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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_8
October 8
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Early abbots by century
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:5th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:6th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:7th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:8th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:9th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:10th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:11th-century abbots
- Propose deleting Category:12th-century abbots
- Nominator's rationale: the earliest non-Christian (Buddhist) abbot that we have an article about is Yishan Yining who lived in the 13th century. These categories don't contribute to navigation until we have articles about earlier Buddhist abbots. All Irish abbots of this period were Christian abbots and can be added as subcategories thereof. It would be naieve to state that these Irish abbots do not belong in Christian abbots just because the Irish category name does not specify "Christian". Wikipedia should reflect the real world and not get stuck too much in its internal organization. The real world is that there weren't Buddhist abbots in medieval Ireland, they were all Christian. This nomination is of course without objection to recreation once we have articles about earlier Buddhist abbots. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:07, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Jainism in India by city
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Jainism in India by city to Category:Jainism in India and Category:Jainism in Asia by city
- Nominator's rationale: merge for now, surprisingly few articles in this categories. By all means recreate when more articles are available. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
North American Indigenous categories
[edit]- Rename Category:Anti-indigenous racism in North America to Category:Anti-Indigenous racism in North America
- Rename Category:Genocide of indigenous peoples of North America to Category:Genocide of Indigenous peoples of North America
- Rename Category:Anti-indigenous racism in the United States to Category:Anti-Indigenous racism in the United States
- Rename Category:Assimilation of indigenous peoples of North America to Category:Assimilation of Indigenous peoples of North America
- Rename Category:People of indigenous North American descent to Category:People of Indigenous North American descent
- Rename Category:History of indigenous peoples of North America to Category:History of Indigenous peoples of North America
- Rename Category:History of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest to Category:History of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest
- Rename Category:Treaties of indigenous peoples of North America to Category:Treaties of Indigenous peoples of North America
- Rename Category:Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America to Category:Wars involving the Indigenous peoples of North America
- Rename Category:American people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:American people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Puerto Rican people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Puerto Rican people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Belizean people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Belizean people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Cuban people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Cuban people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Dominica people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Dominica people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Dominican Republic people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Dominican Republic people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Guatemalan people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Guatemalan people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Haitian people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Haitian people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Honduran people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Honduran people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Mexican people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Mexican people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Panamanian people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Panamanian people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Salvadoran people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Salvadoran people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Rename Category:Trinidad and Tobago people of indigenous peoples descent to Category:Trinidad and Tobago people of Indigenous peoples descent
- Nominator's rationale: Capitalize the word "Indigenous", as capitalization is the common practice in North America and on Wikipedia when referring to the Indigenous peoples of North America. This capitalization would be in line with the recommendations of the Associated Press, APA Style, the Chicago Manual of Style, the United Nations, and the Native American Journalists Association. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 16:03, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Museums with wikis
[edit]- Convert Category:Museums with wikis to article List of museum wikis
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining feature of a museum. It's probably interesting enough to be made into a list. Mason (talk) 12:32, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, possibly listify. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:35, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Addis Standard people
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This is the only subcategory in Category:Journalists by publication that has but a single article. Most of them have a fairly substantial number, though I did spot a couple with only 4 articles. 76.9.91.187 (talk) 09:34, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. There is no need to merge somewhere as far I can see, the article is already in Category:Ethiopian journalists. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:38, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Majority-minority cities and towns in in McHenry County, Illinois
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This is an empty category with a repeated "in" in the title, which is pretty much useless because its parent category contains two such entities and it's only gotten 16 views in its lifetime (equating to only slightly more than two every 115 days, which is really small). I'm not sure we really need it for those reasons. Regards, SONIC678 05:45, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, useless redirect. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:48, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Pointers to WMF tools
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Pointers to WMF tools to Category:Pointers to Toolforge tools
- Nominator's rationale: None of these tools are maintained by the WMF. I suspect the creator meant "WMF Labs", but that name has been replaced by Toolforge now. Legoktm (talk) 04:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Government organizations of Indonesia
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Government organizations of Indonesia to Category:Government of Indonesia
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge redundant category layer. This category doesn't help navigation Mason (talk) 03:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- I have added three subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:20, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support merging was created by a since blocked Indonesian editor who was creating a curious range of red link and since contested categories JarrahTree 06:19, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Second ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:NEOLOGISM, Second Ladies are not a thing in Philippine politics. We are not like the United States which uses such term. Second Ladies/Gentlemen at best are just a synonym for the Vice President's spouse, unlike the First Lady/Gentlemen who actually serves a role for being the host at the Malacanang Palace and is distinct from the Spouse of the President of the Philippines Hariboneagle927 (talk) 02:24, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment Unfortunately, this category has been emptied by the nominator, Hariboneagle927. Liz Read! Talk! 06:14, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- For full disclosure, there were four entries under it Mans Carpio, Elenita Binay, Celia Díaz Laurel, and Loi Ejercito Hariboneagle927 (talk) 06:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose. This category is spouses of the vice president, that's a defining feature regardless of whether the role is official. Please don't remove pages from categories like this. I've reverted you removals. Mason (talk) 13:08, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- For full disclosure, there were four entries under it Mans Carpio, Elenita Binay, Celia Díaz Laurel, and Loi Ejercito Hariboneagle927 (talk) 06:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Local circumstances, both with respect to the question whether it is a defining characteristic, as well as with respect to the name of the category, should play an important role in the discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Nuclear weapons and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Overlapping categories. Upmerge. Mason (talk) 02:13, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, but purge Nuclear Orthodoxy isn't really about Ukraine. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:26, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- fine with me Mason (talk) 13:09, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Pro–nuclear weapons activists
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Pro–nuclear weapons activists to Category:Nuclear weapons
- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category that's not helpful for navigation. There's only one page in here. Mason (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Just delete, I don't think we should put a biography in Category:Nuclear weapons based on one stupid remark of the subject of the article. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Totally fine with me Mason (talk) 13:09, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Blackpink members albums
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There is no scheme for categorizing individual members solo albums by albums by members of groups, and each is already linked from the group's albums category Category:Blackpink albums (which appears to be the standard). For precedent, I found Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 19#Category:The Cars' solo albums. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 00:34, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, in the spirit of WP:OCASSOC. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)