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= March 23 =

== Category:Basic income advocates and Category:Basic income proponents ==

: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: Rename/merge to :Category:Basic income activists Can some of the editors in the discussion carry out the purge please?Timrollpickering (Talk) 12:31, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Basic income proponents to :Category:Basic income advocates (or vice versa)

:Nominator's rationale: Possible category merge due to meeting the criteria of Wikipedia:Merging (overlap and possibly duplicate). There currently exists the categories Category:Basic income advocates and Category:Basic income proponents. One definition of a proponent is 'One who argues in support of something; an advocate.' These categories seem to significantly overlap and there are some of the same people listed in both categories. The definition of advocate and proponent are very similar and many people listed in one category could be listed in the other or both. It is very difficult to see why many of the people should be listed in one category and not the other. They seem like they could all, or at least mostly, be listed in either both categories or one category. Therefore I think something should be changed. Perhaps delete one of these categories and merge those from the deleted category into the remaining one? Helper201 (talk) 23:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

:* {{ping|Helper201}} please wait until this discussion is formally closed by an uninvolved editor. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

:* {{ping|Marcocapelle}} OK, cheers. Helper201 (talk) 06:54, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

  • Admin note: "Proponents" is the older page, and should therefore be moved in order to retain the page history. – Fayenatic London 11:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Category:Caucuses of the Illinois General Assembly ==

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:The result of the discussion was: merge, but only to :Category:Illinois General Assembly. MER-C 18:45, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Caucuses of the Illinois General Assembly to :Category:Illinois General Assembly - and/or :Category:Politics of Illinois

:Nominator's rationale: only 2 articles in this unclassified category Rathfelder (talk) 23:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Category:Recipients of "Ninth five-year shock worker" badge ==

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:The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 09:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Recipients of "Ninth five-year shock worker" badge to :Category:Recipients of Soviet Union civil awards and decorations

:Nominator's rationale: only 1 article Rathfelder (talk) 23:38, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Category:People with COVID-19 ==

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:The result of the discussion was: has already been speedily deleted per WP:G4 (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:26, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|People with COVID-19}}

:Nominator's rationale: Similar category, :Category:People with coronavirus disease 2019, was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_9#Category:People_with_coronavirus_disease_2019 deleted]. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:28, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

:*Speedy delete per WP:CSD#G4
SSSB (talk) 22:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

:*Speedy delete per SSSB. Same thing under a different hat. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 22:52, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

:*Delete* - too much work to add this category to everyone. Starzoner (talk) 23:59, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Category:Pollinator decline pesticides ==

File:Symbol move vote.svg Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 3%23Category:Pollinator decline pesticides

== Category:Years of the 21st century in Dubai ==

File:Symbol move vote.svg Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 4%23Category:Years of the 21st century in Dubai

== Category:Hypothetical environmental disasters ==

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:The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 23:18, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Hypothetical environmental disasters}}

:Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Both pages are already in appropriate categories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:54, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

  • Delete, small cat and feels arbitrary in its content Ribbet32 (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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== 2020 college basketball postseason tournament participants ==

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:The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 12:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

:*Propose deletion – the NCAA canceled all 2020 winter and spring championships. None of the teams categorized in the above actually played in any of those tournaments since those tournaments never occurred. As such, it was impossible to have "participated." SportsGuy789 (talk) 06:30, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

  • Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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== Category:Hypothetical events ==

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:The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (Talk) 12:56, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Hypothetical events}}

:Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. "Articles that present original research in the form of extrapolation, speculation, and 'future history' are inappropriate". While this policy allows "Individual scheduled or expected future events ... only if the event is notable and almost certain to take place", hypothetical events like 2021 Summer Olympics (the only item in this WP:SMALLCAT) are not "scheduled or expected". The one subcategory, :Category:Hypothetical impact events is a few years old and already has appropriate scientific parent categories. Ribbet32 (talk) 00:10, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

::AI takeover, Dissolution of the United States, Heat death of the universe may all be hypothetical events, but they are not similar topics (they are about technology, politics/society and cosmology respectively). It is unlikely that any reader/editor would find the grouping useful. DexDor (talk) 19:30, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

::Dissolution of the United States doesn't belong in Futurology, which generally involves future technological developments. I'll see what I can do to fix the current unhelpful definition on the Future studies page. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 05:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

  • Comment not sure; I added an article as one that seems ripe for these speculations. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:38, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

:* Perhaps my stricken comment was not so bad after all. A re-scoped :Category:Hypothetical scenarios would now contain two subcategories and two articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:12, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

::*As User:DexDor said, I still see too many dissimilar topics. Ribbet32 (talk) 23:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

:::* Even after purging the articles Kaigas and Proton decay as well as :Category:Hypothetical impact events from the category? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:33, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

  • Keep per LaundryPizza03; not everything is a doomsday scenario, such as proton decay, so that category doesn't fit. And futurology only expects things in the future, a proton decay event can have happened anytime in the universe already, so that doesn't fit. We have encyclopedic articles on hypothetical events, thus the category is capable of storing them. If the hypothetical event is not notable, then they should be deleted first, before bringing up the category for deletion. Kaigas is a hypothetical past event, and not a doomsday scenario (that would be the greater topic "Snowball Earth"). -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

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