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Category:Syrian cycling biography stubs

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. A good illustration of why it's usually best to just let the process play out rather than trying to rush things. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:01, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting syrian cycling biography stubs


 * Nominator's rationale: Four articles in the permanent category. This is no reason for a stub category yet.  Delete category and upmerge template. Dawynn (talk) 23:50, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Speedy as the cat is empty.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 06:54, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Um -- yeah. Only becuase the template was moved out of process by  Lugnuts , thus prematurely emptying the category. Dawynn (talk) 00:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * So? Is that a bad thing? Just get on with it and delete it.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 06:42, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. Regardless of the merits of the category, Lugnuts's edits had the effect of removing the cyclists from Category:Syrian sportspeople stubs. The merits of out-of-process bold edits fade a bit when they are incomplete, as this was. Now fixed. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:41, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh no! The fabric of WP is crumbling before our eyes. Next.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:50, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not a huge prob, Lugnuts. But still, don't break things, even small things. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:01, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You make it sound as if I did that on purpose. Maybe you should ping the stub-sorting clique to attack someone for making the category out of process in the first place, ffs.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:44, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No,, I am not at all suggesting that you did that on purpose. I'm just trying to point out that when you break something accidentally and somebody else fixes it for you, the collegial response is "thanks", rather than i-dont-care sarcasm. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll stick with the sarcasm over your pettifoggery.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 07:19, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for cleaning up, . Ibadibam (talk) 21:28, 15 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment – Four members might be a bit small for a stub category, but it looks like it would be worth taking a closer look at other templates that use Category:Asian cycling biography stubs to consider creating corresponding subcategories. Kazakhstan-cycling-bio-stub includes over 40 pages, and yet there's no category for it. Ibadibam (talk) 21:28, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * When it hits 60, let me know.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 09:15, 16 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Upmerge to an Asian or Middle Eastern category and a Syrian Sportspeople category. Plain deletion would mean that they ceased to be in any stub category, which is plainly wrong.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:45, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia articles with Culture.si counterparts

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:54, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedia articles with culture.si counterparts


 * Nominator's rationale: Categorizing pages by whether they have a counterpart in another encyclopedia etc could lead to a lot of categories on some pages - especially if, as is currently the case here, Culture.si is a redlink. Note: This category has no proper parent categories. DexDor(talk) 22:45, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia Integration (Reviewed)

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:03, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedia integration (reviewed)


 * Nominator's rationale: This category has been marked "The Integration Project is no longer active. This category is not active." since 2010. DexDor(talk) 22:25, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Singing competition television shows

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:05, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming:
 * Category:Singing competition television shows to Category:Singing talent shows
 * Category:Reality singing competition contestants to Category:Singing talent show contestants
 * Category:Reality singing competition winners to Category:Singing talent show winners
 * Nominator's rationale: Per brevity, consistence with, consistence between shows and contestant/winners categories, and disambiguation from televised . --PanchoS (talk) 20:43, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support all. I think "singing talent show" sounds better than "reality singing competition". The "reality" aspect is generally that the public get to vote, but not always, however, they are still considered part of the reality TV genre, but would still be subcategories of Category:Reality television somewhere along the line, so that wouldn't be lost. The loss of the word "television" does not matter as all talent show articles are eventually categorised as reality television shows. The current categories that the above categories are in would still all apply following the proposed rename. So I think the proposed names work and I've thought these categories needed renaming for a while. anemone  projectors  15:41, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support all. More generic and general. Redirects might be wise for those who type in "Reality" as the first word in a category search. Jason from nyc (talk) 15:49, 20 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:953 sculptures

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:23, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting 953 sculptures


 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Move single item to Category:10th-century sculptures. It's the only subcategory of 10th-century sculptures and the other categories from 9th-14th don't have subcategories. It's also the only category of Category:953 works which would likely be C1 deleted soon enough but this would appear through the 10th-century in Category:10th-century works. Sculptures doesn't seem to use a decades subcategory structure. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:25, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:52, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Upmerge to all parents. We are never going to get much population for this.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:48, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Zaire stubs

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo stubs. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:57, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting zaire stubs


 * Nominator's rationale: I tried to populate this with all the stubs I could for this former country. Came up with only a dozen.  Propose deleting category, and upmerging template to . Dawynn (talk) 18:15, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment. Shouldn't they just be moved to Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo stubs? It's the same country, only the name changed. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:32, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support GO's suggestion of upmerging to the DRC cat. Grutness...wha?  00:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge per GO. Same country, new name. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:43, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge to DRC stubs per Good Ol’factory. Obvious, as it is the same place.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:49, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Uzbekistani football forward, 1960s births stubs

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename template and merge category per revised propsal below. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:17, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Uzbekistani football forward, 1960s births stubs to Category:Uzbekistani football forward stubs
 * Nominator's rationale: Very premature category. Currently,  is a very modestly-sized category with no need for subdivisions.  That being said, if we insist on subdivisions, we need to take it one step at a time.  Rename this category to cover all Uzbekistani football forwards.  The template may be kept as an upmerged template, but also build a new Uzbekistan-footy-forward-stub for the renamed category. Dawynn (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support, Possibly -- 60 items is the normal minimum for stub categories, I think. Better, Merge to , which is not so big as to need splitting.  I would be inclined also to merge the backs category back there too.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:53, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Revision -- I can support that for the forwards. Because of the small-ish size of the parent, and likely inability to fill a forward category at this time, revise my proposal to deleting, renaming the template Uzbekistan-footy-forward-1960s-stub to Uzbekistan-footy-forward-stub, and upmerging the template to . Dawynn (talk) 16:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Terrorism by year

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. The suggestion of User:Ricky81682 may be worth discussing in a fresh nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Terrorism by year to Category:Terrorism by decade
 * Propose refactoring:
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2000 to Category:2000 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2000 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2000
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2001 to Category:2001 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2001 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2001
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2002 to Category:2002 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2002 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2002
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2003 to Category:2003 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2003 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2003
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2004 to Category:2004 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2004 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2004
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2005 to Category:2005 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2005 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2005
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2006 to Category:2006 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2006 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2006
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2007 to Category:2007 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2007 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2007
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2008 to Category:2008 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2008 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2008
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2009 to Category:2009 violence; combining to Category:2000s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2009 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2009
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2010 to Category:2010 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2010 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2010
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2011 to Category:2011 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2011 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2011
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2012 to Category:2012 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2012 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2012
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2013 to Category:2013 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2013 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2013
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2014 to Category:2014 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2014 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2014
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2015 to Category:2015 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2015 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2015
 * renaming Category:Terrorism in 2016 to Category:2016 violence; combining to Category:2010s terrorism; additionally merging to Category:2016 in crime & Category:Conflicts in 2016
 * Nominator's rationale: Too fine-grained, these categories don't contain much more than the actual incidents, and this is unlikely to change. However, there is use for per-year categories in both violence and crime that may hold articles about all kinds of violence (considered a crime or not), resp. about more general aspects than the individual crimes by year categories should contain. --PanchoS (talk) 12:12, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support seems reasonable suggestion. Tim! (talk) 18:36, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose These are all valid categories and in scope of WikiProject Terrorism. We do not have a WikiProject about violence and Category:Violence is the parent of anything from domestic violence to riots. It is way too generic. The crime categories are in the form of Category:2016 crimes, Category:2015 crimes, not ":in crime", and they already have terrorist incidents as subcategories. They are also in scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, which has an entirely different focus. As for the category tree on Conflicts, it mainly covers wars, battles, and military conflicts. It is in scope of WikiProject Military history, which typically does not cover terrorist incidents. Dimadick (talk) 20:09, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The scopes of particular WikiProjects don't dictate our categorization decisions. It works the other way around: WikiProjects may or may not track whatever they consider falling into their scope. But we're the ones who are defining categories' scopes based on both policies and common sense. Policy is that these are WP:SMALLCATs. Common sense is that terrorism is a crime, that it is by definition violent, and that it is part of political, ethnic and/or religious conflicts. Regarding your objection to the ":in crime" categories, this is explained in my rationale. Sometimes, reading rationales helps understanding the nominator's intent. --PanchoS (talk) 00:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose terrorism is a subset of violence, as Dimadick explains. Calling all violence terrorism is academically unsound as some "violence" is legally justified by international norms (not just by the violent actor's norms), including such things as self-defense. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:29, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please take another look at the proposal. Of course I'm not suggesting that all violence was terrorism. I'm proposing to expand the scope of a WP:NARROWCAT based on the fact that – the other way around – all terrorism is violence. --PanchoS (talk) 00:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose - terrorism has its own wikiproject, it is recognised as a phenomenon as such, to subsume into other categories seems to be removing an identified phenomenon which is recognisable, into a nebulous area. The mixing up with violence and crime is confusing.  It is sufficient as it stands and is comprehendable, the change would create significant loss of an identifiable subject. JarrahTree 00:09, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Did you even bother to look into the categories? Apart from the subcategories which are not renamed, these 17 categories contain a total of exactly four articles, and have been existing for just half a year, so the "loss" is not so significant. --PanchoS (talk) 00:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I tagged them for the project, I am less interested in volume and smallcat point - regardless of what the arguments might be I do think that even 1 event populated items can be of use over time, to reduce/change to conflict and violence I do not agree JarrahTree 01:06, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose I think a better proposal would be to ask why even have a terrorist incidents category and just upmerge straight from that to the terrorism category. Is there a reason to distinguish "non-incidents" within terrorism? I guess it could be "terrorism legislation" or "prevent terrorism campaigns" or something that belongs there I guess. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:23, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- Modern terrorism is an aspect of war by unconventional means, often by insurgent groups. They may not be easy to define, but most of us know a terrorist incident when we see one.  WE should not mix this with burglary, other murders, etc where there is no political motive.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:57, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Golfers from Sydney

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Sportspeople from Sydney and to Category:Australian golfers. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:08, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:Golfers from Sydney to Category:Sportspeople from Sydney
 * Nominator's rationale: Also upmerge to Australian golfers

Per multiple CFDs, here, here, here, here here, here, and here just being six examples, we don't subcategorize sportspeople from Foo town/city by the type of athletes they are. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:26, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support Over-categorisation. Category:Golfers from Leeds can go too. Nigej (talk) 08:54, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Disaster preparedness by country

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to reflect the main article name "Emergency management". -- Tavix ( talk ) 15:54, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming:
 * Category:Disaster preparedness by country to Category:Emergency management by country
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Albania to Category:Emergency management in Albania
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Australia to Category:Emergency management in Australia
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Belize to Category:Emergency management in Belize


 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Canada to Category:Emergency management in Canada
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in China to Category:Emergency management in China
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in France to Category:Emergency management in France
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Germany to Category:Emergency management in Germany
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Gibraltar to Category:Emergency management in Gibraltar
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Greece to Category:Emergency management in Greece
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Hong Kong to Category:Emergency management in Hong Kong
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in India to Category:Emergency management in India
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Indonesia to Category:Emergency management in Indonesia
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Israel to Category:Emergency management in Israel
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Japan to Category:Emergency management in Japan
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Kenya to Category:Emergency management in Kenya
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in the Netherlands to Category:Emergency management in the Netherlands
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in New Zealand to Category:Emergency management in New Zealand
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Nigeria to Category:Emergency management in Nigeria
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Norway to Category:Emergency management in Norway
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Pakistan to Category:Emergency management in Pakistan
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Poland to Category:Emergency management in Poland
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Puerto Rico to Category:Emergency management in Puerto Rico
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Romania to Category:Emergency management in Romania
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Russia to Category:Emergency management in Russia
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Saint Lucia to Category:Emergency management in Saint Lucia
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Singapore to Category:Emergency management in Singapore
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Somalia to Category:Emergency management in Somalia
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Spain to Category:Emergency management in Spain
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Sweden to Category:Emergency management in Sweden
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Switzerland to Category:Emergency management in Switzerland
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in the United Arab Emirates‎ to Category:Emergency management in the United Arab Emirates‎
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in the United Kingdom to Category:Emergency management in the United Kingdom
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Venezuela to Category:Emergency management in Venezuela


 * Category:Disaster preparedness in the United States by state to Category:Emergency management in the United States by state
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in California to Category:Emergency management in California
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in Missouri to Category:Emergency management in Missouri
 * Propose manually splitting:
 * Category:Disaster preparedness in the United States to Category:Emergency management in the United States

Now while the main, as well as the US category and to a lesser degree the UK category hold quite some specific content, most other per-country categories hold content that refers to emergency management in a broader sense (including smaller-scale emergencies and emergency/disaster response. If there's enough specific content on disaster preparedness, these subcategories may of course be re-created, but until then, we should rather have a robust set of categories that properly covers all aspects of . --PanchoS (talk) 10:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Nominator's rationale: Disaster preparedness is just one aspect of emergency management that happens not even to have its own main article, see the hatnote in.


 * Prefer "Emergency planning", which is a term that is used in UK. However, some of the categories have no legitimate content: the fire services in Indonesia and coastguard in Belize are organisations that would be involved in the response to emergencies (with others), but are (probably) not the main organisation responsible for disaster planning.  These cases should be deleted.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:04, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Emergency planning is not an WP:ENGVAR synonym, but a subtopic of Emergency management. --PanchoS (talk) 22:50, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support the use of "emergency management" term in general, per main article. I don't know whether or not "emergency planning" is a case of ENGVAR. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Expatriates in Egypt by nationality

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There is a clear consensus to merge, but the nominator's proposal says "delete". There seems to be a rash of such mislabelled CFD nominations recently, and they mislead editors. Please, and other editors, take a few seconds to ensure that the headline of the nomination says what you actually intend. Merger and deletion have very different effects. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:58, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Expatriates in Egypt.


 * Propose deleting expatriates in egypt by nationality


 * Nominator's rationale: Redundant to Category:Expatriates in Egypt which serves the same purpose. I propose merging into the latter.  Mar4d  ( talk ) 10:10, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. The expatriates category tree could be set up this way, but generally the expatriates categories for various countries are not. There's no reason why Category:Expatriates in Egypt can't hold all of those that are by nationality, and it works fine for the other trees. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:36, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom – Category:Expatriates in Egypt has few subcats other than the 'by nationality' ones; see eg the larger Category:Expatriates in the United Kingdom which manages without a 'by nationality' scheme. Oculi (talk) 00:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * merge per nom. An unnecessary category level.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:05, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. An unnedded level of container category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:10, 25 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Indian Buddy films

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep, without prejudice to a discussion of the broader  tree. But rename to Category:Indian buddy films to fix capitalization. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:45, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting indian buddy films


 * Nominator's rationale: Not sure what is the reason for this particular category. The films listed under this category has story related to friends but creating a category would be too much. - Vivvt ( Talk ) 06:36, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * remove deletion tag what is your User talk:Vivvt problem with Indian buddy films category? are you jealous you couldnt create the category, but I created because credit goes to me? there are categories for Indian war films, Indian romance films, Indian musical films, Indian drama films, Indian road movies etc, whats wrong with Indian buddy films, what is too much in this. I am spending my time, and internet expenditure to create a category, and who are you to challenge my creative freedom. Please explain.Buddyfilms (talk) 10:57, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as a valid child category of Category:Buddy films. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:50, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment if kept, it should be at Category:Indian buddy films, as the current title has incorrect caps.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:58, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - Jealous?, you may wish to look up that word as it is not applicable here. Anyone can create a category--it doesn't make you a big success to be envious of. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:47, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Valid subcategory of Category:Buddy films.Dimadick (talk) 19:51, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete "buddy films" is not well defined, the list of films at buddy film has only one sourced entry and seems to be entirely WP:OR. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm open to that argument, it implies that the parent Category:Buddy films should be nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Significant films in the genre of buddy films produced in India, within the Indian context. Western buddy films are culturally different from Indian Buddy films.Buddyfilms (talk) 07:15, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep, though I find Buddyfilms' comment to be somewhat in bad faith, it's a legitimate category of a legitimate genre (though, the main article needs work). Though, it should be renamed per Lugnuts. ~Cheers, Ten  Ton  Parasol  20:05, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Abia State government stubs

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Abia State government stubs to Category:Abia State stubs
 * Nominator's rationale: Undersized as per WP:STUB. It appears to have been created out-of-process, and there's not enough stubs in Category:Government of Abia State to populate this enough to make it worthwhile. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 02:43, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  02:40, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Her Pegship (talk) 04:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia impossible musical instrument audio files
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Tho it was already deleted, by User:Hyacinth, the day after it was nominated. Which is out-of-order. Please wait for discussion to be closed, rather than unilaterally deleting a category. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The result of the discussion was: delete.


 * Propose deleting wikipedia impossible musical instrument audio files


 * Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure this category makes any sense. In essence it seems like a category to keep track of requests for audio files for musical instruments for which it would be impossible to create such files. I thought it was a j1oke category for a second. Ricky81682 (talk) 00:48, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * That would mean that it's simply poor naming of a useful category. Hyacinth (talk) 01:17, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * How about something more like "Category:Articles with impossible audio file requests"? Hyacinth (talk) 01:26, 13 July 2016 (UTC) Or "Category:Musical instrument articles with impossible audio"? Hyacinth (talk) 01:28, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Question: how is this category "useful"? Marcocapelle (talk) 04:53, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Correct. We don't have maintenance category for things that can't be done. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:56, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Question: Should we put Reqinstrument on all of these talk pages? Hyacinth (talk) 04:48, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Question: Does Wikipedia not have maintenance categories for things that can't be done as a policy or as a practice? Hyacinth (talk) 04:49, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It doesn't sound useful, does it? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Also Template:Noreqinstrument should be deleted to reduce non-useful talk page clutter. DexDor(talk) 05:40, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - rater than a category, would it be more useful to have a template, e.g., noaudioreq, to do the same sort of work as notstub and the hidden comments on "complete" short articles? Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  01:29, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment, the category has meanwhile been deleted by User:Hyacinth. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * But they've created Category:Nonexistent or unplayable musical instruments. DexDor(talk) 17:47, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * See this follow-up discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:12, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


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Category:Marcus Orelias Albums
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (note that this had happened already before closing the discussion). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting marcus orelias albums


 * Nominator's rationale: He's only released one album, so looks like a WP:SMALLCAT for now Le Deluge (talk) 00:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep but rename to Category:Marcus Orelias albums. "Please note that all single-artist album articles may have subcategories here, even if it's the only album the artist has recorded." The recording artist is clearly the paramount defining characteristic of an album. Oculi (talk) 08:04, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Someone has renamed it. Oculi (talk) 21:18, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Categories about albums are usually not subject to WP:SMALLCAT and really should not be. I am not certain why "Albums" is capitalized here, but this is another topic. Dimadick (talk) 19:49, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


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