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:'''Nominator's rationale: merge''' per [[WP:SMALLCAT]], all the above categories only contain 1 article and/or 1 (Roman Catholic) subcategory. See also [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_January_2#Churches_by_city_(Spain)|this earlier nomination]] which is still open. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 06:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
*'''Merge''' per nom. [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 20:36, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. [[WP:SMALLCAT]] does not apply to all categories which are ''currently'' small. It is for cats which ''"by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme"''.
:I checked the first five categories nominated. All one of those has a subcat for churches of RC denomination. Whatever your intention here, the effect of this merger is that non-Catholic churches in those cities will not be categorised as churches within the same area. That is not an NPOV outcome. (If your aim was to promote the hardline Catholic view that non-Catholic churches are not "real" churches, this would be a good way of doing it).
:This whole process of trying to rip out layers of container categories is fundamentally mistaken, because it pointlessly disrupts the consistency of the category system. That makes it harder to maintain and to navigate.
:By removing this layer from cities where we do already have a reasonable number of articles per city, a reader looking at the set of churches-by-city categories would get the false impression that there are few or no articles on churches in that city.
:The category system is a directional lattice based on consistency. Removing intermediate parts of that lattice because the article structure is underdeveloped undermines one of the pillars of that consistency principle, with no advantage to readers or editors. It is a pointless, disruptive make-work, both now and in the future when those categories are needed. See [[WP:DEMOLISH]]. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 02:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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