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Category:Morgenbladet

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Unnecessary tier holding only a sub-cat, which is already in the correct parent Category:Newspaper_people_by_newspaper_in_Norway. – Fayenatic London 23:15, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gamergate controversy

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Not enough articles to justify a category; also, a nondefining category for most of the articles likely to be tagged (Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games). Trivialist (talk) 22:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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2nd-millennium BC disestablishments

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The result of the discussion was: merge country categories to disestablishments by century categories, and to disestablishments by continent and millennium. This close includes upmerging the newly-created sub-cats Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Assyria and Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Egypt. – Fayenatic London 07:02, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See: Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments

  • Propose deleting Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments by country
  • Propose deleting Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in China
  • Propose deleting Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Vietnam
  • Propose deleting Category:11th-century BC disestablishments in China
  • Propose deleting Category:1040s BC disestablishments in China
Nominator's rationale: Merge and delete per WP:SMALLCAT, only one article per category. After the merge there will be one millennium category with just a handful of articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:28, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • That doesn't seem to make sense. I am very willing to believe that you'll be able to find some more articles to populate this tree, but I really can't imagine you will find enough to decently fill 50 categories (5 continents x 10 centuries) while there are currently less than 10 articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • You may be right. I still think we should keep the countries (or again, continents at least). For example, merge Category:14th-century BC disestablishments in Vietnam to Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Vietnam or to Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Asia. I think those get cut to 10 categories (5 continents and two millennium). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alright let's give continents x millennium a try. I have adapted the nomination accordingly. Good luck with your efforts to populate the categories! Marcocapelle (talk) 20:32, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • You're very right, thanks for your observation! I've added them right away. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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People of X descent

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The result of the discussion was: Keep (non-admin closure). Strong majority of participants want some or all of the categories kept. No prejudice against nominator re-nominating in a discussion that is much smaller in scope and/or focuses on categories with three or less articles in them. pbp 17:01, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting the following categories:
Nominator's rationale: Assuming people have descent from such small, specific regions, especially those which are historical, is complete and utter overkill. Non-defining characteristic to boot. Stick to country (e.g. Category:American people of Italian descent etc.), nothing more is needed. Also noting a lot of these entries appear to be wholly unreferenced/OR. GiantSnowman 19:01, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Stefanomione: - then simply upmerge Corsican to Category:People of French descent; but Arbëresh is an Italian ethnic group. Your comments re:Kurdistan are contrary to WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, and your comments re:Sicilian v Italian immigration histories shouldn't impact on categories. But what about all the other categories you have ignored? Do you not agree they should be deleted? GiantSnowman 12:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think they should be kept - Should we delete / upmerge then Category:People of Scottish descent and Category:People of Welsh descent just because we consider Scotland and Wales "small, specific regions" ? Stefanomione (talk) 16:19, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
But they are actual countries, not "small, specific regions". GiantSnowman 17:36, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Scotland and Wales are not seen as countries but rather constitutive nations outside of the UK (cf. Countries of the United Kingdom) and by the way Corsica is a Territorial collectivity. --Kiwi (talk) 12:20, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Dimadick: It is simply not feasible to assign someone a regional origin from 200 years ago - I mean where are the references? GiantSnowman 15:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Tanet: - I mass-reverted you because your additions were unsourced. As I've already said, how is it good practice to assign someone a regional origin from 200 years ago? By that logic every biographical article should be in Category:People of African descent.... GiantSnowman 15:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @GiantSnowman: - Comparing the African origin of human beings with someone's regional origin from 200 years old is a little lame... and many genetic mutations happened since (or specific traits or even disorders cf. Beta thalassemia in southern Italy or other genetic disorders like Gaucher's disease for Ashkenazis), your comparison is reductio ad absurdum. BTW you also reverted sourced material, maybe you were in a hurry? I think you should use more time to think and read, Wikipedia is not an essay due for next week. --Kiwi (talk) 16:54, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Re Mia Love: It may well be the case that her parents fled the dictatorship in Haiti only shortly before she was born and that her older siblings were still in Haiti when she was born is very important to her life history, but that she's a woman, married, parent etc may be even more important to her life history. We could have a category for all those characteristics (e.g. "People born in a different country to their older siblings"), but that would result in an article having a huge number of categories (several times as long as the article text) (see also WP:DNWAUC). The simplest way to avoid going down that route (recognizing that we're organizing an encylopedia, not creating a database of biographical details - cf WikiData) is to categorize only by the thing(s) that make the person notable (plus yob and yod which are a special case). Mia Love is notable because she's a politician, not because she's of Haitian descent. Wikipedia categorization is intended to group together articles about similar topics - American politicians is such a group (and fits below the category for politics of the U.S.). Whereas, Category:American people of Haitian descent groups people who are in the encyclopedia for very different reasons and puts them under Category:Haiti even if the only connection they have with that country is that a great-grandparent was born there. DexDor (talk) 18:42, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians in Copenhagen

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Wikipedians in Denmark. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:15, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only user in category hasn't been active for 2 years. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cocaine sentencing

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge. – Fayenatic London 11:22, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Cocaine sentencing to Category:Cocaine-related cases
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Somewhat jarring current name, not sure whether it's ok in the legal context. The category content shows it's intended for cocaine-related cases and cocaine in law. Brandmeistertalk 11:16, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1st-millennium BC establishments in Asia Minor

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:01, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:1st-millennium BC establishments in Asia Minor to Category:1st-millennium BC establishments in Asia
  • Propose merging Category:5th-century BC establishments in Asia Minor to Category:5th-century BC establishments in Asia
  • Propose merging Category:3rd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor‎ to Category:3rd-century BC establishments in Asia
  • Propose merging Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Asia Minor to Category:2nd-century BC establishments in Asia
Nominator's rationale: Suggest deletion and upmerge the corresponding Establishments in Asia categories. While it could be renamed (the main category isn't Asia Minor but Category:Anatolia which is for the geographic peninsula), I think it makes more sense to have it organized by the continent since there are no other regions at Category:Establishments by country or underneath the continents at Category:Establishments. Ricky81682 (talk) 08:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Let's first consolidate and review how many contents we will have in each category. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:51, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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