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Nominator's rationale:Merge. There's a very, very large overlap and the names are trivially confused. (CATEGORY:SSTO is apparently only intended for spaceplanes, but I see no reason to distinguish them) -
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Category:Lists of states by dominant ethnic group
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. This category doesn't fully make sense. Few of the entries are actually lists, and they seem to be a random hodge-podge of former polities - not necessarily states - that conform to an ethnic group, but that aren't necessarily "dominant" in the geographical region. These entries could all be reclassified in pre-existing
Category:Former countries or appropriate subcats.
Uyvsdi (
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19:41, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdireply
Keep. These are all lists of states, or articles that are written around such lists (and city-states certainly count as states!). The ethnic groups are politically defining, not necessarily dominant on a census basis. It is important to categorize these articles together as they are all face the same sorts of nationalism-related POV issues.--
Pharos (
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19:54, 27 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment. Most of the items in the category aren't lists and at least one of them is a disambiguation page. Have you considered renaming to clarify what you are trying to categorize? -
Uyvsdi (
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00:59, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdireply
Delete and Move. These areticles all should go in the appropriate former countries categories. The name does not at all convey what these lists are. These are lists of articles about former countries that had some level of ethnic cohesion. The name does not match at all what the category is.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:22, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
There is no single appropriate former countries subcategory for this characteristic, though I have proposed a renaming that would fit this into the former countries schema, above.--
Pharos (
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18:07, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Delete The category is missing many states, such as states of China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Thailand, Cambodia, VietnameVietnam, Iraq, Kurdistan, Former Kingdoms of India, Central Asian polities, the list goes on. It would be impressive to list every single former and current polity dominated by an ethnic group.
Curb Chain (
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06:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
It may well be true that more articles of this type ought to be written, but this is not a valid reason for deletion.--
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20:12, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Superman: The Animated Series characters
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Nominator's rationale: Renominating since last nomination was speedy-kept for being nominated by a sockpuppet. This category contains only three items; even if two of them weren't redirects, that would still be
WP:SMALLCAT. Ten Pound Hammer,
his otters and a clue-bat • (
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Category:Hydropathists
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Railway stations by country and company
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Oppose They are railroad stations in the U.S. not railway.. It's a matter of regional English. Rail station is neutral.
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Category:Fictional Alabama Crimson Tide football players
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Category:Godfrey Douglas Giles
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Rename Without "works by -" this category would mean articles related to him. Obviously this category does not contain such articles.
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05:52, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:New York City
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Keep. While Old Mishehu has a good point that in the case of these other categories we have broken the rule of agreement in category and article name, the issue is more complexed.
San Francisco and
Boston are many different things. Ambiguity works with articles better than categories. I would actually support renaming those two articles because I do not think either name is unambiguously associated with that city enough to justify it being the main article destination. On the other hand
New York City is clear what it is about.
New York, New York is less clear, because it could mean either the city or the county, which is smaller than the city.
Category:New York City, New York might be worthwhile, but I am not sure there is another New York City anywhere to cause confusion. Still the reflex response "article and category should match" does not work here.
John Pack Lambert (
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03:33, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose New York, New York is ambiguous. There's New York County, New York State; New York City in New York County (which is not all of New York City) in addition to NYC, NYS.
65.94.47.63 (
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04:41, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose to rename, keep Cat:NYC - Per nom of the article (
New York City) and because NY, NY is more ambiguous... By the way the proposal has a logic but, IMHO, the categories reguarding some of the most important US cities may be renamed without state's name; also to match article's title (ex:
Los Angeles,
Chicago,
Houston etc.). As wroten above by John Pack Lambert, "article and category should match". --Dэя-
Бøяg14:40, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
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Category:Media in which North Korea invades America
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Rename/Upmerge Hurling categories by Year
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Nominator's rationale: lower-case is usual in sports by year (as for hurling 2010 to 2012 eg
Category:2010 in hurling); and they can then be linked to the navigation boxes which I have added to 2010-12.
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Category:Armories on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. There are only three armories on the Register in Ohio (all of which have articles, but two of which aren't in this category), and there's no reason to expect that there will very soon be more, so this category is simply too small. In a normal situation, I'd advise merging this to all of its parent categories, but the creator
left almost all of the parent categories on the article.
Nyttend (
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00:57, 27 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Merge all or none The comments apply to a number of subcategories of the National Register of Historic Places. Generally if a category is to be by state or province, some subcategories for particular states will have few members (see eg
Category:Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places). For Amories ther alternative would be to have one category for the country but no state subcategories, with individual articles also in the state subcategory of
Category:Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places. But the suggestion that a state subcategory must have say four (five?) (three?) articles will end up like
Category:Drinking establishments on the National Register of Historic Places with three state subcategories and 32 articles in the main category; there may be other states with four (say) establishments, but who is going to check all the 32 articles and tally by state, then add state categories with the magic number?
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08:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)reply
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