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Category:Towns in Malaysia
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Keep "Towns" apparently have some legal significance in Malaysia, thus categorizing them separately from populated places makes sense and is consistent with how this is treated in WP for the rest of the world. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:30, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- Some years ago, we moved from having categories for cities, towns and villages to having a single "populated places", because of the difficulty of determining where the boundaries between these lay. If we are to have a "towns" category for any country, there has to be a robust definition of what makes one place a town and another a village. My dormitory village has a population of 6500, which is considerably more than several places in the same county that are undoubtedly market towns. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Language and nationality disambiguation pages
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Nominator's rationale: This category is afaik the only remaining category (after CFDs such as this) that disobeys the "Do not include this category manually in articles" notice at CAT:DABP. This category includes pages such as Lao which disambiguate many different things. Note: The category page includes the text "This includes disambiguation pages ... that do not have a language specific to that country or group, but which note the absence of such a language where one might be expected to exist." which is a bit strange (dab pages such as Andorran don't mention language). This is also, I think, the only "X and Y" dab category which categorizes dab pages for having at least one X and at least one Y (we don't have, for example, a category for "place and ship" dab pages). DexDor(talk)05:50, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This category collects pages that share a specific problem in order to make it easier to check for instances of that specific problem. Although there are exceptions, most of the pages in this category have the characteristic of the two most common meanings of the term being an ethnic/national description, and the name of a language (for example, Japanese, French, German, Telugu, Swahili, Persian, Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, Romanian). Disambiguation pages with this characteristic are highly likely to receive incoming links due to the substantial number of articles describing people by their nationality of origin or citizenship, and by their languages spoken. For nationalities without languages by that name attached, it is still common for some editors to mistakenly assume that there is a language, and therefore to link to nonexistent languages. Perhaps the solution is to specify that it is a maintenance category. bd2412T12:42, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the detailed reply. I can see how it might be useful, but I think it would work better as a list. A list could explain the scope better (e.g. Mancunian is neither a nationality nor language), could contain notes (e.g. about how to go about fixing inlinks, when the inlinks to each page were last checked), could include things that aren't dab pages (e.g. someone fixing inlinks like this might also want to check inlinks to pages such as Khoisan). I suggest listifying (and linking to the list e.g. from WP:DPL). DexDor(talk)06:46, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment many of these pages are not being used as disambiguation pages or are, but including topics that are rarely if ever referred to in the abstract by the name of the page. Take Armenian, e.g., - how often, if ever, is the Armenian Genocide referred to as the "Armenian" in the abstract? Many of these pages are just substitutes for "Pages that begin with..." Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:15, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Of the options on that page, there is little doubt that the primary source of incoming links will be between editors linking the nationality or ethnicity, and editors linking the language. bd2412T12:50, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Eponymous musical terms
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Leaning keep but clean up. Although the category itself needs cleanup and a refinement of purpose, which should specify terms that are used to describe musical things (Beatle boot is an article of clothing, not a thing in music). Eponyms are their own category of study within the field of linguistics, and categorizing eponymous terms is reasonable for this purpose. bd2412T16:22, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:NON-DEFINING. Also a WP:NOTDICTIONARY problem. The latter says that the topic of an article is the thing that the title denotes, not the title itself. The former says that we categorize based on defining characteristics of the article's topic, not trivial characteristics like whether the name of the thing is eponymous.--Srleffler (talk) 02:36, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Non-free images with NFUR stated
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Category:Cover art of album and single releases by CeCe Peniston
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Nominator's rationale: These categories appear to have the same scope (currently, they share 42 members), and the target name follows the established naming convention of Category:Album covers by recording artist. We do not, as far as I can discern, distinguish covers of albums and singles. (Category creator not notified due to retirement.) -- Black Falcon(talk)05:00, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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