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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_7
September 7
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Stinkers Bad Movie Award winning films
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Not a defining award Mason (talk) 21:46, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Don Young
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Don Young (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Barney Frank (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:John Dingell (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Ted Stevens (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Glenn Youngkin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Terry Branstad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Mark Meadows (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Tim Walz (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Joe Manchin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Jamie Whitten (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 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)
Category:California winemakers
[edit]- Propose merging Category:California winemakers to Category:American winemakers
- 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)
Category:19th-century Kongo people
[edit]- Propose merging Category:19th-century Kongo people to Category:19th-century African people
- Propose merging Category:18th-century Kongo people to Category:Kongo people and Category:18th-century African people
- 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)
Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in Japan
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Another WP:XY redirect which should be deleted. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 17:26, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Land disputes by country
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Land disputes by country to Category:Land disputes
- 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)
Category:Oils and fats technologies
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Oils and fats technologies to Category:Oils
- Nominator's rationale: Narrow itersection category with only one page in it. Mason (talk) 12:07, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge, the only article isn't even about technology. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:22, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Chemical looping technologies
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Chemical looping technologies to Category:Chemical process engineering
- 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)
- Merge per nom, though I am not sure if Category:Chemical process engineering or Category:Chemical processes is the right target. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:25, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- I wasn't really sure either, so any content experts would be much appreciated! Mason (talk) 17:53, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Lighthouses completed in the 2nd century
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Lighthouses completed in the 2nd century to Category:Ancient lighthouses
- 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)
- Great suggestion! Support per nom Mason (talk) 12:04, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Medieval canals
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 12th century to Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 12th century and Category:Medieval canals
- Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 13th century to Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 13th century and Category:Medieval canals
- Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 14th century to Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 14th century and Category:Medieval canals
- Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 15th century to Category:Medieval canals
- 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)
Category:Archival technology
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Archival technology to Category:Archival science
- 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)
- Agree that in its current state this category is not helpful. It would not surprise me if the category can be populated further, but I do not know much about archiving so won't do that myself. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- I left a notification of this discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Libraries and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_History. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Likewise! It might very well be useable. I'd be happy to keep it, if it can be populated! (I'm currently going through this category creators creations to clean up their abandoned categories) Mason (talk) 12:05, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Retailers
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Retailers to Category:Retail companies
- 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)
- Rename, if only for consistency with the subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:The Numbers not in Wikidata
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:The Numbers not in Wikidata to Category:The Numbers ID not in Wikidata
- 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)
- 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)
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)
- Redirect per Bearcat, or just delete. I am not sure if a redirect is useful in the first place. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:12, 7 September 2024 (UTC)