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June 27[edit]

Category:United States gardens[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: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Is there something like an American-style garden? If there is, this category might be better named Category:American gardens.
But then again, even if that style exists, there's no main article and no specific content at all, and one of the two subcategories, Category:American landscape and garden designers, is already contained in the other, Category:Gardens in the United States. PanchoS (talk) 08:43, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- The question is really one of how to categorise the other subcategory - American landscape and garden designers, which also lacks a main article in a way that links it to a US gardens category. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:22, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- Now that the other sub-cat (did not really belong here) has been removed, this is redundant to to gardens in US and should thus be deleted. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:33, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I think somebody misunderstood the purpose of Category:Types of garden by country of origin — "Japanese gardens" and "Dutch gardens" are types of gardens, which can exist in any country and are not limited to Japan or the Netherlands. But there's no comparable phenomenon of a "United States garden" as such, which means this is just an unnecessary duplication of Category:Gardens in the United States. Bearcat (talk) 17:51, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete category is misused apparently per Bearcat; I haven't heard of any garden being bodily moved across national borders, so presumably the "origin" of these gardens is the US (perhaps with exceptions of those gardens established under some non-US rule in territories subsequently annexed to the US). The "origin" of the style of the garden is another matter and I don't think that's what this was even attempting to assert. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:38, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.