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==== Category:Pre-Confederation mayors of Ottawa ====
:* '''Propose merging''' [[:Category:Pre-Confederation mayors of Ottawa]] to [[:Category:Mayors of Ottawa]]
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' Category which uses an arbitrary date to separate some mayors of a city from other mayors of the same city. Ottawa is far from the only Canadian city that existed before Canadian Confederation in 1867 -- Toronto had 16 mayors before Confederation happened, Montreal had 31, Quebec City had 13, Halifax had 19, Kingston had 23, and on and so forth — but it is the only city that's using Canada's transition from British colony to independent country in 1867 as a categorical point of separation between some mayors and others. This isn't really necessary or helpful — Confederation didn't really change the status or context of mayors at all, so there's no need for the category system to segregate the pre-1867 mayors and the post-1867 mayors as two separate classes of topic. And no, the fact that Ottawa happens to be the capital of Canada still doesn't [[WP:DEFINING|define]] the pre-1867 mayors differently than it does the post-1867 mayors — even pre-Confederation, Ottawa was ''already'' the capital, so Confederation still didn't have any
* '''Support''' per nom. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 22:11, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
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