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Category:Spies who committed suicide

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:25, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: After previous discussion, removed all those who committed suicide due to alcoholism/depression/poverty or were already in custody (those are two other categories). The three remaining are spies who committed suicide to prevent capture or interrogation. WP:SMALLCAT. Moreover, already in related spying and suicide categories.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 23:23, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Samurai who committed suicide

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:24, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: After previous discussion, removed all those who committed suicide due to depression (poison/drowning); not seppuku, where they were already categorized. Now empty.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 22:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Writers who committed suicide

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:23, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: We deleted all the myriad subcategories, leaving this to be deleted as empty. But Kyuko has started repopulating.
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 December 28#Writers who committed suicide
William Allen Simpson (talk) 21:50, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Shovelware video games

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:23, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The definition of shovelware is subjective and may be limited to a subset of critics. We already have List of video games notable for negative reception with actual context, but it works poorly for a category sans context. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 20:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from Dundas County, Ontario

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:22, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary splitout for a historical county that was merged into the contemporary United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry in 1850. The existing category isn't so large as to need standalone subcategories for each of the three former counties as separate entities -- even merged, it's a very rural county with a total population of just over 110K now, so it's not like its category is in any dire need of diffusion on a distinction that stopped being relevant or useful 171 years ago. That said, I'm not convinced that the SDG category couldn't do with a rename — do we really have to stand on the officialese "United Counties of" wording instead of finding something simpler, especially if its opaqueness to an outsider makes duplicate categories like this happen? — but that's a separate question from whether Dundas needs its own dedicated category or not. Bearcat (talk) 19:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Saguenay Hydrological System

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:21, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia does not have an established system of categorizing lakes and rivers together by their "hydrological system". (For an example of why this is a problem, the Saguenay version is filed as a subcategory of Category:Tributaries by river -- yet it includes lakes, which are not "tributaries" of rivers.) This is especially true when we do not even have an article about the "hydrological system" to explain what it is or why anybody should be interested -- and if we don't have an article about it, then we shouldn't have a category grouping lakes and rivers by their purported inclusion in a thing we don't have an article about (and thus also no reliably sourced indication that the category is even correct). Bearcat (talk) 18:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:American novelists/poets of X descent

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge as nominated. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:18, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCEGRS. I would also nominate Category:American novelists of Lebanese descent but it has 5 articles. User:Namiba 17:16, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have tagged Category:American novelists of Lebanese descent as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
User:Dimadick, regardless of OCEGRS issues, they are all very small categories. Merging these categories doesn't erase their descent category. It simply puts them in a category with other writers of their descent.--User:Namiba 21:23, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Booker Prize shortlists

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:16, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Obvious overcategorization (WP:CANDIDATECAT). Οἶδα (talk) 16:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't seem so -- in literary awards, this is a very common element of classifying or representing the relative notability/reputation of books -- for these high profile, national awards it seems very appropriate, Sadads (talk) 17:12, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, for winners of literary awards. Not nominees/shortlistees. Before listing this category for discussion I searched for the existence for arts awards nominees categories, but came up short. Οἶδα (talk) 21:11, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There were several others but they were previously deleted in CFD; see the "Background" note below. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:38, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And that listification approach is already broadly in use for award finalists:
- RevelationDirect (talk) 12:31, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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The result of the discussion was: rename (no opposition). Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:14, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The school is "Conservatorio", not the Accademia itself. The renaming has been addressed on WikiProject Opera. Seanetienne (talk) 15:18, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Asian-American librarians

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The result of the discussion was: rename; no consensus to delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:13, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Follow-up to this discussion, where there was no consensus to delete the category, but during which it was proposed to rename it according to other sibling categories in Category:American people of Asian descent by occupation and Category:Librarians by ethnicity. Also note that per this discussion, Asian descent American categories should be container categories. Place Clichy (talk) 14:45, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lots of affinity groups exist, it doesn't make the intersection a notable one for WP purposes. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:05, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Asian-Americans in the library sciences have a unique history. Look at the sources before dismissing them. There is an entire book written on the topic.--User:Namiba 21:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Books and scholarly articles are written on many topics that we don't categorize upon, even 'Aryan librarianship'. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:10, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Based on the journal article you have shared, I think a fascinating article could be written about Librarians and the Third Reich. Perhaps even a category on Nazi librarians. But you do not disprove my point, which is also backed by Wikipedia's guidelines.--User:Namiba 17:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:EGRS, "Dedicated group-subject subcategories, such as Category:LGBT writers or Category:African-American musicians, should be created only where that combination is itself recognized as a distinct and unique cultural topic in its own right. If a substantial and encyclopedic head article (not just a list) cannot be written for such a category, then the category should not be created. Please note that this does not mean that the head article must already exist before a category can be created, but that it must at least be possible to create one. Generally, this means that the basic criterion for such a category is whether the topic has already been established as academically or culturally significant by external sources.--User:Namiba 17:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Indigenous librarianship

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The result of the discussion was: divide between Category:Native American librarianship and Category:First Nations librarianship. However, these new categories are small, so a follow-up nomination of them should be allowed. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This title seems to better reflect the content, per the three Native American parent categories and the format of sibling categories in parent Category:Librarians by ethnicity. Place Clichy (talk) 13:52, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Saint Catherine

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:10, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Orders for high born ladies. Not defining. Rathfelder (talk) 11:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Latvian expatriates in the Republic of Ireland

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. I seriously considered whether to relist this or do a no-consensus close, but the conversation was quite active and populated, CfD is a small place, and it had opened nearly a month ago. No prejudice against further nominations. (non-admin closure) Vaticidalprophet (talk) 10:20, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Both categories are small, with only one article each. Do we really need both? There are Category:Expatriates in Ireland and Category:Expatriates in the Republic of Ireland, but all of the other "FOOian expatriates in BAR" categories are in Category:Expatriates in Ireland, in the format "FOOian expatriates in Ireland". Category:Expatriates in the Republic of Ireland currently contains only categories for ambassadors and sportspeople and the nominated category. If this nomination is successful, perhaps we could discuss merging Category:Expatriates in the Republic of Ireland to Category:Expatriates in Ireland. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:42, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sadly, cannot find discussion of either Category:Pre-conferderation expatriates in the United Kingdom or Category:Pre-confederation expatriates in the United Kingdom.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 13:05, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • You are being deliberately obtuse. The United Kingdom is one all the time, it is only Ireland that changes. People are expatriates in polities. We do not have seperate articles covering the seperate boundaries of the United Kingdom. However if they were in the United Kingdom they should be categorized by this fact.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Am I the only participant who is irritated that things are being created and moving around during discussion? Also made-up arguments based upon misspelled or non-existent targets? Finally, have really had it with these polity arguments. I'm unaware that anybody in NI calls themselves United Kingdom'ish.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 11:40, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The creation of new, related categories and the editing of nominated categories is very confusing for editors who come to a discussion and see that things are different than a user has claimed they are. At a bare minimum, users should disclose the changes they have made in the relevant discussion. Johnpacklambert, do you think you could commit to that? Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:05, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Friedrich Cross

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:10, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Recipients of the Friedrich Cross
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Frederickscross or "Friedrich Cross" was issued by Duke Friedrich II of the German Duchy of Anhalt starting in 1914 until the monarchy was abolished in 1918. The recipients are generally non-Anhalt German people who mention the award in passing like with Paul von Hindenburg, Rupprecht Crown Prince of Bavaria, or any other article you want to click on. The Duke also gave the award to himself (see picture, just below the collar). There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:23, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Recipients of the Shevchenko Medal

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting/Listifying Category:Recipients of the Shevchenko Medal
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
I had to Google this one since there is no main article but this is an award to prominent Ukrainian Canadians issued by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) organisation. The articles are about evenly split between those that mention this award in passing and those that don't mention it at all, so it's clearly not defining. I'm doubtful the award is individually notable so created a redirect and pointed it to a new section in the UCC article where I listified the current category contents for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:23, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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