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Category:British viceroys educated at Eton College

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Big Bang Entertainments

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Category:Fight Club (franchise)

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Seasonal events by country in South Asia

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:44, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting:

Nominator's rationale: the four temperate seasons don't occur in South Asia (except for the sparsely populated mountain tops of the far north), see South Asia#Climate. – Uanfala (talk) 15:07, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the four temperate seasons don't occur in South Asia? seriously?? Please see Geography of Bangladesh. It mentioned the four seasons. Although as a Bangladeshi I know that my country has six seasons including four. There is no logical reason to delete Bangladesh-related seasons events categories. Mehedi Abedin 14:06, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The linked article lists winter, summer, monsoon and autumn, and that's a different scheme from the one in the temperate north. Is that classification common though? I don't think I've heard of an autumn season in South Asia; more familiar classifications are the traditional one involving six seasons (which you mention), and the three-way division between cool ("winter"), hot (summer), and rainy (monsoon) seasons. If there is appetite for having seasons-based categories for events (and I'm not taking that for granted), then these need to match the local seasons, and not be simply carbon copies of the categories of the temperate north (as these appear to be). – Uanfala (talk) 14:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Deletion might not be the correct solution. The events can be re-categorized with the seasons of the region. i.e Summer events in Myanmar, Monsoon events in Myanmar and Winter events in Myanmar. This isn't necessarily the most intuitive. For example, the 2021 Spring Revolution occurred during Summer but we still talk about the events as four English seasons in English. The events in the categories are more annual events that occur during different parts of the year and it's not obvious if "Monsoon events in Myanmar" necessarily tell you it's June festivals EmeraldRange (talk/contribs) 16:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Late modern period

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The result of the discussion was: weak keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:47, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content, these categories are in fact about the late modern period. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Modern history articles are perfectly fine, but the categories only contain a subset of modern history, namely the late modern period. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:36, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • That is a good question. The underlying assumption of this category tree is that there are (enough) articles that span the whole period, or large part of the period, rather than just a single century. But whether that assumption is realistic would need to be sorted out. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Muslim historians

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Category:GAA people by province

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Category:21st-century people

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:50, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I was under the impression that centuries are a spectacularly useless way of dividing sportspeople, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 12#20th/21st-century sportspeople. If this holds for sportspeople, I assume it also applies to people in general. Nehme1499 18:42, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Fayenatic london, BrownHairedGirl, David Eppstein, Lugnuts, Grutness, Peterkingiron, Icarusgeek, and Hugo999: pinging editors involved in the sportspeople discussion. Nehme1499 14:08, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As for the subcats of Category:21st-century people, there are currently various company-specific categories at the top level that could helpfully be moved down into subcats by occupation. – Fayenatic London 14:32, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • For the record, I would strongly oppose deletion of 19th-century people and earlier because of their historical value. If a discussion about that is going to take place somewhere outside this forum (as suggested above) please ping me. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:23, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Deleting only the container category is pointless; it leaves all the articles still categorised by century
  2. The nominator failed to read WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 12#20th/21st-century sportspeople before citing it. Nehme quotes my comment that centuries are a spectacularly useless way of dividing sportspeople, and assumes it also applies to people in general.
    But the same nomination explains why not: en.wp's articles on sportspeople overwhelmingly relate to people active in the 20th and 21st centuries. It's hard to think of a more useless way of splitting this set than by a single timepoint which creates significant overlap.
    This does not apply to other occupations such as writers, sculptors, clergy, soldiers, builders, and scholars ... because all those occupations have been in existence for at least a millennium.
I am not a fan of people-by-century categories. Their epoch divisions are crude and overlapping, causing massive category clutter which is exacerbated by a systematic failure to use sufficiently specific categories. They exist largely because one rogue editor with a few loyal enablers runs a very-badly-managed, unauthorised bot which the community won't take action against.
I would probably support a well-designed plan to cull most of the people-by-century categories, but it would take a lot of thoughtful discussion and detailed analysis to make a such a plan. This ill-considered and ill-prepared nomination is just a lazy way of wasting other editors' time, and I urge @Nehme1499 to demonstrate their good faith by acknowledging their errors and withdrawing the nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:03, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ongoing insurgencies

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Category:Ongoing conflicts

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Category:Ongoing protests

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Category:Ongoing legal cases

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Category:Ongoing events

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Books by award nomination

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:54, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization (WP:CANDIDATECAT) Οἶδα (talk) 17:33, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:IDM Albums

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The result of the discussion was: redirect. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:54, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category:Intelligent dance music albums and its subcategories exist, no need for this redundant category. Purplneon486 (talk) 16:55, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Coahuila-stub

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:57, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Stub template that's not really serving much of a useful purpose. It isn't paired with its own "Coahuila stubs" category, so it just files articles directly in the base Category:Mexico stubs -- but it's actually in use on just one article, which is also already stub-tagged for ((Mexico-edu-stub)). So the only thing it's actually doing in practice is unnecessarily duplicate-categorizing its article in parent and child categories at the same time.
As noted below, there also isn't an established set of Mexican "State-stub" templates or categories for this to be a part of; there is a "State-geo-stub" scheme, but the only other template that exists at the base "State-stub" level at all is for Nuevo Léon, which I've also listed for deletion below for the same reason.
So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with more knowledge of Mexico than I have can find the 59 other articles it would take to justify the creation of a dedicated Coahuila stubs category, but it's not needed for just one article if it's breaking duplicate categorization rules. Bearcat (talk) 14:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:NuevoLeón-stub

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:57, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Stub template that's not really serving much of a useful purpose. It isn't paired with its own "Nuevo Léon stubs" category, so it just files articles directly in the base Category:Mexico stubs -- but it's actually in use on just three articles total, all three of which are also already stub-tagged for ((Mexico-struct-stub)) or ((Mexico-gov-stub)). So the only thing it's actually doing in practice is unnecessarily duplicate-categorizing its three articles in parent and child categories at the same time.
There also isn't an established set of Mexican "State-stub" templates or categories for this to be a part of; there is a "State-geo-stub" scheme, but the only other template that exists at the base "State-stub" level at all is for Coahuila, which I'm also listing for deletion for the same reason.
So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with more knowledge of Mexico than I have can find the 57 other articles it would take to justify the creation of a dedicated Nuevo Léon stubs category, but it's not needed for just three articles if it's breaking duplicate categorization rules. Bearcat (talk) 14:17, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Disney protagonists

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Category:PlayStation characters

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Category:Ottoman architecture in Algeria and Tunisia

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Category:Young adult fiction

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. – Fayenatic London 13:31, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: What's the difference between this and Category:Young adult literature? If it's that the latter includes nonfiction books, then we can just included all the fictional books in the YAL category since all fictional books are literature, even though not all literature is fiction. Guacjeans (talk) 01:16, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. I withdraw this nomination. Guacjeans (talk) 07:48, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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