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Category:Years of the 10th century in Denmark

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 12:31, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:SMALLCAT, only two articles and one article respectively in the both categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Tamil-language television series debuts and endings

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. In any case this was a pointless nomination, because it would have removed only the container categs, but none of the individual by-year categs, e.g. Category:1997 Tamil-language television series debuts and Category:1999 Tamil-language television series endings. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:18, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: All other “X television series debuts/endings” categories are by country, not by language. Tamil is spoken mostly in India. I also intend to include all subcategories in the nomination, but I have a class to get to and homework to catch up on. 2600:387:A:7:0:0:0:89 (talk) 19:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
oppose: This name has been changed from first Category:Tamil television series debuts by year to Category:Tamil-language television series debuts by year name. So I do not think there is a need to discuss about this. my opinion, many languages in India. You need to show the Tamil language sequences individually. Do not change this name because the Tamil language series is manufactured in India, Sri Lanka Singapore and Malaysia. I Think You need to keep this name.--Thilakshan (talk) 13:12, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fictional television programming

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Fictional television programming to Category:Fictional television shows.
No consensus on deleting Category:Fictional television shows with religious themes. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:39, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale:

Consistency with real TV show categories. Category:Fictional TV series is inappropriate because not all elements are TV series. In the second case, the elements are real TV shows that are works of fiction, not fictional shows that do not exist. The current members are all real TV shows involving God and angels. Other religions exist as well, and there is a Category:Religious television series with similar title but very different scope. 165.91.13.204 (talk) 16:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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Category:Family medicine

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:Family medicine to Category:Family medicine in the United States. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: The same thing by different names Rathfelder (talk) 14:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In the US they are considered separate "specialties", and in fact there are other specialties who do also primary care in the US (see here for example).
Also, the point is that most of the members of the FP category are organizations specifically connected to the US FP practice categorization— not our categories, but how American medicine divides things up. If the Brits don't do it the same way, well, our category structure has to bend to deal with that. Mangoe (talk) 02:55, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Supposed by whom? This statement begs the question. Mangoe (talk) 02:55, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • While reading the articles, my impression about these difference is as follows: family medicine and general practice are identical or at least very similar and the difference is mainly a matter of WP:ENGVAR; while primary care is much broader than these two as it includes dentists, pharmacists, primary care in hospitals and perhaps much more. If anyone wants to correct this, feel free to do so. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:34, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In the USA< medical doctors typically train for a medical specialty, but this didn't use to be the case; sixty years ago a very large portion took no specialty and, and those were (and are, because it still happens) "general practitioners". But there is also a specialty specifically for "family care", where doctors prepare to be, essentially, family doctors, that is, the guy/gal that you see on a regular basis, sick or well. From what I gather, the way things are typically organized in UK/Europe is different, and they don't train that way. But in the US, they do. European doctors may dismiss the idea of "specializing" in what they consider a generality, but that's the way it is done here, and most of the membership of the disputed category is organizations related to the specialty. I might agree that Category:Family physicians might not be justifiable, but that's a different discussion. Mangoe (talk) 13:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree - there is some relevant info at AAFP; for example, I was a student member of AAFP during medical school, until I decided to specialize in Internal Medicine (and then Infectious Diseases). It's clearly hard to standardize the terms and concepts globally with all of the variation in health care delivery. — soupvector (talk) 17:16, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Primary care (in the US) in no way includes dentists or pharmacists. It's still medicine. It's generally family medicine, pediatrics, and ob/gyn. Natureium (talk) 19:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks, now we're getting somewhere. So it remains a good idea to keep the category apart and the above explanation can be used as a header on the category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
yes it would I agree--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:51, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not seeing the need for the qualifier given that, from what I make of others' comments, There's no "not-American" family practice that this needs to be distinguished from. Mangoe (talk) 17:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
These words - Family doctor, for example - are used in various ways all round the globe. If this category is not clearly American it will attract articles about general practice in other places. Rathfelder (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No, not all those words. I've supported upmerging Category:Family physicians because it doesn't mean this specialty; I'm also seeing that there are WL for "family practice" where it actually means, more or less, the business of a person practicing medicine— not exactly synonymous to a doctor's office as the article on the latter falsely claims, but close. The latter are going to have to be fixed by hand anyway. Other than the latter, it's not attracting those links now. Mangoe (talk) 21:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Indian sex gangs

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The result of the discussion was: disperse to Category:Gang rape in India and Category:Gang rape in Pakistan, then delete. Pinging the participants to implement this: @Störm, Grutness, and Marcocapelle. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:49, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Turns out there were only 2 items, so I recategorised them myself. Sorry about the un-needed ping. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Propose renaming Category:Indian sex gangs to Category:Sex gangs in India
Nominator's rationale: Created by me and was previously discussed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_April_15#Category:Pakistani_sex_gangs. I was wrong one year back so wants a new consensus. Same for Category:Pakistani sex gangs. Störm (talk) 13:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Estonia

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Spouses of Presidents of Estonia. I've taken the liberty to capitalize Presidents, similar to the sibling categories. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Follow up this move. 90.191.76.154 (talk) 11:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Years and decades in Wales up to 1700

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:560 in Wales, Category:569 in Wales, Category:560s in Wales and Category:Years of the 6th century in Wales; no consensus on the rest. – Fayenatic London 13:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, the larger amount of categories only have one or two articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • It would not help a lot if we would drop one tree of smallcats and start another tree of smallcats at the same time. Here is an alternative: we merge everything up to 1535 to the year categories of Europe, while we merge everything after 1535 to the year categories of England. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Marcocapelle: Merge Wales to England? No way. Wales did not exist as a legal entity after 1535, but it v much existed as facto entity. Placing Wales in English cats is the sort of thing which gets en.wp's categs in the news, and not in a good way. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:31, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @BrownHairedGirl: So do you prefer to have all of them to be merged to year in Europe categories? I would be fine with that as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:11, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Marcocapelle this is a v sensitive issue. Basically, England set out to abolish Wales legally and culturally, and that remains a bitter issue in Wales. I appreciate the categorisation logic, but no matter what categorisation logic drives a merger, there is a serious risk that this would be seen as yet another erasure. Shouts of "Wikipedia abolishes Wales", and headlines in the same vein just like happened with American women writers.
So I would suggest keeping Welsh year+decade categories for all periods when we have equivalent categories for England, and merge to Europe before then. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:39, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • So that basically means, merge only the first two nominated categories, because there is no Category:560 in England or Category:569 in England. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Jewish American mayors

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The result of the discussion was: rename. The suggestion of deletion was not properly examined. A specific nomination to delete might have a different outcome. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Propose renaming Category:Jewish American mayors to Category:Jewish mayors of places in the United States
Nominator's rationale: Standard NC in the mayors tree is "Mayors of places in Country", not "Demonym mayors". Bearcat (talk) 04:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- Insufficient rationale. Follows the pattern of Category:Jewish American state governors of the United States, Category:Hispanic and Latino American mayors, Category:LGBT mayors of places in the United States and other similar cats. Appropriate renaming is ok though. Mhym (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Er, Category:LGBT mayors of places in the United States reflects the pattern of what I proposed as the rename, not the pattern of the existing name, so it doesn't constitute evidence against renaming. Bearcat (talk) 20:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with the rename now. Mhym (talk) 21:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • This reasoning would require a batch nomination for all ethnicities. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:17, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Except that Jewishness is an ethno-religious designation, so not at all similar to other ethnicities. The parameters of what is and what is not an acceptable intersection of ethnicity and occupation is decided on an ethnicity by ethnicity basis. Just because in some cases the intersection of an ethnicity and an occupation are notable does not mean that all possible intersections of that occupation with ehtnicity are notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:43, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Muslim dynasties

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. -- Tavix (talk) 21:17, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per MOS:ISLAMIC. Chicbyaccident (talk) 23:30, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, xplicit 04:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Malayalam short stories

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 07:01, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not enough articles to warrant a category. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:20, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, xplicit 04:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Officer of the United States

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Too vague. Literally any executive branch politician from Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State) to Karl Rove (Deputy Chief of Staff) could fit into this category. – JocularJellyfish TalkContribs 04:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Rulers who died as children

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The result of the discussion was: keep. -- Tavix (talk) 21:13, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category:Deaths by age-type category. 165.91.13.63 (talk) 02:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Changed to weak merge after the below comments, it may be sort of defining after all. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Meghan Markle

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not enough content for an eponymous category. Why does this exist? ―Justin (koavf)TCM 01:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It was created by Johndavies837 a fairly new editor. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:22, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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