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Category:REOTITH

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The result of the discussion was: procedural close, meanwhile the category has been converted to an article. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 10:33, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a category page. Unsourced, poorly written attempt at an article with probably no salvageable content. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:37, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:AMERICANS

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete WP:C2C, etc. – Fayenatic London 07:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: not a normal category page L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:24, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Vertebrates described in 1771

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:39, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Vertebrate categories to be deleted (137)
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Nominator's rationale: Follow-up removal of empty vertebrate categories, an undesired (and negligently implemented) intermediate category between the Category:Animals described in 2001-level and Category:Birds described in 2001-level, per recent WP:TREE RFC @ Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Request for comment: categorizing by year of formal description. An older (~4 year), related (invertebrates) CfD is here.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:52, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WT:TREE & WT:Animals notified.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:59, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per nom and previous discussion. Loopy30 (talk) 13:15, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per nom and previous discussion (yet more of Caftaric's work with no prior discussion or consensus). Peter coxhead (talk) 15:42, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom and above comments. Negligently implemented indeed - create and dash on to other footling concerns. Oculi (talk) 15:48, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Plantdrew (talk) 16:39, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom and if this happens again, be advised you could have used WP:C1 CSD criteria to delete. L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:16, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Jewish Czechoslovak history

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:37, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge as largely overlapping topics, Jews and Judaism in former countries is history by definition. This is a similar nomination as in this earlier discussion. @Peterkingiron, Cplakidas, and Place Clichy: pinging participants to earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Queer

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus on exactly what to do, but there is consensus that something should probably change. As discussed, a widely advertised fresh discussion would probably be the best route here. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This needs a review and purge. It's not an inherently invalid category, but the problem is that the word "queer" has two obviously related but not identical and not equally defining usages: it can convey a highly politicized and WP:DEFINING form of LGBT identity, as in Queer Nation or Queer theory, or it can just be a non-defining attempt to drain the LGBTTQQIAAPFABGLITTEROMGWTFBBQ alphabet soup by finding the shortest possible alternative that isn't excluding anybody. But the problem with this category in its current form is that it has a really unfortunate habit of getting misused as a WP:SHAREDNAME catchall for practically anything that uses the word Queer in its name or mission statement at all, such as LGBT culture in New York City or Queer Arts Festival or Queer Notions or Buddies in Bad Times or Out On Screen — many of which are queer in the latter sense rather than the former. For example, NYC's LGBTQ scene most certainly does not have any uniquely towering claim to being defined by "queerness" that San Francisco's and Los Angeles's and Chicago's and Toronto's and Vancouver's and London's and Seattle's and Berlin's and Montreal's LGBTQ scenes can't match — and there's nothing uniquely political-queer about Vancouver's LGBTQ film festival that's somehow unmatched by Inside Out or Frameline or BFI Flare (the difference between those film festivals and the VQFF isn't that they're inherently less queer-oriented than VQFF is, it's just that they don't happen to have Q's in their names.) So there are certainly things that belong here, like Queer Nation and queer theory and heteropatriarchy — but there are also many things here that aren't defined by queerness just because they happen to have the word "queer" in their names: VQFF is not more inherently "political queer" than every other LGBTQ film festival just because it has a Q in its name and the others don't, New York City's LGBTQ scene is not more inherently "political queer" than anywhere else's, Romania's Radio Q is not more inherently "political queer" than Canada's Proud FM just because the Canadian station doesn't have a Q in its call sign, and on and so forth. Bearcat (talk) 02:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Basically what I am saying here is delete unless (i.e. unless a proper solution can be found). Marcocapelle (talk) 16:09, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hhkohh (talk) 04:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:58, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
So have you given any thought about whether a more verbosely descriptive title might be a workable way of narrowing the scope and providing some sort of viable category?
Something which perhaps conveys something along the lines of "Queer (radical LGBT+ based on queer theory)"? (Yes, my suggestion is of course hideously clumsy. It's just a tentative exploratory step)
I am not suggesting that there is any easy answer, because radicalism doesn't have clear boundaries and much mainstream contemporary LGBT+ activism incorporates some elements of queer theory. However, I note that we have managed to sustain a Category:Radical feminism+subcats, even tho that concept does have many of the same fuzzy boundary issues (albeit without the alternative all-encompassing meaning of "queer").
I should say that my initial inclination was to delete, but I think that on such a high-profile ideological issue it is important that we do -- and are seen to do -- due diligence, by having as broad a discussion as possible. If a decision to delete was made without clear evidence of a broad and well-informed consensus, I think that there is a significant risk that LGBT/Queer media could pick up on the deletion and run some viral clickbait stories with titles along the lines of "Wikipedia Abolishes Queer", with your own good faith entirely overlooked.
I looked at WT:LGBT and its most recent arhive, and I don't even see a notification there of this proposal, let alone the preliminary discussion which I had hoped to see.
This discussion has been open for more than 35 days, with two relistings. But even so, I count only 4 editors plus me responding to the nomination. Even if all 5 of us enthusiastically agreed on a change, that is too narrow a consensus for such a high-profile change. So I suggest that it would be better to withdraw this CFD pending an RFC. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:46, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Humane societies in Canada

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The result of the discussion was: merge and delete as nominated. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:31, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: procedural nomination as follow-up on this earlier discussion. @IQ125, Black Falcon, Peterkingiron, and Fayenatic london: pinging participants of earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:41, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Angelina Jolie

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:30, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON General Ization Talk 15:34, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ℯxplicit 01:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Cwf97 - I don't think being influential is (directly) relevant to OCEPON. Would you like to reconsider your !vote per this ? DexDor (talk) 20:34, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Thai Volunteer Defense Corps Officers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:28, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category currently only includes former Ministers of Interior, who are automatically head of the corps. Such automatic posts are not a defining characteristic of the category members. Paul_012 (talk) 00:56, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:List of armed conflicts in 2014

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename pluralization per C2A. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A category name cannot be "List". Since this is not the only one, please review is there are other categories with the same name and rename accordingly. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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