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Ancient Romans by city and province‎

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The result of the discussion was: rename. delldot ∇. 07:00, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename to more conventional scope and format, I've never seen "people from city" categories or "people from province" categories that are restricted to birth only. (Side issue, the city child categories are pretty small, so I'm also wondering if they'd better be proposed for upmerging so that the by city parent can entirely be deleted.) Marcocapelle (talk) 20:01, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ancient Roman provincials‎

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The result of the discussion was: rename. SQLQuery me! 00:40, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename, more conventional category name, similar format as Category:People by ethnicity. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:01, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from the City of Fairfield

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 16:32, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The City of Fairfield is not actually a city but one of 40 local government areas of Sydney. This would be better served by merging into the broader Category LibStar (talk) 09:01, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There is people from eastern suburbs or North shore these are much larger geographic areas. The city of Fairfield is tiny in comparison nor a major suburb like Parramatta. LibStar (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • City of Fairfield seems to have some 200,000 inhabitans. That's not tiny. I'd rather expect there are quite some people in Category:People from Sydney who could belong in this category. However, I don't oppose this nomination, since I'm not sure to what extent subdivisions of Sydney (in general) are sufficiently defining to categorize people. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:54, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Benedictine mathematicians

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The result of the discussion was: delete both. delldot ∇. 07:19, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Benedictine mathematicians and Category:Benedictine scientists
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:TRIVIALCAT
This category is for Benedictine monks who are also mathematicians. The Benedictines value education but grouping mathematicians by religious order seems trivial. In practice, it's a narrow category with only two members, one of which was actually a numerologist. Both of the articles are already in Category:Benedictine writers and the one actual mathematician is in Category:17th-century Italian mathematicians, so there's no need for a merge. - RevelationDirect (talk) 04:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified Daniel the Monk as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Mathematics. – RevelationDirect (talk) 04:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That works for me. Noella Marcellino is the only article in that one and she is already in Category:American scientists and Category:Benedictine nuns. RevelationDirect (talk) 13:12, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure we aslo have dozens of articles on Presbyterian elders who also happen to be lawyers. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Given this, I put out the question as to whether or not mathematicians and scientists would be considered the same field. If so, then I have no objections to merging mathematicians into the other category. I do question the logic that, because an entry is listed is certain other fields, it doesn't deserve listing in an unrelated category. Daniel the Monk (talk) 17:04, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:ABC Family shows

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:17, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:ABC Family shows to Category:Freeform (TV channel) shows
Nominator's rationale: match new parent article name ViperSnake151  Talk  03:00, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hierarchically, Category:The Family Channel shows and Category:ABC Family shows are not parent–child but they are siblings, because The Family Channel shows are not ABC Family shows in general. Their parent would be "Shows by The Family Channel and its sucessors" or something similarly awkward. So those should not be kept as subcategories, but they could link to each other in the category description as "related".–Dark Cocoa Frosting (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:ABC Family

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The result of the discussion was: rename. delldot ∇. 03:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Match new name of parent article ViperSnake151  Talk  02:59, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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