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Category:People from Singapore

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 15#Category:People from Singapore

Category:People in Sierra Leonean law

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: delete. No consensus on further deletions which need to be discussed in a dedicated venue Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:21, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Complete overlap with Category:Sierra Leonean jurists‎, which is the only thing in the category. Jurists is the term used in every other country category I've seen. Rathfelder (talk) 19:22, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a large tree of Fooish jurists and I agree with Peterkingiron that it's projecting the American system on the rest of the world, quite inappropriately, but demolishing it is beyond the scope of this discussion. Rathfelder (talk) 19:49, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Perhaps, in a fresh nomination, we should rename Category:Jurists to Category:People in law with all its subcategories except in the US. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:24, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further comment -- I have spent some time sampling the Lawyers category. A number of those listed were also judges; some were politicians whose bios do not mention them being lawyers. My conclusion is that the Lawyers should be the parent category, with judges as its subcat. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:02, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree. In all juristictions I am familiar with judges are recruited from lawyers. There are obviously many more lawyers than there are judges. And being a lawyer, at least in the UK, involves more than just having a law degree. But I dont know how these terms are used in the USA. Rathfelder (talk) 20:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Serbian people by status

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 09:16, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: unnecessary intermediate category. Only 2 sub categories - children and billionaires. "Status" is a bit ambiguous as the basis of a category. Rathfelder (talk) 18:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is also Category:People by status. It feels as a case of WP:OCMISC but not sure whether merging all of it is the best solution. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:16, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think we need a wider discussion about Category:People by status and how it relates to the much better developed tree relating to occupation. Neither status nor occupation really apply unambiguously to all the sub categories, but if we were to try to seperate them we would need some clear definitions. Being a criminal, a philatelist, a rebel or an inventor, for example, might be thought as an occupation for some people, but not for others, but I'm not sure that calling it a status is better. Rathfelder (talk) 22:29, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Government officials by nationality

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: do not rename. MER-C 09:15, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category:Government officials by nationality and Category:Civil servants by nationality‎ taken together show that in some countries they use one term and in others the other for what are presumably similar roles. It would be nice to devise a category in which both could sit and in which officials from all countries would appear. Is "Public official" a sufficiently neutral term? Rathfelder (talk) 15:45, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not completely, but most countries appear in only one of them. Rathfelder (talk) 22:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are too many nationalities in both trees to simply ignore the problem: Indian, Japanese, Moroccan, Nigerian, etc. Before merging the parent categories we'd better establish at country level whether government officials and civil servants are actually one and the same. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:57, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I dont think the official article helps. Official is used in too many different contexts. Ideally we need a term which doesn't bring in unacceptable overtones. How about People employed by public authorities? Rathfelder (talk) 10:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:British Saint Lucia people

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete, they are effectively the same in this case. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only content is Category:Governors of British Saint Lucia, which is already a sub cat of British expatriates in Saint Lucia Rathfelder (talk) 12:56, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Military musicians

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These are all in the same class as Category:Musicians by band, and can be named in a similar manner. This would allow the more specific categories to be in the Musicians by band container category as well.-- Mike Selinker (talk) 12:51, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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