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Category:Canadian Christian priests

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. The religious leaders/clergy/priests hierarchy has too many layers already, and no other countries in Category:Priests by nationality have this particular intersection. Category:Christian priests does not have any other national sub-cats; nationalities are analysed in the parents, Category:Christian clergy by nationality and Category:Christian religious leaders by nationality. This one only holds two sub-cats, which are already within the Anglican and RC parts of its third parent Category:Christian priests, so it does not need to be merged there. – Fayenatic London 21:51, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Misplaced Pages articles incorporating text from the Columbia Encyclopedia

Nominator's rationale: Only member was a talk page of an article that used the Columbia Encyclopedia as a general reference, not incorporating text, and there is no template to populate this as a tracking category. Revent 21:24, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Actors from Greater Sudbury categories

Nominator's rationale: Delete Category:Actors from Greater Sudbury and Merge to Category:People from Greater Sudbury and Actresses from and Male actors from Ontario, respectively per WP:SMALLCAT. I check on all the articles on actors born in Greater Sudbury, in the actresses category there a 3 articles and the male actors category they we're only two articles. And that's the only five on each category and that's not enough for it's population of articles and it's growth per WP:SMALLCAT. One category will be deleted and the remaining two categories will be split into two existing categories. I nominate the Greater Sudbury categories for nomination per WP:SMALLCAT. Steam5 (talk) 20:40, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I need your help Fayenatic, Could you fix the categories from a split into a merge and change the word split into merge in order to go to both parents, please? Steam5 (talk) 22:40, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Never mind, I fix it from a split into a merge. Steam5 (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Upmerge I think the intersection of city+career is normally trivial, especially since most people have little connection to a particular place in acting (some other careers are different, but acting is not heavily connected with a place).John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:28, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Misplaced Pages articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica with an article parameter

Nominator's rationale: This is a currently empty tracking category (yes, I see the emptycat) with a scope that is duplicated by the target. Other {{EB1911}} deprecated parameter errors aim at the target, no reason for this one not to also. Minor edit to {{EB1911}} needed. Revent 17:41, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Oppose This is not the place to discuss this. The place to discuss it is on the talk page of the templates that populate the category. As the category is now empty, when it is discussed on the talk page of the template that populates it, I will propose that rather than altering the code to redirect the output to some other category that the parameter is deleted from the code (and then and only then can the category can be deleted). -- PBS (talk) 21:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Misplaced Pages articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica with a wikisource parameter

Nominator's rationale: This is a currently empty tracking category (yes, I see the emptycat) with a scope that is duplicated by the target. Other {{EB1911}} deprecated parameter errors aim at the target, no reason for this one not to also. Minor edit to {{EB1911}} needed. Revent 17:37, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Oppose This is not the place to discuss this. The place to discuss it is on the talk page of the templates that populate the category. As the category is now empty, when it is discussed on the talk page of the template that populates it, I will propose that rather than altering the code to redirect the output to some other category that the parameter is deleted from the code (and then and only then can the category can be deleted). -- PBS (talk) 22:00, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Group of 88

Nominator's rationale: Delete. This is not and never will be a "defining" property. A list may be more appropriate for this. Nigel Pap (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Tornidae stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Exhaustive search of permanent category did not turn up enough new members to justify a stub category. Propose deleting category and upmerging template to Category:Hypsogastropoda stubs. Dawynn (talk) 12:13, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Delete per nom. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:58, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Staszów County geography stubs

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Very underpopulated for a stub category, yet CatScan turns up no more hits. Propose deleting this category and upmerging template to Category:Świętokrzyskie geography stubs. Dawynn (talk) 12:04, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:People by ethnic or national descent by continent

Nominator's rationale: I think two "by's" are not good. -- 068129201223129O9598127 (talk) 10:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Comment Neither is an incorrect use of an apostrophe. Lugnuts 12:52, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Anyway...Support per normal format of using "and" when there are two "by" attributes. SFB 17:10, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • >>> Nominator's change of proposal <<< Just realized that my suggested name would conflict with another type of cats, e.g. if one compares these two cats: Category:Asian people by ethnic or national origin‎ and Category:People of Asian descent‎. Changing title for renaming to Category:People by continent of ethnic or national descent. This is to help understand, that the continent of the persons current residence is not of interest here, as opposed to the other type of cats.
  • keep as it is The current name correctly and clearly describes the contents of this category and the contents are not being changed here. And there is no rule around here about two 'by's in a name being a bad thing. Hmains (talk) 02:12, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Support original name of "Category:People by continent and ethnic or national descent". The original does not show that the purpose of this category is to combine the continent attribute with the ethnic/national one in this category (so "and" is required). The new proposal is very unidiomatic - to splice it down: what is a person's continent of national descent? I prefer the current title to the changed proposal. SFB 22:21, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Former provinces of the Republic of China

Nominator's rationale: Rename for consistency with main article Republic of China (1912–49). Although there is a history page at History of the Republic of China, these former provinces relate to the years stated. Note that this category has a new parent Category:Republic of China (1912–49). – Fayenatic London 08:50, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Comment They're really only "former" provinces if we're looking at the Republic of China of today (which consists of Taiwan plus a few small islands). Would suggest either
  • Comment the current Republic of China still claims Outer Mongolia, Outer Manchuria, as lost provinces, and claims suzerainty over Mainland China... so these would not he "former" provinces, but provinces outside of central control of the government in Taipei... the apparent content of the category are provinces that do not exist under PRC administration but still exist under ROC rolls, which lie within the territory controlled by the PRC... ; those provinces that ceased to exist under the regime 1912-1949 should be split off to the proposed category. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 04:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Comments The template, Template:Suspended ROC provinces, refers to these as "De jure" or "suspended".RevelationDirect (talk) 11:38, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:LGBT nobility

Nominator's rationale: Delete.With the exception of perhaps one or two people, virtually no one on this list can be verified as someone who identified as homosexual--this list is almost entirely retroactive speculation. For example, Pope Benedict IX is listed under this category, despite there no concrete evidence of there ever being an LGBT pope. Besides, 'Gay Royalty' already covers the aforementioned category in my view. Solntsa90 (talk) 05:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Trim and Keep This category is a natural head to the descending categories and has a well-defined scope. Non-relevant categorisations should be removed per normal process when the existence of the category is not inherently problematic (e.g. Category:Stupid popes). Gay royalty does not cover the same scope as Gay is not the same as LGBT, and royalty is not the same as nobility. SFB 17:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Delete As poorly regulated magnet for unsourced, ahistorical attempts to impose modern understanding on historical figures, who did not see the world in the same terms.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:29, 9 July 2014 (UTC)