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December 25

Category:Birds of Bioko

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: Merge. Timrollpickering 11:51, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Birds of Bioko to Category:Birds of the Gulf of Guinea

Nominator's rationale: For most/all of the birds in this category (e.g. woodland kingfisher) being found in Bioko is non-defining. Many of the articles don't even mention the island - hence listifying may not be appropriate. DexDor^(talk) 07:56, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: While it's true these birds are present across a much broader area, they are among the very few to be found across Sub-Saharan Africa while also found on the island. --Couiros22 (talk) 08:43, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think articles (e.g. blue quail - "The species is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. It ranges from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, and south to Zambia, and eastward to Kenya.") that make no mention of Bioko in the text should be categorized for Bioko? If you have an off-wiki list of birds of Bioko then why not create a list article? DexDor^(talk) 18:08, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/african-blue-quail-synoicus-adansonii

Among the hundreds of birds found across Sub-Saharan Africa, despite its proximity to the mainland, only a very small amount are also found on the island (idem for birds of Cape Verde & Canary Islands). --Couiros22 (talk) 09:49, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't answer the questions I asked above. It looks like you are attempting to use the wp categorization system as a database (duplicating purpose-designed ornithological databases) rather than to categorize articles. DexDor^(talk) 21:58, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge – there is Category:Endemic birds of Bioko for the endemic ones. Oculi (talk) 17:23, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge -- biota categories for over-specific areas (where they are not endemic, i.e. uniquely present) are a variety of over-categorisation. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:46, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Sigma Xi

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: Delete. Timrollpickering 11:50, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Sigma Xi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Apart from the eponymous article the pages are all of members of Sigma Xi, and 'members' categories were deleted long ago: see list of deleted membership categories. There is List of Sigma Xi members, a better way of recording membership. Oculi (talk) 00:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:39, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.