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Nominator's rationale: Per rest of tree, this is a member of Catholic parent cats and should specify that it is only for Catholic priests. Elizium23 (talk) 21:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Catholicism and Far-left politics
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Delete there's no other "Catholicism" and spectrum politics categories. One would think that there would be many other such categories, such as the Catholic church and fascism from WWII contrversies, etc. -- 65.94.40.137 (talk) 06:32, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Oakham, Massachusetts
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Keep (creator). Category is part of a countywide categorization. If this were deleted, every town by Oakham in Worcester County would have a separate people from category.--TM18:40, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Consensus has long been that it takes five or more entries for a small community to qualify for a People from category unless the community is in more in one county. Two isn't even close....William01:20, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Strong upmerge for Oakham, Berlin, East and West Brookfield and Hubbardston as small settlements (<4000 people) which will be unlikely to garner many notable biographies. Weaker upmerge on Paxton which is slightly larger but still a small settlement with little likelihood of expansion – three biographies for 250 years of the town's history is hardly a niche worthy of its own navigation. The content is better navigated in prose or lists on the articles. SFB23:25, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Though two were from Brookfield, before West Brookfield existed and one only worked at West Brookfield for a couple of years. Sionk (talk) 16:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Philosophy reference resources
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Category:Medieval mythology
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Nominator's rationale:Delete. Category:Medieval mythology had two things in it, Draconcopedes and Christian Mythology. Draconcopedes is more accurately described as a legend since it was included in some medieval zoologies, so I added it to Category:Medieval legends. While Christian Mythology has a small amount of info about the Middle ages, the majority is not. I removed both things from the category because they didn't really belong there, and the category itself seemed redundant with Category:Medieval legends existing. So with nothing in it Currently, I think it is a good candidate for deletion. If it is felt this a good category, I can move Draconcopedes back there. Perhaps some more articles should be listed there in that case. Lightgodsy(TALKCONT)12:15, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support I suspect there may be a viable category here but, without a main article on Medieval mythology, it's impossible to know what to put in it or to know the difference between that and Medieval legends. No objection to recreating later if this topic is expanded on the article space. RevelationDirect (talk) 06:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mythology is better divided by theme and culture. This attempt to categorise by era would logically group together many aspects of mythology which only coincide in time, not in culture or creation. On that basis it is a trivial category. SFB13:16, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for explaining what was there, but you should not have emptied it before nominating it for CFD. There is a technical definition of a myth which is differnet from a legend, but we do not need to keep what is now an empty category. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Peterkingiron. Christian Mythology didn't belong in the category. While there could be arguments for Draconcopedes or other articles from that time period to be in the category, I tend to agree with Sillyfolkboy's position that this topic in particular is better divided into categories in other ways. When the category was empty I could have simply left it alone and had a empty category taking up space, or waited four days and nominated it for speedy deletions. Perhaps I should have gone one of those ways. I felt it would be better to nominate it here, so that in the spirit of Wikipedia, a consensus could be reached on it. Though it is true you shouldn't clear out a category you nominate for deletion WP:CFD - I removed the things that didn't belong there, THEN nominated it for deletion because it was empty. So it's a rather grey area. In good faith, I listed everything that was in the category that I removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lightgodsy (talk • contribs)
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Category:British architecture
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. Clearly these two categories have the same scope and their contents could be interchangeable. My preference would be a merger to the "Architecture of... " category, to match the Architecture of the United Kingdom article. Architecture has a fixed physical presence at a location, rather than a nationality, per se, so in my view the "Architecture of... " category name makes more sense.
However, I'm open to the idea of a merger in the opposite direction. This CfD decision may have broader implications - the vast majority of categories in Category:Architecture by country are not "Architecture of FOOland" categories (though many more of the matching Wikipedia articles are). Because the top category is not Category:Architecture by nationality I would argue that the other "FOOlandian architecture" categories be renamed to "Architecture of FOOland", but that evidently would be a big job!! Sionk (talk) 11:59, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support with Different Logic British usually refers to the island (England, Wales, Scotland) and excludes Northern Ireland. However, the sub-categories here seems to use "British" to mean the culture and may be good candidates for renaming. If kept, much of the contents should be removed from the UK category and placed here to avoid WP:OVERLAPCAT. RevelationDirect (talk) 13:13, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Reverse merge to British architecture, per current standard in the category tree. Types of national architecture are a cultural product, not a physical concept attached to a specific country's borders (like buildings or rail infrastructure). An easy example of this is Category:British colonial architecture, which is clearly not a sub-type of architecture of the United Kingdom. Cultural concepts should be linked to the culture (British) not the main country of that culture (United Kingdom). SFB13:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Reverse merge "British" is commonly applied to people from the whole of the UK, theough Northern Ireland Republicans do noit accept it. Categories are frequently sight fuzzy in scope and often the better for it. British architecture can this conveniently encompass both architecture by British arcitects and architecure in UK. Attempts to defione categories too precisely often result in fragmentation inot categories too small toi be usefula s naviugation aids. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:17, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Populated places on Iceland's Route 1
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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NON-DEFINING. This article groups many very old towns based on whether they are along a road that was built in 1974. According the introduction of the main article, "Route 1 ... runs around the island and connects most of the inhabited parts of the country." If there was ever a description of a non-defining category, that is it.RevelationDirect (talk) 06:27, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- We have removed a lot of categories of this kind in the past. Being on a road is too like a performance (road) by a performer (place). Peterkingiron (talk) 19:19, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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