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Emigrants from former countries

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The result of the discussion was: Rename these, but no consensus to consider this an overall precedent. No prejudice against a broader/group nom at editorial discretion. - jc37 01:39, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "From" is more applicable than "of" in the case of emigrants. This nomination will achieve consistency with others where there is not a single-word demonym, namely Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire‎ and its sub-cats (just renamed per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_December_3#Russian_Empire_people), & Category:Emigrants from Nazi Germany and its sub-cats. – Fayenatic London 22:47, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Holy Roman Empire was disestablished in 1806. I do not agree with renaming to German though, because the HRE also contained half of Italy, Austria, the Southern Netherlands and Bohemia. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:58, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Schools in Sri Lanka

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only an eponymous article and one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Heritage registers in Sint Maarten

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:57, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: there is only one heritage register in Sint Maarten with content on Wikipedia, and it does not seem appropriate to have 2 different categories about it. All other categories are empty parents with no other content, forming a long string of unnecessary categories. Place Clichy (talk) 16:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Kidnapped Roman children

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I have put the two articles in Category:Kidnapped children and Category:Roman victims of crime. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:15, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't see the use for these categories. The first contains only two people, one of whom didn't die as a child (he may have been kidnapped while as a child), and there is simply very little information on the other. As for the other category, not only is it basically empty (but for the equally questionable subcategory of kidnapped children), but 'children' could technically encompass every single person that has ever existed, and, in any event, very few children will meet notability standards. I suggest the two "children" contained in these categories be moved to Category:Kidnapped Roman people, seeing that it's otherwise empty too. Avilich (talk) 15:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question: in Roman times, where slavery was ubiquitous, it is not unheard of to have children captured and offered or sold as slaves. Bissula and Musa of Parthia are examples. Would this be considered for potential for this category, or is it too anachronistic to establish a parallel between these situations? Place Clichy (talk) 06:53, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Bissula (a German, not a Roman) seems just like a normal spoil of war, whereas Musa of Parthia is not said in her article to have been kidnapped specifically. I don't think either fits into this particular category. I'm fine with either deleting the two nominated categories or upmerging them with Category:Kidnapped Roman people. Avilich (talk) 15:40, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote they were examples. I'm interested to know if according to you this situation (of children captured at a young age and sold into slavery) meets the category definition. Also Bissula, by her slavery and subsequent release, was indeed a Roman. We don't, and probably shouldn't, have Category:Kidnapped Alaman children, although as do have Category:Kidnapped German children. Place Clichy (talk) 00:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If it can be demonstrated that they were Romans and children at the time of their kidnapping, then it fits the definition. I just don't think childhood alone is a particularly good qualifier (the kidnapping is what really matters here), especially in this case, since we just have very few, if any, examples to work with. Avilich (talk) 12:39, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Antonia was aunt of Mark Antony when he was a proconsul, so a kidnapped person (but not child). The other person was a kidnapped child, but only in the sense he was taken somewhere against his will to see his father's body: no reference to ransom. Man-stealing (e.g. for enslavement) did occur, but this is not what the category is about. The one article should have a substitute category and be deleted. Its Deletion will leave Roman Children empty so it can also be deleted. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:16, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The 'proconsul' in question was Marcus Antonius (orator), Antony's grandfather. So she was probably a child. Avilich (talk) 19:14, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mayors of former municipalities in the Netherlands

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:54, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, anachronistic categories, while these people were mayor etc of that municipality, the municipality was not a former municipality yet. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:44, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just for info, in most cases it concerns villages or small towns that were later incorporated in larger rural municipalities (so not exactly cities). But in principle you are right of course. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:49, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Manually disperse content, and delete when empty -- The practice for alumni categories is that an alumnus of a merged institution is deemed to have attended the successor, though this does produce slightly bizarre results: in one case I saw, a person had apparently attended a college long before it existed, because he was a student at a preceding hall. This concerns village mayors, etc of places absorbed into another place. He should accordingly be categorised as if mayor of the successor. This scope can be expressed in a head note. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:04, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Categorised as if mayor of the successor would be entirely wrong in this case. It is not a matter of attendence but of heading. The mayor of one village never headed the neighbouring villages that were later merged into a new municipality. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Urdu journalists

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:52, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge the Pakistani and Indian category, no need to split journalists by country and language, especially since both are not very well populated. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Country subdivisions by administrative level

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The result of the discussion was: delete Category:Sixth-level administrative country subdivisions; no consensus to delete the rest. As long as they are being kept, rename those remaining to Category:Administrative divisions by level and country, Category:First-level administrative divisions by country, Category:Second-level administrative divisions by country, Category:Third-level administrative divisions by country, Category:Fourth-level administrative divisions by country, and Category:Fifth-level administrative divisions by country. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:24, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No need for this amount of navigational detail, as "levels" don't really translate well from country to country, or province to state to territory. Many false equivalencies.
Each level has long head notes about how to categorize, but they have not been followed rigorously (or at all). By the 5th and 6th levels, they are mostly France, yet communities and communes are equivalent to other "levels" in other countries.
As with continents, most are duplicated in both the level and the subcategories of the level, as well as the "by country" tree under this same parent. WP:OC category clutter.
WP:CSD#G5 Creation of banned User:TurkChan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) sockpuppet of Tobias Conradi.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 08:01, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose 1st-5th, support 6th, the latter only contains French content hence it does not aid navigation. In general I can't see what is wrong with these categories, they share a common and defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • As stated in the nomination, arbitrary numbering isn't a useful navigation. The top "level" of Micronesia is not the equivalent of the top "level" of Russia or China or the US. Of courrse, both the US and Canada have wrong levels. The "first level" administrative division in the US is commonly the "County".
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The US and Canada do not have wrong levels per se, the category structure apparently assumes that political divisions and administrative divisions are overlapping, which is worth a separate discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose because these are not named consistently, and in some cases we are rough translations, it's difficult to know what comes where: In Peru, districts are third order; in Portugal, districts are first order; in Turkey districts are second order - not all "districts" are created equal. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree with Carlos on the naming issue. Turning it around: in Spain they are called Regions, in Germany they are called States, but despite the different names they have the same functionality of first level country divisions. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:30, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • restructure -- As I understand it in France the basic structure is department and commune, the department being a portion of an ancien regime province and a regional strucutre may have been imposed in modern times. In England, we have counties, districts and parishes, but in some parts there are unitrary authorities which cover county and district. I would support renaming than restructuring. The difficulty is with the counting of levels. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose 1st-5th, support 6th. As we are in the process of renaming country subdivisions categories to administrative division, I would suggest a renaming to Category:Administrative divisions by level and country, Category:First-level administrative divisions by country etc. It is clearly defining for these visions to be 1st-, 2nd- or 3rd-level, both in federal and unitary countries. These categories have proved useful for navigation of comparable entities with very different names, and a number of categories organized by (first)-level administrative division should also be kept. Numbering for the 4th level and below is probably a matter of opinion or OR though. About France, as a Frenchman, the administrative levels are (at least since 1982): 1. Regions 2. Departments 3. Arrondissements 4. Cantons and 5. Communes. Other administrative structures (such as metropoles and communes groupings) have been created but they are intermediate levels with some administrative powers transferred or delegated from the other levels, not levels in their own right. Also, arrondissements and cantons have pretty much lost all administrative powers, cantons being an electoral constituency only, so that some would not list them as administrative level in their own right. Place Clichy (talk) 11:18, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Country subdivisions by continent

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Vaticidalprophet (talk) 08:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Continents are divided by countries (political divisions), not by lower level municipalities and neighborhoods (administrative divisions).
Most are duplicated in the continent category itself, and also a subcategory per country per continent, and again in the "by country" tree under this same parent. WP:OC category clutter.
WP:CSD#G5 Creation of banned User:TrueColour (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) sockpuppet of Tobias Conradi. Possibly an effort to make it difficult to rename or reorganize.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 07:26, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mergers of country subdivisions

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:51, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2D main article, and WP:C2C parent Category:Administrative divisions
William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:30, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Russian SFSR

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The result of the discussion was: rename. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:38, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Normally, we don't use country abbreviations in categories. Do we want to use the full name in these cases? The category names would be quite long. These are the only three subcategories of Category:Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that use the abbreviation. Some existing categories have names that are equally long as those proposed here, such as Category:Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Category:Prisoners and detainees of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 14:40, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:History of European art music

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:History of classical music. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Stumbled across this will cleaning up Category:Classical music, it seems largely unhelpful. No real defining features and a seemingly random choice of articles. All of the articles here already have plenty of appropriate categories. Aza24 (talk) 05:29, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Art Nouveau architecture by city

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Some users indicated that they would keep those that contained five or more articles. At the time of this close, none of the categories had more than three articles in them. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:28, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merging:
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, just one, two or three articles in each of these categories and they are not part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme. This is follow-up on this earlier discussion, @Paul 012: pinging contributor to the previous discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:52, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll be happy to withdraw categories from this list if you can decently populate them. That is, it would be helpful to populate them (if possible) even regardless of this nomination because it serves nobody's interest to have half-populated categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:55, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Although I would obviously love to, I am not required to "decently populate" 40-odd categories simply because you have nominated them. It is entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand. With respect, have you actually read the criteria for deletion at WP:SMALLCAT? "Note also that this criterion does not preclude all small categories; a category which does have realistic potential for growth, such as a category for holders of a notable political office, may be kept even if only a small number of its articles actually exist at the present time." The French version of Category:Art Nouveau architecture in Antwerp, I note, is populated by 36 separate articles on individual buildings and a sub-category of eight Antwerp-based Art Nouveau architects!
I actively disagree that "it serves nobody's interest to have half-populated categories" which seems contrary to the Wikipedia's whole project which is, by definition, gradual and incrimental. There was doubtless a time when Category:Presidents of the United States was only half-populated. In my opinion, this nomination should be withdrawn and re-submitted in smaller groups to enable each to be considered on its own merits. It is possible that some indeed fall foul of WP:SMALLCAT. —Brigade Piron (talk) 11:40, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The mention of the 36 separate articles on individual buildings and a sub-category of eight local architects in Antwerp was lost on you, then? The position may well be similar for some of the other cities you have nominated. WP:SMALLCAT is about potential for the category to be populated, not whether it will imminently be so. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:23, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete any with fewer than five articles (with no prejudice against re-creation should there be more articles found/created), Keep the rest. Please note that if deleted, articles should be double Upmerge (also into Category:Buildings and structures in ''Foo''. I agree with Brigade Piron that this is a potentially useful tree, mirroring similar ones for the likes of Art Deco, but also echo Marcocapelle's suggestion of "to keep them, populate them". Grutness...wha? 03:56, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Dimadick, it may be true that some of these cities have only a couple of notable buildings but there are far too many currently at issue to reach that conclusion for all. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:23, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all. Part of an established category tree. As long as each has at least two articles I don't see the problem. WP:SMALLCAT certainly doesn't say we shouldn't create cats if the contents can be expanded, as almost all of these can. Since a large percentage of Art Nouveau buildings are heritage-listed, they meet the criteria of WP:GEOFEAT so articles could be created. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:47, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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OMX

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The result of the discussion was: rename Category:OMX to Category:Nasdaq Nordic and Category:Companies listed on the OMX exchanges to Category:Companies listed on Nasdaq Nordic. However, since the consensus for this was not particularly strong, this close is without prejudice to a follow-up nomination of the newly named categories. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to the category:Nasdaq, Inc., which originally was named category:NASDAQ OMX Group. The name is OMX is not in use any more and the group structure has been modified and does not include the corresponding structure. Also all relevant articles including the name OMX have been renamed. It will simplify the categories tree and assist our readers. As an alternative, also merge category:NASDAQ with those two categories. In that case, the name of trilateral merger should be category:Nasdaq. Beagel (talk) 19:47, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose this merge/rename; they should be renamed to Category:Nasdaq Nordic/Category:Companies listed on Nasdaq Nordic instead; Nasdaq Nordic is a brand still used by Nasdaq for which we have an article. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:26, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
We could use Nasdaq Nordic, of course, instead of the proposal above, but I am afraid it complicates the structure. As for the Nasdaq Nordic article, that article was recently redirected to Nasdaq, Inc. and this redirect was reverted just few days ago, so it is not so well established. Beagel (talk) 07:42, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose -- The main Nasdaq exchange is an American one. I am not sure that shares quoted on Nasdaq Tallin or Nasdaq Iceland are necessarily quoted on Nasdaq in New York, even if it may be possible to trade them there. For a company to be quoted requires it to comply with a variety of regulations, which are not the same between countries. There are certainly very considerable differences between American and European regulations. A Nasdaq Nordic target would be viable, but I am not sure that these are one exchange (as opposed to eight). Peterkingiron (talk) 15:35, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. NASDAQ is the largest stock exchanges owned by Nasdaq, Inc. (former name: NASDAQ OMX Group), which was created by merger of NASDAQ and OMX owner companies. Since then, the Nasdaq, Inc. structure has modified and the name OMX is not in use any more. In this context, it is irrelevant which companies are listed on Nasdaq in New York and which companies are listed on Nasdaq Tallinn. These are different stock exchanges, but they belong to the same group, which parent is Nasdaq, Inc. Beagel (talk) 13:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not moved and the new category is not identical to Category:Companies listed on the OMX exchanges but it is broader. I knew and fully agree that it is not allowed to empty categories during open discussion but it was actually done after the close of this discussion and before the close was reverted. It was a good faith attempt to bring the structure of Nasdaq exchanges' categories more up to date. I will restore Category:Companies listed on the OMX exchanges for those subcategories; however, the created Category:Companies listed on Nasdaq exchanges is needed even in the case Category:Companies listed on the OMX exchanges will be renamed Category:Companies listed on Nasdaq Nordic exchanges. Beagel (talk) 08:38, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: It had been closed Keep, now has been reopened.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:43, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:31, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Work and Production

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:48, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:SMALLCAT)
The Order of Work and Production is an Iranian award for supporting industrial production. This award might be defining to the winners but all but one are redlinks who are likely non-notable. (The one exception is Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar who received the award for missile construction as the Defence Minister of Iran and is already well categorized under Category:Defence ministers of Iran.) We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The recipient(s) are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Heroes of Labour (GDR)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Hero of Labour (GDR) is an East German award usually given for for economic output, like with this list of recipients from a watch factory. Despite the Communist era effort to elevate the status of workers, the vast majority of the 3,688 total recipients are non-notable and won't ever have a Wikipedia article, the only exception being Ernst Wulf. The other 12 articles in this category are all very high ranking national officials and all 12 are already under Category:Members of the Volkskammer (the GDR Parliament) and mention this award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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