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Years in Seoul

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (talk) 18:31, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting:
 * Category:Years in Seoul
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:2010 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2010 in South Korea
 * Category:2011 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2011 in South Korea
 * Category:2012 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2012 in South Korea
 * Category:2013 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2013 in South Korea
 * Category:2014 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2014 in South Korea
 * Category:2015 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2015 in South Korea
 * Category:2016 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2016 in South Korea
 * Category:2017 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2017 in South Korea
 * Category:2018 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2018 in South Korea
 * Category:2019 in Seoul to Category:2010s in Seoul and Category:2019 in South Korea
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. These ten by-year categories contain only 26 articles in total, i.e. an average of 2.6 pages per category. Only one of them has more than 4 pages.
 * Most cities just have by-decade categories. Compare the large number of city categories in the by-continent sub-categories of Category:Decades by city with the sparse set in Category:Years by city.
 * Per WP:SMALLCAT, small categories are a nuisance to navigate. Chronology categories are most useful when part of an established series. So we don't split up decade categories unless we have enough articles in the set to make the by-year categories  more of a meal than a crumb. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:37, 9 September 2020‎ (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 10 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Marvel Comics CGI characters

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 * The result of the discussion was: Delete Timrollpickering (talk) 18:32, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting marvel comics cgi characters


 * Nominator's rationale: Overly specific category that doesn't seem defining. Note: category creator has been banned from creating categories due to constantly creating unnecessary categories. See:  JDDJS  ( talk to me  •  see what I've done ) 22:59, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete as nondefining.  bibliomaniac 1  5  21:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


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Years in Hamburg

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as nominated. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:41, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:1868 disestablishments in Hamburg to Category:1868 disestablishments in Germany
 * Category:1813 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1813 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1814 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1814 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1824 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1824 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1828 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1828 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1835 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1835 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1860 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1860 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1861 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1861 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1863 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1863 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1867 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1867 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1868 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1868 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1869 establishments in Hamburg to Category:1869 establishments in Germany
 * Category:1813 in Hamburg to Category:1810s in Hamburg and Category:1813 in Germany
 * Category:2017 in Hamburg to Category:2010s in Hamburg and Category:2017 in Germany
 * Category:2018 in Hamburg to Category:2010s in Hamburg and Category:2018 in Germany
 * Category:2019 in Hamburg to Category:2010s in Hamburg and Category:2019 in Germany
 * Propose deleting:
 * All the (dis)establishment container categories:
 * Category:Establishments in Hamburg by century
 * Category:Establishments in Hamburg by decade
 * Category:Establishments in Hamburg by year
 * Category:Disestablishments in Hamburg by century
 * Category:Disestablishments in Hamburg by decade
 * Category:Disestablishments in Hamburg by year
 * Category:19th-century establishments in Hamburg
 * Category:19th-century disestablishments in Hamburg
 * All the year categories which are just containers:
 * Category:Years in Hamburg
 * Category:Years of the 19th century in Hamburg
 * Category:Years of the 21st century in Hamburg
 * Category:1814 in Hamburg
 * Category:1824 in Hamburg
 * Category:1860 in Hamburg
 * Category:1861 in Hamburg
 * Category:1863 in Hamburg
 * Category:1867 in Hamburg
 * Category:1868 in Hamburg
 * Category:1869 in Hamburg
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. This is a big nest of very small categories:
 * Excluding the (dis)establishment categories, the total number of articles in "YYYY in Hamburg" categories:
 * Category:Years of the 19th century in Hamburg+subcats: 1 articles
 * Category:Years of the 21st century in Hamburg+subcats: 10 articles in 3 by-year categories
 * Taking only the establishment & disestablishment categories
 * Category:Disestablishments in Hamburg by year‎+subcats: 1 article
 * Category:Establishments in Hamburg by year‎+subcats: 13 articles in 11 by-year categories
 * That is a total of 25 articles in a nest of 36 categories.
 * As of now, we have nowhere near enough articles on by-year topics in the history of Hamburg to make a by-year category tree useful navigation. So this nomination proposes merging all the establishment and disestablishment categories to the national level, and merging all the year categories to decade categories. This will be in line with the usual category structure for cities and other national subdivisions (Hamburg is both a city and a state of Germany). --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 19:41, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Rather dual merge per Carlossuarez46 below, also e.g. to Category:19th-century establishments in Hamburg (so keep the century categories). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 11 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Hamburg was a (nominally) independent polity prior to the creation of various German confederations. We usually categorize by that, rather than by the country that didn't exist but later absorbed the place (e.g., Category:Establishments in East Germany by year). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 05:33, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * We do categorize by independent polity, but not necessarily by year. By decade or even by century can also be appropriate. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:15, 11 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Upmerge etc. per nom, but I think there may be scope also to merge to decade categories e.g Category:1860s establishments in Hamburg. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:32, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * For decades there is not enough, but keeping centuries is reasonable. For example, the whole of the 19th century only contains 12 articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:20, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge decades and years except for the 2010s, keep centuries per . This listing may be incomplete. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 20:33, 3 November 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Family-in-law

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename and redirect. – Fayenatic  L ondon 11:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Family-in-law to Category:Affinity (law)
 * Nominator's rationale: The article Affinity (law) is the main subject of the category. ★Trekker (talk) 16:28, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose, the category is not specifically about law and Affinity (law) should not be listed as the main article. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * How is it not? Affinity law is literally why its called "family-in-law".★Trekker (talk) 06:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Father-in-law of Europe is about history, Mother-in-law joke is about humor. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:14, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And? Im well aware of those article, I was the one who put this category on them. Before I started imporving this category it only included 3 pages.★Trekker (talk) 04:33, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * So there are legal and other aspects about the social construct family-in-law. It is very similar to the situation that not everything in Category:Family is about law. By extension Category:Family-in-law is better off as a subcategory of Category:Family rather than of Category:Family law while only the two articles Affinity (law) and Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 do belong in Category:Family law. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:31, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The fundamental concept is still based on the idea of Affinity as defined as "legal" in a variety of cultures. Not everything in Category:Marriage law (and its child categories) is legal articles either. And the article Affinity (law) defines the concept as "In law and in cultural anthropology".★Trekker (talk) 06:06, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't you think its pretty telling that there is no such article as Family-in-law? That's because "family-in-law" is just called affinity, and it is fundamentaly a legal relationship.★Trekker (talk) 06:10, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I disagree, the social concept preceded the legal concept and there is no necessity to have law about family-in-law in order for it to have a meaning. I am not impressed by the fact there is no article about it, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:38, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what dictionaries have to do with anything. Also law is a fluid concept, just because some ancient peoples didn't write down what marriages of family members meant it didn't mean they didn't have social rules which could fall under "law".★Trekker (talk) 15:36, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose several other articles can be written or be included that runs affinity to opposite conclusions. Levirate marriage could be included in this category (e.g., you may/must marry your [older] brother's widow regardless of whether there are children from that prior marriage); and Yibbum (e.g., you ought, but need not marry your brother's widow but only if there are no children from that prior marriage). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 05:41, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * That's still affinity law.★Trekker (talk) 04:33, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Rename. I'm not clear on what the concern is here. Affinity (law) is the article that addresses the concept of the family-in-law. There is no article for Family-in-law, and I don't see the benefit of the category and the article using different terminology. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:55, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Rename with redirect. From a strictly categorical standpoint, I think it would be best to rename to conform to the main article, leaving a redirect behind. The oppose rationale given by Marcocappelle strikes me more as an argument to rename the main article (which I'm not totally against, I think Affinity (relationship) might do a better job at broadening the scope beyond the merely legal aspect). But I also do not think that renaming the category "Affinity (law)" necessarily disregards the social aspect of things; (law) is merely a disambiguator, though it may not be the best one. Carlossuarez46's opposition is also not clear to me; in fact, I see no reason why levirate marriage or Yibbum wouldn't be included in this category, seeing as they involve different interactions between in-laws, unless the argument is that the category is a set category instead of a topic category.  bibliomaniac 1  5  21:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Rename with Redirect We should blindly follow the main article name to aid navigation in the category space. Since that article has what is, at least to me, an obscure name a redirect makes sense for Hotcat users. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


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Years in cities without a wider series

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 10:57, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting Category:Years in Ankara
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:2015 in Ankara to Category:2010s in Ankara and Category:2015 in Turkey
 * Category:2016 in Ankara to Category:2010s in Ankara and Category:2016 in Turkey
 * Propose deleting Category:Years in Beirut
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:2019 in Beirut to Category:2010s in Beirut and Category:2019 in Lebanon
 * Category:2019 sports events in Beirut to Category:2010s in Beirut and Category:2019 in Lebanese sport
 * Propose deleting Category:Years in Baghdad
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:2003 in Baghdad to Category:2000s in Baghdad and Category:2003 in Iraq
 * Category:2007 in Baghdad to Category:2000s in Baghdad and Category:2007 in Iraq
 * Category:2013 in Baghdad to Category:2010s in Baghdad and Category:2013 in Iraq
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Each of these cities has a well-established set of decade cats: Category:Decades in Ankara, Category:Decades in Baghdad, and Category:Decades in Beirut. These isolated year categories are an impediment to navigation.   The only one of these by-year cats with over 4 articles is Category:2010s in Ankara (population=6) ... but its parent Category:2010s in Ankara has only 12 articles, so there is no need to split up the decade into tiny chunks.
 * Most cities just have by-decade categories. Compare the large number of city categories in the by-continent sub-categories of Category:Decades by city with the sparse set in Category:Years by city.
 * Only the largest cities in developed nations (basically the so-called "world cities") have enough articles to need by-year categories. See e.g. Category:Years in London and Category:Years in New York City. Please note that this is not some sort of judgement on the merits or significance of any city. The issue here is simply navigation, which per WP:CAT is the main purpose of categories: per WP:SMALLCAT, small categories are a nuisance to navigate.  Chronology categories are most useful when part of an established series. So we don't split up decade categories unless we have enough articles in the set to make the by-year categories  more of a meal than a crumb. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:27, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Years in Austin

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 10:56, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting
 * Category:Years in Austin, Texas
 * Propose merging
 * Category:2016 in Austin, Texas to Category:2010s in Austin, Texas and Category:2016 in Texas
 * Category:2017 in Austin, Texas to Category:2010s in Austin, Texas and Category:2017 in Texas
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. These are the only by-year categories for Austin, and they each contain only a single article. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:08, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Years in Chicago

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 10:55, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting
 * Category:Years in Chicago
 * Propose merging
 * Category:1977 in Chicago to Category:1970s in Chicago and Category:1977 in Illinois
 * Category:1978 in Chicago to Category:1970s in Chicago and Category:1978 in Illinois
 * Category:1979 in Chicago to Category:1970s in Chicago and Category:1979 in Illinois
 * Category:1980 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1980 in Illinois
 * Category:1981 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1981 in Illinois
 * Category:1982 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1982 in Illinois
 * Category:1983 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1983 in Illinois
 * Category:1984 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1984 in Illinois
 * Category:1985 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1985 in Illinois
 * Category:1986 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1986 in Illinois
 * Category:1987 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1987 in Illinois
 * Category:1988 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1988 in Illinois
 * Category:1989 in Chicago to Category:1980s in Chicago and Category:1989 in Illinois
 * Category:1990 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1990 in Illinois
 * Category:1991 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1991 in Illinois
 * Category:1992 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1992 in Illinois
 * Category:1993 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1993 in Illinois
 * Category:1994 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1994 in Illinois
 * Category:1995 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1995 in Illinois
 * Category:1996 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1996 in Illinois
 * Category:1997 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1997 in Illinois
 * Category:1998 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1998 in Illinois
 * Category:1999 in Chicago to Category:1990s in Chicago and Category:1999 in Illinois
 * Category:2000 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2000 in Illinois
 * Category:2001 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2001 in Illinois
 * Category:2002 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2002 in Illinois
 * Category:2003 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2003 in Illinois
 * Category:2004 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2004 in Illinois
 * Category:2005 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2005 in Illinois
 * Category:2006 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2006 in Illinois
 * Category:2007 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2007 in Illinois
 * Category:2008 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2008 in Illinois
 * Category:2009 in Chicago to Category:2000s in Chicago and Category:2009 in Illinois
 * Category:2010 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2010 in Illinois
 * Category:2011 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2011 in Illinois
 * Category:2012 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2012 in Illinois
 * Category:2013 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2013 in Illinois
 * Category:2014 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2014 in Illinois
 * Category:2015 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2015 in Illinois
 * Category:2016 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2016 in Illinois
 * Category:2017 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2017 in Illinois
 * Category:2018 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2018 in Illinois
 * Category:2019 in Chicago to Category:2010s in Chicago and Category:2019 in Illinois
 * Category:2020 in Chicago to Category:2020s in Chicago and Category:2020 in Illinois
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. These 44 by-year categories contain a total of 257 articles, an average of 5.8 per category, which at first glance sounds OK: marginally beyond SMALLCAT territory.
 * However, https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=17314610 shows that 159 of those pages are in Category:Sports in Illinois by year. Most of those sports articles are also categorised in sporting series categories, so they are adequately categorised already.  That leaves only 97 non-sporting topics split over these 44 Chicago-by-year categories(avg 2.2 per year).
 * This is not as clearcut a case as and  below, but I still think that the Chicago-by-year categorises are not adding navigational value, and that years are too fine a time unit for useful categorisation of Chicago. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 14:37, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Years in Dallas

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 10:55, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting
 * Category:Years in Dallas
 * Propose merging
 * Category:1990 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1990 in Texas
 * Category:1991 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1991 in Texas
 * Category:1992 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1992 in Texas
 * Category:1993 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1993 in Texas
 * Category:1994 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1994 in Texas
 * Category:1995 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1995 in Texas
 * Category:1996 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1996 in Texas
 * Category:1997 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1997 in Texas
 * Category:1998 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1998 in Texas
 * Category:1999 in Dallas to Category:1990s in Dallas and Category:1999 in Texas
 * Category:2000 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2000 in Texas
 * Category:2001 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2001 in Texas
 * Category:2002 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2002 in Texas
 * Category:2003 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2003 in Texas
 * Category:2004 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2004 in Texas
 * Category:2005 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2005 in Texas
 * Category:2006 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2006 in Texas
 * Category:2007 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2007 in Texas
 * Category:2008 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2008 in Texas
 * Category:2009 in Dallas to Category:2000s in Dallas and Category:2009 in Texas
 * Category:2010 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2010 in Texas
 * Category:2011 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2011 in Texas
 * Category:2012 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2012 in Texas
 * Category:2013 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2013 in Texas
 * Category:2014 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2014 in Texas
 * Category:2015 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2015 in Texas
 * Category:2016 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2016 in Texas
 * Category:2017 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2017 in Texas
 * Category:2018 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2018 in Texas
 * Category:2019 in Dallas to Category:2010s in Dallas and Category:2019 in Texas
 * Category:2020 in Dallas to Category:2020s in Dallas and Category:2020 in Texas
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. These 31 by-year categories contain a total of only 76 articles, i.e. an average of only 2.5 per category. Seventeen of the categories (i.e. over half of them) contain only one page each.
 * Most of those 76 pages are sporting topics, which are already well-categorised elsewhere: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=17314498 shows that 66 of those 76 articles are categorised under Category:Sports in Texas by year.
 * It seems that we don't yet have enough coverage of Dallas to justify by-year categories for the city. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 13:57, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:52, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Massacre of Lwów professors

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (talk) 10:54, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Massacre of Lwów professors to Category:Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland and Category:World War II crimes in Poland
 * Nominator's rationale: Unneccessary intermediate category. Only content apart from the eponymous article is Category:Victims of the Massacre of Lwów professors Rathfelder (talk) 12:16, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Years in Phoenix
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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 10:53, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting
 * Category:Years in Phoenix, Arizona
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:2000 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2000 in Arizona
 * Category:2001 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2001 in Arizona
 * Category:2002 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2002 in Arizona
 * Category:2003 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2003 in Arizona
 * Category:2004 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2004 in Arizona
 * Category:2005 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2005 in Arizona
 * Category:2006 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2006 in Arizona
 * Category:2007 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2007 in Arizona
 * Category:2008 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2008 in Arizona
 * Category:2009 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2000s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2009 in Arizona
 * Category:2010 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2010 in Arizona
 * Category:2011 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2011 in Arizona
 * Category:2012 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2012 in Arizona
 * Category:2013 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2013 in Arizona
 * Category:2014 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2014 in Arizona
 * Category:2015 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2015 in Arizona
 * Category:2016 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2016 in Arizona
 * Category:2017 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2017 in Arizona
 * Category:2018 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2018 in Arizona
 * Category:2019 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2010s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2019 in Arizona
 * Category:2020 in Phoenix, Arizona to Category:2020s in Phoenix, Arizona and Category:2020 in Arizona
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:SMALLCAT. These 21 by-year categories contain a total of only 48 articles, i.e. an average of only 2.3 per category. Nine of the categories contain only one page each.
 * It seems that we don't yet have enough coverage of Phoenix to justify by-year categories for the city. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 11:40, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Important Prophets of Islam
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 19:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting important prophets of islam


 * Nominator's rationale: already covered by Category:Prophets of Islam Theroadislong (talk) 10:41, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Category's name is POV.★Trekker (talk) 13:07, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and the other comment above. Smeat75 (talk) 14:03, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, "important" is subjective and the articles are already in Category:Prophets of Islam. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:59, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, subjective list with no clear criteria, not clear we need to break up the extant category on prophets. —C.Fred (talk) 17:00, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per the obvious POV in the name. JDDJS  ( talk to me  •  see what I've done ) 23:02, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete POV category. Who defines their importance? Dimadick (talk) 08:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per above -- Lenticel ( talk ) 00:13, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Scientific research methods journals
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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (talk) 10:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Scientific research methods journals to Category:Research methods journals
 * Nominator's rationale: There is no obvious distinction in terms of stated definitions and member articles between these two categories, and no attempt to define how "scientific" research method journals differ from "generic" research method journals. The impression to the reader is that there's a battle going on to decide which research methods journals qualify as "science" meta-journals, tending to a non-world point of view - most of the world's research community sees a spectrum from the harder more quantitative sciences to the softer generally more qualitative ones. I don't seem to see any research methods journals focussing on highly qualitative science. I suspect that there's also an accident of editing history; the "generic" category was created in 2007, the "specific" category was created in 2018, probably without noticing the generic one or attempting to tidy up. For example, Sociological Methods & Research is currently classified in the generic, not scientific, category but includes papers such as "Improving and Validating Survey Estimates of Religious Demography Using Bayesian Multilevel Models and Poststratification" and "Optimizing Count Responses in Surveys: A Machine-learning Approach" and "Estimating the Proportion of a Categorical Variable With Probit Regression" - these all claim (by their titles) to use formal statistical methods and appear aimed at improving specific scientific methods. Boud (talk) 09:39, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge -- Most of the journals in the target might just as easily be in the subject. Some may question whether the social sciences are true sciences, but I do not see any useful distinction.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:59, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:2015 in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (talk) 10:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:2015 in the Los Angeles metropolitan area to Category:History of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and Category:2015 in California


 * Nominator's rationale: Not part of any established series of chronology categories, so merge to both parents. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 09:27, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:04, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Neurology, SS, and psychiatry disease and disorder templates
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 * The result of the discussion was: split to Category:Neurological disorders templates and Category:Psychiatry templates, and purge other content. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:57, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting neurology, ss, and psychiatry disease and disorder templates


 * Nominator's rationale: Super broad category that serves no useful organisational purpose. I request deletion of the category, with contents moved to the narrower and easier to understand new categories:


 * Category:Neurology disease and disorder templates (this already covers "SS", which means "somatosensory")
 * Category:Psychiatry and substance use disorder templates Tom (LT) (talk) 00:28, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Support in principle per nom, but the former should be named Category:Neurological disorders templates in order to align with its new parent Category:Neurological disorders. For the second, I do not understand how substance use disorders suddenly appears in the proposed name, isn't that something totally different? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for commenting @. Good point regarding "disorder" - agree with you there. Regarding substances - I think that they have been lumped in with psychiatry at present (this is probably because the DSM lists them as psychiatric disorders), and if you explore the category it already has three related templates (alcohol, psychoactive substance and combined substance use). I think it makes things clearer and helps category gnomes to explicitly state the substance use part of things, but I respect if others differ on this point. --Tom (LT) (talk) 08:53, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Category:Drug templates is a more obvious place for substance use. I am not sure where alcohol fits best but certainly not in psychiatry. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:45, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * + The alcohol template is already in Category:Health and fitness templates, it may also be added to Category:Food and drink templates. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Summarizing my earlier comments: alt split to Category:Neurological disorders templates and Category:Psychiatry templates respectively, and purge the latter. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:50, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with you regarding neurological disorders and psychiatry templates, so I hope we can make this split.
 * I am happy to, in order to get these templates moved into better subcats, agree with you regarding a move to "drug templates" for now. --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:37, 11 October 2020 (UTC)


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