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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_8


January 8

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Southern Democrats

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Nominator's rationale: This is a meaningless category which encompasses politicians from across the political spectrum: it includes segregationists and civil rights activists, neoliberals and social democrats. User:Namiba 15:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This category represents politicians apart of a Factions in the Democratic Party (United States); similar e.g. Bourbon Democrats, Factions in the Democratic Party (United States), Lunch pail Democrat. They are also associated by shared location. Rochambeau1783 (talk) 15:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


US families disambiguated by state

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Nominator's rationale: Inconsistent with the usual disambiguation convention. In particular, the speedy rename for Category:Roberts family of Oregon reverted a previous speedy rename to Category:Roberts family (Oregon). No attempt was made to determine if the disambiguator was necessary and sufficient, except for Category:Vann family of Georgia (U.S. state) which I listed at CfDS istead of here because there is no need for disambiguation. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman

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Nominator's rationale: Delete; only the article itself and three articles each. Omnis Scientia (talk) 07:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-defining association for two items in the Trump category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:39, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rock en español categories

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Nominator's rationale: WP:C2A and WP:C2D. Language names are not capitalized in Spanish. Also, for Live Rock en Español albums in particular, rock is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized. PrinceTortoise (he/him • poke • inspect) 06:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support per associated article Rock en español. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Regional Emmy Award winners

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD Mvcg66b3r (talk) 06:34, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Queen mothers

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Nominator's rationale: (selectively) merge, unnecessary indiscriminate specification of mothers of monarchs: probably more than half of the queens consort outlive their king husband. The title "queen mother" may suggest they had a lot of influence on politics but that varied from case to case. And not all queen mothers even have this title explicitly. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per WP:OVERLAPCAT, at least for the ones where nom's second assertion is not true. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:34, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Baseball players from Juniata County, Pennsylvania

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 14:35, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Musical families

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Nominator's rationale: Nearly all other families that need disambiguation have the type of career at the end, in parentheses, such as Category:Jackson family (show business). Also, Category:Newman family (music) is already named this way. It's reasonable to standardize these. Mike Selinker (talk) 18:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I don't understand the proposal for the second Newman category. Is it a duplicate, or a different family with the same surname? In any case, the fate of the first Newman category remains unsettled.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrants

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Nominator's rationale: Renominating (see previous discussion which was a procedural close); WP:PERFCAT (specifically "Performers by production") and WP:NONDEFINING violation (subcategories were already deleted; see previous discussion here). Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:12, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There is dispute about whether this contest (and its conterpart for regular Eurovision) is sufficiently defining to meet the standards of WP:PERFCAT.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Eurovision Song Contest entrants

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Nominator's rationale: Renominating (see previous discussion which was a procedural close); WP:PERFCAT (specifically "Performers by production") and WP:NONDEFINING violation (subcategories were already deleted; see previous discussion here) Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. The Eurovision Song Contest generates a lot of publicity, but categories are qualitative (e.g. singers), not quantitative (by amount of publicity). Marcocapelle (talk) 15:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep: See comment below D4NT3023 (talk) 17:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep: 1. As pointed out below by D4NT3023, the alleged violation (WP:PERFCAT (specifically "Performers by production") DOES NOT APPLY. It would apply if the category was something like Performers in Cats (musical) or Singers who have performed at Carnegie Hall. Neither of these applies: Eurovision is not a venue and it is not merely a performance: it is a competition, like a sporting event. Note wording: "Avoid categorizing performers by an appearance at an event or other performance venue. This also includes categorization by performance—even for permanent or recurring roles—in any specific radio, television, film, or theatrical production (such as The Jack Benny Program, M*A*S*H, Star Wars, or The Phantom of the Opera)." Eurovision is not a specific television production, since the events in the competition vary each year in an unscripted way. 2. The alleged WP:NONDEFINING violation does not apply. As others have commented (refer previous discussion), entering in Eurovision is not a soon-forgotten event like entering in "American Idol". Eurovision entrants represent their country, and in this respect are similar to Olympic competitors. Their status as entrant in Eurovision is invariably a high point in their career and remains something that defines them. Consequently, articles on Eurovision entrants invariably mention this fact as a defining characteristic: for instance, the page for the Irish group Sheeba states "They are best known for representing the host nation, Ireland, in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981". In some cases, their status as a Eurovision entrant is the only memorable event recorded about them, e.g. Christine Minier. However, other Eurovision entrants have used their public exposure in Eurovision as a springboard to build successful careers, despite not winning on the night, e.g. Natasha St-Pier, Amina Annabi, Cathal Dunne. SRamzy (talk) 18:37, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Participation in Eurovision is defining because it's one of the first things mentioned about these artists by reliable sources (even in the article about ABBA, their Eurovision participation is among the first things mentioned, despite them being notable for a lot of other things too). That said, this category currently does not have any subcategories, although its scope includes over 1700 artists. Such a large category really should be diffused, which is why I am puzzled by the closure of the previous discussion about the subcategories. That discussion had two people opposing deletion with policy-based arguments, but they were completely ignored. (Besides, I created a few of those categories myself but I was not notified about the discussion?) ―Jochem van Hees (talk) 19:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete We make an exception to WP:PERFCAT for reality show contestants when they are known for little else. I clicked through several of these areticles and they all seemed prominent as artists beyond the competition. - RevelationDirect (talk) 15:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @RevelationDirect: I don't think it matters if you're known for other things as well? (Otherwise people notable for two distinct things can't be categorized under either.) According to WP:NONDEFINING, what matters is what sources consistently refer to. As pointed out above, that is the case for competing in Eurovision. ―Jochem van Hees (talk) 02:01, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    While we respectfully disagree here, I think you have a reasonable perspective for this category. My larger concerns is really with all the more minor feeder contests nominated on this page that would collectively add clutter to the bottom of articles. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:03, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Agents-General for Australian states

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Nominator's rationale: Decapitalise General as per MOS:JOBTITLES. Change "for" to "of" for consistency with other categories such as Category:Attorneys-general of Australian states and territories or Category:Treasurers of Australian states and territories Steelkamp (talk) 12:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There is agreement that the second g in agents-general should be lowercase, but which preposition should the title use?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African-American federal judges

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Nominator's rationale: Small category that has no expansion or additions in several months, propose deletion Snickers2686 (talk) 03:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Riots by year

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Nominator's rationale: Very thin tree for riots by year in this time frame. Merge up and delete would-be empty categories per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support in principle, this is not helpful for easy navigation. Some side notes. What is the reason that sometimes one, sometimes two and sometimes three merge targets are specified? E.g. 1640s has just one merge target. Also, at first glance it seems unwise to confound this nomination with a very partial deletion of crimes years. Maybe better just merge to crimes years now and have a separate discussion about the whole crimes years tree later. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Treating recent riots as crimes and categorizing older ones as "conflicts" seems to be a very weird double-standard. And it does not help navigation at all, it just miscategorizes articles. Dimadick (talk) 07:11, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hazardous air pollutants

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Nominator's rationale: Propose renaming analogous to Category:Persistent organic pollutants under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution and Category:Persistent organic pollutants under the Stockholm Convention. Other renamings were considered (albeit not advocated for: "I can't think of a way to rename the category to make it make sense. (Regulated Hazardous air pollutants)?? (USEPA Hazardous air pollutants)??") on the talk page all the way back in 2007. Preimage (talk) 00:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging @A876 (original talk page poster) in case you want to weigh in here. Preimage (talk) 00:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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