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Category:Climate change in fiction

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The result of the discussion was: reverse merge. MER-C 19:06, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Climate change in fiction to Category:Climate fiction
Nominator's rationale: merge, this category does not clearly distinguish itself from its parent category. Both have the same main articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:29, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support we shouldn't be using categories to describe passing elements in works, but only the central themes. Sadads (talk) 15:10, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Climate activists

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The result of the discussion was: reverse merge. MER-C 19:07, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, this category does not clearly distinguish itself from its parent category. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would do it the other way around: the main category should be "climate activists" -- that is the overwhelming common concept being applied by the youth movement and others which are at the front of the work. Moreover, climate activism need not be environmentalism --- which is has its own schools of thought, priority, and needs -- they frequently overlap but don't need to. Sadads (talk) 15:09, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Plants by climate

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 6#Plants by climate

Category:Köppen climate classifications

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 6#Category:Köppen climate classifications

Category:Fictional heroes

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The result of the discussion was: do not merge. MER-C 18:59, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:43, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • When merged, there will be 3 subcats, "lists", "superheroes" and "in myth & legend". Why wouldn't that be an equally valid segregation? Marcocapelle (talk) 16:51, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would expect that tens of thousands of protagonists in fiction are a kind of hero, thus categorizing them would create a rather useless category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:World of Darkness novels

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The result of the discussion was: no real consensus here on what to do. As noted, the non-novels could simply be moved to Category:World of Darkness, so I have done that. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:25, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This should be pretty uncontroversial, but it didn't fit with any of the Speedy criteria, so going through this venue: Not all the articles in this category are about novels, ie Vampire: The Masquerade (Vault Comics publication) is about a comic book and Revelations of the Dark Mother is about a poem. They are closely related, as written works based on World of Darkness, and so belong together, but there is only one comic article and one poem article, so it does not currently make sense to create further sub-categories for separate types of works. AlexandraIDV 15:21, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Films with screenplays by Akiko Nogi

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus to delete, so rename to Category:Works by Akiko Nogi. – Fayenatic London 22:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Contains more than films (manga, film, television shows) –xenotalk 12:48, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Files for cleanup

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Image files for cleanup. MER-C 18:26, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Files for cleanup to Category:Files for content cleanup
Nominator's rationale: Category could be confused with Category:Wikipedia file cleanup. The subcategories of Category:Files for cleanup are all about cleaning up the file content. I.e. visual changes for images, for example. —⁠andrybak (talk) 18:33, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Senator2029, sounds good to me. I support rename to Category:Image files for cleanup. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Back to the Future

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 18:30, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This should be a regular WP:C2D speedy, but it was opposed. As long as the article is at Back to the Future (franchise) and this is the category for the entire franchise, there is no reason for the category to not match the franchise. We even had a related RfC on this sort of disambiguation which validated the usage of disambiguation matching. Gonnym (talk) 20:27, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Viacom Media Networks people

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The result of the discussion was: merge the remaining 1 article and 2 sub-cats into Category:ViacomCBS people. Thank you Marcocapelle for sub-catting the rest. – Fayenatic London 09:01, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Viacom Media Networks people to Category:ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks people
Nominator's rationale: To reflect with the new division name. Ridwan97 (talk) 04:23, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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National University of Science and Technology MISiS

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 18:12, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I recently moved National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Russia) to National University of Science and Technology MISiS because no disambiguation is necessary and "(Russia)" is not part of the name of the institution. I propose that the categories be renamed to match. (This is not speediable because it is based on a recent article move.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:38, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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OCN

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Timrollpickering (talk) 19:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: C2D, the article on the channel is OCN. St3095 (?) 08:22, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
List of 2 'OCN' categories
  1. Category:Orion Cinema Network original programming to Category:OCN original programming
  2. Category:Orion Cinema Network television dramas to Category:OCN television dramas
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Category:2003 pinball machines

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The result of the discussion was: keep, no actual support, except for 2014 which is empty. I also note that the nomination addresses small categories in recent years but not small categories in early years. – Fayenatic London 17:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There's only one article and a redirect in here. Since most pinball machines are NN per several AFDs, this is unlikely to expand in size, so merge per WP:SMALLCAT. Hog Farm Bacon 03:55, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Plus, a merge nomination should include the 20th-century categories. No reason is given for their omission.
But I think that any merge is a bad idea. This will dump a lot of articles into the "YYYY works" categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:46, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The reason for merging them to a 21st-century category is that there are hardly any articles about pinball machines after the year 2000. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:22, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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