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*'''Merge''' per nom; these are overlapping subcategories of [[:Category:IND Second Avenue Line stations]]. -- '''[[User:Black Falcon|Black Falcon]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Black Falcon|talk]])</sup> 15:55, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
*'''Merge''' per nom; these are overlapping subcategories of [[:Category:IND Second Avenue Line stations]]. -- '''[[User:Black Falcon|Black Falcon]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Black Falcon|talk]])</sup> 15:55, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
*'''Upermerge''' to [[:Category:IND Second Avenue Line stations]]. None of these are actually proposed. They are under construction. If we really need to keep these in a subcategory it should be [[:Category:Under construction IND Second Avenue Line stations]] to correctly reflect the content. [[User:Vegaswikian|Vegaswikian]] ([[User talk:Vegaswikian|talk]]) 21:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
*'''Upermerge''' to [[:Category:IND Second Avenue Line stations]]. None of these are actually proposed. They are under construction. If we really need to keep these in a subcategory it should be [[:Category:Under construction IND Second Avenue Line stations]] to correctly reflect the content. [[User:Vegaswikian|Vegaswikian]] ([[User talk:Vegaswikian|talk]]) 21:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
*'''Merge''' per nom to [[:Category:Future Second Avenue Subway stations]].


==== Category:Basketball players from Brooklyn ====
==== Category:Basketball players from Brooklyn ====

Revision as of 20:48, 22 July 2014

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Category:Port-City University League

Nominator's rationale: Which associations a university/college is a member of is not generally a WP:DEFINING characteristic (most of the articles in this category do not mention this league in the article text, let alone in the lead). For info: This is part of a series of CFDs for membership of university associations (e.g. see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_July_4#Category:National_Association_of_Independent_Colleges_and_Universities_members). For info: there is a list in the Port-City University League article. DexDor (talk) 22:32, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fish of Great Britain

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Omitted from merger of other countries at CFD July 2 because it was a fairly new and almost orphaned category. The 4 pages in it are already within Category:Fish of Europe or appropriate sub-cats, so no merger is needed. – Fayenatic London 20:46, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fish of Europe by country

Nominator's rationale: Merge. Only contains Category:Fish of Russia after upmerging of all the others, see CFD July 2. – Fayenatic London 20:20, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British actors who served in the armed forces

Nominator's rationale: WP:TRIVIALCAT as the arbitrary past tense intersection of "British actor" and "British military personnel". Britain had conscription for twenty years around WW2, so many actors will have served in the forces. McGeddon (talk) 14:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • OPPOSE. I created the category as I couldn't find a listing of all British actors who had served in the armed forces. In the course of finding actors who fit the category I went way past the period of conscription from 1939-1960 finding actors who had enlisted voluntarily or who had served in WW1; Noel Coward for example. While I accept the largest number will be during the WW2 and post-WW2 service period I think it's an extremely useful, encyclopaedic category. SonofSetanta (talk) 14:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Why not convert this to a list? If would be better able to explain the periods of service in relation to their acting career. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • While a list would be better than no reference at all I still think a category would be best. I can think of several reasons why a user of the encyclopaedia would wish to take advantage of it. I know I've had cause to search the Wiki on a number of occasions over the last five years for actors who served in the war in particular. In that context it's as useful as searching for singers or actors who went to Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. In terms of being frivolous why would military service be more so than where one went to school? As a serious historian I would advocate a student would be able to take advantage of the category to find out which famous British people had military service, which regiment they served in and any campaigns they were involved in which could lead to a lot of other research being achieved through the Wiki. Perhaps McGeddon's good faith nomination is bereft of any thought for military historians? With this information would he reconsider? SonofSetanta (talk) 12:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as a trivial intersection of two characteristics. In what way is one's occupation as an actor tied to one's military service? Furthermore, if there is a connection, is it equally significant for an actor to enlist or be conscripted as it is for a serviceman to become an actor? Unless there is a special connection, then this is basically part of a Military personnel by other occupation category scheme that does not (and should not) exist. If this is in fact a topic of real-world interest (i.e., one that is covered non-trivially by reliable sources), then a list is a much more suitable mechanism than a category. -- Black Falcon (talk) 15:48, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per comments above. There may be some "People who did occupation A and later did occupation B" categories that may be of use to some readers, but it's a recipe for huge category clutter. It's better to have a small number of categories that stand a chance at being maintained (i.e. contain all eligible articles and are free of non-eligible articles) than to have a large number of categories that can't all be maintained. DexDor (talk) 20:49, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Future New York City Subway stations

Nominator's rationale:: consistent naming with rest of the tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:27, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Future Second Avenue Subway stations

Nominator's rationale: The two categories seem to serve an identical purpose. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:57, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Basketball players from Brooklyn

Nominator's rationale: There have been numerous discussions about creating these type of sportsperson categories below the state/province level (such as "Basketball players from New York") and we have always intentionally NOT created them. You can see a discussion from earlier this year here, however similar discussions were held previously for Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois (at a minimum). Rikster2 (talk) 12:48, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Category:1945 in Jordan

Nominator's rationale: Transjordan became independent only in 1946 and officially became the Kingdom of Jordan in 1952, hence for 1945 and before it should be regarded as Transjordan (standing for Emirate of Transjordan between 1921-1946), as OETA (1917-1921) and Ottoman Syria (1517-1917). This is in line with other similar cases to refer to contemprorary entity for the time.GreyShark (dibra) 11:13, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Boston Tea Party (political party) politicians

Nominator's rationale: As the party is defunct, no new articles are available to add. The only other name, for the VP candidate, was a non-notable name and that article is now a redirect to the parent. – S. Rich (talk) 06:05, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:King Edward VI High School for Girls

Nominator's rationale: This category contains only the main article and an alumni subcategory which is otherwise appropriately categorized. There does not appear to be enough material about this school to warrant an eponymous category. If there is no consensus to delete, then the category should be renamed to Category:King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham to match the main article. (Category creator notified using Template:Cfd-notify) -- Black Falcon (talk) 06:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Naval Battles off the Cornish coast

Nominator's rationale: Naval battles are already categorized geographically, by the body of water in which they took place (see Category:Naval battles by sea or ocean). A new category tree for naval battles by coast is unnecessary, could result in a proliferation of categories for hundreds of coasts around the world, and will ultimately be haphazard and arbitrary because "off the coast" is not clearly defined—how close to land must a naval battle be in order for it to be considered "off the coast"? If there is no consensus to upmerge, then the category needs to be renamed to Category:Naval battles off the Cornish coast. (Category creator not notified due to inactivity.) -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:52, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:All Hong Kong Schools Jing Ying Football Tournament

Nominator's rationale: Non-notable Schools tournament, fails WP:GNG JMHamo (talk) 02:24, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. JMHamo (talk) 02:25, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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