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mess, with for example half the most famous English such-and-suches in "English such-and-suches" and the other half in "British such-and-suches" and no link between the two for many categories. Exceptions are an unwelcome complication. All British athletes still are in "British athletes", but just one level further down.
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I did this. I am doing it for all GB and Northern Ireland sportspeople. I want all English people/ Scottish people etc to be accessible from the English people/Scottish people etc main categories. This is the only way to deal with the inconsistency in categorisation across the board. It used to be a
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a perfectly legitimate category that listed Scottish athletes, as opposed to athletes from other nations of the UK. These athletes compete for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games, for example. I don't know why this is a candidate for speedy deletion: it's just as legitimate a category as
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British athletes compete in international competitions for Great Britain. Therefore the aim of categorisation fo listing like articles together is violaed. These should be merged back into
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international competitions for Great Britain. In many - such as the Commonwealth Games - they compete for their individual home countries. Therefore, all of these should be
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Category listed for deletion on February 11, 2005. Consensus was to
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