Category talk:Transliteration of English surnames

Category:Transliteration of English surnames
and other 26 categories of this type with their topic cat parent templates, like Category:en:Transliteration of French female given names, Category:Transliteration of Russian male given names. The reason is to remove duplicate categories, as discussed in User talk:EncycloPetey. This is the solution (2) in the discussion. If the deletion is accepted, I will empty the categories and mark them for deletion. --Makaokalani (talk) 14:20, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete; the categories are arbitrary, being based on the fact that some languages use a different script and so must transcribe names. There is no information about the names themselves encoded in having the category, but rather information about the relative difference of the two languages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:50, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, per EncycloPetey. There should be no "Transliterations of ... names" categories. --Yair rand (talk) 16:15, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't object to these categories really. Apart from Category:en:Transliteration of French female given names which makes no sense as they both use the Latin script. Mglovesfun (talk) 04:57, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This discussion request is only about the deletion of the confusing and partly erratic middle categories, all containing the words "Transliteration of (Language) surnames or (fe)male given names". Categories of the Category:lv:Russian male given names type will remain, to be listed (in this example) under Category:Russian male given names and Category:lv:Transliteration of personal names. By emptying the categories I meant mostly changing the parent categories. --Makaokalani (talk) 12:08, 29 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per Makaokalani. - -sche (discuss) 21:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:50, 12 October 2012 (UTC)