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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_11


February 11

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Videographies of YouTubers

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged; although I don't think these are technically videographies. 4meter4 (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of American artists

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Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category of Category:American filmographies.4meter4 (talk) 18:52, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fictional characters by work

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Ok, so we have three trees all doing effectively the same thing:

And in looking at these: "by medium", is really "by medium of work", which we tend to categorise as "by work". And "by franchise", is really just "by related works".

These just create unnecessary intermediary layers between parent and child cats; and also broad segmentation of topics, which is a bane to navigation for our readers.

This is severe WP:OVERLAPCAT.

These trees all need cleanup. Elements of fiction (and related cats) are scattered everywhere. And the first step, I think, is that we need to unify under a single naming standard. Once we do that, we should be able to more easily clean up a lot of the mess.

So this is a test nom to see what we can decide about the "by work", "by medium", "by franchise", and "by franchise and medium", trees. I think they all need to be merged to a single tree of a unified name. What do you all think? - jc37 18:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:May 2024 sports events in Malaysia

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation –Aidan721 (talk) 17:50, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:April 2024 sports events in Angola

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Both contain the same one article. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Underground Railroad Station Stop

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category given Category:Underground Railroad locations exists GPL93 (talk) 17:38, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Aha ok i did not see that category thank you for the explanation. The thing is that the Underground Railroad used the same terms and vocabulary as train railway network to escape detection when communicating. Much of the history is oral and not recorded as this jeopardised the network. This term is an important element and the usage “locations” is a synonym, not the actual term used. How about Underground Railroad Stations instead? The history seems to be lacking/ largely unwritten on Wikipedia. I appreciate your feedback. I&I22 (talk) 18:57, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:June 2024 sports events in Vanuatu

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:33, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Saginaw, Michigan

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 17:33, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also propose merging

All subcategories with just one or two entries.Lost in Quebec (talk) 17:42, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:June 2024 sports events in Slovakia

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:20, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Independence, Kansas, by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries.

Also propose merging

Also subcategories with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 17:17, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Australian artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Up-merge for now. 4meter4 (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Canadian artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Up-merge for now. 4meter4 (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Category:July 2024 sports events in Samoa

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Only a few articles in this tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:58, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of German artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Up-merge for now. 4meter4 (talk) 16:52, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Greek artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged. 4meter4 (talk) 16:49, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Japanese artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be upmerged. 4meter4 (talk) 16:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Lebanese artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged for now, 4meter4 (talk) 16:27, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Mexican artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged for now. 4meter4 (talk) 16:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Filipino artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged for now. 4meter4 (talk) 16:22, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Category:August 2024 sports events in Andorra

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category with one article. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Swedish artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up-merged for now. 4meter4 (talk) 15:47, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Uruguayan artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up merged for now. 4meter4 (talk) 15:45, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Puerto Rican artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat; should be up-merged to Category:Videographies for now 4meter4 (talk) 15:36, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Albanian artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Should be up merged to Category:Videographies for now.4meter4 (talk) 15:30, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Category:August 2024 sports events in Jordan

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 article. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:14, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Courts of Audit

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 12:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator.Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:38, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Amateur water polo

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Redundant category layer. SMasonGarrison 12:07, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator.Lost in Quebec (talk) 16:05, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Amateur swimming

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Redundant category layer. SMasonGarrison 12:06, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Former unidentified serial killers

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Nominator's rationale: A rather arbitrary category, based on a nondefining characteristic. Not to say, sloppily named: I guess the intention was "Formerly unidentified serial killers". --Altenmann >talk 11:33, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Peabody, Massachusetts, by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:47, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Peabody, Massachusetts

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) –Aidan721 (talk) 15:14, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:45, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I nominated this category incorrectly. Could some administrator please close it. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Former religious buildings and structures in Philadelphia

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Only 1 subcategory. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:28, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: The category has two sub-categories; with one sub-category containing three articles and the other sub-category containing seven articles, relating to former churches in Philadelphia. It is possible that there may be other former religious buildings, not currently identified as former, to be added to this category. Rangasyd (talk) 00:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:13, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sports events in Russia by month

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Nominator's rationale: A large volume of sparsely populated month categories, most with one or two pages each. Merge to continent categories must be manual since Russia is a transcontinental country. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:20, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Oceania television station stubs

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: speedy delete. You can just tag these categories CSD G7 when you are the category creator and only editor. Liz Read! Talk! 05:42, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:02, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Television stations in the United States by insular area

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: speedy delete. CSD G7 Liz Read! Talk! 03:47, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:35, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Murdered American gangsters by criminal organization

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to isolate the specific organization, assuming we want to diffuse at the intersection of cause of death and occupation, and organization. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:55, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recreation

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Nominator's rationale: merge, not a clear distinction between the two categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support, except I would merge Category:Leisure activities into Category:Recreation. My reasoning is based on WP:CATNAME, which says Standard article naming conventions apply, and WP:CRITERIA favors WP:CONCISE titles. "Recreation" is more concise than "Leisure activities". All of the other naming criteria seems roughly similar between the two choices. — hike395 (talk) 09:42, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Things are a bit messy because right now we have the category structure Leisure -> (Leisure activities, Entertainment, Travel) and Leisure activities -> Recreation. If we assume the usual definitions ("Leisure" = free time apart from work, chores, etc.; "Recreation" = fun/pleasant activities someone engages in during leisure time, "Entertainment" = activities that someone passively enjoys during leisure time, "Travel" = going somewhere else during leisure time), then really all of Recreation/Entertainment/Travel are Leisure activities. To me, this means that Leisure activities should go away and Recreation should be promoted in its place.
Per Aidan's point: I think that Massage (to the extent that it isn't medical) probably belongs in Entertainment (??). I'm dubious that Bathing actually belongs to leisure (i.e., it's generally considered a requirement for most people).
Note also that we'll have to do something about Picnic and Amateurism, both of which are subcategories of Leisure. — hike395 (talk) 20:25, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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