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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_3


January 3

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:1788 establishments in Tahiti

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Nominator's rationale: Large tree for only the Kingdom of Tahiti article. Merge/delete per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Impact and legacy of Taylor Swift

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Nominator's rationale: With or without a needlessly repetitive title—having just "impact" or "legacy" would be enough—this category comes off as fancruft. Anything that doesn't even contain those words or Taylor's name in the page titles can be safely removed. We shouldn't turn the website into Swift-o-pedia by lumping simply anything related to her into categories. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 22:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As the category's author, allow me to clarify the situation. I created it because Category:Taylor Swift had a few too many entries. To reduce them, I took inspiration from Category:Impact and legacy of Madonna. I do like Swift's music, but I had no intention of creating any fancruft. The vast majority of my edits on Wikipedia are not even related to her. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 22:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what the "too many articles" threshold you're referring to is, but for anything she's not personally involved with, one could reasonably remove her main category from those pages. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 22:49, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedian miscellaneous pages

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Nominator's rationale: Too broad which is not how categories work. 43.249.196.179 (talk) 22:03, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fiction about giants

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Nominator's rationale: merge, no clear distinction between the two categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:46, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Go for DELETION""".The nom is on to it. 22:20, 3 January 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 43.249.196.179 (talk)

Category:Forbes 30 Under 30

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining award. Per the article Forbes 30 Under 30, "1,230 people under 30 years old" get this award each year. SMasonGarrison 20:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Republican feminists

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between political party and political orientation. SMasonGarrison 18:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Works set in churches

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article directly in each of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:26, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:DISNEY categories

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Nominator's rationale: All files, templates, etc. are of NA importance to WP:DISNEY. Redundant to e.g. Category:File-Class Disney pages. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 09:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Church buildings in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:30, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British Columbian provincial electoral districts established in 2023

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Nominator's rationale: Proposing that this category should be renamed to Category:British Columbian provincial electoral districts established in 2024. While I understand the rational behind why the category was originally named the way it was (the new destricts where decided upon in 2023), it doesn't make logical sense as they only came into effect (elected members) in 2024. The naming practice included here also doesn't follow what categories for other countries do on Wikipedia. i.e. the UK, where the Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2024 exists for constrituencies which came into effect (established) in 2024, but were approved in 2023. On the United States, where congressional districts are sorted by the year they are first occupied, i.e. 2023 for North Carolina's 14th congressional district, and not the year they are apportioned and drawn (2021) or first elected (2024). I believe most other countries follow this latter practice as well.

Similar nomination for Category:Canadian federal electoral districts established in 2023 to Category:Canadian federal electoral districts established in 2025, but for new districts starting in 2025. Epluribusunumyall (talk) 05:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Sounds good to me. RedBlueGreen93 22:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:I (newspaper) journalists

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Nominator's rationale: Changed name last year, and is ambiguous with i (Portuguese newspaper). Paradoctor (talk) 02:27, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Black feminists

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Nominator's rationale: I'm on the fence between deletion and renaming. SMasonGarrison 01:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per various CfD's for the deletion of Category:Black people. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:52, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Intersectional feminists

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between being a feminist and a type of feminism. At the very least, the child categories need to be purged/restored to the parent category. For example, being a Jewish feminist doesn't mean that they're an intersectional feminist. SMasonGarrison 01:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Superwog

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Nominator's rationale: This category only contains the eponymous category along with two redirections. SMasonGarrison 00:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Doctor Who aliens

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Nominator's rationale: Two categories with a distinctly similar overlap. The aliens category is bizarrely covering individual characters who happen to be aliens (As well as the Sea Devils for some reason), while the races section is covering the alien species as it is. Due to the high overlap between the cats and the potential for confusion due to the naming, I am proposing to merge both categories into one "Doctor Who aliens" category that can adequately and inclusively cover both categories' content without losing any content. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This has been fixed

Category:Analog Drum Machine

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Nominator's rationale: I don't work with categories much, so I have no opinion about whether this category is needed at all. However, if we're going to keep it, it should be renamed "Analog drum machines" (sentence case, plural) for consistency with category names per WP:CATNAME. Popcornfud (talk) 20:34, 18 December 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 02:22, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on jc37's suggestion?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Baseball players from Edwards County, Texas

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:48, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Namiba's comment? And, if merged, also dual merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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