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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_November_15
November 15
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:California pioneers
[edit]- Propose merging Category:California pioneers to Category:19th-century people from California
- Nominator's rationale: selectively merge, the real pioneers are already in Category:People of the Californias and Category:People of Alta California and it is an arbitrary choice to expand the pioneer period to the 1870s. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:06, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Deadly fungi consumed as a food
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT: is this intersection really helpful? Currently contains only one article; I can find no more entries in the parent categories which could fit here. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 12:26, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Comic poets
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Comic poets to Category:Ancient Greek comic poets
- Nominator's rationale: Current name is confusing. While in classical scholarship these are often called simply "comic poets" and the fact that they are ancient Greek is assumed from context, in a general encyclopedia it's not obvious that this category should solely be for ancient Greek writers. Periodically comic poets who are not ancient Greek are wrongly put in this category, which is part of Category:Ancient Greek comedy and Category:Ancient Greek poets by genre. (See today here and here which gave me the motivation to actually start this discussion, but it's a problem I've seen before). Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 12:14, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. A possible alternative is Category:Comic poets (ancient Greece). Marcocapelle (talk) 12:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:FIFA World Cup stadiums
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1930 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1934 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1950 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1954 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1958 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1962 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1966 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1970 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1974 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1978 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1982 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1986 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1990 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1994 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:1998 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2002 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2002 FIFA World Cup stadiums in Japan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2002 FIFA World Cup stadiums in South Korea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2006 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2010 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2014 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2018 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2022 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2026 FIFA World Cup stadiums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2026 FIFA World Cup stadiums in Canada (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2026 FIFA World Cup stadiums in Mexico (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:2026 FIFA World Cup stadiums in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: This is textbook WP:OCVENUE which states
Avoid categorizing locations by the events or event types that have been held there, such as arenas that have hosted specific sports events
. I don't think the guideline could be any clearer. --woodensuperman 09:43, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:53, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1807 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Category:1807 establishments in Germany
- Propose merging Category:1832 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Category:1832 establishments in the German Confederation
- Propose merging Category:1840 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Category:1840 establishments in the German Confederation
- Propose merging Category:1843 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Category:1843 establishments in the German Confederation
- Propose merging Category:1852 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Category:1852 establishments in the German Confederation
- Propose merging Category:1830s in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Propose merging Category:1860s establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Propose merging Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse by year to Category:Establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Nominator's rationale: merge, except in 1869 these are all one- and two-article categories, which is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Mission Indians
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Mission Indians to Category:Native American history of California
- Nominator's rationale: purge and selectively merge, this category contains very few articles which are really about Mission Indians, most articles are about current tribes in California some of whose ancestors were Mission Indians. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:43, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Commercial buildings in Egypt categories
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Commercial buildings in Egypt (1)
- Propose merging Category:Retail buildings in Egypt (2)
- Propose merging Category:Retail markets in Egypt (1)
- Propose merging Category:Shopping malls in Egypt (8)
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT, all should be upmerged to Commercial buildings in Egypt. voorts (talk/contributions) 04:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- do not merge Category:Shopping malls in Egypt (8). This category has enough articles to justify its continued existence Hmains (talk) 04:32, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Merge the first two to Category:Buildings and structures in Egypt by type, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Delete the third, its only article isn't about a building. Keep the fourth per Hmains. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:50, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Buildings and structures in Egypt by type is a container category. It shouldn't contain any individual articles. voorts (talk/contributions) 05:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- There aren't any individual articles, there is just Category:Shopping malls in Egypt. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Buildings and structures in Egypt by type is a container category. It shouldn't contain any individual articles. voorts (talk/contributions) 05:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Decorating
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Contains only one article; possible duplicate of Category:Decorative arts QuantumFoam66 (talk) 01:40, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. The only article is in Category:Interior design which suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:54, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Romani people in art
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: It only has just one article, it might be merged into some other category but I can't think of anything right now. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 01:38, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Romani (or else to Category:History of the Romani people). Marcocapelle (talk) 04:57, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Plantations in the Danish West Indies
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:CATNAME
- This is just a truth in advertising nomination since all 43 articles in this category are specifically sugar planations. The Danish version of the Triangular trade focused on this single crop. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:55, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment, this seems to overlap with Category:Sugar plantations in the United States Virgin Islands. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:12, 15 November 2024 (UTC)