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March 28

Category:American "faithful slave" monuments and defenders

Nominator's rationale: I don't see how membership of this category can possibly comply with the requirement that categories are defining, neutral and verifiable. It is a completely made up politically loaded category. Betty Logan (talk) 12:55, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works about technology

Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:OC. This is lumping together unlike things based on a subjective characterisation. Bondegezou (talk) 10:19, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kingman Reef

Nominator's rationale: Too little content. Main article can be upmerged to Category:United States Minor Outlying Islands but I'm open to suggestions about the subcategory and how it may be recategorized. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:04, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mosques in India by district

Nominator's rationale: rename per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:SMALLCAT, diffusing mosques by district merely leads to dozens of tiny categories, it is makes more sense to categorize mosques at state level rather than at district level. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:17, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Empty subcategories of Category:Redirects from non-English-language terms

The three I originally nominated:
Category:Redirects from Eastern Min-language terms
Nominator's rationale: Guys, what's going on? This is the third one. 平話 → Eastern Min isn't working either. I used cdo.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  04:10, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The language name that ISO 639-3 associates with code cdo is Script error: The function "name_from_code" does not exist.. See here at the ISO 639-3 custodian's website.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:53, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Redirects from Altai-language terms
Nominator's rationale: Also not working, as Алтай Республика → Altai Republic is not being categorized here despite using alt.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  03:58, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The language name that both ISO 639-2 and 639-3 associate with code alt is Southern Altai. See here at the ISO 639-2 custodian's website and here at the ISO 639-3 custodian's website. However, Module:Lang returns Script error: The function "name_from_code" does not exist. (different spelling and geographically ambiguous) from Module:Language/data/wp languages. The data in that module are always suspect because the provenance is unknown so should probably be disabled which would force Module:lang to return Southern Altai.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:53, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Redirects from Dharug-language terms
Nominator's rationale: Not working. I just created Gula (animal) → Koala using xdk, but it is not being recognized. It's just showing up as an undetermined language.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  03:50, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The language name that ISO 639-3 associates with code xdk is Script error: The function "name_from_code" does not exist.. See here at the ISO 639-3 custodian's website.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:53, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recipients of the Medal of Merit of the GDR

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V (and probably WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have a main article on the Medal of Merit of the GDR and I'm having trouble confirming the existence of an award by that exact name. The category consists of two articles both on East German female rowers and both articles rely on the same citation for receiving award but that link is behind a paywall. I don't speak German but, depending on how you translate, there are a large numbers of similary sounding East German awards with "merit" in the name according to this informal list so I'm wondering aloud if this is an alternate translation of another award. If I'm having trouble establishing the mere existence of an award it's unlikley to be defining to the articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:21, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are articles about this award on the German and French Wikipedias; see D:Q2514512. The source does not sit behind a paywall but as per the tag, registration is required. They have set up a very clumsy registration process and without an ability to speak German you’d likely fail to register. Schwede66 10:19, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for that background. Both articles have an offline book citation and a picture of the award, so the award does exist! We're still a long ways off from establishing it's defining-ness though. While I still favor deleting the category, creating an article would be welcome. RevelationDirect (talk) 23:31, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well, if somebody would want to buy the book for me (cheapest on Amazon is Eur 11.50 including postage to New Zealand) I'd happily sit down and write that article. I wouldn't write it without having a book as it's too specialised; you couldn't pull meaningful content together from online sources on something like this. Google Books has snippet view only (which may be different for other editors; I know that often editors in the US have full access when I get snippet view only). According to WorldCat, the nearest physical library copy is in China; some 9,800 km away! Schwede66 23:46, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I get snippet view too (from the U.S.) I was hoping to collaborate here, but I think we've reached the end of the line. Thanks for the great responses! RevelationDirect (talk) 00:40, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Robot Hall of Fame inductees

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
The Robot Hall of Fame was an award given out between 2003 and 2012 by the Computer Science department of Carnegie-Mellon University. The category includes both fictional robots (Terminator, C-3PO) and real life ones (Roomba, Lego Mindstorms) and none of those four articles even mention this award. There used to be a display on the award at the Carnegie Science Center's RoboWorld exhibit according to this old link but the current RoboWorld link doesn't mention it anymore. This award doesn't seem defining and the contents of the cateogry are already listified here in the main article. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:18, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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