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Nominator's rationale: Undefined. 4 articles, all of which are better listed in other subcategories of Transport organisations Rathfelder (talk) 21:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, associations is a valid subcategory of organisations and with the alternative merge below the category size will be acceptable. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Would you like to provide a definitions showing how these associations are different from organisations? Rathfelder (talk) 00:04, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Overlapping and undefined. The "Transport organisations" tree is much better established; Transport organisations has 119 subcategories, this has 3. Rathfelder (talk) 21:42, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Happy with that suggestion. Rathfelder (talk) 19:33, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Expatriate sportspeople of Iranian descent[edit]
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The result of the discussion was:rename both. @GiantSnowman's suggestion of deletion can be raised in a separate nomination, if he wants to. --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 23:05, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support rename per nom, thank you for the correction.--Bijanii (talk) 21:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Categories can be speedily renamed to prevent vandalism with respective articles.--Bijanii (talk) 06:14, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming per above. Sro23 (talk) 03:39, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
By that logic, should ‘Category:English footballers’ and all associated categories also be deleted? Come on now...--Bijanii (talk) 18:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale:merge, the parliament of 1571 was dissolved within the same year. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
happy to see it merged. Rathfelder (talk) 20:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: duplicate category; transport existed before transportation. Suggest keeping alternative spelling as redirect whichever name is chosen. Tim! (talk) 13:27, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator. "Transport" is the usual form for nearly all subcategories of Category:Transport by country, except for a few outliers which are at "transportation" instead — but either way, we never need both "transport" and "transportation" to both exist for the same country. Bearcat (talk) 19:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALL. Only has two entries, the article on the cemetery and a subcategory for burials there. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Only has two entries and a subcategory. One entry is the article on the university itself. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:44, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Years and decades by continent (Early Middle Ages)[edit]
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Nominator's rationale: merge. First of all, the distinction between Europe and Asia is arbitrary and anachronistic in the Middle Ages. If one would like to make a distinction based on foreign relations in the Middle Ages, the continents would probably look like: 1) Europe, North Africa, West and Central Asia; 2) South Asia; 3) East Asia. Second, we currently only have two continents left with year categories in the Middle Ages, Europe and Asia, which makes the continent layer completely redundant. Third, after merging, the year categories will still be of very modest size.
This nomination goes until the year 962, which is the starting year of the years by country tree (see Category:10th-century years by country), which overlaps strongly with the continental trees. This adds another complexity, so the High and Late Middle Ages will be left for a next nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep misinterpretation of smallcat as these form part of a larger series of establishments by year which extends to the current time period. Using 962 as a cut-off seems extremely arbitrary and it is likely categories will get recreated. Tim! (talk) 13:30, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support all per nom. The distinction between Europe and Asia at that time is indeed arbitrary and anachronistic. The starting year of the years by country tree is a good starting point. Starts to bulk up from then onwards. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:31, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Keeping Europe and Asia as separate categories would be clearly redundant. Ceosad (talk) 10:29, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was:keep, without prejudice to renominating as part of a wider nomination that considers the category tree as a whole. -- Black Falcon(talk) 19:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It looks a bit odd to put a whole country in a category while some 95% of its area doesn't belong there. But I notice a similar thing happens with Turkey, equally odd. Probably many discussions have taken place about this issue already, so never mind for now. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:58, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Marcocapelle: Egypt should be generalized as Africa. Agree with Marco also on the the discussion scope, hence keep for now. gidonb (talk) 00:06, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(changing my !vote) Keep for now per @Marcocapelle's argument that this is part of a by-continent series whose fate should be considered as a whole. If there is a broader discussion, I think I would probably favour deleting all the "Regions of FooContinent by country" categories per WP:SHAREDNAME. The "regions" here are an assortment of first-level administrative subdivisions, second-level administrative subdivisions, and informal subdivisions; they don't share any common characteristic other than name. --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 16:13, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- This should not exist, as the content should be in the Category:Country subdivisions in Asia tree. However this needs to be emptied manually, by finding a new home for all the content in that tree, country by country. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:25, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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