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Nominator's rationale: Empty for a few weeks since images were all moved to Wikimedia Commons and subsequently deleted from English Wikipedia. Category no longer required.
DferDaisy (
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12:16, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi Elf - I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "why aren't all of these turned into redirects"? Do you mean create categories to be redirects as those are redlinks? There are no pages in English Wikipedia which link to
Category:Veterinary medicine images. It is not possible to know whether or not outside pages link here, but it does seem unlikely given that anyone seriously looking for veterinary-related images would find images on Wikimedia Commons far more readily.
DferDaisy (
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16:37, 15 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:SS soldiers
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Comment The reason the category is empty is because the CFD nominator did so before creating this discussion. That is a no-no per
WP:CFD.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof?10:12, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Oppose, further comment and proposal that this CFD be closed. There is a difference between Waffen SS and SS. The Waffen SS is a branch of the SS. I have reverted two of K.e.'s edits that were inappropriate. One of which was an improper emptying of a person from the category per
WP:CFD rules, the other an article on a Waffen SS person where he removed all SS categories from the page. The SS page could use more filling. I'm pretty sure there'd be entries, here's an example
Karl Kahr. I suggest the CFD be closed because of this bad nomination. Pinging @
K.e.coffman: and @
Dimadick:.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof?12:00, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
This needs some further elaboration. While it's true that
Waffen SS is only one of the two branches of the
Schutzstaffel, it is actually the military branch of the SS. So wouldn't that imply that only Waffen SS personnel could be soldiers?
Marcocapelle (
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07:08, 15 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Nom'd comment -- "SS soldier" is an ahistorical term as members of the SS were not "soldiers" (i.e. members of the military / army). Waffen-SS was the militarised branch of the SS, and those who served there are properly covered in the Category:Waffen-SS personnel. On the other hand,
Karl Kahr was a
Hauptsturmführer, "a mid-level SS commander that had equivalent seniority to a captain (Hauptmann) in the German Army". His position is not equivalent to that of a "soldier" (private) in seniority.
K.e.coffman (
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20:48, 15 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Note, the category is no longer empty now, but there is no indication that the person whose article has been added to this category was really a soldier. So the category can still be deleted.
Marcocapelle (
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06:04, 22 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Canadian writers of Chinese descent
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Nominator's rationale: Recreation of a category previously deleted at
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_25#Category:Canadian_writers_of_Chinese_descent. The same reasons still apply: apart from the broadly general state of whether they're black or Asian, we simply don't care about the intersection of occupation with individual ethnicity. Canadian literature does not treat writers of Chinese descent differently than it does writers of Japanese or Vietnamese or Korean descent — the intersection of occupation with an individual country of ancestral origin is simply not a
WP:DEFINING characteristic. We don't care whether a Black Canadian writer's ancestors were Ghanaian or Kenyan or Ugandan or Zulu, and we don't care whether an Asian Canadian writer's ancestors were Chinese or Japanese or Vietnamese — the intersection of "writer" with an individual country of ancestral origin doesn't alter the context of the writing at all.
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05:38, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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Late medieval law
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Nominator's rationale: upmerge per
WP:SMALLCAT, nearly all categories contain only one, two or three articles and it's quite unlikely these categories will be populated any better. None of the articles needs to be upmerged to a year category, since they are all in a continent or country year category already. A number of categories (the bottom half of the list) don't need an upmerge to a Law-by-decade category either because their article is already in a Treaties-by-decade subcat. This is a continuation of
this earlier discussion though the proposal is now a merge to decade rather than century categories, consistent with their treaty subcats by decade.
Marcocapelle (
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05:36, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep I think there is sufficent content, I note 1285 in law for example has 6 items. Also if the treaties are merged to decade they should be in the law by year.
Tim! (
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13:19, 16 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Support (relying on the statement that they are already in a year category). Treaties do not belong in a "law" category. Some (particularly modern ones) may be a source of international law, most are agreements between states, with no court to enforce them. This particularly applies at this period. Purge categories being merged of treaties. Yes 1285 has six items, but the whole 1280s has a mere 10 about law + 4 treaties. This is not too many and makes a decent sized category.
Peterkingiron (
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18:29, 16 July 2017 (UTC)reply
If we proceed with this merger, both the law and the treaties categories will be in decade categories, so the issue of whether treaties belong in law can simply be solved by removing the law category as a parent from each treaties category. I'm not arguing we should, but if there is consensus to do so it's easy to implement.
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06:06, 17 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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Category:Children's rights concepts
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Nominator's rationale:merge the two articles per
WP:SMALLCAT and because the merge target has the same main article. (The subcategory doesn't have to be merged, welfare is broader than rights.)
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05:00, 14 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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