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October 29

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Category:Medieval civilizations

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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: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:26, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete and manually move Category:Medieval Islamic world to Category:Civilizations. "Civilization" usually covers multiple countries together (e.g. the western civilization), or covers a region that does not have clear division in countries (e.g. ancient Greece). This category however only contains single countries and dynasties (with one exception), which we normally do not refer to as civilizations. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:40, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Most civilizations most of time existed as universal empires or one country. Civilization continues to exist after political unification. All subcategories here called "Dynasties" cover civilizations in particular periods. For example, "Tang Dynasty" covers the Chinese civilization in the Tang period. The category can be moved to "Tang civilization."
Medieval Japan and Thailand are the same as ancient Greece - regions that do not have clear division in countries.
Christendom is a Christian analogue to the "Medieval Islamic world".
To sum up, civilizations existed in the Middle Ages. Their categories are named as "Empires" or "Dynasties".--Maxaxa (talk) 21:58, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a weird reaction. The discussion is about the usage of the term "civilization", not about being civilized. Can you refer to a reliable historian who uses the term "civilization" interchangeably with the terms "empire" or "dynasty", is the better question of this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:32, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    No. Historians do not interchange. They call civilizations "civilizations". Wikipedians interchange. Like this list from Empire:
  • Many of the empires on this list link to dynasties and most link to titles not incorporating "empire", like periods, histories, peoples, countries, ancient countries, kingdoms, khaganates, caliphates, republics...   Maxaxa (talk) 16:39, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Medieval Kurdish physicians

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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. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:27, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: soft merge per WP:SMALLCAT, only one article in the category. No objection to recreating the category when there is a handful of articles that fit. I have not specified any other merge targets because the article is already in the tree of the other two parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Shopping malls by management company

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Shopping malls by management company

Category:Transport in North America by country

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:Transport in North America by country

Category:Wikipedians interested in the Roman Empire

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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. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: If you're interested in Ancient Rome, you're automatically interested in Roman Empire. Dr Salvus 15:44, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Citizens through descent

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:Citizens through descent

Category:8th century in Morocco

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:8th century in Morocco

CfD section High commissioners for Commonwealth countries

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#CfD section High commissioners for Commonwealth countries

Category:Acorn Archimedes games

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:Acorn Archimedes games

Category:Head Masters of Eton College educated at Eton

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:Head Masters of Eton College educated at Eton

Category:BBC Light Programmes

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 6#Category:BBC Light Programmes