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Nominator's rationale: upmerge per
WP:SMALLCAT, there is only one nationality with a significant amount of Hindu missionaries, namely the Indian nationality. So there is no need for other categories by nationality.
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Category:Prarthana Samaj religious leaders
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Category:Ukrainian opposition groups
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Category:Star Wars Anthology films
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Oppose: The Anthology film series are not categorized in the same regard as the spin-off films. Additionally, there are three of these films being simultaneously produced, so there will be new pages soon.
DARTHBOTTOtalk•
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UpmergeWP:SMALLCAT There will only be 3 films, that is too small for a category. Wikipedia is not Wookiepedia, we do not need endless Star Wars categories. There is only 1 article right now and little expectation for more than 3 articles. Even then, there's no good reason why all officially made (as opposed to fan films) Star Wars films can't be housed in a single category. --
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Proposed railway stations by year of opening
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Nominator's rationale:: follow-up on
this discussion, for a railway station that is merely in the proposal phase (not under construction yet, or no construction required) one can't predict when it's going to open. Side note: the parent categories of these are of the form
Category:Railway stations scheduled to open in 2016, for railway stations under construction; they are no part of this nomination, because the end of construction works can reasonably well be predicted.
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Category:Abaúj-Torna County
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Nominator's rationale: Given the outcome
here and
here, I propose deleting the remainder of these, and for the same reasons: we don't categorize places by subdivisions defunct for nearly a century, and neither is the fact that people were born in said defunct units a defining characteristic.
BiruitorulTalk05:47, 28 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary and associated "People from" categories
Delete, despite of that I understand why these categories are frustrating for the Romanian Wikipedians. Nevertheless, I am curious, who will fix the numerous red links after this mass deletion? Not to mention that
User:Lekoren sometimes changed relevant categories to replace with his own categories. --
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Category:Academic journals published by learned societies
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The result of the discussion was:rename. It sounds like there is a very rough consensus that making this distinction between the two types of organizations in this category scheme is probably not worth it.
Good Ol’factory(talk)23:05, 17 September 2015 (UTC)reply
The nomination is really about "learned" and "professional", i.e. for academic disciplines and for occupations respectively. If any change is needed here, I would rather suggest to split the category between "learned" and "professional" instead of changing the category name.
Marcocapelle (
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10:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I'm not even sure yet if in Wikipedia there are enough journals published by professional societies requiring any action here at all. If there are enough and a category for them is meaningful, they can simply be parented to
Category:Academic journals published by non-profit publishers as a sibling of the nominated category, there's no need to create an additional parent in between. However on the other hand if there aren't enough journals for a separate professional societies category, a rename isn't needed either.
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23:37, 28 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment if it possible to easily distinguish between between learned societies and professional associations I would favour having one category for each (Im sure there will be journals to fill them both) as
Marcocapelle suggests. If division is blurry or would commonly require way to much research then I would favour the original proposal by
Fgnievinski. I do not think this is a category size matter. —
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11:18, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment As far as I see, learned societies are just a subset of professional societies. I doubt there is any clear distinction between the two. In my experience as an academic, all relevant societies are called "learned society" (or "scientific society" or something like that), except for organizations like trade unions, which may be called "professional societies" (but rarely if ever publish academic journals). --
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Category:Academic literature
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Category:Diseases with moribund eradication efforts
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus. (I'm not going with a "keep" conclusion because the nominator's responses to many of the arguments for "keep" were more compelling than the keep rationales. So a re-nomination either for combining some of the categories (or a future deletion nomination) should be permitted.)Good Ol’factory(talk)23:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)reply
The text at
Category:Eradicable diseases says "This is for diseases currently judged to be eradicable" (my emphasis) which indicates it's a non-permanent characteristic. If eradicted diseases were considered to be a subcategory of eradicable diseases (which isn't how the categories are currently arranged) and the "judged to be eradicable" is never wrong then that category would have permanent membership. The other two categories (e.g. "with active") are very clearly non-permanent. DexDor(talk)
That would be an improvement on the current situation, but IMO it's still not a good characteristic to categorize diseases by - mainly because it's subjective - e.g. if someone tries to develop a treatment (or a method for killing the diseases vector) and that person says something like "If we develop a treatment it may be possible to eradicate this disease" then does that count as an eradication effort? Health authorities are always trying to reduce the prevelance of diseases and I'm not sure how you'd draw the line between that and attempting to eradicate diseases. A list (e.g. at
Eradication of infectious diseases) gives more opportunity than a category to explain why a particular disease has been placed in the list. DexDor(talk)05:17, 29 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep all three, just because something is a non-permanent characteristic does not mean it is not worthy of a category. Living people is a category, and being alive isn't permanent. The whole "non-permanent characteristic" is completely irrelevant as an argument.
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17:57, 9 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Category:Living_people (which currently contains over 700000 pages) is one of those categories that's more for administrative reasons (for bots concerned with BLP etc) than for navigation. We don't usually have "normal" categories for current status - and many such categories have been deleted in the past (
example). DexDor(talk)18:31, 9 September 2015 (UTC)reply
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Category:Companies initially financed with venture capital
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Nominator's rationale:WP:NONDEFINING. Most technology startup companies receive VC money prior to their
IPO when they usually cash out so they no longer influence the company. According to the sourced main article,
Venture capital#United States, over 3,000 venture capital deals a year are made the US alone. Not all of those are for different companies, but it should give a sense of how many articles could be added to this category and why it's not defining.
RevelationDirect (
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01:27, 28 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Reply@
Jonpatterns: My concern is less with the size per se than I think the size indicates it's not defining. Darn near every tech company in the US fits this category and those companies are already better grouped in
Category:Technology companies of the United States. Also, we're categorizing something by what they used to be which tends to be less defining. (Of course, if you find my reasoning flawed, you won't be the first to disagree with me!)
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20:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)reply
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