Category:American sportspeople of [European] descent
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The result of the discussion was:Upmerge all, though a rational enough argument has been made to relist the specific basketball category separately under it's own nomination, which I will do.. Courcelles09:22, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale:Delete. Standard WP:OCAT by ethnicity. WP:OCAT states: should only be created where that combination is itself recognized as a distinct and unique cultural topic in its own right. and If a substantial and encyclopedic head article (not just a list) cannot be written for such a category, then the category should not be created.. These categories seem to fail both of those prerequisites. There's no way British American sports or Armenian American sports can be legitimate articles. Also, because these are "descent" categories... the only requirement for inclusion is that the sportsperson has some ancestor of this ethnic background (mother, grandmother, great-grandmother). Pretty silly stuff. Few (if any) people search for a sportsperson based on their ethnic background. Bulldog12323:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think a strong argument can be given for keeping American basketball players of European descent since they are certainly not the norm. Generally speaking minority groups in a certain profession (i.e. African Americans in nearly every sport and other examples) have been kept in the past. That being said, I personally wittled down that category from more than 100 supposedly "white" players to include only the articles which had an assertion of European ancestry, which included a number of players (like Carlos Boozer) who would not be traditionally called of European descent.--TM14:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People from Bideford
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Comment -- Categories sometimes need a county/province/country even where the main article has none, notably Birmingham. Since the spelling differs, I think this ine can be kept. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Cinematic depictions of Muslims
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Nominator's rationale: Not really sure what this cat is trying to achieve. It seems to be WP:OVERCAT and non-defining. There are no other categories (that I could see) that group x relgion by cinematic depiction.Lugnuts (talk) 19:58, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per lack of real definition. I thought that the category would have Muslim films, but the articles I sampled made it clear this was not the case. The articles did not seem to have any context matching the category, either. I'm assuming that it's based on a film having a Muslim character or something similar, and I don't think that's a sound category to have. Erik (talk | contribs) 13:11, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Primeval creatures
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Nominator's rationale: I did not know that there was a series called "Primeval" and I if kept think this category could use a disambiguator of some kind, to make it clear that Primeval is a proper noun and not an adjective, in this case. But I think that deletion is in fact the best route, as the sole content of the category is List of creatures in Primeval, which is a list of real dinosaurs that we are not going to want to categorize by their appearance in a TV series, surely, as a kind of prehistoric WP:OC#PERF? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this has nothing to do with primeval creatures, every creature that existed before history/humans/civilization/the modern age should not be categorized into this category. Real creatures that the TV show featured should not be categorized into such a fictional category, as it is a non-notable association. 64.229.100.61 (talk) 05:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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World Baseball Classic
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Leaning toward keep. I'm not sure how more specificity hurts here. A player will only be in one category (either "players" or "players of (country)") for a specific WBC, and sorting by country seems like it helps rather than hurts.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(Up)merge per nom. I agree that subdividing Category:World Baseball Classic players by year-and-country instead of year, country, or year and country (separately) overcategorizes players by a characteristic which is not necessarily defining. Having played in the World Baseball Classic is defining, having played during a particular competition probably still is defining, and having played for a particular country may or may not be defining (see below for some thoughts), but having played during a particular competition for a particular country is not defining. Although it is possible to also upmerge to by-country categories, such as Category:World Baseball Classic players of Australia, it seems unnecessary to me (though I've no strong objection). To my knowledge, players generally compete for their home country, so an Australian having played for Australia is neither surprising nor significant. Also, biography articles generally have other categories that indicate nationality. Note that upmerging will not result in a loss of information, since the year-and-country information is preserved in 2006 World Baseball Classic rosters and 2009 World Baseball Classic rosters. -- Black Falcon(talk)21:19, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Nagoya, Aichi
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Category:Albums by sales certification
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Category:Wikipedia geography
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Category:Albums by certifier
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