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July 1[edit]

Category:Indian clerics‎[edit]

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. (Based on recent results, it may be desirable in terms of consistency to now nominate Category:Indian clergy for merging to Category:Indian religious leaders.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:49, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge as the two categories have the same purpose. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:24, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've manually moved them, to get this issue out of the way. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:35, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
So what am I arguing? Clergy is Christian-specific and Cleric should be used as a more general category, rather than eliminating Clerics and putting all nonChristian religious leaders in a Clergy category. Liz Read! Talk! 15:21, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Religious figures from Varanasi‎[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:50, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge. Despite the fact that Varanasi is a Hindu holy city, it seems more like a triviality when a religious leader was born or lived in this city. No other Indian cities are categorized like this. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:27, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:British Honduran constitutes established in 1961[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename C2A. A dish of cold fish is on offer for the contributors at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 June 23 who omitted to support this. – Fayenatic London 07:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Renaming to reflect the name of the legislative body in 1961, as well as to fix a glaring typo uncorrected in the previous nomination. Oh No! It's Faustus37! it is what it is - speak at the tone 21:59, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support And I do apologize for the typo which it seems you caught if no one else did lol. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Speedy? as an obvious typo. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:20, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support the typo correction but I wonder if the longer category name is really necessary. Is there any risk of ambiguity here? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Categories for constituencies do normally specify the legislative body. – Fayenatic London 07:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Medical journals by publisher[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:11, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: overly specific and under-populated; we don't even have a Category:Science journals by publisher. Fgnievinski (talk) 20:38, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- It is not particualrly significant whether it comes from Maney, Wiley, Elsevier, etc. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:19, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- I added the category as the German Wikipedia adds the same level of category below Medical Journals, and it would be valuable for people looking for these journals. It needs further sub-categories by publisher. It is not a good use of your time to get rid of this category. Try having a look at M19 motorway instead. This is 100% rubbish, and has been around for almost two whole years. DinosaursLoveExistence (talk) 13:17, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Few publishers only publish medical journals. The majority of journals in the lone entry in the cat (Category:Nature Publishing Group academic journals) are not even medical journals and don't belong in this cat at all. Very few people would call NPG a "medical journal publisher". "Journals by publisher" and "journals by subject" are two independent category trees and there is no good reason to mingle them. What the German WP does is their business, the different language wikis are quite independent on how they do things. What the M19 is doing here escapes me completely. --Randykitty (talk) 19:29, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per WP:OVERCAT/WP:NARROWCAT. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:51, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete +1 Randykitty. By the way, the German Wikipedia doesn't use this kind of category in scientific journals.--Shisha-Tom (talk) 10:47, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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1800s establishments in Sri Lanka[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge/rename Ceylon categories to Sri Lanka, keep Category:1804 in the Kingdom of Kandy. — ξxplicit 07:22, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Option 1
Option 2
Nominator's rationale: Merge one way or the other. At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 June 11 it was agreed to use "Sri Lanka" before the colonial eras began in 1505, and "Ceylon" for the British colonial period 1815–1948 and the Dominion of Ceylon period 1948–72. That leaves a long period of intermittent and partial colonial interests, for which the naming has yet to be decided. Johnpacklambert (talk · contribs) strongly objected to the first line of option 1 as a Speedy nomination, on the grounds that "At that time the place would have been known as Ceylon or Zeylan. It was under the control of Europeans who were clearly using these names." However, that does not appear to apply to the Kingdom of Kandy in 1804, for which we have an article on an establishment. – Fayenatic London 10:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge all to Ceylon, except leave Category:1804 in the Kingdom of Kandy. Kandy was a distinct entity independent from Dutch rule and should be recognized as such in our categorization scheme.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:15, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Option 2 (except Kandy) -- The contemporary spelling was Ceylon. Kandy should probably be treated as a separate polity until 1815. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Option 2Option 1 except Kandy: I think we should keep Sri Lanka as the main category for each year and then treat the Kingdom of Kandy as a subcategory within that category. The Kingdom of Kandy did exist within Sri Lanka at that time and I think it's better to keep whatever happened within that kingdom during that time period separate rather than merge into the whole island. Basically, if things happened in the Kingdom of Kandy, keep it there as a subcat of Sri Lanka; if they happened in (British) Ceylon (this is for post-1815), keep it there as a subcat of Sri Lanka; if it's unclear or covers both or whatever, put it within Sri Lanka. We should probably break out and separate Kingdom of Kandy from the general Sri Lanka categories. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:07, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Corrected. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:35, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment purged Category:1803 disestablishments in Sri Lanka, see [[1]]. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:13, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Marcocapelle: Thanks for the link. You wrote "it was the end of a rebellion, not the end of a state" but it was also the end of the chieftancy, which is the subject of the article, so I think the category was valid. – Fayenatic London 06:59, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: There are a few periods we have to consider separately ...pre 1815: Pre colonial era*, 1815–1948: British Ceylon, 1948–72: Dominion of Ceylon. (*During the Portuguese and Dutch Ceylon periods most of Sri Lanka was still independent with these Europeans only occupying a small percentage of the country at the time. It was only during British Ceylon that Sri Lanka lost its independence. Therefore I suggest:
all pre 1815 years be named Sri Lanka, as per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 June 11.
1815–1948 years be named British Ceylon while keeping Sri Lanka as the main category, and
1948–72 years should be named Sri Lanka, but rather Ceylon. The Dominion of Ceylon and British Ceylon were two different entities, basically one is a colony and the other an independent state. The dominion and Sri Lanka are essentially the same while there is more of a difference between the Dominion and British Ceylon.--Blackknight12 (talk) 15:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Although expressed as a comment, this appears to be a !vote for option 1 in this CfD, as it is about the 1800s which were not covered by the June 11 CFDs. (The argument for using "British Ceylon" post-1815 was already rejected there.) – Fayenatic London 18:14, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We may just end up doing an RFC at Category talk:Establishments in Sri Lanka by year to clarify all this. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:37, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge all to Ceylon (option 2) - as Sri Lanka didn't exist at the time. We may however consider to retain Kandy separately per Peterkingiron.GreyShark (dibra) 09:57, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral in the choice between Ceylon and Sri Lanka but support suggestion of Fayenatic London to upmerge Category:1804 in the Kingdom of Kandy to its parents per WP:SMALLCAT and because no other similar categories exist. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:49, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Option 1 seems to jive best with the close of June 11, and I support it. If users don't want to change the Kingdom of Kandy one (or upmerge it), that's OK. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:41, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Prehistoric Czech lands[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:51, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename, corresponding to Category:History of the Czech lands. Although most of Category:Prehistoric Europe uses "Prehistoric Foo", a few others use "Prehistory of Foo", and it would sound better here. – Fayenatic London 09:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ok, an improvement, but really this whole useless "national prehistories" tree should be merged to "Archaeology of ...", which they aren't even linked to yet. Neanderthal is in the category for every country in Europe. Johnbod (talk) 18:21, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well I think a little investigation would dispose of that idea. We have an awful lot of archeological articles, but their editors are generally remarkably unready to integrate them by categories outside the archeological tree. Johnbod (talk) 17:32, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedians who contribute to the Hellenic Wikipedia[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 12:09, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In English, the language is called "Greek", not "Hellenic". עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:17, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Japanese Empire[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 18:18, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Establishments in the Empire of Japan[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 18:18, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That's different from everything else at Category:Overseas empires for what it's worth. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:41, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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