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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_20


February 20

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:ABC News personalities

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Nominator's rationale: WP:PERFCAT --woodensuperman 12:57, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Mobile, Alabama

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:48, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also nominating for merging-

All categories with just 1 or 2 entries.Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:18, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Adventures of Tintin location redirects

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Nominator's rationale: There is no reason to categorize redirects separately, and the current method places Wikipedia maintenance/terms ("redirects") between mainspace pages (like Klow) and mainspace categories (like Category:Tintin locations): non-hidden categories should not contain Wikipedia stuff like this. Alternatively, remove the category from Category:Tintin locations and add the redirects to this category directly, and make the "redirects" category a hidden cat. Fram (talk) 08:49, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fictional characters by work

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Ok, so we have three trees all doing effectively the same thing:

And in looking at these: "by medium", is really "by medium of work", which we tend to categorise as "by work". And "by franchise", is really just "by related works".

These just create unnecessary intermediary layers between parent and child cats; and also broad segmentation of topics, which is a bane to navigation for our readers.

This is severe WP:OVERLAPCAT.

These trees all need cleanup. Elements of fiction (and related cats) are scattered everywhere. And the first step, I think, is that we need to unify under a single naming standard. Once we do that, we should be able to more easily clean up a lot of the mess.

So this is a test nom to see what we can decide about the "by work", "by medium", "by franchise", and "by franchise and medium", trees. I think they all need to be merged to a single tree of a unified name. What do you all think? - jc37 18:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: A lot of different options are on the table; rename? Keep? Merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:18, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economists from New York City

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Nominator's rationale: merge, trivial intersection between place of birth and later occupation. New York City is the only place we have done this for economists. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:17, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment If you drill down deep enough category wise, Economists would go in Scientists from New York City or Brooklyn because they are social scientists. Secondly, the category is well populated. Because these professionals have rarely been categorized at the town level, there is Economists from Shanghai, does that mean it shouldn't be done if there are enough to categorize that way?Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:57, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Videographies of Canadian artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Up-merge for now. 4meter4 (talk) 16:59, 11 February 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) 07:16, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murdered American gangsters by criminal organization

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to isolate the specific organization, assuming we want to diffuse at the intersection of cause of death and occupation, and organization. SMasonGarrison 14:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:55, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Videographies of Australian artists

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Nominator's rationale: Small cat. Up-merge for now. 4meter4 (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would support that.4meter4 (talk) 19:16, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's not small. It contains six items which is enough. The same about other nominated categories. Eurohunter (talk) 13:39, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:15, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alumni lists

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Nominator's rationale: Use pre-existing category Gjs238 (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fine to me, I was not aware of this category and I didn't saw it on any page that I added to my alumni category. I don't know how to merge categories though. PhotographyEdits (talk) 19:31, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gjs238 Wait, I do actually disagree because not all articles are educational institutions. Examples include List of Clarion Writers Workshop alumni and List of Bell Labs alumni. PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on PhotographyEdits's most recent comment about articles like List of Clarion Writers Workshop alumni and List of Bell Labs alumni?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:07, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works set in prison

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Nominator's rationale: Forms a category loop with Category:Fiction set in prison, and contains no articles. All the other subcategories are already in the other category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Reverse merge as suggested by jc37?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Law of Middle East and North Africa

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Nominator's rationale: Not sure how this newly created, uncategorized category fits in with Category:Law by continent, Category:Law in Africa, Category:Law in Asia Gjs238 (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Middle Eastern law is a coherent regional category, subject of a literature, etc, more than (say) African or Asian law. In this sense it is similar to the existing Category:Law_in_East_Asia. It's a practical category for discovery. Also, my students are using it in a WikiEdu project this semester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Florida_State_University/Legal_History_of_the_Modern_Middle_East_(Spring_2025). I created the category to help them find pages to improve. Will Hanley (talk) 19:51, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of Wikipedia categories is discovery, not taxonomy. Law in Middle East and North Africa (like law in East Asia) forms a coherent subject because it involves common genealogies and family resemblances amongst the laws practiced in the successor states to Islamic empires, which spanned several continents. These two categories are only secondarily geographical categories. They are more like Category:Civil law (legal system) and Category:Common law. Will Hanley (talk) 18:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question: This sounds like Islamic law. Would you apply this to Israel as well?
Gjs238 (talk) 21:44, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Islamic law is one of the components in the regional legal system, which certainly includes Israel. For example, there are plenty of Ottoman property law inheritances in Israeli law. Also, the sectarian personal status regime in Israel resembles those of other MENA states more than states outside the region.
Will Hanley (talk) 17:46, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I currently see rough consensus that something needs to change. Should the category be split, deleted, or "other"? (Of course, consensus can change and consensus could be found to keep the category!) If split, what should the split targets be?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:01, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Colombian people of Palestinian descent

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry, also merge to Category:Colombian people of Asian descent.

Also nominating: Category:Paraguayan people of Palestinian descent to merge to Category:South American people of Palestinian descent. LibStar (talk) 03:07, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Red Ukrainian Galician Army people

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge this category is very underpopulated with only Vasyl Poraiko in it SMasonGarrison 23:22, 10 February 2025 (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 02:26, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Two-year college sports in the United States

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Nominator's rationale: In the context of intercollegiate sports, "junior college" (or its acronym, "JUCO") is far more common than "two-year college". Jweiss11 (talk) 21:40, 11 February 2025 (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 02:23, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Music videographies

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Nominator's rationale: The term videography is being misused in this case as the term is specific to work done by a videographer, and does not mean a list of videos or films (that use is a neologism original to wikipedia which should be edited out as unverifiable). Further, many of the individuals have entertainment credits in work other than video (such as computer games, discographies, acting credits for entertainers who do that as well as music, etc.) on these pages so the cat should reflect that by expanding the scope to all media to reflect the content across the lists. 4meter4 (talk) 19:54, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment When I created this category it was for articles like Michael Jackson videography, which are still named that. I don't think "performances by entertainer in media" is a very helpful, clear, or easy to use term. "Media" is way too broad a term and confusing. At least use something like "on screen" or similar. "Videography" is at least easy for a reader to understand what it is.★Trekker (talk) 20:02, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. Such an undertaking would have been well served being discussed first before wholesale name changes to articles. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Except the term "videography" does not mean a list of videos. Its use in that way is unique to wikipedia and is an unverifiable neologism not supported in sources outside of the encyclopedia. Per WP:NEO, the MJ article needs to be renamed, and the term videography needs to be removed when being used to refer to a video list in all articles across the encyclopedia as that is WP:OR. We can't just make up new definitions to words because it is convenient to do so. Additionally, most of these articles have media credits in a variety of media all on one page (TV, Film, music videos, streaming platforms, radio, computer games, etc.) and in multiple areas of creative contribution in over half of the cases (music performance credits, acting credits, dancing/choreography credits, directing credits, writing credits, producing credits, etc.) 4meter4 (talk) 20:21, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Ukrainian politicians before 1991

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Nominator's rationale: Selective merge these Overlapping categories. There's really no need to cut the category exactly at 1991, when the norm is to diffuse by century. SMasonGarrison 02:21, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:West Frisian language

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Nominator's rationale: The scope of the category is a bit broader than Westlauwers Frisian. Arctic Circle System (talk) 01:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:General Service Areas in Nova Scotia

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Nominator's rationale: The term "General Service Area" is obsolite, and replaced with term "community". The category itself was technically replaced with "Category:Communities in Nova Scotia, but articles were not moved over. I believe it would be better to merge it with it, and maybe later let people move articles into appropriate subcategories. Also, the category already have addonation in its description that it "should no longer be used". Artemis Andromeda (talk) 01:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note So, while making this discussion, I thouth there was a "Category:Communities in Nova Scotia". However, there is only "Category:Communities in Nova Scotia by county". Which I think is the reason why articles were not move over, since it would require lot's of manual work. But I think, it would still be better to create this category, and move there articles from Category:General Service Areas in Nova Scotia, to remove this obsolite category altogher for now. And maybe somebody will want to move all the articles manually to subcategories in the future.Artemis Andromeda (talk) 01:05, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Uprisings of Poland

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Nominator's rationale: I believe "Category:Uprisings of Poland" and "Category:Rebellions in Poland" cover the same topic, splitting it arbitrary into two. There isn't a clearly defined definition of an "uprising" separating it from a "rebellion". Additionally, the conflicts there have various names, such as rebellion, revolution, war, uprising, insurrection, and seem to be for the most part categorized at random or "by vibes". I belive it would be better to merge those two categories into one. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 00:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NJCAA athletics

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Nominator's rationale: "Athletics" is redundant and meaningless here. This category actually contains schools that are members of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA); new name parallels the categories found at Category:Universities and colleges in the United States by athletic conference. Jweiss11 (talk) 01:29, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename target?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:33, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sinhalese queens regnant

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Nominator's rationale: There is only one subcategory of this category and not likely to be any more. Векочел (talk) 23:00, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:29, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States secretaries of the treasury

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Nominator's rationale: The Treasury refers to a proper noun. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 02:16, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, interestingly the article mentions this: "The department is customarily referred to as "Treasury", solely, without any preceding article – a transitional remnant from British to American English." I do not know if this is correct. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:44, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Responses to Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:05, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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