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Category:NGC 4993

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only two articles, the main and GW170817. The other two observations at NGC 4993 are redirects to GW170817. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People of Armenian-Jewish descent

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The result of the discussion was: procedural close. The category has already been deleted. (non-admin closure)Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is already a category for Armenian of Jewish descent listed as Armenian Jews. So why create another category that is pretty much redundant? Hovhannes Karapetyan 22:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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Category:American people of Armenian-Jewish descent

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Note: It is currently empty. – Fayenatic London 08:57, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There was one person that is half Jewish and half Armenian from USA. So he already has the category "American Jews" and "American people of Armenian descent". Also, what is the point of having this category of American of Armenian-Jewish descent when there is already a category of the other two just mentioned? Hovhannes Karapetyan 22:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Could you please provide a link to that particular biography? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:32, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People stripped of honors

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:People stripped of honors to Category:People stripped of awards or positions
Nominator's rationale: This category covers various awards and people removed from public office. I think the concept makes sense (removal of status as a punishment), but should be named more broadly. SFB 16:49, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename as proposed. I think that stripped of position is the loss of a position which is tenured (a full professor) or expected to continue either for a specific term (say, a US state governor) or indefinitely (a British lordship or US federal judge) as opposed to being fired from the typical private employers. I also think that stripped conveys the proper connotation that the act was involuntary on the part of the recipient/holder of the award or position, so removed impeached folks, disbarred lawyers, etc. fit the bill rather than the lawyer who resigns from the bar voluntarily upon retirement, or the various Queens of the Netherlands who abdicate to retire. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:03, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The "or positions" one bothers me as that could apply to any job position loss, whether it's a demotion or a termination, retirement or reclassification, and that's pretty much everyone who isn't self-employed. That would have to be clarified what kind of positions. Note there's Category:Impeached officials removed from office and Category:Clergy removed from office AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Purged communists

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no clear definition of what constitutes a purging. People can be removed from positions in many ways and it is often unclear and disputed when a purge has occurred. This whole tree was entirely created to house Category:Expelled members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which is itself a valid and clearly defined category, but the purged structure does not serve a useful purpose for navigation. The structure is also incorrect as it lists Soviet communists as Russian communists. SFB 16:35, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Simon & Schuster authors

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 21:11, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Categorizing writers by individual publishing company they've released work with is the literary equivalent of a WP:PERFCAT. Writers typically release work with several different publishers over the course of their careers, rather than staying with the same company all their lives -- so it's not a defining characteristic of the person, and leads to extreme category bloat if a similar category is created for each publishing company. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That may well be suitable for List of Simon & Schuster authors (provided adequate sourcing), but not for categories. We only categorize authors on characteristics that define them as an author. E.g. David Aaker is well known for being a specialist and writer on brand strategy, but not for the fact that (some of?) his books have been published by Simon & Schuster. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:14, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm fine with deletion and I'll continue work on List of Simon & Schuster Authors. If you have pointers on what would make a good list entry--I'd be glad for direction. --Jaldous1 (talk) 20:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Christian groups in the Middle East

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 21:13, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To recluse a bit from the more sectarian connotations in the category tree. Chicbyaccident (talk) 12:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well, in any case, shouldn't Wikipedia be a bit reluctant to categorically group peoples according to religious adherences in that sense, though? Chicbyaccident (talk) 13:23, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Traditional gentlemen's clubs

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 21:19, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: C2D, but starting a full discussion due to the number of categories involved. The article is at Gentlemen's club. Paul_012 (talk) 09:32, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cancelled projects and events

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The result of the discussion was: split. – Fayenatic London 21:23, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Lumping projects and events together is not helpful. We also have separate Category:Projects and Category:Events categories and that has a purpose.
Option A: split and move every item that belongs in neither Category:Cancelled projects nor Category:Cancelled events to the parent Category:Former entities.
Option B: upmerge to Category:Former entities entirely, because all of this is quite a hodgepodge anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not necessarily against moving the category to under Category:Proposals but it may alternatively be the case that the content rather is a mix of proposed-never-started and started-but-cancelled-halfway. There is too much content in the category to quickly verify that. If you are right and all content is 'proposed' indeed then it would also require a batch nomination to rename a large number of subcategories from 'cancelled' to 'proposed'. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American comedy actresses

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:31, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: While we do have a (possibly misguided) scheme of subcategorizing actors and actresses by whether they work in television, film, stage plays or musicals, we do not have any established scheme of subcategorizing actors and actresses by whether they're better known for comedy or drama work. There is no Category:Comedy actresses to parent this, for starters -- and only four actresses have actually been filed here, of whom three are well-known as having done both comedy and drama over the course of their careers, but we don't have a Category:Dramatic actresses tree to parallel this either. Bearcat (talk) 00:33, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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