Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 18



Category:Encounter killings by police

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:50, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting encounter killings by police


 * Nominator's rationale: Isn't just about any killing of a subject by a member of law enforcement technically an "encounter killing by police"? In my opinion, establishing such a category on Wikipedia doesn't accomplish anything in terms of properly sorting articles. Striker force Talk 21:03, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment I hope that not every case you mention is an encounter killing. According to the main article, the "encounter killing" narrative has been used "to cover-up the killing of suspects when they are either in custody or are unarmed". Dimadick (talk) 05:09, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as this appears to be a euphemism (that is only used in one part of the world) and the 3 articles in the category are in many more appropriate categories. DexDor(talk) 18:40, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per DexDor. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:03, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty pages

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 08:43, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting candidates for speedy deletion as empty pages


 * Nominator's rationale: This category was created when the original category was speedily renamed from "pages" to "articles," and then this parent category was created for articles, categories, and portals . But the criteria for speedy deletion for "empty" articles (which include, for example, articles with no content other than external links, etc.), empty categories (meaning no pages within the category, regardless of whether the category page itself has content), and empty portals (concerning the number of pages listed in the portal) are all separate and nuanced. None of the three could really be described as simply blank pages. Accordingly, the three subcategories in this category really have very little in common. Indeed, all three subcategories are already members of this category's parent category too, Category:Speedy deletion. No other candidates for speedy deletion categories are members of intermediate fully-diffused categories like this one. This category should be deleted. Bsherr (talk) 15:22, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete as the user who initiated the speedy move. Category:Speedy deletion can already cover this, and the criteria associated with the categories has subtle enough differences to be considered wholly separate from each other. ToThAc (talk) 19:05, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


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Foo in fiction

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:48, 5 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Size change in fiction to Category:Fiction about size change
 * Propose renaming Category:Shapeshifting in fiction to Category:Fiction about shapeshifting
 * Nominator's rationale: As per Categories for discussion/Log/2018 July 18, better to make it clear that categories of this nature are to be applied when a subject is the primary focus of a work of fiction, not an incidental element. DonIago (talk) 13:04, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Support Clearer scope. Dimadick (talk) 13:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Resident Evil composers

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:47, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting resident evil composers


 * Nominator's rationale: This is a WP:PERFCAT. -- wooden superman  11:47, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Unreal (video game series) composers

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting unreal (video game series) composers


 * Nominator's rationale: This is a WP:PERFCAT. -- wooden superman  11:25, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Ubuntu (operating system)

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:43, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Ubuntu (operating system) to Category:Ubuntu
 * Propose renaming Category:Ubuntu (operating system) derivatives to Category:Ubuntu derivatives added 27 September
 * Propose renaming Category:Ubuntu Touch (operating system) devices to Category:Ubuntu Touch devices added 27 September
 * Nominator's rationale: The page was moved to get rid of the disambiguation. This category and all relevant subcategories should have the same move. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 09:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Speedy rename per WP:C2D, main article was moved after an RM. I have also tagged two subcategories and added them to the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Lists of Marvel Comics

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:52, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Marvel Comics to Category:Marvel Comics-related lists
 * Nominator's rationale: This is not for lists of comics publications (there is a sub-cat for that, Category:Lists of comics by Marvel Comics); this is category for all lists related to Marvel Comics. The proposed name would be standard, and similar to its sibling Category:DC Comics-related lists. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:19, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: This is a follow-up to Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_August_28, where a merger had been proposed due to the ambiguity of the current category name. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:37, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Support Clearer scope. Dimadick (talk) 05:11, 24 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Thematic weeks in the United States

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:55, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Thematic weeks in the United States to Category:Awareness weeks in the United States
 * Nominator's rationale: Most of these events talk about awareness. Hardly any of them use the word theme. In the rest of the English speaking world they are usually called awareness weeks, but this might be an American usage, so I'm nominating it separately, as it could be treated differently. It does appear that in the USA some of these weeks are more official and more political than in other places.Rathfelder (talk) 08:56, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Thematic weeks

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:54, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Thematic weeks to Category:Awareness weeks
 * Nominator's rationale: To match awareness days. Most of these articles talk about awareness, not themes. Rathfelder (talk) 08:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge or reverse merge, the two categories have the same scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:16, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Awareness weeks

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 * The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Awareness weeks to Category:Thematic weeks
 * Nominator's rationale: no real distinction between the two Rathfelder (talk) 08:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * are you withdrawing this one in favour of the reverse nomination above? – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:10, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I suppose I am, though if the other suggestions are not accepted I would want this considered. Rathfelder (talk) 19:24, 19 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Queer

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 * The result of the discussion was:  at 2018 OCT 5 CFD. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:59, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose rescoping queer


 * Nominator's rationale: This needs a review and purge. It's not an inherently invalid category, but the problem is that the word "queer" has two obviously related but not identical and not equally defining usages: it can convey a highly politicized and WP:DEFINING form of LGBT identity, as in Queer Nation or Queer theory, or it can just be a non-defining attempt to drain the LGBTTQQIAAPFABGLITTEROMGWTFBBQ alphabet soup by finding the shortest possible alternative that isn't excluding anybody. But the problem with this category in its current form is that it has a really unfortunate habit of getting misused as a WP:SHAREDNAME catchall for practically anything that uses the word Queer in its name or mission statement at all, such as LGBT culture in New York City or Queer Arts Festival or Queer Notions or Buddies in Bad Times or Out On Screen — many of which are queer in the latter sense rather than the former. For example, NYC's LGBTQ scene most certainly does not have any uniquely towering claim to being defined by "queerness" that San Francisco's and Los Angeles's and Chicago's and Toronto's and Vancouver's and London's and Seattle's and Berlin's and Montreal's LGBTQ scenes can't match — and there's nothing uniquely political-queer about Vancouver's LGBTQ film festival that's somehow unmatched by Inside Out or Frameline or BFI Flare (the difference between those film festivals and the VQFF isn't that they're inherently less queer-oriented than VQFF is, it's just that they don't happen to have Q's in their names.) So there are certainly things that belong here, like Queer Nation and queer theory and heteropatriarchy — but there are also many things here that aren't defined by queerness just because they happen to have the word "queer" in their names: VQFF is not more inherently "political queer" than every other LGBTQ film festival just because it has a Q in its name and the others don't, New York City's LGBTQ scene is not more inherently "political queer" than anywhere else's, Romania's Radio Q is not more inherently "political queer" than Canada's Proud FM just because the Canadian station doesn't have a Q in its call sign, and on and so forth. Bearcat (talk) 02:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)


 * It is problematic because the category was intended for a particular usage of an ambiguous word. If kept at all, more description or a disambiguator is needed in the category name. But what? For example, what exactly is queer about Queer Nation, apart from that the fact that it is an LGBT political advocacy group? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Basically what I am saying here is delete unless (i.e. unless a proper solution can be found). Marcocapelle (talk) 16:09, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * It's a mess; other than many of the categorized articles having "queer" in their name it's hard to gather what this category is attempting to capture (other than perhaps a synonym for LGBT which we have categorized to the nines). Obviously just having "queer" in your name is an insufficient basis on which to categorize (WP:SHAREDNAME), but without going through all these articles; which, I'm disinclined to do, it may be best to containerize the cat, keep the subcats without prejudice to further deletions/prunings, place any of the articles categorized in a subcat if able, and purge the remainder. (WP:TNT) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Bearcat has provided a good summary of the problem. Some of the articles may specifically refer to gay radicalism, while other articles have nothing to do with homosexuality or gay people at all, creating a shared-name problem that, if not addressed, will demand repeated purging in order to maintain focus. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me. It's possible that some kind of parenthetical renaming could narrow the focus, but I don't know what we would be deciding the category was "really" about. I could be convinced otherwise but at the moment I lean towards delete. Would also delete Category:Queer magazines, which unlike some of the other subcats doesn't seem to have a meaningful function. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:10, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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Category:Bangladeshi medical academics

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 * The result of the discussion was: do not rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:01, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Bangladeshi medical academics to Category:Bangladeshi medical researchers‎
 * Nominator's rationale: All the articles are about medical researchers, and that category tree is better populated. There is almost total overlap.  You dont get to be a medical academic unless you are a researcher. Rathfelder (talk) 21:51, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep -- A major part of being an academic is teaching in a university. One of the people categorised seems to have been more an administrator than a teacher, but I see no harm in his inclusion.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:17, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment, the nominated category has multiple siblings of different nationalities. If anything needs to be changed, it should be implemented to all categories in conjunction. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:32, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * There are only 4 similar categories, all very poorly populated. Medical academic is not a term widely used. Medical researchers clearly includes people who are not doctors. Medical academics is not well defined.  Staff of medical schools who are doctors generally also practice as doctors and few of them are seen primarily as academics. If we were serious about populating medical academic categories they would be enormous, as they would include a large majority of eminent doctors. Rathfelder (talk) 15:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The American and Indian sibling are well populated so I am not convinced yet. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The numbers of academics listed for the USA - total 169. There are 56 subcategories of American physicians, many with a couple of hundred articles and often subcats too, and many of them could be described as academics.  But the real question is are medical academics usefully separated from medical researchers.  There are more than 1100 articles about American medical researchers - and that does not include most of the researchers who are also practicing doctors. On a random sample those characterised as academics dont seem very different from those characterised as researchers, although more of them are professors, chairs of department etc. Rathfelder (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The question is clear and please note that I am not planning to answer the question. This is just a procedural oppose. I would expect a better participation in the discussion, and possibly new arguments either pro or con, when the siblings are nominated as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The point about the Bangladeshi medical academics is that they are all clearly medical researchers. That may not be so clear with the other countries. Rathfelder (talk) 09:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
 * If it is not so clear in the countries, the better solution would be to create Category:Bangladeshi medical researchers‎ as a child category of Category:Bangladeshi medical academics and move the articles manually if appropriate. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 21 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep- Not mutual, all academics are researchers but not all researchers are academics.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 14:17, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Not all academics are researchers. Rathfelder (talk) 08:48, 4 October 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Films by Usama Mukwaya

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to . At the time of the close, the category contained only subcategories:, , and .


 * Propose merging Category:Films by Usama Mukwaya into Category:Films directed by Usama Mukwaya
 * Nominator's rationale: These are redundant categories and "directed by" is the more common format for such categories on Wikipedia. --Nicholas0 (talk) 22:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * The category hasn't been tagged yet, see instructions at WP:CFD. Besides this category is a mixture of "produced by", "directed by" and "screenplays by". Presumably the category can be merged to Category:Usama Mukwaya though. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * But there are no such categories. You are inventing categories which don't exist. This is an empty category and your only justification for keeping it is because it could possibly include other also empty categories, even though those categories don't even exist. That is a very irrational argument. --Nicholas0 (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * There are Category:Films by producer and Category:Screenplays by writer and I have invented neither of the two. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:33, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Comment Tagged on Category Hhkohh (talk) 04:37, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Districts of Hertfordshire
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 * The result of the discussion was: reverse merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:27, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Districts of Hertfordshire to Category:Non-metropolitan districts of Hertfordshire
 * Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category, all 10 of Hertfordshire's districts are non-metropolitan, unlike the others in Category:Local government districts of England by county which have UAs (like North Yorkshire) or don't have any that aren't UAs like Berkshire.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 12:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Keep; getting rid of this level of the category tree will potentially be confusing to users navigating the Category:Local government districts of England by county tree. [Just move all the contents into the non-metro districts category.]  Those familiar with English counties will wonder why Hertfordshire is missing, and those not familiar with them won't even notice that we have articles about districts in Hertfordshire and a category for them.  Nyttend (talk) 21:40, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Out of the 52 English counties Category:Local government districts of England by county only has 10 of them, notice that there is no Category:Districts of Suffolk or Category:Districts of Greater London for example and how there is Category:Local government districts in South Yorkshire in Category:Local government districts of England by county so Category:Non-metropolitan districts of Hertfordshire could just go in Category:Local government districts of England by county instead. See also Commons:User talk:Crouch, Swale/Archive 1 where it was pointed out that if all districts are of a type then we use the specific type such as Category:Metropolitan boroughs of Merseyside instead of Category:Districts of Merseyside.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 12:16, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Since they are all non-metropolitan, we do not need to clutter the name by saying so. That can go into a head note.  No county has both metropolitan and non-metro districts, so that this is a non-issue.  Category names should be kept short to limit clutter.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:36, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Do you support merging Category:Non-metropolitan districts of Hertfordshire here instead? along with the other counties that only have non-metropolitan districts.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:40, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Reverse merge per Peterkingiron. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:40, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Comment what about all the other districts, as pointed out we don't have Category:Districts of Norfolk but we do have Category:Non-metropolitan districts of Norfolk, the convention would appear that we do use the status if they are all NM, if the reverse merge is done, this will be inconsistant with all the other NM district categories, but some merge should happen. The only other redundant one that I have found is Category:Districts of West Sussex.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 09:01, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Reverse merge -- As Marcocapelle said, that was what my vote should have been. The issue is that shire counties in England (with a county council) have districts, some of which have the title of borough or city: all are non-metropolitan, so that including that word is redundant.  I can see that it might be argued that Stoke upon Trent is still part of Staffordshire and Telford of Shropshire, despite both being unitary authorities, but where there is one unitary within a county, there is no point in having a separate category for it.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * what about all the other counties that only have NMD but still just have a NMD category, the only other one that I can find that has a redundant cat is Category:Districts of West Sussex, all the rest just have a NMD category with no Districts of ... category.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 10:13, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * What I said will apply equally to all areas where there are two tiers of local government including West Sussex and Norfolk. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in X
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 * The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:31, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Germany to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Germany
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Belgium to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Belgium
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Europe to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Europe
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Asia to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Asia
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in North America to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in North America
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Australasia to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Australasia
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in New Zealand to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in New Zealand
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in India to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in India
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in the United States to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in the United States
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in Canada to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops in Canada
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops to Category:Lists of Catholic bishops and archbishops
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:C2D: List of oldest Catholic bishops, List of Catholic bishops in the United States, List of Catholic bishops and archbishops of Atlanta, List of Catholic bishops of Texas, List of New Zealand Catholic bishops, Historical list of the Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico, Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States, List of Catholic bishops of India, etc. Chicbyaccident (talk) 13:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Support, also ultimately per article Catholic Church. It is not meaningful to distinguish Latin-rite and Eastern-rite bishops, all bishops are allowed to celebrate according all rites. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:49, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - these categories are specific to the hierarchy of the Latin Church, and, unless proven otherwise, do not include Eastern Catholic bishops or archbishops. If the nominator dislikes the "Roman Catholic" vocable, feel free to suggest any wording using, for instance, "Latin Church". Place Clichy (talk) 15:43, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Latin Church is not a defining characteristic of these bishops, Catholic is. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:51, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The hierarchy to which a bishop or diocese belong is definitely a defining characteristic. Place Clichy (talk) 16:44, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * They are all known as Catholic or Roman Catholic bishops (where Roman Catholic is used as synonym of Catholic. see Catholic Church), they are not known as bishops of the Latin Church as a particular church sui uiris. This is in contrast to e.g. Maronite bishops or Syro-Malabar bishops. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:46, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, and furthermore, in many if not all of the cases above, Eastern Catholic hierarchies are not really motivated to be listed separately. All particular churches sui iuris should fit into one full "Catholic" list for convenient overview. Hard time seeing any reason to separate here. Chicbyaccident (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The exact opposite argument can be made: when the lists and hierarchies are already separate, hard time seeing any reason to merge them. Especially when your proposal, in fact, would only rename Roman/Latin hierarchies without merging the affected articles with coexisting Eastern Catholic hierarchies. Place Clichy (talk) 14:53, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Of course dioceses are part of the Latin Church as a particular Church sui juris! What makes you think otherwise? Place Clichy (talk) 14:53, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * They are, but it is not a defining characteristic. The criterion of defining characteristics is, among others, meant to make sure that Wikipedia categorization remains aligned with the real world and does not create its own world. In the real world the concept of Latin Church is virtually unknown and these bishops are regarded simply as Catholic bishops. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * When a Latin bishop and an Eastern Catholic bishop are present in the same town or on the same territory (which must be more frequent than the opposite), then it is a defining characteristic for the Latin to be the Roman Catholic bishop of XXX. Calling him the Catholic (arch)bishop of XXX could imply that the Eastern Catholic bishop is subordinate to him, which is not the case, at this level. Same for the diocese. Place Clichy (talk) 16:48, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * the various Eastern Catholic churches are each on their own bound to a particular home territory. Outside of their home territory (e.g. in the United States) there are a few Eastern Catholic bishops who each cover completely different territories than the (Roman) Catholic bishops. For example, Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles covers 3/4 of the United States. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:06, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * In territories that are "native" to one of the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, you would indeed need to mention "Roman Catholic" (or, occasionally, "Latin", as in Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem) to avoid confusion. It seems quite a no-brainer to me, even if many such articles and categories of Latin scope have been unfortunately renamed from "Roman Catholic" to just "Catholic". See for instance how the official site of the (global) Catholic Church in Romania devides its topic between "Roman Catholic Church" for the Latin organisation, "Greek Catholic Church" for the Romanian Greek Catholic Church and "Catholic Church" for common topics, such as the Bishop's Conference. They also use "Roman Catholic bishops" and "Greek Catholic bishops", under the "bishops" link.
 * In "diaspora" territories, the situation is pretty much the same. For instance, there are two Catholic Archbishops of Winnipeg, a Roman Catholic one, and a Ukrainian one. In both cases cited, the fact that the Latin hierarch is a Latin bishop or a Roman Catholic bishop is very much defining, both terms being in use in my opinion. The same goes for the diocese, except that I think the term Roman Catholic diocese is quite more prevalent than Latin diocese, if this latter term is ever used much.
 * Also, the largest Eastern Catholic Churches have organisations spreading all over the world, such as the Maronite, Melkite or Ukrainian Catholic Churches. The Ruthenian Catholic Church even has its home in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It is therefore hard to speak of a real "home territory" for them, which in any case would be quite extended: Eastern Europe, the entire Middle East, North-Eastern Africa, India and, in the case of the Ukrainian and Ruthenian Catholic churches, the US and Canada. Place Clichy (talk) 14:08, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * In the regard that "these bishops are regarded simply as Catholic bishops": this is not untrue. However, this term is ambiguous and we ought to to better if we can. This pretty much comes down to the problem of self-definition. Byzantines consistently referred to themselves as "Romans" during a millenium, and yet we call them Byzantines for the sake of clarity. Evangelical Christians usually refer to themselves as just "Christians" and yet we call them Evangelicals, our of clarity. Lutherans in Germany call themselves "Evangelicals" and yet we call them Lutherans. In my experience, every time they interact with Eastern Catholics, clergymen always bring out the "Roman" or "Latin" qualifier even when they call themselves just "Catholic" the rest of the time. Place Clichy (talk) 14:25, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It is not a problem for categorisation anyway. We do not have to create subcategories when people also perfectly fit in a parent category. WP:OCMISC is the most extreme case of that principle. There are Romanian Catholic bishops, and some of them are Greek Catholic in particular. Besides if there are lists of Catholic bishops in countries with a mixed Catholic population, they will supposedly contain a section with Latin and a section with Eastern bishops, but the article will be about Catholic bishops. List of Catholic bishops in the United States is a good example of it. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:10, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, unlike the US example, many List of Roman Catholic dioceses/bishops in XXX actually are only about the Latin Church, as the name would suggest. An example of the mess created by these inconsiderate renamings is, which was renamed from "Roman Catholic" in July 2018 after request by Chicbyaccident and 3 opinions expressed, and does not include the Eastern Catholic jurisdictions, neither before nor after the move.
 * A gem is, moved from "Roman Catholic" in August 2018 after request by Chicbyaccident and 2 opinions. Lviv is a major center of Greek Catholicism, being the seat of the UGCC, yet not a word about its bishops in the "List of Catholic bishops of Lviv". The term "Roman Catholic(ism)" appears 7 times in the article. The scope of this article is clearly Latin only. Therefore the current title is, clearly, misleading. Once again, there was no effort to alter the article in a way that would more or less correspond to its new name in a way the US example does. These renamings can be sometimes justified (especially when "Roman Catholic" is used to refer to the global Catholic Church, not the Latin one), but applying them blindly accross the board brings disruption which amounts to a crusade. We could maybe talk about Alternative rename to Lists of Latin dioceses/bishops... which at least would not change the scope of these lists, categories and articles. Place Clichy (talk) 14:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Good points from both and  in a much needed discussion, as it has turned out. Despite the good points of Place Clichy, the arguments of Marcocapelle seem more convincing on the general level. Conider the Eastern Catholic category tree. I mean, how meaningful would it be to divide that category tree even further into Eastern Catholic entries that can be considered "Gree Catholic" (in essence pertain to Byzantine liturgy) and those Eastern entities (incouding denominations) that don't? In analogy, as  pointed out, it seems like "Catholic" parent category suffices in many cases despite pertainig to the Latin Church. May I ask both of you users to bring your key points to Naming conventions (Catholicism) to add to the possible centralised WP:CONSENSUS reference there for future use? Chicbyaccident (talk) 06:49, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, as you are the nominator of this discussion (and many others) it is not really for you to judge which arguments are "more convincing on the general level". I expressed a long time ago my opinion at your invitation at this page and you have not answered it. In short: While it is perfectly correct to rename "Roman Catholic(ism)..." to "Catholic(sim)..." when referring to the global Catholic Church, the usage of using "Roman Catholic" to refer to Latin Church and/or Roman-rite Catholic topics is prevalent and should be respected and not renamed to just "Catholic". There may of course be a few exceptions like Latin Patriarchates which are, I believe, never called Roman Catholic Patriarchates or even less Catholic Patriarchates. Place Clichy (talk) 14:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm still hesitating how prevalent that is. What bugs me is that even when there is no "Catholic" prevalence for entries, you seem to hold on to "Roman Catholic" despite that it should be obivous that if there is for instance only one category, then by general tendence this should be catch-all named "Catholic" rather than "Roman Catholic". But I'll follow the arguments for a centralised convention, yes indeed preferably located on Naming conventions (Catholicism). Chicbyaccident (talk) 05:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete all per WP:SMALLCAT: they all have only one or two entries, except the USA list which has six. This is an excessive categorization tree. Place their contents in the global parent category (currently called, which may be renamed in separate request). — JFG talk 00:30, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * That is actually a good additional point - though they should be merged to their country parent category as well (so a dual merge). Marcocapelle (talk) 05:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Keep Looks like the nominator has something against the Roman Catholic Church and is trying to mix things up. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 10:25, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you have any argument for proposing a deviation from the category tree consistency, please? Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:34, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The category tree's consistency clearly seems to use "Roman Catholic":, , , , , , , etc. Place Clichy (talk) 14:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Chicbyaccident, the deviation from the normal structure is of your hand. Are you also going to change Category:American Old Catholic bishops into "Category:American bishops"?? <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 17:53, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Obviously not. Chicbyaccident (talk) 18:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Then why are you trying to do the same with categories about other catholic subjects? You are creating inconsistencies and confusion instead of clarity. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 07:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Oppose. As the nominator well knows, "Roman Catholic" is the primary meaning of "Catholic", but not the only meaning. The nom's tendentious and ideoogical-driven mission to create avaoidable ambiguity in category titles such as this creates miscategorisations and misunderstandings, without any counterbalancing benefit.  -- Brown <span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(-3deg)">Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 08:08, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete all per WP:SMALLCAT and dual merge to their country parent category as well per Marcocapelle. Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:52, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I could see delete all as a secondary best option. Chicbyaccident (talk) 08:57, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. These men are ordinaries for sees entitled "Roman Catholic (arch)Diocese of X".  And if you think it's fine to conflate Western-rite and Uniate bishops, get out of the way; encyclopedias reflect reality, not sword-wielding skeletons.  Nyttend (talk) 04:34, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Lists of Roman Catholics
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 * The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:42, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Lists of Roman Catholics to Category:Lists of Catholics
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:C2D: Lists of Catholics, and List of former Catholics. Chicbyaccident (talk) 12:58, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Support, also ultimately per article Catholic Church. It is not desirable to split between Latin-rite and Eastern-rite Catholics, because every Catholic person is allowed to attend services with Latin or Eastern rite. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:52, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Please be aware of the existence of the Old Catholic Church, which is a separate Catholic church. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 19:36, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * "[W]hich is a separate Catholic church". I'm calling you out on this. "Catholic church" redirects to Catholic Church since a decade. It has never redirected to any enclopedically relevant, independent entry, much less the Old Catholic Church. Old Catholic Church is called the "Old Catholic Church", not the "Catholic Church", because it occupies WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the article title Old Catholic Church, so there is no confusion there. Catholic redirects to Catholic Church. It seems there is no WP:CONSENSUS for your Protestant ecclesiological church invisible branch theory assertion of that WP:COMMONNAME. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicbyaccident (talk • contribs) 05:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Aha, due to lack of arguments you start accusing. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 07:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose - we have Category:Catholics, subcats Category:Roman Catholics and Category:Eastern Catholics. There has been a consensus to equate Catholic Church with Roman Catholic Church but not as yet to equate Catholic (or perhaps catholic) with Roman Catholic. Oculi (talk) 22:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Just trying to identify arguments and get things straight. Not accusing anyone. However, hasn't said position on ecclesiology and by consequence on nomenclature tended to be refuted on Wikipedia throughout the years per WP:FRINGE, and enforcing it been repeatedly disadviced as perveived WP:POINT'ish? I would hope for something of a Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_naming_conventions_(Catholic_Church)-derived convention to bring about some harmony on this issue on which contention arise time after time by some users. Again, not accusing, but aren't WP:ARTICLETITLES and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC following descriptive rather than normative criterias? And aren't those principles applicable by extension also across categories trees if there are not exceptionate concerns against instances of such consistency? Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:07, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The fact that we have Category:Catholics, subcats Category:Roman Catholics and Category:Eastern Catholics implies that in Wikipedian practice Roman Catholic is not equated with Catholic but with Latin, as an adjective of Latin Church. That is exactly the reason that I support the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:40, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * So you should support 'Latin Catholics'. Oculi (talk) 12:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I do not support that at all, first because Latin Catholics does not comply with WP:COMMONNAME, second see my earlier comment. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Well actually yes, in the practice of wikipedia categories, "Roman Catholics" and "Roman Catholicism" very much equate with Roman-rite/Latin Church/Western Catholicism. If you would like to suggest an alternate wording which uses "Latin", feel free to suggest it. However, Latin is seldom used in adjectival form to refer to individual Christians, with maybe the exception of the Latin patriarchs. Place Clichy (talk) 14:20, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are more synonyms than that. Though, how does it help readers to maintain the multitude of synonyms rather than keeping to a consistent naming, please? Chicbyaccident (talk) 14:13, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Consistently using Roman Catholic is fine by me. This has worked very well in Wikipedia for a very long time. Place Clichy (talk) 16:43, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Have you seen Talk:Catholic_Church_in_Armenia? The article name Catholic Church was set in 2009. Related, generic articles have since followed suit per WP:CONSISTENCY. Proposing an individual exception from this would gain in credibility if given more arguments than WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Optimally, objections should be directed to the forementioned source for WP:CONSISTENCY. Chicbyaccident (talk) 20:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Alt rename to Category:List of Catholic Church. Per the of renaming Catholic-related categories, Catholics, Roman Catholics, Catholicism, Roman Catholicism and may others redirect to Catholic Church. Therefore, the name of every Catholic-related article and category should be renamed to use "Catholic Church" and no other term. Yes, this is humor. Place Clichy (talk) 14:20, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Roman Catholics are different from Eastern Catholics, so separate list categories make sense. This proposal is an unecessary change of scope. Place Clichy (talk) 14:20, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Even while we have separate Eastern Catholic categories, this does not automatically imply that there should be a sibling for the other 98.5% of Catholics, they can simply remain in the parent category. Furthermore, membership of the Latin Church is not a defining characteristic of these Catholics and assigning biographies of Catholic people to a Latin Church category will largely be a matter of WP:OR. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:03, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Agree. The particular church sui iuris-specific objections lately border obstructive. It may be a valid concern per se in the correct context, but in proposals such as the above one it erroneously and contaminatingly confuses the taxonomy for outsiders, including for closers who attempt to evaluate arguments.Chicbyaccident (talk) 14:12, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose we have all sorts of non-Roman Catholics Anglo-Catholics for example. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you advocating the merge of Category:Anglo-Catholics with Category:Catholics? Or Anglo-Catholic with Catholic in the article realm? If not, from where do you draw conclusions on a risk of misunderstanding, please? Chicbyaccident (talk) 22:26, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Support for consistency with the "Catholic Church" convention. — JFG talk 01:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you please refer us to a link that states what is the "Catholic Church" convention that would go beyond the individual Catholic Church article? Place Clichy (talk) 14:57, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It seems to be the general scheme. Chicbyaccident (talk) 05:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not all catholics are Roman Catholic. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 10:20, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Roman Catholic and Catholic redirects to Catholic Church. What is your argument for having the category tree deviate frm this convention? If anything, "Roman Catholic" risk confusing it with Latin Church. Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:28, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Your renaming can cause confusion with with Old Catholics who are Catholics but do not belong to the Roman Catholic Church. And why do you want to change the long standing consensus? <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 19:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Catholic redirects to Catholic Church. Old Catholic redirects to Old Catholic Church. It seems you are proposing a problem that isn't there. Chicbyaccident (talk) 05:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I have noticed that on one of the redirects one Chicbyaccident was editwarring to change the redirect to another subject. But look at this: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 07:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Oppose. As the nomnator well knows, not all Catholics are Roman Catholics. Yes, in article space the term "Catholic" has been judged to be primarily used to mean "Roman Catholic", but it is not exclusively so.  Remoiving the orecision from category names serves only to cause confusion and miscategorisation. -- Brown <span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(-3deg)">Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 07:59, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I didnt know that. Actually, there's quite some conflicting assertions of those connotations around. Chicbyaccident (talk) 17:52, 26 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Notice I have boldly created Category:Lists of Catholics with 3 members: Roman, Eastern and Old. Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:58, 29 September 2018 (UTC)


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Establishments in the Gaza Strip
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete/merge as nominated. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:49, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting establishments in the gaza strip


 * Propose deleting disestablishments in the gaza strip


 * Propose deleting Category:Establishments in the Gaza Strip by millennium
 * Propose deleting Category:Establishments in the Gaza Strip by century
 * Propose deleting Category:Establishments in the Gaza Strip by decade
 * Propose deleting Category:Establishments in the Gaza Strip by year
 * Propose deleting Category:3rd-millennium establishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose deleting Category:21st-century establishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose deleting Category:2000s establishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose deleting Category:2010s establishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose merging Category:2007 establishments in the Gaza Strip to Category:2007 in the Gaza Strip and Category:2007 establishments in the Palestinian territories
 * Propose  deleting  merging Category:2012 establishments in the Gaza Strip to Category:2012 in the Gaza Strip and Category:2012 establishments in the Palestinian territories
 * Propose  deleting  merging Category:2016 establishments in the Gaza Strip to Category:2016 in the Gaza Strip and Category:2016 establishments in the State of Palestine
 * Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Gaza Strip by millennium
 * Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Gaza Strip by century
 * Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Gaza Strip by decade
 * Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Gaza Strip by year
 * Propose deleting Category:3rd-millennium disestablishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose deleting Category:21st-century disestablishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose deleting Category:2010s disestablishments in the Gaza Strip
 * Propose  deleting  merging Category:2012 disestablishments in the Gaza Strip to Category:2012 disestablishments in the Palestinian territories (not to 2012 in the Gaza Strip)


 * Nominator's rationale: The above hierarchy is not useful for navigation; it contains only three articles on Hamas governments, and the page Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip. The top level also contains Category:Establishments in All-Palestine (Gaza) and Category:Disestablishments in All-Palestine (Gaza) which should be retained; they and their sub-cats are already in other suitable parents, so no mergers will be necessary there. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:22, 25 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose -- The Gaza strip is a well-defined polity, which for a period was de facto ruled by Hamas, not Fatah. I am however happy to see the list substantially pruned.  1948-1967, it was de facto part of Egypt; before then of Mandatory Palestine.  It has thus only really been an entity for at most just over 50 years.  If there is scope to populate them, we might have allowed Category:Establishments in the Gaza Strip; Category:Disestablishments in the Gaza Strip.  I would support merging (not deleting as nom) 2007 2012 and 2016.  The rest will be a hindrance to navigation.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:13, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * In your nomination in a few instances where you meant "merge" you wrote "delete". I have taken the liberty to correct this. With this correction, presumably, the oppose of User:Peterkingiron turns into support. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops – Thank you both – yes, I meant "merge" 2012 and 2016 as well as 2007. Peter, please reconsider your !vote after this amendment. – Fayenatic  L ondon 19:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, an establishments tree and a disestablishments tree are premature with the current content. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:40, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - We can either consider this hierarchy as geography or history. As geography, it would be legitimate to diffuse Palestine/State of Palestine on a geography basis, but Gaza Strip is the only attempt at such a diffusion (there is no West Bank equivalent) and the mother categories are poor enough yet not to be diffused. As history, noone can argue that "Gaza Strip" was a state or polity at any point in time (except maybe the Egyptian period, which is under found elsewhere in the category tree under "All-Palestine (Gaza)"). The rebel Hamas government never claimed that Gaza Strip was a state of any kind, as they claim the entire Palestine, or at the very least to be the legitimate government of the whole Oslo-defined Palestinian area. We do not maintain chronology hierarchies for rebel governments holding part of a territory with no claim of independence (exemples of LTEE Sri Lanka, post-1979 Red Khmer Cambodia, SPLA Sudan, UNITA Angola come to mind). Somaliland, Transnistria and the like are "unrecognized states", which Gaza Strip is not and never was. Under both counts, these categories can be upmerged. Place Clichy (talk) 13:54, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * It's true, there are no establishment categories for the West Bank. However, for the record, there are "terrorist incident" categories for the West Bank by year, which can most easily be seen within Category:Terrorist incidents in the State of Palestine and the preceding Category:Terrorist incidents in the Palestinian territories. IMHO might be useful to build year categories for the West Bank, but not (dis)establishment categories. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:08, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Gaza Strip is a separate polity; West Bank is just a geographical term. There is no point in West Bank categories as they are technically mostly covered by the State of Palestine.GreyShark (dibra) 05:57, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter what the Hamas claim, it matters what they actually control. Cyprus claims all the island, but control only half of it; North Korea claim the whole peninsula, but control only the north; China claims Taiwan, but do not control it and vice-versa.GreyShark (dibra) 05:56, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * It very much matters what they claim, according to the declarative theory of statehood. Hamas took control by force of a part of the State of Palestine, while they considered to be the legitimate government of the lot. This clearly does the make "Gaza Strip" a polity of any kind. Cyprus, North Korea and Taiwan are states widely recognised internationally, a whole different category. "Gaza Strip" is a geographical definition for an area which was formed by the borders of the 1949 cease-fire. Place Clichy (talk) 13:59, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * First of all, Hamas took over a part of the Palestinian Authority (State of Palestine was merely a declarational entity in 2007). The comparison with Cyprus is in regard to Northern Cyprus which is of course largely unrecognized. Just note that North Korea and South Korea both claim rule over whole Korea and both had not been UN members until 1990s .GreyShark (dibra) 05:31, 30 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Gaza Strip is a separate geopolitical unit since 2007 and is not a part of the State of Palestine de-facto, even though legally Palestine claims direct jurisdiction of the strip. Certainly notable and valid cat.GreyShark (dibra) 05:53, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The idea of the nomination, as I understand it, is not to abolish the Category:Years in the Gaza Strip category tree, exactly for the reason you mention, but only to merge establishments into the years by lack of sufficient content. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:37, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I confirm that understanding, and note that it is contrary to some statements about chronology categories by user:Place Clichy above. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:25, 28 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: Category:Disestablishments in All-Palestine (Gaza) has just been removed from the Gaza Strip parent as "anachronism" (but the Establishments category has not been removed, nor the years categories). Whether or not these (dis)estab categories are to be deleted, can we also seek consensus here on whether the Gaza Strip categories should include the "All-Palestine (Gaza)" categories, which cover 1948–1967? – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * In the understanding of most people, "Gaza Strip" means the tract of land located between Egypt and Israel. Therefore, I think that all articles and categories relative to this tract of land and its history should be subcategories of the Gaza Strip categories. "Gaza Strip" categories should not start or end in 2007 or any other date (if any date would make sense, it would be 1948 or 1967). If you wish to create categories and articles specific to the Hamas government of Gaza Strip, it should probably be called something like "Hamas government of Gaza Strip", or at the very least mention "Hamas", because "Gaza Strip" means something else. Place Clichy (talk) 13:59, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I understand the confusion - currently Gaza Strip article contains both material on the geographical strip of land and the current Hamas-led administration. In case we split Hamas-ruled Gaza from Gaza Strip - this would warrant rename of all Gaza Strip categories to Hamas-ruled Gaza categories (referring to post-2007 period). There should indeed be a parallel between West Bank->State of Palestine->Palestinian government and Gaza Strip->Hamas-ruled Gaza->Hamas government in Gaza. Would you agree?GreyShark (dibra) 05:19, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no state or territory that is commonly called Hamas-ruled Gaza. It is simply Gaza strip. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:45, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Then what is this Palestinian prime minister visits Hamas-ruled Gaza amid reconciliation efforts, U.S. lawmakers make rare visit to Hamas-ruled Gaza, No Economic Aid to Hamas-Ruled Gaza, Israel plans funding clampdown on Hamas-ruled Gaza.GreyShark (dibra) 05:51, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * There is a place called Gaza. It is ruled by Hamas. That does not make either of the two a state or polity of any kind. You could talk just the same about CSU-ruled Munich. Neither Gaza nor Hamas are secessionist. Politically and geographically speaking, the Gaza Strip is part of the same set with the West Bank, forming together the former Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories usually referred to in Wikipedia as "State of Palestine" (a geographical designation) because it is what the UN and most international organisations call them. Gaza is physically separated from the rest of the country, but it is not the only such case in the word, think of Alaska, Hawaii, Sabah & Sarawak, Cabinda, French Overseas departments, Northern Ireland etc. It is ruled by a rebel (not secessionist) government, but it is, again, not the only such case where you would not consider this to create a new country, per previous examples given: LTEE Sri Lanka, post-1979 Red Khmer Cambodia, SPLA Sudan, UNITA Angola, FARC Colombia, ELAS-controlled Northern Greece in 1945-49, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan post-2001 etc.
 * Also, for the sake of simplicity, we usually keep history and chronology of modern countries as sub-categories of the current country, including past political regimes that show an undeniable continuity. E.g. it would not make sense to keep Weimar Republic categories outside of German history categories, or Thirteen Colonies history out of United States history categories, or British Cyprus out of Cyprus history categories, or Vichy France and French Second Empire out of French history categories etc. Therefore, I believe that chronology and (dis)establishment categories of the Palestinian territories, the Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli Military Governorate, the Jordanian West Bank Governorate and the Egyptian All-Palestine Government all belong as subcategories of the main categories for the extant country, the State of Palestine. Therefore, I believe that these reverts, citing "anachronism", are wrong:   . This is the usual conflict between the simultanous geographical and historical logic of our category system, which unfortunately cannot easily be solved.
 * As en axample of how to deal with name/regime changes of a country, I suggest to get ideas from Category:Years of the 20th century in Burkina Faso: Year categories are all gathered in a single mother category, but named 19XX in French Upper Volta until 1957, 19XX in Upper Volta until 1983 and 19XX in Burkina Faso aftwerwards. Place Clichy (talk) 09:19, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree with User:Place Clichy. We should not treat a new phase in the history of a country (possibly with a new name as well) as if it were an entirely different country. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * In case this is an example for continuity for the Palestinian state, others would argue that there is a continuity from Ancient Israel (Iron Age) to the Hasmonean Israel (140 BCE-37 BCE) and Herodian polities all the way to modern Israel (1948-present). Same place and same national ideas.GreyShark (dibra) 12:13, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hhkohh (talk) 04:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Support amended nom. We have far to much rigging above a few simple basic categories.  Gaza Strip has existed as an entity since the formation of modern Israel in 1948, though it was treated as part of Egypt until 1967 and of occupied Sinai subsequently.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:06, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Support amended nom. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:00, 29 September 2018 (UTC)


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Category:Wallonia stubs
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete and diffuse contents. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:57, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Wallonia stubs to Category:Wallonia geography stubs
 * Nominator's rationale: All child categories and templates are -geo- types; parent cat should reflect the same type. Her Pegship (speak) 20:31, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Diffuse articles, delete template and category, the normal stub categorization in Belgium is done by province, not by region, as the subcategories show. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:49, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Diffuse and then abolish -- We have lots of stubs at a provincial level. The next level up need to be Belgium (or Belgium and Luxemburg).  The one item that is not a geo-stub is Walloon government, whose target should be a Belgium stub.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:29, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree that diffusion and deletion is the best bet. Her Pegship (speak) 22:54, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * I've reverted your closure of this discussion, since the discussion should normally be closed by an editor who was not involved in the discussion. Besides the category and the template have not factually been deleted. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:17, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Just trying to be tidy. I'll wait... Her Pegship (speak) 20:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Still waiting. Will someone else please close or resolve this discussion? Her Pegship (speak) 16:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)


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