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Biological toxin weapons

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The result of the discussion was: procedural close. Not a CFD issue. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:11, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is no evidence that any person or nation-state has ever successfully weaponized anthrax toxin (lethal toxin and/or edema toxin) or even attempted to weaponize it. The categorization is simply asserted with no citation. (Gene Godbold (talk) 16:28, 19 March 2019 (UTC))[reply]
Procedural Close @Gene Godbold: The CFD discussions here are really for if you want to change/delete the overall category. If you want to add/remove individual articles from categories, you can WP:BB and just do it. If you think it might be controversial, you can also start a conversation on the article or WikiProject talk page. Good luck! RevelationDirect (talk) 01:29, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Books about environmentalism

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The result of the discussion was: merge/renameper nominator. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:13, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: We have TWO categories with nearly identical names - neither of which is properly named. Category:Books about environmentalism would encompass the entire subject area. Anomalous+0 (talk) 13:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Medieval Iraqi people

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:26, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merge Category:Medieval Iraqi people‎ to Category:People of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi astrologers‎ to Category:Astrologers of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi astronomers‎ to Category:Astronomers of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi geographers‎ to Category:Geographers of the Abbasid Caliphate‎
  • Propose merge Category:Medieval Iraqi Jews to Category:Jews of the Abbasid Caliphate‎‎
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Jewish physicians of Iraq‎ to Category:Jewish physicians of the Abbasid Caliphate‎
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi mathematicians‎ to Category:Mathematicians of the Abbasid Caliphate‎
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi physicians‎ to Category:Physicians of the Abbasid Caliphate‎
  • Propose rename Category:Medieval Iraqi writers to Category:Writers of the Abbasid Caliphate
Nominator's rationale: merge/rename, Iraqi people is anachronistic in the Middle Ages, until halfway the 13th century Iraq was part of the Abbasid Caliphate. This nomination is related to this other discussion. Note: a few articles are not about people of the Abbasid Caliphate, either because they are pre-Abbasid (before 750) or post-Abbasid (after 1250), in that case they may instead be added e.g. to an Arab category. So if agreed this requires a manual merge/rename (@closing admin: in that case please add this to WP:CFDWM). Marcocapelle (talk) 22:01, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Meanwhile in the other discussion the issue of the right preposition has become subject of debate as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:41, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1838 establishments in Oregon Territory

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:1838 establishments in Oregon Territory to Category:1838 establishments in Oregon Country; delete the rest. Thee is agreement that the current title is an anachronism, and given the small size, a future nomination to upmerge the subcats of Category:1830s establishments in Oregon Country would attract some support. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:29, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The Oregon Territory was not created until 1848. The Oregon Country categories for these should be used instead. Aboutmovies (talk) 01:17, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fine with me as category creator, move accordingly. - Jmabel | Talk 02:46, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:xxx to Category:yyy".
- Marcocapelle (talk) 07:37, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I thought we already had the Oregon Country cats set up, and we do, but apparently not back into the 1830s. So, we just replace Territory with "Country": Category:1838 establishments in Oregon Territory to Category:1838 establishments in Oregon Country; Category:1830s establishments in Oregon Territory to Category:1830s establishments in Oregon Country; Category:1838 in Oregon Territory to Category:1838 in Oregon Country; Category:1830s in Oregon Territory to Category:1830s in Oregon Country.
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  • If you wish. I am not a great fan of establishment categories at the best of times. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:58, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:POV (TV series) films

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING category. Consists of independent films that later showed as part of this stream. They were not produced for the stream. --woodensuperman 09:42, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No it isn't common practice at all. We never do that. Star Trek: Discovery airs on Netflix worldwide, but it is a CBS show and only categorised as such. Only films that are specifically produced by/for a network (or "stream" in this case) would satisfy WP:NONDEFINING. --woodensuperman
You're pulling a debatable example out exactly because its a streaming series. Downton Abbey is categorized in both Category:ITV television dramas and Category:PBS network shows. This isn't controversial or unusual in the least, especially with PBS programs which pull from both sides of the pond. -- Netoholic @ 10:03, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
PBS were instrumental in the production of Downton Abbey, so that is defining. If they weren't then it shouldn't be categorised as a PBS show. --woodensuperman 10:07, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I should also point out that until you removed it just recently, one of our most popular and highly-edited articles Doctor Who has been categorized in Category:PBS network shows since 2007. -- Netoholic @ 19:34, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
See WP:TVCATS: "TV series should avoid network categories when they were not originally produced for that network. Exceptions to this include co-productions (such as The 4400), or when a show changes networks during its original run." --woodensuperman 11:17, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We do not find it controversial to put an article for a documentary in a category for an award it was selected for. We also do the same for any film festivals it is selected for. So why would we not categorize it for a TV series it was selected for? These are all defining characteristics of a film. -- Netoholic @ 21:13, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Because proportionately very few films/programmes get nominated for awards or selected for festivals, compared to the number of foreign markets they may be screened in. Nick Cooper (talk) 08:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films by medium

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:12, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In a nutshell, this category is utterly nonsensical. The medium here has already been specified: FILM. I've already seen to it that the 2 subcats are in Category:Films by type, so no further work is required. Anomalous+0 (talk) 11:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Professional wrestling rosters

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Lists of professional wrestling personnel. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:26, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Changing name of category to match the pages within in. All were recently made consistent and category should match. Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 22:11, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Germanic countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Nearly every possible permutations of actions had some support.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:20, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF, "Germanic" is not a defining characteristic of e.g. Austria or Denmark, nor was it a defining characteristic of e.g. the British Empire or the Swedish Empire, nor is it a defining characteristic of the culture of these countries. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:15, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Germanic countries and territories - Germanic heritage is the defining characteristic, according to scholarly sources, of several European countries. One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups by James Minahan states: "The Germans are an ancient ethnic group, the basic stock in the composition of the peoples of Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, north and central France, lowland Scotland, and England."[2] Minahan classifies Denmark and Austria (and several other countries) as Germanic nations.[3]
  • The category is consistent with Category:Austroasiatic countries and territories, Category:Romance countries and territories, Category:Slavic countries and territories, Category:Finno-Ugric countries and territories, Category:Sino-Tibetan countries and territories etc. It would be a better idea to nominate Category:Administrative territorial entities by language rather than singling out only the Germanic category for deletion.
  • There is no denial that British or Austrian or Swedish people are Germanic-speaking peoples, the critical point is that e.g. the British Empire is not defined as a Germanic Empire. Please check WP:DEFINING. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • As the claim by the nominator regarding defining characteristics is contradicted by scholarly sources, the suggested deletions cannot possibly be a benefit to Wikipedia. Krakkos (talk) 23:15, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a confusing comment because this nomination is not about Category:Germanic peoples. Let's for example take Austria. This country is not defined as a Germanic country in [11] or in [12] or in [13] or in [14]. An oppose vote should contain links in which Austria is defined as a Germanic country in a description of Austria (rather than in a description of Germanic). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:38, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The nomination is about Category:Germanic countries and territories, Germanic empires and Category:Germanic culture by country. Each of these nominations were responded to separately in the comment above. Your argument from silence based on a selected group of sources is weak. The World Factbook and the Encyclopædia Britannica generally do not mention the ethnolingustic affiliation of countries. By your reasoning, one might as well delete Category:Austroasiatic countries and territories, Category:Bantu countries and territories, Category:Finno-Ugric countries and territories, Category:Romance countries and territories, Category:Sino-Tibetan countries and territories, Category:Slavic countries and territories, Category:Turkic countries and territories and other categories contained at Category:Administrative territorial entities by language rather than singling out Germanic catogories for deletion. Austria is defined as a Germanic country in a large number of scholarly sources.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] A similar abundance of sources can be found for the other countries contained in the categories. Krakkos (talk) 12:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The sources that you cite mention Germanic not in the lede of the description of Austria, therefore is not a defining characteristic. Please note that we do not categorize by just any characteristic. About Bantu countries etc., while that is an WP:OSE argument, it is likely that you are right that the same may apply to other ethnolinguistic groups. I will dig into that further. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It was merely mentioned in a subsection, not as a defining characteristic of the country. Besides it wouldn't surprise me if Bantu country is not a defining characteristic of South Africa either. (What about the Koisan?) Marcocapelle (talk) 18:49, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The discussion is not about notability but about definingness, i.e. whether this characteristic usually appears as one of the key characteristics of a country. It doesn't. Please check WP:DEFINING. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:03, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • A linguistic category, Category:Germanic-speaking countries and territories, already exists. That category is not identical to Category:Germanic countries and territories. Ireland, Scotland and Wales are classified as Germanic-speaking countries, but are nevertheless Celtic countries, rather than Germanic countries. Krakkos (talk) 19:48, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Which neatly shows the nonsense involved in any ethnic classification on this scale (look at the genetic studies, and indeed the histories of the countries). So delete the countries one, as not needed, and the empires one. The other is a twig on a larger, & probably diseased, tree, & the whole tree should be taken in one go. Johnbod (talk) 19:57, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Foundation members of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:30, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Foundation members of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society to Category:Founding members of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society
Nominator's rationale: To match with the category tree. Shyamsunder (talk) 10:51, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To elaborate on my vague comment, I don't find being an initial member to be more defining enough than a current member to merit a category. All these articles are already well categorized in the Australian Environmentalist/Conservationist categories and most are in the United Tasmania Group/Tasmanian Green categories. (Some of the article are also not-so-well categorized loose in the parent category Category:Tasmanian Wilderness Society and also in the next parent category, Category:The Wilderness Society (Australia)). RevelationDirect (talk) 10:00, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Railway accident locations in Western Australia

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:15, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category serve no purpose and is a case of over categorisation. There is no such category for any other state or country. Does not fit in category tree. Shyamsunder (talk) 10:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Public health education

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 20:38, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Main article is Health education, though it is very USA biased. We may need a separate category for healthcare education, or something like, for the education of healthcare staff. Rathfelder (talk) 19:40, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • In most of the world Public health education is called Health education. That is why there is an article about one but not the other. Health promotion overlaps, but is distinct. And some of the articles need to be moved from one to the other. Rathfelder (talk) 16:04, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
But then there's the issue of overlapping contents. It's not just the 3 categories that have been mentioned here. After looking over the contents, I was thinking that we might want to create or rename to Category:Public health campaigns. Well guess what? We've already got Category:Health campaigns, which also overlaps with the other 3 categories. <sigh> I really think we need to sort this out more comprehensively before we decide how to proceed. Anomalous+0 (talk) 09:44, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think we should delay one (obvious) merger because perhaps more merging is needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:28, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Health campaigns can, just about, be distinguished from Health education. Campaigns are generally related to some particular medical condition, or sometimes to some specific threat to health such as a pollution problem. Health education is generally about keeping people healthy in a wider sense. But it is all a bit fussy and I wouldn't object to merging all three if we can come up with a suitable title. Rathfelder (talk) 23:40, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Public health is a distinct topic. It differs from medicine by its focus on population groups rather than in individuals, and by its embrace of the whole range of non-individualised factors which influence health: housing, poverty, environment, pollution, diet, etc. Losing the distinction would be a great disservice to readers. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:28, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with BrownHairedGirl's point, but I dont see this proposal as part of the issue which concerns her. Neither Category:Public health education nor Category:Health education are concerned with medicine in any direct way. They are two names for the same thing. I dont see any health education which is not public health education. The article is Health education because that is what it is called by public health practitioners. Rathfelder (talk) 20:23, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rathfelder, medical training is a form of health education.
Training sanitary engineers is a form of health education.
Training food industrial food safety is a form of health education.
Educating public health inspectors is a form of health education.
Etc.
And none of those is Public health education. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:51, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I dont think that is what the article Health education says. Though it is a very poor article, it is reasonably clear in its definition of the field. There is a distinction between education and training for professionals, leading to qualifications and education of the public, leading to behaviour change. There is clearly a relation between the two but the training you list is not generally described as health education.[1] Rathfelder (talk) 20:56, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The question is whether Medical education is part of Health education. As Rathfelder says, the article does not suggest so. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Health education". WHO. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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Category:Asian-American novels

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus, mostly because of uncertainty about what the current titles are trying to convey. The fuzziness of the category titles here seems to be matched by the nationality categories, e.g. Category:British novels. Does the adjective "British" refer to the topic/setting, the author, or the place of publication? An RFC might help. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:08, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming:
Nominator's rationale: Asian-American authors rather than books. HandsomeFella (talk) 12:33, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Those are by-nationality categories. In this discussion it is about ethnicity, that is something else. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kidnapping in Islamism

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Islamism. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:29, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Serves no purpose, only impedes navigation. This issue was discussed at CFD 5 years ago, but the closer and some editors seem not to have grasped the fact that the subcat Category:Kidnappings by Islamists does the job very nicely on its own without this superfluous category. Anomalous+0 (talk) 08:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Expatriates by country of residence

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The result of the discussion was: keep (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:00, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In our article on expatriate (immigrant just redirects to immigration) it is noted those two terms are pretty much synonyms. Those are duplicate logical trees, and many biographies are tagged with one, the other, or both, pretty randomly. If someone is an 'Expatriates in Fooland' they are at the same time 'immigrant to Fooland'. We cannot be certain how long they will stay there. I will note that one could argue that expatriate is temporary and immigrant, a permanent status of change, but let's remember categories are for defining characteristics. Living for a few years (months? weeks?) in another country is unlikely to be defining in the long run. Some articles about sportspeople are tagged as expatriates in Fooland after an individual has just signed a contract moving there; there are some sportspeople who worked in several countries, each for few months - are we supposed to categorize people each time they move for few months? Mr. X was an expat in a dozen countries? Is this relevant? Not that sportspeople are the only type of a biography that is affected. We should just have one category for people living in another country (and immigrant is a more popular term that covers both temporary and permanent cases). Let me repeat: recording people's living location, which can be just a few month long, should not be a defining characteristic that is categorized. PS. There's also a technical issue as the number of notable expats in given subcategory is not stable and can occasionally reach zero (as for example someone classified as a temporary expat dies, is reclassified as a permanent immigrant, and what if this empties the category? Will it be deleted?). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Substantively, I agree with per Oculi. The boundary can be fuzzy, but the concepts are distinct: expatriates are temporary migrants, while immigrants are permanent migrants.
Also the nominator's rationale is self-contradictory: complaining that all expats are really immigrants, and then complaining that some people are categorised as expats despite not spending long in the destination country. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't the real difference that expatriates are rich and immigrants are poor? The UK expats in Spain seem to have gone their permanently, but, at least in the UK, they are not referred to as emigrants. I would, however agree that temporary residence in a country, as is common with footballers and diplomats, is not defining and that those ex-pat subcategories, of which there are hundreds, should be deleted. NB I suspect many are generated by templates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rathfelder (talk • contribs) 22:25, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rathfelder, that rich=expat/poor=immigrant formulation does seem to be the case in current English political debates about human migration. But I am not sure that the current state of English politics is much of a guide to anything other than the current state of English politics.
On WP:DEFININGness, it seems to me that which country a diplomat served in is one of the most defining attributes of their career. It is way more significant than their places of education or the honours which British diplomats collect routinely whenever they pass "Go".
As to sportspeople, the definingness is more varied. In some cases it is a central issue, where as in others it is quite trivial. I have done a lot of work on expat sportspeople categories, and I don't recall a single case of one of the categories being populated by a template. However neatly all of the "Fooian expatriate sportspeople in somewhere" cats are formed by ((Fooian expatriate sportspeople in Bar cat)), which I created to reduce errors and to help the removal of the flood of expat sportspeople from the parent non-sporting cats which they overwhelmed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:09, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I havent done any work on these categories since you created the template, and I dont have strong views about this, other than a worry that we are in the process of creating 40,000 categories. But the distinction between immigrants and expatriates is entirely subjective. Many people move to another country thinking they will go home and dont, others go thinking they are moving permanently but do go home. Rathfelder (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's not a mess, @Rathfelder. There are many other types of biog where expat status can be readily distinguished from emigration: academics, clergy, corporate staff etc, all often migrate for short periods.
Sure, there are plenty of fuzzy cases, but mostly in those who are still alive. On the basis of the categories I have studied, I'd say that maybe 5–15% are in they zone. In the case of sportspeople, nationality is often fuzzier. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:36, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Multi-touch mobile phones

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The result of the discussion was: delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:59, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Practically all mobile phones manufactured in the last 10 years feature multi-touch. The category is doomed to incompleteness without a hope. uKER (talk) 06:56, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kansas Sports Hall of Fame

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The result of the discussion was: delete. The lone keep vote didn't address the WP:SMALLCAT issue.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
Nominator's rationale: Per either WP:SMALLCAT or WP:OCAWARD
Today the category only has one article, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. It's not clear if the category intended to be a museum article (in which there's no room for growth) or an award category (in which case it's non-defining). The athletes are already listed here in the main article. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:12, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Background In the past, we've deleted similar US state-level sports halls of fame categories here and here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:12, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, Wichita was about to evict the group from their stand-alone museum location when a local businessperson stepped up to by letting them move a few of their exhibits to a wedding/reception hall he owned (source). It looks like they're now located at the edge of a dining hall or dance floor (see pictures here). In addition to my concerns about such a standard not following WP:OCAWARD, I also see a maintence issue as we delete and recreate categories based on whether a minor league ballpark or city hall let these small museums use their lobby to show off a couple physical display cases. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:45, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Web shells

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:25, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary, and lacking amount of significance between those two. Sheldybett (talk) 01:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Eddie Murphy

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The result of the discussion was: keep. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:19, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON --woodensuperman 13:18, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sheldybett (talk) 00:43, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Greta Garbo

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 8#Category:Greta Garbo

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