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Discussion for Today edit
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June 3 edit
NEW NOMINATIONS edit
Category:List of acts of the 54th New Zealand Parliament edit
- Nominator's rationale: Category:Parliament of New Zealand not subcategorized this way. Gjs238 (talk) 16:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete in the spirit of WP:C2F. There was one more article in the category, but that was not a list so I purged it. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Võ Văn Thưởng edit
- Nominator's rationale: Is this category necessary? None of the other Category:Presidents of Vietnam have eponymous categories. Gjs238 (talk) 16:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:OCEPON. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Gautam Buddha Nagar edit
- Propose merging Category:Gautam Buddha Nagar to Category:Gautam Buddh Nagar district
- Nominator's rationale: Newly created uncategorized category seems redundant with the suggested target. Gjs238 (talk) 15:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Just delete, the articles are already in Category:Noida, deeper down in the tree of Category:Gautam Buddh Nagar district. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Galician films edit
- Propose merging Category:Galician films to Category:Galician-language films
- Nominator's rationale: Appears to be redundant? Gjs238 (talk) 15:38, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Just delete, articles are already in Category:Galician-language films if applicable, but it is not always applicable. Some of these films are Spanish-speaking. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Circassia edit
- Propose merging Category:Circassia to Category:Circassians
- Nominator's rationale: This newly created uncategorized category seems redundant with Category:Circassians. Gjs238 (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:Circassian history. We do not have that category yet and it nicely fits the current content of this category. If not renamed, then merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Indigenous peoples in Louisiana edit
- Nominator's rationale: Category:Indigenous peoples in the United States doesn't subcategorize by state. Gjs238 (talk) 15:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Events at the Amway Center edit
- Nominator's rationale: I don't believe Wikipedia categorizes events by venue? Gjs238 (talk) 15:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Ninety-Nines edit
- Propose renaming Category:Ninety-Nines to Category:Members of The Ninety-Nines
- Nominator's rationale: Newly created, uncategorized category contains people articles, I assume all members of "The Ninety-Nines." Gjs238 (talk) 14:44, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Lounge edit
- Nominator's rationale: Ambiguous category as the word Lounge is quite a broad term. Gjs238 (talk) 14:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete or merge, to Category:Rooms if the latter. In either case it is a matter of WP:SHAREDNAME. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Roman generals edit
- Propose merging Category:Roman generals to Category:Generals by former country
- Propose renaming Category:Roman generals by century to Category:Generals by century
- Nominator's rationale: Uphelpful bundling of Roman people. This category contains Ancient Romans and Byzantine people. Mason (talk) 03:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Merge/rename, this is redundant as we already have Category:Ancient Roman generals by century. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Byzantine people are Romans, just not ancient ones.★Trekker (talk) 08:49, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- The Byzantine Empire is generally considered to be an empire in its own right. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:History of Great Britain edit
- Nominator's rationale: Option A: remove header and a remove a number of parent categories. Option B: nominate subcategories for merger. In any case, the current content of the category is completely out of sync with how the category creator(s) intended. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:23, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle, please clarify the issue with this particular category. I don't really follow. Omnis Scientia (talk) 00:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Omnis Scientia: it contains articles like Britain in the Middle Ages and Anatomy of a Nation. A History of British Identity in 50 Documents, and a huge tree under Category:History of Great Britain by period while it's supposed to be about the 18th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle, Ah I see that now. Well I would go with Option B, removing any subcategories which aren't related to the period between 1707 and 1801. And also the removal of any article that does not fall between 1707 and 1801. We should try to bring it back into sync with the original purpose it was created for. Omnis Scientia (talk) 09:06, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- One big problem with keeping the original intended scope is: what is Category:Kingdom of Great Britain for if not the history of the Kingdom of Great Britain? It's not as if that entity still exists. Ham II (talk) 16:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle, Ah I see that now. Well I would go with Option B, removing any subcategories which aren't related to the period between 1707 and 1801. And also the removal of any article that does not fall between 1707 and 1801. We should try to bring it back into sync with the original purpose it was created for. Omnis Scientia (talk) 09:06, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Omnis Scientia: it contains articles like Britain in the Middle Ages and Anatomy of a Nation. A History of British Identity in 50 Documents, and a huge tree under Category:History of Great Britain by period while it's supposed to be about the 18th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle, please clarify the issue with this particular category. I don't really follow. Omnis Scientia (talk) 00:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Just Delete & re-home articles as necessary. The period of the Kingdom of Great Britain - from 1707 to 1800, is not really used by historians or the public. If kept it should be more clearly named to avoid confusion with the (main) geographical meaning of Great Britain, which has clearly been taken by some adders as the intended meaning. In fact such a category might make more sense, at the top of trees with UK, English, Scottish & Welsh sub-cats. Johnbod (talk) 01:26, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on deletion?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 02:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm leaning towards Option A, in order to make the scope fully about the geographical area Great Britain and not the former sovereign state the Kingdom of Great Britain. Anything about the history of the latter – Category:Politics of the Kingdom of Great Britain, probably Category:Colonial United States (British), etc. – should be at Category:Kingdom of Great Britain, currently a parent category to this one. A new header stating this might be necessary, because the distinction isn't obvious (which seems to have led to the current situation). Ham II (talk) 13:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- The new header I'm proposing could be based on the existing one at Category:Great Britain. Ham II (talk) 14:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Activists for Palestinian solidarity edit
- Nominator's rationale: This is a random mix of people who aren't activists. Purge the category and leave in actual activists. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:29, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also I'm not too sure about it but maybe rename to "Pro-Palestinian activists". Any other suggestion would be helpful; this one seems rather vague. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:30, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'll wait for some consensus here before I proceed with the subcategories. Honestly, going through them, I don't think any of these people in any of these categories were checked to see if they actually were activists for Palestinian solidarity, particularly given a number of these aren't pro-Palestinian but rather anti-Israeli. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:33, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- I would prefer keeping this category, I should add, since there is a big Palestinian movement and activists who are pro-Palestinian. I just think we should be careful who to put in. Some of these "pro-Palestinian" people aren't pro-Palestinian at all. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:36, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- I think renaming it to "Advocates for Palestinian Solidarity" would be best. NesserWiki (talk) 02:50, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support doing something, but mixed on the alternative rename. I think that the "Pro-Palestinian activists" are indeed a more specific subgroup that are definitely nested within Anti-racist activists. Perhaps splitting or nesting/reorganizing to acknowledge that there are also activists for Palestinian civil rights etc. idk 🤷 It's really complicated.Mason (talk) 18:21, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, it is quite complicated, you're right. I'm not too sure about myself but, IMO and as you have said yourself, "Pro-Palestinian" is less vague and more definable than "Activists for Palestinian solidarity". Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:32, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- That's a fair point. (To be clear, I'm not opposed to the rename if that's were consensus goes. ) I've started cleaning up the ethnic/religious intersections with the group in the hope that I'll have some inspiration. Mason (talk) 19:37, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, I only just noticed this and wanted to say thank you! Omnis Scientia (talk) 09:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's a fair point. (To be clear, I'm not opposed to the rename if that's were consensus goes. ) I've started cleaning up the ethnic/religious intersections with the group in the hope that I'll have some inspiration. Mason (talk) 19:37, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, it is quite complicated, you're right. I'm not too sure about myself but, IMO and as you have said yourself, "Pro-Palestinian" is less vague and more definable than "Activists for Palestinian solidarity". Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:32, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- Purge: a removal of articles about people who weren't activists is a no-brainer. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:18, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No clear consensus on rename.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Template:North-America-cricket-ground-stub edit
- Propose deleting Template:North-America-cricket-ground-stub (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:North American cricket ground stubs to ???
- Nominator's rationale: Used on only 3 articles. Merge the category to Category:North American sports venue stubs. Follow-up CfD to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_26#Category:North_American_sports_venue_stubs. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete template and merge category but to Category:Cricket ground stubs; do not also merge to the original North American target, as pages should all be within national sub-cats of that one. Implement by replacing stub link with {{Cricket-ground-stub}}. – Fayenatic London 09:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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- Propose renaming Category:ICC Men's T20 World Cup related lists to Category:ICC Men's T20 World Cup lists
- Nominator's rationale: There are just T20WC lists; no need for the term "related". Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 02:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:History of the T20 World Cup edit
- Nominator's rationale: Same topic covered by both categories Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 02:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Disinformation operations edit
- Propose manually merging Category:Disinformation operations to Category:Disinformation
- Nominator's rationale: this is follow-up on this previous discussion. After purging it is more clearly about disinformation, but does not clearly distinguish itself from its parent Category:Disinformation. Hence manually merge (only insofar appropriate). Marcocapelle (talk) 22:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Coddlebean, Nederlandse Leeuw, and Hmains: pinging contributors to previous discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:24, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 22:57, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- do not agree 'Disinformation' is a about a fact: false and misleading information. 'Disinformation operations' is about a process, something that people are organized to carry out, generally by a political entity of some kind. Very different articles involved, as they should be. Hmains (talk) 23:25, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Kurdish people by occupation and century edit
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which isn't helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 02:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:21st-century Kurdish women politicians edit
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now: Isolated category at a currently narrow intersection of ethnicity, gender, occupation and century. Mason (talk) 02:11, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support in principle, but the merge to Category:21st-century women politicians should be done manually because many articles are already in a subcategory thereof (e.g. Iraqi, Turkish). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Lists of films by date edit
- Propose merging Category:Lists of films by date to Category:Lists of films
- Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Keep I don't agree that it is redundant, it helps keep the parent category less crowded.★Trekker (talk) 13:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- It is 14 or 15 subcategories, that does not make the difference. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Template:Uruguay-cemetery-stub edit
- Nominator's rationale: Unused stub template. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Redirect to parents (Category:Uruguay geography stubs and Category:Cemetery stubs) per standard WPSS practice. Grutness...wha? 03:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will tag Category:Uruguay cemetery stubs.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 18:18, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Redirect per Grutness and standard stub sorting procedure. Her Pegship (?) 18:09, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Delete template and related category, as unlikely to be useful. – Fayenatic London 21:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I am currently reading no consensus on deleting the template but consensus to merge the category. Relisting for further input, but if there is none within the week I would expect it to be closed as consensus for a category merge as described.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 01:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete both, as there isn't any article in this category it is not helpful to redirect. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:15, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Polish social activists of the Prussian partition edit
- Nominator's rationale: This category should either be merged or renamed to make it clearer how this is defining. Mason (talk) 01:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Rename to Category:Polish activists in the Kingdom of Prussia for more clarity. "Polish" is meant as an ethnicity here. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Category:Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert edit
- Nominator's rationale: Delete for now. This category only has the eponymous page and a image of statue of their likeness, which is not needed/helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 01:29, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 10:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Delete in the spirit of WP:C2F. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)