:You don't seem to get the main point - if it is to be upmerged, then everyone except one person wanted it to be upmerged into "European countries", not to "United Kingdom". Anyway, don't we default to not delete if there is no consensus, or is that not applicable to categories? Anyway, I'm rather concerned that you think that the question of NI is the main issue here - just because people can't agree on how to categorize one page (and there pretty much is agreement on that anyway, except for one or two people) that shouldn't be allowed to derail the proper categorization of other pages. I propose to recreate the category under the name "Countries of the United Kingdom", which is a solution that would satisfy almost everyone in the discussion, and hope it will remain unchallenged.