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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_30


January 30

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Feroniella

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Nominator's rationale: Pointless category as it can only possibly contain one article and a redirect to the article (it is a monotypic genus). Peter coxhead (talk) 16:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic sports players by year

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Nominator's rationale: There are currently 964 categories under Category:Summer Olympics competitors by sport and year. The first level of this category contains 49 sub categories, all of which follow the naming scheme of "Olympic (adjective for player) by year". Every single sub category of these 49 sub categories, of which there are 915, follows the naming scheme of "(Adjust for player) at the (year) Summer Olympics", though the sailors category specifically has 177 sub categories that split it up by event but still follow this naming scheme (such as Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman).
There are currently 293 categories under Category:Winter Olympics competitors by sport and year. The first level of this category contains 17 sub categories, all of which follow the naming scheme of "Olympic (what you call a person who participates in the sport) by year". Every single sub category of these 49 sub categories, of which there are 276, follows the naming scheme of "(what you call a person who participates in the sport) at the (year) Winter Olympics".
The only exceptions are figure skating and ice hockey, which were briefly / originally featured at the Summer Games. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:19th-century Olympic competitors by year

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant / unnecessary category. Included in Category:Summer Olympics competitors by year and categories for the 20th and 21st century do not exist, nor would they be particularly helpful given the number of events (31 total). Hey man im josh (talk) 16:03, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:20th-century Pan American Games competitors by year

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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary split of Category:Pan American Games competitors by year, which included all 19 entries in these sub categories anyways, making it redundant. The relevant navbox (Template:Pan American Games) also doesn't differentiate by century. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:51, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recreation by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant container layer. –Aidan721 (talk) 13:28, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports venues in Romania by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant container categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 13:03, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports venues in Cherkasy

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Nominator's rationale: Contains only 1 article. Merge per WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 13:00, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports venues in Bor, Serbia

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Nominator's rationale: Contains only 1 article. The lone article is already in Category:Football venues in Serbia. –Aidan721 (talk) 12:43, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English video bloggers

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Nominator's rationale: I am proposing the merge of “English video bloggers” into “English YouTubers” because there is currently no distinction between how the two terms are being used. Almost every single person in this category is described as a “YouTuber” rather than a video blogger on their page. Additionally, the people listed on this page made/make a wide variety of content posted to YouTube (music, comedy sketches, videos of creating art). “Video blogger” is essentially being used as a synonym for “YouTuber,” so I believe the best thing to do is just merge this category into the English YouTubers category. Yeahirlydk (talk) 06:33, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

7th century mass cleanup

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to the topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:680s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to the topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:620s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:09, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:640s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:630s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:06, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:610s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recreation

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Nominator's rationale: merge, not a clear distinction between the two categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support, except I would merge Category:Leisure activities into Category:Recreation. My reasoning is based on WP:CATNAME, which says Standard article naming conventions apply, and WP:CRITERIA favors WP:CONCISE titles. "Recreation" is more concise than "Leisure activities". All of the other naming criteria seems roughly similar between the two choices. — hike395 (talk) 09:42, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:600s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:04, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:690s BC deaths

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 05:02, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:620s BC

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. Beland (talk) 04:57, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:610s BC

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. -- Beland (talk) 04:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

600s BC

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Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated due to topic being in the distant past. Beland (talk) 04:47, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Civil parishes in Telford and Wrekin

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Nominator's rationale: There is no need for a category at this level, and it breaks with, and confuses, the long-established hierarchy of categories. English civil parishes are categorised by a category for their district or unitary authority (ie the smallest larger unit which includes them), and a category "Civil parishes in [county]" (by ceremonial county, not by unitary authority). There is an established hierarchy at Category:Civil parishes in England by county. Note that Category:Civil parishes in Shropshire has a note, present for many years, showing its scope as "Civil parishes in the county of Shropshire, including the borough of Telford and Wrekin." (Shropshire is a somewhat confusing area to consider, as the ceremonial county and the smaller unitary authority area share the same name.)
Note that when this category was added to a group of parishes, Category:Telford and Wrekin was removed, so this will need to be replaced in any cleanup if this category is deleted. PamD 10:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The reason for that creation was to declutter the already over cluttered Telford and Wrekin category. It was to add the civil parishes to a seperate sub category to allow people interested in parishes or local history to see the parishes of Telford and Wrekin. The issue with the Shropshire one is that it covers the whole county but also there are two unitary areas which cover different sizes in Shropshire. With telford have just shy of 30 civil parishes as Telford itself is unparished. It allows for the other cps to be given a platform of their own in a category shy of Telford and Wrekin category. As @Crouch, Swale has previously told me that category is not needed. So it allows the category to be found in the Telford and Wrekin category but without directing or cluttering the mainspace itself. Neatly if you will. Since none of these cps answer to Shropshire Council but T&W Council. DragonofBatley (talk) 12:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DragonofBatley and JMF: Telford and Wrekin is completely parished and has been since 1988[1]. Dawley, Oakengates and Wellington were unparished before then but the rest of the district has always been parished. As can be seen at Mapit Telford and Wrekin doesn't show up in the lists of unparished part(s) of districts. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:05, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Does Telford as in central Telford like the centre plaza Southwater town park and the railway station have a parish council? @Crouch, Swale? Just wondering DragonofBatley (talk) 19:27, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DragonofBatley: Southwater is in Great Dawley parish[2], the central station is in Lawley and Overdale[3]. There isn't a parish called just "Telford" but the town has several parishes. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes: Lawley and Overdale parish, which has a parish council, covers the central area of Telford and has a ward called "Town Centre". PamD 23:16, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Intersectional feminists

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between being a feminist and a type of feminism. At the very least, the child categories need to be purged/restored to the parent category. For example, being a Jewish feminist doesn't mean that they're an intersectional feminist. SMasonGarrison 01:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: merge or delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, charlotte 👸♥ 20:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this is a very consistent type of feminism. LIrala (talk) 02:38, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on LIrala's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 19:10, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Not enough participation to reach consensus
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:03, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment WikiProject Feminism and WikiProject Biography been notified. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:05, 30 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]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:51, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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