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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_22


January 22

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Decade overviews

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. Completely subjective inclusion. Redundant to the standardize decades tree. All content seems to already be properly placed in the decades tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 20:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New towns by decade

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Nominator's rationale: I don't think it is necessary to have a separate establishments category for planned communities/new towns. For consistency, merge to the populated places tree, diffusing by year where applicable. WP:OVERLAPCAT –Aidan721 (talk) 20:22, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Events by decade

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Nominator's rationale: Follow up of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 14#Category:Events by month. Manually merge to the decade categories to check if the subcategories are already in those trees. Having a separate "events" category is not necessary for decades categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 19:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball venues

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. User:Namiba 18:04, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ambassadors of Liberia to Tanzania

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Nominator's rationale: Too-small "Ambassadors of X to Y" category. As always, categories of this type are not automatically created for just one person -- there are around 200 countries in the world, so if every possible X-to-Y and Y-to-X combination were created there would be 40,000 categories involved (i.e. the tree would be unbrowsably massive). But navigation is not aided by funneling everything down into the narrowest possible microcategories of one, so there would have to be at least five Liberian ambassadors to Tanzania with articles before a dedicated subcategory for them was warranted, while for just one person the parent categories are all that's required. Bearcat (talk) 16:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American people of Brijwasi descent

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Nominator's rationale: Too-small categories, newly created for just one or two people without clear evidence that either of them are needed. As always, we do not automatically create "X people of Y descent" categories for every possible combination of X and Y that can describe just one or two people with Wikipedia articles -- there would need to be at least five articles in each of these before either of them was warranted.
And none of the three articles involved here actually state or source that their subjects are specifically "Brijwasi" or "Awadhi", either, but all just state that their subjects moved to the US from India without delving into their family backgrounds in more depth at all, so people clearly can't be defined by an ethnic background that nobody's ever been arsed to actually add any content about.
Meanwhile, Awadhi people does lead to an article that describes its subject as an Indian ethnic group, but Brijwasi people does not, so I can't even determine whether that one's even a real ethnic classification in the first place.
So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can actually find enough other people who can be added to them to justify them on size grounds, but they're not needed for just one or two articles. Bearcat (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:InfoWars people

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Nominator's rationale: Talk:Infowars/Archive 2#Requested move 11 December 2024 — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:42, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:College softball venues by team in the United States

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. All of these categories have fewer than 5 articles and redirects. User:Namiba 15:25, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Annual events by month

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with only 1 subcategory. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Woodfin, North Carolina

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:07, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australian female journalists

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Nominator's rationale: We already have Category:Australian women journalists. LibStar (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Australian families needing state disambiguation

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Nominator's rationale: We've renamed any US state subcategories of Category:American families by state or territory that need disambiguation by state to put the state in parentheses at the end. These are the only Australian categories that fall outside this rubric (there are plenty with "Australia" in parentheses). Seems like following that US precedent would be good. Mike Selinker (talk) 08:47, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Roman Martyrology by month

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Nominator's rationale: Not a helpful container category with only a single subcategory. Upmerge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:23, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murders in Paraguay by year

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Merge/delete per WP:NARROW/WP:OCYEAR. Manually merge to the third target. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Clear consensus that an upmerge is needed; should we keep some of the ones which will be better populated by upmerging?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Foreign civilians killed in the Syrian civil war

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Nominator's rationale: No need to distinguish that they're "Foreign civilians", furthermore, many of these people were journalists, which already exists as a catregory Category:Journalists killed while covering the Syrian civil war. SMasonGarrison 04:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Smasongarrison: What about Category:Foreigners killed in the Syrian civil war in general? AHI-3000 (talk) 08:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have mixed feelings about it. If both nominations go through it would be empty. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Smasongarrison: Shouldn't it be nominated together with all the other "Foreign people in the Syrian civil war" categories? And for that matter, why is the discussion for the "foreign soldiers in Syria" categories in a separate section below? AHI-3000 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I used the CFD tool to nominate them, so that defaults to doing them separately. SMasonGarrison 20:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:37, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Autistic transgender people

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:EGRS, I don't this we need to diffuse this 3x intersection. SMasonGarrison 02:19, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge to Category:Transgender people with disabilities?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Romani genocide victims

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with survivors and those who died as a result. SMasonGarrison 14:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:15, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:03, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kho Kho infobox templates

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Nominator's rationale: Declined C1 as non-empty, but useless for navigation as it contains one template that is already in another category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Now has two templates; is this enough to keep the category?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People wounded in the 20 July plot

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Nominator's rationale: Borderline C2C because thet siblings in Survivors of terrorist attacks use Survivors of FOO. But I wanted to see if I'm missing something SMasonGarrison 14:07, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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