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Category:BCC crystal habit[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename all as nominated, except add "Chemical elements with" at the start of the proposed category names. Create a new Category:Chemical elements by crystal structure as the parent. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:55, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Appreciate Magnovvig for setting up these categories recently, but a couple issues with the names: BCC is an abbreviation, which we should avoid, and Crystal habit is the wrong terminology (habit refers to the outside of a crystal, rather than the structure of the atoms themselves). This also applies to similar categories in Category:Crystallography. 〈 Forbes72 | Talk 〉 22:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Seems mostly reasonable. Speechifying that this is a category for chemical elements will help keep the scope of the categories clear. (it will exclude compounds like Tungsten carbide which are part of the hexagonal crystal system, but belong to a different structure type) The parent category should be instead Category:Chemical elements by crystal structure, though. As I mentioned above, these categories are not crystal habits (such as Acicular, Amygdaloidal, Bladed, etc). These categories look vaguely like crystal families, crystal systems, lattice systems, or Bravais lattices, but under any of those categorizations, diamond cubic would not be distinguished from other face-centered cubic structures. On the other hand, trigonal is too broad a category to be a structure type, so there are definitely overlapping and mutually contradictory systems here. This will take more changes to fix, but your suggestion is an improvement on my original proposal. 〈 Forbes72 | Talk 〉 20:58, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Lists of violent incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:25, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To match the content of the category. In the past, pages in this category were named as "List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, YYYY". Now that they're renamed, the category should be too. Triggerhippie4 (talk) 21:22, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:University towns[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category tree with subjective and poorly defined inclusion criteria. A college town is not just any and every town or city that happens to have a college or university -- it's a very particular type of place where the college or university is more or less the town's entire raison d'être, because the place's economy is structured almost entirely around the university and/or student-oriented services like bars and restaurants. But the problem is that there's no precise or objective definition of how to determine whether or when any given place is sufficiently "dominated" by its university to actually be a true university or college town, so this tree has a tendency (despite repeated cleanup efforts) to indiscriminately collect every populated place that has one or more universities or colleges at all -- even places like Auckland, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montreal, New York City, Paris, Rome, Toronto or Vienna, which are far too economically diversified to meet the proper definition of a "university town", regularly get filed here, and only sometimes get removed. (The same issue also affects the associated List of college towns, which is a constant hotbed of editwarring over whether the global megacities can be labelled as "college towns" or not.)
We just can't keep categories whose inclusion criteria are this vulnerable to subjective interpretation: in the absence of a precise and quantifiable standard to measure the exact line at which a place has become a "university town", we can't let inclusion come down to differences of personal opinion about what the term even means. (Note that a prior discussion in 2018 failed on procedural grounds, because the parent category was nominated in isolation without any of the country-specific subcategories being batched along with it.) Bearcat (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: I intentionally wanted to discuss this at WikiProject Europe before nominating anything for deletion. Europe has a long history of universities, older than the rest of the world, and I wanted to hear clarification on how the term "university town" is used among Europeans. I thought it possible that a "university town" or "university city" may be used for a city with a historic university, similar to how cathedral city is used in the UK. It may be beneficial to sort this way for European countries, even if not for the rest of the world. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 20:06, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, with the specific criteria of a college town a list would be more suitable (but a different list than currently exists). University town is usually interpreted more broadly as a town or city with a university (as the current list illustrates) but that is not a very defining characteristic of a city. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:52, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Are London, Detroit and Paris university towns? New York City? Do not even get me started with places that house institutions of higher learning that do not have any or much residential housing. Also in the US are Honover, New Hampshire and Williamsburg, Virginia university towns since the institutions there have the name college? In American speech the term is "College town", partly because in general American speech people are said to "got to college" whether it is a college or a university. Arguably Ephraim, Utah is a college town, by any use of the term that considers the impact of the higher education instution and it housing out of town students on the place, yet Snow College is a junior college. Arguably Ephraim, Utah is more defined by this characteristic than Salt Lake City, Utah which has the most fully functioning university in the state, with the only medical school. This is not defining enough of the time to be worth categorizing by. The people who came up with this list concept have not thought out three big issues. 1-the number of online only instituions, 2-the number of institutions in truly large cities, where the city is little effects by it and 3-the effects of multi-campus institutions. They have also not dealt with two smaller issues 4-the effects of a place being a commuter school, such that the exact city it is located in being not very defining to it. 5-the effects of university housing being in a different city than the university, either formally owned university housing (I think the University of California, Berkeley owns some housing that it places students in in Albany, California, so is Albany a university town because it has that housing even though it has no university? and then there are other cases where significant numbers of people who are students at a place move to a surrounding city, for example I have known enough Wayne State University students who chose to live in Royal Oak, Michigan as students there to argue that Wayne State has a significant influence on Royal Oak. I have also known multiple Wayne State Students who moved from other states and took up residence in Sterling Heights, Michigan. BYU with its Samuelsonian stringent limits on where single students can live off campus one would not expect this issue to come up, but the allowed exception for living with relatives means that you have BYU students who are resident in multiple cities in Utah Valley, and some other colleges I think have this issue even more. Many of these nuances can be captures in a list, and of course even better in articles, but they do not make for this being defining to many of these cities. This becomes even more true when we realize some of these cities existed for a long time before they ever got a university.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:25, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak delete per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT I agree this may be useful but its a bit subjective since some of their universities are outside a particular town but have that town's name. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:36, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Infectious disease-related lists[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: MOS:SUFFIXDASH. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:COVID-19 pandemic-related lists[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: speedy keep. (non-admin closure) —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: MOS:SUFFIXDASH. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:50, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Songs written by Edna Osser[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: WP:SOFTDELETE (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 19:40, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category contains one member and there is no article for Edna Osser, so the category cannot link anything.
If another member is found or Edna Osser becomes an article, then this nomination for deletion should fail. Richhoncho (talk) 13:07, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Maltese merchants[edit]

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 June 23#Category:Maltese merchants

Category:Ten-cent coins[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. ✗plicit 10:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cyprus–Northern Cyprus relations[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: merge and redirect. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Everything about the relations between the two sides of Cyprus is relevant to Category:Cyprus dispute rather than an international relations category. More specifically, the two articles currently in the category (1 and 2) relate to the peace process. Place Clichy (talk) 10:00, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support for now until articles appear that are unrelated to the peace process. Keep a redirect though. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:02, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:United States flag flying days[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 20:28, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Really? Flag flying days? According to whom? This seems to be a very strange category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:47, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Totally agree this info should be retained in Wikipedia in some form. - RevelationDirect (talk) 17:47, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, or if consensus is to delete, then listify. Important information and relevant to an encyclopaedia. Grutness...wha? 06:27, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Category:Albums produced by Bangladesh (record producer)[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 20:19, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The main article Bangladesh (record producer) has already been deleted per AfD. 162 etc. (talk) 05:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is no guidance or rule that says categories should have corresponding articles, only that that if there is both they should match. There are plenty of member articles to these 3 categories to make them a useful contribution to the categorisation scheme. I do wonder why the article was deleted, Bangladesh has made quite a contribution to music. --Richhoncho (talk) 07:45, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - afd is an unsatisfactory venue as the suggested searches use the phrase "Bangladesh (record producer)" which returns no results, unsurprisingly. Other searches are dominated by the country Bangladesh, as might be expected. Searches on Shondrae Crawford, the actual name, return all sorts of results, such as grammy winning. Indeed the substantial contents of these 3 categories would suggest that the person is notable. Oculi (talk) 09:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I would have no objection to the categories renamed Shondrae Crawford, if that was a proposal. --Richhoncho (talk) 12:00, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Category:Songs written by Bangladesh (record producer)[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 20:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The main article Bangladesh (record producer) has already been deleted per AfD. 162 etc. (talk) 04:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is no guidance or rule that says categories should have corresponding articles, only that that if there is both they should match. There are plenty of member articles to these 3 categories to make them a useful contribution to the categorisation scheme. I do wonder why the article was deleted, Bangladesh has made quite a contribution to music. --Richhoncho (talk) 07:45, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Category:Song recordings produced by Bangladesh (record producer)[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. – Fayenatic London 20:23, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The main article Bangladesh (record producer) has already been deleted per AfD. 162 etc. (talk) 04:55, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is no guidance or rule that says categories should have corresponding articles, only that that if there is both they should match. There are plenty of member articles to these 3 categories to make them a useful contribution to the categorisation scheme. I do wonder why the article was deleted, Bangladesh has made quite a contribution to music. --Richhoncho (talk) 07:44, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People with Guillain–Barré syndrome[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:20, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Deborah McFadden had Guillain–Barré syndrome start as a young adult and she is partly known as a disibility rights activists. That's as defining as this category gets because it otherwise consists of people who were notable for unrelated reasons, had the syndrome in later life, and then died of something else (Examples: 1, 2, 3). There is already a separate list, List of people with Guillain–Barré syndrome, for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People with Lyme disease[edit]

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The result of the discussion was: delete Category:People with Lyme disease. Category:Deaths from Lyme disease was deleted as an empty category while this discussion was ongoing. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:19, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:PERFCAT)
According to the Lyme Disease article, 300,000 people contract the disease in the United States and 65,000 in Europe every year and it's a temporary illness. Justin Bieber had it in 2020, Michael J. Fox had it in 1997, while Debbie Gibson had it in 2013 none of which seems defining. (Avril Lavigne is in this category because she did a single charity concern for a pseudo-scientific chronic Lyme disease group but that is WP:PERFCAT.) Wikipedia is not a medical history of every disease or ailment of notable people. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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