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Category:Downtown campuses

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 18:48, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: I don't have a strong view on this but I thought I'd throw this newly-created category open for discussion. Is this WP:DEFINING enough to justify being a category? We've had Category:Satellite campuses since 2012. And is there a more WP:ENGVAR-neutral name for it? Le Deluge ( talk) 22:21, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • That does not sound right. A downtown campus may also be the main campus rather than a satellite campus. Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:11, 30 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Pedagogues

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 18:48, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only content is Category:Educationalists, which seems adequately categorised. Rathfelder ( talk) 21:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Finnish teachers

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 ( talk) 21:49, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Doesnt appear to be any intended distinction Rathfelder ( talk) 20:48, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support The two categories have the same scope. Dimadick ( talk) 21:16, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support per nom and per Dimadick. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:12, 27 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support -- Both articles in the subject fit well into the target. However there will also be those who teach Finnish as a foreign language, which would be a different category. Peterkingiron ( talk) 17:46, 28 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • I doubt if we have any articles about people who teach Finnish as a foreign language, but categories like Category:English teachers are problematically ambiguous and I'd like to think of a way of reducing the ambiguity. Rathfelder ( talk) 21:00, 30 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Dúnedain of the North

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 ( talk) 21:50, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Why do we have a subcategory that only contains one article? ― Susmuffin  Talk 20:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle ( talk) 05:11, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support per nom. (PS: It'd be much too much of an in-joke to say "merge to Cat:Edáinburgh" - I live in Dunedin, the "Edinburgh of the South") Grutness... wha? 02:58, 27 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Too small, with no potential for growth. Hog Farm ( talk) 21:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Bagmati Zone geography stubs

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 12:16, 3 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Zones have been superseded by provinces; the entire area of the Bagmati Zone is now part of Bagmati Pradesh. Her Pegship ( I'm listening) 19:52, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Modern Turkic states

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 20:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: rename and purge, there is currently no objective criterion to determine whether a state should be in this category or not. By turning this into a membership category (comparable to Category:Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie) an objective criterion is created. Marcocapelle ( talk) 13:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support we are not taking positions on what makes a state "Turkic". If having the majority of the people more fluent in a Turkic language than a non-Turkic one, then Kazakhstan is probably out. If you include states with large minorities in order to get Kazakhstan back in, we then would have to also add Russia, Iran, China, Mongolia, Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria etc which would obviously be a recipe for edit warring. Thus the only objective criterion is the political one.-- Calthinus ( talk) 03:20, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support per nom. – Austronesier ( talk) 14:48, 27 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Not sure -- There is a subcat Category:Autonomous Turkic states which covers a number of polities in Russia. I would suggest that the category's scope should be states (not countries) where a Turkic Language is a major one. Peterkingiron ( talk) 17:39, 28 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. The proposed name is more defining than the current one. Place Clichy ( talk) 21:55, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support, but I would move Turkmenistan into the parent rather than removing it from the hierarchy. – Fayenatic London 08:26, 25 February 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Immigration detention centres and prisons in Australia

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Immigration detention centres and prisons of Australia. – Fayenatic London 23:17, 25 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: As matter of policy some of these are not in Australia. Rathfelder ( talk) 12:27, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Native Hawaiian people of Portuguese descent

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 ( talk) 21:50, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 article. And a contradiction in terms. Rathfelder ( talk) 12:13, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Wikipedia help overviews

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering ( Talk) 16:30, 23 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: The category is an arbitrary grouping of various help, policy, and guidelines pages and categories of those. There are quite a number of different ways in which such pages are already grouped and presented to users including, but not limited to, Help:Contents (the main help page, available from the side bar), Template:Basic information (navbox, placed on some of the top-level Help and Project namespace pages), and Category:Wikipedia directories. —⁠ andrybak ( talk) 21:49, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. the category's scope and role is based on a basic concept of which help articles are most helpful, as overviews or pathways to broad topical areas within the general category of help articles at WIkipedia. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 01:56, 20 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • This does not address the problem of subjectivity of what an "overview" is. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • all help sub-categories are somewhat subjective, in deciding which articles are “article elements help,” text help, etc etc. the concept of “overview” is clear enough; all one needs is the dictionary definition for that word. This category is simply meant to help others. Let’s keep it. The scope and shape of the category can always be modified or tweaked, based on whichever articles we editors as a community decide to include there. Thanks.— Sm8900 ( talk) 14:29, 20 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • I am not convinced that the dictionary will help editors to decide whether a page belongs in this category or not. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:58, 20 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 09:37, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete/merge. The arguments that this category is subjective and unnecessary are stronger. The category creator's view that the concept of “overview” is clear enough [to categorize by] is wrong. DexDor (talk) 07:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC) reply
    • Disagree. There are many categories at Wikipedia which incorporate some type of concept in their name. the usage and scope of a category develops based on how the the category itself is utilized in practical terms, i.e. by the dozens of editors who edit and watch the articles contained in this category. In this case, this category is of practical value, as it compiles various central help articles which can help new editors to find more advanced guidelines and help articles. -- Sm8900 ( talk)
  • Delete/Merge to Category:Wikipedia help subjective delineation that doesn't clarify anything. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 10:29, 21 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete rather than merge. This new category seems only to have been added to pages, rather than replacing previous categories on the page, so there should be no need to merge. – Fayenatic London 08:24, 25 February 2020 (UTC) reply
I would like to point out, our category system happens to include these categories, as well:
See also the categories Wikipedia basic information, Wikipedia quick introductions, Wikipedia help, Wikipedia editing aids, Wikipedia lists, Wikipedia essays about lists, and Wikipedia dos and don'ts
. so it seems to me like our category system already encompasses a variety of differing approaches, to similar or overlapping topics. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 02:58, 4 March 2020 (UTC) reply
WP:OSE. Some of the categories you listed (e.g. Category:Wikipedia essays about lists) are quite precise about what pages they are for. DexDor (talk) 06:31, 4 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I'm not enough of a category expert to say whether this is a category we should keep or delete, but I fully support reducing the redundancy of the overview help categories and pages. Contributors to this discussion may also be interested in the proposals to redirect WP:Introduction and the welcoming committee intro page. Sdkb ( talk) 22:18, 11 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete rather than merge. This seems to be a category whose contents are intuitive only to its creator. Oculi ( talk) 11:41, 18 March 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Fishing television channels

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The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering ( Talk) 16:29, 23 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, currently only two articles in it. Also, add the article Chasse et Pêche to Category:Sports television networks; the other article is already in Category:Sports television networks in the United States. Marcocapelle ( talk) 10:38, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:User-created templates

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering ( Talk) 23:31, 18 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: All templates are technically "User-created". The description makes it seem that it is some non-defining subcategory of Category: User namespace templates: Category for User-created templates. Any templates in this category were placed here because they were already part of Category: User namespace templates. —⁠ andrybak ( talk) 08:12, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • If kept, the category may be renamed to something clearer, e.g. Category:Personal user templates. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:40, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. It is difficult to imagine what this is supposed to mean. If it really means "user-created templates" then it is pointless, as all templates are User-created. (And there's nothing "technical" about that: they just are user-created.) If it doesn't mean that then what does it mean? The creator of Category:User-created templates has put a notice on the category page saying "Any templates in this category were placed here because they were already part of Category: User namespace templates". Does that mean that it is actually intended to be a duplicate of Category:User namespace templates? If not, in what way is it intended to differ, and what additional purpose is it intended to serve? Unless good answers to those two questions can be provided, this seems to be a pointless fork of an existing category, with no useful purpose. JBW ( talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 11:46, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Neutral. I am changing my vote on this, to Neutral. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 20:40, 19 February 2020 (UTC) hi there, folks. okay, lots to cover here. basically I created this category for templates that are sub-pages for individual editor's user pages; so for example, the category's is meant for items with names like " User:FisherQueen/Fq-undelete". so that's the reason for the category and its scope. however, the point above about the category name is very perceptive. I actually hadn't thought of that. I appreciate your point on that, andrybak. thanks! :okay, so please feel free to let me know what might be a good name for this. I'm trying to think about options. I realize Category:User page templates would not work; that category already exists, and it is for templates that are used on user pages. hm, what else? -- Sm8900 ( talk) 17:32, 17 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • hi Andrybak. ok, well yes , I was planning to include those as well. I'm open to any input, comments, technical details, etc, that you wish to share. I appreciate your input. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 02:42, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • IMHO this category would lose its usefulness if it mixed up (hundreds of) userboxes with the (relatively few) message templates. How about removing userboxes, and renaming to Category:Personal message templates? – Fayenatic London 22:03, 23 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 09:37, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete all templates are user-created. On the odd chance a bot created a template, it's not important. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 06:19, 16 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. The creator has failed to provide any reasonable explanation of how this categorization would benefit wp. DexDor (talk) 07:50, 16 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. The category was added to the contents without removing existing categories, so no merge is required. I have created Category:Personal message templates as suggested above. – Fayenatic London 22:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Immigration incidents

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 18:48, 2 February 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Completely undefined. Better dispersed to the categories of the countries involved (all the articles are already in appropriate categories). If it included all "Immigration incidents" it would have thousands of articles. Rathfelder ( talk) 08:45, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Immigration by continent

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 9#Category:Immigration by continent

Cathedrals in Jerusalem

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The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering ( Talk) 23:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, a total of 8 articles in 4 categories. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:05, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Such micro-categorisation only leads to sectarian conflicts and one-upmanship. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:35, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Weak oppose. Yes, these fails WP:SMALLCAT, but that's a guideline, and all guidelines are subject to some exceptions. In this case, replacing one category with four seems unhelpful to both maintenance and navigation, so I prefer to treat this as a useful exception which aids both maintenance and navigation. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:15, 27 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Except for one article, even after this merge these articles will not be in an awful lot of categories. Besides some of the articles are in some parent's categories already. Marcocapelle ( talk) 03:29, 28 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Religion and sexuality

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/rename Timrollpickering ( Talk) 17:28, 14 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge/rename, there is so little content specifically on religion and transgender topics (see Category:Transgender topics and religion) or specifically on religion and bisexuality, that in the above cases it does not make much sense to have an LGBT and a homosexuality category on top of each other. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support The multitudinous slicing of LGBT categories is tiresome to behold and tedious to maintain. I doubt that the nom would agree with these sentiments; nevertheless the proposal is to be welcomed. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 10:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose. LGBT is a modern term not fitting to any articles descripting centuries-old events that may be categorized hereunder.-- Darwinek ( talk) 17:45, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Mormonism isn't tagged. I suggest relisting and adding the siblings for Lutherans and Baptists. – Fayenatic London 17:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Categories by psychoactive drug

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Timrollpickering ( Talk) 23:33, 18 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: the current title suggests that this is a hypercategory by parameter (comparable to e.g. Category:Categories by country), but that is actually not the case for this category. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:33, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support – good catch, Marcocapelle. The sub-cats are for individual drugs compared to e.g. the siblings by chemical class or psychological effect. – Fayenatic London 17:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Suraiya

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The result of the discussion was: speedily converted ( non-admin closure). Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:59, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Convert Category:Suraiya to article Suraiya (film)
Nominator's rationale: Article apparently created in category space in error; requesting conversion to article, with no opinion on notability of subject. PohranicniStraze ( talk) 06:50, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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Category:Middle-earth deities

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Middle-earth deities and spirits Timrollpickering ( Talk) 16:32, 23 March 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Okay, so this will seem a bit granular to those not familiar with Tolkien's works, but the articles and subcats in this category are not deities in the sense that they never receive worship. The figures in this category are more what would be referred to as angels and demons in Abrahamic religions, so I feel like it would be better to use Tolkien's term of "Ainur." Hog Farm ( talk) 01:59, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply
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