Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 October 30



Category:Holocene life

 * 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 all. ~ Rob 13 Talk 07:48, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting:


 * Category:Holocene life
 * Category:Holocene animals
 * Category:Holocene animals of Africa
 * Category:Holocene mammals of Africa
 * Category:Holocene animals of Asia
 * Category:Holocene birds
 * Category:Holocene gastropods
 * Category:Holocene mammals
 * Category:Holocene primates
 * Category:Holocene rodents

Rationalle: Not a useful categorization - technaicllay speaking, alll modern life is Holocene life, and most Holocene life isn't prehistoric - which these categories are intended to be part of the tree for. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:17, 30 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete The vast majority of articles on organisms are about currently living organisms. I think it's reasonable to assume that currently living is the default state and doesn't require a category (we also don't need a category for Earthly life, assuming that life probably occurs somewhere else in the universe). If all currently living life forms are in the scope of these categories, they're woefully underpopulated, and not likely to be fully populated any time soon. If currently living species aren't intended to be included, then these are redundant with an already rather redudant and messy set of other categories intended to include species that have gone extinct in this time frame: e.g. Category:Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, Category:Holocene extinctions, Category:Extinctions since 1500 and Category:Extinct species (most of the articles under "Extinct species" are post 1500 extinctions). Plantdrew (talk) 16:53, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * DElete -- There may be a case for a Category:Late Quaternary extinct animals tree to which some of the content should be moved. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:51, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete All living organism would belong to this category. --Snek01 (talk) 14:04, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


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Members of the Order of Merit

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 06:42, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Australian Members of the Order of Merit to Category:Australian members of the Order of Merit
 * Propose renaming Category:Honorary Members of the Order of Merit to Category:Honorary members of the Order of Merit
 * Nominator's rationale: Correcting capitalization, making it consistent with List of members of the Order of Merit. 207.161.217.209 (talk) 01:28, 30 October 2016 (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.