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Category:Wikipedia help overviews

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Category:Language isolate countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:44, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, while language isolates have something in common with each other, countries where entirely different language isolates are spoken have nothing in common with each other. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:34, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Countries by language

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:44, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT, the much bigger Category:Administrative territorial entities by language has the same scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:07, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Ents

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The result of the discussion was: delete, emptying manually while considering recategorisation. MER-C 09:57, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: It is doubtful that this category can be expanded beyond three articles. Furthermore, one of those articles will be deleted soon. Ent is the only one that cannot be moved to the suggested target. Instead, it should be placed in Category:Middle-earth races. ―Susmuffin Talk 18:02, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Countries and territories by language family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:45, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Administrative territorial entities by language family
  • Propose deleting Category:Austroasiatic countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Bantu countries and territories
  • Propose deleting Category:Finno-Ugric countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Indo-European-speaking countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Germanic-speaking countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Indo-Iranian-speaking countries and territories
  • Propose deleting Category:Italic-speaking countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Slavic-speaking countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Northeast Caucasian-speaking countries and territories
  • Propose deleting Category:Chechen-Ingush-speaking countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Northwest Caucasian-speaking countries and territories
  • Propose deleting Category:Sino-Tibetan countries and territories‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Turkic countries and territories‎
Nominator's rationale: the previous discussion, while formally closed as delete, actually resulted in a rename according to nomination. The reason for that is that the proposed renamed categories were created and populated during the discussion by the main opposer in the discussion. However, from that previous discussion I got the impression that there was consensus to delete countries and territories by language family altogether, because language family is not defining for any of these countries or territories. So that is what the current nomination is about.
@Krakkos, Calthinus, Grutness, Place Clichy, Carlossuarez46, Buidhe, Rathfelder, Calthinus, Dimadick, Future Perfect at Sunrise, Oliszydlowski, Samotny Wędrowiec, SharabSalam, Austronesier, Sadko, and Calthinus: pinging participants of previous discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle why not also include Category:Administrative_territorial_entities_by_language_family or if not that then the remaining subcat Category:Language_isolate_countries_and_territories?--Calthinus (talk) 19:31, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll add the former, thx for the suggestion. Probably the latter requires a separate discussion, see here. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:34, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree with Marcocapelle. I would add that Slavic and Turkic are a bit less ridiculous categories to have than "Indo-Iranian/European", "Uralic", "Austroasiatic", etc, though I still would not support them in their present forms.--Calthinus (talk) 22:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • A personal opinion. A valid one, but NPOV matters, and even the political elite of many of such countries demonstrate ignorance (or willful obfuscation) of what language family their country's "national" language actually belongs to including with regards to membership in these "ethnoclubs". Case in point, Hungary's aspirations to join the Turkic Council.--Calthinus (talk) 22:22, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia Loves X

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The result of the discussion was: G7 deleted - as the creator, I requested speedy deletion. (non-admin closure) UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:33, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This 2019 category is a duplication of a more used 2014 category, Category:Wiki Loves X. I changed the 3 use instances of this category to become that other category. As an unpopulated duplicate this one should be deleted. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:01, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support deletion as duplicative; as the author, I requested speedy deletion. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:04, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as duplicate. -Yupik (talk) 20:07, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Native American women academics

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The result of the discussion was: keep. MER-C 09:48, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Elliott, Barbara A.; Dorscher, Joy; Wirta, Anna; Hill, Doris Leal (April 2010), "Staying Connected: Native American Women Faculty Members on Experiencing Success", Academic Medicine, 85 (4): 675–679, doi:10.1097/acm.0b013e3181d28101
  • Waterman, Stephanie J.; Lindley, Lorinda S. (January 2013), "Cultural Strengths to Persevere: Native American Women in Higher Education", NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 6 (2), doi:10.1515/njawhe-2013-0011
  • Trucks-Bordeaux, Tammy (2003), "Academic Massacres: The Story of Two American Indian Women and Their Struggle to Survive Academia", The American Indian Quarterly, 27 (1): 416–419, doi:10.1353/aiq.2004.0057
  • Fox, Mary Jo Tippeconnic (January 2009), "American Indian Women in Academia: The Joys and Challenges", NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 1 (1), doi:10.2202/1940-7890.1011
  • Fox, Mary Jo Tippeconnic (2013), "American Indian/Alaska Native Women: The Path to the Doctorate", Journal of American Indian Education, 52 (1): 26–44, JSTOR 43608645
(Looking at the history would also have been a necessary step in providing a courtesy notice to me that this deletion discussion was happening, something the nominator also did not do.) —David Eppstein (talk) 17:23, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
PS I just noticed that the nomination is also factually incorrect. It is a diffusing subcategory of Category:Native American women. It is only a non-diffusing subcategory of its other two parent categories (as we do in general for subcategories that distinguish people by gender or ethnicity). The nominator appears to mistakenly believe that whether a category is diffusing depends only on the category itself; it also depends on which parent one looks at. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:08, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:38, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:38, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Television task forces

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 09:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: For consistency within Category:WikiProject Television task forces. Opposed on Speedy page. – Fayenatic London 12:36, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of Speedy discussion
  • Category:WikiProject Jackass to Category:Jackass task force – C2D. Gonnym (talk) 16:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Oppose - I missed a batch of these before Christmas but several of these names don't work as they're ambiguous (and the pre-Christmas ones had ambiguous horrors like Category:House task force. In this case the parent article is at Jackass (franchise) and the parent category was deleted in per Cfd in 2007 and recreated as Category:Jackass (TV series) in 2014 (as an aside, it should probably be C2D'd). Either this should be renamed to Category:Jackass (franchise) task force or (better I think) Category:WikiProject Television Jackass task force - and probably all of them should be renamed to the latter format.Le Deluge (talk) 11:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Le Deluge is confusing parent TV series/franchise article, with the parent task force article, which is indeed at WP:WikiProject Television/Jackass task force. The "/" is not part of the title, but a sub-page divider as can be seen by the link at the top it provides back to the main article. --Gonnym (talk) 11:40, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    You're wrong - in Mediawiki terms, per WP:Page name A subpagename is just a label inside its pagename, with a software-added / slash delimiter. The full name of that subpage is WP:WikiProject Television/Jackass task force. But aside from that, the new name you're proposing is ambiguous (and it's even more obvious with other ones you've made like Category:House task force ). That's the real problem.Le Deluge (talk) 15:56, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Read Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format#Do not create subsidiary articles, and then Wikipedia:Subpages#Allowed uses and Wikipedia:Subpages#Wikipedia namespaces that do not have sub-pages and see that while the feature of creating a sub-page is enabled in a namespace, like it is in the portal one, that even if an article is considered subsidiary to another, it should be named independently, hence as I said above, the page name is in-fact "Jackass task force" and you are continuing to repeat your incorrect and false opinions. Please brush-up on policies and terminology. Also, while I'm sure your incorrect and pointless opposition will work, as I've told you on my talk page, all you'll accomplish is that 5 task forces out of the 100+ on en.wiki will use a completely different style, some of them in addition will incorrectly still be titled WikiProjects, as you are obviously not going to address the complete category tree. --Gonnym (talk) 23:58, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:WikiProject CSI franchise to Category:CSI task force – C2D. Gonnym (talk) 16:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Oppose Not a C2D - CSI is a disambiguation page, you want CSI (franchise). Per above, should be renamed to either Category:CSI (franchise) task force or Category:WikiProject Television CSI task force Le Deluge (talk) 11:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Le Deluge is confusing parent TV series/franchise article, with the parent task force article, which is indeed at WP:WikiProject Television/CSI task force. The "/" is not part of the title, but a sub-page divider as can be seen by the link at the top it provides back to the main article. --Gonnym (talk) 11:40, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:WikiProject 24 members to Category:24 task force members – C2D. Gonnym (talk) 15:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Oppose - again, the parent article is 24 (TV series) Le Deluge (talk) 11:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Le Deluge is confusing parent TV series/franchise article, with the parent task force article, which is indeed at WP:WikiProject Television/24 task force. The "/" is not part of the title, but a sub-page divider as can be seen by the link at the top it provides back to the main article. --Gonnym (talk) 11:40, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fishing television channels

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Category:Works and media about fishing

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 09:40, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge, this is an unusual combination category of "works and media" with only few subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:36, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Thessaloniki during Axis occupation

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 09:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: correct English, per other "German occupation of X" categories, and because Thessaloniki was occupied by the Germans throughout; the other two Axis powers present in Greece, Bulgaria and Italy, had only diplomatic presence in the city Constantine 09:56, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:2014 murders in Nigeria

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 09:55, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge to all parents per WP:SMALLCAT. There are no other by-year categories for murders in Nigeria, because there are not enough articles: Category:2010s murders in Nigeria contains only 21 articles. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:16, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not intending to make a series of year murders in Nigeria.
Many terrorist attacks are certainly murder. Many terrorist groups & lone wolves consider themselves & their members to be armies/soldiers/volunteers/freedom fighters/patriots/martyrs/liberation movements etc. However, they're actually violent criminals who aren't legitimately in power, don't have authorisation to use violence, aren't immune from prosecution & imprisonment, often target civilians & don't even try to abide by the rules regarding war. Jim Michael (talk) 22:08, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's a classic POV position. One man's "terrorist" is another's "freedom fighter". Leave the reader to make up their own mind. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:08, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Boko Haram, who have carried out most of the major attacks in Nigeria since 2009, are an illegal, VNSA group who are routinely classified as terrorists by the legal system, the military, the media etc. However, the cat we are discussing doesn't have terrorist in it. If you're asserting that the killings by BH weren't murders, then that's a fringe view that's contradicted by the laws of Nigeria as well those of other countries. Jim Michael (talk) 13:51, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
They routinely include all articles about murders. The murder cats that are only for biographical articles & individual murders are those such as Category:People murdered in Lagos, which is a subcat of Category:Murder in Lagos & Category:People murdered in Nigeria. Jim Michael (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • This will lead to largely overlapping categories, I do not think that this is meaningful. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:42, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No-one but BH, their supporters & sympathisers would describe them as freedom fighters - they frequently carry out mass murders of civilians in an attempt to impose an extremely oppressive regime which most people don't want & would be the opposite of freedom. No country exempts terrorists from prosecution for murder. We & the media describe & categorise many attacks as terrorism &/or murder, but neither we nor the MSM describe them as freedom fighter successes. Jim Michael (talk) 20:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It does not fit the criteria of WP:SMALLCAT in both ways: a) there are over 20 articles which are eligible for it; b) it is part of a subcategory: Category:2014 murders by country. Jim Michael (talk) 20:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Many articles which are eligible for this cat & Category:2010s murders in Nigeria aren't in it. Jim Michael (talk) 20:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:User-created templates

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NASCAR Truck Series categories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 09:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hindu terrorism

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Hinduism-motivated violence in India. MER-C 09:52, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename in order to align with main article Saffron terror. An earlier rename discussion to a different target Category:Hindutva terrorism led to keep/no consensus. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:11, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • (as nom) If alignment with the main article is beyond feasibility I would not oppose an alternative rename using "violence" instead of "terror". However, I do oppose the proposed merge, since that will remove the content from the Hindu category tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:48, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Category:Hinduism-motivated violence in India is a good alternative Shadow4dark (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is not necessarily one solution for all, e.g. this Hindu category has a main article with terror in the title while the Zionst category has not. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:28, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Palestinian terrorism

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. MER-C 09:50, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename in order to align with main article Palestinian political violence. An earlier delete discussion led to no consensus. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:09, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N. By Jon Schwarz, Feb 6, 2018, The Intercept. And: Lie After Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew Ten Years Ago Today and What He Said. By Jonathan Schwarz, HuffPost, Feb 5, 2013. Updated Apr 7, 2013. Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq. Mother Jones, Jonathan Stein and Tim Dickinson, Sept 2006. Updated since then.
Not opposed. I created the category. I am not opposed to the renaming. Whether it is a good idea or not, I don't know. Terrorism is such a nebulous name. The terrorism categories were created as a practical matter. The last discussion was in 2008. As a longtime editor of Casualties of the Iraq War I would have no problem now in calling many of the military activities of the US and its allies as terrorism and war crimes. The indiscriminate bombings, torture, death squads, etc. of the US and its allies. -- Timeshifter (talk) 04:17, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I created Category:Zionist terrorism on Nov 3, 2008, the same day as the Palestinian terrorism category. Then and now I didn't think the terrorism categories would be eliminated, though they probably should be. So the best that could be hoped for then, and probably now, is more balance and less systemic bias. See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias and Wikipedia:Systemic bias. Some American terrorism has since been categorized as such. For example; the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. The Contras in Latin America. What is missing are the lies the Bush administration and the UK used to start the Iraq War. That could be called terrorism on a massive scale. See: Rationale for the Iraq War and Downing Street memo. -- Timeshifter (talk) 15:52, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • There is not necessarily one solution for all, e.g. the Hindu category has a main article with terror in the title (see nomination above) while the Zionst category has not. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:26, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:MMR vaccine controversy

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 09:46, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant to Category:MMR vaccine and autism - main article has been stable at MMR vaccine and autism since Feb 2019. Guy (help!) 13:16, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't "overlap", it is entirely redundant to the other category. The main article was renamed, all the articles that were in this category have been added to the new one as well. That's was due to NPOV concerns. This category is now redundant and effectively a POV fork. Guy (help!) 09:24, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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