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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_November_10
November 10
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Alcohol-related deaths in the Kingdom of Tahiti
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, only two articles in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:04, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:1954–55 Montreal Canadiens season
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I could not find any other example of a professional sports team season getting its own category in any of the Northern American major leagues. There seems to be no other examples of a category being made for this even under similar circumstances (e.g. the Vancouver Canucks where all three of their finals appearances have the loosely-related articles of Towel Power (1982), 1994 Stanley Cup riot, and 2011 Stanley Cup riot). It is inconsistent and seems to fail WP:OVERCAT. RedBlueGreen93 08:01, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Translators of the Quran into Somali
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:Translators of the Quran into Somali to Category:Quran translators and Category:Translators to Somali
- Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category. 2x merge for now SMasonGarrison 02:57, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Just delete, I don't see anything about translation in the article. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:54, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:January 2005 events in Puntland
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:January 2005 events in Puntland to Category:January 2005 events in Somalia
- Nominator's rationale: Convert into the broader country rather than the state SMasonGarrison 02:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:January 2005 events in Africa, which is also very underpopulated. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:56, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Death in Mogadishu
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Intersection by location. Also, there is only one page here, which isn't helpful for navigation. SMasonGarrison 02:33, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, we do not put articles directly in death by location categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:58, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Mogadishu Central Prison
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There is one page about an event here; there is not even an eponymous page Mogadishu Central Prison SMasonGarrison 02:29, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:59, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Astronomy research agencies in the Antarctic
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Merge for now. Narrow underpopulated category. SMasonGarrison 02:18, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Certainly merge to Category:Antarctica research agencies, per nom. I wonder if the article belongs in the second merge target though. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Deaths in the French colonial empire
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 02:00, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Merging is not needed, the subcategory is already part of Category:Deaths by former country. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Animal deaths in Ohio
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Animal deaths in Ohio to Category:Animal deaths in the United States
- Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. There's only one state like this, it's not helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 01:58, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Suicides in the United States by location
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. These categories would be more helpful in the parent category SMasonGarrison 01:56, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:State urban development authorities of India
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Of the 64 articles in the category, only 7 are state authorities. The rest are a mixture of city, town and metropolitan area authorities. It would make the category name more accurate by removing the "State" identifier Gedrose (talk) 01:19, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:American slave trade
[edit]- Propose merging Category:American slave trade to Category:Slavery in the Americas
- Nominator's rationale: Seems to cover the same scope BaduFerreira (talk) 20:41, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- It is about slave trade so it is more specific than slavery. However it is questionable if diffusion by continent makes a lot of sense, see the content of Category:African slave trade. I would rather propose to merge all continent categories to Category:Slave trade. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:28, 10 November 2024 (UTC)- Lean oppose. Per Marco Procedurally, the merge target is too broad. SMasonGarrison 02:01, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Important Cultural Properties of Obama City
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation. There's not a Obama City parent category SMasonGarrison 14:26, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Alternative: repurpose to Category:Buildings and structures in Obama, Fukui, there are quite a few articles in Category:Obama, Fukui that could also be moved into a buildings category. If merged, dual merge also to Category:Obama, Fukui. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's suggestions?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:27, 10 November 2024 (UTC)- Sounds like a good solution to me SMasonGarrison 02:05, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Kenton, Devon
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Kenton, Devon to Category:East Devon District
- Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and an article about a historic property, better categorised in the district category. AusLondonder (talk) 17:44, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- It may have scope for expansion as its quite a large parish but it may be better to wait until we have more articles. Note that the target should be Category:Teignbridge not Category:East Devon District as Kenton is in Teignbridge district[1]. I made an error back in 2018. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:15, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Crouch, Swale's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:04, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Whitnash
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and a biography, both are already appropriately categorised. Unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 17:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:59, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Weak keep I've added 2 more articles and it now has a sub category and given its a town it probably is appropriate to have a category for it. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:09, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Crouch, Swale's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:04, 10 November 2024 (UTC)