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Category:Club Atlético Américo Tesorieri players

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:10, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No evidence that the club is notable, plays in the fourth tier of Argentinian football, never played above the third tier. The club article only exists on the Spanish wikipedia, not on the English one. Geregen2 (talk) 23:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:House of Dolgorukov

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 May 15#Category:House of Dolgorukov

Category:Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename WP:C2D. – Fayenatic London 10:07, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with other Buddha name articles Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 15:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Kings of Rus'

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The result of the discussion was: rename. This should obviously be renamed back if RM decides so. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:16, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2D King of Ruthenia. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 15:08, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. King of Rus is much more commonly used in reliable sources.[1] Perhaps an RM for the article should precede renaming the category. —Michael Z. 15:22, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think we shouldn't overestimate the power of Ngram. I've noticed that in many cases it simply won't find lots of sources that do exist. E.g.:
Btw I did some reading a few months ago about what contemporary sources said; I just copypasted the relevant section to King of Ruthenia#Title. There is quite a lot of variation to be found.
Also, there is WP:OVERLAP between List of rulers of Galicia and Volhynia#Halychyna and Volynia (Halych–Volhynia) and King of Ruthenia#List of kings of Ruthenia; I would propose to merge the former section into the latter. What do you think? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:35, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Don’t overestimate a naïve reading of the first page of search results. Google Books limited to English sources and paged to the last result actually shows 13 pages, for 124 results in total[2] (it says “Page 13 of about 1,900 results,” but I think that is bogus). Google Scholar limited to English-language sources actually shows 28.[3] The figures you submitted above seem to be wrong by 115% and 500%, respectively, but who really knows? Google book search results are so brain-dead they include links to scores of empty pages after the last result – can you believe this consumer utility has been in production for 18 years?!
Google Ngram is actually made to compare frequencies. Ngram explicitly states “we only consider ngrams that occur in at least 40 books” of its corpus[4] which likely explains the absence of results, and may indicate that rex ruthenorum is too infrequently used to be considered the single most commonly used English name for the subject.  —Michael Z. 18:41, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe merge the latter into the former? It seems the list article wants to be comprehensive, and include all historical princes and kings, while the article about the title is restricted to a subset. I think an embedded section there would be appropriate, although I worry that including specific content in templates hinders editing (probably should have the V·T·E links that navboxes have).  —Michael Z. 18:48, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • But I will defer to any outcome of an RM if there is going to be one. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Emigrants from former countries

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The result of the discussion was: Upmerge all Timrollpickering (talk) 12:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Full list of around 450 categories
Rationale: recent cfds such as 2022 October 4#Category:Emigrants from the United States to British India, 2022 October 4#Category:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to British India, 2023 April 29#French emigrants and 2023 April 28#Belgian emigrants have upmerged small categories to their relevant parents. The categories listed are all small (1, 2 or 3 articles) and should be similarly upmerged. The full list (around 450 categories) is on the talk page: Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 May 7. Oculi (talk) 14:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I see the entire list of categories nominated is at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 May 7, not just those listed here. Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Johnpacklambert is emptying them (needlessly). Oculi (talk) 09:06, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Faculty by university or college

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:17, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: A few months back, most of the categories underneath this one were renamed to use this kind of more generic phrasing. Was there any regression from that? If not, we should rename this one at the top as well. (Inside, there'd still remain the various American categories using the term faculty wherever appropriate.) Joy (talk) 13:39, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, fixed, thanks. --Joy (talk) 20:13, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Redirects from Uighur-language terms

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: correct spelling of uyghur greyzxq talk 13:34, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Neographer

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:19, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Badly named WP:SMALLCAT for a concept that (a) doesn't have a head article, and (b) doesn't have any other potential content besides the one thing that's already here. This isn't needed for just one thing, and even if it were justifiable it would have to be renamed anyway. Bearcat (talk) 11:55, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Gaslamp fantasy

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 19#Category:Gaslamp fantasy

People of the Thirty Years' War‎

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:20, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Films about Kamikaze

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Films about kamikaze pilots. ✗plicit 04:04, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Films about Kamikaze to Category:Films about kamikazes
Nominator's rationale: Grammar. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:24, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:43, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • As there is apparently no consensus for capitalization, this is also a good alternative. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sentient objects in fiction

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 22#Category:Sentient objects in fiction

Grammarians

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 26#Grammarians

Category:Invader Zim video games

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:22, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: None of these are Invader Zim games. ★Trekker (talk) 01:02, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Volcanic eruptions by country

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 12:40, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT. The merge to natural disasters should be manual since some are already in that tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:38, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ships of North America

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The result of the discussion was: delete. ✗plicit 07:14, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Ships of North America
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION)
This is an unnecessary category layer containing only Category:Great Lakes ships, which is already well parented. Categorizing ships by continent just doesn't make sense since, excepting the Great Lakes, they're generally ocean bound. (The only sibling category is Category:Ships of Australia, but that's part of the ships by country tree.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:34, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Many of them are too large for the St. Lawrence and spend their entire careers in fresh water; see Lake freighter#Lakers vs. salties. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:29, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If we think this grouping would help readers, we could certainly populate it with ships of Canada, US, Mexico, Panama, etc. Note that about a third of the world's current ships use Panama or Caribbean countries as Flags of convenience though. - RevelationDirect (talk) 12:35, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ships named for Founding Fathers of the United States

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 12:49, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose Deleting Category:Ships named for Founding Fathers of the United States
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
The Jefferson Memorial and Statue of Ben Franklin were both purpose built for specific people and are both defined by that association. In contrast, the Jefferson Nuclear Submarine and Ben Franklin Aircraft Carrier were both going to be built anyway and were just named in someone's honor, just like Jefferson Street and Ben Franklin High School. (The intros to the ship articles do mostly have a sentence about their namesake being a founding father, but those were usually added by category creator.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:34, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • No, memorials are established to commemmorate people, while ships just need a random name. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:13, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Random name, like picked from a phone book? The names of these American ships, mostly military, memorialize the American founders they were named after who literally created the nation who's flag they sailed under. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:18, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • History books are more common places to find random names, but yeah, the idea is the same. A ship named after a person wouldn't become a different ship if it would be renamed after another person. Again this is in contrast to memorials. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:28, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • . . . and proud of it, it's a good category. As to SHAREDNAME, how does that apply at all to this category? You may or may not realize that a great many of the ships in the category were named for the founders during and directly after the American Revolutionary War, when the individuals were still alive and thus defined. The honor of naming a major fighting ship after someone is not trivial or random, as some editors claim, but a thought-out process going to the highest levels of the military or higher. These were not names chosen for their rapper names, or for similar last names, they were chosen because these were the people who created a nation and a new form of government. Nothing broken here, and nothing shared except for the honor (which, by the fact of the honoring, is defining). Randy Kryn (talk) 12:12, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • "Avoid categorizing by ... characteristics of the name rather than the subject itself" - you are categorising ships by a characteristic of the name, nothing to do with the actual ship. Classic WP:SHAREDNAME. Oculi (talk) 14:57, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • You missed a lot between the ellipses. . .: "by a subject's name when it is a non-defining characteristic of the subject". The names define the subject as an honoring of the founders of the U.S.. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:59, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • Nonsense - the name is not a defining characteristic of a ship. Oculi (talk) 22:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You've got it backwards, an individual founder's legacy is partly defined by memorials and honors, such as ships being named for them. As for your point, I'd say the name is a defining characteristic of a ship, maybe ask those who've served (I didn't, have an uncle who did, loved his ship, by name). Randy Kryn (talk) 23:52, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Those two examples seemed to be named for the founders. No matter the route the Franklin took to get there, it was named for B. Franklin, and the Hancock was named after John Hancock no matter who co-paid for it. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:58, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is either the clearest case of WP:REVENGE editing I think I've personally experienced or a nice coincidance. Let's just say this editor and I have had go-arounds in the last couple days (BRD, deletions, prod) and then I see that, in his second edit after the discussion he wants to delete a category that I have spent much thought and time in creating (and as importantly this may be the deciding comment if it goes unchallenged). No matter the reasons mentioned, and the rules and regs listed (which I've disputed, I think successfully, earlier in this discussion and won't go into again), and then that swat at me in the last sentence, I have to say that this editor finding and becoming interested in this nomination on his second-to-next edit after a major disagreement with me stretches my limit of assuming good faith. This is one of the few times I haven't been able to find a reason to assume it (okay, he did comment first on the nomination above, so if this is a coincidence it's a big one but there is still a chance it was, I kind of hope so actually, would prove a point in an interesting way). I say all this in asking that Steve Quinn's edit be stricken and not taken into consideration in this discussion. I've never done this before, and don't feel good about it, but this category is too important to be lost in a revenge edit. And if I am somehow mistaken, [Edit: explained] my sincerest apologies. Randy Kryn (talk) 05:37, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for bringing up alternatives! What I would see as a good alternative would be moving out of the category space entirely and creating a list article under Category:Lists of eponyms, similar to List of forms of electricity named after scientists or List of things named after Rembrandt. That way, readers interested in the naming history could get the same information as the category currently contains (plus maybe an introduction to the group). In that article space you'd need to find reliable sources to satisfy WP:NLIST, but that seems like a much easier climb than WP:SHAREDNAME. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Themes in fictional films

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 26#Category:Themes in fictional films

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