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Category:American independent film production company founders

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 31#Category:American independent film production company founders

Category:Male radio presenters

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry WP:SMALLCAT. Although this is technically expandable, it's far from clear whether that would actually be valuable -- as per WP:CATEGRS, categories for women do not always need to be balanced against equivalent categories for men as a matter of course, but rather it depends on context.
Like many jobs, radio broadcasting was very disproportionately seen as "man's work" for much of history, with women vastly underrepresented until at least the 1970s and possibly more like the 1980s -- meaning that this would be an unbrowsably massive megacategory for a good 75 per cent of all the articles we have about radio broadcasters. We categorize women because they're an underrepresented minority, whose participation in radio broadcasting as a career occasions sociological study -- so the relationship between career and gender is only defining for women in this instance, because it's a field where only women get gender-based analysis of the relationship between their career and their gender. Men in broadcasting are just broadcasters, and only women are "gendered broadcasters". Bearcat (talk) 19:37, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Universo Paralello

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The scope is unclear, possibly WP:NONDEF. Universo Paralello currently redirects to Bahia#Universo Paralello, but the category contains only Re'im music festival massacre. Brandmeistertalk 18:19, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Grey Cups hosted in X

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The result of the discussion was: Rename/merge * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE User:Namiba 18:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They have all been tagged now--User:Namiba 17:18, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Harvard College faculty

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 31#Category:Harvard College faculty

Category:Fictional people by ethnic or national origin

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Fictional people by ethnic or national origin to Category:Fictional people by ethnicity and nationality
Nominator's rationale: rename, these are categories by intersections of ethnicity and nationality, so it should be "and" rather than "or". Marcocapelle (talk) 12:46, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Every single subcategory within Category:Fictional people by ethnic or national origin is titled "Fictional X people by ethnicity or nationality". This is supposed to be a fictional counterpart to Category:People by ethnic or national origin, which contains subcategories with a similar naming pattern. AHI-3000 (talk) 18:48, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Murderers for life insurance money

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: These murders are defined by their actions, not their motivations thus making this a trivial intersection. User:Namiba 16:11, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Categorizing motivation behind an action is extremely difficult. Take, for example, Harry T. Hayward. The article states "On December 3, 1894, Ging's body was found, shot behind the ear, on a road near Lake Calhoun. It was later revealed that Hayward had persuaded her to purchase a $10,000 life insurance policy which named him as sole beneficiary." That's the sole mention of insurance. Beyond simply being trivial, I also believe it fails WP:SUBJECTIVECAT.--User:Namiba 12:32, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlastertalk 11:49, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:18th century in Germany by city

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) HouseBlastertalk 21:22, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. No need to merge, the subcategory is already in Category:18th century in Prussia and Category:18th century in Europe by city. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Arabs in West Asia

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Arabs in the Middle East. (non-admin closure) HouseBlastertalk 21:26, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Arabs in West Asia to Category:Arabs in the Middle East.
Nominator's rationale: Because there is Egypt in it, not to be confused with people from West Asia, which includes people from the South Caucasus but does not include Egypt. Yorkporter (talk) 11:19, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People of the Patriottentijd

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: manually merge, narrow category (the Patriottentijd covers only 7 years) and not very defining for most people in this category, since they were mostly active before and after the Patriottentijd as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:00, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Marxist poets by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Marxist poets by nationality‎
  • Propose merging Category:Canadian Marxist poets to Category:Marxist poets
  • Propose deleting Category:Salvadoran Marxist poets
  • Propose deleting Category:French Marxist poets
  • Propose deleting Category:German Marxist poets
  • Propose deleting Category:Pakistani Marxist poets‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Spanish Marxist poets‎
  • Propose deleting Category:British Marxist poets‎
  • Propose deleting Category:Czech Marxist poets added 21 October
Nominator's rationale: merge/delete, redundant category tree since every article save one is already in the tree of Category:Communist poets. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:02, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Indian Marxist poets

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, the articles are already in subCategory:Indian Communist poets. The only exception Ram Vilas Sharma was a Marxist writer but not a Marxist poet per se. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American Marxist poets

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, the only article in the category is not clearly about someone who wrote Marxist poetry. There is very little about Marxist affiliation at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:37, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:19th-century Thai physicians

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: duel merge, as right now it's an overcat. only 2 people in the category Mason (talk) 05:54, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Leclercq family

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small cat without a corresponding eponymous article about the family. Are a father-son pair. no cat interlanguage links Mason (talk) 05:01, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Politicians from Kwara State

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: overlapping category Mason (talk) 04:06, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Politicians from Adamawa state

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 00:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: overlapping categories Mason (talk) 04:04, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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