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Artist portraits

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Right now Category:Portraits by artist is split between two formats, this should standardize them. I would think this way is preferable since it follows the practice at Category:Paintings by artist (C2C Wikipedia:Category names#Visual arts) and would remove any possible confusion that something like "Francis Bacon portraits" may mean portraits of Francis Bacon. Also I have no idea if I set this nom up correctly, the instructions and process is unbelievable tedious and non-user friendly Aza24 (talk) 22:46, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional victims

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 December 8#Category:Fictional victims

Category:Category:Symphony X songs

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:18, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Effectively empty and therefore redundant – the only entry is a redirect. Richard3120 (talk) 22:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Gateway Conference (1962–1975)

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:17, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This conference continued to operate into 1975 for winter and spring sports. See this article detailing the 1974–75 basketball season. This article from early 1976 confirms confirms that the conference had been disbanded before the 1975–76 basketball season. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:21, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Redirects from citation identifiers

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:59, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Having separate categories does not make a ton of sense here. I would suggest we merge Category:Redirects from citation identifiers to its main parent and redirect ((R from citation identifier)) to ((R from identifier)). –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:17, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
To explain a bit further, the redirects in question are all XYZ (identifier) formatted redirects. Very few redirects are likely to be added to this rcat as it only will go up as identifiers are added to the CS1 templates, authority control, and the like. As this group is pretty small for a rcat, it would be better to merge them for now. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:30, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
--Matthiaspaul (talk) 14:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Oklahoma Collegiate Conference

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The common name for this conference was "Oklahoma Collegiate Conference". Newspapers.com shows over 10,000 hits for "Oklahoma Collegiate Conference" between 1929 and 1973 to only 230 for "Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference". See also citations at Oklahoma Collegiate Conference. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Imperial Russian electrical engineers

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The result of the discussion was: merge. For the record, there are 4 and 2 members respectively in the nominated categories at this time, which do not include Baird. – Fayenatic London 21:53, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rathfelder (talk) 21:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Its not realistic to subdivide occupational categories in so much detail. We already have Category:19th-century Russian engineers

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 article. Rathfelder (talk) 20:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the Malagasy region

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the Malagasy region (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: We don't have any other categories (or even an article) about the Malagasy region (Malagasy is a dab page).  Note: All the articles currently in this category are in other geographic categories (e.g. Category:Endemic birds of Madagascar, Category:Fauna of the Mascarene Islands) apart from the Vanga article (which probably should be moved to Vangidae and removed from the category).  Note: Perhaps the whole Category:Higher-level bird taxa restricted to single zoogeographic regions tree should be phased out as we don't afaik categorize any other animals/plants in this way (these are the only "higher-level taxa" categories) and it sort of duplicates the endemic categories. DexDor (talk) 13:11, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ancient religions

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Once again as with Category:Pre-Islamic Pakistan, Olden Creed has created a woolly WP:OVERLAPCAT with no consideration of the existing hierarchy at Category:History of religion by period - the fact that they never put categories on their new categories suggests they're not looking at the existing hierarchy at all. Le Deluge (talk) 11:32, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:QuestBridge partner colleges

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: QuestBridge is a non-profit that tries to ensure that outstanding students from poor backgrounds get an opportunity to go to top universities. Whilst all very laudable, it is hardly WP:DEFINING for the likes of MIT, Stanford and Yale to be involved in such a project. Le Deluge (talk) 11:05, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Notified: WT:WikiProject Higher education. ((u|Sdkb)) talk 16:22, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Up to 10% is not impressive from the perspective of the colleges. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tiny Ghost Records albums

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redlink record label ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:27, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pages with misplaced templates

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 January 4#Category:Pages with misplaced templates

Category:Seized domain names

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only contains redirects. We are not an indiscriminate dumping ground for information, and this way of categorizing redirects is unhelpful to readers. Aasim (talk) 00:46, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Knights Grand Band of the Order of the Star of Africa

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Order of the Star of Africa
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Knights Grand Band of the Order of the Star of Africa
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or celebrities visit Liberia, or vice versa, the Order of the Star of Africa is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Tzvi Tzur, Juliana of the Netherlands and Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. are not remotely defined by this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence
  • Propose Deleting Category:Recipients of the Medal of the National Education Commission
  • Propose Deleting Category:Recipients of the Pro Bono Poloniae Medal
Nominator's rationale: WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have main articles for Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence, Medal of the National Education Commission, or Pro Bono Poloniae Medal. The biographies within these categories are about split evenly between those that make a passing reference to these Polish medals within a list of honours and those that don't mention them at all, so the categories don't seem generally defining. I normally favor listifying awards and definitely favor more Polish content so I copied the current contents of all three right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start list articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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