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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_15


September 15

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Lighthouse of Alexandria

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Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic of the articles in this category. It rather is a "what links here" collection. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:07, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People with cervical spine fracture

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Nominator's rationale: A hodge-podge of people who died by hanging or other trauma, people who were paralyzed from an injury, and people who suffered a minor injury. Generally not a defining characteristic. Walsh90210 (talk) 04:41, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories

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Nominator's rationale: See discussion at Template talk:Category redirect#Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories which are double redirects – the Wikipedia prefix is not needed here and renaming promotes consistency with Category:Non-empty disambiguation categories. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:28, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Don Young

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Nominator's rationale: Practically everything in each of these categories is not "defined" by the politician, and are better served as just being interlinked. The bulk of each page are just the elections they were in or a thing named after the person. They're all made by the same category creator. Mason (talk) 21:41, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:52, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There are a variety of reasons why I made these. Some of them were extremely long serving politicians, many of them are really significant names in their areas. Young and Stevens have dates and places named after themselves. Barney Frank is a significant LGBT figure. Walz is literally the Democratic nominee for VP. Youngkin has his own article for his tenure as governor. Manchin has his own article for his own political positions. You have to keep them. Keep all of these. Vinnylospo (talk) 17:18, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I want to keep some of these because honestly. I just feel like all of the pages or categories I try to make often get removed. This is all in good faith. I seriously don’t mean any harm. When I make these articles, I have a real sense of accomplishment. I get really upset when this stuff gets removed. It almost feels like I wasted my time and I feel like no matter how often I try, I feel it leaves no impact and it’s removed. I’m just rambling here. I’m just very upset. Please don’t take any of this wrong. I really love making articles. It’s truly my passion. But how can I feel comfortable creating when I sometimes feel my work will get removed regardless? Vinnylospo (talk) 06:44, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't double vote Mason (talk) 20:24, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will fix the links to this nomination.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:35, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chemical looping technologies

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There are one two pages in this category, which isn't helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 12:01, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will drop a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:00, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Numbers not in Wikidata

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Nominator's rationale: To move where the articles have been recategorized to via the {{Cite The Numbers}} temp. Consistency with Category:The Numbers ID different from Wikidata. Trailblazer101 (talk) 05:51, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy redirect. There's no need to discuss this, especially since the proposed target "rename" already exists as a category, meaning the only thing that needs to happen is a categoryredirect. Bearcat (talk) 13:40, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The rename has already taken place in the template; should we keep a redirect?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I should've been more clear with my relisting comment: There is consensus we should either redirect or just delete. Which one should we do?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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