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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_14


February 14

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Television news anchors from insular areas of the United States

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Disasters in the Palestinian territories

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Nominator's rationale: Per actual content. As I understand it, the category tree for Palestinian territories (where categories are parented under "former country") includes everything related to Palestine from 1948 to 2012, before the PNA began referring to itself as the State of Palestine. However, the nominated categories also contain content from after 2012, so there is no reason to deviate from standard country classification practices. Hassan697 (talk) 20:55, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:July 2022 sports events in Moldova

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 20:29, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Region of setting

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Nominator's rationale: rename (and re-parent the top category), we use "location" to summarize continents, countries, regions, waters, populated places, outer space. See Category:Categories by location. "Region" is used for regions in continents or regions in countries. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:28, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:September 2022 sports events in Fiji

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 19:42, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:November 2022 sports events in Ecuador

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:44, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Marshall Thundering Herd football venues

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT User:Namiba 15:31, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:James Cook

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:COPSEP we shouldn't have biographical and non-biographical articles in the same category. However the people category may fall foul of WP:OCASSOC, in which case happy to purge of biographical articles. --woodensuperman 14:41, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Thomas & Friends videos

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Nominator's rationale: While there is nothing wrong with covering Thomas & Friends home video, this category only has one article, which does not mention any home releases. RanDom 404 (talk) 14:14, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni

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Nominator's rationale: More specific name because of Fellowship (FCPS). Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 13:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Brookline, New Hampshire

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Television anchors from Charleston, South Carolina

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Biddeford, Maine, by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries.

Also propose merging

Also subcategories with just two or three entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:46, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Yellowknife by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:36, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tang dynasty short stories

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Nominator's rationale: merge or reverse merge, largely overlapping categories. I have tagged them both. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • That raises a broader question: should all literature articles be both in a period by writing category and a period of setting category, also if these periods are the same? It seems overcategorization to me. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:01, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction set in ancient history

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated and poorly-populated categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Characters created by Tony Isabella

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Nominator's rationale: Subject's new preferred name. See Jenny_Blake_Isabella#Personal_life. Alxeedo TALK 03:31, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Americanized surnames

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Nominator's rationale: The main article for this page is anglicisation of names. "American" isn't a language and many of these surnames are used in other countries than the US, including Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. ★Trekker (talk) 12:30, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename per nom. Someone should check the articles too. Bell (surname) and Byers (surname) seem to be plain English-language surnames. And it is not clear if Blomquist really deviates from an original Swedish form. But better have it checked by a native English speaker. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:37, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Listify - For the reasons illustrated above. This just looks like WP:OR (editors making a subjective determination for inclusion). This just cries out for explanations and references. Neither of which can be done with categories, per WP:BEFORECAT/WP:CLN. - jc37 17:53, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - As an aside, these fall under what I call "before and after" categories. (This was that, but now, it's this.) The clearest example of which is: renaming of people, companies, countries, etc. An article is one entry in a category. And can't show an individual relationship with another article (unless we started making innumerable 2-article categories). We should just establish that such categories are disallowed and are better as lists. Well... We do in WP:CLN#Disadvantages of a category, numbers 2 and 7 point to this, for example. But apparently we need to mke this clearer, I guess. - jc37 18:07, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Listify?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:41, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Also noting that Category:Anglicized surnames exists and is not a redirect back to Category:Americanized surnames, so a traditional rename is not possible.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:27, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, I think it should be subsumed into Category:Anglicized surnames, because, as stated above, any “Americanization” would inherently be Anglicization. I’m not sure whether that’s considered a merge, or if another process is typically used. AnandaBliss (talk) 04:22, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Virtual reality pioneers

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Nominator's rationale: From Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_19#Virtual_reality_->_Extended_reality:

Please renominate "Virtual reality pioneers" separately. The term is generally only used in retrospect and I don't think it's controversial to say VR is still developing in a way that it's hard for us to say who is and isn't a pioneer from the present vantage point.
— User:Axem Titanium 23:45, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:40, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (keep). All the nominated categories can be kept without any deletions or renamings instead. 67.209.130.111 (talk) 05:35, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Pichpich's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:26, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:National highways

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Nominator's rationale: Categorisation by WP:SHAREDNAME that means different things in each of the different countries with member subcategories. I added Category:Highways by country to those that weren't already included via a parent, so it's now redundant. Paul_012 (talk) 22:52, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's latest comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:23, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:19, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Palestine

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Nominator's rationale: Duplicates the scope of Category:Palestinian people. For people from the entire geographical region of Palestine, Category:People from Palestine (region) exists. --Hassan697 (talk) 20:09, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• From reading the other comments, my conclusion is that for all ethnic Palestinians, we should use  Category:Palestinians. For nationals of the the modern State of Palestine we use Category:Palestinian people.
Category:Palestinian people should be merged into Category:People from Palestine. The categories should have clear descriptions of the purpose.
Category:People from Palestine should be a sub-category of Category:Palestinians Isoceles-sai (talk) 15:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:08, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
While I acknowledge that the category name could be debated and that an exception—similar to the one for Georgia—could be considered, I believe this should be addressed in a separate renaming discussion. My current proposal focuses solely on eliminating scope duplication. Later we can discuss whether an exception should be made for Palestine, similar to Georgia. However, this is a separate issue from the current redundancy. Additionally, the case of Georgia is different because Georgia is a disambiguation page, whereas Palestine is now the article about the modern state, with the disambiguation page moved to Palestine (disambiguation). --Hassan697 (talk) 20:40, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pittsburgh Labor History

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Nominator's rationale: This should be made consistent with all other categories of history by specific topic in a specific region. See, for example, the subcategories of Category:Labor history by country or Category:Cold War history by country. Also MOS:TITLECASE. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 17:49, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Alt rename, as suggested by Namiba? Clear consensus for a rename.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:03, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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