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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_November_23


November 23

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Animals and humans

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Nominator's rationale: Make the title less vague and more defining. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:17, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Predators

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Nominator's rationale: Rename due to potential confusion with other types of predators. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:53, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional predators

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Nominator's rationale: Not all of these animals in fiction are specifically "predators". Due to the nature of fiction, some may not be. Others may only have aggressive behavior and not be a "predator" by species. I can already see some that are miscategorized simply because they are hostile and hunt the protagonist. Furthermore, the name is confusing as it may potentially refer to humans who are predators. Overall, it is too vague and potentially misleading to work as a category. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:51, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional carnivorans

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Nominator's rationale: No need for such specific scientific terms to describe fictional creatures. It is not commonly used language outside of real-life biology. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional giraffes

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Nominator's rationale: There are three entries in this category. Two of them are redirects and one is a children's toy. None of them are articles about fictional giraffes. (Oinkers42) (talk) 15:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mythological Greek epic poets

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only two articles in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Skipping parent Category:Fictional oral poets as a merge target because this has been nominated too. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:14, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional jugglers

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Nominator's rationale: Category only has redirects. No longer needed at all. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional contortionists

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Nominator's rationale: Too small a category to be merited, with only a couple characters as members. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rajasthan MLAs 2024-2028

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Nominator's rationale: It is the same term even though they started late. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 14:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional oral poets

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Nominator's rationale: Fairly tiny category that seems like unnecessary overcategorization. The subcategory shouldn't even be in this category anyway, leaving only one article that isn't a redirect. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:25, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional female robbers

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Nominator's rationale: Forgot to nominate this previously, but it should be merged for the same reasons as Category:Fictional robbers was previously. It is a total overlap. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Christian organizations established in the 1st century

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Nominator's rationale: delete, the content of this category is very POV-ish. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church both claim to be the true church established in the 1st century, and other ancient churches will as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:08, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Educational organizations

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with mostly only one subcategory, occasionally two or three. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People acquitted of corruption

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Nominator's rationale: delete, this has a high risk of WP:BLPCRIMINAL issues. This is related to this earlier discussion which is still open. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:50, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Di (they-them), Reconrabbit, and RevelationDirect: pinging contributors to earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:54, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Associated states of New Zealand

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Nominator's rationale: Category with two topics, with a subcategory and a page for each. There are only the two topics in the real world too. Category:Associated states currently has 3 subcategories and 9 pages, so will hardly be swamped. The "of New Zealand" aspect is catered for as the two topics are already in Category:Realm of New Zealand. Nurg (talk) 08:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:California pioneers

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Nominator's rationale: selectively merge, the real pioneers are already in Category:People of the Californias and Category:People of Alta California and it is an arbitrary choice to expand the pioneer period to the 1870s. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:06, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But there are a lot of American pioneer categories. What about converting this into a container category to facilitate navigation? SMasonGarrison 23:33, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 06:16, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional bandits

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Nominator's rationale: This category didn't exist until recently, it's rather duplicative with the merge target and can easily be construed as the exact same thing. Per WP:OVERLAPCAT, they should be merged back. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:24, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 06:15, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Negro league baseball venues still standing

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Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this category should be deleted and turned into a list or renamed but I don't think it should stay as is. User:Namiba 19:03, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Has not been tagged for a week
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Plantations in the Danish West Indies

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Nominator's rationale: WP:CATNAME
This is just a truth in advertising nomination since all 43 articles in this category are specifically sugar planations. The Danish version of the Triangular trade focused on this single crop. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:55, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I tagged the USVI category and notified the creator as of this timestamp to allow for the merge proposed above. - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:22, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Has not been tagged for a full week; if there are no further comments we are ready to implement the alt proposal :)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:42, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People sentenced to death

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Nominator's rationale: This would appear to fail WP:NONDEF, as being sentenced to death is potentially temporary and can be rescinded or rendered moot. It is not a "defining trait" like having been executed is. This deletion would also include all subcategories of "People sentenced to death" besides Category:Executed people, Category:Fictional executed characters and Category:Execution survivors. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:35, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Containerize?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:37, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Irish Arctic explorers

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Nominator's rationale: C2C was opposed by @Armbrust: who didn't respond to the followup. Now only this category follows the convention FOOian arctic explorer. Siblings are Category:American explorers of the Arctic; Category:British explorers of the Arctic. And sibling Category:Irish explorers of Antarctica SMasonGarrison 02:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sourcebooks

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Nominator's rationale: Book publisher category containing only the publishing company itself and one affiliate. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 01:40, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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