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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_13


April 13

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Skanör

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Nominator's rationale: Proposed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_30#Category:People_from_Skanör, due to the small size of this category. However, I doubt that there will be enough contents to expand the "People from" subcategory as well because the place has a population of only 7,000, and hence I closed that one as merge. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Legendary creatures

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Nominator's rationale: There are many open CfD's right now, such as Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_30#Category:Monsters, several items at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_31 that are about specific mythologies, and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_April_5#Category:Legendary_birds, that are going nowhere. This one is also likely needed to settle the monsters CfD.
For my own perspective on this category, I interpret them as including mostly nonexistent species in folklore, and therefore the categories are redundant. But the birds CfD has not reached a consensus, either, on the merge target; this should be easier since there is no existent "in mythology" target. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:55, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I'll agree that some sources can be pretty free with interchanging the two terms. But some sources do not. We should avoid WP:SYNTH. Add to that the issue that for some mythology is religion, and not merely folklore, and directly merging becomes very problematic. If you want to tighten the inclusion criteria, I would support merging both to: Category:Legendary creatures in mythology, and prune as necessary. That way we are better covering how these creatures are presented in source material (in some cases, going back thousands of years). - jc37 15:12, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Educators from Los Angeles

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated Subcategory. Lost in Quebec (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This has two subcategories in it (after the nominator removed all of the subcategories of Category:Academics from Los Angeles). This category has been in existence for less than a week. I don't see why the nominator didn't add a few people or nudge me to do it. SMasonGarrison 22:29, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This editor has been told multiple times by multiple editors that working, going to school, or dying in Foo, doesn't make the person automatically from there. See my talk page[1]. Lost in Quebec (talk) 22:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And the above editor is adding incorrect articles to this category. Two academics, here and here. Plus an article on a teachers strike and a trade union. In fact the two people articles they added only mention the people working in Los Angeles not living there. They may not belong in academics either.Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:25, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Could you try to populate the category? I moving them from the broader "People from Los Angeles" category. SMasonGarrison 19:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The category has been significantly expanded since nomination, but there is dispute to the inclusion of some of them.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:24, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Egyptian film directors by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 14:05, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Martvili

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of synagogues in British Overseas Territories

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:10, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment about alt/additional merge targets?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:32, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Procedural relist, nominated category wasn't tagged and was renamed in another CfD to Category:Lists of synagogues in dependent territories of the United Kingdom. Two of the merge targets were also renamed, to Category:Lists of religious buildings and structures in dependent territories of the United Kingdom and Category:Synagogues in dependent territories of the United Kingdom.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Fåglavik

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Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:58, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economists from Washington, D.C.

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Nominator's rationale: After the CfD that merged Category:Economists from New York City, I'm inclined to support the same for this one. It is also a rather small category, at nine pages within a parent that has only three others. I also picked three articles at random, and at least two of them did not work in DC so deletion is also an option. No attempt was made to determine if all pages are within other subcategories of Category:American economists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:53, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FBG Duck categories

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Nominator's rationale: Categories related to artist article recreated after it was deleted by nomination. DBrown SPS (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete If Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slide (FBG Duck song) closes as delete, then both categories will be empty. Also related to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FBG Duck (3rd nomination). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:05, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Countries in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:52, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:04, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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