Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 November 7



Zapotec civilization

 * 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 and delete.  ℯ  xplicit  04:39, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:8th-century BC establishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:8th-century BC establishments
 * Propose merging Category:7th-century BC establishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:7th-century BC establishments
 * Propose merging Category:6th-century BC establishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:6th-century BC establishments
 * Propose merging Category:4th-century disestablishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:4th-century disestablishments
 * Propose merging Category:750s disestablishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:750s disestablishments in North America
 * Propose merging Category:10th-century disestablishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:10th-century disestablishments in North America
 * Propose merging Category:1521 disestablishments in the Zapotec civilization‎ to Category:1521 disestablishments in North America
 * Propose deleting Category:6th century BC in the Zapotec civilization‎
 * Propose deleting Category:4th century in the Zapotec civilization‎
 * Propose deleting Category:750s in the Zapotec civilization‎


 * Nominator's rationale: merge/delete per WP:SMALLCAT, in all of the nominated categories together, there are only four articles: Zapotec civilization itself and three articles that are also in Category:Zapotec sites and they are good at that spot. The four articles are in the first 7 categories of this nomination. All other categories are container categories which naturally become empty after merging the first 7 categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:46, 7 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Support -- We do not need a mass of filaments of trees to support so few articles. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:12, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep most of the tree on the century level, Merge some into century level cats - WP:SMALLCAT applies only to specific years and perhaps decades (1521).GreyShark (dibra) 09:05, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge/delete as nominated. WP:SMALLCAT is by no means restricted only to year and decade categories—we are looking at a case of ~40 categories being used to house a grand total of 4 articles. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:10, 19 November 2017 (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.

Mountains and hills of the Eifel

 * 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: partial upmerge to Category:Mountains and hills of the Eifel. I verified that all of the articles are already in an appropriate country/state category, so a full upmerge is not required. -- Black Falcon (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting: mountains and hills of the eifel (rhineland-palatinate)
 * mountains and hills of the eifel (north rhine-westphalia)
 * mountains and hills of the eifel (luxembourg)
 * mountains and hills of the eifel (germany)
 * mountains and hills of the eifel (belgium)
 * Nominator's rationale: Excessive categorisation. We generally categorise by country/state and mountain region, but not both. We already have Category:Mountains and hills of the Eifel, Category:Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia, Category:Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate, Category:Mountains and hills of Belgium and Category:Mountains and hills of Luxembourg, so there is no need for these categories added by a (currently banned) user. The articles should be upmerged into Category:Mountains and hills of the Eifel as well as their respective country or state categories. --Bermicourt (talk) 12:38, 7 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment Please tag the categories with a cfm template. Besides I've changed the title of this section. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:43, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment . Thanks. Would you mind checking I've done that correctly. I'm new to this process. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:12, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is correct, thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 18:15, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Upmerge  to Category:Mountains and hills of the Eifel, as suggested. There is far too much unnecessary splitting ad infinitum.  The fact that there is an intersectiondoes not mean we need a category for it. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:19, 9 November 2017 (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.