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Nominator's rationale: The head article mergers and acquisitions treats both types of corporate combinations together, noting that the distinction between a merger and an acquisition is often more legal than commercial, and notes that commercially both types of transactions generally result in the consolidation of assets and liabilities under one entity, and the distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" is less clear.
Support -- There might be a case for splitting agreed and contested takeover bids, but some start off as contested and end off as agreed. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:46, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Pointless intermediate category. All constituents are other categories and no relevant article would not fit into one or other of these categories Smerus (talk) 09:22, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. All articles are in subcategories, one of which (Finland) isn't even in Scandinavia. Adds an unnecessary layer to the tree - the categories should feed directly into the Category:Operas set in Europe parent. The films category isn't really an exact parallel, since films are often vague about their exact locale or move between locales (hence several films in that category are not in country-specific categories); opera are predominantly set in one specified place. Grutness...wha?00:29, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. In most cases, it seems like stories/accounts/operas/etc. about vikings are set either in the location that they're raiding (so they're not set in Scandinavia) or take place in a defined original location (so you can specify which country). Stories about non-viking Norsemen are often set in a specific location (and if there's no location, how do you know they're in Scandinavia, rather than Iceland, the Danelaw, etc.), as are stories of post-viking generations. The only Scandinavian-but-no-country situation I can imagine coming up is the nomadic Lapps whose wanderings historically crossed boundaries all the time, but how often do you hear of operas set among the Lapps? Nyttend (talk) 23:03, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- We have recently had a discussion about Iberia, which looks as if it will be closed as "split". Merging everything to Europe should NOT be acceptable as that will apply to probably 90% of them. Hamlet is about a fictional Denmark, but there is also one about the assassination of a Swedish king, alternatively (due to censorship) a governor of Boston. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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