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Question by nominator: there are 20-odd subcategories; do they get taken care of automatically, or do I need to tag and list them all? JohnCD (talk) 22:23, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The subcats (which contain no pages) are now all CSD-tagged - C1/G6/G8 (incidentally, it looks like there's a bug in Twinkle when there's an explanation given for G6 and G8).DexDor(talk)17:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: This empty category has no inlinks - which indicates that it's not being used as part of any process. If a portal template is found to be unused then either take it to TFD or leave it be; there's no need to put such a template in a category like this. Note: This is the only category named "Wikipedia unu..." in en wp. DexDor(talk)21:17, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: This category (which currently contains 5 pages - I've just removed several that weren't even dab pages) is redundant to the database reports (e.g. this[1]) that editors (especially the members of WP:DPL) use to fix inlinks to dab pages. Note: There's no inlinks to this category from WP:DPL etc. (Note: If not deleted then this category should be moved to a lower level parent category.) DexDor(talk)20:42, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge, as there's only one motorsport venue with an article in Azerbaijan, let alone Baku; this category is really not needed. QueenCake (talk) 20:10, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. As each category contains non-free media, they will never grow large due to minimal usage criteria. It is more logical to merge these small categories into a single media category for the series. The1337gamer (talk) 18:03, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Per all basketball wikiprojects, team categories are applied to players once he subject appears in a regular-season or playoff game for that franchise. The Baltimore Claws were a franchise in the now-defunct American Basketball Association, but they folded prior to the start of the ABA season. Therefore, no player has ever appeared in an official game for the franchise. Propose deletion on these grounds. Rikster2 (talk) 16:53, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete Far too many things are borderline. Is this scapped from previous cooking or scapped from cutting up meat for example. Some things like stew meat are sometimes the left overs from other meat cuts, but sometimes made deliberately from whole chunks of the animal.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:23, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale These American people of x descent essentially stand as near ethnic categories. We have them because people in the United States identify with their German, Dutch, Polish or Italian ancestry in clear ways, even though it is often not pervasive enough to count as an ethnicity. In fact this form of name was adopted more for precision than anything else, the previous names were confusing since Itlaina-American people was not 100%clear if it was Italians in the United States or Americans in Italy. The problem is that Huguenots ceased to be a clear religious or ethnic group in the United States before there was a United States. In the vast majority of cases this is citing a trivial fact of one ancestor several generations back, normally so far back that the last ancestor who thought of themselves as a Huguenot died before the first ancestor the subject knew was born. This ends up being a case of genealogical trivia that has no definition of anything related to the person. For the same reason we should not upmerge to the French ancestry categories because for most of these people it is a trivial non-defining fact, for some of them never know to the subject themself.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- I agree that this may go too far back to be useful. However, I am not convinced that they merged into the majority quite as soon as you are suggesting. There are still one or two churches in London for a Huguenot community. Some one changed all the dual nationality categories to "Boo people of Foo descent", except for American ones which he may have considered too complicated to tackle. However that is the form to be preferred even in American cases. For someone living in 20th-century America, having a Hugenuot ancestor would be genealogical trivia. However for an American man of 1790, who had emigrated in 1760 and whose father was a Huguenot silk weaver in the East End of London, worshipping in a French Church, it might be highly relevant. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, this is not a category about those in England. The issues there are different. I read somewhere, I can't remember where, where the Hugenots were cited as the quitessential example of a group that merged into the American main-steam and ceased to exist. John Jay, whose father was a Hugenot, insisted on writing of an ethnically homogenized America.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:09, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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ALT 2Parades held in December. If putting "Christmas" and "winter" in the same category is nonsensical, then putting "Christmas" and "holiday season" in the same category is equally nonsensical. This is all about tip-toeing around the fact that people, quite hypocritically, want to have the fun of Christmas while stripping it of its context. This is of course complete nonsense. Why have a parade at all if there is no Christmas? If people want to parade in the month of December with no religious connotations, that's absolutely fine. This alternative name caters for such events. There can also be a category for Christmas parades that have an explicit religious connotation. What there cannot be is a category that blurs the difference or pretends that there is no difference. That's just hypocrisy and a case of adding apples to oranges. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Are there Hanukkah parades? If so, I'd imagine that they'd be insulted to be joined to Christmas. Many non Christians participate in Thanksgiving parades; they too might be insulted to be joined to Christmas. Laurel Lodged (talk) 22:01, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, or more generally support removing the word "winter", which is inaccurate for many of these events. These shouldn't be merged into a more general December category, as it's quite easy to tell when a parade is about the "holiday season" generally, or just an event that happens to be in December. Lankiveil(speak to me)13:13, 5 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Yeah, I'm going to agree and change my mind, but we should move Santa Claus parade. As for my suggestion to split to parades, I just mean that any parade that isn't a Christmas parade shouldn't be in the same category. --JFH (talk) 14:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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