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November 20

Category:Sennin-G

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:51, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sennin-G (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete. - Looks to be an individual user's category for their images. Vast precedent to delete such categories, see here. VegaDark (talk) 22:27, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Encycloboxes

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Encycloboxes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete. - Virtually unused category apparently made solely for a userbox. Useless. VegaDark (talk) 21:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Half-Life 2

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: upmerge to Category:Half-Life. Category:Half-Life was not nominated, but it could be in a future nomination for renaming to match the main article Half-Life (series) per Vegaswikian1. (I imagine it has that name because "Half Life" is ambiguous as it has other meanings.). Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:38, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Half-Life 2 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Simply put, I think this is overcategorisation. All Half-Life 2 articles are far better placed under Category:Half-Life than creating a limited subcategory soley for HL2 products. I've already moved all the articles into the main Half-Life category, they fit much better there. -- Sabre (talk) 21:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Merge Category:American opera companies and Category:USA opera companies

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:American opera companies. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:48, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose merge - overlap. Ian Cairns (talk) 20:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Settlements in British Columbia by regional district

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The result of the discussion was: rename all. I don't see a preference for the formal names over the informal names where two options have been presented, so I'm renaming to the formal names since I assume they were the nominator's preferred form (but correct me if I'm wrong). Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:34, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Propose renaming Category:Communities in Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia to Category:Settlements in the Regional District of Cowichan Valley
Nominator's rationale: Rename. Three issues; one is to harmonize with the parent "Settlements" category and standard, the next is the superfluity of comma-British Columbia, and the third, most important to me, is that we do not refer to regional districts as stand-alone proper names, but always prefixed with the definite article "the". Some RDs also have official names in "reverse format" as in this case, so the category should reflect the RD's official name; otherwise the new name could be Category:Settlements in the Cowichan Valley Regional District. However in this case and certain others - and only certain others, particularly Central Okanagan, East Kootenay, maybe others (see list following) - the more practicable category name may be Category:Communities in the Cowichan Valley although the Regional District of Cowichan Valley is not quite synonymous with the geographic region Cowichan Valley; this and other sepcial cases can be addressed in future CFDs....Skookum1 (talk) 17:27, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Dirty Sexy Money characters

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:46, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Dirty Sexy Money characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete It contains only one article. Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Films critical of...

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Films critical of Hindu nationalism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Films critical of Marxism-Leninism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Films critical of capitalism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Films critical of civilization (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Films critical of consumerism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Category:Films critical of globalization (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete all. Miscategorized under Category:Films by genre (these do not, I believe, represent actual genres of film), these categories are rather narrow in their scope and very POV-ish. Take Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers, for example, the sole article in Category:Films critical of Marxism-Leninism; the article doesn't even mention Marxism-Leninism. This sort of thing should really require citations, making categories such as these inappropriate. PC78 (talk) 16:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Horror films by year

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge all to both. Will place this in the manual work queue, where any editor can perform the merges and then tag the categories for speedy deletion when they are emptied. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:06, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest merging:
Category:2006 horror films → Category:2000s horror films, Category:2006 films
Category:2007 horror films → Category:2000s horror films, Category:2007 films
Category:2008 horror films → Category:2000s horror films, Category:2008 films
Category:2009 horror films → Category:2000s horror films, Category:2009 films
Nominator's rationale: Merge all. As I understand it, Category:Horror films was broken up into decades to keep it from getting too big, but I don't see any pressing need to further subcategorize by year. At around 1000 articles, Category:2000s horror films isn't/wasn't so prohibitively large that it required splitting, nor do I think that categorizing films by year and genre is a path we ought to be going down. PC78 (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:MS objects

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The result of the discussion was: delete (looks like an OCAT by shared name, in any case). Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:08, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:MS objects (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Unclear inclusion criteria, created by a banned user who routinely used ambiguous acronyms without specification as to application of which particular version of an acronym was meant. See [1] for several possible "MS" which could be categorized here. User:CarloscomB has not responded to the query asking for clarification of what is meant by this category, or related entries on article infoboxes. This user has not responded to queries on links to dab pages from infoboxes on what version of various acronym has been meant to be linked to. 76.66.193.170 (talk) 11:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Recursive categories

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The result of the discussion was: speedily deleted. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:17, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Recursive categories (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Cute but unnecessary category. Recursive cats are actually caught by Wikipedia:Database reports/Self-categorized categories. roux   07:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sean Paul collaborations

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The result of the discussion was: Closed: Duplicate nomination (already listed on November 19). Non-admin close. Cgingold (talk) 03:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Sean Paul collaborations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Delete Qualifies as Wikipedia:Overcategorization by arbitrary association. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 02:50, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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