university/college. E.g. many of the articles make no mention of the organization in the article text (e.g. Selkirk College, University_of_Arizona). This category could be listified (e.g. to Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration or to a separate list page), but IMO it would be better to generate such a list from a WP:RS. For info: This is one of a series of CFDs for similar categories (e.g. see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_23#Category:Associated_Colleges_of_the_Midwest). DexDor (talk) 22:11, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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17th century BC

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as specified. MER-C 12:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NOTE: this was later reversed for births & deaths categories,see Wikipedia_talk:Categorization_of_people#RfC:_BC_births_and_deaths_categorization_scheme. – Fayenatic London 13:54, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Nominator's rationale: merge the first 16 categories per WP:SMALLCAT, each of these categories contains one article. After merging, the other categories become empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:13, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment please note that the exact year 1600 should probably be merged to the 16th rather than the 17th century. For the one article in this category, the exact year is uncertain anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cricket miscellany

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:06, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unclear inclusion criteria. Tim! (talk) 20:04, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Religion and mythology

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The result of the discussion was: merge to wherever the members came from. MER-C 12:05, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF. There is nothing in these categories that is specifically about the relationship between religion and mythology. There's just a random selection taken from the mythology tree on the one hand and a random selection taken from the religion tree on the other hand. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment see also this earlier discussion which has meanwhile been closed. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:33, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per discussion below the nomination to delete should be interpreted as a nomination to manually merge, then delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:00, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Point taken, I added a comment accompanying the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:00, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Cricket by city

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Ricky81682 (talk) 22:50, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERCATEGORIZATION. The category adds no value and it is a case of creating one for the sake of it. Is the author ever going to apply it to more than two cities only? No use to the cricket project. Jack | talk page 14:43, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Women who notably have used a name that references surnames from both sides of their marriage/relationship

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete, WP:SNOW. – Fayenatic London 13:12, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Women who notably have used a name that references surnames from both sides of their marriage/relationship (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Men who notably have used a name that references surnames from both sides of their marriage/relationship (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Women who notably have used a name that references surnames from both sides of a marriage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This fits right into WP:TRIVIALCAT, along with redheads and bald people. Nymf (talk) 14:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Also, Category:Women who notably have used a name that references surnames from both sides of their marriage (redirect). BTW: all these cats are empty. Quis separabit? 18:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Tarc In retrospect I actually agree with you that this category was written in support a point but would hope that you might agf with regard to the nature of that point. There are many women such as Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting who have changed their name and presented their personal preference as to the way that they would like that name presented but whose article titles retain the presentation such as Kaley Cuoco. You would be welcome to join the related discussion. At Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton I have encouraged that we work with policy to actually give justification for situations like this and, as far as I have seen, I am the only editor that has made any effort in this regard. The length of the content was in effort to make it inclusive. Please do not insult to make a point. Ping also Tvoz, Cwobeel

Category:6 Metre Sailing

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 11:59, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:6 Metre Sailing to Category:6 Metre (keelboat)
  • Propose renaming Category:8 Metre Sailing to Category:8 Metre (keelboat)
Nominator's rationale: Rename to avoid ambiguity. I have only just moved the main article to 6 Metre (keelboat), so this is not eligible for speedy renaming as C2D. Maybe C2C after Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_10#Sailing_by_class? – Fayenatic London 14:29, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Windsurfing disciplines

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 11:59, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename following Category:Sailing by class, which is a better match for a pattern than the longer-standing parent Category:Sport disciplines. Alternatively, Category:Olympic windsurfing classes would follow Category:Olympic sailboat classes; all the 4 current member pages are Olympic classes. – Fayenatic London 14:20, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Australian Olympians in World War II

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:00, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining and unclear inclusion criteria. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 13:19, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There will eventually be 50 Australian Olympians added to this list. This is a work in progress.User:Aussiesportlibrarian


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Medalist/Medallist categories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 12:05, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. These category moves were previously proposed as speedy (C2C), but there were objections on WP:ENGVAR grounds. The proposal was deleted as stale after a couple of weeks. From what I can see in Category:Medalists at multi-sport events, "medalist" is spelled/spelt with a single L in every category but Category:Commonwealth Games medallists. There is clearly a WP:ENGVAR issue here. Does that mean that all countries are (or have been) part of the Commonwealth should have the double L? What about Britain's participation in the Olympics and Paralympics, and that of other Commonwealth nations? Should they be changed to double L? There's also inconsistent spelling within these categories: Pakistan's bronze category is spelled/spelt with single L, as is India's parent category. We need to bring the categories in line in some way. HandsomeFella (talk) 11:35, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category: Songs about the extermination of indigenous peoples

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:00, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Trees of Portugal

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The result of the discussion was: Merge the first 8, not the last two. There is no consensus for the last two to be moved. Ricky81682 (talk) 23:06, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: That a tree species is found in a particular European country is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of the species. See, for example, the pile-up of categories at Pinus nigra. The Acer opalus article says "native to the hills and mountains of southern and western Europe, from Italy to Spain and north to southern Germany" which suggests that it's also in countries such as France and Austria. In short, countries (in Europe) are too fine grained to be DEFINING characteristics of trees. DexDor (talk) 06:00, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The UK category contains articles that are about organisations etc (e.g. The Tree Register) that do belong in a UK category. See, for example, Category:Birds in the United Kingdom. DexDor (talk)
I'd also be happy with the UK/Wales categories being selectively upmerged to Category:Trees of Europe then merged/renamed/reparented to Category:Individual trees of the United Kingdom (see comments below). DexDor (talk) 20:32, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a note to the nomination. DexDor (talk) 17:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:R-type contracts

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:01, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The only page in this category is already in Category:New York City Subway passenger equipment. This category has no parents. If kept tit should be renamed to make clear what it is about. DexDor (talk) 05:40, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia Signpost Coverage of women

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Ricky81682 (talk) 22:52, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Wikipedia Signpost Coverage of women to Category:Wikipedia Signpost coverage of women
Nominator's rationale: Merge to duplicate category with correct categorization. DexDor (talk) 05:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Wikipedia Signpost" is a proper noun, "Wikipedia Signpost Coverage" (etc) isn't. DexDor (talk) 17:48, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Islamic Finance Scholar

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Ricky81682 (talk) 23:28, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: More appropriate category name. Alternatives - "Promoters of Islamic banking", "Islamic banking experts" etc could be considered. DexDor (talk) 05:25, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Black Fraternal association

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete as empty and C2E. – Fayenatic London 12:22, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is incorrectly named and (currently) has no parents. There are existing categories such as Category:Ethnic fraternal orders in the United States. DexDor (talk) 05:15, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Afaik there's nothing preventing a category under discussion at CFD being CSDed if eligible; it's happened many times. I certainly would have no objection. DexDor (talk) 17:43, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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