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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary eponymous category per WP:OCEPON and numerous precedent. The subcategories are interlinked and not enough other related articles. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me19:33, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Undrafted National Football League players
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Propose deletingCategory:Undrafted National Football League players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Categorization by a non-notable characteristic. Few to no professional athletes, outside of #1 overall picks, are known for their draft status. That this category has nearly 3,700 entries demonstrates that not being drafted and playing professional sports is common and not worthy of categorization. This category's companion, Category:Drafted National Football League players, would not be a useful category and neither is this. TM19:29, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment What about the others in Category:Undrafted sports competitors by league. Is it the same premise. Someone will probably say WP:OTHERSTUFF but if it's the same premise, it would be inconsistent to not nominate the others as well. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:21, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. I nominated this one to see if editors were open to deleting this type of category. If this one is successful, I will nominate the others.--TM20:35, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but diffuse all contents into subcategories delineating exactly how these players entered the NFL if not through the draft. Walk-on tryouts? Transfers from other sports leagues? My impression is that it is a fairly remarkable thing to end up in the NFL without going through a draft. bd2412T 02:54, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
No, it is not remarkable. Approximately 3,700 biographies have been written about players who have not been drafted but made an NFL team. All players either are drafted and sign a contract or sign a much smaller contract as an undrafted free agent. There are no sports leagues from which a player could transfer. Every single NFL player was eligible to be drafted and they were either selected or not, but it is a pretty unremarkable process except for the top few selections in any given draft.--TM03:01, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Transfer" was an inartful term. I was referring to players who came to an NFL team from a different sport or league. It can't be all that common, for example, for a person with no football experience to walk in and earn a spot on a pro team in an open tryout. bd2412T 20:12, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
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Nominator's rationale: Rename and restructure to become a sub-cat of Category:Crystals. The article Crystal equates "crystal" and "crystalline solid", but says that most metals & ceramics are polycrystalline solids. A small amount of recategorising will be required. – FayenaticLondon18:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the article also refers to polycrystalline solids, and that appears to match most of the contents of the category. I will propose a renaming and restructure. – FayenaticLondon18:03, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Close -- I note there is a speedy merge nom in favour of Category:Crystals, which seems appropriate. That is currently a sub-cat, so that it may be appropriate to reverse merge that then rename, to give effect to this without orphaning anything. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:49, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
For reference I've added the earlier speedy nomination. Also, for what it's worth, I note that the word "polycrystalline" hardly ever occurs in the articles that are in this category. That is not a decisive argument but it may be food for thought. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:36, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I withdraw my objection to the speedy nomination, i.e. I agree to merge to sub-cat Crystals. Note that the target page has to be edited manually after the bot process in such a case. – FayenaticLondon16:19, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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@Hugo999 I see no way in which a dual upmerge can be appropriate. This was a period when Ireland was a united entity and still de jure part of the United Kingdom, so whatever relationship there should be to UK categories, that relationship should be resolved by parenting the Ireland-level categories. Dual upmerge takes some of the Irish topics and places them in a British category not applied to the others, and I can see no basis for that.
@BrownHairedGirl At the this time, 1920 in Irish Sport isn't subcategorized 1920 in British Sport, though Scottish and Welsh Sport are. Shouldn't 1920 in Irish Sport be also and for any other years it was part of GB? 1920 in the United Kingdom has 1920 in Ireland as a category as do earlier years....William, is the complaint department really on the roof?14:46, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@William: logically, the 1801–1922 Irish categories should be under a United Kingdom parent. But note that phrase "United Kingdom".
Categorising Irish things as "British" would be a highly controversial POV move, because most Irish people bitterly object to being labelled as British. (As the Irish Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney wrote, "No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen".)
I've modified the CFD to not include a merge to British sport because of their being no other case of Irish sport being subcategorized as such. A pub fight discussion needs to take place first. @BrownHairedGirl, I'm part Irish(and Scottish, German, Dutch, Italian and I'm married to a Filipina), my maternal grandmother was named Francis Hennessy. Didn't know Heaney's quote before today but am familiar with Irish feelings towards GB....William, is the complaint department really on the roof?16:01, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge only to Category:1920 in Irish sport. Most sport is organised separately in the various home nations of UK. The Irish Sport tree goes back to 1860. The Gaelic Athletic Association was (is) an Irish Nationalist sporting movement. It might be appropriate to add a "See also" item to British categories, but not to parent it there. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:55, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Software companies of the United States by state
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Propose deletingCategory:Software companies of the United States by state (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: It does not serve the encyclopedic purpose. It is like building a directory for any kind of software companies in USA. This can easily be managed by Software company in USA. here it will serve the purpose for Spammer on Wikipedia. More categories more better for promotions. Light2021 (talk) 14:27, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep To me, this looks like an ordinary by-state container category. How is it different from other by-state company categories, such as Category:Manufacturing companies in the United States by state or Category:Railroads of the United States by state? Nyttend (talk) 23:07, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
keep for the reasons provided by Nyttend which are complete and understandable. No evidence this has anything to do with spam or promotions. This is normal WP categorization at work: to provide connections between parts of WP to help readers navigate among related articles. Hmains (talk) 02:13, 13 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: For consistency. All the other subcategories of DJs are "xxx DJs" not "DJs from xxx" - TheMagnificentist12:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Why is it parented to Category:Harem anime and manga? The Harem (genre) is a distinctive Japanese genre, where a male or female protagonist has 3 or more love interests, and is involved in a polygamous relationship. (Whether the love interests are of the same or opposite sex to the protagonist, or they include both sexes, varies by series.) Since when does the genre cover videogames? Dimadick (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, or rename to Category:harem (genre) video games for clarity. The two current members are anime or manga which also have a video game adaptation. – FayenaticLondon05:46, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: The parent article is Neighbourhood, and Neighborhood is a redirect to it. I didn't want to send this to CFDS because there was a bit of a copy/paste-move-war some time back at the latter page, so someone might object that the article's current name isn't stable enough. Non-localised subcategories, e.g. Category:Fictional neighborhoods, will need to be renamed unless this nomination is rejected somehow. Nyttend (talk) 02:04, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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