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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_22
January 22
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:People from Woodfin, North Carolina
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:07, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Australian female journalists
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: We already have Category:Australian women journalists. LibStar (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Australian families needing state disambiguation
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: We've renamed any US state subcategories of Category:American families by state or territory that need disambiguation by state to put the state in parentheses at the end. These are the only Australian categories that fall outside this rubric (there are plenty with "Australia" in parentheses). Seems like following that US precedent would be good. Mike Selinker (talk) 08:47, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Roman Martyrology by month
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Roman Martyrology by month to Category:Roman Martyrology
- Nominator's rationale: Not a helpful container category with only a single subcategory. Upmerge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:23, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. This is odd, someone started a series of articles for every day of the year, but gave up after 12 articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:28, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Murders in Paraguay by year
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1980 murders in Paraguay (1) to Category:1980 murders in South America, Category:1980 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:1994 murders in Paraguay (1) to Category:1994 murders in South America, Category:1994 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:1999 murders in Paraguay (2) to Category:1999 murders in South America, Category:1999 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:2005 murders in Paraguay (2) to Category:2005 murders in South America, Category:2005 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:2012 murders in Paraguay (1) to Category:2012 murders in South America, Category:2012 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:2017 murders in Paraguay (1) to Category:2017 murders in South America, Category:2017 in Paraguay, and Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:2017 crimes in Paraguay (2) to Category:2017 crimes in South America, Category:2017 in Paraguay, and Category:Crime in Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:19th-century murders in Paraguay (3) to Category:Murder in Paraguay
- Propose deleting Category:1980 crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:1994 crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:1999 crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:2005 crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:2012 crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:1980s crimes in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:1990s crimes in Paraguay (3)
- Propose deleting Category:2000s crimes in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:2010s crimes in Paraguay (3)
- Propose deleting Category:1980s murders in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:1990s murders in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:2000s murders in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:2010s murders in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:19th-century crimes in Paraguay (1)
- Propose deleting Category:20th-century crimes in Paraguay (3)
- Propose deleting Category:20th-century murders in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:21st-century crimes in Paraguay (3)
- Propose deleting Category:21st-century murders in Paraguay (2)
- Propose deleting Category:Crimes in Paraguay by century (4)
- Propose deleting Category:Crimes in Paraguay by decade (5)
- Propose deleting Category:Crimes in Paraguay by year (7)
- Propose deleting Category:Murders in Paraguay by century (3)
- Propose deleting Category:Murders in Paraguay by decade (4)
- Propose deleting Category:Murders in Paraguay by year (6)
- Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Merge/delete per WP:NARROW/WP:OCYEAR. Manually merge to the third target. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep any where upmerging will give a category of five or more articles (e.g., Category:20th-century crimes in Paraguay). Upmerge the rest. Grutness...wha? 03:35, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge/delete all, these are just one- and two-article categories and container categories. The numbers in brackets for the container categories are just numbers of subcategories without any further contents. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:24, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle: In one or two cases, those subcategories also have more than one article. Category:21st-century crimes in Paraguay, for example, would reach five articles if the three child categories were upmerged into it, and you can hardly say that it's unlikely to be expanded, given that were only a quarter of the way into the century. Grutness...wha? 12:31, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- By PetScan, there are only 16 unique articles in the Category:Murder in Paraguay tree (10 of which are already in Category:People murdered in Paraguay). I don't think keeping the 20/21 century categories is useful in that regard at this stage. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:54, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle: In one or two cases, those subcategories also have more than one article. Category:21st-century crimes in Paraguay, for example, would reach five articles if the three child categories were upmerged into it, and you can hardly say that it's unlikely to be expanded, given that were only a quarter of the way into the century. Grutness...wha? 12:31, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Crimes in Paraguay by year in total currently only has 8 articles. If that number would double in the coming e.g. 10 years there is still no urgent need to diffuse. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Clear consensus that an upmerge is needed; should we keep some of the ones which will be better populated by upmerging?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Foreign civilians killed in the Syrian civil war
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need to distinguish that they're "Foreign civilians", furthermore, many of these people were journalists, which already exists as a catregory Category:Journalists killed while covering the Syrian civil war. SMasonGarrison 04:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: What about Category:Foreigners killed in the Syrian civil war in general? AHI-3000 (talk) 08:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have mixed feelings about it. If both nominations go through it would be empty. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: Shouldn't it be nominated together with all the other "Foreign people in the Syrian civil war" categories? And for that matter, why is the discussion for the "foreign soldiers in Syria" categories in a separate section below? AHI-3000 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I used the CFD tool to nominate them, so that defaults to doing them separately. SMasonGarrison 20:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: Shouldn't it be nominated together with all the other "Foreign people in the Syrian civil war" categories? And for that matter, why is the discussion for the "foreign soldiers in Syria" categories in a separate section below? AHI-3000 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have mixed feelings about it. If both nominations go through it would be empty. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: What about Category:Foreigners killed in the Syrian civil war in general? AHI-3000 (talk) 08:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:37, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Autistic transgender people
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:EGRS, I don't this we need to diffuse this 3x intersection. SMasonGarrison 02:19, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support: Per nom. TheBritinator (talk) 09:28, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- At least merge to Category:Autistic LGBTQ people, per nom. I am not sure if articles about autistic people should be directly in a disabilities category. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- I was thinking the same. Quite a few people with autism regard it as an extra ability rather than a disability. Grutness...wha? 02:44, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge to Category:Transgender people with disabilities?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Romani genocide victims
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Romani genocide victims to Category:People of the Romani genocide
- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with survivors and those who died as a result. SMasonGarrison 14:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, this is supposed to be similar to other subcategories of Category:Genocide victims, collectively listing both killed and surviving victims of these atrocities. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:02, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge, also to Category:Romani people. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. "People of the X genocide" categories are supercategories that contain categories for victims and categories for perpetrators. They should not be dumped into an indistinguishable shared category. Mike Selinker (talk) 01:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- After the merge there will still be separate subcategories for those who died, survivors and perpetrators. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, these are not redundant at all Nayyn (talk) 01:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Kho Kho infobox templates
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Declined C1 as non-empty, but useless for navigation as it contains one template that is already in another category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. The lone template is already categorized under Category:National sports teams infobox templates. –Aidan721 (talk) 12:15, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:00, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not voting yet, but am asking for reconsideration of the entire deletion rationale, as there is now a second infobox template in the category. I also ask that the category be moved if it is not deleted, as the word "Kho Kho" needs to be respelled "Kho kho". GreekApple123 (talk) 22:49, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Now has two templates; is this enough to keep the category?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:People wounded in the 20 July plot
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:People wounded in the 20 July plot to Category:Survivors of the 20 July plot
- Nominator's rationale: Borderline C2C because thet siblings in Survivors of terrorist attacks use Survivors of FOO. But I wanted to see if I'm missing something SMasonGarrison 14:07, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- If kept, rename per nom. It's not a very defining characteristic, so deletion is also an option. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:54, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)