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January 3

Category:Encounters in Pakistan

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 00:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category (only one article), unlikely (even in the case of a coup) to become large. The present article is already listed in appropriate categories. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please report to appropriate WikiProjects. I don't know enough about the area to determine. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:40, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies research fellow

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Ukrainian academics. Mz7 (talk) 01:50, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article Rathfelder (talk) 20:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies research fellows

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Ukrainian academics. Mz7 (talk) 01:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article Rathfelder (talk) 20:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Potebnia Institute of Linguistics research fellow

Nominator's rationale: Only one article Rathfelder (talk) 20:25, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:University of Kharkiv researchers

Nominator's rationale: Only one article, which doesnt mention University of Kharkiv. Rathfelder (talk) 20:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Institute of History of Ukraine research fellow

Nominator's rationale: Only one article Rathfelder (talk) 20:21, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bakul Institute of Superhard Materials research fellow

Nominator's rationale: Only one article, with just a passing mention of his research fellowship. Rathfelder (talk) 20:20, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Palestinian researchers

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: procedural close, the category has been deleted by User:Liz and no longer exists. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 18:56, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article, about a person who is not actually a Palestinian. Rathfelder (talk) 20:15, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:MTV Award winners

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:11, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No such thing as an "MTV Award" - both MTV Award and MTV Music Award redirect to MTV Video Music Award which already has an extensive hierarchy at Category:MTV Video Music Awards Le Deluge (talk) 16:46, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ivy League academics

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:31, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This already exists for each of the individual schools. If for some reason this is deemed to be a necessary category, it should be only as a container category. Natureium (talk) 16:16, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:African-American football quarterbacks

Nominator's rationale: Not a defining characteristic per WP:CATDEF; non-notable intersection of race and football position Natureium (talk) 16:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:India political party color templates

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 00:47, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Empty: redundant to Category:India political party colour templates, which should be used on all such pages in any case per ENGVAR. Vanamonde (talk) 07:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Jews and Judaism in Ankara

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:34, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:SMALLCAT, currently only one article. There is no need to merge because the article is already in Category:Places of worship in Ankara and in Category:Synagogues in Turkey. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:00, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Churches by city (France)

more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, all the above categories only contain 1 article and/or 1 (Roman Catholic) subcategory. See also this earlier nomination which is still open. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:36, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Stateless people from Thailand

Nominator's rationale: No need to diffuse parent. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)nati[reply]
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