Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 November 24



Royal Prussia

 * 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: no consensus on deletion, merge astronomers. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting Category:People from Royal Prussia
 * Propose merging Category:Astronomers from Royal Prussia to Category:Polish astronomers
 * Nominator's rationale: delete/merge as we do not categorize people by former country divisions. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment -- I think the problem is with the name Royal Prussia, rather than "Polish Prussia". I checked two of the articles: one was about a man who lived in Danzig, which was an Imperial free city; I am not sure that it was part of Polish Prussia (or for that matter Ducal Prussia).  I would thus suggest that the category needs to be purged before any merger.  However as Polish Prussia was part of the King of Poland's domain, I cannot oppose a merger.  If "People from ..." has any articles an appropriate merger should be considered rather than deletion.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:08, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree with Peterkingiron and purged the astronomers category. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:35, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep We categorize people by where they were from, and that means where they were from when they were from there, the Royal Prussia category is large enough to be kept.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:05, 5 December 2015 (UTC)


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Category:Afshar family

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) sst✈(discuss) 15:26, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting afshar family


 * Nominator's rationale: Misleading category. These are people who simply share the last name Afshar, not people from the same family. clpo13(talk) 15:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Alternative: split into Category:Afsharid dynasty and Category:Afshar people, purge the remainder. See articles Afsharid dynasty and Afshar people. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:14, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete -- I am not convinced that this category has any coherence other than that the people share a surname. Possibly listify in Afshar (surname), which is what we have allowed for English surnames.  It seems such an article already exists.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support nomination after I have recategorized a few articles from Category:Afshar family to Category:Afsharid dynasty. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:17, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * 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.