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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_May_2


May 2

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Swedish people by province

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Nominator's rationale: Overlapping category tree with the actual administrative subdivision, the counties of Sweden. I have further diffused when possible from article info but about 100 articles remain and most of them fit in a county category. The workflow could be to reparent the articles manually and delete the category when it only contains categories. Numbers above refer to articles only in each category. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bohuslän in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: To reduce the categories organised by the historical provinces of Sweden and instead use actual subdivisions. Together with other nominations this would leave only runestones (documented by provinces) and duchies to be categorised by province. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures in Bohuslän

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Nominator's rationale: To only organise buildings and structures by counties of Sweden and not the historical provinces of Sweden as it is overlapping. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Art museums and galleries in Montsoreau

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Nominator's rationale: Five categories for two articles in this 416-people French commune. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Amputee category Paralympic competitors

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Nominator's rationale: Add hyphen, but there might be better names for these categories. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:10th century in Skåne County

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Nominator's rationale: Skåne County did not exist until 1 January 1997 and was created as a merge of the two counties above. How to categorise the area before Swedish rule is open to suggestion. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Public transport authorities of Sweden

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Nominator's rationale: These two categories looks to be overlapping. Category:Public transport operators is a parent. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Weekly Idol members

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Nominator's rationale: Performing on a TV series fails WP:PERFCAT --woodensuperman 13:54, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:That's Entertainment (Philippine TV series)

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Nominator's rationale: Performing on a television show fails WP:PERFCAT. --woodensuperman 13:36, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Malagasy women archaeologists

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This category is underpopulated. SMasonGarrison 13:20, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Arabic comics artists

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Nominator's rationale: Selective upmege. This category is about an intersection of language and artistic occupation, that I don't think is defining under egrs SMasonGarrison 13:18, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:20th-century Malagasy painters

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one person in this entire tree SMasonGarrison 13:15, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films about Orthodoxy

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:10, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Christian media

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Nominator's rationale: To match parents and subcats, despite the short name of lead article Christian media. – Fayenatic London 11:45, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Religious films by religion

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Nominator's rationale: This holds subcats of films about religions, not necessarily religious films. It's a subcat of Films about religion by religion, but "Films about religion(s) by religion" sounds clumsy and unnecessarily wordy.

Category:Evangelical medias

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Nominator's rationale: "media" is a already a plural noun. Add "Christian" like some within Evangelicalism. Add "mass" like Mass media by religion. Note: Christian media does not currently have "mass" but follows the name of its main article Christian media. – Fayenatic London 11:27, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anna Maria Jopek songs

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Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 10:45, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Critics of Spiritism

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Nominator's rationale: The two articles Richard Washburn Child and Bartolo Longo only mention Spiritualism, not Spiritism. – Fayenatic London 09:09, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2001 in Norwegian cinema

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Nominator's rationale: This contains films, which are normally categorised by country and decade, e.g. Category:2000s American films. Cinema categories by year are for festivals, awards etc, e.g. Category:2001 in American cinema. Norwegian decade film categories can immediately be populated with sub-cats for Norwegian-language films, since these are almost exclusively Norwegian. – Fayenatic London 08:37, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of festivals by continent and city

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer, this is the only subcategory of the target. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:56, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Events by region

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Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent, with very few exceptions this is all about organized events. After renaming the category can be moved under Category:Organized events by location. SubCategory:The Holocaust by region should be purged after the rename as these are not organized events. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:28, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish American state legislators

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Nominator's rationale: The naming is just a bit confusing on the parent category, because it can be read as American describing the individual or the state. The real problem is in the subcategories, "Jewish American state legislators in Maine", as if some state legislators in Maine might not be American, which seems at least rather unlikely. Those should just be "Jewish state legislators in Maine". Nat Gertler (talk) 00:48, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Tagging all subcategories.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:30, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No opinion on the merits. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:34, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Telegram channels of Russia

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Nominator's rationale: To correspond with Category:Russian news websites and similar. – GnocchiFan (talk) 16:43, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But they are not necessarily “Russian.” Channels in this category are related to Russia, but they do not necessarily have to be Russian (also another case of "of Russia": Category:Mass media companies of Russia). --MocnyDuham (talk) 16:47, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: 'of Russia' makes it clear it's from the country. 'Russian...' could mean any Russian-language channels. The distinction is subtle, but important. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:27, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: It has been pointed out that this would entail a change in scope of the category. Should the category be renamed and have its scope changed?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:07, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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