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January 7

Category:Places on the Road of St James

Nominator's rationale: Being on these hiking trails is WP:NON-DEFINING for cities (e.g.  Mérida, Pamplona). We don't normally categorize towns/cities/districts etc by which (man-made) routes they are on (if we did then a city like Bristol would be categorized for 2 motorways, railways, canals, LEJOG ...).  Relevant previous discussions include  Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_October_1#Category:Way_of_St._James and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_December_30#Category:Camino_del_Cid.  Note: Some of these categories contain an eponymous article that may need to be upmerged to Category:Hiking trails in Spain.  Note: Currently this categorization is in rather a muddle (e.g. there are articles about trails under the places-on category). DexDor (talk) 21:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia users who received an invite to edit Wikipedia

Nominator's rationale: This category is populated by substitutions of {{User:Subha WMF/Invite}}. It contains the user talk pages of 100+ users who received the "Do you need help?" notice during a single run on 24 April 2012. While the category may have served a purpose in the past, it is no longer useful to continue grouping these users based on a nearly 6-year-old notice. If kept, then rename to the shorter form, Category:Wikipedians who were invited to edit Wikipedia. (Pinging User:Psubhashish as the category's creator.) -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:14, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Brunson, South Carolina

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. Small one-county community with just 1 entry. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians in Northeast Tennessee

Nominator's rationale: This is a non-standard and ambiguous way to segment Tennessee; see Grand Divisions of Tennessee. Alternatively, rename to Category:Wikipedians in East Tennessee. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:30, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tenured Wikipedians

Nominator's rationale: There is no such thing as "tenure" on Wikipedia, and thus no need for a grouping of "tenured" editors. I am concerned this could mislead newer editors into thinking users in this category have a privileged status. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:IP addresses used by Wikipedia users

Nominator's rationale: More concise names. These categories are populated by {{IP address}}, {{ISP}}, {{Shared IP}}, {{Shared IP address (public)}}, {{Mobile IP}} and {{Static IP}}. The issue at hand here is not the type of page being categorized but rather what it represents (various types of IP accounts). I prefer option A, consistent with the use of "accounts" in Category:Alternative Wikipedia accounts. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Static IP addresses

Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary intermediate layer between Category:IP addresses used by Wikipedia users (parent) and Category:Wikipedia user talk pages of static IP addresses (child). There was a note in the template documentation of Template:Static IP stating the template places pages in this category; however, while this may have been the case at one time, currently the template only populates the child category. (Pinging User:Ronhjones as the category's creator) -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:55, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Long time ago, looks like I copied the layout of Category:Shared IP addresses and it's subcategories. I've no objections to a tidy up. Ronhjones  (Talk) 14:41, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alternative Wikipedia accounts

Nominator's rationale: Consistency with Category:Wikipedians with alternative accounts (parent) and Category:Wikipedia doppelganger accounts (child). Also, per Wikipedia:Category names#Special conventions, Wikipedia is typically a prefix at the start of a title, used to denote the category is used for Wikipedia administration. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]