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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_13


August 13

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Characters in Greek mythology by location

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Nominator's rationale: I have added these categories to Category:Mythological people by nationality (most as subcats of Category:Mythological Greek people‎), and I think the category tree would be better served using the same naming structure as Category:Legendary people by nationality and Category:Fictional people by nationality. It would open the scope to mythological people from any mythology not just Greek. Mclay1 (talk) 13:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose — consistency is good, but we should never seek it at the expense of utility. The proposed change loses a lot of clarity — few readers will know what an “Aegenitan” is, but the “Greek mythology” in the current category helps them. On the inclusion of non-Greek mythology, the only relevant category would be Roman mythology, and there’s nothing stopping a page being in two categories if that is helpful. UndercoverClassicist T·C 13:39, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mirai (band)

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Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category for a band, with no other content but the eponym. As always, bands can have a dedicated category if they have a significant volume of spinoff content besides just their main article, but do not automatically get one just to hold their main article and nothing else -- but there's absolutely nothing else that can be filed here, as even their albums don't have separate articles at all. Bearcat (talk) 12:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NUMTOT Wikipedians

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Nominator's rationale: Overly narrow user category per WP:USERCATNO. Mclay1 (talk) 11:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Black MIDI enthusiasts

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Nominator's rationale: Overly narrow user category per WP:USERCATNO. Mclay1 (talk) 11:46, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

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Nominator's rationale: Three eponymous categories for political committees, each only containing the eponym with no other content at all. As always, everything that exists does not automatically get its own eponymous category just to recursively contain itself -- these would be fine if there were at least four or five spinoff articles to file in any of them besides the eponyms, but are not needed for just one thing. Bearcat (talk) 11:24, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is it possible that given 2 days I could quickly write these entries to keep these categorized? TinaLees-Jones (talk) 11:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Footballers from Paillaco

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry.

Note- This is also the only entry in 'Sportspeople from Paillaco'. If this category is deleted, it would save time to bypass Sportspeople otherwise another CFD would be needed. Lost in Quebec (talk) 08:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Journalists from the Northern Territory

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Nominator's rationale: Only has 1 entry LibStar (talk) 06:32, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wars involving Seychelles

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Nominator's rationale: delete, the category only contains a redirect and it is not clearly about a war anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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Nominator's rationale: rename, "former" is redundant because the Grand Duchy of Lithuania no longer exists. Adding "the", similar to e.g. Category:Battles involving the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:02, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Antisemitism in China

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Nominator's rationale: this category contains only three articles: a main article, a media, and an Internet celebrity, Not to mention that anti-Semitism in China has only appeared on the Internet in recent years. Coddlebean (talk) 04:14, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts (talk) 02:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dominican Republic slaves

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category Gjs238 (talk) 15:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts (talk) 02:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Edo

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Nominator's rationale: rename, Edo is the former name of Tokyo, but we hardly ever categorize based on a name only. If not merged, rename to Category:Edo (former Tokyo) in order to avoid confusion with Category:Edo (ethnic group). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle is correct that categories are often disambiguated even when their eponymous articles are not, which is why speedy criterion C2D does not apply in those cases. Mclay1 (talk) 03:16, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • How much do these individual articles even belong in this category in the first place? It looks to me like many of them could be sorted into better categories than this one. Take Yakatabune, for example. The connection to Edo is clear but I'm not really sure what good the categorization is. Note that it isn't in a category for Tokyo or for the Heian period. -- asilvering (talk) 23:03, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:48, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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