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== Category:CRÉ (Regional conference of representatives) ==

: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. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Relist due to complete lack of any participation at all (not even a comment) in the first discussion on May 2. Bearcat (talk) 16:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{Lc|CRÉ (Regional conference of representatives)}}

:Nominator's rationale: This is a badly-named category created by someone who technically has a conflict of interest (User:Conférence régionale, which if you don't know French means exactly what it looks like), but that's not really the substance of why this should be deleted. The real substance of the problem is that a regional conference of elected officers is simply the type of government that administers the administrative regions of Quebec. What this category contains, however, is not standalone articles about the CRÉs as separate topics in their own right, but the main articles on administrative regions themselves — all of which are already catted in {{cl|Administrative regions of Quebec}} or an eponymous subcategory of that. By comparison, we don't add every city's or town's primary article to a "city councils" category just because it has a council; we use those categories to contain the much narrower array of cases where the city council has its own standalone article as a separate topic from the city or town itself. So for those reasons, this is just serving as an unhelpful duplication of another category that already exists, on a tangential detail that isn't a defining characteristic of its actual contents. If some or all of the CRÉs had standalone articles about the CRÉs themselves, then a renamed version of this would certainly be appropriate — but we don't need it if it's just sitting directly on the main articles about the regions instead. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 16:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Support delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete -- I am convinced by Bearcat. We should not categorise places because they have a city council. If the council has its own article, it should go in a councils category. Similarly, we do not categorise by memberships. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:43, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:North Central Association of Colleges and Schools ==

:The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{Lc|North Central Association of Colleges and Schools}}

:Nominator's rationale: That a university/college is a member of this organization is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic of the university/college. E.g. many of the articles make no mention of the organization in the article text (e.g. University of Arizona, University of Cincinnati). This category could be listified (e.g. to North Central Association of Colleges and Schools or to a separate list page), but IMO it would be better to generate any such list from a WP:RS. For info: According to the article the NCA accredits over 10,000 institutions. For info: This is one of a series of CFDs for similar categories (e.g. see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_20#Category:Consortium_for_North_American_Higher_Education_Collaboration). DexDor^(talk) 16:34, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

DElete -- We have deleted numerous categories for association memberships. They are a variety of category clutter. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:45, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete Accreditor is not a defining charateristic. One major problem is categories are supposed to be permanent, but not only do many institutions pre-date the existence of the current accrediting system, but some change what organization they are accredited by, one example that comes to mind being Southern Virginia University.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:Arthropods of Italy ==

:The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Italy to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Invertebrates of Italy)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Sardinia to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Fauna of Sardinia)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Sicily to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Invertebrates of Sicily)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Crete to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Fauna of Crete)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Cyprus to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the list and endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Invertebrates of Cyprus)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Greece to :Category:Arthropods of Europe

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of the Republic of Macedonia to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the list and endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Fauna of the Republic of Macedonia)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Montenegro to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Invertebrates of Montenegro)

:* Propose merging :Category:Arthropods of Slovenia to :Category:Arthropods of Europe (the endemic subcat should also be upmerged to :Category:Invertebrates of Slovenia)

:Nominator's rationale: That a species (e.g. Porcellionides myrmecophilus or Zodarion lutipes) is found in Italy etc is a WP:NON-DEFINING characteristic. If it is found only in one country/island then an endemic category can be used. Example of previous similar CFD: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_21#Category:Spiders_of_Corsica. DexDor^(talk) 16:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Support per previous discussions: an endemic category is useful, but lists are better methods for displaying non-endemic life, in order to avoid exhaustive and less defining categories. SFB 17:10, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Support as above - the sensible growing consensus. Neutrality^talk 00:22, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Ancient states and territories established ==

:The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as specified. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

See: :Category:States and territories established in the 1st millennium BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 4 BC to :Category:4 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 14 BC to :Category:14 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 18 BC to :Category:18 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 20 BC to :Category:20 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 22 BC to :Category:22 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 25 BC to :Category:25 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

{{collapse top|the rest of the ancient states and territories established}}

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 27 BC to :Category:27 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 30 BC to :Category:30 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 37 BC to :Category:37 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 57 BC to :Category:57 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 64 BC to :Category:64 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 82 BC to :Category:82 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 110 BC to :Category:110 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 121 BC to :Category:121 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 132 BC to :Category:132 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 133 BC to :Category:133 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 146 BC to :Category:146 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 163 BC to :Category:163 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 167 BC to :Category:167 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 168 BC to :Category:168 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 180 BC to :Category:180 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 185 BC to :Category:185 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 197 BC to :Category:197 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 200 BC to :Category:200 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 202 BC to :Category:202 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 206 BC to :Category:206 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 207 BC to :Category:207 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 218 BC to :Category:218 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 221 BC to :Category:221 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 238 BC to :Category:238 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 241 BC to :Category:241 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 247 BC to :Category:247 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 256 BC to :Category:256 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 257 BC to :Category:257 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 280 BC to :Category:280 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 282 BC to :Category:282 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 297 BC to :Category:297 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 305 BC to :Category:305 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 306 BC to :Category:306 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 312 BC to :Category:312 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 321 BC to :Category:321 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 370 BC to :Category:370 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 377 BC to :Category:377 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 403 BC to :Category:403 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 5th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 460 BC to :Category:460 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 5th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 505 BC to :Category:505 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 508 BC to :Category:508 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 509 BC to :Category:509 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 539 BC to :Category:539 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 586 BC to :Category:586 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 626 BC to :Category:626 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 7th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in 660 BC to :Category:660 BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 7th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 0s BC to :Category:0s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 10s BC to :Category:10s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 30s BC to :Category:30s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 1st century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 140s BC to :Category:140s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 180s BC to :Category:180s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 190s BC to :Category:190s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 2nd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 230s BC to :Category:230s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 250s BC to :Category:250s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 280s BC to :Category:280s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 3rd century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 300s BC to :Category:300s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 4th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 430s BC to :Category:430s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 5th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 550s BC to :Category:550s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 6th century BC

:* Propose merging :Category:States and territories established in the 660s BC to :Category:660s BC establishments and :Category:States and territories established in the 7th century BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 20s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 50s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 60s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 80s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 110s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 120s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 130s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 160s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 200s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 210s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 220s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 240s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 290s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 310s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 320s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 370s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 400s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 460s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 500s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 530s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 580s BC

:* Propose deleting :Category:States and territories established in the 620s BC

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge per :WP:SMALLCAT, in nearly every instance there is only one article per category. (The categories in the bottom of the list will become empty as a result of the proposed merge.) This is a proposal to merge year categories of establishment of states and territories into century categories, which gives a nice amount of articles per century (starts with ~20 articles in the more recent centuries, ends with ~10 articles in the more ancient centuries). There is not even enough content for decade categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:34, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Support this structure is not helpful to navigation and fails to group similar material on shared characteristics. The merge will somewhat resolve this issue. [Anon]
Support -- Some of the target categories will probably need merging in due course, but that process has only reached the 8th century so far. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Ethnic groups in the US ==

:The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:40, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose renaming :Category:African American to :Category:African-American society

:* Propose renaming :Category:Asian American to :Category:Asian-American society

:* Propose renaming :Category:Korean American to :Category:Korean-American society

:* Propose renaming :Category:European American to :Category:European-American society

:* Propose renaming :Category:Slavic American to :Category:Slavic-American society

:Nominator's rationale: Rename. When :Category:African-American topics was renamed to {{cat|African American}} in 2007, nobody suggested adding the word "society"; see discussion. However, at the top level, :Category:Society is the parent of :Category:Culture, :Category:History and :Category:People, so it would match this structure if Fooian-American society was the parent of Fooian-American culture, Fooian-American history and Fooian Americans (the latter being for people). The lead article in many cases is e.g. African American, the name of which refers to the identity, or e.g. Korean Americans (just renamed) which refers to the people; but the scope of the category is the society of the ethnic group. – Fayenatic London 07:51, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

::Note: we should not use the plural form e.g. :Category:Korean Americans for the society category, irrespective of how the lead article is named, because that sounds like a category for biographies (in this case, it redirects to :Category:American people of Korean descent). – Fayenatic London 19:51, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

:Note: if any other editor would like to add more categories to this nomination, that would be welcome. – Fayenatic London 07:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

This is not a fundamental objection, but the target just sounds a bit odd to me. I'd mainly use "society" with a geographical/locational adjective, e.g. American society or urban society. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Note: This nomination was prompted by a discussion on the Speedy page, see below. – Fayenatic London 13:17, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

:Category:Slavic American to :Category:Slavic Americans – as per main article Slavic Americans. Greg Kaye 06:25, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Oppose, not C2C per current sub-cats, which cover culture and history as well as people. – Fayenatic London 07:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

{{u|Fayenatic london}}, as reference please also see discussion and closure at: Talk:Korean Americans#Requested move 11 March 2015 and, on this basis, I would also like to request a move of :Category:Korean American to :Category:Korean Americans on a similar basis of main article title.

A logical extension of the argument regarding article coverage would ultimately I think require article moves such as: Americans → American and British people → British

The TOC at Americans presents:

:1 Overview

:2 Racial and ethnic groups

::2.1 White and European Americans

::2.2 Hispanic and Latino Americans

::2.3 Black and African Americans

::2.4 Asian Americans

::2.5 American Indians and Alaska Natives

::2.6 Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders

::2.7 Two or more races

:3 National personification

:4 Language

:5 Religion

:6 Culture

:7 American diaspora

The TOC at British people which presents content:

:4 Culture

::4.1 Cuisine

::4.2 Language

::4.3 Literature

::4.4 Media and music

::4.5 Religion

::4.6 Sport

::4.7 Visual art and architecture

::4.8 Political culture

Please also see articles on topics: Austrian Canadians, Black Canadians, Czech Canadians, Indo-Canadians, Japanese Canadians, Lebanese Canadians, Nigerian Canadians, South Sudanese Canadians, Sri Lankan Canadians, Syrian Canadians, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadians and List of Turkish Canadians

On the basis of these main articles I would also like to request further moves as:

I think that it is fair for Categories to directly represent the content of the articles that they contain so as to better enable editors to assess the various arguments in regard to article title choice. Greg Kaye 09:18, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

:Thanks for the thought and work you have put into this. The article renaming a may be a good idea, but this is not the place to discuss them. I suggest that the categories should not be merged in the way you have suggested, but instead the top categories should be renamed with "society" at the end. At the top level, :Category:Society is the parent of :Category:Culture, :Category:History and :Category:People, so it would match this structure if Fooian American society was the parent of Fooian American culture, Fooian American history and Fooian Americans (the latter being for people). – Fayenatic London 11:04, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Support the grouping under the society heading probably makes these categories a bit more intuitive. The simple statement of the ethnicity (e.g. African American) feels like a strange grouping method – certainly we don't use that method for major parts of the tree such as :Category:American or :Category:European. {{ping|Fayenatic london}} we do have one potential question: are things like :Category:Anti-African-American organizations a good thing for inclusion into "African-American society"? Also, there are tons of other categories that should probably have the same question asked (e.g. :Category:Slavic, :Category:Romani etc). Or should these categories be moved to the plural, as in :Category:African Americans. SFB 17:27, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
SFB: For American and European, we already use :Category:American society and :Category:European society. I think it is valid to keep an "Anti" category within a "society" category, as it is an external pressure on that society. For Slavs, the existing :Category:Slavic is what I am calling the "society" category and :Category:Slavic people is the people (biographies) category; for Romani, there are :Category:Romani and :Category:Romani people respectively. Almost all ethnic groups have categories corresponding to these two layers. The naming varies, either using the plural or "people" for biographies. We should therefore not use the plural for the "society" category, except perhaps for hard cases where we are really stuck for a better name. – Fayenatic London 19:46, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
{{ping|Fayenatic london}} Sounds like a reasonable arrangement to me. On that basis we should potentially include categories like :Category:Uyghurs in the nomination and suggest a change to :Category:Uyghur society as well. SFB 20:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
That renaming makes sense to me, as many biographies are in it due to the ambiguous name, whereas they should be down in :Category:Uyghur people. However, one step at a time, perhaps? – Fayenatic London 20:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
{{ping|Rjensen}} I would like to know what you think about this proposal? I am currently on the fence about it, but leaning toward opposing it. It is not called Asian American society studies in colleges. It is called Asian American studies.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:39, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
I am opposed. It emphasizes sociology/demography, and ignores literature, politics, culture, religion and related topics. The current title is okay; also okay is "Asian American studies" Rjensen (talk) 06:21, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Oppose the latter alternative, the category is not about studies. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:42, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
The subject is "Asian American", not "Asian American society", therefore I oppose the rename being proposed in this move request. Furthermore, basing this move due to the move of Korean American article, closed by a non-admin, IMHO is poor reasoning.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:51, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Assuming "society" doesn't get sufficient consensus, is there an alternative noun we can use? What about "African American identity"? If there are no alternative nouns feasible, then we should rather leave the name as is. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Nope, why does there have to be something after the subject of the race? Looking at "African American identity" there are [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22african+american+identity+studies%22&oq=%22african+american+identity+studies%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.7418j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 only two reliable sources] which have that as a subject of study. However, "African American studies" has over {{large| 9.48 MILLION}} [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22african+american+identity+studies%22&oq=%22african+american+identity+studies%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.7418j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=%22african+american+studies%22 uses], therefore the subject being studied are the race of African American. Therefore, per WP:COMMONNAME the category should remain the same as it presently is. And any change from that flies in the face of that guideline.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
For the record, you are mentioning a noun now: "race". Though I wouldn't suggest using this in the category name. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
See Race and ethnicity in the United States, and [https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/information_and_regulatory_affairs/re_app-a-update.pdf this].--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:47, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
So? Do you imply that the category should be named :Category:African-American race? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:49, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I did not, nor do I, imply what {{u|Marcocapelle}} appears to now be advocating. Please see the reliable sources regarding the subject. The singular form is used most commonly referring to the subject of the group of individuals. Groups of individuals are referred to in the plural, the subject of the group is referred to in the singular. This is why it is not "Asian Americans studies", but "Asian American studies". This is why it is not "African Americans studies" but "African American studies".--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:02, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Please note that I'm not advocating anything at this moment. I'm just checking if there's any noun suitable to be used as a category name. "Studies" for sure isn't appropriate as category name, since the category is not about the studies themselves, but about the topic of these studies. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Support absolutely any topic encompassing move that adds to the present titling. The present titles are basically compound adjectives and are nonsensical on their own. African American what?. The main topic is Americans and all the following articles are subsets. Articles such as Americans, British people etc. have sections on culture and other issues and nothing needs to change. We also have articles such as Korean Americans, Spanish Americans etc. and, even when such an article title is written in the singular, the article text will typically present the plural in the introduction of the text. The easy option with the "... American" titles is simple pluralisation. Articles such as Black British that aren't so easily given to pluralisation may present a more permanent problem. A main article is Society of the United States which is fed by redirects such as American society. Greg Kaye 12:01, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Backed by what reasoning? Asian American, and African American are nouns in and of themselves. In common spelling they are not hyphenated. [http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/asian-american_1 See]. This can also be seen at the Center for Disease Control [http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/definitions.html website].--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:02, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
In what way are Asian American, and African American nouns? In usage each term is used in the singular. A description of a single "Asian American" person is "Asian American". When this is pluralised this becomes "Asian Americans" or, in other cases, a term like "Asian American" will typically be used in a context with a pluralised word as in the case of the the article that you mention which presents "{{tq|African American men}}" and the [http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/definitions.html website] where it presents: "{{tq|Racial and ethnic minority populations are defined as: *Asian American, *Black or African American, *Hispanic or Latino, ...}}". Please note the word defined and that the purpose in our encyclopedia is not to present a dictionary. We present content and, in the cases mentioned, appropriate and sensible titles might be "Asian American ethnic population", "Black or African American ethnic population" or "Hispanic or Latino ethnic population" (as being viewed within the context of the United States of America).

:::Barring Wikipedia the only place where I have otherwise seen "African American" as a stand alone title is in a dictionary such as in [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/african-american this] definition from the "American dictionary", Merriam-Webster, Inc., a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. who present their article on the subject as [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/67474/African-Americans "African Americans".] This also applies to your {{tq|[http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/asian-american_1 See]}} reference where the Oxford Learner's Dictionary presents: "{{tq|African American (as a singular) noun (with the presented meaning) a person from America whose family come from Asia, especially E Asia}}" Greg Kaye 06:35, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

:::In regard to the hyphenation issue I am also curious as to how you found the quoted Oxford definition.

:::I did a search on [https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22African+American%22+OR+%22African-American%22+OR+%22Asian+American%22+OR+%22Asian-American%22 "African American" OR "African-American" OR "Asian American" OR "Asian-American"] and the dictionary definitions that I sequentially found were:

:::*[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/african-american African-American - Merriam-Webster]

:::*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/African-American African-American - Wiktionary]

:::then adding search term "define"

:::*[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/African-American African-American - The Free Dictionary]

:::*[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=african-american Urban Dictionary: african-american]

:::*[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/african-american Urban Dictionary: african-american]

:::*[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/african-american African-american | Define African-american at Dictionary.com]

:::*[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/asian-american Asian-american | Define Asian-american at Dictionary.com]

:::*[http://www.yourdictionary.com/african-american African American dictionary definition | African American ...]

:::I had to go along way to move from compound adjective hyphenated definitions and get to singular noun definitions. Beyond issues of usage I think that we have a duty to get things right on topics such as grammar.

:::Greg Kaye 08:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

:::: The hyphen will be needed if the category name changes, because of Wikipedia's Manual of Style; it does not depend on external usage but WP:DASH. – Fayenatic London 11:44, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

:::::Oh, here comes WP:DASH again. -sigh- Please see manual of styles regarding "Asian American", see MOS for several organizations such as [http://www.jhsph.edu/news/style_manual/r.html John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health], [http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf American Anthropological Association], [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/04/ Purdue University], [http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.org.yalsa/files/content/aboutyalsa/yalsahandbook/ALAPS_StyleGuide2008.pdf American Library Association], [https://www.aacu.org/publications/style-guide Association of American Colleges & Universities] etc. The noun for the subject is singular not plural, the noun is not hyphenated. While some dictionaries still use the hyphen (as what use to be common (such as in this [https://books.google.com/books?id=CnwIVkAQgFwC&lpg=PA30&ots=xmscZ7HE_J&dq=manual%20of%20style%20%22Asian%20American%22&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q=manual%20of%20style%20%22Asian%20American%22&f=false NYT MOS])) that is not how it is used most commonly today, and among those who study the subject.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:53, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

:::::: No hyphen is used in the noun African American. However, when it is used as a compound adjective in "African-American society", it must be hyphenated. That's all I meant. If "society" is not added, then the category should stay unhyphenated. I think we all agree on this; sorry I wasn't clear. – Fayenatic London 05:47, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

At second glance I think it could just as well be downmerged to :Category:African-American culture etc., but since it's too late to discuss that by now, I'm willing to support the nomination as the most reasonable alternative. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:50, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Support, as the current category names are too easily confused with their plurals, i.e., Category:European American with :Category:European Americans (even though it is a redirected category). Funandtrvl (talk) 17:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:Bible accessories ==

:The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 06:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose upmerging :Category:Bible accessories‎‎ to :Category:Bible‎‎

:Nominator's rationale: upmerge per :WP:SMALLCAT, only two articles that already refer to each other in the text of the article. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:05, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Upmerge Doesn't seem like this can expand enough to become useful. Bible accessories is hardly a field of study in its own right either. SFB 20:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:Bible scribes‎ ==

:The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 10:01, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Bible scribes‎‎ to :Category:Biblical manuscripts‎‎

:Nominator's rationale: merge per :WP:SMALLCAT, only one article. This one article seems to fit in :Category:Biblical manuscripts‎‎ since the article is more about the manuscripts than about the scribe, though I'm open to other merge targets. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Delete the category, rather than merge a biography where it doesn't belong. Instead, create a redirect in article space, Eadwig Gospels, to Eadwig Basan, and categorise that in Biblical manuscripts instead. – Fayenatic London 19:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Good suggestion, I'll do that. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

::* Agree with delete now. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:06, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Merge as nom. The one article has enough categories for a full upmerge to be unhelpful. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete per Fay L. Neutrality^talk 00:19, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:Bible organizations‎ ==

:The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose downmerging :Category:Bible organizations‎‎ to :Category:Bible societies‎‎

:Nominator's rationale: downmerge per :WP:SMALLCAT, only one article next to the target category. I have no objection against a reverse merge, though I think that Bible societies is the more common term. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:47, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Support. No doubt many denominations, churches, seminaries and parachurch organisations would claim to be Bible organisations, but it would be unhelpful and non-neutral to collect them under "Bible organisations". – Fayenatic London 13:21, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Support per potential for confusion/broadening of term as stated above. SFB 20:34, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Support -- Reverse merge would be unhelpful and give rise to the US/UK selling conundrum. The question may be whether the one article in the subject actually belongs in it. It distributes bibles and certain otehr Christian books: that reminds me rather more of Scripture Gift Mission (now Lifewords) and Gideons International. The latter is categorised as a Bible Society, the former only as a Christian Mission. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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== Category:Historical theories on Biblical events‎ ==

:The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 12:55, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting :Category:Historical theories on Biblical events‎‎

:Nominator's rationale: delete per :WP:SMALLCAT, only one article. Upmerging to :Category:Bible is not needed, the one article is already in two other subcategories of it. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Support, the existing sub-cats cover what is needed. – Fayenatic London 13:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete -- the one article is already in :Category:Biblical archaeology. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete per discussion. Editor2020, Talk 01:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete as above; amply covered by other categories. Neutrality^talk 01:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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