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Upmerge Grouping fire departments by type of local jurisdiction (county, fire district, township) seems non-defining and there is no need to diffuse this category. Note that I repopulated the category.
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Category:County fire departments in the United States
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Category:WikiProject Wikislice
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Category:WikiProject Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit
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Nominator's rationale: Unless someone can explain what this category is for I suggest we delete it to remove unnecessary infrastructure. DexDor(talk)21:18, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
For whatever reason, the now defunct
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit was the logical parent page for this category, although it seems to have been removed out of the category. Personally, I would very much like to see some sort of parent category for the one existing subcategory, but am unsure exactly what that category would be.
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21:22, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Häggström diagrams works
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14th century BC
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Nominator's rationale: merge the first 57 categories of this list, per
WP:SMALLCAT, most of these categories contain one article (or in a few cases two articles, in one case three articles). After merging, the other categories of this list become empty. This is a continuation of
this previous nomination.
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20:13, 20 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Support in principle -- as long as this does not result in any annual articles being orphaned: I think there are enough merge noms to ensure this does not happen. Annual and decade categories at remote periods are a hindrance, not an aid, to navigation.
Peterkingiron (
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15:47, 25 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Support -- I hope this leaves nothing orphaned. I hope
Marcocapelle will continue his good work, to merge annual categories into decades for at least another four or five centuries, until we get to a point where decades have a significant population.
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15:59, 25 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Welders
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Delete per nom. Note: Categories like this can also be processed by reviewing each article against
WP:COP#N and if that results in the category being empty then (after a few days) CSD it. DexDor(talk)20:09, 26 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Fictional tortoises
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That was my original idea, but when I went to
Tortoise it said "Contrary to popular belief, tortoises are in fact turtles rather than part of a separate group." so adding both to the lead would be redundant. It would be like having a cat for "Fictional bears and Pandas".
JDDJS (
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16:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
After removing some of the the ones that didn't belong, there are only 7 articles in the cat which is pretty small. My main concern, however, is that in fiction the distinguish between a regular turtle and a tortoise is usually not clear. Rabbits and hares, which are actually different species, are combined for the same reason.
JDDJS (
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20:05, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Merge. Turtle vs. tortoise isn't a consistent distinction across varieties of English, and fictional animals may not be described with sufficient detail to determine whether they are turtles or tortoises.
Bixi (mythology) is described as a turtle in the lead, and a tortoise at other points (and probably should be in a
Category:Mythological turtles rather than one for fictional creatures). I'm not quite sure how Pokemon evolution works, but
Squirtle and
Blastoise] only seem to be identifiable as a turtle or tortoise via portmanteau elements of their names.
Plantdrew (
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22:03, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Merge (amending headnote if appropriate to refer to tortoises). I think we should retain the subject as a cat-redirect or someone will re-create it.
Peterkingiron (
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15:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)reply
That would be redundant because according to the
tortoises page ""Contrary to popular belief, tortoises are in fact turtles rather than part of a separate group.".
JDDJS (
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23:16, 26 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Hmm, that's a simplified explanation; I've edited the article to expand a bit on it. On further consideration, I'm moving my vote to undecided.
Neutralitytalk18:41, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:WikiProject NCSLC members
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Nominator's rationale: asociated WikiProject marked as defunct, neither of the users in the category has been active in the past 5 years (one not since 2006, the other had a single action in May 2010, and otherwise not since August 2009).
עוד מישהוOd Mishehu03:54, 23 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Cheating in chess
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