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Category:Footballers from Barcelona

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The result of the discussion was: keep. This does break from past consensus, but there are some concerns unique to this discussion that there are enough footballers in this category that it's worth keeping. WilliamJE noted that some of these footballers may be miscategorized. If that issue is fixed and it substantially changes the number of footballers in this category, a renomination would be worthwhile. As a side note, it might be a good idea to have a more broad discussion on when (if ever) sportspeople should be categorized as "Sport from city" to reconcile the different outcomes in this discussion and past discussions. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 05:43, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per multiple CFDs, here[1], here[2], here[3], here[4] here[5], and here[6] just being six examples, we don't subcategorize sportspeople from Fooville by the type of athletes they are. Note- The entries all look to be categorized as Catalan footballers. Which makes them overcategorized because Footballers from Catalan is the parent of this category. If this category is kept, the FBers from Catalan will have to be empty of those articles that are overcategorized. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 23:37, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Sex trafficking (re-direct)

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unless this category is specifically to contain articles about illegally transporting animals for Bestiality, I suggest it is redundant of Category:Human trafficking and should be deleted or re-directed there. An additional possibility is Category:Sex industry Meclee (talk) 22:29, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose — Category:Sex trafficking is a subcategory and type of Human trafficking. Slavery is also. Not all human trafficking is about sex; certainly slavery is not (necessarily) about sex. The distinction seems clear enough as it is. giso6150 (talk) 22:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose — as creator and per Giso6150. Stefanomione (talk) 01:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - this clearly a subcategory, not a duplicate category, of the proposed target. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Music by country or nationality

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The result of the discussion was: closed. Merger as proposed was done a full month ago now, so I'm not understanding why this was even still open. Bearcat (talk) 00:34, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A rare case of a few categories that are correctly categorized by Country, which isolates them from the rest of tree, which are correctly categorized by nationality. The precedent for this can be seen in Arts genres by country or nationality. Combining just these two very high level categories would eliminate the isolation and clear up a lot of confusion for anyone who wants to use the categories for navigation or who is trying to find the correct category for an existing article. giso6150 (talk) 21:19, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you, Marcocapelle, for this perfect example to support my point. Renaming Category:French music as you suggest would mean that under the new category Category:Music of France, there would still be the articles French popular music, French electronic music, 2016 in French music, etc. Do we rename those articles 2016 in Music of France? There will always be a mix of Music pages named for the country and named for the nationality, unless we cleave apart 200+ "Nationalitish Music" categories and try to police and maintain that distinction. I believe that solution would be more confusing that what we have now. Combining country and nationality in a special case like this would solve for both the ambiguity of the English language and the relative unimportance of whether something is "Music from a specific country" or "Music related to a specific nationality". Examples abound of nationalities with no country, of course (Breton, Basque, Igbo, Cantonese), but for the majority of country/nationality pairs, the distinction is confusing and unnecessary. The non-country nationalities issue is separate to whether we can create Category:Music by country or nationality now. giso6150 (talk) 19:49, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This was  Done a while ago. Discussion can be closed. giso6150 (talk) 03:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Creeks

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. No prejudice against separate renaming proposals to move the targets to a "Rivers and streams" format, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion. Bearcat (talk) 00:14, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging:

Rationale: I see no reason to have separate creek categories fro these specific places. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:50, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs about rain

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete WP:CSD#G4. See also Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_songs_about_rain, deleted after I made a list from the category last time. – Fayenatic London 07:33, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Recreation of category already deleted by discussion here. Same reasoning as before, members are included because of the word "rain" is included in the title. Richhoncho (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Shawn in Montreal:, I thought so too, but couldn't find anything. --Richhoncho (talk) 22:28, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Deaths in Northumberland

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:04, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also nominating-

Nominator's rationale: Is the location somebody died, a defining characteristic? Besides dying at home, People can die while traveling or at a hospital in a place they have no other connection to. To me, that makes the location of somebody's defining non-defining and something we shouldn't categorize by. Note we don't categorize people as from Foo only because the only connection the person had to Foo was that they died there. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:37, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Me too. Why does CFD not appear in Google searches?RevelationDirect (talk) 16:55, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Criticism of the Bible

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The result of the discussion was: keep. There was some concern over what currently populates these categories. If editors check the existing articles in both categories for proper categorization and something changes significantly, a renomination may be appropriate. As it stands, specific examples weren't pointed to, and those supporting "keep" weren't convinced. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 05:49, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, the content of the both categories seems not different enough to keep them apart. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:03, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Editor2020 and Giso6150: I realized this when nominating, by not writing "the two categories apparently have the same scope". Yet while looking at the content of the categories the difference does not seem maintainable. Or would you say that the current content nicely reflects the difference as you had in mind? Marcocapelle (talk) 07:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the distinction the two keep votes and the main articles are trying to make in theory. Beyond the similar names, many scholarly discussions of the ethics of the Bible presuppose the Bible is partly ahistorical and many people who reject the Bible do so by analyzing claimed inconsistencies, so the approaches often overlap at the article level. RevelationDirect (talk) 12:00, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • (as nom) I would be fine with this alternative as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:World War II internment camps in the United Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: merge as in nom. As noted by Marcocapelle, renaming can (and should) be handled as a separate issue to keep things from being too muddy here. Please ping all participants of this discussion (not including myself) if you start a renaming discussion. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 05:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge to all parent categories, there is only one subcategory in it, so it's an unnecessary layer. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:30, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Also if there were only WWII camps, then a single category would be better named as World War II internment camps in the United Kingdom. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:55, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are camps that are both WWII and non-WWII. I can understand a merge if one of these categories was empty and merely contained the other category, but we have enough here to justify the two levels of categorization. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • PoW camps are currently categorized under internment camps, so changing that (should you wish) is a bigger issue than WWII UK alone.
If you want to claim that Long Kesh was a PoW camp rather than an internment camp then you'll find some support from the fringes of one side, but it was very definitely not just a prison alone. Most of those in there were interned, not convicted. I wouldn't claim than HMP Maze was an internment camp (by 1976 it had become a prison), but even then there's the politically charged question of Special Category Status and who it applied to. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:20, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fair enough, and if you know some other examples to populate the category, please go ahead. By the time the discussion closes the closing admin will judge whether the category is well-populated enough to keep it. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Andy Dingley: I have similar concerns about WP:SMALLCAT but our solutions may be different. See this discussion. RevelationDirect (talk) 17:40, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's probably the best alternative. This way, while not in the UK, the category at least keeps a connection with the UK. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Macedonian hegemony

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:05, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, hegemony is not a defining characteristic of the content that it is in this category. Besides we already have a category associated with Macedonian hegemony, namely Category:Macedonian Empire. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:45, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Church historians

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:06, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, both categories have the same scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:39, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Psychiatric patients

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ("Mormonsims": the video game, I assume.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:11, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Psychiatric patients to Category:People with mental and behavioural disorders
Nominator's rationale: Being a specific type of patient is not a defining characteristic of a person, so categories should not (and generally do not) contain the word "patient". Instead, the common Wikipedia categorization for people with diseases is "People with X" - see Category:People by medical or psychological condition. (For full disclosure, there are currently 2 other "patient" categories, located in Category:Patients. These have also been brought to CFD.) A person may have a psychiatric illness their entire lives, but they are not always a patient. This category should be renamed "People with x", and I chose "mental and behavioural disorders" since a category already exists called Category:Mental and behavioural disorders. This renamed category should be a child of Category:Mental and behavioural disorders, as well as Category:People by medical or psychological condition. It should be a parent of the other psychiatric-related disorders, including: Category:People with anorexia nervosa, Category:People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Category:People on the autism spectrum, Category:People diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, Category:People with factitious disorders, Category:Hypochondriacs, Category:People with mood disorders, Category:People with bipolar disorder, Category:People with schizophrenia, Category:People with social anxiety disorder, etc. This revised category should mostly be a container category, as most psychiatric diseases already have their own categories. People with non-specific psychiatric disorders, or historical people with an unknown psychiatric issue (ex "insane") could perhaps stay in the container category. Scott Alter (talk) 02:32, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Giso6150: I created the Category:Health activists by diseases and disorders tree because I think, usually, when these topics are defining it's because the person later became an activist for better treatment. I'm not seeing a current similar biography category for mental health though. RevelationDirect (talk) 12:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@RevelationDirect: I completely agree with your reasons for creating the Category:Health activists by diseases and disorders tree. The existence of Category:Psychiatric patients (or Category:People with mental and behavioural disorders) does not bother me. It’s the application of the category that is problematic. Examples like yours demonstrate that there is clear need for some kind of categorization by disease. In that way, I support in principle as well. This is a tricky one. giso6150 (talk) 15:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I could support that. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:28, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Provinces of Roman Gaul

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The result of the discussion was: keep. No consensus on renaming. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 05:45, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Roman Gaul was a territory, merely defined as an ethno-/cultural-historical area of Celtic settlement; possibly also by the fact it was –in a body– defeated and conquered by Julius Caesar. Making them a container (separate from the rest) is a concession to out-of-date Franco-centric historiography, which is particularly questionable in the face of the history of French foreign policy (with varying definitions of its fringes towards the east or north-east, or what was perceived as 'Gaul' or territorial claim of France). 109.45.2.22 (talk) 07:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: CFD tag was placed on talk page instead of category page.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 00:12, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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