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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_24

August 24

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Novelty buildings in the Middle East

Propose merging Category:Novelty buildings in the Middle East to Category:Novelty architecture

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There only one page in here which doesn't help navigation Mason (talk) 05:25, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:34, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass shootings involving armed citizens

Propose deleting Category:Mass shootings involving armed citizens (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this should be renamed, as armed citizens seems like a POV title, or outright deleted as non-defining. User:Namiba 14:20, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:58, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. POV and not-defining. Are there mass shootings perpetrated by unarmed people? Or wait, is this supposed to be shootings where someone was armed at all? regardless, delete. Mason (talk) 03:59, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep for context, this refers to incidents where someone where someone who was not the police went after the perpetrator with a weapon, armed citizen here is referring to the person who tried to stop them and not the perp. For a few of these incidents in this cat this is actually quite defining and discussed, but I don't care enough to argue this. In either case I do not think it is POV; armed citizens is the usual title for this kind of thing in the sources. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as creator This has been a major topic of discussion in the American gun control debate, and there are plenty of sources talking about it (just search "mass shootings armed citizens". I think it is a defining characteristic for some shootings (New Life Church, Greenwood, Sutherland Springs, Cetinje for an international example; there are plenty of sources discussing the armed citizens' roles in those attacks). The cat can be removed from the others if you want. It's also not POV, I guess we can change it to "Mass shootings involving defensive gun use" if you want.Also Mason please look at the category page and take 5 seconds to read the description before you comment anything. Thank you. Lettlre (talk) 22:09, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts (talk) 03:03, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aviation historians

Propose merging Category:Aviation historians to Category:Historians of aviation

Nominator's rationale: Duplicate categories. If the name Category:Aviation historians is more desirable we should still merge and then rename to preserve the edit history Mason (talk) 02:23, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:39, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]