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Category:Songs about the Gaels

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A questionable category defined by an ill-defined ethnic group, whose article has been subject to continual dispute over who actually belongs to the group. Furthermore don't have similar categories for members of any other ethnic or national group. There is no Category:Songs about Americans or Category:Songs about Poles; instead, we have Category:Songs about the United States and Category:Songs about Poland. But this category is hopeless in that regard because there are Gaels in Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and elsewhere in diaspora. So it should just be deleted. Catrìona (talk) 23:42, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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1915 in German South West Africa

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 August 27#Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 August 17. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: German South West Africa was invaded in 1914. Category:1915 in German South West Africa contains the final battles; although the last German commander only capitulated in July 1915, it will be helpful and sufficiently accurate to use "South West Africa" from 1915 onwards. The disestablishments category contains only the former territory and its currency. – Fayenatic London 14:52, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Amorium

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 August 27#Category:People from Amorium. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Typical WP:SMALLCAT. Only a handful of people are known to have come from the city. Constantine ✍ 11:27, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a Category:Amorium for the city and Category:Phrygia for the area; what there is not is many people known to have been born there. As someone who actually writes about the area and period, I do not reckon that there are many more articles to be added here. Should I be proven wrong, the category can always be recreated. Constantine ✍ 14:27, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Except that the category is for "People from Amorium", i.e., born in the city. People associated with a city but not born there should be categorized at Category:City X or even Category:History of City X. BTW, discretion should be exercised with over-categorizing: someone using a city as a base in a single year, or commanding a unit there, is not sufficient grounds for putting him/her in the respective category; there needs to be a strong link between person and city, that makes the latter an integral part of the given subject, such as being its longtime governor, bishop, having lived most of one's life there, etc. Constantine ✍ 14:23, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Most of our "city from" categories are simply recording residence in a city, not place of birth. See for example Category:People from Chicago.Dimadick (talk) 14:44, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to see some data to support the "most of" claim. My impression is quite the contrary, and at any rate categorization always implies, as can be seen in the Chicago example as well, being closely associated with a the category topic. Simply staying there briefly, or having a parent or grandparent from there, is not enough, per WP:NON-DEFINING. Constantine ✍ 14:48, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Free Linux distributions

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The result of the discussion was:  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 August 27#Category:Free Linux distributions. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "Free" is ambiguous as most Linux distributions are free of charge, there is only one subcategory: Free software only Linux distributions and that being more specific, this category obviously isn't needed. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 08:56, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Housing struggles in South Africa

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The result of the discussion was: merge. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge, Category:Housing by country is an established tree, while Category:Housing struggles by country is not. It is also not super clear what "struggles" means. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Esperanto by country

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The result of the discussion was: keep. ℯxplicit 04:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:SMALLCAT, the Czech and Slovak categories together contain only two articles plus each a subcategory. No need to merge, the two articles are already in Category:Esperanto meetings. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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