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Category:Espenschied family

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) 19:20, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category was created by a new user, who seems to be using Wikipedia as a family tree history creator. Most of the articles in this category are at AfD, and those that aren't are notable for things other than being in this family. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:36, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Overstolz family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category was created by a new user, who seems to be using Wikipedia as a family tree history creator. Most of the articles in this category are at AfD, and those that aren't are notable for things other than being in this family. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:36, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:United States church-state separation case law

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge. As the comments below indicate, "church-state separation" is a real concept in U.S. law, so there is no problem with the name of the category being nominated. However, the comments also indicate that not everything in this category is case law precisely, that not everything here falls under the Establishment Clause‎, and that this category may be slicing things too fine to be helpful to navigation. It was pointed out that Category:Church and state law in the United States covers everything in the nominated category, and merging this category to that one seems like the only sensible resolution that deals with all of the problems people have pointed out. -- Beland (talk) 16:18, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
For the purpose of making sure all the case law articles and subcategories that were here are listed under Category:United States case law by topic, I'm filing anything that isn't already under a more-specific case law category. -- Beland (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]


  • Propose renaming Category:United States church-state separation case law to Category:United States case law concerning religion
Nominator's rationale: the United States never had a state church, so didn't and doesn't need any church-state separation. The category is mostly (but not wholly) about case law concerning freedom of religion. The proposed category name is a parallel of Category:United States legislation concerning religion. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:33, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think this is a misunderstanding, because Category:United States church-state separation case law contains child Category:Establishment Clause case law plus single articles that are not about church-state separation. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think that they ought to be merged per Peterkingiron. The separation of church and state is vague at best and seems to duplicate Establishment Clause case law. Some cases, I gather, focus on both Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, so they go into both categories, not some amalgamation for them alone. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:17, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The category contains non-case law articles (Public menorah, Daniel Freeman, Mount Soledad cross controversy and, through a redirect, Angus M. Cannon) and without exception every case law article that is present is already in a more specific First Amendment case law category. If someone wants to try and salvage this or make it a container category, I'm willing to reconsider, but the current category does not aid navigation. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:09, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sunni Caliphates

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category; with the exception of the Fatimids, all caliphates were Sunni. Constantine ✍ 19:22, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Shiite Caliphates

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-item category; the Fatimids were the only Shia dynasty to claim the caliphal title Constantine ✍ 19:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People of the National Palace Museum

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:03, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category contains just one article (which is in plenty of categories for more defining characteristics) and has no parents. DexDor (talk) 07:05, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Thinkers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:16, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Hopelessly vague, undefined, and non-neutral. Similar categories have been deleted before. At the time of nomination, the category contained only one article. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:43, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tunisian heavy metal musical groups

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge. In this case delete and merge is identical because the article is already in the merge target. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:39, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: While I can see that this might at some time be open to expansion, we currently only have one metal band from Tunisia with a Wikipedia article... and it isn't a heavy metal band, it's prog metal (as its article confirms). Either this category should be renamed to reflect the fact (in which case it would still be woefully underpopulated, or the article on Myrath should be upmerged into relevant parent categories. No objection to re-creation if and when more articles exist. Grutness...wha? 05:58, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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