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Category:BCCMA

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: rename, without prejudice to a further nomination for deletion along with the subcats. – Fayenatic London 11:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Resolve acronym, match main article. Le Deluge (talk) 22:46, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Medieval Russian Orthodox church buildings

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: rename. – Fayenatic London 11:09, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT, it contains only one child category. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:31, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose There is enough content here if we upmerge the child Category:15th-century Russian Orthodox church buildings‎. Also, the exact century of construction is much less of a defining feature of historic Russian Orthodox church buildings than the grouping of such buildings in the wider period (Medieval) instead. This also solves the more arbitrary problem that a church built in 1499 will be linked to one built 1401, but not one built in 1501. I don't find yearly divisions on such narrow topic areas of much use at all. Historic period is a much better choice. SFB 19:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw merge proposal.
Instead propose rename Category:Medieval Russian Orthodox church buildings to Category:Medieval Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Russia, C2C to its new parent Category:Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Russia, since the Russian Orthodox Church didn't exist yet during the larger part of the Middle Ages. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:47, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support rename. There's far more logic in having a parent cat reflecting the name of the current nation-state it is located in at the end of the title, rather than attributing a contemporary nation-state's name to the style. This would also be true of various styles of architecture (religious or otherwise) where borders have changed dramatically and Empires the buildings were erected by have, themselves, disappeared (i.e., Ottoman Empire, Prussian, Roman, etc.). --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:43, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Xerography

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: Rename. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:43, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. It's clear that the creator (not me!) intended this cat to be about Xerox art rather than the original process of Xerography, although the former is sometimes called the latter. The new name would resolve this ambiguity as well as following the article name. Le Deluge (talk) 21:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Unclear nomination

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The result of the discussion was: null (malformed nomination). MER-C 07:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People associated with CERNBibliophilen (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 10:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Universities in Uganda

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: rename. – Fayenatic London 11:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. As below, to fit in with hierarchy of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Universities and colleges in Africa Le Deluge (talk) 12:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC) [edit:Looking at that hierarchy, it's a real mixture of just "universities" and "universities and colleges". I suspect that just reflects the fact that HE colleges have less coverage on Wikipedia and tend not to eg have categories of their own as parents for eg alumni, faculty etc. Plus there's the potential for confusion with the use of "college" at secondary level, although that's not widespread? Anyone fancy nominating other "university" only members of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Universities and colleges in Africa  ?? Le Deluge (talk) 12:06, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - no they are not "all universities", Law Development Centre‎ is a specialist law college, not a university. The likes of Uganda Management Institute and Kigumba Petroleum Institute are degree-awarding institutions that aren't universities. But they all get lumped into a Universities category because there isn't anywhere else. It's true that in most continents a Universities in X category is a subset of Universities & colleges in X, but we only have a ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Universities and colleges in Africa and not a ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Universities in Africa. If people want to change that then go ahead, this just seemed the easier option... Le Deluge (talk) 19:47, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename per nom. No one in opposition has explained why the non-universities in the category are so inherently different to not be allowed in the same category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename per nom. The universities and colleges tree is mixed. Some countries have their categories split, and others have a single category for both. I don't think it's really necessary to split into colleges and universities, though. They work just fine in the same category. kennethaw88 • talk 15:16, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Academics by university in Uganda

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 11:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Fits in with the rest of the hierachy of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:People by university or college in Uganda etc - and previously it was just universities, I've just added a specialist law college. Le Deluge (talk) 11:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 11:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename. In line with other members of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Private equity portfolio companies. Le Deluge (talk) 10:27, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Detroit Tech football players

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:Detroit Institute of Technology alumni and Category:College football players in the United States. MER-C 12:44, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT, the college is closed and the category only contains 1 article. The last time Detroit Tech fielded a football team was in 1951 and it doesn't seem to have been prominent then, so there's little chance for growth. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Notified Mickeykoz as the category creator and this discussion has been included in the Detroit Task Force. – RevelationDirect (talk) 01:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Although it's neither here nor there, they were apparently the "Detroit Tech Dynamics." See this snippet from The Blue Book of College Athletics, as well as this newspaper article for confirmation. Andrew Jameson (talk) 15:06, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I updated the DIT article.RevelationDirect (talk) 22:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ha! I actually didn't think of that - I just enjoyed the challenge :) Andrew Jameson (talk) 08:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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