Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 24

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:The result of the discussion was: Deleted by RHaworth. L293D (☎ • ✎) 16:43, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Article Selection}}

:Nominator's rationale: not a normal category page. L293D (☎ • ✎) 16:00, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering 18:45, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Orientalist linguists}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Orientalist translators}}

:Nominator's rationale: The category's creator has admitted at Category talk:Tajikistani orientalists that The term "Orientalist" is problematic, yet he had previously set up these two categories with only one member article. – Fayenatic London 11:49, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Obscure scope, object to many POV issues and in any case WP:SMALLCAT. Place Clichy (talk) 14:48, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: Rename/Delete/Merge. Timrollpickering 18:47, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose renaming {{lc|Linguists of Arabic}} back to :Category:Grammarians of Arabic

:* Propose renaming {{lc|Medieval Arabic linguists}} to :Category:Medieval grammarians of Arabic

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Medieval grammarians of oriental languages}}

:* Propose merging {{lc|Arabic grammarians}} to :Category:Grammarians of Arabic

:* Propose renaming {{lc|Arabic philologists}} to :Category:Philologists of Arabic

:* Propose renaming {{lc|Arabic lexicographers}} to :Category:Lexicographers of Arabic

:* Propose merging {{lc|Arabic lexicologists}} to :Category:Grammarians of Arabic

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Arabic Lexicology}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Lexicologists}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Lexicographists}}

:Nominator's rationale: :Category:Grammarians of Arabic was recently speedily renamed to :Category:Linguists of Arabic, as part of a batch [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy&diff=860582790&oldid=860524702] that belatedly implemented my close at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_September_17#Grammarians_categories. IMHO the Arabic category need/ought not to have been renamed, as the "Grammarians" hierarchy was to be kept for ancient languages. :Category:Linguists of Arabic should be renamed back to Grammarians, then redirected to :Category:Arabists. There is no hierarchy for "Oriental languages"; in article space, that term redirects to Languages of Asia. :Category:Arabic lexicographers is a new category that could be ambiguous, because there is also :Category:Arab lexicographers for lexicographers from the Arab world. As for the lexicologists categories, these are also new, and no members have been added that are specifically described as lexicologists; the two articles are about lexicographers and grammarians. Finally, "Lexicographists" is a misnomer for :Category:Lexicographers. – Fayenatic London 10:07, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:57, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Jett Rebel}}

:Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category for a musician who doesn't have the volume of spinoff content needed to warrant one. As always, every musician does not automatically get one of these the moment he has the standard albums category + songs category + BLP + navbox -- musicians get eponymous categories only in highly rarefied situations where there's a lot of additional content that needs artist-related categorization outside the standard categorization schemes that every artist already has. Bearcat (talk) 06:47, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 16:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 14:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Military commanders who never lost a battle}}

:Nominator's rationale: delete, this concerns a non-defining characteristic. It is perfectly suitable for listification, the list already exists: Commanders who never lost a battle. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:32, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

• Delete and listify per nom. Place Clichy (talk) 14:48, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
• What counts as a battle? Plenty of military commanders have never fought a battle. Rathfelder (talk) 15:29, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering 18:44, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:VR commuter rail to :Category:Transport in Helsinki

:Nominator's rationale: upmerge to both parent categories, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:24, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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