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Category:Baton Rouge mayoral elections

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) 05:53, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category's one entry is a redirect. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 23:18, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:GJ 1214

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I'm nominating this per WP:SMALLCAT: it contains only two articles with no (current) possibility for expansion. Praemonitus (talk) 21:49, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Albums produced by Cardiak

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 September 24#Category:Albums produced by Cardiak

Category:Boats designed by E.N. Maryanov

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) 06:04, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unlikely to ever have more than one entry; subject does not have an article. —swpbT 18:04, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've no objectionRathfelder (talk) 11:40, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Biota of Turkestan

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Biota of Central Asia and merge to ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Central Asia (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Biota and flora of a non-existent country, which overlaps existing countries for which "biota" and "flora" categories exist —swpbT 18:00, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have combined two related noms. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:47, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Ohloh templates

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The result of the discussion was: upmerged. (non-admin closure) SSTflyer 15:44, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only two entries, unlikely to be more. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:10, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fruits by colour

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:22, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Apart from the difficulty of deciding what colour fruit is (Banana was placed in the yellow fruits category, but only some kinds of banana are yellow, others are red or green, even when ripe; what colour are plums or apples?), are we to have a category for every colour of fruit and every combination of colours? These seem pointless categories to me. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:13, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American military personnel by state

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The result of the discussion was: rename to option B. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:12, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Option A:
Category:Military personnel from Connecticut to Category:American military personnel from Connecticut
Category:Military personnel from New York to Category:American military personnel from New York
Category:Military personnel from New York City to Category:American military personnel from New York City
Category:Military personnel from Oregon to Category:American military personnel from Oregon
Category:Military personnel from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Category:American military personnel from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Category:California military personnel to Category:American military personnel from California
Category:Montana military personnel to Category:American military personnel from Montana
Category:United States military veterans from Indiana to Category:American military personnel from Indiana
Propose renaming Option B:
Category:American military personnel from Maryland‎ to Category:Military personnel from Maryland
Category:American military personnel from Michigan‎ to Category:Military personnel from Michigan
Category:American military personnel from Minnesota‎ to Category:Military personnel from Minnesota
Category:American military personnel from West Virginia‎ to Category:Military personnel from West Virginia
Category:American military personnel from Wisconsin‎ to Category:Military personnel from Wisconsin
Category:California military personnel to Category:Military personnel from California
Category:Montana military personnel to Category:Military personnel from Montana
Category:United States military veterans from Indiana to Category:Military personnel from Indiana
Nominator's rationale: This is a renomination of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 July 25#Category:American military personnel by state. That discussion got a fair amount of opposition, so I figured it'd be best to reformat to give an "Option A" and "B" so we can achieve consistency one way or the other. "Option A" would rename most so that all categories include American. "Option B" would rename most to not include American. I think I'm leaning towards Option B since it's more concise and American is unnecessary in this context. If someone is from a certain state, it would already imply they're American. -- Tavix (talk) 15:52, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mayors of Sulphur, Louisiana

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The result of the discussion was: dual upmerge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:26, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only has one entry. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge, both to Category:People from Sulphur, Louisiana and to Category:Mayors of places in Louisiana. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:40, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Los Angeles Police Department police officers

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:29, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Fictional American police officers categories; x2 police is redundant. --Omanyd (talk) 07:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Blade (comics) television series

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; upmerge contents. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There has been only one actual Blade tv series. JDDJS (talk) 23:41, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:São Paulo (city)

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 top category and Sport sub-category. Some of those opting for "keep" relied on precedents rather than the merits of the case, but the force of such precedents is reduced following a recent shift in consensus to remove state names where city names were a clear primary topic, e.g. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_September_6#Major_US_cities, some of which had previously been justified on grounds of ambiguity (as well as consistency within US placenames).
Procedural note: the other sub-categories have not been tagged, so these should now be tagged and listed for speedy renaming. – Fayenatic London 13:01, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NCCAT, the article titled "São Paulo" is about the city, so the categories about the city should have the same name. Prisencolin (talk) 02:03, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Then these should be renamed too. WP:NCCAT applies to all types of categories.--Prisencolin (talk) 18:09, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Primary topic does not carry the same importance in categories as it does in articles. The function of categories is to assist navigation. A greater degree of precision and disambiguation is therefore necessary. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:26, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • A reader going to the wrong page wastes time and adding the category wastes time. Each incident of the wrong category would waste more time but many more readers would make that mistake. I don't think we should care about clarity when it comes to editors and throw our readers to the wind with vague article titles. RevelationDirect (talk) 23:13, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The Birmingham article is ambiguously named.RevelationDirect (talk) 09:29, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename. Follow the article name. There's not a very good reason that categories should not adhere to the primary topic convention. I've heard a number of attempts to justify a distinction over the years, but at the end of the day, I have found that far more confusion results from category names differing from corresponding article names than results from category names that are not 100% unambiguous. Achieving 100% unambiguity is impossible. Achieving conformity between article names and category names is easy. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:29, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • In my view, the confusion arises from a lack of discipline and rigour in the naming of the articles, not in the naming of the categories. If the same logic and rigour was applied to articles, there would be no problem. The root cause of this indiscipline is the over-reliance on WP:Primary and the unwarrented importance attached to WP:Common. They whould be relegated to a few steps lower in the hierarchy IMHO. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:11, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, having uniformity throughout the project is a good thing. It's not a good thing (in the sense of it being confusing for readers) to have little sections of Wikipedia, such as categories, applying different naming standards than articles follow. Users should attempt to change the general naming approach Wikipedia uses if they feel article names are going in the wrong direction. It's entirely the wrong approach to maintain categories as its own bailiwick of what certain users regard as more appropriate naming. (Gad, I'm starting to sound like Alansohn circa 2012.) But just for once, I'd like to see users do something for the good of the project that happens to go against their personal preference. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:56, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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