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Category:Soviet state

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Merge. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:19, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unclear category. Synonym for Soviet Union. Soviet state is redirect to Government of the Soviet Union now. NickSt (talk) 22:28, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Wikipedia project help

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Number 57 17:10, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: It's unclear what pages this category is intended to contain. At present it causes Category:WikiProjects (and hence all the wikiproject subcats) to be under Category:Wikipedia help which I don't think is correct. DexDor (talk) 20:58, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Councils of London

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The result of the discussion was: upmerged. Number 57 17:07, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Small category (2 entries), besides the fact that two councils were held in London is not very relevant. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merge target for both Category:Councils of the Church in England. Descrining them as RC is unnecessary, because there were no denominations in the period referred to. I am not suggesting "Church Councils", because that might mean that some would include (Anglican) Parochial Church Councils, and similar bodies in other churches. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:32, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, please note that the previous suggestion may have implications for the entire tree of Category:Roman Catholic Church Councils which is currently for post-1054 councils when the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic denomination split apart. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:17, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. This is the way to make the content clear. Whatever the meaning of "Church" at the time, it is a contested term in the present and we can not designate any group as "Church" without being other than NPOV.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Sarcopterygian Wikipedians

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:39, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think this category has any value (although it might just if renamed to something like Category:Wikipedians who are strict cladists). See related discussion Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_August_12#Category:Neurotypical_Wikipedians. DexDor (talk) 19:19, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Highly obscure description that makes it difficult to understand the encyclopaedic purpose (if there is one?). SFB 19:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Are these people saying they are a kind of fish, or am I missing something?John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:25, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The description I created says "This page catalogues Wikipedians that, by virtue of evolution, are claded as tetrapodan sarcopterygians.", which I meant to imply that it's a catalogue of the Wikipedians who are in favor of cladistics over Linnean taxonomy. Essentially, the Nominator's Rationale is more on-the-nose with the idea that it's a category for the Wikipedians who are strict cladists; I used Sarcopterygia specifically since it's the earliest known group of tetrapods, which includes pretty much every example of megafauna ever, aside from some of the Carboniferous fauna. I suppose I wouldn't be opposed to a rename, since, well...looking at it now, I can see that the name is rather clunky. Maybe rename it to Category:Cladistic Wikipedians, if we decide to rename the cat? Dromaeosaurus is best dinosaur (talk) 19:06, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Per above, "It's a catalogue of the Wikipedians who are in favor of cladistics over Linnean taxonomy" - I fail to see how categorizing such Wikipedians helps the encyclopedia in any way. What purpose would going through this category to seek out such users have? Is their personal preference of taxonomy helpful to know for collaborative purposes? I don't see how that would be the case. VegaDark (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. automobiles

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. Number 57 17:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Split. Following the cleanup of Category:Bugatti vehicles, we probably need to discuss the organization of this category. Most of these vehicles have nothing to do with VW. VM bought the brand for a company called Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.. In fact the article says that only the brand was purchased! It is far from clear that the various vehicles really share more then a brand and the different companies vehicles should not be classified together. I'll acknowledge that if we change here, there could be other changes in the category structure. But the question needs to be asked someplace. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:32, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Seeing as this category is one purely designated as "automobile by brand", surely the issue of various manufacturers is not an issue at all? SFB 19:29, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My same thought. – Cloverleaf II (talk) 13:07, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose in the interests of a short, succinct, common name. Car makers change ownership all the time, but the master category does not get split up as a result. OSX (talkcontributions) 00:09, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Bugatti at this point represents a brand, so it may make sense to retain Category:Bugatti automobiles as a parent for the three new categories. I agree that succinct is a goal, but one which is not always achievable. As to the common name, yes, in categories we try and use it when the name is not ambiguous. Here we have cars built by three very different companies, so knowing which company built the vehicle is important. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:59, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
So what about a company like Chrysler? It has been moved around a bit recently. Jaguar and Land Rover? I just don't see the benefit as the cars are separate to the entities that own the marque. OSX (talkcontributions) 04:16, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Chrysler has stayed in business and vehicles have been produced under the name the entire time. So the case there is different. There have been ownership changes but the cars are being produced by the same corporation or its successors. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:29, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 07:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Bugatti automobiles
    • Bugatti automobiles manufactured by Automobiles Ettore Bugatti
    • Bugatti automobiles manufactured by Bugatti Automobili SpA
    • Bugatti automobiles manufactured by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
HandsomeFella (talk) 20:32, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:The Narrative

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This has been deleted and recreated multiple times. Delete because it only has two articles which are interlinked and two subcats which are interlinked. —Justin (koavf)TCM 06:19, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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