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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_December_8


December 8

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Viruses described in 1892

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Nominator's rationale: Mostly 1-article categories (only 1933 & 1972 contain 2 articles), per suggestion by Marcocapelle @ Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 24#Category:Human viruses by year of formal description.   ~ Tom.Reding (talkdgaf)  15:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Map series of Canada

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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There is only one page in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. SMasonGarrison 15:29, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Modern roman religion

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Nominator's rationale: This category overlaps heavily with a much other category. I've already warned the category creator to slow down. They're extremely new. SMasonGarrison 14:52, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aired episodes tracking categories

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Nominator's rationale: rename, "template" is redundant. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:10, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Travelers

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Nominator's rationale: It is tough to understand how this could possibly be defining. Most everyone is a traveler at some point, so it's simply too vague to function as a category. Furthermore, many of the categories herein make no sense. Migrants and stowaways are not necessarily travelers by nature, but are taking a potentially one-time journey. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 18:53, 17 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 02:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, plicit 12:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that we should containerize the Category:Travelers and Category:Female travelers, per marco. I'm neutral on the rest. SMasonGarrison 15:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient and early medieval military alliances

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated and poorly populated categories, not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recreational weapons

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Nominator's rationale: Even standard weapons can be used for recreational (i.e. hunting) purposes, making what constitutes a "recreational" weapon vague at best. I suggest deleting it, with the exception of Category:Toy weapons which should be upmerged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 07:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pejorative terms for in-group non-members

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Nominator's rationale: Too long and clunky, this gets the point across more concisely. Qualiesin (talk) 01:05, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge or rename? I am not seeing explicit opposition to the rename if there is no consensus to merge, given Marcocapelle sees both names as equally unhelpful. Feel free to correct me, however!
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:10, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: See above relisting comment; I want to make sure I understand your opinion. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:11, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mayors of Barcelona City Council

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Nominator's rationale: Mayors in Spain are members of the city council, but at least the WP:COMMONNAME of the job is "Mayor of Barcelona", just like all other Mayor categories for Spain, at least. Couple of press sources, many more [1] [2]. Official website in English. [3]. An analogy to the current title would be "prime minister of the British House of Commons"; the prime minister sits in the HoC yes, but that is far from the most common title. Unknown Temptation (talk) 20:41, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Unknown Temptation I concur. Your proposal makes a lot of sense. There is no other use of 'Mayor of Barcelona' as a title or for anything else for that matter. Plus, the Spanish and Catalan categories for this are both 'Alcaldes de Barcelona', a word-for-word translation of what you've proposed. Along the lines of PM of the British HoC, imagine if people called Charles III by his full formal title... Charles the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. It's excessive. Montezuma69 (talk) 03:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Was not tagged. I will do so.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Reality by type

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Nominator's rationale: Most of these aren't really a type of reality, but a way of interpreting or adding onto reality. The title being misleading as it is, it's best to simply merge them back to the parent category. Alternatively, this category may be deleted instead as simply WP:SHAREDNAME without relation to the scientific or philosophical concept of reality. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 23:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge or delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:56, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English female characters in drama television series

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded differenciation. FishLoveHam (talk) 19:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English male characters in drama television series

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded differenciation. FishLoveHam (talk) 19:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional businesspeople in soap operas

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded differenciation. FishLoveHam (talk) 19:12, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English male characters in soap operas

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded and overly-specific differenciation. Soap operas are television. FishLoveHam (talk) 19:15, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English female characters in soap operas

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded and overly-specific differenciation. Soap operas are television. FishLoveHam (talk) 19:15, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]