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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_12


April 12

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Drama television characters by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Not sure what this category redirect is doing, nor does it have a good redirect target. Delete it. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who wants to be extended confirmed

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Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:17, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AHI-3000

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Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia category namespace is not a place to screw around. WP:OC/U#Personal userspace categories. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no objections. If you're an admin, just delete it right now if you want, why do we need to vote on it? AHI-3000 (talk) 18:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass murder in the Gaza Strip

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Nominator's rationale: This category seems to exist primarily if not entirely for POV pushing with attacks being labeled as 'mass murder' irrespective of what sources say. I don't know if a single article within it meets the standards for Verifiable, Neutral, and Defining. As an alternative maybe merge with "Massacres in the Gaza Strip". Bob drobbs (talk) 18:50, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What about Category:Mass murder in Palestine? AHI-3000 (talk) 19:00, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Looking through examples, it looks like that broader category should probably be deleted too, and that the POV pushing is happening on both sides. Look here Ramat Eshkol bus bombing. 5 people were killed in a terrorist attack. No mention anywhere of "mass murder" in the article but it's in the category. Bob drobbs (talk) 19:08, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually.... should I just withdraw this request and re-submit it as a collection of related "mass murder" categories? Bob drobbs (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:French television presenters by region

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Nominator's rationale: redudant category layer SMasonGarrison 17:37, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Moroccan people of Arab descent

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Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic because most Moroccans have some Arab ancestry. This is comparable to Category:American people of English descent or Category:Mexican people of Spanish descent which we also should not have. But let's first focus on one. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:20, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New Zealand educators by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Also merge to Category:New Zealand educators. Lost in Quebec (talk) 16:21, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Association football labor relations

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Nominator's rationale: Currently an overlapping category with Category:Association football rules and regulations. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:43, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Premier League rules and regulations

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Nominator's rationale: Narrow intersection with only 1 article. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nadi F.C.

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only an eponymous article and a players category. Not a useful category. The players category is already in Category:Men's footballers in Fiji by club. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:21, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:French models by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. only one populated place in here SMasonGarrison 13:31, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films set in Santiago de Cuba

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Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic of the only article in the category. If not deleted, merge to Category:Santiago de Cuba and Category:Films set in Cuba. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:04, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Newark, Maryland

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Irish monarchs

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Nominator's rationale: delete, these weren't Irish people. Supposedly the category tree has deliberately been named Irish monarchs instead of monarchs of Ireland. If this goes ahead the 17th and 16th century categories should be purged, as well as the Irish queens regnant category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:14, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose May I remind you that none of the monarchs or politicians categories cover ethnicity? They all cover nationality, and the country in question was the Kingdom of Ireland. Dimadick (talk) 08:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English pretenders to the French throne

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Nominator's rationale: delete, too much overlap with Category:14th-century English monarchs to Category:17th-century English monarchs and not a defining characteristic for monarchs after Henry VI of England. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Subjective description of a hereditary claim that lasted all the way to the French Revolutionary Wars.Dimadick (talk) 08:42, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil Nadu temple stub categories

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Nominator's rationale: delete, stub categories are supposed to contain at least 60 stub articles. Move the articles back to Category:Tamil Nadu Hindu temple stubs. As far as I can see there aren't even stub templates for these four categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Musicals set in Dahomey

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Nominator's rationale: merge for now, currently only one article is the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Academics from Reggio Calabria

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 22:00, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This can surely be populated. SMasonGarrison 22:30, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've already found two from the parent category. SMasonGarrison 22:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cuba in fiction by medium

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Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Works set in Cuba. We do not have any other "country in fiction by medium" categories as far as I am aware of. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ice hockey people from Glasgow

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Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content. The category already has a players parent category as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I agree players would be a better term but most ice hockey categories are people[1] not players. Lost in Quebec (talk) 08:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional Native American women

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Merge Category:Fictional Native American women to Category:Fictional Native American people
My reasoning: Do we really need this? We have no other categories which sort female fictional characters by their ethnicity or race. See this similar discussion. AHI-3000 (talk) 02:30, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Theorems in analysis

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Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Mathematical analysis (and some of its subcategories). 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:58, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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