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Category:Rayguns

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:09, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As a raygun is a type of energy weapon, it goes to reason that it would be better off in the more broad category, especially since most of the articles in this category aren't "rayguns" by the classical definition. What exactly a "raygun" is can be up for debate, to the point where the category somewhat fails WP:ARBITRARYCAT. It's also the only subcategory in Category:Fictional firearms, suggesting a category this specific is highly unusual. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 19:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional railroad engineers

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:21, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article in the category. JDDJS (talk) 18:51, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional bail bond agents

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:24, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article in the category. JDDJS (talk) 18:50, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional administrators

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:26, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unclear what this category is exactly for. The one page in the article doesn't really belong.JDDJS (talk) 18:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional lutenists

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The result of the discussion was: merge leaving it to the discretion of editors to discuss whether the one article fits the target sufficiently (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:30, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article in the category, and it's highly debatable if that article belongs in here.JDDJS (talk) 18:47, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional bagpipers

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:33, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article in the category. JDDJS (talk) 18:46, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional accordionists

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:36, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a popular theme in fiction. It's not defining for either of the two characters in the category. JDDJS (talk) 18:45, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Horse racing venues in Cypress, California

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:41, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to Category:Cypress, California as well. One category which is in a long line of useless categories. TM 18:05, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Super Robots

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The result of the discussion was: rename as nominated. -- Black Falcon (talk) 22:05, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There seems to be some degree of confusion over whether this is a category about "Super Robot" (the genre) - the article title would suggest that it's about individual Super Robots, but they don't really need a category. I would say that it's better to rename to something more clear, as subcategories of Category:Mecha anime and manga, and then move all the actual Super Robots and Real Robots to Category:Fictional mecha. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 17:37, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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British film studios

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The result of the discussion was: rename. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:50, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To correspond with other categories listing studios as shooting locations (Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios), and to distinguish the studios which are physical locations (which these are) from the studios which are companies that produce films (which these are not). Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:38, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Cooper City, Florida

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:44, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category unlikely to grow (1 article). TM 17:25, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Uniondale, New York

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:47, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge to Category:Sports in Uniondale, New York as well. Only 2 articles in category. TM 17:22, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Santa Rosa, California

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The result of the discussion was: dual upmerge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 03:51, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to Category:Sports in Santa Rosa, California as well. Only one article in category. TM 17:21, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Santa Ana, California

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The result of the discussion was: triple upmerge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 17:46, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge to Category:Sports in Santa Ana, California and Category:Sports venues in Orange County, California as well. Only 1 article in category. TM 17:19, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Gary, Indiana

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The result of the discussion was: dual upmerge. Note that both articles are already in a third potential target, Category:Sports venues in Indiana. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 17:53, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category with little likelihood of growing. Also upmerge to Category:Sports in Gary, Indiana. TM 17:16, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Bolo

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The result of the discussion was: delete and reclassify one article (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 19:11, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT the category is too small for a fictional universe category. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 15:30, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional nuclear weapons delivery systems

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:17, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT this does not merit a category. All the items in it would be fine at Category:Fictional weapons and Category:Nuclear war and weapons in popular culture. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 15:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional anti-tank weapons

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF, none of the articles in this category are defined by their anti tank abilities. There are fictional vehicles that happen to have that capability, and energy rays that could be used for that. Compare and contrast to the articles in Category:Anti-tank weapons, all of which are specifically made to destroy tanks. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 15:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Military robotic dogs

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:SMALLCAT, this category doesn't have to exist. It gets problematic when we get into the topic of "fictional military robotic dogs", which do exist. It would be perfectly fine for these robots to be in Category:Robotic dogs and Category:Military robots. That's if you even consider something like BigDog a dog, for all intents and purposes it's more like a robotic pack mule. There's also no similar category for consumer robotic dogs.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 14:59, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic United States

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The result of the discussion was: rename. ℯxplicit 06:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To align with the main article (Cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic states) and grandparent category (Category:Mid-Atlantic states). This does not qualify for speedy renaming because I just moved the main article to its new title. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Linux distributions without systemd

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:12, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a defining characteristic for operating systems. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 03:23, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose if this category is kept, the complementary category should also be created. Though I now see that the systemd article does have a table of its usage by various Linux distributions; perhaps expanding that table to include distributions which have avoided systemd might be an acceptable alternative. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 23:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Longcross Studios films

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The result of the discussion was: rename. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:47, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To correspond with other categories listting studios as shooting locations, and to distinguish the studios which are physical locations from the studios which are companies that produce films. Trivialist (talk) 03:09, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:States of the Mid-Atlantic

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 18:02, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary subdivision of a category that already includes the word "states" in the title. Other categories for regions of the United States, such as Category:Northeastern United States, directly contain the articles about each state. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify.) -- Black Falcon (talk) 02:53, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Rodeo performers (other)

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The result of the discussion was: merge. After reading the discussion twice, I have concluded that those supporting the merge had much stronger foundations in their arguments against its retention in comparison to those in favor of its retention. WP:OCMISC directly does not allow these types of "other" categories as they are treated as nothing more as miscellaneous categories, and the only commonality between the articles in the nominated category is not that they share a defining characteristic, it's that they simply don't share a characteristic with the other diffusion categories in Category:Rodeo performers. There is no requirement to refine categories so specifically that lead to the creation of Category:Rodeo performers (other), and with a population of just nine articles, it will hardly cause a problem to leave them in the broader parent category. ℯxplicit 06:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Why does this exist? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:09, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Darts people

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The result of the discussion was: keep (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 18:16, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: /Upmerge to Category:Darts. It would be a different story in (e.g.) basketball where you have players, coaches, team owners, officials, and announcers who will all plausibly have biographies and can be categorized but this is just players and non-players. No need for this extra level of categorization. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:06, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:English footgolfers

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 18:24, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Subcats: Category:English footgolfers, Category:Footgolfers
Nominator's rationale: ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Footgolf

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The result of the discussion was: delete for now (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Very little content. No need for this scheme. As necessary, upmerge. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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