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Roman fortifications

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The result of the discussion was: split Category:Roman Limes and rename the other 4 categories. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 00:12, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No need for capitalisation. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:48, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Query shouldn't Roman Limes be renamed anyway, even if it's only retained as a re-direct? Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Sports in Bahrain by sport

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The result of the discussion was: speedy merge. We only use "sports" for United States and related territories. – Fayenatic London 12:52, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Foreign influence in national elections

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 08:38, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Categories essentially address the same subject matter. — JFG talk 18:50, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
support. SashiRolls t · c 19:09, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The main article is Foreign electoral intervention; categories should be merged to this name. — JFG talk 21:48, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My mistake, then Merge as nominated. RevelationDirect (talk) 17:55, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So why did you empty that category before the discussion was closed? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@BrownHairedGirl Because I didn't see that in the big pink box (I saw: "This does not mean that any of the pages in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized." and apparently misunderstood that "may" was being used in an epistemic sense (probability) rather than in its radical meaning (authorization) ^^). I saw this consensus to merge the category I created some years back and which has become redundant. Thought I'd save others some work. Apologies. I've made a mistake. SashiRolls t · c 07:31, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @SashiRolls.
It's not a big deal in this case, but sometimes it can be. The key thing to remember is that consensus is weighed by an uninvolved closer, not by any of the participants. If the closer finds a consensus to merge, the work is done by bots. So need for human intervention. OTOH, if the closer doesn't find a consensus to merge or delete, then the status quo cannot be retained if someone has jumped the process. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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French First Republic

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:1802 in the French First Republic to Category:1802 in France and delete the other 5. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 01:06, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging
Propose deleting
  • Category:1800s in the French First Republic
  • Category:Decades in the French First Republic
  • Category:Years of the 19th century in the French First Republic
  • Category:19th century in the French First Republic
  • Category:Centuries in the French First Republic
Nominator's rationale: pointless duplication. The scope of any category by period in the 1792–1804 French First Republic is identical to that of the same period in France.
The whole set currently contains only one article. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:40, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Years in Macau

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/Delete. Timrollpickering (Talk) 17:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
more categories
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete, we do not diffuse city histories by year unless there is sufficient content. In this case with only 1 or at most 2 articles per category that is not needed. Note that this nomination only goes until the year 1885, because afterwards Macau no longer belonged to China. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The nominator's proposal to merge even the 16th century categories to Portuguese Empire categories seems to me to acknowledge this. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:55, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
PS Another factor is that the triple merge targets indicate that removing these categories will create a maintenance nightmare. It's unlikely that any but the most experienced categorising editors will correctly categorise any new pages in all three categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:54, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously I acknowledge that Macau was not "simply" a city, it was an autonomous city but still a city in China. With respect to categorizing new pages, please note that existing pages are sometimes in a dozen categories, how can an editor categorize a new article in the same dozen categories, other than by plain copying from an existing similar article? This is a general problem that we are not going to solve in this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:28, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Marcocapelle, that's true up to a point, but the underlying issue is that longer the list of required categories the less likely it is to be completely implemented. (This is a consequence of the crude MediaWiki software, which should handle all these intersections automatically. A lot of categorisation is just workarounds to that underlying crudeness)
In the case of chronology categories, I don't think that SMALLCAT is much an issue, because there is now v good navigation between categories. So there's little reader benefit to merger. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:49, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Navigation is only easy if the category for the last year of the previous decade exists and if the category for the first year of the next decade exists, otherwise there is a grey link. In this case many decades do not even miss a first and last year but, even worse, many decades do not have any articles/subcategories at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is definitely an improvement, thanks for that! But still it doesn't solve the situation when entire decades are blank like in this case. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:57, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have decade nav below the navseasoncats box for year nav, so there's an easy drop-down/jump-ahead to 3 decades in each direction. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
  • Appreciate your efforts, but it is not intuitive to jump from one year to another decade, and it is still a lot clumsier than just having all articles in one category. Besides before the 19th century there are also gaps of more than three decades, this tree is just so sparsely populated that anything else than combining them in a century category does not make a whole lot of sense. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:38, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Marcocapelle: OK, I will strike my oppose, but only on SMALLCAT grounds. Not on the grounds that it was a city colony; Hong Kong had similar status, and its by-year cats work fine. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Deceased

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The result of the discussion was: has been deleted by User:Materialscientist. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 19:41, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "Category:Deceased", which seems to be intended for articles about people who are dead, is a good example of a good-faith but completely pointless category. The category violates the existing structure of articles about deceased people, as explained at the long-established category Category:Dead people, "This is a hold-all category for deceased people. Please do not add individual people to this category; instead add them to the appropriate year of death category. If the year is unspecified add to Category:Year of death missing; if the date is lost to history, add to Category:Year of death unknown." FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 04:50, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cinefan Cinefan: Hello, sorry I hadn't realized that it was violating the guidelines but anyways I thought it'd be nicer to have an entire category for dead people rather than just people's deaths per year — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinefan Cinefan (talk • contribs) 04:54, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as I said, your category was created in good faith. However, Wikipedia already has a well-developed system for categorizing deceased people and there is no need for a new category about this matter, which only confuses things. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 04:56, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cinefan Cinefan:I understand that now that it confuses things since there's two categories, however I didn't notice the "Dead people" category when creating it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinefan Cinefan (talk • contribs) 05:10, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Power operating systems

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 April 21#Category:Power operating systems

Category:Power Linux distributions

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 April 21#Category:Power Linux distributions

Category:Estonian animation directors

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 9#Category:Estonian animation directors

Category:Japanese anime directors

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Anime directors. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 05:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There's only one single anime director with an article who isn't Japanese. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 01:09, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Injustice (franchise) guest fighters

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ~ Rob13Talk 20:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING. See also Category:Injustice characters which was deleted. Bennv3771 (talk) 01:02, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Injustice (franchise) fighters

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ~ Rob13Talk 20:03, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING. There are many DC video games, all of which naturally feature many DC characters. See also Category:Injustice characters which was deleted. Bennv3771 (talk) 01:00, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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