Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 6
July 6[edit]
Category:Tourism in the Republic of Artsakh[edit]
- Propose merging Category:Tourism in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Tourism in Azerbaijan and Category:Economy of the Republic of Artsakh
- Propose merging Category:Tourist attractions in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Tourist attractions in Azerbaijan
- Propose merging Category:Churches in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Churches in Azerbaijan
- Propose merging Category:Christian monasteries in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Christian monasteries in Azerbaijan
- Propose merging Category:Museums in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Museums in Azerbaijan
- Propose merging Category:Religious buildings and structures in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Religious buildings and structures in Azerbaijan
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in the Republic of Artsakh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Buildings and structures in Azerbaijan
- Nominator's rationale: Because the Republic of Artsakh no longer exists, these categories should be merged into the present-day Azerbaijan. The top-level category should also be merged, as it also contains only the main article and one subcategory. It is possible that some of the pages are already elsewhere in the Azerbaijan categories — this would need to be checked manually. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:36, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Manually merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:46, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Dobrujan Tatar[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category. It only has two articles: Dobrujan Tatar and Dobrujan Tatar alphabet. Everything can be included in the parent Category:Crimean Tatar language, as Dobrujan Tatar is a dialect of it (and the page on the dialect already includes this category). Super Ψ Dro 23:26, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Surely merge, but I am not certain of the Crimean Tatar target. If that is correct, then the article should be revised in order to make it more clear. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- It might sound confusing due to the geographic names but the Crimean Khanate once extended beyond Crimea and its population was semi-nomadic from what I understand. Dobrujan Tatar is a dialect of the Crimean Tatar language, this has been discussed already at Talk:Dobrujan Tatar. Super Ψ Dro 10:10, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, I had not checked ths talk page. From what I understand of the discussion, the merge target should be Category:Kipchak languages. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- No, it has been not. We are not linguist at all. I, as a speaker of this language, disagree with it. The situation of this language is not clear!!!! Maybe you hear "it's a dialect" from somewhere and act with own knowledge, this is not a solution. The language is in discussion by SIL, and they noticed that the language is different than Crimean Tatar. The discussions are in progress. Zolgoyo (talk) 13:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Zolgoyo: do you agree with the merge target Category:Kipchak languages instead? Marcocapelle (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle I do not understand why it needs to be merged? What's the problem of the category? There are so many categories based on language, variant, dialect etc. And the category is about "Dobrujan Tatar" and not about any other topic, how do you want to compress this category into another category? Zolgoyo (talk) 21:38, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Zolgoyo: the problem is that the category adds zero value to navigation. The two articles are already directly interlinked. When a reader wants to find more related articles (which is the purpose of categories) the next most related topic is Kipchak languages. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Firstly, how do you know that there won't be more pages on this topic? Secondly, this is not the only category in this situation. Each category proliferates and expands at its own pace. Why we need to close this category by making such an extremist move? Zolgoyo (talk) 13:40, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- We can always recreate the category if there are going to be more articles. And no, this is not extremist, this happens all the time. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:41, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Firstly, how do you know that there won't be more pages on this topic? Secondly, this is not the only category in this situation. Each category proliferates and expands at its own pace. Why we need to close this category by making such an extremist move? Zolgoyo (talk) 13:40, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Zolgoyo: the problem is that the category adds zero value to navigation. The two articles are already directly interlinked. When a reader wants to find more related articles (which is the purpose of categories) the next most related topic is Kipchak languages. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle I do not understand why it needs to be merged? What's the problem of the category? There are so many categories based on language, variant, dialect etc. And the category is about "Dobrujan Tatar" and not about any other topic, how do you want to compress this category into another category? Zolgoyo (talk) 21:38, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Zolgoyo: do you agree with the merge target Category:Kipchak languages instead? Marcocapelle (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- It might sound confusing due to the geographic names but the Crimean Khanate once extended beyond Crimea and its population was semi-nomadic from what I understand. Dobrujan Tatar is a dialect of the Crimean Tatar language, this has been discussed already at Talk:Dobrujan Tatar. Super Ψ Dro 10:10, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:People from the Savoyard state[edit]
- Propose merging Category:People from the Savoyard state to Category:People from Savoy
- Nominator's rationale: Overlapping category Mason (talk) 23:21, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: not very overlapping, there is quite a difference between the duchy of Savoy in the Holy Roman Empire, the "extended" Savoyard State which largely consisted of current Piedmont in Italy, and two French departments with Savoie in their name, Savoie and Haute Savoie. The category tree is quite messy but this is not the way to solve it. Perhaps a better alternative is to convert Category:People from Savoy to a disambiguation page. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmmm. I worry that making People from Savoy a disambiguation page might make it even messier. So would the FOOian century people from Savoy catergies need to be rearranged as well. I'm open to alternative solutions that tidy up this mess. Is Savoyard State really the term we should be using at all? Because it seems not be a nationality from my skimming of the category.Mason (talk) 19:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Agree that the centuries need to be renamed. It is a composite state, comparable to the Crown of Aragon and the United Kingdom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:49, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hmmm. I worry that making People from Savoy a disambiguation page might make it even messier. So would the FOOian century people from Savoy catergies need to be rearranged as well. I'm open to alternative solutions that tidy up this mess. Is Savoyard State really the term we should be using at all? Because it seems not be a nationality from my skimming of the category.Mason (talk) 19:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:EBU stubs[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category and template, newly created to hold just one article. As always, stub categories are not free for just any user to create on a whim for just one article of interest -- the minimum bar for the creation of a stub category is 60 articles, and for that very reason stub categories should normally be proposed for creation by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting rather than just getting created willy-nilly.
But the parent category ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:European Broadcasting Union has just 14 articles in it of which only two are short enough that tagging them as stubs would be justifiable -- so really the only possible source of any significant amount of content for this is the ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Eurovision events subcategory, but ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Eurovision Song Contest stubs and {{Eurovision-stub}} both already exist to cover that off, and the one article that's been filed here already had that on it, thus making this entirely redundant to another stub template and category that we already have. Bearcat (talk) 21:43, 6 July 2024 (UTC)- Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:37, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Film series characters originally introduced in a film[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Category of dubious utility, created just to hold a single article. I have to assume that the intended distinction here was "film series characters originally introduced in a film vs. film series characters originally introduced in other source material that a film series was adapted from", because that's the only way this makes a lick of sense -- but that isn't a useful or defining distinction, and would be an utter nightmare to try to maintain since every film character who has an article at all would have to be in either this category or an "adapted medium" sibling. We have no other "film series characters originally introduced in [type of medium]" categories that I can find. Bearcat (talk) 21:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete The convoluted title is enough to convince me that this is not a defining characteristic and that the category has little, if any, potential for growth. Pichpich (talk) 21:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete The very concept of this category is self-redundant. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:38, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per above. Gjs238 (talk) 20:23, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Named roads[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization on a non-defining and unmaintainable characteristic. The category's name itself is obviously silly, because nearly all roads that exist at all have names and the few roads without names are profoundly unlikely to be notable at all -- but the usage note on the category is far more specific, identifying the category as "about the roads that are named after famous personalities", which is just a straight-up violation of WP:SHAREDNAME, and still approaches indiscriminacy anyway since a lot of roads are named after people, with it becoming very subjective whether any given person is "famous" enough to categorize the road as "named after a famous person" or not. Bearcat (talk) 20:51, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:21, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- The idea was to create a category for eponymous roads in India.Most of the roads in India follow a standard numbering system(like NH1,2 …; SH1,2… etc) .Roads are named after people only in few exceptional cases.So the idea was to create a category solely for eponymous roads in India.But if this seems to violate any Wikipedia policy you can delete it. Tmanthara (talk) 04:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete as trivial. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per above. Gjs238 (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete as non-defining. Pichpich (talk) 23:17, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Cricket administration in Mexico[edit]
- Propose merging Category:Cricket administration in Mexico to Category:Cricket in Mexico
- Propose merging Category:Cricket administration in the Netherlands to Category:Cricket in the Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:Cricket administration in Sri Lanka to Category:Cricket in Sri Lanka
- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in each of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Cricket administration in Bermuda[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:00, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 20:26, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Organisations based in Macau[edit]
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Organisations based in Macau to Category:Organizations based in Macau (over redirect)
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Defunct organisations based in Macau to Category:Defunct organizations based in Macau
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Organisations based in Macau by subject to Category:Organizations based in Macau by subject
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Medical and health organisations based in Macau to Category:Medical and health organizations based in Macau
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Sports organisations of Macau to Category:Sports organizations of Macau
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Youth organisations based in Macau to Category:Youth organizations based in Macau
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Non-profit organisations based in Macau to Category:Non-profit organizations based in Macau
- Propose renaming REDIRECT Category:Naturalised citizens of Macau to Category:Naturalized citizens of Macau
- Propose merging Category:Macau voluntary organisations to Category:Non-profit organizations based in Macau
- Propose merging Category:Scouting and Guiding in Macau to Category:Non-profit organizations based in Macau, Category:Youth organizations based in Macau and Category:Scouting and Guiding by country
- Nominator's rationale: Subcats use a mixture of -s- and -z- spelling; seven others currently use z. There is no reason to use the -s- spelling in Macau, diverging from the international default -z-. The voluntary orgs cat is non-standard and an unnecessary layer, and the Scouting and Guiding cat holds only one article. – Fayenatic London 16:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Rename and merge all per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:41, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Rename and merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:12, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per WP:RETAIN. There is no "international default". Categories use a mix of 'z' and the Commonwealth English standard 's'. So the nomination is based on an entirely false premise. Note also that we have Category:Organisations based in Portugal (Macau was a Portuguese colony) and, of course, Category:Organisations based in Hong Kong, in case anyone claims that 'z' is standard in China and we should change all categories to match. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:53, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Independent film stubs[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Stub category and template that have likely outlived their usefulness. As always, the core purpose of stub categories is to facilitate expanding and improving the stubs enough that they can be pulled out of the stub categories -- so the most useful stub categories are ones that correspond to a community of editors with some expertise in the subject area, who can therefore collaborate on expanding the articles. But there isn't any particular community of independent film experts -- editors' areas of expertise are going to centre around countries and/or genres rather than indie status per se.
That is, there are editors who work on American films regardless of their major vs indie status, and editors who work on Japanese films regardless of their major vs indie status, and editors who specialize in science fiction films regardless of their major vs indie status, and on and so forth, but there aren't really any editors whose area of expertise is "independent films irrespective of country or genre".
This was certainly a good faith creation at the time, when we had far fewer articles about films and far fewer stub categories to group them in -- but the stub category tree is now so much more deeply granularized that this just doesn't represent a particularly useful characteristic to group stubs on anymore, because we have many more stub categories for much more specific and collaborative country and genre and time period groupings than we had in 2006.
I've already gone through the category to ensure that each article also has genre and/or nationality film stub templates on it as well, so nothing will be stranded if it goes, but it's just not at all clear that indie status is nearly as useful a basis for collaboration as the country and genre tags are. Bearcat (talk) 15:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Zimbabwean Queen's Counsel[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Only one category about the former country of Rhodesia. Since Zimbabwe isn't a Commonwealth Realm, this category won't have any articles in it. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:27, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Maltese Queen's Counsel[edit]
- Propose splitting Category:Maltese Queen's Counsel to Category:Maltese lawyers and Category:King's Counsel
- Nominator's rationale: Dual merge; only one article. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:26, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Merge but more specifically to Category:20th-century King's Counsel. Merging to Category:Maltese lawyers is not necessary because the only article is already in Category:Chief justices of Malta. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- That is better, I agree. Omnis Scientia (talk) 20:24, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Sandžak[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic. Regional name Sandžak is apparently hardly in use anymore. Even the articles in the history subcategory hardly mention it. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:26, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Keep: Considering Sandžak is very small area of Serbia, there is really not that much to write but it deserves to have a separate category. I'm not sure if there are rules involved as in how many articles should category have in order to even be considered but I believe that the amount written so far is good enough to keep it. Боки ☎ ✎ 07:22, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Size isn't the issue here, WP:DEFINING is. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:17, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Template:Sex-documentary-film-stub[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Stub template of unclear utility. It's only used on three articles total, which obviously isn't enough to give it its own dedicated category -- so instead it just sorts the three articles directly into ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Documentary film stubs, where it just represents duplicate categorization because all three films are also in the ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1960s documentary film stubs subcategory alongside it, and ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Sexuality stubs, which is too broad and overgeneralized to be a useful place to look for films. So all this is really adding is superfluous stub categories that the three films don't really need to be in. Bearcat (talk) 14:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Cricket administration in North America[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. It is sufficient to have Category:Cricket administration by country. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:57, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Parent is Category:Converts from Islam and the sibling category is Category:Converts to Islam from atheism or agnosticism Mason (talk) 03:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Manually merge to Category:Former Muslims, Category:Agnostics and Category:Atheists per earlier discussion halfway on this page. (Not sure why this doesn't link to the right section.) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: what is your opinion about the previous discussion? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out. I'm fine with manually merging. Mason (talk) 12:22, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: what is your opinion about the previous discussion? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Recipients of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award[edit]
- Propose deleting Category:Recipients of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAWARD Nayyn (talk) 02:09, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Keep. I'm a little shocked that anyone would consider an Academy Award to be non-defining. It's a pretty big deal. - Eureka Lott 14:41, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book winners[edit]
- Propose deleting Category: GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book winners
Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAWARD and as there is a list article already Nayyn (talk) 02:09, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Historical geography[edit]
- Option 1: rename Category:Historical geography to Category:Geographic history.
- Option 2: rename Category:Geographic history by country to Category:Historical geography by country.
- Added to option 2 on relisting:
- rename Category:Geographic history of Brazil to Category:Historical geography of Brazil (undoing cut-and-paste rename)
- rename Category:Geographic history of China to Category:Historical geography of China
- rename Category:Czech geographic history to Category:Historical geography of the Czech Republic
- rename Category:Geographic history of France to Category:Historical geography of France
- rename Category:Geographic history of Germany to Category:Historical geography of Germany
- merge Category:Geographic history of Iran to Category:Historical geography of Iran
- rename Category:Geographic history of Scotland to Category:Historical geography of Scotland
- rename Category:Geographic history of the United Kingdom to Category:Historical geography of the United Kingdom
- rename Category:Geographic history of the United States to Category:Historical geography of the United States
- merge Category:Geographic history of the United States by state to Category:Historical geography of the United States (unnecessary layer)
- rename Category:Geographic history of California to Category:Historical geography of California
- Added to option 2 on relisting:
- I can't imagine that these are fundamentally different concepts. I have tagged both categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:54, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- Option 2 Main article is Historical geography, while Geographic history redirects to History of geography. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Adding a representative sample of subcats to encourage further participation.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Fayenatic London 09:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I am going to tag all of the subcats; if there is no further participation I would expect this to be closed as option 2.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:22, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Afghanistan to Category:Historical geography of Afghanistan
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Albania to Category:Historical geography of Albania
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Algeria to Category:Historical geography of Algeria
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Argentina to Category:Historical geography of Argentina
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Armenia to Category:Historical geography of Armenia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Australia to Category:Historical geography of Australia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Austria to Category:Historical geography of Austria
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Azerbaijan to Category:Historical geography of Azerbaijan
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Bangladesh to Category:Historical geography of Bangladesh
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Belarus to Category:Historical geography of Belarus
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Belgium to Category:Historical geography of Belgium
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Category:Historical geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Bulgaria to Category:Historical geography of Bulgaria
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Canada to Category:Historical geography of Canada
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Croatia to Category:Historical geography of Croatia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Denmark to Category:Historical geography of Denmark
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Egypt to Category:Historical geography of Egypt
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Estonia to Category:Historical geography of Estonia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Ethiopia to Category:Historical geography of Ethiopia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Finland to Category:Historical geography of Finland
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Georgia (country) to Category:Historical geography of Georgia (country)
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Greece to Category:Historical geography of Greece
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Hungary to Category:Historical geography of Hungary
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of India to Category:Historical geography of India
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Iraq to Category:Historical geography of Iraq
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Ireland to Category:Historical geography of Ireland
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Israel to Category:Historical geography of Israel
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Italy to Category:Historical geography of Italy
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Japan to Category:Historical geography of Japan
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Laos to Category:Historical geography of Laos
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Latvia to Category:Historical geography of Latvia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Libya to Category:Historical geography of Libya
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Lithuania to Category:Historical geography of Lithuania
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Malaysia to Category:Historical geography of Malaysia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Mexico to Category:Historical geography of Mexico
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Moldova to Category:Historical geography of Moldova
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Mongolia to Category:Historical geography of Mongolia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Montenegro to Category:Historical geography of Montenegro
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Morocco to Category:Historical geography of Morocco
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Nepal to Category:Historical geography of Nepal
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of the Netherlands to Category:Historical geography of the Netherlands
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Norway to Category:Historical geography of Norway
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Pakistan to Category:Historical geography of Pakistan
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Poland to Category:Historical geography of Poland
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Portugal to Category:Historical geography of Portugal
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Romania to Category:Historical geography of Romania
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Russia to Category:Historical geography of Russia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Serbia to Category:Historical geography of Serbia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Slovakia to Category:Historical geography of Slovakia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Slovenia to Category:Historical geography of Slovenia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Somalia to Category:Historical geography of Somalia
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Spain to Category:Historical geography of Spain
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Sweden to Category:Historical geography of Sweden
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Switzerland to Category:Historical geography of Switzerland
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Syria to Category:Historical geography of Syria
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Tajikistan to Category:Historical geography of Tajikistan
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Thailand to Category:Historical geography of Thailand
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Turkey to Category:Historical geography of Turkey
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Ukraine to Category:Historical geography of Ukraine
- Propose renaming Category:Geographic history of Uzbekistan to Category:Historical geography of Uzbekistan
- Added on relisting; no opinion on whether this is a good idea or not (I simply tagged the categories). HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Strong Support for Geographical History to be changed to Historical Geography. JarrahTree 01:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Bengali–Assamese script[edit]
- Propose renaming Category:Assamese scripts (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Bengali–Assamese script
- Propose renaming Category:Bengali script (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Bengali–Assamese script
- Nominator's rationale: There is a single Bengali–Assamese script shared between the two languages, even though they use different alphabets. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Wrong, there are multiple scripts for both languages (note the plural "scripts"), and the Bengali–Assamese script is one of these scripts used and shared by both languages (with minor differences), but there are other scripts (like Naoriya Phulo script). Look at the category content, they clearly cannot be merged as their listed scripts are not the same. They are not all the same single script. Only the Bengali-Assamese script (just named "Bengali script" in Unicode and also named "Eastern Nagari") is unified; the other scripts are distinct. As well within the "Bengali alphabet" and "Assamese alphabet" (which are relevant parts of the shared script specific to each language) are not the same (just like there are multiple Latin-base alphabets). verdy_p (talk) 02:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- There are only two articles about scripts in both categories, the rest has been added as a matter of loose association. Propose to move these two articles to the two parent categories and then delete the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:01, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Relisting comment: Thoughts on deletion?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- @LaundryPizza03 and Verdy p: what are your thoughts on partially merging the category? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- What would that entail? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- @LaundryPizza03: it would entail moving the main article to Category:Brahmic scripts. It appears that the second script, Naoriya Phulo script, does not belong there. Then check if all articles are under Assam and/or Bengal language and delete the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- That sounds reasonable. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- @LaundryPizza03: it would entail moving the main article to Category:Brahmic scripts. It appears that the second script, Naoriya Phulo script, does not belong there. Then check if all articles are under Assam and/or Bengal language and delete the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- What would that entail? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Cricket organizations[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Serves no purpose, as the only contents are a subcat that is in the same parent cat as the category being discussed. Gjs238 (talk) 12:39, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Comment, I think it is not Category:Cricket administration that should be a subcategory of Category:Cricket organizations, but rather three particular subcategories of Category:Cricket administration should be subcategories of Category:Cricket organizations. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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- I have boldly reorganized the category to illustrate my point. Feel free to revert and discuss. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Keep per Marco. Omnis Scientia (talk) 10:36, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Comment, The category seems to have a history of folks not knowing what to make of it. The new categorization scheme is an improvement, but inconsistencies remain. For example, two subcategories are Cricket umpiring associations and Cricketers' associations. Yet over at Category:Cricket administration, the subcat Category:Cricket administration stubs is loaded with articles of "associations". If we address this by consolidating all the "associations" subcats and articles together in Category:Cricket administration, then Category:Cricket organizations ends up with only 1 subcat, which is also listed in Category:Cricket administration anyway. Gjs238 (talk) 16:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- That will require nominating Category:Cricket umpiring associations and Category:Cricketers' associations for merger. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- The whole problem appears to have been caused by the absence of Category:Cricket governing bodies which I have now restored as a valid subcategory of Category:Sports governing bodies by sport. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Jesuit musicians[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Non defining intersection between occupation and religion Mason (talk) 23:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Weak oppose, they wrote and sung (modern) Christian music, so it is not a trivial intersection. However, I could also imagine this category to become much broader (i.e. renamed) per the list in Contemporary Catholic liturgical music. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:06, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Films directed by Wayne Kramer (filmmaker)[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Needless disambiguation. Clarityfiend (talk) 13:11, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Buddhist monks from the Western Regions[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: rename, for English speaking readers of Wikipedia the term Central Asia is more familiar than Western Regions. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:34, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- Keep, as it is in effect a "former nationality" category. The article Western Regions refers to a historical period (up to 8th century CE) as well as a geographical range. All the current member pages are from that period, and renaming to "Central Asia" would lose this. "Western Regions" is named with reference to China, and its significance for Buddhism seems to be that Buddhist monks from this region took their texts into China during that period. – Fayenatic London 08:45, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Television series by Fox Television Animation[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Given Fox Television Animation is a former name/entity of what is currently 20th Television Animation since 2020, I propose splitting up this category to differentiate the two eras of this studio's works. All of its productions from 1999 until 2020 should remain here, while any works made since the 2020 rebrand, I propose be moved to a new Category:Television series by 20th Television Animation. For series made under both, both cats ought to be present. The category as it is can be misleading with the cat name using the former "Fox" brand despite the description using the rebranded one under Disney. An example that supports this, as noted in the prior RfD here, is that we have separate cats at "Category:20th Century Fox films" and "Category:20th Century Studios films". That RfD suggested a split rather than a rename as initially proposed last November, but was closed with no consensus as no one else responded. Trailblazer101 (talk) 18:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipients[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to parent categories per WP:NARROWCAT. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:43, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Whirly-Girls[edit]
- Propose merging Category:Whirly-Girls to Category:Helicopter pilots
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; the name is not what these women are referred to but only the name of the organization. Note that these articles are already in Category:Women aviators by nationality. Hence only single merge. Alternative suggestion: keep and rename to Category:Women helicopter pilots which would expand the scope of the category. Omnis Scientia (talk) 21:27, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, I think renaming to Women Helicopter pilots is suitable and appropriate. There is currently a lack of categories on Wikipedia to suitably identify/locate topics/persons related to women's aviation. The current categories make it difficult to find these aviation pioneers, which are few and worthy of inclusion in a category as it is a defining characteristic. This is why I developed the category in the first place. Thank you for the measured discussion here. Nayyn (talk) 23:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- While there are categories for female aviators, gyro and rotor pilots have different certifications compared to fixed wing pilots and thus it is a unique and defining category. There are comparatively few women who are helicopter pilots overall, and a category specifically for helicopters is particularly useful addition to Wikipedia. Nayyn (talk) 23:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- as per WP:USEFUL
[t]here are some pages within Wikipedia that are supposed to be useful navigation tools and nothing more—disambiguation pages, categories, and redirects, for instance—so usefulness is the basis of their inclusion; for these types of pages, usefulness is a valid argument
Nayyn (talk) 23:47, 28 June 2024 (UTC)- No, "useful" is entirely subjective. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:15, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- as per WP:USEFUL
- While there are categories for female aviators, gyro and rotor pilots have different certifications compared to fixed wing pilots and thus it is a unique and defining category. There are comparatively few women who are helicopter pilots overall, and a category specifically for helicopters is particularly useful addition to Wikipedia. Nayyn (talk) 23:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, I think renaming to Women Helicopter pilots is suitable and appropriate. There is currently a lack of categories on Wikipedia to suitably identify/locate topics/persons related to women's aviation. The current categories make it difficult to find these aviation pioneers, which are few and worthy of inclusion in a category as it is a defining characteristic. This is why I developed the category in the first place. Thank you for the measured discussion here. Nayyn (talk) 23:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Merge, not a defining characteristic and women can be easily traced in Category:Women aviators by nationality. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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Relisting comment: Merge or rename?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:54, 6 July 2024 (UTC)- I don't agree that "women can be easily traced in Category:Women aviators by nationality." I think the suggestion to "keep and rename to Category:Women helicopter pilots which would expand the scope of the category" makes sense.
- I'm not sure what the argument "not a defining characteristic" refers to above? Nayyn (talk) 00:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- Non-defining is a keep tennet of Wikipedia:Categorization. @Nayyn, I strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies of categorization. Mason (talk) 12:24, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Fictional illeists[edit]
- Nominator's rationale: Previously deleted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 19#Category:Fictional illeists then undeleted out of process. Still seems non-defining. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:50, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Speedy delete per WP:G4. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- G4 doesn't fit, as it was undeleted via Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion rather than recreated. --HPfan4 (talk) 23:13, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- That is still out of process. WP:DRV would have been the right forum. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- I would still support deletion per WP:TRIVIALCAT. I just don't see this as a defining characteristic. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:06, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- G4 doesn't fit, as it was undeleted via Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion rather than recreated. --HPfan4 (talk) 23:13, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Speedy delete per WP:G4. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Keep: the characteristic is defining enough to be covered by and discussed in reliable sources (see, for example, Mantis (Marvel Comics), Elmo, Hercule Poirot). See also the discussion of Category:Illeists. --HPfan4 (talk) 22:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:TRIVIALCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- Keep This is a defining trait, and often discussed in sources. Dimadick (talk) 08:44, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
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