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Category:Mayors of Whanganui

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Rename and reverse redirect. A user has recently manually renamed the nominated category as proposed, indicating a desire for this spelling change in the category. The article is at Whanganui and the parent category is Category:People from Whanganui. However, the article about the mayor is Mayor of Wanganui and there has been no consensus to change it. I am neutral as to the proposal. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Category:LGBT people from Serbia

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The result of the discussion was: SPEEDY DELETE as (currently) empty. postdlf ( talk) 20:08, 6 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: There is no requirement for false pages to contain not a single entry. The individual intended for this project was a hoax (Marija Šerifović). There was a lot of talk about this between 2007 and 2008 and now it's gone quiet. Many entires appeared in various media attempting to damage the woman, yet those in Serbian and Croatian sources where she spoke and answered questions herself all confirm her position as straight. A discussion on her talk page in 2007 saw no agreement but the general message was to keep all mention of the topic off her article. Evlekis (Евлекис) ( argue) 18:07, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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This is an additional comment which I place outside the box in accordance with instruction not to modify - if it could tag along with the box in future archives that will be fine. Ideally I would have placed this remark under Brown HairedGirl's comment. No, despite my nomination, I am not opposed to the page existing once a genuine case arises. Although I am a subject of the former Yugoslavia and our people are largely homophobic almost to the point of denial of such persons from our lands, there is no question there are some. Very recently, the Bosnia and Herzegovina page opened and contains Vjekoslav Kramer who meets the criteria by having "come out". The information on the woman for whom the page was intended is scanty and moreover from a distant source. The Finnish journal may be good but no way could something hold true if it never travelled back to her homeland and surrounding countries. Meanwhile the media closer to home have dismissed everything on this topic. Not to worry, that's that for now. Evlekis (Евлекис) ( argue) 22:25, 6 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Category:Rich Farmbrough bugs

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:21, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Firslty, personal categories for users are aginast policy. Secondly, these categories are explicitly related to use of automation by Rich Farmbrough, who is now prohibited from using automation. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:03, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Category:Indigenous Hawthorn Hawks players

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Articles are already categorised in the suggested upmerge targets. The Bushranger One ping only 19:13, 19 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Trivial intersection, we already have Category:Hawthorn Football Club players and Category:Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football. Jenks24 ( talk) 11:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Delete all the players are already in the 2 "parent" cats so upmerging effectively has already been done. Catscan or other tools allow for intersections like this to be found, we don't need dedicated cats to do so. Note that there are only 6 articles in this cat, but the Catscan intersection finds 10 who should be, highlighting the problem with dedicated intersection cats- they are rarely kept up to date or complete, compared to "standard" cats. The-Pope ( talk) 00:53, 12 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  • Delete we do not sub-categorize players on specific sports teams by ethnicity. Even subcategorizing players of specific sports by ethnicity is questionable at best, but we do not do such for specific teams. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 19:46, 12 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Category:Nintendo 64 combat flight simulator games

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Only 1 article (since August 2011, and the Nintendo 64 is not getting new games for over a decade) and no other platform has a such sub-category in Category:Combat flight simulators. Niemti ( talk) 08:01, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Category:1717 inventions

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:SMALLCAT. Not part of a series. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 07:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - I think that inventions do not lend themselves to categorization by year. The process of invention can be, and often is, a long one that involves multiple stages, variants, and inventors (for example, see the history of the incandescent light bulb). Does the 'year of invention' refer to the year of conception (of the idea), the year of publication, the year of implementation (e.g., when a working model is built) or the year of recognition (i.e., the invention is recognized and/or registered)? If the technology has undergone various revisions, does the year of invention correspond to the invention of the first version or the current/final one? The situation becomes more complex when different variants of the same technology are invented in different years by different people working separately, or when there is a dispute about who first invented something (see Category:Discovery and invention controversies). -- Black Falcon ( talk) 08:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Category:John Williamson songs

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The result of the discussion was: Keep. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:27, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:SMALLCAT. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:18, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Wikipedia lightbulbs

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The result of the discussion was: delete. The creator is encouraged to use the pipe trick if he or she cannot abide the red links.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 06:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
moved from speedy

These categories are humour categories for the essay Wikipedia:How_many_Wikipedians_does_it_take_to_screw_in_a_lightbulb?, and as such are not content categories, so should not occupy names that can be used for any kind of content categorization. Further as implication of the essay, this is a user categorization, and as evidenced from the only categorized content at the time the Speedy was originally opened, it only contained user pages. Therefore these should be deleted or renamed into Usercategorization space. Deletion was the opinion of two commentators at Speedy, so is the proposal given here. The alternative, renaming, the original option at Speedy, are to rename the two to Category:Wikipedian Lightbulbs that are out and Category:Wikipedian Lightbulbs that are unscrewed. 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 04:14, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply


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Category:Dinosaurs of Appalachia

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Empty and uneeded. Only one article ever applied and it was moved to Dinosaurs of North America Kumioko ( talk) 00:52, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Decades in transport

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The result of the discussion was: Merge all to their respective "xx century in transport" category.. Dana boomer ( talk) 20:03, 20 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1550s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1500s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1545 in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1500s in transport. Unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1520s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1500s in transport. Unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:40, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:Transport disasters in 1527
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1500s in transport. Unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:40, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1390s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1300s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:39, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1370s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1300s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:38, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1340s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1300s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:38, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1320s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1300s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:38, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1310s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete or redirect to 1300s in transport. Unused and unlikely to ever have enough articles to be needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:38, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1280s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1270s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1260s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1250s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1210s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1180s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:28, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1170s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:28, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1160s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:28, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1150s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1140s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1120s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it needed. Kumioko ( talk) 00:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
Category:1100s in transport
Nominator's rationale: Recommend delete. Created in 2008 and still unused and its doubtful there there would ever be enough articles to make it worthwhile. This one could potentially be useful if we redirect all the other 11XX categories to this one. Kumioko ( talk) 00:26, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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