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Category:British Empire and Commonwealth Games by host country

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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: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:39, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The Commonwealth Games has been known by a variety of monikers (British Empire Games, British Empire and Commonwealth Games, British Commonwealth Games, and finally Commonwealth Games). It is the same competition with a continued history, so we should use the most up-to-date description to categorise it by. SFB 20:36, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename all six. I created four of these six categories recently, modeling their names after the already existing two (Australia and South Africa). I agree with the nominator that it is better to simply use the current name, especially since it has been in use since 1978 already, so many people will not even be familiar with the older names. Gap9551 (talk) 20:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename – all the above are subcats of Category:Commonwealth Games (not Category:British Empire and Commonwealth Games). Oculi (talk) 10:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment -- I am far from sure that we need this split at all, but we should be using "Commonwealth Games", as the parent despite all previous names. The precedent on this is alumni categories. The alumni of a renamed or merged institution are seemed to have attended the successor. We also apply this in parenting categories for renamed countries and sports teams. According the British Empire Games of 193x should be parented a Commonwealth Games category, because it is essentially the same completion under a new name. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:15, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Languages of Murcia

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:40, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:SMALLCAT, one article in the category with no room for expansion. Please note that upmerging in the language tree is not needed, the article is already in Category:Spanish variants of Spain (which is btw a pretty confusing category name). Marcocapelle (talk) 13:17, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of America

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The remainder of Category:Certified singles by certifying authority is empty and will soon be deleted following the singles by certification CFD but these categories weren't connected there for some reason. Suggesting deletion as these are WP:NON-DEFINING characteristics for the singles based on the reasoning from the Australia single certifications, this discussion, Musiikkituottajat Albums by gold certification and the albums and singles certifications discussions above. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:33, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Was missed. Unfortunately there's no option for speedy deletion based on prior discussions. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:59, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Medieval Transylvania

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 December 29. – Fayenatic London 22:48, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: split since quite a number of the articles in these categories are biographies. After keeping apart the biographies, too little content remains to justify a split between the two time periods. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Side note, Early Modern is a longer period than Late Medieval while it contains a lot more articles per century, so enforcing a Late Medieval distinction everywhere would lead to a pretty skewed distribution of category sizes. On another side note, content wise there is not an amazing difference between the political history of High and Late Middle Ages (there is a difference in social history but there aren't too many articles about medieval social history anyway). Marcocapelle (talk) 21:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:States

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 22:42, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is essentially a case of WP:SHAREDNAME. The various meanings of "state" can be found at State, which is a disambiguation page. This category is essentially mixing and matching the various meanings of that term within the "law and politics" header. "State" can mean a sovereign country; or a country subdivision; or a country that belongs to an intergovernmental organization, whether it is sovereign or not; and several other things. It's not a useful term to categorize by because it is ambiguous; the category page should be a category disambiguation page. The contents are adequately categorized otherwise, so there is no need to merge anywhere. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:38, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

* Alternative: rename to Category:Federated states since all current content seems to be about federated states. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:33, 25 October 2015 (UTC) (stricken after discussion below)[reply]

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Category:Intelligence activities in India

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:40, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Clarity of the scope. Shyamsunder (talk) 05:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:IIIT

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:35, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category . Shyamsunder (talk) 03:48, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Afaka script

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I have upmerged the article to all parent categories, one of which was Category:Artificial scripts. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:38, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: /Upmerge Only contains one article and a redirect to the same article. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:21, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:The Hunger Project

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:34, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per People associated with...
This category sounds perfectly reasonable but it's a semi-random collection of biography articles, many of which don't mention The Hunger Project. Queen Noor probably gave a donation or gave a speech for them but, whatever the connection, it's not in the article. The hatnote on the category reads "People/Organizations involved with The Hunger Project, individuals/media groups who have written about The Hunger Project in detail." If you're looking for a textbook example of WP:OCASSOC, this is it. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note:Notified Rj as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Food and drink. – RevelationDirect (talk) 01:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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