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Nominator's rationale: Indiscriminate grouping of individuals with the surname Fan, from 500BC to the present, with no familial relationship demonstrated. Most/All of them are already listed at
Fan (surname).
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21:21, 5 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Dangerous Ground (South China Sea)
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Comment:
this category could easily be populated with 30 pages on islands, reefs and atolls within the area that have Wikipedia articles, as listed in the main article
Dangerous Ground (South China Sea). Even though that page states that "navigational charts… do not completely agree with each other as to the boundary", it appears to me that this category could be a useful complement to the sub-cats by type within
Category:Spratly Islands. –
FayenaticLondon11:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)reply
I don’t think that makes sense; I can’t remember how I came across this but in my time looking at articles on WP and news coverage of the South China Sea I have never come across it before. The islands, atolls etc. of the Sea are identified by the Sea, by the grouping (Spratly Is. etc.), and by the claims and counter claims associated with them. None are known by being "in Dangerous Grounds". It seems to be a navigation feature, i.e. of interest to ships navigating the region, but not used to categorise and identify islands etc. within it.--
JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds12:36, 6 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:African lions
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I've adjusted the nom to also upmerge to the felids category. This category shouldn't be under a sub-saharan or vulnerable category so any placing of the articles in those categories should be done manually. DexDor(talk)19:35, 6 September 2018 (UTC)reply
Support- most lion subspecies/populations are located in Africa, and according to the latest revisions, there is only two or three subspecies, two of which are definitely in Africa (the possible third is the Asiatic lion). Any other subspecies are either fossils, invalid, or debatable. The three other parent categories could easily apply to article:Lion.--
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Category:Vice presidents of Greece
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Category:TV articles of unclear notability
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Comment -- This is (I hope) a hidden maintenance category, appearing on the talk page. In such categories the objection to use of an abbreviation is less important than in a substantive one.
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15:01, 8 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Safranin dyes
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Nominator's rationale: This category is 13 years old and has never held more than one article. It is simply unnecessary overcatorization and can be upmerged to its parent.
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11:13, 5 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Eurhodin dyes
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Nominator's rationale: This category is 13 years old and has never held more than one article. It is simply unnecessary overcatorization and can be upmerged to its parent.
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11:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:People associated with the Hanseatic League
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Nominator's rationale:delete per
WP:OCASSOC and it is a hodgepodge of unrelated people, including Norwegians at war with the Hanseatic League, including people representing the three German Hanseatic Cities long after the Hanseatic League had faded away. Originally I thought purging and renaming to
Category:Merchants of the Hanseatic League might be an option, but that would only leave a very small category.
Marcocapelle (
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05:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)reply
At least purge -- While three cities were in theory still members after 1669, in practice it never met and was effectively defunct. We might have a category for merchants, captains and councillors serving the Hanse, but better to categorise them by their cities and the cities as members of the Hanse.
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17:28, 6 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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Category:Organizations in the Yishuv
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Category:American adult animated television programs featuring anthropomorphic characters
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Category:National Heroes of Barbados
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In 1998, Barbados celebrated a centenary and created a top ten list (there's literally 10) of influential figures from Barbados' history. Other than sainthood, awards given out decades after a person's death are rarely defining and this category is already
listified here.
RevelationDirect (
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00:37, 14 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep OCAWARD has an exception for the most notable ones, particularly Nobel laureates. This is the state's selection of 10, not that of a random person. We have been deleting national awards given to foreign dignitaries for diplomatic reasons and those given to 1000s of people, but this is different. There is no possibility of expansion.
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