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January 11

Category:Arena football venues

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 21:03, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The articles in these categories are not solely or even primarily used for arena football. To my knowledge, there are no purpose-built arena football arenas anywhere where the game is played. As such, WP:OCVENUE applies and this is a non-defining characteristic for the arena. User:Namiba 19:44, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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People of Al-Andalus

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 19#People of Al-Andalus

Category:Surnames of Australian origin

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 21:04, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: As with "Surnames of French-Canadian origin" below, these two categories are problematic for the same reason: they aren't "surnames that originated in Australia or New Zealand", they're "surnames that some individual people who were born in Australia or New Zealand might have". (And yes, same creator too.)
These would seem to be more defensible on the surface, because there might genuinely be some surnames of genuinely indigenous Australian or Maori origin, but that's not what's actually here: everything that's actually in these categories is either an English or German colonial import, or a Tongan name carried by some Tongan expatriates in Australia or New Zealand, and not even one name in either category is actually indigenous to either Australia or New Zealand.
So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with more knowledge about Indigenous Down Under culture than I have can actually purge the bullshit and repopulate them with genuinely appropriate entries, but again, what we're looking for in this tree is the etymological origin of the name as a word, not the physical birthplaces of individual people who might happen to have the name. Bearcat (talk) 15:28, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Surnames of French-Canadian origin

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 21:04, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Recently created category of dubious value. It was created by an editor who seems to deeply misunderstand what the phrase "Surnames of X origin" means: every single surname filed here is one that was carried over from continental France in the colonial days and not even one is a natively québécois invention, meaning that the creator wasn't interpreting it as "etymological origin of the name as a word", but as "birthplace of individual people who might happen to have this name". Additionally, the creator was blocked, a couple of weeks after creating this, for violating a topic ban on surname-related edits -- and reading up on the ban at Special:Permalink/1121681977#Proposal: topic ban (user:Aarp65), it seems that at least part of the problem did involve categories like this, which categorized surnames as "originating" anywhere they can be found at all instead of just for where the surname actually came from.
So while this can't be speedied since the editblock didn't happen until after this was created, it certainly isn't of any keep-worthy value. And as for the Canadian parent, it will just be left completely empty if the French Canadian one is deleted, because it's already been purged of obvious misfiles like "Breitkreuz", "Pronger", "Legge", "Peel", "Stadelbauer" and "Smith", that had obviously been placed in it based on the same misinterpretation. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Underground rapid transit stations located above ground

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: upnerge/delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 21:06, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Very recently created category that does not meet WP:CATDEFINING. While stations can generally be said to be above or below ground, they are not commonly and consistently referred to as such. AFAICT, these were all recently created by a single editor without discussion.
  • Category:Underground rapid transit stations located above ground is a misnomer. If above ground, then not underground. Apparently, some languages call all rapid transit systems an "underground", a poor mistranslation of "subway".
  • Category:Underground rapid transit stations located underground is unsurprisingly redundant.
Delete where already categorized by line. Upmerge where the stations are not already in another subcategory.
See recent:
  1. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 2#Category:SkyTrain (Vancouver) stations located above ground
William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:43, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Patience. The first nomination was 1 place. Now, I've nominated 3 places. Once we have consensus, we'll get to the damned parents. Large nominations have been proven over and over to be a bad idea.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 02:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American sportspeople of Asian descent

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 19#Category:American sportspeople of Asian descent

Category:Files with restricted public domain status

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 19#Category:Files with restricted public domain status

Category:PD Canada

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 19#Category:PD Canada

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