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Alternative A, rename since all content of this category specifically refers to the Mrauk-U Kingdom. Note that Arakan was the name of the region, the name is not specifically limited to a certain period in history or limited to a certain kingdom.
@Marcocapelle: may I suggest Alternative C: keep this at "Arakan", specifically in order to refer to the region rather than restrict it to the kingdom? (Even though the kingdom did last for >300 years, the region name will be more useful for the centuries when the kingdom started and ended.) The word "Arakan" seems to have been used in historical sources, and I would be inclined to use it for periods up to the 19th century.
Alternative D: another option is rename to Rakhine, to match the current official name for the state/region. I would be inclined to use this only for the 20th and 21st centuries, even though I have proposed a parent structure named History of Rakhine (which seems to have your support below). – FayenaticLondon21:13, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
First, about Arakan or Rakhine, if I understand correctly (per Rakhine_State#Etymology), Arakan is simply the European colonial term for what always has been called Rakhine by local people. In that sense, in the 16th century Rakhine makes more sense. Second, about the category structure, it would be quite strange to have a Category:16th century in Arakan in parallel with Category:Mrauk-U Kingdom while the former should really be a subcategory of the latter, and I cannot recall a precedent for a category structure like that. If possible (and in this case it is possible) we use the name of the contemporary polity in the lowest level century categories while we sometimes use a current polity at a higher level in the tree. I am also very doubtful about creating a whole tree by century for the region, especially for the period before the Mrauk-U Kingdom. There are currently very few articles about the period before the Mrauk-U Kingdom and it looks as if this earlier period is quite misty because the articles Arakan and History of Rakhine each provide very different points of view for that period. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so this points towards Alt-A, up to "18th century in the Mrauk-U Kingdom", possibly within "18th century in Rakhine" if there is sufficient content for that, and followed by "19th century in Rakhine" up to "21st century in Rakhine". Presumbably we might as well have redirects from "Arakan" up to C20. – FayenaticLondon13:29, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I see the similarity between Cape Verde and alternatives C/D in terms of logic, but it is probably too confusing when the names are completely different. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:55, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: The category titles are very similar. I discussed this with the category's creator here, who told me "Historic Hotels of America is a program by the National Trust for Historic Preservation". Unfortunately, the category has been added to articles that make no mention of the "National Trust for Historic Preservation", and which already have a "historic hotel" category on them. I also asked the category's creator if they would be willing to change the name of the newly-created category, but they were not. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:25, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
listify I'm dubious that the target category should even exist but at any rate it makes obvious sense to convert the subject category into a complete list of all the hotels NTHP lists. Mangoe (talk) 17:53, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
At second thought, Mangoe's alternative of listifying and deleting is a better solution than the nomination. A list is appropriate even while it does not concern a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:19, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; the fact that NTHP has created a list of historic hotels is rather trivial when we're talking about one of the hotels in question; this isn't some "Hotels owned by the NTHP" or "Hotels on the NRHP" category, but "Hotels the NTHP thinks are historic". We shouldn't generally go categorising articles based solely on an organisation's opinions about them; if this is ever appropriate, it demands the opinion of something much bigger than the NTHP. Nyttend (talk) 04:39, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: these categories contain only 9 articles (repeated) between them. The articles e.g. Pagan Kingdom refer predominantly to the historical territory as Burma (including Lower Burma, Upper Burma) rather than Myanmar. This nomination would leave "Myanmar" in the name of the parents e.g. Category:Centuries in Myanmar, but use Burma for all periods that ended before 1990.
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Split per nom. The articles in this category cover either the period before the Mrauk-U Kingdom or a period broader than the Mrauk-U Kingdom, thus they belong in Category:History of Rakhine. The subcategories should be split, but note than the 16th-century category should be moved to Category:Mrauk-U Kingdom (see also additional nomination on top of this page). Marcocapelle (talk) 18:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Small categories, containing only two articles between them. There are no other decade categories in Category:Decades in Myanmar until 1750s.
I initially nominated these (see above) for speedy renaming to "Burma" in common with the parent and other categories from 13th to 19th centuries (Category:Centuries in Myanmar). This was referred for full discussion since the two articles refer to Toungoo Kingdom rather than Burma/Myanmar. However, I do not think it would be helpful for navigation if we broke up or renamed the chronology categories for history of Burma according to all the preceding kingdoms that existed for overlapping periods, see e.g. Template:Burmese monarchs – certainly not by decades. For these two, I now think that merger would be better than renaming. – FayenaticLondon09:22, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: Rename "Tai–Kadai" to Kra–Dai for the reasons discussed at Talk:Kra–Dai languages four months ago which led to the move of the article. In short, the term "Tai–Kadai" is flawed ("Kadai" is an outdated term for the Kra languages; "Dai" is merely an alternate spelling of "Tai") and more importantly becoming outdated, as the prominent scholars recently favor the term "Kra–Dai". This change is long overdue, and the present inconsistency with the changes to the mainspace is confusing and unnecessary. — Jaspet06:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Conflicts by millennium, century and decade up to 1000 AD
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Nominator's rationale: rename/merge as follow-up on this previous discussion. In Antiquity and Middle Ages "conflicts" and "military history" nearly coincide in terms of Wikipedia content. In the previous discussion there was a preference to use the somewhat broader term "military history". This nomination only considers the period up to 1000 AD, because from there on the conflicts tree starts diffusing by year, so for the period of 1000-1499 there will be another follow-up nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all and create all the targets as parent categories. There will be articles on military history in the XXXs which are not conflicts. Oculi (talk) 18:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The question is not whether there will be articles on military history in the XXXs which are not conflicts, the question is whether in these distant periods we may expect a reasonable number of articles per category (i.e. per century or per decade) that are not conflicts. Currently that is not the case at all, for example we only have 11 articles about military alliances in the entire antiquity. WP:OVERLAPCAT does not require that categories are 100% overlapping, it just requires a large overlap. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There are treaties as well. Look at Category:1957 in military history: there are many items which are neither conflicts nor alliances nor treaties. It is not 'overlapcat' at all - any subcat always overlaps completely with a parent cat. A conflict is best categorised as a conflict. Oculi (talk) 12:46, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The amount of content in 1957 is entirely incomparable with ancient and medieval times. We have about 60 articles about treaties from the 5th century BC up to the 10th century AD, that is on average 0.3 articles on treaties per decade category. Of course any subcat always overlaps completely with a parent cat but here we have a case that the amount of content of the parent cat almost completely overlaps with one subcat, and this is what WP:OVERLAPCAT is about. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:57, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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