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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_2


February 2

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Years in New York (state) politics

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Nominator's rationale: Nominating the main category as well as its subcats. Years in New York (state) politics is the only category with subcats of its type dedicated to any U.S. state on Wikipedia. In my opinion, this is a form of overcat. I believe the categories of "Year in New York State" is enough to be used on articles in place of this main politics cat and its subcats. Articles for elections in New York state have already a category for it. I can't imagine any good use for this category or even other duplicate categories for the other 49 states and the five major U.S. territories.

Same could be said for articles for the politics of other countries' provinces, districts, regions, etc. for subdivision political matters. Also for all current 3,144 counties in each of the 50 states that have a county legislature and if articles were or do exist for laws in a certain county or other political matters for said counties.

If somebody could please tag the 34 subcats as well and just ping me if they have. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Museums in France by department

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Châteaux in France by department

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:33, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Churches in France by department

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports venues in Flemish Brabant

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Nominator's rationale: Each contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Christian monasteries in Luxembourg (Belgium)

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Nominator's rationale: Contains 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Canals in Belgium by province

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Airports in Walloon Brabant

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Nominator's rationale: Contains 1 article. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures in Albania by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant WP:RUSSIA categories

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Nominator's rationale: More redundant categories; all categories, templates, etc. are of NA-importance to WP:RUSSIA. Delete them as redundant to e.g. Category:Template-Class Russia pages. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 22:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: So far, the only person who has expressed a clear opinion on the nominator's substantial proposal (eliminating the NA-importance categories in favor of categories specifying only class) is the nominator himself.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alumni lists

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Nominator's rationale: Use pre-existing category Gjs238 (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murdered American gangsters by criminal organization

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to isolate the specific organization, assuming we want to diffuse at the intersection of cause of death and occupation, and organization. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval events

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Nominator's rationale: manually merge, the word "events" is used here as "anything that happened" in this period, and is thus a rather meaningless distinction. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars of Precolonial East Africa

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Nominator's rationale: merge per actual content, the articles are all about Ethiopians. Note that the term "pre-colonial" is pretty meaningless in Ethiopia, apart from a brief occupation by Italy they were an independent country. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:50, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works set in prison

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Nominator's rationale: Forms a category loop with Category:Fiction set in prison, and contains no articles. All the other subcategories are already in the other category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Fiction set in X" categories normally only contain "Works set in X" and Fictional elements in X (mostly characters). This case is no exception to that. I tend to think that the "Fiction set in" category layer is redundant, rather than the "Works set in" layer. The works and fictional elements can be linked to each other in the header of the category page, just like songs and albums. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Experts on refugees

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Nominator's rationale: I stumbled on this category when I stumbled on the deletion discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoe Gardner (migration expert), and I saw a tangent about this category. While it is true that many people on Wikipedia are widely considered as experts in their subject, there are only three categories named "Experts on...": those are for terrorism, North Korea and refugees. Other categories on specialism would be like Category:Psephologists (not "experts on elections") or Category:Seismologists (not "experts on earthquakes") I looked at the articles in this category, and there is a mixture of activists and academics. Both of these can be problematic when we have a category on expertise. If the category was named "pro-refugee activists", that seems better to me, because it is about their position, rather than expertise. If a pro-refugee activist is not academically qualified, I feel that opens the way to having anti-refugee activists also having to be in the category of "experts", as both will be known for activism on the subject, and both will have no academic credentials to prove it. When it comes to academics, obviously they do not pin their colours to the mast quite like activists, but there are also highly qualified people who are known for writings that criticise migration and asylum. Those would fall under the banner of "experts on refugees", and would probably lead to edit wars on exactly who qualifies as an expert. TLDR: Category mixes activists and academics. Should they be separated? Category is based on expertise, which is subjective. In the case of unqualified activists, the category could also be applied to anti-refugee activists, as the category only mentions unquantifiable "expertise", not position. Unknown Temptation (talk) 21:04, 8 January 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) 04:49, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will note that creating a category does not need discussion, but merging a category does.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:34, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, or rename pro-refugee activists. Calling someone an expert is POV, and even worse almost no one in this category is even described that way. It's an arbitrary assortment of people Campaigning on something does not make you an expert, and I'm not sure if there is a relevant academic field. In any case, only one or two of the people here would fit in an academic category. Our two other "Experts on" categories are misnamed and have also been nominated. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on the discussion between PARAKANYAA and Marcocapelle?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Setians

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Nominator's rationale: The title and description is confusing, but every item listed is affiliated with or is the Temple of Set. Non-Temple of Set Set affiliations are not included. Category should thus be renamed. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:15, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Needs third-party opinion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Theatres by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 05:05, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. Roundtheworld (talk) 17:51, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Polish engineers who worked in Azerbaijan

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between nationality, occupation, and place of work. already added members of the category to Foo-th century Polish engineers SMasonGarrison 02:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per WP:OCEGRS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars of Precolonial West Africa

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Nominator's rationale: isolated category. Category:Precolonial West Africa doesn't exist SMasonGarrison 02:16, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The commonly accepted definition of West Africa is based on the modern countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:10, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars of Precolonial North Africa

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated cateogry SMasonGarrison 02:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The commonly accepted definition of North Africa is based on the modern countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:11, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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