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Category:Historic centres

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The result of the discussion was: merge. I can't merge the Wikidata entries as some other-language Wikipedias will still have both. I'll keep the redirect and leave a note on the talk page of both, for what good that may do. – Fayenatic London 23:42, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a procedural listing of two categories that were tagged with {{
WP:CFD#HOWTO. I am neutral at this time. Cheers, -- Black Falcon (talk) 22:54, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]
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Years in female bodybuilding

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The result of the discussion was: merge to the corresponding subcat of Category:Years in bodybuilding and Category:History of female bodybuilding (with no prejudice against any future nomination of that category). -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:35, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:
WP:SMALLCAT, there isn't enough content to have years in female (professional) bodybuilding. The vast majority of these categories have zero or one page, with the maximum being four (2008). -- Tavix (talk) 00:22, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply
]
I had considered that. However, the article bodybuilding is specifically about male bodybuilding so I'm not sure if it would work. -- Tavix (talk) 05:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Huh? Para 1 of the lede of bodybuilding ungendered. Para2 discusses both male and female. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:02, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I was going off the hatnote, I hadn't actually read the article. I'll change the hatnote accordingly and endorse the merge. Thanks, -- Tavix (talk) 14:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: While there is a consensus above to merge to XXXX in bodybuilding or XXXX in professional bodybuilding, as appropriate, the categories were not tagged. I am in the process of tagging them now. Separately, it would be helpful to have additional input on the suggestion of merging these categories to Category:History of female bodybuilding.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:55, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Magnetoreceptive animals

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The result of the discussion was: Listify and delete. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
PS @DexDor, SmokeyJoe, and Swpb: I have left a list of the category's contents at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 21#Magnetoreceptive_animals. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:
WP:NON-DEFINING - I checked a sample of the articles in this category and none mentioned this characteristic prominently - most (e.g. wood mouse) don't mention it at all. DexDor (talk) 15:22, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]
  • Listify to Magnetoreception#Magnetoreceptive animals, then delete. Magnetoreception and its sources dwell heavily on which animals are known magnetoreceptors (my word). I suggest a table with 4 columns: Animal, Proven/documented/studied, how (eg. cytochrom C, Fe2+, magnetic particles), 1-3 references supporting information in columns 2 & 3. The list is able to separate the known and demonstrated magnetorecptivism of pigeons from the less clear-cut cases. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:36, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Listify per SmokeyJoe. —swpbT go beyond 14:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1648 Books

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The result of the discussion was: already deleted per
WP:G7. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 13:59, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]

Category:1648 Books - I wrongly used "Books" instead of "books". --Dick Bos (talk) 12:57, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Seasonal holidays by hemisphere

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Seasonal_holidays_by_hemisphere. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:35, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete as trivial intersections. Holidays are either in a fixed month (hence the season depends on the hemisphere) or in a fixed season (hence the month depends on the hemisphere). In the former case we should categorize by month (rather by than season x hemisphere), in the latter case we should categorize by season (rather than by month x hemisphere).
Perhaps the categories have been created specifically to link Category:Holidays based on the date of Easter‎ with northern hemisphere spring and southern hemisphere autumn. This would not surprise me because the five remaining non-nominated siblings are empty (I have C1'ed them). Note that Category:Holidays based on the date of Easter‎ does not need to be parented to a month or a season category, since individual holidays based on the data of Easter are already in two consecutive month categories (e.g. March+April). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:51, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. You are right that holidays depend either on the month or the season. And you are also right that the season depends on the month and the month depends on the season. However, that means that holidays in either hemisphere are a mix of those based on one system and those based on the other, and simply using categories based on season or month will not always be helpful. As such, it makes perfect sense to categorise them by a hemisphere-specific method. You are also right that the categories are virtually empty - that is because the categorisation has only just begun for all eight categories. I was waiting until I had finished categorising month-specific events by country before starting on this (another user had assured me he'd help with the categorising, but that doesn't seem to have eventuated. Give this a few days, and all the categories will be appropriately filled. Grutness...wha? 00:53, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • PS - I note that none of the categories have been marked with CFD tags - why is this? Grutness...wha? 00:53, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • PPS - the "the five remaining non-nominated siblings" are not empty. Grutness...wha? 02:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The missing tags was an omission, thanks for pointing that out. I have added the previously empty five categories to this nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I suspect that more useful would be to create a new version of this article, Lists of holidays, as a sortable table, including sortable by date. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:59, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm not quite sure how that would help - there'd still be the problem of working out from the date whether you're referring to that date as it applies to the southern or northern hemisphere. Grutness...wha? 13:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • Just go by date. Forget season by hemisphere, it is not useful. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:18, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • On the contrary. The reason these categories were created was because the "by date" system was heavily biased in favour of the Northern Hemisphere. For Southern users, the system was a complete nightmare. Grutness...wha? 23:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Grutness: I believe I am the "another user". I kicked off the creation of the southern hemisphere seasonal holidays because I was disturbed to find that there was only one article, Summer holidays, and all the December-February summer holidays in the SH were simply lumped in with those. Totally inappropriate. I promised to do separating out, but found that you (Grutness) had become involved to the extent that we would conflict with each other's work. I decided to let your dust settle before doing any more work myself. Also, it's high summer right now and I'd prefer to put off heavy editing sessions until the weather cools in a couple of months. Akld guy (talk) 08:02, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ah - yes, that explains it :) Sorry I forgot who it was! Grutness...wha? 12:57, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Christmas nomenclature and language

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Category:Christmas_nomenclature_and_language. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:51, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Option A: rename to
WP:SMALLCAT and as a trivial or unnatural intersection. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:25, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]
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Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Assyria

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 23:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per
WP:SMALLCAT, currently just one article in the category. The article is already in Category:18th-century BC disestablishments so no further merge targets are needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]
  • Good point to merge more categories, this will require a batch nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:49, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Alaska gubernatorial candidates

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Several editors noted that there are similar categories for about a dozen other states, and no reason was offered for singling out Alaska. A group nomination of all the gubernatorial subcats of Category:American political candidates might produce a consensus one way or the other. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:44, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a
WP:POLITICIAN, so therefore these articles aren't notable for being losing candidates, but for other things. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
]
  • Weak keep - looks like it's part of a larger scheme... 14 US states have similar categories, and there is similar categorisation for about a dozen other countries. Grutness...wha? 06:08, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom, and please nominate all similar categories as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete for the same reason we wouldn't have
    List of candidates in the Belgian federal election, 2010. — Warren. ‘ talk , 06:24, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep part of series with 12 states participating. We have Category:United States vice-presidential candidates and Category:United States presidential candidates. --RAN (talk) 17:08, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Probably keep -- We would certainly keep articles on failed presidential candidates. We would not for failed candidates for MP, senator, congressman, etc. unless notable for other reasons. The question is where to draw a line between these. I would have thought that it came below US governor. Ultimately this is not of question about this category, but how many failed candidates are nevertheless notable. If they are otherwise notable, eg as a US or state senator, three is no reason why we should not have this category. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:36, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – As alluded to multiple times, this nomination doesn't address or fix the entire slew of categories underneath
    WP:OWN warriors out there who are obsessed with "non-defining characteristics" as of late, and since we are talking about politicians in Alaska, let me point out Click Bishop, Geran Tarr and Joshua Wright (Alaska politician) as just a few examples of another really bad Wikipedian POV. In the case of all three, one hundred percent of what they're notable for occurred as residents of Alaska. In each case, they aren't categorized according to the communities they resided in while they engaged in the activities for which we deem them notable. Rather, they are categorized solely according to their birthplace. In Bishop's case, he moved to Alaska at age one or two, which means that whatever tiny portion of his life spent in Missouri is especially irrelevant to his notability as a labor leader and politician, all of which occurred as while residing right here in Fairbanks. What I just pointed out epitomizes non-defining categorization. If you're not willing to address this problem, which is far, far more widespread than just these three articles and has continued on unabated for perhaps more years than I've been here, then any arguments about non-defining characteristics ring pretty fucking hollow to me and I just don't want to hear them anymore. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 04:58, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
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