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Category:Christian Palestinian militants

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: merge the first; delete the second. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:10, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, since "Christian" and "militants" is in this case a trivial intersection, these Palestinians don't fight to spread Christianity. Likewise in the parent Category:Palestinian Christian terrorism "Christian" and "terrorism" is a trivial intersection; the parent category will become empty if the proposed merge goes ahead. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The latter is a good point, I've added Category:Palestinian militants as a parent on the category page, also added it as a second merge target in the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Because most of X are A being an X who's B doesn't make XB combination defining. Most people are right handed, presumably most Palestinian militants as well, so Category:Left-handed Palestinian militants is defining? Same flawed logic. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:19, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree with rationale but I suppose, with this rationale, it wouldn't harm upmerging the first category. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - agree with Peter.GreyShark (dibra) 22:10, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Late Antiquity and Medieval sites in Kosovo

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at 2016 APR 8 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:15, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename to align with parent Category:Historic sites by country. Speedy rename was opposed due to conflict with name of main article Late Antiquity and Medieval sites in Kosovo. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:44, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Battles involving Arab Egypt

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The result of the discussion was: delete; merge contents to Category:Battles involving Egypt and Category:Wars involving Egypt. If users want to create different subcategories of the Egypt categories, that is allowed. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:17, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category is so generic as to be extremely spurious; it encompasses about ten different regimes in which Egypt ranged from a province among many to the core of an empire itself. And lumping the Turkish Mamluks and Ottomans together into "Arab Egypt" is not the best option either. I propose deleting this category as well as Category:Wars involving Arab Egypt, and assigning the wars/battles to the specific regimes. The Fatimid and Mamluk categories already exist, a Category:Battles involving Ottoman Egypt (or "involving the Egypt Eyalet") and a Category:Battles involving Ayyubid Egypt would also be useful, and what remains unassigned, mostly the battles of the Arab conquest of Egypt (which therefore don't involve any "Arab Egypt" in the first place) can be recategorized under the generic Category:Military history of Egypt or a dedicated category. Constantine ✍ 16:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mayors of Aberdeen, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:47, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Has just three entries, one of which is an article on the office. City is under 20,000. Mayors of communities that size are not notable just because of the office they hold. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:49, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Robbinsville Township, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Has only one entry. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:44, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Baroque draughtsmen

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:20, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The main article for the Draughtsmen category tree is Drafter, which is a modern technical profession. I'm not convinced there were technical draughtsmen/drafters in the Baroque era. Equally, I'm not 100% certain we need a category for Baroque artists known for their drawing skills, because I fully expect every artist, etcher and architect of that time was a highly competent drawer. But if this category remains, it needs to be renamed to suit artists particulary known for their drawing skills, per Category:Drawers (artists). Sionk (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not very keen on the idea. I'm not sure why I created the category, but I do think draughtsmen is a much better name for this type of artist than "drawer" (which to me means part of a piece of furniture, as confirmed by the fact that it has to have "artist" in brackets so that people know what it means). Although I don't suppose we do need a specific category for Baroque draughtsmen - as opposed to any other period - I do know that there are lots of artist articles that use "draughtsman" or "draftsman" as a description (try a search on "was a Baroque draughtsman", and I do believe that's what such people were called for hundreds of years, because there was no other name for them. I think I'd prefer to get rid of the category altogether, if we can find somewhere else to put them. However, at the moment, the category is correctly located as a subcategory of Baroque artists.Deb (talk) 12:05, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Perhaps alternatively it could be called Category:Baroque draughtsmen (artists). There may be a good argument to say that 'draughtsmen' were something different pre-nineteenth century. Sionk (talk) 12:23, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed the redirect to a disambiguation page for now. Not sure if this helps the argument but I think it makes the meaning clearer. Deb (talk) 17:55, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, draftsmen is the usual term. The category is useful for the handful of Baroque artists (Nicolas Lagneau comes to mind) who are known only for drawings. The disambiguation page Deb created will help people find what they're looking for. Ewulp (talk) 01:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Albanian organizations

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:22, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content, these are organizations from the last decades before Albania became independent from the Ottoman Empire. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:31, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Commment - there is a sub-category Category:Albanian Revolutionary Organizations which not necessarily contain entries from the National Awakening period. And there are others missing, so there is potential for growth. Some of those organizations resided outside of Albania. Maybe we should keep the Category:Albanian organizations and move the current articles to the new one Category:Organizations of the Albanian National Awakening having Category:Albanian organizations as parent? --Mondiad (talk)
  • This problem occurred in only one article of Category:Albanian revolutionary organizations, namely in KONARE. I don't think we should keep up an additional category for just one article so for now I've boldly moved this article to Category:Political organisations in Albania. However, if there is potential to grow, I would suggest creating Category:Albanian diaspora organisations, and KONARE could then obviously be added to that one as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Urban road transit in India

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The result of the discussion was: delete (as noted, there is no need to merge any of the contents). Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:08, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no such category at category tree. Unnecessary. Shyamsunder (talk) 05:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Quranic figures

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus to merge. This is without prejudice to any other proposal for the category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No reason to have this sub-category. Al-Andalusi (talk) 01:47, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not sure I understand the comment, because the discussion was about the word "figures". Based on your comment I would merely suggest to rename or split Category:Biblical figures in Islam into Category:Biblical people in Islam and possibly other categories. Apart from that, I wouldn't have a problem with creating a parent Category:Quran content. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:27, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just noting that whether we divvy people from non-people categories in one book, we ought do it likewise in the other, no preference for whether we do or don't, so your follow-up nomination makes the handling similar which is to the good. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:09, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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