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Category:Places on the Road of St James

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The result of the discussion was: delete, based on strength of argument and historical precedent. -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:56, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose deleting:
  • Category:Places on the Road of St James (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Category:English Way‎
  • Category:Aragonese Way‎
  • Category:Camino Primitivo‎
  • Category:French Way‎
  • Category:Vía de la Plata‎
Nominator's rationale: Being on these hiking trails is WP:NON-DEFINING for cities (e.g.  Mérida, Pamplona). We don't normally categorize towns/cities/districts etc by which (man-made) routes they are on (if we did then a city like Bristol would be categorized for 2 motorways, railways, canals, LEJOG ...).  Relevant previous discussions include  Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_October_1#Category:Way_of_St._James and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_December_30#Category:Camino_del_Cid.  Note: Some of these categories contain an eponymous article that may need to be upmerged to Category:Hiking trails in Spain.  Note: Currently this categorization is in rather a muddle (e.g. there are articles about trails under the places-on category). DexDor (talk) 21:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Marcocapelle: I do. This message has four tildes. The result is as shown. JJ Hantsch 14:09, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strange, your signature doesn't show a link to your user page and talk page, as it should. You might want to check WP:SIGHELP on how to fix this. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Jjhantsch, your comment is rather WP:TLDR, but if you think that for Pamplona etc the foundation and entire life is dependent on the Camino then you've lost your sense of perspective. DexDor (talk) 08:36, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:DexDor If you think that Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Hospital de Orbigo & Castrojeriz which all lie in separate provinces and where in distinct kingdoms for centuries have nothing in common then you have lost your perspective. JJ Hantsch 14:30, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:DexDor But lets look at Pamplona, because you brought it up. Pamplona grew up with three neighborhoods. Two directly brought in and peopled by Camino, their descendants remain. The Kingdom of Navarre (Pamplona was the capital) maintained a long, thin shape (Roncesvalles-Pamplona-Puente la Reina-Viana) for 500 years. That is a week along the Camino and allowed Pamplona to have self rule for 500 years propped up by the French crown and/or the English one. Both uncommon but brought about by the Camino. The plague which the Festival of San Fermin celebrates deliverance from was carried in by pilgrims walking the Camino. The Cathedral of Pamplona, dedicated in 1127, was new fangled for the region but a scale copy of a French one about 250 km away, which was also along a Camino route. The fuero (agreement of government) which was granted to the medieval city was virtually identical to that of several others along the Camino, coordinating market days with other road towns, but not with other non-Camino towns. The last seven conquests of Pamplona were all directed along the Camino. The monasteries which fed the spiritual life of Pamplona for centuries were all founded on a pattern of settlement by the various orders along the Camino. But then again, I have walked through Pamplona four times and have my perspective based on the reality of Pamplona. Do you? JJ Hantsch 14:30, 14 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjhantsch (talk • contribs) [reply]
A category for places on routes across the Irish Sea (if it was allowed) would have more than one member. DexDor (talk) 08:39, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So of course Ports and harbours on the English channel would be completely banned. JJ Hantsch 16:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjhantsch (talk • contribs)

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Category:Wikipedia users who received an invite to edit Wikipedia

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Wikipedia users who received an invite to edit Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This category is populated by substitutions of ((User:Subha WMF/Invite)). It contains the user talk pages of 100+ users who received the "Do you need help?" notice during a single run on 24 April 2012. While the category may have served a purpose in the past, it is no longer useful to continue grouping these users based on a nearly 6-year-old notice. If kept, then rename to the shorter form, Category:Wikipedians who were invited to edit Wikipedia. (Pinging User:Psubhashish as the category's creator.) -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:14, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Brunson, South Carolina

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Small one-county community with just 1 entry. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wikipedians in Northeast Tennessee

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a non-standard and ambiguous way to segment Tennessee; see Grand Divisions of Tennessee. Alternatively, rename to Category:Wikipedians in East Tennessee. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:30, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tenured Wikipedians

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no such thing as "tenure" on Wikipedia, and thus no need for a grouping of "tenured" editors. I am concerned this could mislead newer editors into thinking users in this category have a privileged status. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:IP addresses used by Wikipedia users

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The result of the discussion was: option C. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:41, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: More concise names. These categories are populated by ((IP address)), ((ISP)), ((Shared IP)), ((Shared IP address (public))), ((Mobile IP)) and ((Static IP)). The issue at hand here is not the type of page being categorized but rather what it represents (various types of IP accounts). I prefer option A, consistent with the use of "accounts" in Category:Alternative Wikipedia accounts. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Static IP addresses

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 19:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary intermediate layer between Category:IP addresses used by Wikipedia users (parent) and Category:Wikipedia user talk pages of static IP addresses (child). There was a note in the template documentation of Template:Static IP stating the template places pages in this category; however, while this may have been the case at one time, currently the template only populates the child category. (Pinging User:Ronhjones as the category's creator) -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Long time ago, looks like I copied the layout of Category:Shared IP addresses and it's subcategories. I've no objections to a tidy up. Ronhjones  (Talk) 14:41, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Alternative Wikipedia accounts

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The result of the discussion was: rename. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:52, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with Category:Wikipedians with alternative accounts (parent) and Category:Wikipedia doppelganger accounts (child). Also, per Wikipedia:Category names#Special conventions, Wikipedia is typically a prefix at the start of a title, used to denote the category is used for Wikipedia administration. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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