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Category:Companies spun off from Nortel

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Corporate spin-offs (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:45, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry WP:SMALLCAT. This would be fine if there were five or six things to file here, but it's not needed for just one. Bearcat (talk) 22:32, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Headmasters of The Hill School

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:The Hill School faculty and Category:School principals and headteachers (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:55, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only 2 links, unnecessary, pretentious. Peapod21 (talk) 22:23, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Roman Egypt

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 18:48, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge as follow-up on this earlier discussion where a reverse merge was nominated. Assuming that nobody wants to keep the Egypt and Roman Egypt categories in parallel for these centuries, and since the previous nomination was opposed, this new nomination should normally be endorsed. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging earlier discussants @Caeciliusinhorto, Peterkingiron, and Greyshark09:. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:19, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Probably a good idea. Laurel Lodged (talk) 09:19, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Urban, rural, regional, real estate, and transportation economics

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The result of the discussion was: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT and precedents for JEL code categories.
  • Propose deleting Category:Urban, rural, regional, real estate, and transportation economics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: delete, hodgepodge of unrelated topics. This category clearly illustraties how JEL classification codes use completely different categorization principles than Wikipedia. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pontifical Commissions & Category:Pontifical Councils

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 14:14, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The terms pontifical commissions and pontifical councils are not proper nouns and should not be capitalized (in contrast to specific pontifical commissions and pontifical councils, e.g., Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity). This would bring the capitalization into line with the main article in each category. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 04:43, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Law of the Jungle (TV series) participants

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 14:17, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization of performers by performance. This groups people who have been guests on the variety program Law of the Jungle; it's a non-defining characteristic. There is a long-standing precedence against these types of categories: User:Good Olfactory/CFD#Reality TV participants. ℯxplicit 00:17, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Ancient year and decade categories in Egypt, France, Germany, India and the Maya civilization

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The result of the discussion was: merge according to Option B. Although the support for option B in this discussion is marginal, it makes sense to close this consistently with other recent CFD closures. – Fayenatic London 21:41, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
More categories nominated for merging
Nominator's rationale: merge to century categories per country per WP:SMALLCAT, nearly all these categories have only one article without a reasonable chance of expansion.
Note 1: on the talk page there is a list of container categories that naturally become empty if this merge is accepted. Though they haven't been tagged, it would be helpful if they are deleted upon closing this discussion.
Note 2: this is a continuation of the previous nomination of June 1. @Oculi, Tim!, Nyttend, Peterkingiron, J 1982, Neutrality, and Inter&anthro: pinging same editors as before, as you have participated in earlier discussions in the same field, feel free to comment on this new nomination too. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:55, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is indeed likely that won't even have enough content by continent by year to make a continent split. But let's first see how the country mergers turn out before turning to the next layer of categorization. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:29, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Personally I'm no great fan of continent categories, apart from eg (association) football, where continental confederations are the main unit of organisation. But continental categories imply a X by continent parent category, which even if you count 7 continents is pretty much a classic WP:SMALLCAT. Personally I'd nuke the continent layer before say 1500 and let the Egyptians and Maya mingle.Le Deluge (talk) 14:44, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Option B: skip continents category layer (as discussed)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: to give Option B a chance
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 23:20, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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