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April 28

Category:Interstate Highways in Georgia (U.S. state)

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The result of the discussion was: do not rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:58, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. "Georgia (U.S. state) is only Wikipedia's terminology to distinguish it from the country in Asia. It makes no sense here because the country in Asia called Georgia is not part of the United States and has no Interstate highways. Georgia guy (talk) 21:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Lance Spearman

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:04, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not enough material for this eponymous category. Pichpich (talk) 20:34, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete What concerns me here is that there are no parent categories linking Category:Lance Spearman to other Wikipedia categories so this is a completely isolated category containing two articles. This makes it almost impossible for users to find if they are looking for similar articles. So, while I believe in small cats, I don't see that this one is providing much utility. Liz Read! Talk! 21:41, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:List of Lazish musicians

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:03, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This isn't a list - it's a category. Could be merged somewhere, but as it contains just one article it might be better to start from scratch. DexDor (talk) 19:43, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Thuyet Buon Vua

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:03, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT etc DexDor (talk) 19:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Zbečník

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:02, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT etc DexDor (talk) 19:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:User took part in Valoriser ses connaissances avec Wikipédia Workshop

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (Note: seems to be populated from the template page Wikipedia:Wikimédia France/Workshop banner.) – Fayenatic London 13:01, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This doesn't look like a long-term category and I'm not sure it belongs on the English language Wikipedia. If kept it probably needs to be renamed to something beginning with "Wikipedia". Could be listified (I'm not sure where to though). DexDor (talk) 19:33, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Looking at the original category created by Superrabbit001, it's clear that there was some confusion on what a category should be...it was a combination of an article and a category. The creator edited for one month and then stopped and I'm not sure if this category is needed beyond the lifetime of the workshop. Liz Read! Talk! 21:57, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award recipients

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 13:35, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of the recipients - some of the articles (example) don't even mention this award. See WP:OC#AWARD. For info: There is a list at Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award#Recipients. DexDor (talk) 19:26, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: - Per WP:OC#AWARD, the category is small (established in 2001), but will grow because the award is active and named every year. Defining because Category:Legal awards are rare; defining because while award isn't included in every winner's article yet, it may well in the future - mentioned frequently as an accolade in sources (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10303/Gertner). Nickline4 (talk) 23:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That link shows that this is one of many awards that she has received. It also states things like she's been profiled in the Boston Globe. It doesn't show that the award is a defining characteristic. DexDor (talk) 05:33, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Strategic bomber

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The relevant guideline says "Role categories are intentionally quite broad - the danger of over-precision would be the creation of multiple, closely-related categories with only very hazy (or semantic) borders between them.". See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_November_6#Category:Torpedo_bombers. If kept this should be renamed to the plural form. DexDor (talk) 19:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Aside from the nominator's observation, it should be pointed out that "strategic bomber" is a somewhat nebulous term. To give an example, in 1944, the B-29 Superfortress was classified as a strategic bomber - and in 1949 it was a medium bomber. This is already well-covered by a list at strategic bomber (albiet needing cleanup), while lists and categories can and do co-exist, in this case the category is WP:OC. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:12, 29 April 2014 (UTC)----[reply]
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Category:Shogi players

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:56, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming
Nominator's rationale: unnecessary capitalization Greg Bard (talk) 15:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:UK MPs 2010– stubs

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The result of the discussion was: delete, although I will listify it at the project talk page. – Fayenatic London 14:05, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. For stub sorting, this sets a curious precedent. Politicians are typically stub sorted by either politicial party, or by year of birth. Sorting by year of election would naturally lead to excessive stub-tagging for career politicians. Dawynn (talk) 14:08, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom has been notified. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Just seems a safe bet to me to give it a definitve end period. At least you don't then waste time on having to rename a category and update 600+ articles. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Lugnuts: If a change is needed, the bots will not find the job onerous. And I doubt that there will be 600 stubs, even at the start of the parliament. Maybe 150 if an an unusually high number of seats change hands, many of which will be rapidly unstubbed. Look how few are left for the current Parliament? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify, I meant the 600+ figure in relation to the parent category, and likewise with the one for the next parliament. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Thelema stubs

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. Dawynn (talk) 01:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Underpopulated stub category. Propose keeping template but upmerging to Category:Occult stubs. Delete category. Dawynn (talk) 14:02, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Tech noir

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge the one article remaining, Tech noir, to Category:Neo-noir. Films so described may be listed in that article. 82.152.43.126 (talk) 11:03, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Majority of articles that were members of this category did not verifiably belong to the category. Very few entries remaining, though it might be possible to rebuild the list with greater attention to verifiability of category members. Lead for category is unclear and includes statements that should be sourced. A list may be a preferable option. DonIago (talk) 13:37, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are a couple of books about tech noir as seen here and here. My impression is that this category is more academic than mainstream, meaning that film critics do not seem to use the term "tech noir" in their reviews. I think this suggests that it would be difficult to try to state and reference this term in each film article to make the category verifiable. I think a list article (one that can be linked to through "See also" sections) would be a better way to organize films under this particular genre. These are my thoughts so far, and I'm not quite sure about outright deletion of this category. Others' input would be appreciated. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 15:19, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'd support listification; among other things it would be easier to monitor than categories tend to be. It might be possible to establish the appropriate film articles as belonging to this category without the full terminology being used, but I think we'd need to be careful to avoid synthesis issues, and the category page would need to be clear about where we draw the line. With most of the articles I delisted, the word "noir" wasn't even used anywhere, which would be an obvious problem. DonIago (talk) 15:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Legislative Assembly elections in India

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The result of the discussion was: merge as a clear duplicate and per C2E. The Bushranger One ping only 03:29, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The new user has unnecessarily created this category. A similar category Category:State Assembly elections in India already existed. So request to merge . Shyamsunder (talk) 11:54, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I, the creator of this category, seconded the opinion. Merge it with the already existing one or redirect it to the same. Logical1004 (talk) 12:11, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Washington (state) road stubs

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The result of the discussion was: delete; template kept but changed to populate Category:Western United States road stubs and Category:Washington (state) transportation stubs. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Very underpopulated stub category. Does not meet the lower limit for a stub category. Keep template, but upmerge to Category:Western United States road stubs. Delete category. Dawynn (talk) 11:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:59, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is not even an award presented to someone based on merit, it is a measure of their influence, and at least 100 of these 'spots' are handed out every year. Per ocat we should not do cats based on top-100-lists per Wikipedia:OC#TOPTEN. Additionally, membership on these lists is not defining of these people.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 11:33, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Film shooting locations

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The result of the discussion was: do as proposed. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:38, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Partial merge. This was split from Category:Filming locations per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_December_24#Category:Filming_locations. This part of the split has not been successful, as it still contains articles on various locations which have occasionally been used as film locations. I have set up a new sub-cat Category:Filming locations by franchise, for lists and the Texas Chainsaw House. We should merge all the subcats and three technical articles (Filming location, Movie ranch and Backlot) up to the parent Category:Film location shooting, and then delete the rest. – Fayenatic London 08:57, 28 April 2014 (UTC)----[reply]
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Category:Free

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Free goods and services, without prejudice to a future nomination for deletion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:54, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There has to be a better name that just "Free". Also, it's subcategorized under Category:Money, implying that these are all things which don't cost anything but a lot of these software/cultural products do cost money while allowing users to amend/share/adapt freely. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • leaning to delete along with all subcats I have to question the existence of this whole structure. For the most part we're talking an incidental property of whatever the category is talking about, as for example the various publishers who have released works under licenses which allow copying. Things that are free may cease to be so, and things that are not free may come to be so; therefore this tends to be a directory of things that are free at the moment. (And yes, I understand that the CC licenses are effectively permanent.) I can see keeping subcats which talk about the ways in which things are free, but WP:NOTDEFINING otherwise tends to cover the whole category structure. Mangoe (talk) 12:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • rename to free goods and services explaining that this is about free-as -in-beer, not free-as-in-speech, and purge of all open content related stuff, keeping as a see also link instead (I think there's a container for open content somewhere --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 14:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename to Category:Gratis or Category:Free as in gratis or Category:Free (gratis) -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 23:07, 28 April 2014 (UTC)----[reply]
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Category:List of Nicaraguan Film Historians

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The result of the discussion was: Speedy delete WP:G7 — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:33, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: only one person here (the author also wrote on my page about this) Wgolf (talk) 03:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I deleted the cat off the persons page per request of the author-I also just put a empty deletion tag on there.Wgolf (talk) 03:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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