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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_11


April 11

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Fiction by nationality

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  • Option A: rename all to "by writer nationality"
  • Option B: rename all to "by nationality"
  • Option C: rename all to "by country of publication"
  • Option D: rename all to "by country"
Nominator's rationale: rename for consistency. Option A aligns with Category:Works by writer nationality and is clearer than option B. Option B and D occur often enough in the names of the nominated categories. Option C is again clearer than option D. My personal order of preference is A-C-B-D. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I left a notification of this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Georgia (country) and its former colonizers

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Nominator's rationale: delete, Georgia has never been a colony of the Ottoman or Russian Empire, it was simply part of those empires. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:27, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works about the military of the United States

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Nominator's rationale: All of the comparable sibling sub-cats use this simple, straightforward fcrmulation; viz. Category:Religion in the United States military, Category:Women in the United States military. Anomalous+0 (talk) 09:23, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:23, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Republican women

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created category - may not be necessary, certainly misnamed. All articles are of American women in the Republican Party (United States), so would need to be renamed if retained. Gjs238 (talk) 12:20, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Actors from Ada County, Idaho

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Also propose deleting-

Underpopulated subcategory also. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:36, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Operas set in the Low Countries

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Nominator's rationale: delete, trivial intersection between culture and historical region. It would have been different if there were medieval operas in the category, but that is not the case. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:09, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Europe and its former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: delete, the category title is incorrect, it is not about relations of Europe, but about relations of one European country at a time. The parent category suffices, we have the country categories there anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Surahs by number

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Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Chapters in the Quran, contains redirects only. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:04, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of events

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Other merge targets aren't needed, the subcategories are already in Category:Events by location and Category:Organized events respectively. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:51, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Minsk in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bangladesh in fiction by city

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Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Move the Dhaka subcategory directly under Category:Bangladesh in fiction and Category:Cities in fiction. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:35, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dukes of Montblanc

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Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent to Category:Heirs to the throne, being heir of the throne is a more defining characteristic than a title that is assigned because of that. Also purge articles about actual kings. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Queens consort of India

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Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content, none of these queens consort was queen consort of the state India, instead they were queen consort of a former country in what is currently India. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:04, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deceased fictional characters

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Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this is defining. At the very least I think that category should be containerized. SMasonGarrison 04:48, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose/keep. Of course this is a defining trait, if a fictional character is killed off and stays dead, that's very narratively important. You can't even think of what target page to merge with, this is just another frivolous nomination for the sake of it as usual. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mayiladuthurai

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant with Category:Mayiladuthurai district Gjs238 (talk) 01:21, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paintings by Zeki Faik İzer

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category with no article about the artist. Gjs238 (talk) 01:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:LGBTQ designers

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Nominator's rationale: Delete as per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_3#Category:Women_designers Gjs238 (talk) 00:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Schools for the blind in South Africa

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Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. this category is underpopulated SMasonGarrison 00:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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