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Category:Indian subcontinent Wikipedians[edit]

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) Marcocapelle (talk) 19:24, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Single-user category added by a userbox stating This user is proud to be from the Indian subcontinent !. This is not helpful to categorize, and the sole user is already in more specific location categories so a merge is not necessary. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:58, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Classical mystics[edit]

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 March 6#Category:Classical mystics

Category:Black British criminals[edit]

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. – Fayenatic London 10:26, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This strikes me as odd. Notably, there is no corresponding Category:White British criminals (or any other racial classification of British criminals), nor do there appear to be categories for criminals by race for other countries. BD2412 T 16:35, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Being a criminal is not generally an occupation. Rathfelder (talk) 08:49, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Probably racist, because Black people have long been stereotypically associated with crime on both sides of the pond. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:53, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • So it isnt a trivial intersection? Rathfelder (talk) 23:30, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Presumably all these should go too then, considering there aren't equivalent "white" categories for any of them? How is it racist to categorise criminals by ethnicity but not racist to categorise people in other "occupations" by ethnicity? And for those who say that being a criminal isn't strictly an occupation, neither is being LGBT or an activist! -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:07, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fair point. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:06, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm not buying it. There are numerous other omitted possible intersections - Category:Jewish British activists‎ exists, but there is no Category:Jewish British criminals, despite it being trivially easy to find subjects who would fit in such a category. There appears to be no other country for which any ethnicity is distinguished in this way. For example, Category:Italian criminals, Category:Jamaican criminals, and Category:Thai criminals all relate to subject nationality, not ethnicity. This is a unique case of singling out an ethnicity within a nationality for disparate negative treatment. BD2412 T 17:47, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • What you basically seem to be saying is that it's fine to categorise people by ethnicity as long as the categorisation is not a negative one. That seems to be highly POV. Personally I'd be quite happy to get rid of all these intersection categories by ethnicity and something else (except nationality), but if not (and I can't see it happening) then we should not sanitise per WP:CENSOR. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:41, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Defunct drinking establishments in New York (state)[edit]

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 as WP:SOFTDELETE, i.e. these may be re-created when there is sufficient content to make them useful. The target is now Category:Defunct drinking establishments in the United States. – Fayenatic London 10:10, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layers with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • There will surely be some defunct drinking establishments other than in New York and Oregon, but it is less likely that there articles about them since this requires local expertise on a very narrow topic. For example the Oregon articles have largely been written by a single editor. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:23, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Types of fire[edit]

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: keep (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 19:36, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
* Propose merging Category:Types of fire to Category:Fires by type Nominator's rationale: I have tried to work out if there may be a subtle difference between "types of fire" and "fires by type", but I'm not seeing the practical difference in the nature of the categorised articles. If these are kept unmerged, they will need clear statements of scope. Fences&Windows 21:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the intention was for Category:Types of fire to contain only articles, and Category:Fires by type to contain only subcategories. But that distinction has become muddled and should either be reinstated cleanly or merged, with no opinion which. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:19, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Resort per Pppery, divide the articles for specific kinds of fire (and not fire events) into "types of fire", and articles on fire events into "fires by type" and respective subcategories. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 05:38, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. I really see no convincing advantage to have two seperated categories. --Just N. (talk) 19:59, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 04:19, 19 January 2022 (UTC) [reply]
  • Relisting comment, I have reorganised the content of the two categories a bit, per some of the above comments. The question is if merging is still desirable. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:19, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle, thank you. I've added a description to each category of the intended scope. Then I think we can close this now w/o a merge. Fences&Windows 16:59, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Mint 400 Records[edit]

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: keep but no consensus about Category:Mint 400 Records album covers which may be renominated in a fresh discussion (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 19:42, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: All of these categories don't have a mainspace article and the current draft for Mint 400 Records has been rejected several times for failing notability. There is no need for this category and its subcategories to exist. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:36, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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