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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_7


September 7

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Stinkers Bad Movie Award winning films

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Nominator's rationale: Not a defining award Mason (talk) 21:46, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Don Young

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Nominator's rationale: Practically everything in each of these categories is not "defined" by the politician, and are better served as just being interlinked. The bulk of each page are just the elections they were in or a thing named after the person. They're all made by the same category creator. Mason (talk) 21:41, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Category:California winemakers

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to parent category. I understand that California has the most vineyards but I don't think we should defuse by state because of that. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:16, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:19th-century Kongo people

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Nominator's rationale: There's only one person across both of these centuries. I don't think that the Kongo people category tree is large enough to need diffusion by century Mason (talk) 17:51, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in Japan

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Nominator's rationale: Another WP:XY redirect which should be deleted. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 17:26, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Land disputes by country

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There are only two countries in here (and they're barely populated), which isn't helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Oils and fats technologies

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Nominator's rationale: Narrow itersection category with only one page in it. Mason (talk) 12:07, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chemical looping technologies

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There are one two pages in this category, which isn't helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 12:01, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lighthouses completed in the 2nd century

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Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent, one of the two lighthouses was completed in the 3rd century BC rather than in the 2nd century CE. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:56, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great suggestion! Support per nom Mason (talk) 12:04, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval canals

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Nominator's rationale: merge, these are all one- or two-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. The 15th-century has only one merge target because the two articles are already in decade categories of transport infrastructure. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:41, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Archival technology

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's only one page in here, which isn't helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 02:19, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Retailers

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Nominator's rationale: The term "Retailers" is too ambiguous; when I first saw it in Category:Retailing I assumed it was referring to people. But then I discovered that most of the subcats are for Retail companies. Thank goodness the editors who created those subcats had the good sense to use that term rather than "Retailers", so I don't think any of the subcats are in need of renaming. :) Anomalous+0 (talk) 01:16, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Numbers not in Wikidata

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Nominator's rationale: To move where the articles have been recategorized to via the {{Cite The Numbers}} temp. Consistency with Category:The Numbers ID different from Wikidata. Trailblazer101 (talk) 05:51, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy redirect. There's no need to discuss this, especially since the proposed target "rename" already exists as a category, meaning the only thing that needs to happen is a categoryredirect. Bearcat (talk) 13:40, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The rename has already taken place in the template; should we keep a redirect?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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