Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 17

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:The result of the discussion was: merge to :Category:Festival organizations. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Festival organizations by type to :Category:Festival organizations

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Not helpful for navigation to only have one category in here Mason (talk) 21:44, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge to :Category:Provinces of British India. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Provinces of India to :Category:Provinces of British India

:Nominator's rationale: overlapping category. Both categories identify Presidencies and provinces of British India as their main category. Mason (talk) 20:36, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge to :Category:Newspaper founders by newspaper. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:25, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:American newspaper founders by newspaper to :Category:Newspaper founders by newspaper

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge because this category is not helpful for several reasons: it assumes that american newspapers are founded by americans, not always true; there are only 5 :by newspaper: categories total, so this is unhelpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 18:58, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: rename/merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 09:05, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose renaming :Category:Fictional characters who have been possessed by demons to :Category:Fictional possessed characters

:* Propose merging :Category:Fictional characters who have been possessed by the Devil to :Category:Fictional characters who have been possessed by demons

:Nominator's rationale: The title is run-on and overspecific. I don't necessarily think it's undefining, but it doesn't need such a specific scope as demons. The Devil category is also unnecessarily WP:NARROWCAT and overcategorization. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

::Support merging and renaming AHI-3000 (talk) 19:06, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

::Support There is evidently not a significant story difference in the type of possessing entity; the parent is :Category:Fiction about spirit possession and no other categories are specific to one type of supernatural being. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 09:10, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:British civil servants who committed suicide to :Category:British civil servants

:Nominator's rationale: Non defining intersection between occupation, nationality, and cause of death Mason (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

::Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Only David Kelly (weapons expert) needs to be added to :Category:British civil servants, the other three articles are already in a more specific category. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:27, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:24, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Venezuelan people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Ukrainian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Tanzanian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Swiss people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Sri Lankan people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|South African people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Slovenian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Russian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Malagasy people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Polish people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Maltese people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Paraguayan people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|East Timorese people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Finnish people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Nigerian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Norwegian people of Arab descent}}

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Bulgarian people of Arab descent}}

:Nominator's rationale: Following the discussions here, here, and here, ethnic categories should be reserved for individuals who are identified as Arabs in reliable sources, rather than being used as containers for countries. Yorkporter (talk) 15:50, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

::Delete Another incorrect juxtaposition of ethnicity and nationality. Don't forget to check the other countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:58, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Kurds, Copts, Druze, etc. aren't Arabs. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 09:15, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Aromanian newspapers to :Category:Aromanian mass media

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's not a critical mass to diffuse by medium Mason (talk) 05:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose there are several notable Aromanian newspapers and I will write more articles about them in the future. I will just recreate the category as soon as I write another in anycase. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 08:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
• :That is why I said "Upmerge for now." If you do create a critical mass of newspapers, like 4 or 5, then the category can be recreated. But until this it is not helpful to isolate this single newspaper. Mason (talk) 15:46, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
• Merge for now per nom. HouseBlaster^talk 22:23, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Mason (talk) 19:16, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:1800 murders by continent to :Category:Murder in 1800

:Nominator's rationale: Only one continent in here, which isn't helpful for navigaiton Mason (talk) 02:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose for now, this would randomly remove a category from the middle of the tree of :Category:Murders by year and continent. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
• :Ahhh ok. that makes sense. Mason (talk) 15:47, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge all. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:23, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Albania by century to :Category:Murder in Albania

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Cambodia by century to :Category:Murder in Cambodia

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Cameroon by century to :Category:Murder in Cameroon

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Namibia by century to :Category:Murder in Namibia

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Tunisia by century to :Category:Murder in Tunisia

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Niger by century to :Category:Murder in Niger

:* Propose merging :Category:Murders in Ghana by century to :Category:Murder in Ghana

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Not helpful for navigation to have just a single category in here. Mason (talk) 02:14, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:08, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:23, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Makula family}}

:Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation. There's one person and the stub about the family. Mason (talk) 01:23, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) HouseBlaster^talk 22:22, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Latifiyan family}}

:Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation. Only one actual person in this category. Mason (talk) 01:19, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:14, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 09:17, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Congo Free State emigrants}}

:Nominator's rationale: Merge in principle to Congo Free State people. But, the only person in the category might not have even been born in the CFS. Mason (talk) 00:27, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Merge to :Category:Congo Free State people, she was born in 1893 and Congo Free State was established in 1885. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:21, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: dual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 09:23, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Maps of the history of North Macedonia to :Category:Maps of North Macedonia

:Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. not helpful for navigation to only have a single file in here Mason (talk) 00:13, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

• Dual merge, also to :Category:Maps of the history of Europe. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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