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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_December_28


December 28

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:1910s Brazilian film stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub categories with no evidence of approval by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. As always, stub categories are not free for just any user to create on a whim for a mere handful of articles -- the minimum size requirement for a dedicated stub category is 60 articles, so stub categories normally have to be approved for creation by the wikiproject. But none of this batch were approved, and none of them have 60 articles in them.
There are sibling categories for the 2000s and the 2010s which are over 60 articles, so I'm leaving them alone even though they technically also weren't approved -- there may be a case to be made that they don't need to exist either if the rest of these can't, but I'm not prepared to make that argument. These, however, each need at least 60 articles in them before they're warranted. Bearcat (talk) 18:49, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British expatriates in colonial Nova Scotia

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category that we really don't need. John Bazalgette's described as "army officer actively involved in the affairs of Nova Scotia ". It's unclear from the article how long he actually lived there. But he seems like a better fit for Colony of Nova Scotia people, imo. SMasonGarrison 18:34, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British Honduras Legislative Assembly constituencies established in 1961

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Nominator's rationale: This category is really isolated, do we really need to have a single category for just 1961? SMasonGarrison 18:25, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British Honduras women activists

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Nominator's rationale: Can we repurpose this category into the ungendered parent category? I don't see a possibility of British Honduras women activists being sufficiently populated, but maybe British Honduras activists could? Right now there's only Vivian Seay in it. SMasonGarrison 18:21, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recipients of the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic

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Nominator's rationale: My fault. This category is redundant to Category:Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany. Grimes2 (talk) 18:06, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tyga compilation albums

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Nominator's rationale: Sole entry is a redirect. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 16:39, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ian (rapper) mixtape albums

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. Category:Ian (rapper) albums is otherwise empty. Upmerge sole entry. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 16:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Members of the Australian House of Representatives by term

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Nominator's rationale: Not a defining category and these categories result in career politicians having far too many cats that indicate essentially the same thing. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:08, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Traumnovelle: Are you proposing the deletion of all its subcategories as well? If so, they should be tagged. jlwoodwa (talk) 04:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Correct. It seemed easier to list the parent than listing 50 categories. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:30, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They might not all need to be listed here, but they should all have the {{subst:cfd}} template placed on them. I used User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD to quickly tag all the subcategories. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:22, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure that applies to categories. Jevansen (talk) 01:59, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jevansen: Even if I didn't miss it (which I of course did), there are still times where the principles are functionally the same, and in this case this is so. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:31, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's an extreme example. It's like using the categorisation of Elizabeth II as an reason to delete Category:Heads of state by country and its sub-categories; or the categorisation of Barack Obama as an reason to delete Category:American people by descent and its sub-categories. The large majority of legislators aren't included in more than a handful of legislators by term categories. We shouldn't be destroying a sensible and useful categorisation structure based on extreme examples.--Obi2canibe (talk) 16:35, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The reason I nominated this because 8 categories were added to a politician I had watchlisted, which is just over categorisation. Traumnovelle (talk) 07:35, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NotAGenious (talk) 16:12, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Muntjac

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Nominator's rationale: Most other taxon categories use either the scientific name (Muntiacus for this genus) or a plural common name. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:18, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Flash television shows

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Nominator's rationale: Better title for the category, to match with its subcategories. 2803:C600:8101:80DD:BC28:5B0:38B5:F109 (talk) 14:26, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Video game video content

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Nominator's rationale: The are multiple concerns I have with this category: one the content being a bit of a mix bag of things, however I'm more concerned with the bizarre name for this category; I believe this current name is very unhelpful for most readers. Shouldn't the name of this category be "video game footage" or "recordings of video games" instead? The current name is honestly very off-putting and could be confused with any video on the internet related to video games; not just footage of gameplay which I clearly understand that that's what it's supposed to be for. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 06:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works featuring video games

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Nominator's rationale: I was going to nominate this category like a month ago but forgot all about it, but I'm doing it now. Anyway, this category has bizarre trait; and potentially non-defining. No other category has a trait similar to this one (___ featuring a type of work; whatever you actually mean by that). I'll leave up to you to share your opinions on whether or not this category should be deleted. If it deleted, where else where would we categorize the article DVP (song)? QuantumFoam66 (talk) 06:17, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Music commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Nominator's rationale: The official English name is Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Grimes2 (talk) 01:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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