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Category:Effects

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 08:32, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Ambiguous, fails WP:CATDEF. Category was deleted in 2007, recreated 2016. Paradoctor (talk) 20:41, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People who were forensically reconstructed

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 08:32, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:People who were forensically reconstructed (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  • Propose deleting Category:Historical people who were forensically reconstructed
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining (e.g. for Mary Anderson (decedent) or Richard III of England). Forensic reconstruction is just one of several techniques used to identify a dead body (others include teeth, DNA, fingerprints and isotopes).  I've checked a sample of the articles and all are in many more appropriate categories (e.g. based on location). Note: The majority of pages in the upper category are actually redirects into lists (i.e. this appears to be an attempt to create a list rather than to categorize articles). For info: The category was created without any parent categories. DexDor (talk) 19:53, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Issues (societal and conceptual)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 14:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Basically a WP:XY cat, see previous discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 13#Category:Issues Paradoctor (talk) 19:26, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Geographic history of Australia

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Perhaps an RFC might be helpful. – Fayenatic London 19:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The academic discipline of Historical geography is a long standing one, the word order is wrong in relation to the disciple, and from understanding that tradition needs to be changed to tie into the base category. It could be argued that there are substantial numbers of texts with 'geographical history' in their titles, and no doubt there could be tiresome google checks, I would argue that historical geography is the more suitable, however, it is a case of wait and see the attitude of fellow editors. JarrahTree 07:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
either someone has a very perverse sense of humour, misunderstanding of english, or a view that word order doesnt matter. The geography departments in most universities have lecturers and staff who work with historical geography JarrahTree 13:45, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
British historical geography and North American historical geography seem to have followed different paths over the past decade or so. In Britain, there has been a recent rapprochement with cultural geography, and important work has been pursued on the historical geography of collections, instruments and cultural practices. By contrast, significant contributions by historical geographers in the U.S. and Canada have remained closer to debates in environmental history and in the application of spatial technologies to economic and social history.
Neither of these paths seems to be related to the category content. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:37, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Bozo the Clown

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 14:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category that's serving primarily as an intersection of multiple overcategorization violations. One of the things being collected here is every individual television station that ever produced or carried a version of the Bozo the Clown show at all -- but we don't do this for individual stations carrying syndicated shows, because it would lead to extreme category bloat if we did it for every syndicated television show that exists. Then the second thing here is a bunch of actors whose careers included playing Bozo the Clown in one of the versions, a straight performer by performance violation. And once the television stations and the Bozos are cleared out accordingly, all that would be left is two versions of the syndicated show, a franchised cartoon and a documentary special about the history of the show, which is not enough content to need an eponymous category anymore. Bearcat (talk) 04:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American sportspeople of Palestinian descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge; no consensus about removal from Arab hierarchy, so merge there also. – Fayenatic London 16:04, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category. Non-notable intersection. TM 03:18, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American comedians of Iraqi descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Iraqi descent. Already merged to comedians category below (see "Lebanese" discussion). – Fayenatic London 15:50, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:American comedians of Iraqi descent to Category:American comedians of Arab descent
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Iraqi descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Iraqi-American comedy tradition that would justify it. Moreover, it only has 1 article. TM 04:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American comedians of Jordanian descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Jordanian descent. – Fayenatic London 15:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:American comedians of Jordanian descent to Category:American comedians of Arab descent
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Jordanian descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Jordanian-American comedy tradition that would justify it. Moreover, it only has 1 article. TM 04:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American comedians of Lebanese descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Lebanese descent and Category:American comedians of Arab descent, since the latter is defining for the two current members here. – Fayenatic London 15:24, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:American comedians of Lebanese descent to Category:American comedians of Arab descent
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Lebanese descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Lebanese-American comedy tradition that would justify it. Moreover, it only has 2 articles. TM 04:09, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American comedians of Egyptian descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Egyptian descent and Category:American comedians. – Fayenatic London 17:06, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:American comedians of Egyptian descent to Category:American comedians of Arab descent
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Egyptian descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Egyptian-American comedy tradition that would justify it. Moreover, it only has 4 articles. TM 04:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - can you show that members of this category are all Arabs?GreyShark (dibra) 20:50, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good point. It seems, in general, that categorizing by ethnic descent is tricky. Often enough accurate information is lacking. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:36, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • That Egyptian descent category has always been under an Arab descent category so any articles in it are already in the Arab descent category. DexDor (talk) 17:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • After User:Greyshark09's justified objections in this and several other discussions on this page, I am starting to wonder if we should better get rid of the Arab descent tree altogether. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:07, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Indeed Arab could be valid categorization as an ethnicity, but currently Arab descent categories are often used as mere container categories for Arab League countries. E.g. the current Category:American comedians of Arab descent is a container for Egyptian (4 P), Iraqi (1 P), Jordanian (1 P), Lebanese (2 P) and Palestinian descent (5 P) categories. Both the intersection between ethnicity and occupation (per WP:OCEGRS) and the implication that Lebanese/Egyptian/Iraqi etc. implies Arab are wrong. Place Clichy (talk) 17:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American journalists of Lebanese descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Lebanese descent and Category:American journalists. – Fayenatic London 14:59, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Lebanese descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Lebanese-American journalistic tradition that would justify it. TM 04:14, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Any blame belongs to those who set up the category structure - not the CFD nominator. DexDor (talk) 20:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American journalists of Syrian descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American people of Syrian descent and Category:American journalists. – Fayenatic London 14:52, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Also Category:American people of Syrian descent. Splitting this small category by nationality does not make sense. There is no distinct Syrian-American journalistic tradition that would justify it. TM 04:14, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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