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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. The Metrolink system does not serve San Diego County and is unlikely to expand there. This category will only have one article in it for the foreseeable future. Regards, James(talk/contribs) 23:52, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support nomination - but strongly oppose suggestion to copy all articles from the subcategories. Only articles that don't fit in the subcategories should be placed in the main category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:33, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Health care companies of the United Kingdom
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This category is empty only because the nominator emptied it out of process, by moving everything in it to a new Category:Healthcare companies of the United Kingdom. But the established naming convention within Category:Health care companies by country is for "health care" to be two words rather than one, so this was not an appropriate action to take without a wider discussion first. I'm not opposed to the idea that they could be renamed to "healthcare" instead of "health care", but that would require a consensus of Wikipedians, not one user's arbitrary decision: moving it without discussion, and then listing the existing category for deletion as "empty" without acknowleding why it's empty, is not the way to go about it. Reverse merge everything from Category:Healthcare companies of the United Kingdom back here, and list for discussion if you actually want to pursue a rename — even if the new category is the end result, this should remain in place as a {{categoryredirect}} to it anyway. Bearcat (talk) 21:40, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Even if there is a consensus that "healthcare" rather than "health care" is the appropriate wording for a UK category, the version with the space in it would need to be retained as a category redirect, in order to catch instances of somebody mistakenly filing an article in it (which has a high prospect of happening if most of the other sibling categories remain at "health care".) So outright deletion wouldn't really be appropriate here; it would have to be maintained as a redirect. Bearcat (talk) 19:36, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: If there's a distinction here between these two categories, I'm not seeing it. Merge, unless I'm missing something. Bearcat (talk) 20:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the current category should be for ethnocultural festivals of Bengladeshi ethnocultural groups regardless of location in the world, while the target should be for festivals in the country of Bangladesh, regardless of ethnocultural background. But the current content seems to be used only for that in Bangladesh. -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 07:04, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
In theory, I'd fully understand that sort of distinction — though I'd suggest that a category for that purpose should be named differently than this, to minimize potential confusion about its intent. But as you correctly pointed out in your final sentence, that isn't the way this category is being used right now; in its current form, it's just an alternate wording for the merge target rather than a separate kind of thing. Bearcat (talk) 18:58, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
All of its sibling categories in Category:Festivals by country are named in the "Festivals in Country" format rather than the "Nationality festivals" one. Is there a substantive reason why Bangladesh should be an isolated outlier to an established naming convention? Bearcat (talk) 01:11, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
But "festivals by country in which they are located" is a thing that warrants categorization too. For example, a festival of Bangladeshi culture in the United States rightly should be categorized on the "in the United States" part of its mandate every bit as much as the "Bangladeshi diaspora" part — but if we swapped the existing category structure in the manner you suggest, it would lose that category. Bearcat (talk) 18:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you mean. While I wasn't aware of this when offering the alternative, in retrospect I was actually against the whole Category:Festivals by country scheme and would rather turn it into a by nationality / by ethnicity tree, as this is really a cultural thing. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:26, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American designers from Washington (state)
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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection by location. The only entry here is a single subcategory, making it a WP:SMALLCAT — and that subcategory already gets parented by Category:American designers anyway through the Category:American architects subtree, so this isn't adding anything to its parentage except a duplicate path to the same place. And no other state of the United States has a "Designers from State" category, so this isn't part of any "overall accepted subcategorization scheme" that would grant it an exemption from having to be either defining or diffusing. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 19:38, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- This is an unnecessary category level. The one sub-cat is correctly in American architects by state, which is below American designers. This appears to be the only case where this level of designers exists. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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