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Category:1840s in Panama

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 13:00, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: At the relevant time, Panama was still a part of the Republic of New Granada. This entire structure is empty already following the edits of User:Johnpacklambert here and here removing the establishment categories so it's just clarification. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:12, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Demographics of Utica, New York

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Demographics of New York and Category:Utica, New York. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:01, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Delete. Single-item eponymous category created just to contain its eponym, with no other articles that can be added it to make it anything other than a WP:SMALLCAT. Individual cities virtually never need their own "Demographics" categories, precisely because a single article listing the demographics is all that such a category could actually contain. Category:Demographics of New York City is a noteworthy exception, because just for starters each of the five boroughs has its own separate spinoff and some individual demographic groups do too — but a city with a population of just 62K doesn't need an eponymous category to hold a single demographics article. Upmerge to Category:Demographics of New York and Category:Utica, New York. Bearcat (talk) 19:37, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Wine regions in Turkey

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The result of the discussion was: speedy delete (G7). MER-C 13:03, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Serie A championship winning seasons

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:09, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge. A team which wins Serie A championship wins scudetto: Category:Serie A championship winning seasons contains winners in 1984-2002, Category:Scudetto-winning seasons winners in 2003-2013, but this distinction isn't justified. Epìdosis 16:55, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Floodwood, Minnesota

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 13:03, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Small community with just 2 entries. ...William 16:33, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Weymouth Township, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: merge all except Category:People from Carlstadt, New Jersey and Category:People from Northfield, New Jersey. Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:17, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also propose merging-

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Small one county communities with 4 or less entries. ...William 15:28, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Merge Full diffusion of the county category allows for effective navigation across the category structure, and fulfills the stated purpose of the WP:CLN editing guideline of allowing the category and corresponding list to be built in synergistic fashion. The nominator's cutoff of four is utterly arbitrary and capricious and has no relevance in policy or in making Wikipedia an effective tool for navigating through and viewing articles by way of the category structure. Why not two or seven or any other number? What is it about having five entries that fulfills a magic number? What distinguishes Category:People from Emerson, New Jersey, which has four entries and therefore must be deleted, from Category:People from Carlstadt, New Jersey, which is one of several categories listed above that already has five entries and will be retained? Alansohn (talk) 20:03, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Carlstadt & Northfield/Delete All Others The spirit of WP:OCMISC really applies here: "It is not necessary to completely empty every parent category into its subcategories." Just because some towns in Atlantic County are viable sub-categories, doesn't mean there still can't be loose articles at the county level for really small towns.RevelationDirect (talk) 02:21, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Note: Carlstadt & Northfield have reached 5 articles, probably since the nomination. Brigantine also has 5 but I question including an article. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:20, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • The rationalization used to demand deletion, WP:OCMISC states Do not categorize articles into "miscellaneous", "other", "not otherwise specified" or "remainder" categories. It is not necessary to completely empty every parent category into its subcategories. If there are some articles that don't fit appropriately into any of the standard subcategories, leave the articles in the parent category. The articles categorized together as "other" or "miscellaneous" generally will have little in common and therefore should not be categorized together in a dedicated "miscellaneous" category. It's inarguable that every entry in Category:People from Emerson, New Jersey belongs there based on residence, not because "some articles that don't fit appropriately into any of the standard subcategories". Nothing is "necessary", but all of these articles belong in the subcategory, rather than in the parent. Are you going to offer any explanation for the arbitrary magic number? Why "Keep Carlstadt & Northfield" because they have five entries, while other have four and must be deleted? Alansohn (talk) 04:33, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • To clarify, I said "spirit of WP:OCMISC" not because they are literally miscellaneous but because they suffer from the same problem. Both the argument here and the problems with miscellaneous categories are identical: that if *some* articles are in sub-categories then they *all* have to be even if that produces sub-categories that aren't useful for navigation. RevelationDirect (talk) 13:08, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support nomination (but no objection if Carlstadt & Northfield are kept). We've meanwhile had many similar upmergers of 'people from small community' to 'people from county'. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:37, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Such small categories just make it harder to use categories for searching, and in the case of counties people will often have moved between various parts of the county, so it is often just plain overcategorization to place them as from just one place.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:11, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Real estate brokers

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The result of the discussion was: merge/rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:18, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Merge/rename to match main article Real estate broker. I looked at a lot of the American pages, and they mainly use "real estate broker". The page realtor redirects to that name already. The Bahamian category is not useful for navigation as it has only one member. The British category "estate agents" has been nominated at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_July_16. Canadians articles seem to use "realtor" or "real estate agent" equally, but in Canada Realtor is a registered trademark of the The Canadian Real Estate Association, so the wider term is preferred. Note: this is a follow up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 June 28 which was closed with no consensus. – Fayenatic London 15:32, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:18th-century establishments in the Netherlands

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The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic London 12:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: per Dutch Republic for years 1581–1795 Tim! (talk) 08:54, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think that one ought to be merged into Category:1798 establishments in the Batavian Republic, as Netherlands does not come into existence until 1815. Tim! (talk) 05:59, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Polish Neurosurgeon

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename C2A. – Fayenatic London 14:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Proper naming conventions for categories. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:32, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Sunni ulama by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (Note that there are a number of subcategories of Category:Ulama that were not included in this nomination.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:21, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge, "ulama" is not a defining characteristic of these articles (see WP:NONDEF). Marcocapelle (talk) 08:10, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
WP project Islam notified of nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:28, 19 July 2015 (UTC) [reply]
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Category:NGO in Gopalganj

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:08, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The small category. Shyamsunder (talk) 05:04, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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