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December 19

Category:Fisheries

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 28#Category:Fisheries

Category:Jewish engravers by nationality

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 28#Category:Jewish engravers by nationality

Category:Successful write-in candidates

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I'll list this on the manual page to verify that all category members are included in the existing list. MER-C 05:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Convert Category:Successful write-in candidates to article Write-in candidate
Nominator's rationale: Listify - already largely duplicated by the list in Write-in candidate. Le Deluge (talk) 14:40, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Agree - I was the one who created this category and I don't think anyone has used it since. If other users think that it makes more sense as a list on the article write-in candidate then I have no objection and would be fine with deleting or merging or converting it as appropriate. Thanks for hearing me out. Omanlured (talk) 15:16, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Planned Economies

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 28#Category:Planned Economies

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Chinese in New York City

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 05:12, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Chinese in New York City (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Wikiproject is inactive. Category will sit empty and useless. Ϫ 11:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Non-fiction books about Star Wars

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 05:14, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think this category needs to specify "non-fiction". Books about Star Wars are not Category:Books based on Star Wars. Just like equivalent Category:Books about Star Trek doesn't need 'non-fiction' added to it. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:42, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also I am getting very tired of this "any WP content about fiction should be deleted" barrage of AfDs from just a handful of editors. Throw enough AfDs and you will of course get some of them to stick. This is not a productive outcome for the project. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:20, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Landships

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 05:13, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Original research related to WP:Articles for deletion/Landship. Before I emptied it, the category contained the sub-categories Category:Engineering vehicles, Category:Giant stripping shovels, Category:Superheavy tanks and Category:Tunnel boring machines, various articles that didn't mention the term "landship" and that were largely contained in one of those sub-categories, plus Landship Committee. There is no indication that the vehicles described in the inclusion criteria are generally referred to as "landships" or "landcraft", and we don't need a category for a historical term for "tank" that is no longer in use. Huon (talk) 01:21, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
At a closer look the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte article did mention the term "landship" without the creator of the category adding it. It did not, however, cite a source that the Ratte was a (proposed) landship, and the cited sources did not use the term "landship". Huon (talk) 02:45, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Landkreuzer means "land cruiser" or "land crosser" in English—it has nothing to do with ships. HopsonRoad (talk) 04:08, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - There are already meaningful categories for the items described. "Land ship" is not a word in the English lexicon. It is a concept that appeals to one or a few editors that ties large, mobile machinery together in a manner that adds no value—e.g. tanks being categorized with boring machines. HopsonRoad (talk) 04:08, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I very much doubt that the word "landship" is a notable subject in this encylopedia - i.e. that a WP:WORDISSUBJECT article at Landship (word) would pass GNG. DexDor (talk) 12:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Landships Committee is a specific archaic usage that was used for less than a year before becoming the Tank Supply Committee. You often get weird names in the early stages of a technology, but the committee was not interested in procuring boring machines and excavators. I must admit I was in two minds about this category when I first saw it, but I'm tending towards Delete.Le Deluge (talk) 14:48, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The nominator listed the subcats removed. DexDor (talk) 12:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am not going to let recently added WP:OR sit in more than a dozen articles for the purpose of a category deletion discussion. I listed the former subcategories, and the category page itself gives inclusion criteria that can be evaluated. Even if this were indeed a valid category, there was no indication whatsoever that any of the articles I removed would belong: Since there are no sources at all referring to any of the topics as a "landship", they clearly fail WP:CATDEF. Huon (talk) 21:37, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:LA-stub

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Approved by WPSS as "Ladakh-stub" but created with incorrect form. Her Pegship (I'm listening) 00:21, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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