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Category:Turkic tribes

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: split. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: it is not possible to clearly differentiate between tribes and peoples here. Many articles are already both in the tribes category and in the tree of the peoples category. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:47, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:OM

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The result of the discussion was: Merge, without redirect. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Virtual duplicates. Category:OM has a cryptic name, so that's the one that should go. Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:37, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Maybe we'd better not create a redirect. The mere existence of the redirect may lead to an undesired outcome (editors wanting to categorize an article in Category:Operation Mobilisation while with the redirect Hotcat automatically changes OM into Category:Officine Meccaniche) while if there is no redirect editors have to search further which is (in this case) for the better. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Irish people by ethnic or national origin

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The result of the discussion was: rename. ℯxplicit 02:06, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Fictional Irish people by ethnic or national origin to Category:Fictional people of Irish descent‎
Nominator's rationale: because the contents are not Irish people; they are people of Irish descent‎. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:26, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Non-governmental organization stubs

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. There might have been consensus for a merge, but there is no consensus for outright deletion. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In line with decision made by CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 April 5 Rathfelder (talk) 18:48, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please indicate the intended merge targets for every of the nominated categories. There are plenty of merge proposal here that may serve as an example. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:32, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • As far as I can see all the contents are already in such categories, apart from the stubs and the regional/continent categories, which only contain categories to be deleted. I'm quite happy to review them all.Rathfelder (talk) 13:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • For example New English Center for Hope is only in Category:Non-governmental organizations of Africa‎. By deleting the category the article becomes orphaned. On top of this, a more fundamental problem plays a role, Category:Non-governmental organizations of Africa‎ is for organizations that are active in Africa but not necessarily based in Africa. By deleting the category the connection with Africa gets lost. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gambits

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:46, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary subcategory of chess openings. Generally speaking a "gambit" is an opening that involves the sacrifice of material, usually a pawn, however there is no formal definition. Labelling some openings as "gambits" and some not has more to do with tradition than anything else. For example the Queen's Gambit generally does not involve the sacrifice of material in the opening, whereas the Two Knights Defence generally does. MaxBrowne (talk) 11:00, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I notice the nominator is moving articles out of the Category:Gambits that should not have been moved out. This is false. I removed a single article from the category that clearly doesn't belong there. MaxBrowne (talk) 11:56, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Elections in Ireland by year

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The result of the discussion was: merge. ℯxplicit 02:06, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging:
Propose deleting:
Nominator's rationale per WP:SMALLCAT: the 15 by-year categories contain a total of only 42 pages, which is a mean of only 2.8 each. Seven of the 15 by-year categories contain only one page.
Ireland simply doesn't have enough elections each year to adequately populate these categories. (It's not that the articles to populate these categories haven't been written; there simply aren't many elections).
I had created and almost finished populating Category:Elections in Ireland by decade when I discovered these by-year categories. As you can see from the subcat for each decades, there is no decade of the 20th or 21st centuries when we have even 50 pages per decade. The average is about 30, which makes for much easier navigation
My only reservations are that a) there is no general scheme of Category:Elections by decade, so Category:Elections in Ireland by decade is not directly parented in any wider decade category of elections, and b) it does make a bit of category clutter on each article.
If the consensus is to keep the year categories, I will extend the by-year series back to the early 19th century, diffuse the decades into the years, and then delete the decades. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:31, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films based on Pride and Prejudice

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The result of the discussion was: keep (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Change the name because it links TV series and movies and it is assumed that the category was created based on the movies, not the TV series. The change of name is to be able to include all the projects in one. Well, as far as I understand, in the series articles do not use categories of movies, or if ?.. Philip J Fry / talk 00:49, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Grutness: This means that we should use only Category:Films based on Pride and Prejudice for the films and the other one that is already created to link the series and other works ?.--Philip J Fry / talk 01:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The other one, currently a redirect, isn't really needed and would be a confusing redirect, so I'd favour deleting it. Both the Film category and the Television category would have Category:Works based on Pride and Prejudice as a direct parent (compare how Category:Works based on Oliver Twist is set out). Grutness...wha? 01:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Then the category should be removed and only use Category:Works based on Pride and Prejudice. In particular, I think it would be more appropriate, in order to include any work..--Philip J Fry / talk 01:37, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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